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SEPTEMBER 21-22, 2026 | NATIONAL HARBOR, MD |
Securing the U.S. Bioeconomy: A Leadership Summit
From Fragmentation to Force: Aligning Capital, Policy, and Industrial Capacity
The U.S. bioeconomy is at an inflection point.
Leaders across health, industrial biotechnology, and defense are advancing critical capabilities; but progress remains fragmented across capital, policy, and infrastructure. This summit convenes senior stakeholders across sectors to align on the most urgent barriers to scale and define a coordinated path forward.
As the inaugural event in a broader bioeconomy series, this session will move beyond discussion toward actionable alignment that strengthens U.S. technology leadership and national security.
This summit takes place September 21 in National Harbor, MD immediately preceding Defense TechConnect Innovation Summit.
Participants gain early access to a broader ecosystem of defense, federal, and industry stakeholders, extending conversations from strategy into execution.
Who Should Attend:
- Federal agency leaders and program managers
- Defense and national security stakeholders
- Industrial biotech and biomanufacturing leaders
- Investors and capital providers across the bioeconomy
- Corporate partners and supply chain stakeholders
- Innovation leaders shaping next-generation biological infrastructure
This is a working session with focused outcomes.
- Align priorities across capital, industry, and government to accelerate near-term scale
- Identify investment gaps, and define what unlocks capital deployment
- Surface vulnerabilities in supply chains and biomanufacturing capacity impacting national security
- Advance public-private models for procurement, demand signaling, and commercialization
- Highlight opportunities for improved federal coordination and streamlined regulatory pathways
- Catalyze partnerships and define next steps for continued engagement
Industrial Biotech Innovation Prize Challenge
Join us for a pitch competition featuring emerging technologies driving scalable bioindustrial solutions.
- Ten (10) finalists
- Breakthrough approaches across biomanufacturing, materials, and bio-based production
- Review panelists including investors, industry partners, and government stakeholders
- $50,000 in non-dilutive prizes
Interested in serving as a review panelist? Contact us.
Challenge Contact: Laura Murphree, laura@techconnect.org
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