The University of Maryland will be convening the first annual Executive Cybersecurity Summit at The Hotel at Maryland from April 4 and 5, 2019. The Summit will be an intensive two-day experience with keynote addresses from industry leaders including Rick Ledgett, Jim Rosenthal, and Curt Dukes.

Nickolas Roth is a Senior Research Associate at the Project on Managing the Atom in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School. His research focuses on nuclear nonproliferation, nuclear security, and the nuclear policy-making process.

Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins has extensive international affairs experience both in and out of government.

Andrea Viski founded the Strategic Trade Review in 2015 and the Strategic Trade Research Institute in 2017.

Peter “Pete” Tseronis is the founder and CEO of Dots and Bridges LLC.

Charles Schmitz is professor of Geography at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland where he has taught since 1999. Schmitz is a specialist on the Middle East and Yemen.

CISSM will host a group of students from Moscow's School for International Security and World Politics at the Institute of USA and Canada Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISKRAN).