Hostile
foreign governments routinely interfere in elections and engage in social media
campaigns that increase grievances and exploit social cleavages. Challenges to
national security will increase as technology becomes ever more foundational to
daily life. In Washington, these challenges are often addressed in policy
dialogues without technologists in the room.
This day-long conference seeks to address that gap: bringing technologists from Carnegie Mellon University and elsewhere to Washington to engage with policy experts to jointly develop solutions to some of these national security challenges.
This event is invitation-only, but will be live-streamed on this page.
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Director and Managing Editor, Digital Forensic Research Lab Atlantic Council
Dr. Kathleen Carley
Professor and Director, Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems Carnegie Mellon University
Ambassador Daniel Fried
Weiser Family Distinguished Fellow Atlantic Council
Ms. Laura Galante
Founder, Galante Strategies Senior Fellow, Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council
Ambassador John Herbst
Director, Eurasia Center Atlantic Council
Dr. Eduard Hovy
Research Professor, Language Technologies Institute Carnegie Mellon University
Mr. Frederick Kempe
President and CEO Atlantic Council
Dr. Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer
Director, Institute for Strategic Research; Senior Fellow, Future Europe Initiative French Ministry for the Armed Forces; Atlantic Council
Mr. Bob Kolasky
Director, National Risk Management Center, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency United States Department of Homeland Security
Dr. Ramayya Krishnan
Dean, Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy; William W. and Ruth F. Cooper Professor of Management Science and Information Systems Carnegie Mellon University
Ambassador Sarah Mendelson
Distinguished Service Professor of Public Policy; Head of Heinz College in Washington, DC Carnegie Mellon University
H.E. Karin Olofsdotter
Ambassador Embassy of the Kingdom of Sweden to the United States
Mr. Chris Painter
Commissioner Global Commission for the Stability of Cyberspace
Dr. Alina Polyakova
Director, Project on Global Democracy and Emerging Technology; Fellow – Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe Brookings Institution
Dr. Roni Rosenfeld
Professor and Head, Machine Learning Department, School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University
H.E. Jonatan Vseviov
Ambassador Embassy of the Republic of Estonia to the United States
Panel Discussions
Technology and Foreign Interference: The 2016, 2018 US Elections
Do technologists view the problem the same way that policy experts do? What do we have the technology to solve and where are the gaps?
Technology and Foreign Interference: The View From Europe
Lessons from Across the Pond: The recent elections in Europe and large-scale cyberattack in Estonia in 2007 all provide interesting case studies in how to advance “prevention, protection and resiliency.”
Technology and Foreign Interference: Daily Life
Where is the US most vulnerable: Electricity grids, transportation infrastructure, banking systems, military command, control and communications? What gaps exist in forensics and attribution of attacks? How do we address these issues?
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A conference determining the best practices and gaps to close when it comes to foreign interference in infrastructure, elections, national security, and disinformation efforts. Attendance by invitation only.
