{"id":47331,"date":"2015-10-23T04:33:12","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T04:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=47331"},"modified":"2015-10-23T04:33:12","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T04:33:12","slug":"def-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=47331","title":{"rendered":"DEF 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[by <strong>Mark Safranski,<\/strong> a.k.a. &#8220;<strong>zen<\/strong>&#8220;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"irc_mil i3597\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=i&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=images&amp;cd=&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0CAcQjRxqFQoTCLzMyuTX18gCFckxJgodjMcFRA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fdefenseentrepreneurs.org%2F&amp;bvm=bv.105841590,d.eWE&amp;psig=AFQjCNFEDPOTlQZzmXHHnY5qeqKDKnye7w&amp;ust=1445658512897697\" data-href=\"http:\/\/defenseentrepreneurs.org\/\" data-ved=\"0CAcQjRxqFQoTCLzMyuTX18gCFckxJgodjMcFRA\" data-noload=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5249ebaee4b05bfd3a9c0675\/t\/525984dee4b00d699d0bc698\/1381598448521\/Design2.jpg?format=1500w\" alt=\"\" width=\"658\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/defenseentrepreneurs.org\/\">The Defense Entrepreneur&#8217;s Forum<\/a><\/strong> is one of the major national conferences dedicated to exploring innovative ideas and cultural change\u00a0in defense, military leadership and national security and it is being held in <strong>Chicago<\/strong> on November 6-8th. It is an outstanding opportunity to meet both emerging and senior military leaders, defense intellectuals, policy wonks, national security and business gurus and experts from diverse professional\u00a0fields.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/defenseentrepreneurs.org\/friday-schedule-2015\"><strong>1st Day Agenda<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/defenseentrepreneurs.org\/saturday-schedule-2015\">2nd Day Agenda<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/defenseentrepreneurs.org\/sunday-schedule-2015\"><strong>3rd Day Agenda<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/def-2015-tickets-17735339879\">Register here!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Previously, I&#8217;ve had to miss <strong>DEF<\/strong> due to schedule conflicts but this year I am able to attend and will cover <strong>DEF 2015\u00a0<\/strong>here at <strong>ZP<\/strong> ( I believe<strong> Lexington Green<\/strong> will do the same over at <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagoboyz.net\/\"><strong>Chicago Boyz<\/strong><\/a>). I look forward to meeting some of the thoughtful\u00a0folks I know mainly as internet entities on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/smallwarsjournal.com\/\">Small Wars Journal<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/warontherocks.com\/\">War on the Rocks<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/the-bridge\">the Bridge<\/a>, the Warlord Loop<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/\"><strong>Twitter<\/strong> <\/a>and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\">Facebook<\/a><\/strong>. Perhaps I will see some of you there as well!<\/p>\n<p>A few samples of past DEF talks:<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nBJ Armstrong &#8221; The Nuclear Option&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/plKvTTJfX8I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Karen Courington &#8221; From Start-up to Mark-up&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N41VNfqyfUc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Joe Byerly &#8220;DEF2.0 Story&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pmiZoU3rUZ4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. &#8220;zen&#8220;] The Defense Entrepreneur&#8217;s Forum is one of the major national conferences dedicated to exploring innovative ideas and cultural change\u00a0in defense, military leadership and national security and it is being held in Chicago on November 6-8th. It is an outstanding opportunity to meet both emerging and senior military leaders, defense intellectuals, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1300,304,78,388,336,39,270,380,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-def-2015","category-defense","category-ideas","category-innovation","category-intellectuals","category-military","category-national-security","category-organizations","category-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47332,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47331\/revisions\/47332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}