SOF & Irregular Warfare Symposium 2024

Attend the 13th annual SOF and Irregular Warfare Symposium, bringing together senior leaders and key decision-makers from the special operations forces (SOF) community, regional combatant commands, the Department of Defense, nonprofits, and industry to tackle the evolving challenges in irregular warfare.

The event will focus on innovation, adaptability, and readiness, highlighting the need for SOF to continuously advance their capabilities, including cutting-edge technology and enhanced training. Attendees will explore strategies to keep forces agile and effective in countering emerging threats, fostering collaboration and advancing SOF’s role in safeguarding national and global security.

When is SOF & Irregular Warfare Symposium?

The event is taking place between 11th-12th December 2024.

Themes

Key themes to be covered include:

• Empowering Special Operations: Harnessing the Power of Partnerships
• Countering Hostile Activities and Advancing US Strategic Objectives through SOF
• Harnessing the Power of Information in Modern Warfare
• Accelerating SOF Modernization: Strategic Acquisition and Digital Integration
• Global Ops, Local Impact: Navigating Special Operations in a Volatile World
• Combating Irregular Aggression with Capability Coalitions in Cooperation with International Partners
• Proactively Addressing Foreign Adversaries’ Attempts to Undermine U.S. Interests through Irregular Warfare
• Optimizing the Performance, Lethality and Readiness of the Special Warfare Human Weapon System
• Implementing the National Defense Strategy: Conducting Effective Campaigning in Support of Integrated Deterrence Across Special Operations

What’s on?

The 2024 Symposium will host interactive sessions providing insight of cutting-edge technology, intelligence, and strategies that are transforming the irregular warfare landscape, including advancements in information warfare, cyber operations, AI, and big data analytics. Share your own knowledge by exchanging questions, comments and ideas with professionals around you.

This Symposium also offers a platform to build partnerships with military professionals, policymakers, and industry leaders and engage with expert speakers and thought leaders, fostering dialogue on securing the future of global defense.

Guest Speakers

The event will gather a range of professionals, including:

• HON Celeste Wallander – Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
• MG Jasper Jeffers III, USA – Commander, US Special Operations Command-Central
• Leslie Babich – Director, SOFWERX
• COL Anthony Whitfield, USA – Military Deputy, SOF AT&L, USSOCOM
• COL Marshall Straus Scantlin, USA – Commander, 350th Civil Affairs Command
• Dr. Andrew Whiskeyman, COL (Ret.) – Chair, Department of Cyber Strategy, National Defense University
• Dr. Jonathan Schroden – Principal Research Scientist, Center for Naval Analyses
• LTG (Ret.) John Deedrick, USA – Former United States Military Representative to the NATO Military Committee, Former Commanding General, 1st Special Forces Command (Airborne)

Where is the SOF & Irregular Warfare Symposium?

Chester H. Ferguson Law Center
1610 N. Tampa St., Tampa, FL

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