Select Speakers and Guests
See below for select speakers and guests as of Monday, March 16. Please check back regularly for updates!
Government

Faride Raful
Minister of the Interior and Police, Dominican Republic
Kęstutis Budrys
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lithuania
Pedro Arnulfo Sánchez
Minister of Defense, Colombia

Hanno Pevkur
Minister of Defense, Republic of Estonia
Jenniffer González‑Colón
Governor, Puerto Rico
Mike Dunleavy
Governor, Alaska

Jovita Neliupšienė
Ambassador to the United States, European Union
Alexander Yui Tah‑ray
Representative to the United States, Taiwan
Joseph M. Humire
Performing the Duties of Assistant Secretary of War for Homeland Defense and Americas Security Affairs

Luis Petri
Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies and Former Minister of Defense, Argentina
Tomás Zambrano
President of Congress, Honduras
Rojo Edwards
Senator, Chile

Maria Salazar
U.S. House of Representatives (FL-27)
Paola Holguín
Senator, Colombia
Lilly Téllez
Senator, Mexico

Jorge Martín Frías
Member, European Parliament and Director, Fundación Disenso
Luiz Philippe de Orléans e Bragança
President, Foreign Relations and National Defense Committee, Chamber of Deputies of Brazil
Paulo Bilynskyj
Chair, Homeland Security Committee, Chamber of Deputies of Brazil

Karolis Aleksa
Vice Minister of National Defense, Republic of Lithuania
Werner Ovalle
Superintendente de Administración Tributaria – SAT, Guatemala
Raymond Cáceres Cedeño
National Border Service Commissioner and Liaison Officer at U.S. Southern Command, Panama

Rear Admiral Errington Shurland
Executive Director of the Regional Security System, Eastern Caribbean
Rear Admiral (ret.) Mark Fedor
Former United States Coast Guard Atlantic Area Deputy Commander
Eldridge Singleton
Commandant, Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation

John Suggs
Chief of Security Cooperation, William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies
Andrew Sanders
Inter‑American Defense College, Organization of American States
Alex Fitzsimmons
Director, Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response, U.S. Department of Energy

Intendente Jefe Helver Alexandro Rojas Lemus
Instructor, Remotely Piloted Ariel Systems, National Police, Colombia
Brigadier General Arthur Garffer
Secretary of Public Safety, Homeland Security Advisor

Experts

Kevin Roberts
President, The Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action
Erik Prince
Former Navy Seal and Founder of Blackwater
David Shedd
Former Acting Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
Federico Hoyos
Centro Democratico

Alex Gray
Chief Executive Officer, American Global Strategies
Luke de Pulford
Founder and Executive Director, Inter‑Parliamentary Alliance on China
Carlos Augusto Chacón Monsalve
Director, Institute of Political Science Hernán Echavarría Olózaga

Eduardo Cader
Director of International Affairs and Foro Madrid, Fundación Disenso
Pastor Mario Bramnick
President, Latino Coalition for Isreal
Ignacio Munyo
Executive Director, Center for the Study of Economic and Social Realities

Varun Vira
Executive Director, C4ADS
Scott Sherwood
Chief Technology Officer, Kpler
Theodore Wold
Senior Counsel, Palantir Technologies

Alicia Galván López
President and Founder, Patria Unida por un México Valiente
José Daniel Ferrer
Founder, UNPACU
Rosa María De la Garza Ramírez
Kaleido

Yaxys Cires
Director of Strategy, Observatorio Cubano de Derechos Humanos
Orlando Gutiérrez Boronat
Co-Founder and Spokesperson, Cuban Democratic Directorate
Derrick Morgan
Executive Vice President, The Heritage Foundation

Pedro Urruchurtu Noselli
Director of International Relations, Maria Corina Machado
David Smolansky
Senior Security and Foreign Affairs Advisor, María Corina Machado
Rodrigo Soto-Morales
National Security Expert

Pastor Helen Cohen
Iglesia Llaves de Sion
Victoria Coates
Vice President, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy, The Heritage Foundation
Juan Battaleme
Academic Director, Argentinian Council of International Relations

Antonio Garrastazu
Senior Director, Latin America and the Caribbean, International Republican Institute
Rob Greenway
Director, Allison Center for National Security, The Heritage Foundation
Lora Ries
Director, Border Security and Immigration Center, The Heritage Foundation

Mike Jernigan
Visiting Fellow, Allison Center for National Security, The Heritage Foundation
Rear Admiral (Ret.) Peter J. Brown
Former Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, United States Coast Guard and Senior Fellow for Western Hemisphere Security and Maritime Affairs, America First Policy Institute
Steve Yates
Senior Research Fellow for China and National Security, The Heritage Foundation

Stephen Honan
Senior Consultant, BVG and Company, and Counterterrorism Project Fellow, Atlantic Project
Robert Peters
Senior Research Fellow for Strategic Deterrence, Allison Center for National Security, The Heritage Foundation
Brent Sadler
Senior Research Fellow, Naval Warfare and Advanced Technology, Allison Center for National Security, The Heritage Foundation

Mike Gonzalez
Angeles T. Arredondo E Pluribus Unum Senior Fellow, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy, The Heritage Foundation
Wilson Beaver
Senior Policy Advisor, Defense Budgeting and NATO Policy, Allison Center for National Security, The Heritage Foundation
Andrés Martínez-Fernández
Senior Policy Analyst, Latin America, Allison Center for National Security, The Heritage Foundation

Virginia Allen
Senior News Producer and Podcast Host, The Daily Signal
Celina Realuyo
Adjunct Professor, The George Washington University
