#Connexions24 Speakers

Matt Armstrong

Former Executive Director, US Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy; Former US Board of Broadcasting Governors (now USAGM)

Phil Brennan

Co-Founder Cinder Technologies; Former Meta; Former CIA

Jason Brown

Professor, Researcher, US Army Cyber Institute, West Point Military Academy

Robert Chesney

Dean of the Law School, UT Austin; US national security and cybersecurity expert

Cyndi Coon

Co-Founder and Chief of Staff, ASU Threatcasting Lab; Founder, Applied Futures Lab

Jess Dawson

Researcher, US Army Cyber Institute; Academy Professor, West Point

Justin Dyer

Executive Director, Civitas Institute; Interim Dean of School of Civic Leadership, UT Austin

Dren Gerguri

Journalist, Lecturer, University of Prishtina; Fulbright Fellow, University of Houston

John Hammond

Cybersecurity Educator

Tiffany Hsu

Technology Report, The New York Times

Nina Jankowicz

Former Executive Director of the Disinformation Governance Board of the United States

Brian David Johnson

Professor of Practice, ASU School for the Future of Innovation in Society; Futurist and Fellow at Frost & Sullivan

Thomas Kent

Adjunct Professor, Harriman Institute Columbia University Former President/CEO of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Martin Klus

Slovak Academic, Politician, and Political Theorist; GLOBSEC fellow

Zuzana Košková

Head of Red Watch Program, European Values Center for Security Policy

Tristan Lee

Data Scientist at Bellingcat

Amy Leff

Assistant Professor of Practice, LBJ School of Public Affairs, UT Austin; Former Business Integrity Manager, Meta

Adela Levis

Information Integrity Advisor, US Department of State; Lecturer, GWU

Greg Lindsay

Senior fellow, MIT’s Future Urban Collectives Lab; non-resident senior fellow of Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Strategy Initiative

Francesca Lockhart

Cybersecurity Clinic Program Lead, Strauss Center for International Security, UT Austin

Lee McIntyre

Author, Philosopher, Educator

Arturo Munoz

Senior Political Scientist, RAND; Former Directorate of Operations & Directorate of Intelligence, CIA

Peter Pomerantsev

Journalist, Author, and TV Producer Senior Fellow, Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University

Leonid Ragozin

Riga-based Journalist; Former BBC Russian Service; Lonely Planet author

Bret Schafer

Senior Fellow, Alliance for Securing Democracy

Ekaterina Schulmann

Political Scientist, RANEPA; Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center; Professor, Maqsut Narikbayev KAZGUU University in Kazakhstan

Adam Sikes

Specialist Leader, Deloitte Consulting

Jeremi Suri

Jeff Trimble

Journalist, Editor, Media Manager; Chair of the Board, Eurasianet; Former Acting President RFE/RL; Lecturer, Ohio State University

Andrew Whiskeyman, COL (ret.)

Applied Research Scientist, Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence & Security, University of Maryland

Sandy Winkelman

Creative Director, Winkstink Design Inc.

Mikhail Zygar

Journalist, author of "War and Punishment" and "All the Kremlin's Men"