Wednesday, April 2

1000 – 1800

Early Conference Check-In / Information Kiosk

1900

Ice Breaker/Cash Bar at Embassy Suites

Thursday, April 3

0900

Welcome: Modesto Maidique, President, Florida International University

Opening Keynote Address: Admiral James Stavridis, Commander, United States Southern Command

1000-1025

Break

1030-1200

Panel 1: U.S. Interagency Transformation

Chair:
Richard Downie, Ph.D., Director Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies

- Erik Kjonnerod, Senior Analyst, National Defense University, Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS)
- Caryn Hollis, Director, Interagency Partnering, United States Southern    Command

1205-1320

Lunch/Keynote: Jim Locher, Executive Director, Project on National Security Reform (PNSR)

1330-1500

Panel 2: Regional Perspectives

Chair:
Colonel G. Alexander Crowther, Ph.D., Research Professor of National Security Studies, Strategic Studies Institute

-Major General Sergio Etchegoyen, Commandant of the Escola de Comando de Estado-Maior do Exército (ECEME), Brazil   
-General (RET) Juan Emilio Cheyre Espinosa, Director, Centro de Estudios
Internacionales Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile
-Pedro Trujillo Alvarez, Ph.D., Director, Centro de Estudios Internacionales, Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala

1500-1515

Break

1520-1650

Panel 3: Regional Perspectives

Chair:
Commodore Calvin Mofford, Deputy Director, Plans Policy & Strategy, North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD), USNORTHCOM J5

− Dr. Douglas L. Bland, Professor and Chair of the Defense Management Studies Program in the School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University
− Captain Luis Alcalá, Mexican Secretaria de Marina, SEMAR, Mexico
− Colonel Antony B. Anderson, Deputy Chief of Defense Staff, Jamaican Defense Force

Friday, April 4

0900-1000

Opening Speaker: Diego Andrés Molano Aponte, Director de Programas Sociales de la Agencia Presidencial para la Acción Social y la Cooperación Internacional Colombian (CCAI)

1000-1020

Break

1030-1200

Panel 4: Multilateral Instruments

Chair:
Patrick Cronin, Ph.D., Director, Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS)

− Rear Admiral Elis T. Öberg, Brazilian Navy, Chairman, Inter-American Defense Board
− Ambassador Jaime de Ojeda, former Ambassador of Spain to NATO and the United States
− Ambassador Luigi R. Einaudi, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies

1230-1320

Lunch/Keynote: Ambassador Craig Kelly, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs

1330-1500

Panel 5: Private/Public Cooperation

Chair:
Major General (RET) Ralph Clem, Ph.D., USAF, Florida International University

− Edward Glab, Ph.D., Florida International University
− Johanna Mendelson Forman, Ph.D., Senior Associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies
− Ambassador Ambler Moss, Professor of International Studies, University of Miami

1500-1530

Plenary: Colonel (RET) John (Jay) Cope, USA, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National
Strategic Studies