- Elliott Abrams of Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
- Ghaith al-Omari of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP)
- Yaakov Amidror of JINSA's Gemunder Center
- Dan Arbell of the Brookings Institution
- Ilan Berman of the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC)
- Michael Breen of Truman Center and Truman Project
- Shawn Brimley of Center for a New American Security (CNAS)
- William Burns of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP)
- Daniel Byman of the Brookings Institution
- Soner Cagaptay of WINEP
- Mike Doran of the Hudson Institute
- Mark Dubowitz of Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)
- Charles Dunne of Middle East Institute (MEI)
- Zack Gold of the Atlantic Council
- Lawrence Haas of AFPC
- John Hannah of FDD
- Michael Herzog of WINEP
- Oren Kessler of FDD
- Emily Landau of the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS)
- Matthew Levitt of WINEP
- Tanvi Madan of the Brookings Institution
- Alan Makovsky of WINEP
- Tara Maller of New America
- William McCants of the Brookings Institution
- Aaron David Miller of the Wilson Center
- Emanuele Ottolenghi of FDD
- Peter Pham of the Atlantic Council
- David Pollock of WINEP
- Dennis Ross of WINEP
- Michael Rubin of American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
- Natan Sachs of the Brookings Institution
- Jonathan Schanzer of FDD
- David Schenker of WINEP
- Randall Shriver of the Project 2049 Institute
- Vance Serchuk of CNAS
- Brenda Shaffer of Atlantic Council
- Michael Singh of WINEP
- Eric Trager of WINEP
- Dmitri Trenin of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Alex Votanka of MEI
- Benjamin Weinthal of FDD
- Leon Wieseltier of Brookings
- Sarah Yerkes of Brookings
- Neri Zilber of WINEP
More about the 2016 conference can be found here.
