The Maritime Strategy:  Working Together to Defend the Homeland

updated:  20 March 2009

All Speakers have accepted.
 

0730-0830

 Registration/Check -in (Coffee and Pastries provided)
   

0730-1800

 Exhibits
   

0835-0845

 Welcoming Remarks
VADM Ronald A. Route, U.S. Navy (Ret), Surface Navy Association President
   

0845-0930

 Keynote Speaker:  VADM Robert J. Papp, Jr. USCG (Accepted)
Commander, Atlantic Area/Commander, Defense Force East United States Coast Guard
   

0930-1000

 Break in the Exhibit Area
   

1000-1130

Panel:  Today's Operation

Moderator: RADM John Tozzi, USCG (Ret)
Panelists:  RADM Mark "Buz" Buzby, USN (Accepted)
Deputy Chief of Staff for Global Force Management and Joint Operations (N3/N5)  U.S. Fleet Forces Command
CAPT Gilles Couturier (Accepted)
Commander, Fourth Maritime Operations Group, Canadian Navy
RADM Tom Atkin, US Coast Guard (Accepted)
Commander, Deployable Operations Group
CAPT Fernando Quintana (Accepted)
Captain in the Spanish Merchant Marines (Marina Mercante de Espana)
   

1130-1300

 Lunch on the Exhibit Floor
   

1300-1415

Panel:  Maritime Domain Awareness: Information Sharing and Coordination

Moderator: RDML Mike Mahon, USN
Deputy Director, Surface Warfare Division, N86B, OPNAV
Panelist:  CAPT Gordan Evans Van Hook, USN (Ret) (Accepted)
Senior Director, Innovation and Concept Development, Maersk, Limited
RADM Richard R. Kelly, USCG (Accepted)
Director, Global Maritime & Air Intelligence Integration US Coast Guard
COMMODORE  Hans Christian Helseth, RNON (Accepted)
Deputy Chief of Staff Operations, Maritime Component Command Headquarters Northwood
Dr. Norman Friedman (Accepted)
Defense Analyst and Historian, author of "Network-Centric Warfare:  How Navies Learned to
Fight Smarter Through Three World Wars"

   

1430-1545

 Panel:  Policy and Technology:  What We Need To Do For Tomorrow

Moderator: CAPT David Lee, USN (Ret)
Panelist:  RADM Robert C. Parker, USCG (Accepted)
Director of Security & Intel, United States Southern Command
 CAPT Jon Kreitz, USN (Accepted)
Branch Head, Surface Warfare Strategy and Alignment Branch, N861, OPNAV
CAPT Curt Dubay, USCG (Ret) (Accepted)
 Director, Maritime Domain Awareness Program Integration Office (CG-51-M), USCG
Professor Robert "Barney" Rubel (Accepted)
 Dean, Center for Naval Warfare  
Naval War College
Dr. Judith Youngman (Accepted)
Professor of Political Science
United States Coast Guard Academy
   

1545-1600

 Wrap-up:  RADM J. Scott Burhoe, US Coast Guard
Superintendent, U.S. Coast Guard Academy
   

1600-1800

 Reception in the Exhibit Area