Speakers

Colonel Honoré Spencer leads the Sensing Grid Cross Functional Team (CFT) for Air Force Futures (HAF A5/7) at Headquarters Air Force, Pentagon.  The CFT develops innovative concepts, architectures, capabilities, and technologies for the future "Sensing Grid," synchronizing several diverse Air Force, joint, and interagency organizations.  Additionally, as the Chief of Global Integrated Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (GIISR), Colonel Spencer leads integration of the Air Force’s future intelligence requirements and capabilities into acquisition, resource planning, and programming.  During his career, Col Spencer has served as an Intelligence Officer with experience leading and supporting U.S. military operations in Iraq, South Korea, Europe, Central Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. Col Spencer has also previously served in roles as a Commander, Professor, and Political-Military Affairs Strategist.  Prior to serving on the Air Staff, Col Spencer led a joint team providing tailored intelligence for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and senior leaders in support of military operations, strategy, and policy development.  

Mike Davenport is a leader in Booz Allen’s global defense business driving next-generation technologies through the firm’s Digital Battlespace business. Based in Aberdeen, Maryland, Mike has 25 years of experience in managing and leading complex command, control, computers, communications, cyber, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C5ISR) programs and teams. 

The organizations that he’s developed engineering and software solutions for include: 

• U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command C5ISR Center
• Program Executive Office Command Control Communications-Tactical
• Program Executive Office Intelligence Electronic Warfare & Sensors

Prior to his role in Aberdeen, Mike led the firm’s network engineering team in Los Angeles, California, where he designed and implemented solutions for military satellite communications and software-defined radio networks for the Air Force and Navy. Mike also led studies on network technology trends for clients such as Global IP Solutions and a joint research venture with UCLA to further advance solutions for cross-layer design of energy-aware mobile ad hoc wireless networks.

Prior to joining Booz Allen, Mike was a captain in the U.S. Army Signal Corps where he held numerous leadership and engineering positions for tactical communications supporting Armed Forces Command, Southern Command, and several deployed Joint Task Forces around the world.

Mike holds an M.S. in information and telecommunications systems from The Johns Hopkins University and a B.S. in computer science from Augusta University. He is a certified project management professional, a published author, and a member of numerous technical societies.

George Jackson is VP of events at GovExec – the largest and most-influential media company in the public sector marketplace. He joined the company in 2020 to enhance the scale of their events and audience experiences. In 2021, George launched GovExec TV (streaming video content) and received the company’s Entrepreneurial Spirit Award, part of their first-annual Icon Awards.

George graduated from The Ohio State University in 2003 with a bachelor’s degree in English. In 2006, he earned his master’s in broadcast journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park.

George spent the first five years of his journalism career at WJHL-TV in Johnson City Tenn. – beginning as an overnight producer for the station’s 6 a.m. broadcast. He advanced to lead on-air reporter for WJHL’s 11 p.m. newscast.

As a reporter, George examined the earnings of two non-profit hospital systems, felony charges filed against a local sheriff, predatory paving companies, a health benefits backlog for local veterans, and a series of cold-case murder investigations. He received an honorable mention for Best TV Reporter in the 2011 Tennessee AP Broadcast awards and won a Best Investigative Reporting award from Media General in 2010.

George joined DC’s ABC affiliate WJLA-TV in 2012 to produce Capital Insider, which won him an Emmy award. One year later, he developed and recorded the pilot episode of Government Matters – a program about the business of government. It debuted as a weekly show on Sunday, August 4th of 2013. George led Government Matters through September of 2020, expanded its reach to a daily worldwide audience, and produced its first feature-length documentary The Dawn of Generation AI.

George is from Toledo, Ohio. He lives with his wife, twin daughters, and a pair of rescue dogs in Northern Virginia.