9:00am – 9:30am

Introduction / Welcome

U.S. DoD, OIOP – Mr. James Jabinal, Director for Strategy and International Partnerships

UK MOD, MSE – Air Commodore Matt Bressani OBE, RAF

9:30am – 10:00am

Dr. Sebastian Gorka - Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism on the National Security Council at THE WHITE HOUSE

10:00am – 10:30am

Break
Break Exposure Sponsor:

10:30am – 11:00am

Luke Pollard, MP (confirmed)

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces

11:00am – 11:30am

Maj. Gen. Peter Andrysiak, Jr. (Confirmed)
U.S. Army - Chief of Staff, United States European Command

11:30am – 12:00pm

Air Vice-Marshal Mark Ridgway
Head of Defence Futures, Integration Design Authority - Strategic Command

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Lunch (included with registration fee)

Lunch Exposure Sponsor:

1:00pm – 2:30pm

Deterrence: Exploring the Present and Future Threat of Disinformation

Moderator: LtCol James Chandler Phd, UK Army, Chatham House Fellow

Panelists:

- Chris Riley, NATO HQ

- Todd Helmus, RAND Corporation

- Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob, CIDC, American University in Bulgaria

- Kathleen Carley, Carnegie Mellon University

2:30pm – 3:00pm

Break

3:00pm – 4:30pm

Detection: Detecting, Identifying, Tracking and Mitigating Disinformation

Moderator: David Cornell, Microsoft Threat Analysis Center

Panelists:

- David Lynch, Sayari Labs

- Ryan Campbell, TRM Labs

- Lisa Kaplan, Alethea

- Dr Richard Davis, CEO Artis Magi

4:30pm – 4:50pm

Day 1 Close

8:45am – 9:00am

Welcome Back

9:00am – 9:30am

Marie-Doha Besancenot (confirmed)

NATO Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy

9:30am – 10:15am

French Perspectives on the Disinformation Kill Chain

French National Defense University

- Lieutenant -colonel Paul Janin, French Army

- Lieutenant-colonel Gregory Frutos, French National Gendarmerie

- Commandant Francois Grezet-Besset

10:15am – 10:45am

Break

10:45am – 12:00pm

Strengthening Resilience & Assessments: Promoting Understanding and Effective Resistance

Moderator: Rachael Goodwill, Deputy Director & Head of Counter Information Manipulation Department, FCDO

Panelists:

- Jacob Coakwell, U.S. EUCOM J39

- Ben Kessler, Meltwater

- Becky Fair, Two-Six

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Lunch (included with registration fee)

Lunch Exposure Sponsors:

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Current and Future Capabilities: Challenges in Research and Development for OIE & the Role of AI

Moderator: Rory, Kinane, Deputy Head, Secretary of State’s Office for Net Assessment and Challenge, UK MOD

Panelists:

- Dr. Jonathan Pfautz, Peraton Labs

- Dr . Victoria Romero, U.S. DARPA

- Paul Burkard, Blackbird.ai

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Countering Disinformation: Breaking the Disinformation Kill Chain

Moderator: Brigadier Rupert Evetts, UK Ministry of Defence

Panelists:

- Matthew Sheiffer, AFRICOM

- Ivana Stradner, Foundation for Defense of Democracies

- Paul M H Buvarp, Norway Defense Research Establishment

- Dmytro Plieshakov, CEO - Osavul

3:00pm – 3:30pm

Break

3:30pm – 4:45pm

Disinformation Rapid-Response: Challenges and Opportunities

Moderator: Lorna Ward, Senior Communications Advisor, LW Ltd.

Panelists:

- James Heappey, Former UK Minister of State for the Armed Forces

- Elisabeth Braw, American Enterprise Institute

- Lt. General Andrew Harrison (Ret), British Army Senior Officer

4:45pm – 4:55pm

Working Group Orientation / Close

There are 2 working groups each with am/pm sessions. Participants can attend each and choose presentations to observe during the working groups.

• 9:00am – 12:00am:
  • OIE Assessments
  • Counter-Disinformation Framework
• 1:00 pm - 4:00pm:
  • OIE Assessments
  • Counter-Disinformation Framework

9:00am – 10:00am

Sviatoslav Hnizdovskyi, Founder and CEO - OpenMinds

Measuring the Effectiveness of Counter-Influence Operations and Strategic Communications: Learnings and Insights from the Russo-Ukrainian War

10:00am – 11:00am

Dr. John Kelly, Founder, Exec Chairman - Graphika

Leveraging Cyber-Social Terrain

11:00am – 12:00pm

Harry Williams - ORB International

Ground Truth: Value of On-the-Ground Polling in Assessing Disinformation Impact in Russia

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Lunch (on your own)

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Carrick Longley - ZenithFlow

Accelerating IO Decision Cycles Through Human-AI Teaming and Multi-Agent Systems

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Christopher Paul - Naval Postgraduate School

Six Case Studies of the Effectiveness of Foreign Malign Influence: Stakeholder Impressions vs. Empirical Analysis

• 9:00am – 10:00am:
  • Intelligence Brief
  • Intelligence Framework & Methodology Brief
  • Sub-working group assignments
• 10:00am – 10:30am: Break
• 10:30am – 12:30pm:
  • Disinformation collaboration framework and authorities matrix
  • Table Top Exercise prep
• 12:30pm – 1:30pm: Lunch
  • On own (Armoury House Recommended)
• 1:30pm – 3:30pm:
  • Table Top Exercise
  • Hotwash/Lessons Learned