About the Speakers
Jeffrey Glick
Dr. Glick is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and a Professor of Practice at Virginia Tech. He is also a NATO Civil Expert. Until his retirement in 2019, he was a Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Cybersecurity and Communications in the Department of Homeland Security and responsible for review of federal cybersecurity preparedness and response capabilities in coordination with the private sector.
Previously, he directed communication technology and disaster experts nationwide assessing, developing and strengthening emergency management at the federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial levels, and with non-governmental organizations and the private sector. He also led the office responsible for coordinating communications response and recovery with federal agencies and the private sector during Presidentially declared disasters. He was detailed as a Senior Policy Advisor for
Emergency Programs to the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the White House and worked for 25 years at the Federal Emergency Management Agency developing, directing and evaluating emergency management programs and responding to a wide variety of disasters, technological and terrorism events.
Dr. Glick holds a PhD in Engineering Management from George Washington University, an MS in National Resource Strategy from the Eisenhower School, National Defense University, and an MA in Social Service Administration from the University of
Chicago.
Gulsanna Mamediieva
Gulsanna Mamediieva, a Ph.D. candidate at Kyiv University whose research was interrupted by the war, is now a research fellow at the McCourt School. Gulsanna is also a Director General of Directorate for European and Euro-Atlantic integration at the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine since 1 September 2019. In the Ukrainian government, Gulsanna is in charge of European integration of the digital sector of Ukraine and gradual integration into EU Digital Single Market. Gulsanna and her team have launched the development and implementation of the strategy of integration of Ukraine into the European Digital Single Market. It comprises many components: electronic communications, e-services, online safety, privacy, open data, digital skills, innovation, trust and identification services, e-commerce, economic empowerment, countering the digital divide, etc.
She is also: a member of the Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAI) at the Council of Europe, Harmonization Digital Market (HDM) Coordinator in Eastern Partnership Countries for Ukraine, Coordinator of the Digital Europe Program for Ukraine, representative of Ukraine at WeProtect Global Alliance, GovStack Initiative.
John R Gossart
John Gossart is the Cofounder, Chief Operating Officer and CFO of Fintech startup GoodWorld, the startup named one of Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies, Forbes Top 25 Veteran Founded Companies, and D.C.’s Best Technology Startup. John’s first startup, RideScout, was acquired by Daimler-Mercedes in 2015.
Before becoming an entrepreneur, John served over 22 years in military and government, work that took him to various locations across Africa, Pakistan, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, Asia and Europe, most recently serving as a deputy director of special operations and counterterrorism policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
He has earned degrees from Boston College and Georgetown University, and served as an Assistant Professor at West Point.
John’s former indie rock band StoneDriver has released two studio albums, “Rocks”, and “Chasing Demons” and he now plays solo around the DMV. In between running Goodworld, teaching, and live shows he hangs out in Old Town with his wife and their four sons.
Charley Snyder
Charley Snyder currently serves as the head of security policy at Google where he helps to organize their immense security expertise and technology to solve the world’s pressing challenges related to safety and security online. Prior to joining Google Charley served as the vice president of Global Head of Vulnerability Management at Goldman Sachs, the Deputy Director of Strategic Cyber Defense for the United States Department of Defense and as a Senior Advisor for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management leadership following a data breach.
