Ahmed I. Qureshi

President and Co-Founder Harbinger Technologies Group

Ahmed Qureshi is the President and Co-Founder of Harbinger Technologies Group, a homeland security training and consulting firm. At Harbinger, he helped develop entity resolution software solutions and oversaw the training of over 34,000 law enforcement and military personnel. Prior to Harbinger he served as Vice President for Global Business Development at INVESTools, Inc. and as head of Middle East Operations for Papa Johns International. He is an Adjunct Professor at the United States Air Force Special Operations School (USAFSOS) where he teaches courses dealing with the Islamic World. He is a graduate of the Middle East Studies program at Brigham Young University, the MBA program at the Thunderbird School of Global Management, the Naval War College Command and Staff Program and was a Fulbright grantee to the University of Jordan. He is a drilling reservist and a veteran of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. He currently is completing his doctoral dissertation at Kings College, University of London, writing on U.S. detention policy in counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations.

Speaking Topic: Detention in U.S. History: Looking Backwards for Answers Going Forward

Daniel L. Scott

Director, Foreign Language Program Office National Intelligence University Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Dan Scott is the Senior National Intelligence Service Director of the ODNI Foreign Language Program Office. He has served in this capacity since September 2008. He has thirty years experience in national security, intelligence, and foreign language matters.

Prior to assuming his current position, Mr. Scott was a Colonel with twenty-nine years in the U.S. Air Force, with experience in intelligence operations, targeting, and requirements planning. Mr. Scott served as the Assistant Commandant, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center at the Presidio of Monterey, California, and led the expansion of the language training program to support language requirements for the war on terrorism. Previously, as the Deputy Director of Intelligence at U.S. Central Command, he directed targeting during Operations ENDURING and IRAQI FREEDOM. He also commanded RC-135 airborne reconnaissance operations at the 390th Intelligence Squadron (AIA), Kadena AB, Okinawa, Japan.

Mr. Scott entered active duty as a Cryptologic Management Officer. He served in Rivet Joint airborne reconnaissance operations with the Electronic Security Command in Okinawa. During DESERT SHIELD/STORM, Mr. Scott was the Operations Officer for the 6975th Electronic Security Squadron (Provisional) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and directed RC-135 Airborne Reconnaissance, Communications Security, and Special Intelligence Support operations. Mr. Scott’s military staff experience includes long range planning at Headquarters, Electronic Security Command; force structure analysis and joint warfighting assessments on the Joint Staff J8; nuclear forces strategy, policy, and legislative affairs at U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), and Chief Intelligence Support, National Airborne Operations Center (NAOC). Mr. Scott was also a Foreign Area Officer for both Russia and Latin America.

Mr. Scott is a 1984 graduate of the National Security Agency’s Junior Officer Cryptologic Career Program (JOCCP). In 1985-1987, he attended the University of Zaragoza, Spain, as an Olmsted Scholar and also attended the Venezuelan Air Force Air Command and Staff College in Caracas in 1991-1992. He was a National Defense Fellow at the University of Miami, Florida in 1997-1998. Mr. Scott graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1979 with a Bachelors of Science degree and major in International Affairs. In 1985, he received his Master of Arts degree in Russian and East European Studies from George Washington University.

Speaking Topic: Making the Case for Human Language Technology