9:00am – 9:30am

Introduction / Welcome

OIOP and UK MOD MSE

9:30am – 10:00am

OSD Policy Senior Official (To Be Confirmed)

10:30am – 11:00am

Luke Pollard, MP (confirmed)

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces

11:00am – 11:30am

US Flag Officer (To Be Confirmed)

11:30am – 12:00pm

UK Flag Officer (To Be Confirmed)

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Lunch

Sponsored By:

1:00pm – 2:30pm

Deterrence: Exploring the Present and Future Threat of Disinformation

Moderator: TBD

Panelists:

- United Kingdom Representative / NATO Representative

- Todd Helmus, RAND Corporation

- Jacob Udo, 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

- Sarah Glitman-Found, TRM Labs

- Esteban Castellanos, Alethea

- Tim Law, 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

Disinformation Rapid-Response: Challenges and Opportunities

Moderator: Jay Singh-Sohal, M&C Saatchi

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

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Lunch

Sponsored By:

1:00pm – 2:00pm

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

Moderator : United Kingdom Moderator

Panelists:

- Dr. Jonathan Pfautz, Peraton Labs

- Dr . Victoria Romero, U.S. DARPA

- Paul Burkard, Blackbird.ai

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Countering Disinformation with OIE: Breaking the Disinformation Kill Chain

Moderator : United Kingdom Moderator

Panelists:

- Matthew Sheiffer, AFRICOM

- Ivana Stradner, Foundation for Defense of Democracies

- Paul M H Buvarp, Norway Defense Research Establishment

- Dmytro Bilash, Osavul

3:00pm – 3:30pm

Break

3:30pm – 4:45pm

Strengthening Resilience & Assessments: Promoting Understanding and Effective Resistance

Moderator : OIOP, JIOWC, or UK MOD Moderator

Panelists:

- Henry Collis, Centre for Information Resilience, United Kingdom

- Jacob Coakwell, U.S. EUCOM J39

- Stephanie Stapleton, Center for Naval Analysis

- Ben Kessler, Meltwater

4:45pm – 4:55pm

Working Group Orientation / Close

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