Anne Neuberger
Anne Neuberger on Targeted Cybersecurity Attacks
Anne Neuberger
Keynote Speaker
Senior advisor, a16z; Distinguished Fellow at Stanford University and the Royal United Services Institute
Anne Neuberger is a transformative leader and an internationally recognized expert in cybersecurity, emerging technologies, and risk. In addition to leading policy development at the White House in these areas, Neuberger designed and established a groundbreaking network of 71 countries to fight global cybercrime and cryptocurrency money laundering, and led complex, global operations at the National Security Agency. Her talks offer inspiring leadership lessons and actionable insights on navigating geopolitics in the digital age, implementing AI responsibly, defending against cyber threats, and leading global organizations.
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Anne Neuberger is an internationally recognized leader in cybersecurity, risk management, and emerging technology policy, with deep expertise developed through senior roles at the White House and National Security Agency. Her strategic acumen and crisis leadership, and collaborative approach with global partners have earned her a reputation for delivering impact in high-stakes environments. She is Senior Advisor at a16z, a Distinguished Fellow at Stanford University and the Royal United Services Institute, and a strategic advisor at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
Ms. Neuberger served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor in the Biden Administration. In that role, she had primary responsibility for national policy around cyber warfare, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies, including quantum, spectrum, and advanced telecommunications (5G/6G) and components of AI policy. She has built and led international coalitions to address transnational threats, most notably establishing the U.S. Counter-Ransomware Initiative, which now includes over 70 partner countries. She has extensive experience coordinating diplomatic, law enforcement, and industry efforts, translating complex technical challenges into actionable strategies and outcomes.
Prior to this role, she served for over a decade at NSA and the Pentagon in senior roles where she was responsible for setting strategic direction and guiding execution of complex, global operations. She has led major organizational transformations, including the creation of NSA’s Cybersecurity Directorate (4,000 people), where she drove operational integration and public–private collaboration. At NSA, she was appointed the civilian deputy director of global intelligence operations (19,000 professionals) and director of the Cybersecurity Directorate. In 2013, she was appointed NSA’s first Chief Risk Officer, following sensitive media disclosures of NSA’s operations. In that role, Ms. Neuberger built NSA’s enterprise risk management program and guided the rebuilding of NSA’s private sector and foreign partner partnerships. She was awarded DoD and NSA’s highest civilian awards, as well as a Presidential Rank Award.
Before her government service, Ms. Neuberger held several positions related to technology and operations at a large financial services firm. Throughout her government and private sector roles, she continued to devote significant effort to transformative non-profit projects.
Ms., Neuberger has an MBA and Master of International Affairs from Columbia University.
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Managing AI at the National and Organizational Level: Opportunity and Risk
In the competition between authoritarian governments and democracy on artificial intelligence, countries are playing the game by different rules. Authoritarian countries can collect data and train models for national security or commercial purposes without considering the civil liberties and privacy protections of their citizens; democracies are more constrained. China trains sophisticated facial recognition models on data collected from hundreds of millions of cameras deployed around the world, enabling its advancements in computer vision at scale. AI will be transformative for intelligence and military purposes. How can nations ethically compete in artificial intelligence while maintaining their values? At the corporate level, AI offers transformative opportunities for organizations and also presents new risks. This talk focuses on how to establish an enterprise-wide risk management approach to AI, from identifying opportunities and benefits to defining how models are deployed and used responsibly. Anne Neuberger is an advocate for using artificial intelligence in operations and building a dynamic approach to assessing and mitigating risk to use AI effectively and responsibly.
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Geopolitical Risk and Cybersecurity
We live in a time of intense uncertainty, geopolitical connectivity, and changing alliances, which play out in cyberspace. It’s more important than ever to consider geopolitical risk in crafting a company’s and sector’s strategy.
Geopolitical tensions and periods of crisis or conflict play out in cyberspace, from Russia’s cyber attack against a U.S. satellite company on the eve of its invasion of Ukraine to China’s sophisticated attacks against U.S. telecommunications firms. This talk will provide a broad geopolitical assessment of geopolitical tensions in cyberspace and the strategies and capabilities of U.S. adversaries and practical steps to guide CEOs and Boards on how they should assess geopolitical risk to their operations and digital platforms and define the necessary measures to ensure that corporate operations and reputations are adequately protected. The talk will also outline how to manage a crisis and/or operational disruptions resulting from a cyber attack or internal or supply chain era, such as those following the 2024 Crowdstrike update.
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