Speakers

Dr. Stacey A. Dixon

Friday, November 6, 2020

Dr. Stacey A. Dixon is the eighth Deputy Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). In this role, she assists the Director in leading the agency and serves as the Career Service Head for the Senior Executive cadre. Dr. Dixon became NGA’s Deputy Director on July 1, 2019. From September 2018 to June 2019, Dr.…

Brigadier General Steven J. Butow

Friday, November 6, 2020

Brigadier General Steven J. Butow is the Space Portfolio Director for the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research & Engineering, located in Silicon Valley. Prior to joining DIU, he was the Vice Chief of the Joint Staff, California Military Department. Colonel Butow is a former Commander of the 129th…

Balan Ayyar

Friday, November 6, 2020

Balan Ayyar is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of percipient.ai, a Silicon-Valley based artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computer vision firm focused on intelligence and national security missions. Percipient.ai’s intelligence analysis platform Mirage is operationally deployed in the national security and Intelligence Community of the USG. Balan is a seasoned CEO and retired…

Abe Usher

Friday, November 6, 2020

Abe Usher is the Co-CEO at Black Cape, a machine learning and software development company. Still, he finds time to continue hands-on technical leadership as Lead Engineer, where he architects, designs, and develops machine learning capabilities that detect patterns and unknown relationships in complex data related to GEOINT. Usher is an award-winning technology leader and…

Paul Sartorius

Friday, November 6, 2020

Ronda Schrenk

Friday, November 6, 2020

Robert Cardillo

Thursday, November 5, 2020

Robert Cardillo is the president of The Cardillo Group, LLC (TCG). TCG delivers strategic and operational expertise to create an enhanced awareness of our planet to enable improved decision-making. The TCG portfolio includes academic, non-profit, and national security-related industry clients. Before forming TCG in May 2019, Robert was the sixth Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) from 2014 – 2019. He transformed…

Marisa Hess

Thursday, November 5, 2020

Marisa Hess is employed by Strategic Alliance Consulting Inc as the Geospatial Data Manager for Army National Military Cemeteries. In this role, Ms. Hess manages GIS technical and analytical services to assure quality analysis and quality control of the GIS database and the enterprise Interment Scheduling System. Prior to this position, she was Deputy Project Manager at MDA Information Systems, managing…

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