List of Upcoming SMA Speaker Sessions

(Updated 2 May 2024)

For general speaker series inquiries and information on how to join an event, please contact Mariah Yager (mariah.c.yager.ctr@mail.mil).

Tuesday 9 May 2024 1400 EST

• Speakers: Dr. Michelle Miro, Dr. Flannery Dolan, Karen Sudkamp, & Jeffrey Martini (RAND)
• Topic: A Hotter and Drier Future Ahead – An Assessment of Climate Change in U.S. Central Command
• Speaker Series: SMA Climate Effects and National Security

Tuesday 14 May 2024 1000 EST

• Speakers: Mr. Greg Weaver (Strategy to Plans LLC) & Ms. Amy Woolf (Atlantic Council, Snowcraft Center for Strategy and Security)
• Topic: Arms Control Opportunities in the Emerging Two-nuclear-peer Environment
• Speaker Series: STRATCOM

Thursday 16 May 2024 1200 EST

• Speakers: Gregory Wischer (Dei Gratis Minerals) & Dr. Morgan Bazilian (Colorado School of Mines)
• Topic: The Rise of Great Mineral Powers
• Speaker Series: SMA General

Wednesday 22 May 2024 1100 EST

• Speaker: David Ochmanek (RAND)
• Topic: How to Reverse the Erosion of U.S. and Allied Military Power and Influence
• Speaker Series: SMA General

Thursday 23 May 2024 1100 EST

• Speaker: Dan Cederberg (China House, U.S. Department of State)
• Topic: The Department’s First Framework for Advancing U.S. Strategic Competition with the People’s Republic of China (PRC)
• Speaker Series: INDOPACOM

Thursday 27 June 2024 1300 EST

• Speaker: Brandon Williams (LLNL)
• Topic: Quantum Computing
• Speaker Series: SMA General