Upcoming Event
The Aspen Security Forum
SCHEDULE
June 28, 2010
6:00 – 8:00 p.m. PRE-OPENING ADDRESS & RECEPTION: Afghanistan/Pakistan: The National Security Challenge
Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Moderator: David Sanger, The New York Times
June 29, 2010
8:00 – 9:00 a.m. BREAKFAST
9:00 – 10:00 a.m. OPENING ADDRESS
The Honorable Jane Holl Lute, Deputy Secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security
Moderator: Jeanne Meserve, CNN
10:00 - 11:15 a.m. Aviation Security
Christopher Bidwell, Vice President, Security and Facilitation, Airport Council International
Erroll Southers, Former Nominee, TSA Administrator; Managing Director of Counter-Terrorism and Infrastructure Protection, TAL Global
James May, President and CEO, Air Transport Association of America, Inc.
Moderator: Thomas Frank, USA Today
11:15 - 11:30 a.m. BREAK
11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. Maritime Security
Todd Owen, Executive Director, Cargo and Conveyance Security, Office of Field Operations, Customs and Border Protection, US Department of Homeland Security
Christopher Koch, President and CEO, World Shipping Council
Kurt Nagle, President and CEO, American Association of Port Authorities
Moderator: Rob Margetta, Congressional Quarterly
12:45 - 2:15 p.m. LUNCHEON ADDRESS
The Honorable Fran Townsend, former Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism
Moderator: Walter Isaacson, CEO and President, The Aspen Institute
2:15 – 3:30 p.m. Local Law Enforcement Perspective: View from the Front
William J. Bratton, former Chief, Los Angeles Police Department
Moderator: Jeanne Meserve, CNN
3:30 – 4:45 p.m. Mass Transit Security
John O'Connor, Vice President and Chief of Police, Amtrak Police Department
Jeffrey Delinski, Deputy Chief, Homeland Security and Investigation Bureau, Metro Transit Police, Washington, DC
William Millar, President, American Public Transportation Association
Moderator: Shaun Waterman, The Washington Times
4:45 – 5:00 p.m. BREAK
Break presented by Northrop Grumman
5:00 - 6:30 p.m. Cybersecurity
Richard A. Clarke, former Special Advisor to the President for Cybersecurity; former National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism
Rod Beckstrom, former Director, National Cybersecurity Center, US Department of Homeland Security; President and CEO, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
Daniel Prieto, Vice President and Practice Lead, Public Sector Strategy & Innovation, IBM
Moderator: David Ignatius, The Washington Post
6:30 – 7:45 p.m. DINNER
8:00 – 9:30 p.m. Terror in Mumbai: A screening of the HBO film of the same name and a discussion among terrorism experts as to "the vulnerability of the U.S. to a like attack on 'soft' targets and mass transit?"
HBO Documentary “Terror in Mumbai”
Steven Simon, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; former Senior Director for Combating Terrorism, National Security Council
Peter Bergen, National Security Analyst, CNN; Co-Director, Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative, New America Foundation
Paul Pillar, former senior CIA officer; Director of the Security Studies Program in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University
Moderator: Kimberly Dozier, Associated Press
June 30, 2010
8:00 – 9:00 a.m. BREAKFAST
9:00 – 10:00 a.m. The Terror Threat Picture and Counterterrorism Strategy
The Honorable Michael E. Leiter, Director, National Counterterrorism Center
Moderator: Michael Isikoff, NBC
10:00 – 10:15 a.m. BREAK
10:15 – 11:45 a.m. Border Security
Robert Mocny, Director, US-VISIT program, US Department of Homeland Security
Mark S. Borkowski, Executive Director, Secure Border Initiative (SBI), Customs and Border Protection, US Department of Homeland Security
Stephen Oswald, Vice President and General Manager Intelligence and Security Systems, Boeing
Moderator: Michelle Cottle, The New Republic
11:45 a.m. – Noon BREAK
Noon - 1:00 p.m. LUNCHEON ADDRESS
His Excellency Husain Haqqani, Pakistani Ambassador to the United States
Moderator: Massimo Calabresi, TIME Magazine
1:00 – 2:30 p.m. How Prepared Are We for the Next 9/11?
Gary Hart, Co-Chair, "Hart-Rudman" US Commission on National Security/21st Century; former US Senator
Richard Ben-Veniste, Former 9/11 Commission member
Jim Talent, Vice-Chair, Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism; former US Senator
Mati Kochavi, Chairman, AGT International
Moderator: Admiral Steve Abbot, Former Deputy Director, White House Office of Homeland Security
2:30 – 3:45 p.m. The View from Abroad
Richard Barrett, Coordinator, Al-Qaida/Taliban Monitoring Team, United Nations
Henry Crumpton, former Ambassador-at-Large, Coordinator for Counterterrorism, US Department of State
Moderator: Robert Siegel, NPR
3:45 – 4:00 p.m. BREAK
4:00 – 5:30 p.m. Innovation, Research & Development – New Technologies and Smart Investment Prospects for the Post- 9/11 Age
Richard Cooper, Chair of the Homeland Security Division, National Industrial Defense Association; Catalyst Partners, LLC
Devin Talbott, Vice President, D.E. Shaw
Matthew McCooe, Founder, Chart Venture Partners
Roger London, Chair, American Security Challenge
James Beldock, President, International, ShotSpotter
Moderator: Jacob Goodwin, Editor-in-Chief, GSN: Government Security News
5:30 – 6:45 p.m. The Media’s Role in Terrorism Reporting and Awareness
Spencer S. Hsu, The Washington Post
Siobhan Gorman, The Wall Street Journal
Ira Rosen, Producer, “60 Minutes”, CBS News
Moderator: Calvin Sims, Program Officer, Ford Foundation; former Latin America and Asia correspondent, The New York Times
6:45 – 7:30 p.m. RECEPTION
7:30 - 8:30 p.m. CLOSING TALK
The Honorable Michael Chertoff, former Secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security
Moderator: Catherine Herridge, Fox News