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