OODAcon 2024: Cyber Diplomacy for Cyber & AI Safety

Keynote Conversation Description

Ambassador Nate Fick, the U.S. Ambassador at Large for Cyberspace and Digital Policy, will explore the critical role of diplomacy in shaping global cybersecurity and AI policy and action. Expect insights into the intersection of policy, technology, and national security that can inform and shape our actions. 

Matt Devost, CEO, OODA

Matt Devost is the CEO & Co-Founder of OODA LLC. Matt is a technologist, entrepreneur, and international security expert specializing in counterterrorism, critical infrastructure protection, intelligence, risk management, and cyber-security issues. Matt co-founded the cyber security consultancy FusionX from 2010-2017. Matt was President & CEO of the Terrorism Research Center/Total Intel from 1996-2009.

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Ambassador Nate Fick, U.S. Department of State, Ambassador at Large for Cyberspace and Digital Policy

Nathaniel C. Fick was sworn in on September 21, 2022, as the inaugural U.S. Ambassador at Large for Cyberspace and Digital Policy. Prior to joining the State Department, Ambassador Fick was a technology executive and entrepreneur.  He was CEO of the cybersecurity software company Endgame from 2012 through its acquisition by Elastic in 2019.  Ambassador Fick spent nearly a decade as an operating partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, working with management teams to build technology businesses.  In 2018, he was named by Fast Company magazine as one of the “100 Most Creative People in Business,” and Endgame was selected by Forbes as one of the “100 Best Cloud Companies in the World.”

From 2009 to 2012, Ambassador Fick was CEO of the Center for a New American Security, a national security research organization in Washington. Earlier in his career, he served as a Marine Corps infantry and reconnaissance officer, including combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq.  His book about that experience, One Bullet Away, was a New York Times bestseller, a Washington Post “Best Book of the Year,” and one of the Military Times‘s “Best Military Books of the Decade.” Ambassador Fick graduated with high honors in Classics from Dartmouth College and holds an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

By or featuring Nate Fick

• A Global Competition for Which “Metaphorical” AI Operating System Will Be Dominant
• Cyber and Tech Diplomacy “Move from the Periphery to the Center” of International Relations
• “The Era of the Global Internet is Over” According to CFR Task Force Report
• The United States’ International Cyberspace and Digital Policy Strategy
• The U.S. Turns Strategic Focus Towards Cyber Threat Vectors in Guam, Albania, and Costa Rica
• Cyber Assistance Fund Proposed by Cyber Ambassador Nate Fick as Part of Three-part Plan
• Nate Fick Confirmed to Lead State Department Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy
• Nate Fick on His Early Career, Writing ‘One Bullet Away’, The Stoics and Dynamic Leadership (Part 1 of 2)
• Nate Fick on Company Culture, the Cybersecurity Community, Endgame/Elastic and Emerging Cyber Threats (Part 2 of 2)
• OODACast: Nate Fick on Dynamic Leadership and Adapting to Change