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Hume Seminar Series: Hume Seminar Series: The Ukraine Conflict and National Security. How YOU and Technology will Fit into the Future

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Date: Tuesday, Ocotber 25, 2022

Time: 6:00pm

Location: In-Person; Lavery Hall Room 335 (Turner Place).

Open to students, faculty, and alumni from Virginia Tech and all other IC CAE institutions and CCI affiliations.

About the Event

LTG Mike Nagata will share his perspectives on the world situation and specifically on the conflict in Ukraine, on the challenges of INDOPACOM and on the broader topic of National Security.  Teamed with CTO Glenn Kurowski, they’ll then discuss how you and technology can fit into the future. The talent of tomorrow will face social and national security challenges across a broad gamut of topics. You as the talent of tomorrow have unlimited opportunities for impact.  We’ll discuss some of the key technologies that will make a difference and provide our individual career perspectives – both what worked for us and what didn’t work for us.  We’ll share examples of the investments and advancements that will be making a difference.  We can provide our insight and our experience but you have the exciting challenge of charting your own course.  Plenty of time for Q&A will be available.  The discussion will take place as unclassified with no ITAR restrictions – and thus be limited in some areas

About the Speakers

LTG Michael K. Nagata, U.S. Army (Ret.)

LTG Michael K. Nagata, U.S. Army (Ret.) retired from the U.S. Army in 2019 after 38 years on Active Duty, with 34 years in Army Special Forces. His final government position was Director of Strategic Operational Planning for the National Counterterrorism Center from 2016 to 2019.  In 2013 LTG Nagata assumed command of U.S. Special Operation Command Central (SOCCENT) and was responsible for special operations across the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) region from 2013 to 2015. He was heavily involved in the first two years of combat operations against the Islamic State in Iraq, Syria, and elsewhere.  Prior to 2013, LTG Nagata held a variety of leadership positions across the Special Operations community.  He s currently the Strategic Advisor and a Senior Vice President at CACI.

Glenn Kurowski, CACI’s Chief Technology Officer

Glenn has over 35 years of experience developing technology for national security and as the Company’s senior engineer and technologist leads CACI’s investments, technology adoption and training, strategic partnering and university engagements.  Glenn has long had a passion for ensuring the next generation of talent has a voice, as well as being the Executive sponsor of the Women’s Inclusion Network at CACI.  As a Georgia Tech graduate he cannot claim to be a VT alumni, but as an active participant in Virginia Tech’s National Security Institute, with three children graduated from Virginia Tech, and a 4th in her Senior Year, he’s an adopted member of the Hokie Family.