Senior Fellow at CSET-20 year USG—all opinions are my own.

Cathy Hackl is a globally recognized metaverse expert, tech futurist, and top business executive with deep experience working in metaverse-related fields with companies like HTC VIVE, Magic Leap, and Amazon Web Services.

Dr. Cameron Carlson, the Dean, of the College of Business and Security Management at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks about the Artic region’s dynamic and emerging trends, focusing on environmental and geopolitical aspects. Dr. Carlson is the founding director of the UAF Homeland Security and Emergency Management program which focuses on those who either desire or are currently working within the homeland defense, homeland security, and or emergency management enterprise. He is also the founding director of the Center for Arctic Security and Resilience which bridged interdisciplinary academic and research scholarship for the growing diversity of security and resilience-related concerns such as human, national, climate, and energy security. Dr. Carlson is the founding and now co-principal investigator of the USNORTHCOM/ALCOM Arctic Defense and Security Orientation which is the primary educational program responsible for baselining DoD knowledge of the Arctic region through an operational focus. Dr. Carlson holds a bachelor’s in biology, a master’s in international relations, and a Ph.D. in interdisciplinary programs—security and disaster management.

Dr. Debora Pfaff is the Co-Director of the Center for Trust, Truth, and Transparency (Tr3), and an Associate Professor of Research with the Ann Caracristi Institute.

Director, The Center for Futures Intelligence @ National Intelligence University I Global Strategist & Futurist I Geopolitical Risk & Intelligence Expert I Founder, USAF Strategic Foresight Team I Executive Advisor

Dr. Mark Bailey writes about the intersection between artificial intelligence, complexity, and national security. He is a faculty member at the National Intelligence University, where he is the Department Chair for Cyber Intelligence and Data Science, as well as the Co-Director of the Data Science Intelligence Center. His work has appeared in publications such as the journal Futures, Nautilus, and Homeland Security Today. Previously, he worked as a data scientist on several AI programs in the U.S. Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. He is also an Officer in the U.S. Army Reserve. In his spare time, he does ceramics, is a beekeeper, and endeavors to turn his yard into a vegetable garden.

Dr. Michael Grieves is an internationally renowned expert on Digital Twins, a concept that he originated, and organizational digital transformation. His focus is on product development, engineering, systems engineering and complex systems, manufacturing, especially additive manufacturing, and operational sustainment. Dr. Grieves has written the seminal books on Product Lifecycle Management and the seminal papers and chapters on Digital Twins, He has consulted and/or done research at some of the top global organizations, including NASA, Boeing, Unilever, Newport News Shipbuilding, and General Motors. In addition to his academic credentials, Dr. Grieves has over five decades of extensive executive and deep technical experience in both global and entrepreneurial technology and manufacturing companies. He has been a senior executive at both Fortune 1000 companies and entrepreneurial organizations during his career. He founded and took public a national systems integration company and subsequently served as its audit and compensation committee chair. Dr. Grieves has substantial board experience, including serving on the boards of public companies in the United States, China, and Japan. Dr. Grieves earned his B.S. Computer Engineering from Michigan State University, an MBA from Oakland University, and his doctorate from Case Western Reserve University.

Scientist, national security expert, public speaker. Former senior intelligence officer, professor. Ecological disruption, climate change. Proudly Native.

Author of 8 Billion & Counting https://t.co/fnYh1KoD4F - Substack: https://t.co/3lqemUSk9h. Speaker, 22-23 Scholar @TheWilsonCenter + @CSIS @TEDTalks 2023 speaker

Postdoctoral Research Associate @Cambridge_Uni @CSDMLab. Studying Misinformation | Conspiracy Beliefs | Political Psychology (he/him).

Director, Project for Media and National Security at George Washington University. Former Pentagon correspondent and Deputy Washington Editor at NYT.