List of Upcoming SMA Speaker Sessions

(Updated 9 December 2024)

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

Thursday 19 December 2024 1100 EST

• Speaker: Daniel Eizenga (NDU)
• Topic: Recalibrating Coastal West Africa’s Response to Violent Extremism
• Speaker Series: AFRICOM

Wednesday 8 January 2024 1000 EST

• Speaker: Karim Sadjadpour (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
• Topic: The New Battle for the Middle East: Saudi Arabia and Iran’s Clash of Visions)
• Speaker Series: CENTCOM

Wednesday 15 January 1000 EST

• Speaker: Andrew Gilmour (Berghof Foundation)
• Topic: Risks of violent conflict will rise as the green transition picks up
• Speaker Series: SMA Climate Effects

Thursday 16 January 1400 EST

• Speaker: Anna Peczeli (LLNL)
• Topic: Deterrence and escalation maneuver in a two-peer environment: Developing a new escalation management strategy for the United States
• Speaker Series: SDF

Wednesday 22 January 1100 EST

• Speaker: Katherine L. Kuzminski and Taren Sylvester (CNAS)
• Topic: Back to the Drafting Board | Center for a New American Security (en-US) (cnas.org)
• Speaker Series: SDF

TO BE RESCHEDULED – 2025

• Speaker: Dr. Molly Silk (UK MoD DSTL)
• Topic: Faltering China: What happens when China fails?
• Speaker Series: INDOPACOM

Thursday 6 February 2025 1100 EST

• Speaker: Katherine L. Kuzminski and Taren Sylvester (CNAS)
• Topic: Geopolitical Competition in the Black Sea Region
• Speaker Series: SDF

Tuesday 11 February 2025 1300 EST

• Speaker: Ross Ardley Buchanan (LLNL)
• Topic: Representing EMS Contestation in Educational Strategic-Level Wargames
• Speaker Series: SDF

Tuesday 25 February 1300 EST

• Speaker: Kimberly Peh (LLNL), Spenser Warren (UCSD), Juljan Krause (UCSD)
• Topic: Strategic Stability and Emerging Russian and Chinese Technologies: Hypersonic Weapons, Quantum Technologies, and Artificial Intelligence
• Speaker Series: SDF