Guest well, def con is largest tech conference in the world about 30000 people attended in las vegas pre covid and black hat is one of the largest security conferences also held in las vegas and one the university and one is more like the party. One is focused on professional Career Advancement and the other is focused on the sole of hackers and inspiring them. Host when did you found these . Guest def con is pretty old, before the. Com bubble, before 1993 in about three, four years later black cat started in 1997, i believe. The secret was we did no advertising or marketing and they just grew organically. Host what is your background that you were able to do this . Guest well, originally i thought i would be an fbi agent but instead i turned into a hacker and it was a hobby like everything, a hobby that turned into a career and they started throwing a party for some of my friends that were going away on one of the Computer Networks are belong to and instead i ended up inviting everyon
Lori robinson was a Lieutenant Colonel when she first came to brookings in 2001 and we had the great pleasure spending a year with her in her new career military education which is like more of an education asset brookings to the military fellows than for them but created a friendship and sort of a fan club. Brookings that continued over the years as she rose through the ranks. A lot of you know her story and well talk about her story this morning before we also get into some of her observations on Strategic Issues before the country and then have time for your thoughts and questions as well. And also im very happy that this is happening during Christmas Season because in Holiday Season more john i feel like ive got my Christmas Wish in getting the chance to welcome Lori Robinson back. Her story since were like enough to cspan coverage today, for those of you who want to watch its a wonderful life and may not want the Jimmy Stewart version, you get just as good a version with general r
And i welcome you to this if it today. The commander of u. S. Space command and commander of air force Space Command at Peterson Space of course at colorado. Were so lucky to have them join us public conversation with doctors and who director security project here. In general is going to speak first. And then well have a moderated conversation followed by an audience q a. There are very few things that can be considered bipartisan nature in washington so concern over space as base threats are one of those as i hope you dont try me and walking me the general. [applause] thank you i greatly appreciate the invitation and more portly for your leadership. I was enjoying coming to csis. I have to apologize to the team because i always get more out of these engagements that i give. It is a great and i hope that well get to that. While the group really good conversation and some things i can take away and i continue to work on. About three years ago, a little over three years ago, right before
Were so lucky to have them join us public conversation with doctors and who director security project here. In general is going to speak first. And then well have a moderated conversation followed by an audience q a. There are very few things that can be considered bipartisan nature in washington so concern over space as base threats are one of those as i hope you dont try me and walking me the general. [applause] thank you i greatly appreciate the invitation and more portly for your leadership. I was enjoying coming to csis. I have to apologize to the team because i always get more out of these engagements that i give. It is a great and i hope that well get to that. While the group really good conversation and some things i can take away and i continue to work on. About three years ago, a little over three years ago, right before he took the commander position. Since i past held a dinner series when we brought folks and to talk about the challenges in space. I always marvel if i was p
And its my pleasure to welcome you to this event today featuring general john raymond whose command of u. S. Space command, and command of air force Space Command in colorado. We are lucky to have him join us for a public conversation with todd harrison, director of airspace security project here at csis and general raymond is going to speak first and then they will have moderated conversation following by audience q a. There are very few things that are considered bipartisan nature in washington but concern over space and space threats are one of those and so i hope you will join me in welcoming general raymond. Thank you. Greatly appreciate the invitation and more importantly thanks for your leadership and wise counsel. I always enjoy coming to csis and had to apologize to the csis team because i always get more out of these engagements that idea. A great, id hope will get to that, have a really good conversation and are some things i could take away and continued to work on. I will