Speakers

Ms. Margaret Palmieri is currently serving as the Deputy Chief Digital Artificial Intelligence Officer. She has previously served as a special assistant to the Vice Chief of Naval Operations, the Director of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Action Group (CAG), the founding Director of the Navy Digital Warfare Office, the Director of Integrated Fires and the Deputy Director of Decision Superiority under the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare (OPNAV N2N6), the Director of the Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Actions Group (N00Z), and a Presidential Management Fellow at U.S. Fleet Forces Command. She was appointed to the Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service in 2013 and the Senior Executive Service in 2018.

Through her past assignments, she has experience in strategy implementation and change management; digital transformation; leading data science, advanced analytics, and artificial intelligence projects for warfighting and readiness applications; standing up new organizations and teams; strategic communication and engagement; requirements and resources management; system-of-systems architectures; and concepts and capabilities related to integrated fires, warfighting networks, electronic warfare, cyber operations, and command and control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and targeting (C4ISR&T).

Ms. Palmieri has a Master’s in Public Policy and a Bachelor’s in Political Science from Rutgers University and a Master’s in Systems Engineering Management from the Naval Postgraduate School.

Dr. William W. Streilein is the Chief Technology Officer for the Chief Digital and AI Office of the DoD, providing strategic awareness, direction and leadership for enterprise scale data, analytical and AI capabilities.

Prior to his current role, Bill worked at MIT Lincoln Laboratory where he served as principal staff in the Biotechnology and Human Systems Division. He supported efforts across the division focusing on concept, strategy, and program development in bioengineering, bioinformatics, and biodefense and leveraged his technical and leadership experience to emphasize the application of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to solve national biosecurity, health, and human performance challenges. Bill was also the leader of the Cyber Analytics and Decisions Group, where his research interests focused on cyber security, passive network and traffic analysis, streaming analytics, and computer vision. Prior to MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Streilein spent nine years working as a software engineer within the private sector.

He serves as a chair of the Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (AICS) and Robust Artificial Intelligence Systems Assurance (RAISA) academic workshops and is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and an active member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Bill is a recognized leader in areas such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, cyber security, and statistical analysis. 

Dr. Streilein holds a BA degree in mathematics from Austin College, an MM degree in electronic and computer music from the University of Miami, and a PhD degree in cognitive and neural systems from Boston University. He is a senior member of the IEEE. He has been at Lincoln Laboratory since 1998.