AICA 2022 Schedule

Day 0 – October 24

19:00

Icebreaker event – Bordeaux Wine Degustation – ENSC Premises

Day 1 – October 25

09:00

Greetings 

Benoit Le Blanc, ENSC

09:10

Introduction

Paul Theron, AICA IWG Treasurer

09:20

Side and Covert Channels: the Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde of Modern Technologies

Mauro Conti, UNIPD

10:20

Instance-Based Learning agents in Human-AICA Collaboration for Autonomous Cyber Defense

Baptiste Prebot, CMU

10:50

AICA Command and Decision Making: Thriving and surviving in a contested, nonlinear, dynamic operational environment”

Arne Norlander, Norsecon

11:30

BREAK

12:00

Design of an Agent-Based Anomaly Detection and Mitigation System Using Lifelong Learning through Encrypted Communication in the Cloud

Hakan AYDIN, Topkapi University , Istanbul

12:30

Panel: Workforce development

 Paul Theron

13:00

LUNCH

14:30

Workshop: AICA Prototype Updates

Nathaniel Evans, Benjamin Blakely

16:00

BREAK

16:20

Building AI Agents for the Tactical Edge

Pierre Trepagnier, MIT

16:50

Beyond CAGE: Investigating Generalization of
Learned Autonomous Network Defense Policies

Melody Wolk, Apple

17:20

Wrap-up day 1

17:30

END DAY 1

20:00

Social event and dinner

Day 2 – October 26

09:00

Greetings and introduction

09:10

Four insights into the future of Autonomous Intelligent Cyber-defence Agents (AICA)

Paul Theron

10:10

AICA Policy Issues: A US perspective

Samuel Sanders Visner, MITRE

10:40

Introduction to AICA-related funding opportunities

Alessandro Guarino, StAG

11:00

BREAK

12:00

Integrating Human Intelligence to Bypass Information Asymmetry In Procurement Decision-Making

Peter Caven

12:30

LUNCH

14:30

Workshop: CYST simulation framework

Martin Drasar

15:00

Human-Machine Teaming with NATO’s Autonomous Intelligent Cyber-defense Agent (AICA) Reference Architecture

Phillip Bridgham, FIT

15:45

AICA’s Value and Challenges: Risk, Resilience and Quantification

Alexander Kott, ARL

16:30

Final greetings and wrap-up