BRIG. GEN. TERRI BORRAS (Ret)
Defending the Moment Before Decision
Keynote
Brigadier General (Ret.), US Army Reserve; rose from Private to General Officer
Former Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff, G-2, Headquarters, Department of the Army
Nearly four decades in military intelligence, security, cyber, and information operations
Former Director, G-39 Cyber and Information Operations Directorate, Office of the Chief, Army Reserve
Award-winning contributor, US Army's "Mad Scientist" future warfare fiction series
Friday
9:40 AM
Keynote | Before the Decision
Before an institution decides what to do, it has already decided what it believes is happening. Cognitive warfare now lives in that space.
In this keynote, Brigadier General Terri Borras examines how cognitive warfare targets the human and machine sensemaking that occurs before decisions become action. Drawing on nearly four decades of experience in military intelligence, security, cyber, information operations, and senior leadership, she explores how adversaries exploit seams between analysts, commanders, AI systems, operational teams, legal advisors, communications professionals, and senior decision-makers.
The keynote challenges practitioners to look beyond content, deepfakes, and influence campaigns alone, and to examine the decision cycle itself as contested terrain. Topics include human risk management, AI confidence, false convergence, cognitive threat modeling, institutional seams, decision integrity, and the need to protect how humans and machines make sense of reality together.
Brigadier General Terri Borras, U.S. Army Reserve, Retired, served nearly four decades in intelligence, security, cyber, information operations, and senior enterprise leadership roles. She most recently served as Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff, G-2, Headquarters, Department of the Army, where she helped guide intelligence, security, protection, and information advantage efforts across the Army enterprise. She focuses on cognitive warfare, decision integrity, human-machine judgment, institutional resilience, and the seams where adversaries exploit organizational decision-making.