Name: Technological Future of War
Start: 2025-06-21T17:00:00-0400
End: 2025-06-21T18:00:00-0400

Saturday June 21, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT

CC - Mtg Room 5 (Main Event Programming)

Master of Ceremonies Mike Massa moderates this roundtable on the Technological Future of War and how the steady march of technology makes combat across all spheres more lethal.

Moderators

Mike Massa

LC37 Master of Ceremonies

Mike Massa has lived an adventurous life, including stints as a sailor, a banker, and a tech-head. He's lived outside the US for several years, beyond the usual military deployments. Mike writes novels and shorts in MilSF, SF, Fantasy, Horror, and non-fiction.A lover of Liberty Con... Read More →

Guests

Rick Partlow

Rick Partlow is an Army veteran with a degree in History from Florida Southern College. He is the author of 51 military SF and space opera novels including the Dragon Award finalist Direct Fire

Craig Stanfill

Craig W. Stanfill obtained his PhD in artificial intelligence in 1983, and has spent his career doing ground-breaking research in AI and enterprise computing. He has written numerous scientific papers, co-founded a software company, and been awarded more than 80 patents. He continues... Read More →

Tom Mays

Thomas A. Mays is an active duty Surface Warfare Officer and former Major Command Afloat Captain in the United States Navy. When the day-job permits, Tom writes short stories and novels of military SF, hard SF, space opera, and fantasy for his own Patron Cycle and the CKP 4HU, among... Read More →

Gray Rinehart

Graham W. "Gray" Rinehart Rinehart is a writer, an editor, a singer/songwriter, and a retired Air Force officer. He is the only person to have commanded a USAF satellite tracking station, written speeches for Presidential appointees, devised a poetic form, and had music on The Dr... Read More →

Gerald Hall

Gerald Hall has had an extraordinarily diverse background. A lifelong science fiction fan, Gerald is a graduate of the N.C. State University's School of Engineering. After graduation, he served in uniform as part of the Intelligence Community for more than thirty years, deploying... Read More →

Charles E. Gannon

LC37 Literary Guest of Honor

Dr. Charles E. Gannon is best known for the Caine Riordan series of hard sf novels, which include multiple best-sellers, 4 finalists for the Nebula, 2 for the Dragon, and a Compton Crook winner. His epic fantasy series, The Vortex of Worlds, has also been an awards finalist and a... Read More →

Saturday June 21, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
CC - Mtg Room 5 (Main Event Programming) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402

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