Plenary Session 9 - Information Sharing: Adapting the CT Enterprise for Today's Threats

Brian currently leads BigBear.AI’s intelligence community engagements, delivering full spectrum cyber and data enrichment solutions.  Previous to BigBear, he led the Federal Civilian portfolio at Babel Street, a provider of publicly available information (PAI) tools and solutions.  In this role, he worked with DHS, DOS, DOJ, Judicial and Legislative branch customers to improve PAI capabilities for fraud detection, executive protection, vetting, criminal investigations, and cyber attribution.  He is a career active and reserve Marine Corps officer, with extensive experience in cyber, intelligence and communications units.  He has spent his career normalizing, delivering and enabling analysis of technical and non-technical data, as a uniformed military member, consultant and SaaS solutions provider.  Brian is a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and a 20-year resident of Washington, D.C.’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.

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Rhett Krulla is the CTO of Microsoft's Homeland Security Division supporting the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, and US Courts with 20+ years of experience. Rhett spent 8+ years as a Principal Technical Architect in the Microsoft Technology Center helping government and enterprise customers solve some of their biggest challenges in cybersecurity, infrastructure, mobility, identity, and governance. Prior to Microsoft, Rhett was a consultant and government contractor working at system integrators supporting Intel, DoD, Justice, and DHS customers.

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Kimberly Pratt joined the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center (NCRIC) as its Director of Private Sector Engagement in November 2021. Previously, she was the Executive Director of the FBI-affiliated InfraGard National Members Alliance for nearly five years, after having been on its national board for two years and serving in a variety of other national and local volunteer leadership positions. She got her start in security and politics working for the Japanese Mission to the United Nations in Vienna, Austria as a speechwriter on nuclear safety and weapons proliferation, where she also served as the program manager for the international Nuclear Suppliers Group. Later, Kim was a WMD terrorism researcher for the Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey and worked for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague, Czech Republic helping to manage Radio Free Afghanistan and to provide political analysis and reporting. She published articles for newspapers and academic journals on topics related to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, and security in the Middle East and Central Asia. Kim also worked in information security at high-tech companies Solectron and Palm, and Wells Fargo Bank. She graduated from the University of California San Diego (BA in History) and Georgetown University (MA in National Security Studies). She has lived and worked in Austria, the Czech Republic, France, and Japan, and speaks French and German fluently.