For 10 years, Potomac Officers Club has provided a unique offering to the government contracting community with its Intel Summit: rare and open access to top Intelligence Community officials. IC members are notoriously elusive, secretive and hard-to-reach, so POC has fostered a trusted and secure environment for them to communicate with the industry that is eager to deliver them technologies, consulting services and innovative solutions.
This year’s Intel Summit is right around the corner — it’s scheduled for Sept. 19 at the Hilton McLean in Virginia. Of course, POC is committed to assembling the most impressive roster of speakers possible for you to learn from and engage with. Learn more about them and how they can enable your career below.
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Nand Mulchandani
Opening keynote, 8:05–8:45 a.m.
Nand Mulchandani is the CIA’s first-ever chief technology officer, a vaunted and important position in its own right. But he is fluent in many languages, not least of which is the fast-moving lingo of the private sector. This is because Mulchandani spent the first portion of his career launching and growing successful tech start-ups. He’s since been CTO for the Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, prior to its reformulation as the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office. He additionally won the Wash100 Award in 2023, a recognition of the most infuential figures in GovCon.
Mulchandani is sure to enlighten the audience about the specific technologies the CIA is targeting and how industry can help it evolve its systems so that it remains at the forefront of intelligence collection.
Dr. William Benard
Morning keynote, 8:45–9:20 a.m.
Dr. Benard serves as the Office of Collection director at the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency. His research centers on distributed sensing, additive manufacturing, X-ray lithography systems and NASA payloads, among many others. He’s also extremely knowledgeable about semiconductors, including material, device and architecture, so audience members who are invested in chip production should get a lot out of his remarks. Research and development fuels innovation — listen closely as Dr. Benard reveals the R&D projects currently underway at IARPA.
Ryan Young
Afternoon keynote, 2:30–3:05 p.m.
The FBI representative at the summit, Ryan Young is the executive assistant director of the bureau’s intelligence branch. He’s spent a productive couple of decades with the agency, performing duties everywhere from Syria and Iraq to Los Angeles and has taken a particular focus on weapons of mass destruction. You can count on him to expand on the important law enforcement aspect of the intelligence community and elucidate how high-quality intelligence is crucial to making high-stakes law enforcement decisions.
Dana Madsen
Closing keynote, 3:05–3:40 p.m.
It’s not an Intel Summit without a speech from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence — the nucleus of the IC. National Intelligence Manager for Cyber Dana Madsen will do the honors at this year’s edition, sharing experiences from an over 20-year IC career (he formerly held positions of increasing responsibility at the CIA). Tune in if you want to learn how Madsen and his team are integrating cyber collection and analysis and how they’re spending their resources for the cyber mission via the Intelligence Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution system.
You won’t come across a lineup of Intelligence Community experts every day. Join GovCon’s best and brightest at the 2024 Intel Summit to hear remarks from all of these distinguished speakers!
