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7:00 AM - 8:00 AM

NEXT GENERATION BREAKFAST

SYMPOSIUM CHECK-IN AND BREAKFAST

8:00 AM - 8:05 AM

OPENING REMARKS

Brigadier General John Weidner, Deputy Director of Plans and Policy, U.S. Strategic Command

8:05 AM - 8:30 AM

WELCOMING REMARKS: Commander's Assessment

Admiral Charles Richard, Commander, U.S. Strategic Command

8:30 AM - 10:05 AM

PANEL #1: Solidifying the concept of U.S. integrated Deterrence

Moderator: Dr. Brad Roberts, Director of the Center for Global Security Research, LLNL

Panel:

  • Lieutenant General (Ret) Thomas Spoehr, Director, Center for National Defense, The Heritage Foundation
  • Dr. Melanie Sisson, Fellow-Foreign Policy, Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Brookings
  • Dr. Michael Clarke, Senior Fellow, Centre for Defence Research, Australian Defence College, Canberra, Australia
  • Mr. Richard McManus, Senior Technical Advisor, U.S. Strategic Command, J5
  • Mr. Ed Ferguson, Minister Counsellor Defence, British Embassy
10:05 AM - 10:20 AM

BREAK

10:20 AM - 11:55 AM

PANEL #2: Strategies for deterring two nuclear-armed peer competitors

Moderator: Dr. Chris Yeaw, Associate Executive Director for Strategic Deterrence and Nuclear Programs, NSRI

Panel:

  • Dr. Paige Cone, Assistant Professor, Strategy and Security Studies, School of Advanced Air and Space Studies
  • Dr. Allison Astorino-Courtois, Chief Analytics Officer & Executive Vice President, NSI
  • Dr. Keir Lieber, Director of Security Studies Program & Center for Security Studies & Professor, School of Foreign Service & Department of Government, Georgetown University
  • Ms. Patty-Jane Geller, Senior Policy Analyst for Nuclear Deterrence and Missile Defense, The Heritage Foundation
11:55 AM - 12:05 PM

BREAK

12:05 PM - 1:05 PM

LUNCH

1:05 PM - 1:35 PM

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Perspectives on Deterrence

Dr. Kori Schake, Senior Fellow & Director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute

1:35 PM - 1:50 PM

BREAK

1:35 PM - 2:05 PM

MEDIA ROUNDTABLE

Admiral Charles Richard, Commander, U.S. Strategic Command

1:50 PM - 3:05 PM

PANEL #3: Russian deterrence and coercion: Using Ukraine as a case study

Moderator: Dr. Heather Williams, Director, Project on Nuclear Issues & Senior Fellow, International Securities Program, CSIS

Panel: 

  • Dr. Shmuel Bar, Founder & CEO, IntuView
  • Dr. Lora Saalman, Senior Researcher, SIPRI
  • Mr. Colin Smith, Senior International/Defense Researcher, RAND
  • Dr. Cynthia Roberts, Professor of Political Science, Hunter College, City University of New York, Senior Research Scholar, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies & Adjunct Professor of International Affairs, Columbia University
3:05 PM - 3:20 PM

BREAK

3:20 PM - 5:10 PM

PANEL #4: China's strategic breakout: What it means for deterrence and assurance

Moderator: Mr. Dean Cheng, Senior Research Fellow, Asian Studies Center, Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy, The Heritage Foundation

Panel:

  • Dr. Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova, Head of Political Science Program, Director of the China Studies Center, Riga Stradins University
  • The Honorable Franklin Miller, Principal, The Scowcroft Group
  • Mr. Matthew Turpin, Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
  • Mr. Robert Daly, Director, Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, Wilson Center
5:10 PM - 6:30 PM

DINNER RECEPTION

6:30 PM

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Perspectives

General (Ret) John Kelly, USMC, Former White House Chief of Staff

DINNER

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM

INTERNATIONAL BREAKFAST

SYMPOSIUM CHECK-IN (AS REQ) AND BREAKFAST

8:00 AM - 9:45 AM

PANEL #5: Rising Autocracy means declining democracy? Impacts to stability and the International Order

Moderator: Ms. Claire Henderson, Assistant Head Nuclear Deterrence Policy, MOD UK

Panel:

  • Dr. Kerry Kartchner, Professor, Department of Defense and Strategic Studies, Missouri State University
  • Mr. Dmitry Adamsky, Professor at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at Reichman University, Israel
  • Dr. Aleksander Matovski, Assistant Professor, Naval Postgraduate School
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM

BREAK

10:00 AM - 11:45 AM

PANEL #6: Next Generation Panel

Moderator: Mr. Nicholas Taylor, Senior Principal Analyst, UK MOD

Sessions:

  • Mr. Nick Blanchette, Student, MIT
  • Mr. Chase Harward, Student, Utah State University
  • Ms. Hallie Griffiths, Student, University of Virginia
  • Ms. Abigail Cawley, Student, Nebraska Wesleyan University
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM

BREAK

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

LUNCH

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Perspectives on Deterrence

Ambassador William Taylor, Vice President, Russia and Europe, USIP

1:30 PM - 1:35 PM

GENERAL LARRY D. WELCH DETERRENCE WRITING AWARD PRESENTATION

1:35 PM - 1:50 PM

BREAK

1:50 PM - 3:10 PM

PANEL #7: Power of the Private Sector: Implications of their actions on Strategic Deterrence

Moderator: Dr. Adam Lowther, NSRI

Panel: 

  • Dr. Eugenio Lilli, Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator of the Master in American Politics and Foreign Policy, University College Dublin, Ireland
  • Mr. Alan Ahn, Senior Resident Fellow for Climate and Energy Program, Third Way
  • Ms. Linda Specht, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Acting, U.S. State Department
3:10 PM - 3:25 PM

CLOSING COMMENTS

Admiral Charles Richard, Commander, U.S. Strategic Command

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