2022 Confirmed Speakers Include:

Event Moderator: Andrew Hallman
VP, National Security Strategy & Integration, Peraton
Former CIA Director of Digital Innovation & Former Principal Executive, ODNI

Lori C. Wade
IC Chief Data Officer
Assistant DNI for Data and Partnership Interoperability (ADNI/DPI)
Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

Brian Bataille 
Chief Data Officer 
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)

Col Ryan Kehoe, USAF
Deputy Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Officer
Department of the Air Force (DAF)

Mark Krzysko, SES
Principal Deputy Director of Enterprise Information in the Acquisition Data and Analytics (ADA)
OUSD (A&S)

Marie Falkowski 
Director, Artificial Intelligence; Data Analytics
Digital Innovation Directorate, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Dr. Mark Brady
Chief Data Officer
U.S. Space Force (USSF)

Download the 2022 Agenda Here

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Why You Should Attend This Symposium:

With 500 million granted in funding in the FY2023 NDAA to the new DoD CDAO, there is an effort now more than ever to scale up data analytics and utilize emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence to break down big data sets for improved decision making. The 10th Annual Big Data for Intelligence Symposium will bring together senior level members from the Intelligence Community (IC), Department of Defense (DoD), military, academia, and industry to discuss innovative strategies, initiatives, and partnerships toward harnessing big data for actionable intelligence and a strategic decision advantage.  This year’s Symposium will feature the perspectives of various Senior level leaders and stakeholders, who are working to enhance the processing, analyzing, management, and accessibility of large data sets in order to produce usable intelligence that will both increase the speed of mission and deliver a enhanced capability to the Warfighter in contested near-peer environments.

Data volume and accessibility are at an all-time high. Various threat actors now have an ability to leverage commercially available data driven technologies for strategic effect from anywhere in the world, and the sheer amount of data the IC and DoD now have to process & disseminate is becoming overwhelming. This year’s forum will detail how various intelligence agencies and military commands are working toward facilitating a more efficient approach to managing, storing, securing, and analyzing such large sets of data. A common theme across both the IC and DoD Data Strategies has been to operationalize a data-centric approach by making data more discoverable, more accessible, and more agile on a global scale. Integrating data management, data quality and other factors of data innovation to ensure meaningful algorithms and the integrity of big data intelligence has become essential. 

This event will extensively examine and offer attendees a look into the current push from leaders across the IC and DoD to collaborate on utilizing emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning to better identify patterns, accelerate decision-making, and understand data management requirements. Accelerating the use of such tools will help intelligence analysts and users exploit, process and analyze data to better inform operations in real time and further foster a culture of innovation needed for the US to preserve its military edge into the future. Additionally, many sessions throughout this year’s event will focus in on current efforts to keep pace with the rapid evolution of data-driven capabilities and how there have been foundational investments throughout the government to develop and retain a data savvy workforce. Lastly, a group of experts from the DoD, SOCOM, and Industry will convene for a panel discussion and provide the audience insight into how they are facilitating the evolution of ADVANA: DoD’s Big-Data Platform for Advanced Analytics.

DSI’s team specializes in the extensive research and development of our Symposiums’ content and focus areas, and we will assemble the most respected minds in data science as well as key-policy makers across military and civilian offices. Our non-partisan approach allows us to reach across all services and organizations to bring together a truly holistic group of decision makers and solution providers. 

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*Symposium is Closed to The Press / No Recordings*

The Big Data for Intelligence Symposium provides opportunities including exhibit space, round table discussions, product demonstrations, and networking receptions. 

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Topics to be covered at the 2022 Symposium:

– Ensuring all IC data is discoverable, accessible, & usable at the speed of mission
– Facilitating the Evolution of ADVANA: DoD’s Big-Data Platform for Advanced Analytics
– Leading CIA data initiatives toward maintaining a strategic decision advantage on a global scale
– Driving USAF efforts toward using data & AI as strategic assets in shaping the future battlespace
– Ensuring the DON manages big data effectively by translating enterprise data into actionable insights, decisions, & outcomes
– Modernizing the Army’s data strategy to deliver a decisive advantage to the Soldier in a contested near-peer environment
– Enabling the effective delivery of foundational military intelligence to help the U.S. Military, IC, & our Allies stay ahead of threats in any domain

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At Our Summit You Have the Ability To:

Gain Education & Insight: Walk away with knowledge gained from our senior level speakers on some of the complex challenges facing our big data community.

Build Partnerships: The agenda is designed to allow for ample networking opportunities and the ability to engage in constructive dialogue among all in attendance.

Influence: Help foster ideas! Share your own insight and knowledge during our interactive sessions. All attendees are encouraged to address our speaker faculty and each other with their questions, comments, or ideas.

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Operating Guidance for Government Attendees:

• DSI’s Summit directly supports IC & DoD priorities by providing a conduit for officials to efficiently reach audiences outside of their respective offices that directly impact their department’s mission success, at no charge to the government, and in an efficient expenditure of time.

DSI’s Summit will provide a forum to address and improve internal and external initiatives, meet with and hear from partner organizations, disseminate vital capability requirements to industry, increase visibility within the larger community, and generally support their mission.

The Summit is open and complimentary to all DoD and Federal employees, is considered an educational training forum, and is a widely attended gathering.

(Industry and academia members are charged a fee for admission.)

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2021 Participating organizations included:

Enveil, Snowflake, Ball Aerospace, Alteryx, Inc., Plateau Grp, Revolve Solutions LLC, Zenetex, Global Marketing Insights, Inc., ALQIMI, NNData, Alation, Proofpoint, Amazon Web Services, Amazon, Scale AI Colvin Run Networks, Cognosante, KPMG, LLP, JTEC Consulting LLC, Redhorse Corporation, Venntel, Inc, CES LLC, Rebellion Defense , Praxis Engineering, iWorks Corporation, SAIC, Cybersecurity Information Analysis Center (CSIAC), Intelligent Artifacts, Inc., TSPi, Xcelerate Solutions, Sidus Space, Inc, Alta Via Consulting, Axiological Solutions, Babel Street, BMC Software, Cambridge Semantics, CGI Federal, Denodo, DataWalk, Spire, Hitachi Vantara Federal, Circinus LLC, DLT Solutions, Forcepoint, Georgetown University Center for Security & Emerging Technology, Informatical, IFOC, Johns Hopkins University APL, KYM Advisors, MD DPSCS-OIG, Meta Special Aerospace, Microsoft Federal, Northrop Grumman, Intel, Dell Technologies, OMNI Technologies, Open SAN Consulting LLC,  Patch Plus Consulting, Perspecta, The MITRE Corporation, ThoughtSpot, Trifacta Public Sector, National Counterterrorism Center, National Defense University, Office of the Director of National IntelligencE, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, DHS, FBI, DIA, US Space Force, HQ DAF, US Army, DON, CIA, DISA, USSOCOM, ADVANA – DoD CDAO, MIT LL, DOJ, DCSA, CBP, ICE, NIST, SEI – Carnegie Mellon & many more…!