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August 6 - Thursday
Day | Start Time | End Time | Track | Title | Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Thursday | 8:00 AM | 9:00 AM | Main Stage / All Tracks | Check-In | |
Thursday | 9:00 AM | 9:30 AM | Main Stage / All Tracks | Opening Remarks | JAMES MCQUIGGAN |
Thursday | 9:30 AM | 10:10 AM | Main Stage / All Tracks | Keynote: The Decision Environment - An Operational Theory of Cognitive Conflict
| DR. RAND WALTZMAN |
Thursday | 10:10 AM | 10:45 AM | Main Stage / All Tracks | Break | |
Thursday | 10:45 AM | 11:30 AM | Defending Humans | From Educator to Enabler: The New Mandate for Human Risk Practitioners | DR. SANNY LIAO |
Thursday | 10:45 AM | 11:30 AM | Critical Cognitive Infrastructure | "Truth" Machines: When Market Authority Becomes Systemic Vulnerability | WEB BEGOLE |
Thursday | 10:45 AM | 11:30 AM | Applied Training | TBA | |
Thursday | 11:30 AM | 12:15 PM | Defending Humans | Building Security Cultures that Last | DR. JESSICA BARKER |
Thursday | 11:30 AM | 12:15 PM | Critical Cognitive Infrastructure | Soldiers of Fortune: How Prediction Markets will Guide the Future of Warfare | DR. SEAN GUILLORY |
Thursday | 11:30 AM | 12:15 PM | Applied Training | Applied Stress Recovery for Cyber Leaders & Operators | DR. SARA RABINOVITCH |
Thursday | 12:15 PM | 1:15 PM | Main Stage / All Tracks | Lunch | |
Thursday | 1:15 PM | 2:00 PM | Defending Humans | Gaining Physical Access: The Techniques, Disguises, and Social Engineering Tactics | FC (FREAKY CLOWN) |
Thursday | 1:15 PM | 2:00 PM | Critical Cognitive Infrastructure | Neurosecurity: the State of the Art and Critical Gaps in Defense for Neurotechnology | DR. BRYCE-ALLEN BAGLEY |
Thursday | 1:15 PM | 2:00 PM | Applied Training | TBA | |
Thursday | 2:00 PM | 2:15 PM | Main Stage / All Tracks | Break | |
Thursday | 2:15 PM | 3:00 PM | Defending Humans | Synthetic Certainty: How Misidentification Turns Weak Signals into Believed Truth | JEFF JOCKISCH |
Thursday | 2:15 PM | 3:00 PM | Critical Cognitive Infrastructure | Humanity 2.0: AI, Digital Identity, and the Future of Being Human | LEN NOE |
Thursday | 2:15 PM | 3:00 PM | Applied Training | Part I: From Zero to (Tabletop) Hero: Building Tabletop Exercises for Human-Centered Defense | CHLOE TUCKER |
Thursday | 3:00 PM | 3:20 PM | Main Stage / All Tracks | Break | |
Thursday | 3:20 PM | 4:00 PM | Defending Humans | AI Education Without Effort: What Do Students Lose? | CLIFFORD STOLL |
Thursday | 3:20 PM | 3:40 PM | Critical Cognitive Infrastructure | From Clinic to Consumer: Neurosecurity Risks in Everyday Life. | DR. STEPHEN DAMIANOS |
Thursday | 3:40 PM | 4:00 PM | Critical Cognitive Infrastructure | Pathogenic Vectors: An Emerging Threat to Neurosecurity | DR. GREGORY CARPENTER |
Thursday | 3:20 PM | 4:00 PM | Applied Training | Part II: From Zero to (Tabletop) Hero: Building Tabletop Exercises for Human-Centered Defense | CHLOE TUCKER |
Thursday | 4:00 PM | 4:30 PM | Main Stage / All Tracks | Break | |
Thursday | 4:30 PM | 5:15 PM | Main Stage / All Tracks | Keynote: The Battle for Decision Autonomy: A New Front in Strategic Competition | DAVE PITTS |
Thursday | 5:15 PM | 5:30 PM | Main Stage / All Tracks | Closing Remarks | JAMES MCQUIGGAN |
August 7 - Friday
Day | Start Time | End Time | Track | Title | Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Friday | 8:00 AM | 9:30 AM | Main Stage / All Tracks | Check-In | |
Friday | 9:30 AM | 9:40 AM | Main Stage / All Tracks | Opening Remarks | SUMONA BANERJI |
Friday | 9:40 AM | 10:20 AM | Main Stage / All Tracks | Keynote: Before the Decision | BRIG. GEN. TERRI BORRAS (Ret) |
Friday | 10:20 AM | 10:45 AM | Main Stage / All Tracks | Break | |
Friday | 10:45 AM | 11:30 AM | Defending Humans | Cyber Deception | PERRY CARPENTER |
Friday | 10:45 AM | 11:30 AM | Critical Cognitive Infrastructure | Measuring the Unmeasurable: Quantifying Cognitive Warfare and Security | SMSGT BONNIE RUSHING |
Friday | 10:45 AM | 11:30 AM | Applied Training | TBA | |
Friday | 11:30 AM | 11:50 AM | Defending Humans | Operationalizing Cognitive Security in Human-AI Systems | PEGGY YIN |
Friday | 11:50 AM | 12:10 PM | Defending Humans | ScamBench: Measuring Real-World Risk of AI-Generated Social Engineering | DR. FRED HEIDING |
Friday | 11:30 AM | 12:15 PM | Critical Cognitive Infrastructure | Narrative War: The Philosophy of Social Conflict | DR. BRIAN L. STEED |
Friday | 11:30 AM | 12:15 PM | Applied Training | TBA | |
Friday | 12:15 PM | 1:15 PM | Main Stage / All Tracks | Lunch | |
Friday | 1:15 PM | 2:00 PM | Defending Humans | Raptor v. Raven, How’s Your Oversight? | TOMM LARSON |
Friday | 1:15 PM | 2:00 PM | Critical Cognitive Infrastructure | Polycrisis and Cognitive Warfare: Competing Narratives in an Age of Wicked Problems | DR. TAMARA SCHWARTZ |
Friday | 1:15 PM | 2:00 PM | Applied Training | CogSec Game | |
Friday | 2:00 PM | 2:15 PM | Main Stage / All Tracks | Break | |
Friday | 2:15 PM | 3:00 PM | Defending Humans | Why Hack Computers When You Can Hack Minds? | WINN SCHWARTAU |
Friday | 2:15 PM | 3:00 PM | Critical Cognitive Infrastructure | The “Interesting Times” Have arrived: Existential Vulnerability & “Conventional Wisdom” | CONSTANTINE |
Friday | 2:15 PM | 3:00 PM | Applied Training | Applied Stress Recovery for Cyber Leaders & Operators | DR. SARA RABINOVITCH |
Friday | 3:00 PM | 3:20 PM | Main Stage / All Tracks | Break | |
Friday | 3:20 PM | 4:00 PM | Defending Humans | AI and Trust | BRUCE SCHNEIER |
Friday | 3:20 PM | 3:40 PM | Critical Cognitive Infrastructure | Cognitive War in Space: Human Perception and Infrastructure in a Contested Domain | MARIAH MAURY |
Friday | 3:20 PM | 4:00 PM | Applied Training | The solution to the scampocalypse is more scams | BRIAN BRUSHWOOD |
Friday | 3:40 PM | 4:00 PM | Critical Cognitive Infrastructure | Mind Shifts: The Challenge of Cognitive Security | DAVE ACOSTA |
Friday | 4:00 PM | 4:30 PM | Main Stage / All Tracks | Break | |
Friday | 4:30 PM | 5:20 PM | Main Stage / All Tracks | Keynote: Human Risk Management | ASHLEY ROSE |
Friday | 5:20 PM | 5:30 PM | Main Stage / All Tracks | Closing Remarks | SUMONA BANERJI |

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