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2024 Hume Center & IC CAE Colloquium

Date: Tuesday, April 9th, 2024

Time: 10:15 AM - 7:00 PM

Location: Squires Student Center, Commonwealth Ballroom

290 College Avenue, Blacksburg, VA 24060

The 11th annual Hume Center Colloquium, was sponsored through our Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence (IC CAE) grant, will be full of exciting student and faculty presentations related to ongoing research and experiential learning programs from across multiple departments and colleges at Virginia Tech. The theme of this year's colloquium was "The Role of the Intelligence Community in a turbulent 2025-2075", and showcased our students' continued endeavors to become the next generation of national security leaders.

The colloquium showcased the research and experiential learning programs being conducted by our graduate and undergraduate students over this past academic year. Presentations and posters will cover topics on artificial intelligence and machine learning, cybersecurity, autonomy, secure communications, and other emerging technologies important to the intelligence and defense communities. In addition to highlighting the achievements of our outstanding students, we are honored to host three senior leaders from the Central Intelligence Agency for a fireside chat during our keynote.

As the Hume Center continues to foster the cutting edge education and research for the leaders of tomorrow, we look forward to you joining us for a day of invigorating presentations, panel discussions, and speakers.

Guest Speakers: 

chris jones
Christopher M. Jones – Associate Deputy Director of CIA for Science & Technology
Ryan Klotz
Ryon Klotz – Deputy CIO for Information Technology Enterprises
Dr. Kathleen K. Sichenze
Dr. Kathleen K. Sichenze – Senior Directorate of CIA for Science & Technology Career Development Officer