Mr. Shaarik Zafar, National Counter Terrorism Center
?? is it a joke
No, not a joke...that's why I posted it. Scary as hell.
Complete guest list is at the link. Excerpted due to FR posting rules.
From his title, you'd be led to believe that he had some sort of background in Intel/Counterintelligence.
Er...not exactly. Instead, prior to his current role, Zafar served as a senior policy advisor in the Office of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties at DHS. Before that, Zafar served as (I am not making this up) "Special Counsel for Post 9/11 National Origin Discrimination" at the Department of Justice, where he led DOJ’s "Initiative to Combat Post 9/11 Discriminatory Backlash".
Source: http://osce.usmission.gov/media/pdfs/shaarik_zafar.pdf