Speakers

Heather Roff

Nonresident Fellow, Security and Strategy, Brookings Institution

Keynote + Panel 2

Paul Scharre

Senior Fellow and Director, Technology and National Security Program, Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

Keynote

Peter Warren (PW) Singer

Strategist at New America; Editor, Popular Science Magazine

Keynote + Panel 2

Robert Work

Former Deputy Secretary of Defense, United States Department of Defense

Keynote

Ronald Arkin

Regents’ Professor, Director of Mobile Robot Laboratory, School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology

Panel 2

Thomas P.M. Barnett

Managing Partner, Barnett Consulting LLC

Panel 3

Captain Sharif H. Calfee

United States Navy
Center for Information Technology Policy, Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton University
Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments – Federal Executive Fellow (2017-2018)

Panel 2

Rosalee Clawson

Interim Director, Purdue Policy Research Institute; Professor of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts

Awards Ceremony for Essay Winners

Jennifer Erickson

Associate Professor, Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences, Boston College

Panel 1

Tomás Díaz de la Rubia

Vice President for Discovery Park, Purdue University

Closing Remarks

Dan DeLaurentis

Director, Institute for Global Security and Defense Innovation (i-GSDI); Professor, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, College of Engineering, Purdue University

Panel 2 Moderator

Kyle Haynes

Assistant Professor, Purdue University

Panel 3

Don Howard

Professor of Philosophy and Fellow, Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Values, University of Notre Dame

Panel 1

Michael Klare

Senior Visiting Fellow, Arms Control Association

Panel 2

Maj. Gen (Ret.) Robert Latiff

Panel 1

Ambassador Ron Lehman II

Counselor to the Director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Panel 3

David Montgomery

Deputy Director, Minerva Research Initiative

Dinner Fireside Chat

Joe Pekny

Professor of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, Purdue University; CEO, Advanced Process Combinatorics Inc.

Panel 1

David Reingold

Justin S. Morrill Dean of the College of Liberal Arts; Professor of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts, Purdue University

Dinner Fireside Chat

Candace Rondeaux

Professor of Practice, School of Politics and Global Studies; Senior Fellow, Center on the Future of War, Arizona State University

Panel 3

Tim Schultz

Associate Dean of Academics for Electives and Research, U.S. Naval War College

Panel 1

Swati Srivastava

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts, Purdue University

Panel 3 Moderator

Sharon Weinberger

Executive Editor for News at Foreign Policy; Global Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International center for Scholars

Panel 1 Moderator

Patrick J. Wolfe

Frederick L. Hovde Dean of Science and Miller Family Professor of Statistics and Computer Science, Purdue University

Introductory Remarks