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7:00 AM - 8:00 AM

SYMPOSIUM CHECK-IN AND BREAKFAST

8:00 AM - 8:05 AM

OPENING REMARKS

Governor Jim Pillen, NE Governor

8:05 AM - 8:15 AM

WELCOMING REMARKS: Commander's Assessment

General Anthony Cotton, Commander, U.S. Strategic Command

8:15 AM - 9:30 AM

PANEL #1: The Threats That Must Be Deterred

Moderator: Mr. Richard Hoehne, Deputy Director of Intelligence, U.S. Strategic Command

Panel:

  • Mr. Markus Garlauskas, Director, Indo-Pacific Security Initiative, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security
  • Mr. Thomas Sisk, Defense Intelligence Officer for China
  • Mr. Dan Taylor, National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, DNI
  • Mr. Richard Chancellor, Chief, Defense Counterproliferation Office
9:30 AM - 9:50 AM

BREAK

9:50 AM - 11:05 AM

PANEL #2: Integrated Deterrence Across the Whole of Government

Panel:

  • Mr. Vince Manzo, Office of Strategic Stability and Deterrence, U.S. Department of State
  • Mr. Garret Martin, UK MOD
  • Mr. Robert Peters, Research Fellow, The Heritage Foundation
  • Dr. Justin Anderson, Senior Policy Fellow, National Defense University
11:05 AM - 11:30 AM

BREAK

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

LUNCH

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Perspectives on Deterrence

The Honorable William "Mac" Thornberry, Retired U.S. Congressman & Former HASC Chair

1:00 PM - 1:20 PM

MEDIA ROUNDTABLE

BREAK

1:20 PM - 2:35 PM

PANEL #3: Meeting the Global Threats

Moderator: Admiral (Ret) Harry Harris, 24th Commander of the U.S. Pacific Command & Former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea

Panel:

  • Major General John Nichols, Director of Operations, U.S. Strategic Command
  • Dr. Emily Goldman, Cyber Strategist, Directorate of Operations, U.S. Cyber Command
  • Brigadier General Maurizio Calabrese, NORAD & NORTHCOM J2 
  • Brigadier General James Cleet, Deputy J3, U.S. European Command
2:35 PM - 2:55 PM

BREAK

2:55 PM - 4:10 PM

PANEL #4: The Deterrence Narrative and the Role of the U.S. Media

Moderator: Mr. Uriah Orland, Associate Director of the University of Missouri News Bureau

Panel:

  • Mr. Ken Moriyasu, Diplomatic Correspondent for Nikkei Asia
  • Mr. Ankit Panda, Stanton Senior, Nuclear Policy Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  • Mr. Lucas Tomlinson, Fox News
  • Dr. Gary Geipel, Director of Doctoral Studies, Missouri State University School of Defense & Strategic Studies
4:10 PM - 7:10 PM

INFORMAL RECEPTION - Capital District, Old Market, Omaha

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM

SYMPOSIUM CHECK-IN (AS REQ) AND BREAKFAST

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Legislative Perspectives

Congressman Don Bacon, U.S. Congressman, Nebraska's 2nd District

8:30 AM - 9:45 AM

PANEL #5: What are the Psychological Aspects of Deterrence?

Moderator: Brigadier General William Murphy, Military Assistant to Commander U.S. Strategic Command

Panel:

  • Dr. Francesca Giovannini, Executive Director, Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University
  • Dr. Paul Slovic, Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon
  • Mr. Bradford Morrison, PhD Candidate and Researcher in Social Psychology, University of British Columbia
  • Dr. Nirit Pisano, Chief Psychology Officer, Cognovi Labs
9:45 AM - 10:05 AM

BREAK

10:05 AM - 11:20 AM

PANEL #6: Extended Deterrence in the Emerging International Security Environment

Moderator: Rear Admiral Anthony Carullo, Director of Plans and Policy, U.S. Strategic Command

Sessions:

  • Major General Andis Dilans, Defense Attache to the U.S. Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Latvia
  • Major General Odd Hagen, Defense Attache to the U.S. Ministry of Defense of Norway
  • Rear Admiral Donggoo Kang, Director J-5 Strategy, CWMD HQ, Republic of Korea JCS
  • Dr. Alexander Mattelaer, Senior Research Fellow, Egmont Institute, Belgium
11:20 AM - 11:40 AM

BREAK

11:40 AM - 12:40 PM

LUNCH

12:40 PM - 1:10 PM

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Regional Instabilities Impact on Global Ecomony

Dr. Seyed Hossein Mousavian, Middle East Security and Nuclear Policy Specialist, Princeton University 

1:10 PM - 1:15 PM

GENERAL LARRY D. WELCH DETERRENCE WRITING AWARD PRESENTATION

1:15 PM - 1:35 PM

BREAK

1:35 PM - 2:50 PM

PANEL #7: Deterrence Education: A Call to Service

Moderator: Mrs. Jamica LaSonde, Chief, Deterrence Analysis and Research Division, U.S. Strategic Command

Panel:

  • Mr. Walter "Ted" Carter, President, University of Nebraska
  • Dr. Donna Wilt, Chief, Nuclear & CWMD Operations Division, U.S. Army Nuclear & Countering WMD Agency
  • Dr. Shane Smith, Director, Institute for National Security Studies, & Associate Professor of Political Science, U.S. Air Force Academy
2:50 PM - 3:10 PM

CLOSING COMMENTS

General Anthony Cotton, Commander, U.S. Strategic Command

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