J. Michael Dahm is an independent consultant focused on open-source intelligence and challenges posed by China’s military.  He is also the Senior Resident Fellow for Aerospace and China Studies at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies. Prior to joining Mitchell, Dahm worked for federally funded research organizations, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and the MITRE Corporation, providing intelligence analysis and research support to advanced defense programs. He retired from the U.S. Navy having served for over 25 years as an intelligence officer in several diverse assignments including combat tours in the Balkans and Southwest Asia. He has focused on Indo-Pacific security issues since 2006 when he was assigned to the U.S. Pacific Command. He later served as the Assistant Naval Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China. In his final tour, he was the Senior Naval Intelligence Officer for China at the Office of Naval Intelligence. Dahm received a B.A. in international relations from the University of Southern California. He earned an M.S. in strategic intelligence from the National Intelligence University (NIU). He has taught graduate courses at NIU and is currently a Lecturer at the Elliot School of International Affairs at the George Washington University where he teaches a course on China’s military.

Between 1983 and 2000, Major General Borys Kremenetskyi held various Air Force command, staff and administrative positions on Squadron, Regiment and Heavy Bomber Division levels, including Flight Engineer, Chief of Squadron Group, Senior Regiment Engineer and Deputy Commander (Chief Engineer) of Division.

His international and operational experience include:

Military Observer, UN Mission to Tajikistan (1995 – 1996).

Deputy Branch Chief at the Cooperation and Regional Security Division, NATO

International Military Staff (2002 – 2006),

Director, Euro-Atlantic Integration Department, Armed Forces of Ukraine (2006 – 2010).

Defence Adviser, Mission of Ukraine to the EU (2010 – 2014) following position of the First Deputy Chief, Military Cooperation and Peacekeeping Operations General Directorate, Armed Forces of Ukraine.

From the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war, in 2015 - 2016 he had been deployed as Head of the Ukrainian side of the Joint Ceasefire Coordination and Control Centre for Eastern Ukraine (JCCC).

He followed as Defence and Air Attaché, Embassy of Ukraine to the United Kingdom (2017 – 2020), until taking over his current appointment as Defence Attaché, Embassy of Ukraine to the USA.

Married, has daughter and son, three grand daughters

Hobbies: aviation history, fishing, hiking, cooking.

Mr. George H. Ohanian is the Directorate Chief for the Warfighter Support and Production Directorate within the U.S. Army Geospatial Center, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In this role he oversees a staff of Civilians, a Military Support Team and a host of Contractors that enable geospatial wide area data collection, processing, dissemination and reach back support to the Army’s generating and operating force. Mr. Ohanian’s responsibilities include oversight and management of eleven fixed wing aircraft that perform wide area high altitude mapping, enterprise data management to support geospatial information and production services, content and technical support including: terrain analysis, digital mapping, crisis response as well as geospatial engineering reach-back, and training, to customers at all echelons from Theater through Brigade/Battalion levels.

Previously Mr. Ohanian served as the Military and Civilian Engineering Support Branch Chief within the U.S. Army Geospatial Center (AGC), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) responsible for the overall programmatic, engineering, technical, business, and training to develop, manage, field, and maintain all hardware and software products that supported civilian and military Surveyors and Combat Engineers, Army, USMC and Joint Engineers managing terrain missions world wide.

While at DISA, Mr. Ohanian served as the Program Manager (PM) for the Strategic and National Command, Control Computers and Intelligence (SNC3I) Joint Systems Engineering and Integration Office (JSEIO) with responsibility for overseeing the execution of a diverse (unclassified/classified) communication, command and control portfolio supporting national level nuclear command and control communication capabilities for senior leaders. Mr. Ohanian,whlile at DISA also led the business and acquisition Branch for the Global Command and Control - Joint (GCCS-J) capabilities (an ACAT I Program) that supported the common operational picture across all COCOM's.

Mr. Ohanian’s career has been devoted to addressing complex organizational, business, programmatic, acquisition, technical and research and development projects and programs. His background and experiences are very diverse, having served at strategic, operational, and tactical levels, in multiple industries, academia, not-for profit organizations and the Department of Defense (DoD). His background and experiences have have enabled application of unique non- traditional ways to deliver agile and diverse complex technical solutions to end users.

Mr. Ohanian holds undergraduate degree in engineering from the University of Maryland and a graduate degree from George Washington University in Information Systems. He is DAIWA Level III certified in Project Management and holds many other technical certificates. Mr. Ohanian has published numerous articles related to optimization and application of terrain management and geospatial capabilities, technology modernization and application of novel constructs to solve complex tactical level common operational picture requirements. He is married to Dr. Michelle Ohanian, has 2 daughters, 2 dogs, 1 motorcycle, makes great hot sauce and resides in Fairfax County Virginia.

Dr. Budhendra “Budhu’ Bhaduri is a Corporate Research Fellow and the director of science,
programs, and partnerships for national security sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
(ORNL).  In that capacity he provides strategic guidance and leadership to scientific and
programmatic endeavors spanning geospatial science, artificial intelligence and machine
learning, and scalable and high-performance computing particularly focusing on defense
space and intelligence programs. Additionally, he fosters strategic partnerships with
leading universities, research institutions, private companies, and charitable organizations
to expedite the development and implementation of innovative solutions.

Dr. Bhaduri is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),
the American Association of Geographers (AAG), and has served on the Geographical and
Geospatial Sciences Committee of the National Academy of Sciences. He is a founding
member of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Geospatial Sciences Steering Committee and is
a recipient of the Department’s Outstanding Mentor Award for his dedicated service to the
department for developing workforce for the nation.

Kari A. Bingen is the director of the Aerospace Security Project and a senior fellow in the Defense and Security Department at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). She joined CSIS from HawkEye 360, an innovative space technology company creating a new class of radio frequency (RF) data and analytics, where she was the chief strategy officer. Prior to the private sector, Kari served as the deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence and security, overseeing the defense intelligence and security enterprises, comprising more than 120,000 personnel and an annual budget of over $54 billion. Before that, Kari served as the policy director on the House Armed Services Committee and staff lead for its Strategic Forces Subcommittee, advising members of Congress on defense policy, program, and budget matters. Prior to entering government, Kari specialized in national security space issues, working with U.S. defense and intelligence community clients, first as a space systems analyst at SRA International’s Adroit C4ISR Center, and then as a senior space policy analyst at the Aerospace Corporation. In addition to her work at CSIS, Kari is an adjunct assistant professor at Georgetown University. She is a member of the U.S. Strategic Command Strategic Advisory Group, was a commissioner on the CSIS Technology and Intelligence Task Force, and serves on a number of corporate and nonprofit advisory boards. She graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree in aeronautics and astronautics and was a 2002 National Reconnaissance Office technology fellow.

Robert is Chief Strategist and Chairman of the Board at Planet Federal where he is responsible for supporting strategic decision-making for future products and services, driving meaningful partnerships, and increasing the utility of commercial innovations for global government agencies. Robert also serves as an active member of the Planet Labs PBC Executive Team. Robert has a distinguished career as former Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) from 2014-2019, where he successfully transformed the Agency’s future value proposition through innovative partnerships with the growing commercial geospatial marketplace. Prior to NGA, Robert served in leadership positions with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. From 2010 to 2014, Robert managed, edited, and delivered the President’s Daily Brief to President Obama and Vice President Biden – over 1400 editions – while also serving on the Deputies Committee of the National Security Council.

Ashley Fieglein Johnson is Planet’s President and Chief Financial Officer. Previously, Ashley was the Chief Financial Officer of Wealthfront Inc. from June 2015 to February 2020, as well as the Chief Operating Officer from June 2016 to February 2020. Prior to that, she was the Chief Financial Officer at ServiceSource from January 2013 to October 2014, the interim Chief Executive Officer at ServiceSource from October 2014 to December 2014, and the Chief Customer Officer from January 2015 to May 2015. She holds a BA in International Relations and an MA in International Policy Studies from Stanford University.