Cost: $1,000 per person (20% discount when you register for all five seminars)

What this includes: Continental breakfast, lunch, and a day of seminars with expert instructors

Topics that will be covered:

Artificial Intelligence

This seminar will provide a fundamental understanding of how artificial intelligence and cyber tools will affect the global battlefield in the years to come. Beginning by exploring the current status of artificial intelligence technology, the published cyber capabilities of international actors, and the current United States cyber strategy. Then a look at the projected abilities of artificial intelligence and its implications for warfare, based on released statements by both the private sector and government actors. This seminar is about the upcoming role of artificial intelligence as it applies to cyber strategy and national defense.

Instructor: Fritz Barth

Mr. Barth graduated from IWP in 2006 and currently supports the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence in the management of defense intelligence priorities. Prior to supporting the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in a similar capacity, he completed a career as a Marine Corps intelligence officer with combat tours in Iraq and Somalia, retiring at the rank of colonel. His background is in developing intelligence capabilities and processes. He is also a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP).

Cyber Intelligence and Statecraft

Crisis at the speed of Code: This seminar examines the most salient national security crises and dilemmas intersecting with the grey areas of cybersecurity. It will consider the nexus to private sector engagement and the need for refinement of current policies, laws, and norms to better reflect creative activities of state and non-state actors in the cyber domain, particularly concerning espionage, the commission of financial crime, and the role of non-state actors, surrogates, or cyber mercenaries.

Instructor: Sana Saleh

Ms. Saleh is currently lending her national security, cyber policy, strategic development, legal, and management consulting expertise to the Department of Homeland Security as a Director. Previously, she was Special Advisor to four-star Pentagon leadership within the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and prior to that, Office of the Secretary of the Army. She is a public policy influencer who has worked with and been invited to speak at Beltway think tanks, private sector roundtables, NATO, and Oxford University.

Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Intelligence