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DAFITC 2026 (Department of the Air Force Information Technology & Cyberpower)

DAFITC is the DAF's largest annual IT and cyberpower event, emphasizing the public/private partnership, offering three days of training and keynote speakers.

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Speakers

Programmed at DAFITC, in alphabetical order.
Adrian Spain
Commander, Air Combat Command · Joint Base Langley-Eustis
Alexis Bonnell
Head of AI Adoption and Deployment · OpenAI for Government
Ashley Devoto
Chief Information Officer · Department of the Air Force
Bradford J. “B.J.” Shwedo
USAF Retired and former DISA Commander · DISA
Brad Pyburn
Managing Director · Deloitte & Touche
Charleen Laughlin
Deputy Chief of Space Operations (DCSO) for Cyber and Data (SF/S6) · United States Space Force
Dave DeWalt
Founder and CEO · NightDragon
Gaine Nazareth
CTO · ServiceNow
Henrik Ohlsson
Group Vice President and Chief Data Scientist · C3 AI
Jason Prow
Senior Partner, Service Line Leader, Data & Tech Transformation, Federal Market · IBM Consulting
Jeffrey A. Phillips
Deputy Chief of Staff for Warfighter Communications and Cyber Systems · U.S. Air Force
Keith Hardiman
DAF Deputy CIO · Department of the Air Force
Keith L. Hardiman
Deputy Chief Information Officer · Department of the Air Force
Kenneth C. McNeill
CIO, National Guard; Director, C4 Systems Directorate · National Guard
Kenneth McNeill
Chief Information Officer and Director of Command, Control, Communications Computers (C4) Systems Directorate · National Guard
Lauren Knausenberger
Board Member (EnerSys); Advisor (Numerous Private Capital and Private Sector Firms) · EnerSys / Various Firms
Luke Cropsey
Military Deputy, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics · Department of the Air Force
Michael Black
Vice President for Defense · AFCEA International
Michael Gerstenhaber
VP of Product Management for Agents, APIs, and Vertex · Google Cloud AI
Michael Rogers
United States Navy Retired · US Navy (Retired)
Nikhil Krishnan
Chief Technology Officer and Chief AI Officer · C3 AI
Paul T. Stanton
Commander, DoD Cyber Defense Command; Director, DISA · Defense Information Systems Agency