2026 Homeland Security Summit | Potomac Officers Club
RegisterWHAT
The Department of Homeland Security, with priorities in rigorous border security and enhanced technology in immigration enforcement, has seen record levels of investment in recent years. The FY26 DHS budget shows an increase of 65 percent — with room for continual growth. This increased funding represents a unique opportunity for industry to engage with the department, whose key focuses include AI, cyber defense and operational capabilities for its largest agencies, Customs and Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Join us at the Potomac Officers Club’s annual Homeland Security Summit for the opportunity to hear directly from DHS leadership on how industry can contribute to their renewed needs and strategic priorities. With keynotes and panel discussions from agency decision-makers, industry-led Q&A sessions and the largest gathering of DHS contractors in the region, the 2026 Homeland Security Summit is a can’t-miss event!
Keynote Speakers
Speakers
Yusuf Abdul-Salaam
CEO
Xpect Solutions
Dave Abel
CEO
Protora
Chris Casey
Research & Development Director
T-Mobile
Anthony C. Crane
Executive Director – C-UAS Defense Capability Group
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
Devin Dickerson
MongoDB
Shawn Fallah
Chief - Supervisory Criminal Investigator
DHS/HSI
David Getman
Sr. Director, Product Management
Corelight
Bob Kolasky
SVP, Critical Infrastructure
Exiger
Cathy Lanier
SVP, Chief Security Officer of NFL
NFL
Kris Levin-Snow
AVP, DHS
AT&T
Christopher Ling
CEO
Ericsson Federal
Richard Miller
Chief Growth Officer
Nokia Federal Solutions
Phil Miller
Senior Vice President, Law Enforcement & Judiciary Programs
Procentrix
Kristen Nero
National Security Group Lead
Databricks
Charles O'Brien
Senior Vice President, Civil Solutions
SOSi
Opeyemi Oshinnaiye
Chief Technologist
Capgemini Government Solutions
Christine Palmer
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Citizen Security and Public Services Sector
Peraton
Mary Rupert
C-UAS Technical Manager
LMI
Randy Soper
Senior Director, Federal Data & AI Lead
Slalom
Molly Strausbaugh
CAS
Robert A. Thorne
Deputy Chief Information Officer (Acting)
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
Jerry Tipton
Exec Director
SAIC
John Woods
VP & DHS Client Exec.
CACI
Agenda
| 7:00am | 8:00am | Networking Reception |
| 8:00am | 8:10am | Welcome & Opening Remarks |
| 8:10am | 8:40am | Opening Keynote - Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar |
| 8:40am | 9:05am | Morning Keynote |
| 9:05am | 9:30am | Morning Keynote |
| 9:30am | 10:00am | Networking Break |
| 10:00am | 11:00am | Panel A: Safeguarding the Homeland: Coordination for Counter-UAS Operations- Mary Rupert (Moderator), Christopher Ling (Panelist), Cathy Lanier (Panelist), Tony Crane (Panelist) |
| 10:00am | 11:00am | Panel B: Connecting the Dots: AI, Entity Resolution/Link Analysis, and the Future of Investigative Intelligence - Opeyemi Oshinnaiye (Moderator) |
| 10:00am | 11:00am | Panel C: One Mission, Many Components: Building a Federated DHS Data and Identity Fabric- Randy Soper (Moderator), Kristen Nero (Panelist), David Getman (Panelist) |
| 11:00am | 11:10am | Break |
| 11:10am | 12:10pm | Panel A: Modernizing the Homeland Security Mission: Edge Capabilities for the Border and National Events- Kris Levin-Snow (Moderator) |
| 11:10am | 12:10pm | Panel B: Mission Ready: Building Trust Through Technology Validation- Jerry Tipton (Moderator) |
| 11:10am | 12:10pm | Panel C: Mission Ready: The Next Generation of Homeland Security Operations- Phil Miller (Moderator),Shawn Fallah (Panelist),Molly Strausbaugh (Panelist), Rob Thorne (Panelist) |
| 12:00pm | 1:30pm | Networking Lunch |
| 12:25pm | 1:15pm | Lunch Panel: Code and Drones: DHS's Parallel Fights to Build Cyber Talent and Field Unmanned Systems- Dave Abel (Moderator), Yusuf Abdul-Salaam (Panelist), John Woods (Panelist) |
| 1:30pm | 2:30pm | Panel A: Our Soil, Our Rules: Public-Private Collaboration on Security in Lead-Up to LA28- Chris Casey (Moderator) |
| 1:30pm | 2:30pm | Panel B- Protecting the Homeland from Complex Security Threats- Charles O'Brien (Moderator) |
| 1:30pm | 2:30pm | Panel C: Mission Confidence-Building Trust in Homeland Security Technologies- Bob Kolasky (Moderator), Christine Palmer (Panelist) |
| 2:30pm | 2:40pm | Networking Break |
| 2:40pm | 3:05pm | Afternoon Keynote |
| 3:05pm | 3:30pm | Mid-Afternoon Keynote |
| 3:30pm | 3:55pm | Closing Keynote |
| 3:55pm | 4:00pm | Closing Remarks |
