15 years and 15 days

How a Palo Alto loft, a fifteen-year obsession, and the speed of story led to Whitefish, Montana

Suits and Spooks was born in a Palo Alto loft in 2011. Fifteen years ago. What started as an experiment at the intersection of national security and private enterprise has carried me — for better and for worse — to something I genuinely never imagined was possible.

In fifteen days, the Whitefish Security Summit begins.

Since I first conceived of this event last July, it has gone through location changes, name changes, and a significant shift in focus. What hasn’t changed is the pull — the sense that something necessary was missing from how the people who shape security, intelligence, and story actually talk to each other.

WSS 2026 is the answer to that.

The speaker roster is impressive — including General Stanley McChrystal and Howard Gordon, the showrunner behind 24 and Homeland. But what’s equally impressive — maybe more so — are the people attending whose names won’t appear anywhere. Private bankers. Quiet professionals. Power players from the entertainment and national security worlds who are spending real time and real money to be in a room together in Whitefish, Montana, because they understand something most people don’t yet:

Events are moving at a speed no one knows how to control. The speed of story.

That phrase deserves unpacking — and it will be, over three days in April, by people who have lived it from the inside. If you’ve been watching what’s happening at the intersection of narrative, intelligence, and influence, you know why that conversation matters right now.

There are still a limited number of seats available.