Speaker Date Topic
Geneva Dummer Feb 11, 2026
Heritage Trails Partnership of the Mississippi Gulf Coast

2282652229
info@gulfcoasttrails.org

Trevor Green Feb 18, 2026 12:00 PM
PFG Precision Optics

2285961232
trevor.green@pfgoptics.com

Ryan T Rambo Feb 25, 2026 12:00 PM
Strategic Risk Management for High-Value Regions

Stephen Songe will introduce
 

Rambo@ixnsolutions.com

Ryan T. Rambo is a defensive counterintelligence, information security, and corporate risk management subject matter expert with extensive experience designing and executing programs in corporate environments. He served 26 years in the U.S. Army, including 16 years in counterintelligence, before retiring in 2016. Since leaving government service, Ryan has built corporate counterintelligence and insider risk programs for two multi-billion-dollar companies, where his work served as the connective tissue integrating physical, cyber, operational, information, and personnel security functions.  Ryan is now the President for Corporate Offerings at IXN Solutions.

 

Briefing Description:

 

This briefing provides an overview of how modern corporate risk management identifies, assesses, and mitigates threats to people, information, intellectual property, and operations - particularly in high-value regions like the Gulf Coast. Using real-world case studies and current threat trends, it demonstrates how integrated risk management serves as the connective framework across physical, cyber, personnel, operational, and compliance functions.

Michael Hewes Mar 04, 2026 12:00 PM
Local Author - Finding Your Voice: How Local Stories Matter”

2286971533
michael.hewes@butlersnow.com

Jason Smith Mar 11, 2026
Beauvoir, the Jefferson Davis Home

2283884400
jsmith@beauvoir.org

Susannah Snyder Mar 18, 2026 12:00 PM
Lord is my Help & Feed the Need

2282389315
snydersusannah@gmail.com

David Blackwell & Barry Lyons Mar 25, 2026 12:00 PM
Shuckers Baseball

dblackwell@biloxischuckers.com

Shad White Apr 01, 2026 12:00 PM
State Auditor of Mississippi - Updates

Kelley Ryan, Public Relations - 601-576-2632
Kelley.Ryan@osa.ms.gov

Michael Crawford Apr 08, 2026 12:00 PM
Buddy Sports

2288609055
crawfordmike51@gmail.com

Sheriff John Ledbetter Apr 22, 2026 12:00 PM
Update on The Jackson County Sheriffs Dept.

John_ledbetter@co.jackson.ms.us

2282198163

About

John D. Ledbetter served as Chief Deputy for 8 years before being appointed Sheriff of Jackson County. Prior to this he served at the Pascagoula Police Department for 13 years. While at Pascagoula Police Department, he has worked as an officer in the Patrol Division, and a motorcycle officer in the Traffic Division. In 2007, Chief Ledbetter was promoted to Sergeant at Pascagoula P.D. and served as a Traffic Division supervisor, a Proactive Patrol Detail/Special Response Team supervisor, and then in the Administration Division. Chief Ledbetter was promoted to Lieutenant in 2011 and served as a Patrol Division shift supervisor through the remainder of his service with the City of Pascagoula. Chief Ledbetter's grandfather, Sheriff John C. Ledbetter, was elected Sheriff of Jackson County in 1975 after a 20 year career as the Pascagoula Assistant Police Chief. Sheriff Ledbetter remained in office until 1984.