Dmitri Alperovitch
Chief Technology Officer, CrowdStrike
Ben Buchanan
Postdoctoral Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Cyber Security Project, Harvard Kennedy School
Pamela Smith
President, Verified Voting
Michael Sulmeyer (moderator)
Director, Cyber Security Project, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

Dmitri Alperovitch, Ben Buchanan, and Pamela Smith joined moderator Michael Sulmeyer for a discussion on the hacking of the election. The speakers discussed the dangers of our current electoral system, the difficulties of attribution, and national cyber security. The speakers then fielded questions from the audience.

Michèle Flournoy
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Center for a New American Security
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (2009 -2012)
Graham Allison (moderator)
Douglas Dillon Professor of Government and Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for a New American Security, Michèle Flournoy joined Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Graham Allison for a conversation on American defense and security policy. First, Ms. Flournoy addressed ISIS, commenting that American priorities concern protecting America, its allies, and its interests as well as prohibiting humanitarian atrocities. She claimed that technological superiority should be prioritized in order for America to maintain its military influence as many nations around the world increasingly gain access to technologies such as drones and push back on American intervention in its foreign interests.

Jason Brennan
Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Chair and Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
Contributor, Bleeding Heart Libertarians
Ilya Somin
Professor of Law, George Mason University
Contributor, Washington Post “Volokh Conspiracy”
Melissa Williams
Visiting Scholar, Ash Center, Harvard Kennedy School
Professor of Political Science & Founding Director, Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Christopher Robichaud (Moderator)
Lecturer in Ethics and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Jason Brennan, Ilya Somin, and Melissa Williams joined moderator Christopher Robichaud. The speakers discussed the current issues of democracy and possible solutions to these problems. Topics ranged from increased civil participation in the democratic process to biases among politicians. The panelists then fielded questions from the audience.

Jose Antonio Vargas
Journalist, Filmmaker, and Immigration Rights Activist
Founder, Define American
Nicco Mele (moderator)
Director, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

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