i m steve knapp. it is a tour to global partnership to counter online radicalization and extremism. i would like to welcome officials of the united states government including representatives of the departments of state, justice and homeland security and federal bureau of investigation as well as officials from allied governments and our guests from the technology internet and media sectors. this conference was over two years in the planning. i originally discussed the idea with our honorary doctor shortly after she was appointed minister of safety and security for the united kingdom in may of 2015. you ll have the privilege of hearing from her in a few moments. the idea we discussed was to don convenience a global conference with experts in the field about the challenge of radicalization as a global phenomenon significantly driven by the internet. is a timely conversation but especially this week. i did have an opportunity to extend over the weekend our condolences for the t
good morning, ladies and gentlemen. welcome to the 33rd anal chur hill conference. my name is david freeman. i am here this weekend acting in as program chair for the conference. we want to make a special welcome to the c-span audience which will be watching us live for all the panel sessions today and tomorrow. so we re sticking to a rigid. timetable. we re going to get right into it by introducing our first speaker of the morning, the executive director of the international churchill society, mr. lee pollock. thank you, david. and i join you in welcoming everyone who is your duty to will be a wonderful conference. or as one of our presidential candidates might say, this crowd is huge. it s been a year since our last and very memorable conference in my case six years since i became your executive director. during the past year with your support we have continued to build on the work that has gone before. just consider a couple of things are do a google search for winston
international churchill conference. the churchill center hosted the event in washington, d.c. good morning, ladies and gentlemen. welcome to the 33rd anal chur hill conference. my name is david freeman. i am here this weekend acting in as program chair for the conference. we want to make a special welcome to the c-span audience which will be watching us live for all the panel sessions today and tomorrow. so we re sticking to a rigid. timetable. we re going to get right into it by introducing our first speaker of the morning, the executive director of the international churchill society, mr. lee pollock. thank you, david. and i join you in welcoming everyone who is your duty to will be a wonderful conference. or as one of our presidential candidates might say, this crowd is huge. it s been a year since our last and very memorable conference in my case six years since i became your executive director. during the past year with your support we have continued to build on the
the mars exploration summit began with opening remarks from nasa administrator charles bolden, he spoke about the importance of humans becoming a multiplanet species and nasa s goal of putting humans on mars in the next two decades. this is 30 minutes. thank you very much, and thanks to all of you for allowing me to be with you this morning and it kind of kick us off, i hope. i also want to thank explore mars as well as g.w. president steve knapp and scott pace of the g.w. policy institute for bringing us together for the humans to mars summit. let s leave that slide up, i ll talk about it all day long, and at least you can refer to it and you don t have to look at me. with mars making it s closest approach to effort last week and currently appearing as the brightest body in the eastern sky during the month of april, this is an ideal time for this conference, as the red planet draws nearer to earth sort of as i m surprised she remembered, maybe i m not surprised she remem
hearing on efforts to improve education on science, technology, engineering and math. the mars exploration summit began with opening remarks from nasa administrator charles bolden, he spoke about the importance of humans becoming a multiplanet species and nasa s goal of putting humans on mars in the next two decades. this is 30 minutes. thank you very much, and thanks to all of you for allowing me to be with you this morning and it kind of kick us off, i hope. i also want to thank explore mars as well as g.w. president steve knapp and scott pace of the g.w. policy institute for bringing us together for the humans to mars summit. let s leave that slide up, i ll talk about it all day long, and at least you can refer to it and you don t have to look at me. with mars making it s closest approach to effort last week and currently appearing as the brightest body in the eastern sky during the month of april, this is an ideal time for this conference, as the red planet draw