Speakers

COL. Welton Chase, Jr. is Executive Assistant/Chief of Staff to the Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Washington D.C. Metro area.  Colonel Chase leads a diverse group of people to provide administrative, logistic, and security support/policy development in matters requiring close policy coordination between the Department of Defense and Department of State. Colonel Chase previously led a team of Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force IT professionals providing expert advice, requirements validation, acquisition oversight, and policy development for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Dr. Robert D. Childs is the former Chancellor of the iCollege at National Defense University. Dr. Childs served over four decades in government service, 30 years at National Defense University (NDU), nearly 23 years at the iCollege as Dean of Faculty and Academic Programs initially, and as Chancellor the last fourteen years. Under Childs’ leadership, over 16,000 alumni across the Federal government have benefitted from iCollege courses.  Dr. Childs is a retired United States Air Force Colonel.

Rear Admiral Arnaud Coustillière was born in Toulon in 1960.  He is Head of Cyber Defense for the French Armed Forces and for the French Ministry of Defense.   He graduated from the Naval Academy (1981-83). Between 1984 and 1999, he spent many times at sea and participated in many navy operations mainly in the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean areas. He was Commanding Officer of four ships, the last one was the DDG DUQUESNE (2004-2006).

Stanislas de Maupeou  is director for Consulting Cybersecurity and Evaluation sector at the electronic systems company Thales. The sector consists in information security specialists to provide services ranging from security audits, security consulting, intrusion testing and vulnerability analysis to disaster recovery plans, resilience and crisis management. He is in charge of conducting security evaluations on chip-based bank cards, e-passports, online payment systems and of assessing the robustness of smartcards and other system components under the most extreme conditions. He was formerly head of the French Computer Emergency Response Team, part of the French Network and Information Security Agency, for responding to cyberattacks targeted national critical infrastructures and governmental information systems. He is member of the CSFRS (High Council for Strategic Education and Research) and colonel (r) of the army.

Stéphane Dossé is a French Army signal officer, graduated from French War College, from a specialized master in networks architecture from Telecom Paris Tech and a master degree in "defense and international security" (Grenoble). He is the author of several publications on cyber, including “Attention: cyber! Vers le combat cyberélectronique” (With Colonel Aymeric Bonnemaison). He is now deputy of French computer network defense joint officer at the Joint defense staff.

Frédérick Douzet is chairwoman of the Castex Chair of Cyber Strategy and is a Professor at the French Institute of Geopolitics at Paris 8 University. She has been a member of the editorial committee for the geographical and geopolitical review “Hérodote” since 1994. She is currently researching geopolitical stakes in cyberspace, a subject she has been interested in since the 1990s and in which she leads a team of PhD and master students. In 2014, she received the France-Berkeley Fund Award for Outstanding Young Researcher.

Dr. Daniel G. Dresner, BSc is Consultant Research Analyst, The Dresner Associates. E RADAR, University of Manchester. Dr. Dresner advises on good practices in information assurance, governance, and cyber security & defines  or improves security policies making them fit for business (IASME, ISO/IEC 27001, and the SANS 20 Critical Controls are benchmarks). Dr. Dresner’s specialties are information governance, assurance, and security from gap analysis to implementation route map, support, advice and education/awareness.

Alain Establier is the chief editor of « Security Defense Business Review », a French fortnightly information letter about Continuum Defence and Security, and more precisely the ones linked to Cybersecurity and Cyberdefence. Alain Establier is the author of many articles about intern control, aviation safety, risk management. He also wrote the book “Et si nous parlions de la performance dans votre Entreprise”, Eyrolles (1998) and co-wrote « Sûreté – Mode d’emploi », Ellipses (2011).

Laurent Heslault is Director, Cyber-Security Strategies, Symantec Corporation. He is responsible for the development and presentation of Symantec’s solutions and strategies with customers and partners, whether they be security and IT professionals, enterprises, or representatives from consumer organizations (consumer associations, e-commerce specialists …) Mr. Heslault is also the main interface for official government bodies working on issues related to cyber-crime and cyber-defense.

Colonel Kevin Huggins, Ph.D, directs the Information Technology Program in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and also serves as the Director of Research in Network Science at the US Military Academy in West Point, NY.   Colonel Huggins is a 1986 graduate of West Point, and holds a M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California and the École des Mines de Paris, France, respectively.  His current research interests lie in wireless computing networks as well as sharing information in complex, networked systems. 

Stanislas de Maupeou is director for Consulting Cybersecurity and Evaluation sector at the electronic systems company Thales. The sector consists in information security specialists to provide services ranging from security audits, security consulting, intrusion testing and vulnerability analysis to disaster recovery plans, resilience and crisis management. He is in charge of conducting security evaluations on chip-based bank cards, e-passports, online payment systems and of assessing the robustness of smartcards and other system components under the most extreme conditions. He was formerly head of the French Computer Emergency Response Team, part of the French Network and Information Security Agency, for responding to cyberattacks targeted national critical infrastructures and governmental information systems. He is member of the CSFRS (High Council for Strategic Education and Research) and colonel (r) of the army.

Wolfgang Röhrig has been Project Officer Cyber Defence at the European Defence Agency in Brussels since March 2012. From 2006 to 2010, he held the position of Senior ICT Staff Officer for maritime CIS at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), whilst in 2010 he became Senior CIS Staff Officer for national and international cooperation on Information Assurance and Cyber Defence at the German Armed Forces IT Office (ITAmtBw) in Koblenz, Germany. Mr. Röhrig graduated from the Federal Armed Forces University in Hamburg in 1990  with the degree of DiplomKaufmann, which equals a Master of Business Administration

Wing Commander J P R Smeaton CEng BEng (Hons) MIET RAF was commissioned into the Royal Air Force as an Engineering Officer (Communications and Electronics) in 1990.  In 2012 he was seconded as a National Expert to the EU Military Staff, and is the Action Officer with responsibility for Cyber policy.

Jeffrey C. Snyder is Vice President, Cyber Programs, Raytheon Company in the Washington D.C. area.  Mr. Snyder was previously Vice President, Cubic Cyber Solutions at Cubic Corporation, Vice President, Business Development at SAIC, and Vice President, Business Development at Veridian (General Dynamics). He holds an MS (Equiv) Nuclear Engineering from the Navy Nuclear Power School, an MBA Business Strategy, Marketing from the University of Central Florida and BS Chemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.