Welcome to OODAcon 2024: Final Agenda and Event Details

The following information will help you make the most of OODAcon 2024.

The final agenda for the day can be found below. It includes a full description of each session, expanded speaker bios (with links to current projects and articles about the speakers), and additional OODA Loop resources on the theme of each panel. 

For a PDF version of the OODAcon 2024 program, go to OODAcon 2024 Agenda

7:00 – 8:00 Registration and Breakfast

8:00 – 8:30 Bootstrapping the Future – Welcome to OODAcon 2024 

• Matt Devost, CEO, OODA

8:30 – 9:15 Cyber Diplomacy for Cyber & AI Safety

• Matt Devost, CEO, OODA
• Ambassador Nate Fick, U.S. Department of State, Ambassador at Large for Cyberspace and Digital Policy

9:15 – 9:35 Beyond Human Limits: Charting the Future of AI Innovation

• Dr. Amr Awadallah, Founder and CEO, Vectara

9:35 – 10:10 The Net Assessment for the Future

• Moderator: Matt Devost, CEO, OODA
• Will Hurd, Chief Strategy Officer, CHAOS Industries
• Dr. James N. Miller,  Assistant Director for Policy & Analysis, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; President, Adaptive Strategies, LLC

10:10 – 10:30 Touching the Void: Persona-Based AI and the New Age of Expertise

• Matt Devost, CEO, OODA
• Dara Ladjevardian, Founder and CEO, Delphi

10:30 – 10:45 Networking Break

10:45 – 11:15 Disruption as a Thermodynamic Catalyst: Tech Innovations That Will Solve Global Challenges

• Guillaume Verdon, Founder & CEO, Extropic

11:15 – 11:45 China – Current Threats and Emerging Risks

• Moderator: Kristin Del Rosso, Co-Founder & Managing Director, DEVSEC LLC
• Charity Wright, Principal Threat Intelligence Consultant, Recorded Future
• Eugenio Benincasa, Senior Cyber Defense Researcher, Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich
• Judy Ng, Microsoft

11:45 – 12:45 Lunch and Annual Global Threat Brief

• Johnny Sawyer, CEO, The Sawyer Group
• Jen Hoar, Founder & Managing Member, Sinclair Insight LLC

12:45 – 1:15 The Age of Exponential Blockchain Disruption

• Bob Gourley, CTO, OODA
• Angela Dalton, CEO and Founder, Signum Growth

1:15 – 2:15 Cross Domain Innovation – Driving Deep Tech Convergence

• Moderator: Bob Gourley, CTO, OODA
• Katrina McFarland, Director of Acquisition, Missile Defense Agency
• Andrew Cote, SF Deep Tech Week, Founder; Hyperstition Incorporated, Founder
• William “Mac” McHenry, Senior Advisor to the Director and Intelligence Community Lead, Defense Innovation Unit (DIU)

2:15 – 2:30 Afternoon Break

2:30 – 3:15 The Cybersecurity Dilemma: Board Expectations for Managing Cyber Risk

• Moderator: Matt Devost, CEO, OODA
• Al Tarasiuk, Chief Information Security Officer, Citigroup
• Leslie Ireland, Member of the Board of Directors: Citi, Amentum, The Stimson Center

3:15 – 3:45 Cyber Resilience: Thriving in the AI-Powered World

• Jason Healey, Senior Research Scholar, Cyber Conflict Studies, SIPA at Columbia University in the City of New York
• Dor Sarig, CEO, Pillar Security

3:45 – 4:15 Materializing Tomorrow: Securing Supply Chains for National Competitiveness and Reindustrialization

• Molly Just Behr, Director, CHIPS Coordination Cell & Joint Program Management Office for Microelectronics (HQE), United States Department of Defense

4:15 – 5:00 Navigating the Future: Strategic Insights from America’s New Map

• Thomas Barnett, Principal Business Strategist – Throughline, Inc.;  Partner  Barnett Consulting; Author, America’s New Map: Restoring Our Global Leadership in an Era of Climate Change and Demographic Collapse

5:00 – 5:15 Wrap up, then Happy Hour Reception

• Matt Devost, CEO, OODA