Academic Exchange Alumni Retreat

Wednesday – November 1

Afternoon                 Participants arrive in Austin and transfer themselves to Hyatt Regency

6:00 p.m.                   Welcome Cocktails

7:00 p.m.                   Dinner

• Introduction: Matt Waxman, Columbia Law School
• Dinner Keynote: Chris Inglis, former White House National Cyber Director and former Deputy Director of the NSA Speaker

Thursday – November 2

8:00 a.m.                    Breakfast and coffee

8:30 a.m.                    Welcome Remarks

• Nachum Braverman, Academic Exchange
• Adam Klein: UT-Austin Strauss Center

8:45 a.m.                    The Hamas Terror Attacks, Israel’s Response, and the Law of Armed Conflict

• Tal Becker and Eran Shamir Borer in discussion with Ben Wittes

10:30 a.m.                  Break

10:45 a.m.                 Panel Discussion: AI’s Disruptive Implications for Global Security

followed by Q&A Moderator: Michel Paradis

• Samantha Clark, General Counsel, Palantir; former General Counsel, Senate Armed Services Committee
• Bryan Cunningham, UC-Irvine
• Ernest “EJ” Karlberg (U.S. Army, ret.), Strategic Planning Officer, U.S. Army Futures Command

12:15 p.m.                  Lunch

1:30 p.m.                    Break

2:00 p.m.                    A Veteran Intelligence Officer’s Assessment of Israeli and U.S. Policy Options

A conversation with Paul Pope, former senior CIA officer and deputy National Intelligence Officer for the Near East

3:00 p.m.                   Break

3:30 p.m.                  The Information Environment in the Israel-Gaza Crisis

• Bryan Cunningham and Stephanie Pell

4:30 p.m.                   Break

6:00 p.m.                   Cocktails

7:00 p.m.                   Social Dinner

Friday – November 3

8:00 a.m.                   Breakfast and coffee

8:30 a.m.                  TED-Style Talks followed by Q&A:

• Chinmayi Sharma: Battle of the AIs? The future of Cyberoffense and Cyberdefense
  • Discussant: Stephanie Pell

• Brendan Groves: Autonomous Flight, Law, and the Future Battlefield
  • Discussant: Jordan Hirsch

10:00 a.m.                Break

10:15 a.m.                Panel Discussion: Killer Robots: Are they Legal? Are they Inevitable?  followed by Q&A

• Moderator: Adam Klein
• Chris Ford: Chief Judge Advocate, U.S. Army Futures Command
• Simone Ledeen: former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense

11:45 a.m.                 Concluding Remarks

12:00 p.m.                 Participants depart