The Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security invites you to join us in person and virtually on Thursday, February 1^st at 7 pm ET to discuss the growth of open-source intelligence, its benefits, its limitations, and how to bridge the divide between corporate and government intelligence.

Our panel will comprise:

–    Kristin Wood, a leading voice in the open-source community, the CEO and co-founder of August Interactive, a recent fellow at the Intelligence Project at Harvard University’s Belfer Center, and a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst and briefer;

–    Dr. Deborah Wituski, Vice President and Head of Global Engagement at Google, formerly led Global Intelligence at Google, former Chief of Staff to both the Director and Deputy Director of the CIA, former CIA Deputy Assistant Director for Counterterrorism, and former Associate Executive Assistant Director of the National Security Branch of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and

–    Moderator, Dr. David Priess, Hayden Center senior fellow, Director of Intelligence for Bedrock Learning, former publisher of Lawfare & chief operating officer of the Lawfare Institute, author, and a former CIA analyst and briefer.

There will be time for audience questions. The event will be recorded and posted on our website and YouTube channel. There will be a reception for all in-person attendees immediately following in the nearby Multipurpose Room.

The Hayden Center is located at George Mason University‘s Schar School of Policy and Government in Arlington, VA. General Michael V. Hayden, our founder and former Director of both the CIA and the National Security Agency, has been a distinguished visiting professor at Schar School for 15 years.

For more about the Hayden Center, visit our website at haydencenter.gmu.edu. Please visit our YouTube channel at youtube.com/c/haydencenter for videos of all of our past presentations.