GEOINT Community Forum:

29 November: Classification: Unclassified

8:00-9:00 Arrival, Breakfast, and Exhibits

9:00-9:15 Welcome Remarks: Christy Monaco, Vice President of Programs, USGIF 

9:15-10:00 Keynote: Ylli Bajraktari, Chief Executive Officer, Special Competitive Studies Project, and former Executive Director, National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence

Q&A moderated by Robert Cardillo, USGIF Board Chair

10:00-11:00 Panel: “Hic Sunt Dracones” – Stories of Success in Scaling Federal AI  

Ancient cartographers included the phrase “Here be dragons” to denote uncharted areas of maps where dangers were thought to exist. Implementation of AI for GEOINT does cross into unchartered and complex territory.  However, the GEOINT community can learn much from other federal organizations that have successfully navigated the paths from AI pilots to implementation. This panel of leaders will share some of their own stories about implementation of non-GEOINT AI capabilities, from which the GEOINT community can learn.  

Moderator: Wynn Thane, Co-Chair, USGIF Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Working Group

• Scott Beliveau, Co-lead Product Owner of the USPTO’s Enterprise Data and Analytics product, Director of Enterprise Data Architecture and Chief of Enterprise Advanced Analytics in the Office of the Chief Technology Officer, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
  
• Molly Cain, Associate Director, Enterprise Digitalization, Internal Revenue Service
• Alex Miller, Science and Technology Advisor, U.S. Army G2
• Diane Staheli, Chief of Responsible AI, Office of the Chief Digital and AI Officer, Department of Defense 

11:00-11:30 Networking Break  

11:30-12:15 Keynote:  LtGen Michael Groen, USMC (Ret.), Former Director, Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, Department of Defense

Q&A moderated by Christy Monaco, Vice President of Programs, USGIF 

12:15-1:30 Lunch Break

1:30-2:15 Keynote: Dr. Gurpartap “GP” Sandhoo, D.Sc., Deputy Director, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA)

Q&A moderated by Will Rorrer, USGIF Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Working Group Co-Chair

2:15-2:30 Networking Break 

2:30-3:30 Panel: "Verify, But Trust?" – Quality Assurance and Control for Machine Learning 

There are both behavioral and technical hurdles that present potential barriers to adoption of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning capabilities in the GEOINT Community. For example, how do we verify models when the events and activities we’re trying to predict don’t happen very often? How do we encourage users to “trust the machines” vs relying as we have traditionally on fallible human judgment? Join this exploration of how organizations are pursuing quality assurance, quality control, and trust in machine learning, examining current practices and looking at emerging approaches. 

Moderator: Pat Biltgen, Ph.D., Principal, Booz Allen Hamilton 

Panelists:

• Cara LaPointe, Ph.D., Co-Director, Johns Hopkins Institute for Assured Autonomy
• Jeff Spugnardi, GEOINT Programs Lead, Google Public Sector 
• Abe Usher, Co-CEO, Black Cape
• Eric Willis, Ph.D., Senior Data Scientist, RGi

3:30-4:15 Panel: Academic Contributions to GEOINT AI

Industry and government stakeholders certainly aren’t the only actors moving the needle forward in the Artificial Intelligence space. Academic institutions such as universities and research centers are home to some of the most innovative research in GEOINT AI. From tackling humanitarian issues like climate change and global health, to supporting the Army’s One World Terrain project through modeling and simulation, to leading the ICESat-2 missions, these panelists represent a wide range of cutting-edge GEOINT AI research. Learn how leaders in academia both support government and industry and blaze their own trail in geospatial artificial intelligence.

Moderator: Lisa Witzig, Ph. D., Director, Center for Security Research and Education, Pennsylvania State University

Panelists:   

• Ryan Ford, Ph.D., Applied Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University
• Lori Magruder, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics and Associate Director of Center for Space Research, The University of Texas at Austin 
• Kyle McCullough, Director of Modeling & Simulation, University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies
• Cordula Robinson, Ph.D., Head of Geospatial Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence, Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security, Northeastern University

4:15-4:20 Closing Remarks: Christy Monaco, VP of Programs, USGIF

4:20-5:30 Networking Reception and Exhibits