September 22-24, 2026 | NATIONAL HARBOR, MD
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Meet the Minds Advancing Mission-Critical Innovation
President & CEO, Advanced Technology International
Under Secretary for Science and Technology, Department of Homeland Security
Associate Administrator, SBA’s Office of Investment and Innovation
Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office
Senior Strategic Partnership Manager, TechConnect Division, ATI
Director, DoW Office for Small Business Innovation
Office Director Small Business Programs Office, DARPA
Operations Director, Idaho National Laboratory
Executive Director, Small Business Innovation Research Consortium (SBIRC)
Founder & Managing Partner, Backswing Ventures
Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems, LM Senior Fellow, Mission Systems and Autonomous Technologies Chief Architect, Lockheed Martin
Chief Business Officer, Arzeda Corp.
Senior Advisor, University of Ottawa
MOSA Lead – Senior Systems Engineer, US Army - Headquarters – ASA(ALT) - ADASM(DES)
Chief Architect, FLRAA PMO/Aether Aerospace
Marketing Communications Project Manager, TechConnect Division, ATI
Digital Engineering Chief, Capability Program Executive Aviation (CPE Aviation)
Technical Director, Naval Shipbuilding and Advanced Manufacturing (NSAM) Center of Excellence
Senior Investment Associate, Innovation Works
Director of Defense Technologies, North Carolina Military Business Center
Sr. Engineering Manager, Raytheon
Director of Operational Energy, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Energy, US Navy
Senior Technical Fellow, PeopleTec
Chief Executive Officer, MedForeSight
Head of Strategy and Engagement, Aerospace & Satellite Amazon Web Services (AWS)
CEO & President, First Flight Venture Center
Senior Architect – MV-75 Cheyenne II, Bell
Director of Innovation, Americas, Evonik
Senior Scientific Technical Manager, US Army
Chief Transformation Officer, BryceTech
Founder & General Partner, Hivers & Strivers
Program Manager, Advanced Technology International (ATI)
Chief Autonomy Engineer for ALC, Shield AI
Head of Government Relations, General Matter
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Rsquared
Investor, Lowercarbon Capital
Chief Technology Officer, US Navy
Program Manager, Maneuver Air Directorate
Associate Technical Fellow, Sierra Nevada Corporation
Business Development Executive, DeepSig, Inc.
Head of Business Development, Fluree AI
Partner Head of Alliance Fund, Geodesic Capital
Deputy Assistant Secretary of War for Critical Technologies, Office of the Secretary of War
Principal Engineer for Safety and Embedded Software, Ansys part of Synopsy
Director of Engineering for Unmanned Systems, Airbus US Space and Defense
Co-Founder & President, Riphean Group, Riphean Investments
Managing Partner, Michigan Capital Network
Technical Director, Air & Space Force Cyber Resilience Office for Control Systems, US Air and Space Force
Deputy, Technical Operations Group, Aptima
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Strategy and Acquisition Reform, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology)
Product Manager, US Army PM C2 Infrastructure, CPE C2IN, CMOSS Mounted Form Factor
Director of Technology, BryceTech
Founder and Managing Partner, Ecphora Capital
Senior Advisor for Intellectual Property, Office of the Secretary of War (OSW), Intellectual Property Cadre
Manager (R&D), Southwest Research Institute
Business Development Manager, Advanced Technology International (ATI)
Co-Founder, Skayl
Chief Technical Architect, US Army CPE Aviation
President, Jaffe Policy Consulting LLC
Principal, Open Innovation, TechConnect Division, ATI
Partner, BOKA Capital
Senior Business Development & Sales Manager, TechConnect Division, ATI
Chief Systems Integration Officer, Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC), US Army
Senior Director of MBSE Services, Strategic Technology Consulting
Vice President, TechConnect, TechConnect Division, ATI
Board Member, Station DC
Steering Committee Chair, Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA), USAF Air Combat Command (ACC) FedLab
Systems Engineering Branch Chief, PM Fixed Wing, CPE Aviation
Chief Science Officer, First American Nuclear Company (FANCO)
CTO, BadVR, Inc.
Principal, First Bight Ventures
Technical Director, Pratt Miller
CEO and Founder, Tanagra Enterprises
Program Manager, Abbott on Call
Executive Director, Communications Cybersecurity Information Sharing and Analysis Center (C2 ISAC)
Outreach & Project Manager, TechConnect Division, ATI
Senior Marketing and Program Manager, TechConnect Division, ATI
Consultant to Deputy Secretary of War - Deregulation, Security, Advanced Technologies, Department of War
Senior Technical Architect, ACPE Aviation E&A/CRL Technologies, Inc.
Strategic Development Manager, Space & Mission Systems, BAE Systems
Founder and Principal, Invicta Analytics, LLC
Senior Project Leader, Aerospace Corporation
Chief Engineer Emerging Technologies, L3 Harris Technologies, Inc.
Assistant General Counsel, Collins Aerospace
President, Reckard Consulting
DASO Lead Engineer, AFLCMC/EBZC
Senior Advisor, TechConnect Division, ATI
Hypersonic Missile Hardware Chief Engineer, Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane
Technical Program Manager, Defense and Space, Idaho National Laboratory
Executive Director, North Texas Innovation Alliance
Systems Engineer, Canvas, Inc.
Staff Engineer, Southwest Research Institute
WOSA Program Manager, AFRL Air Warfare Directorate
Acting Director, Innovation, Small Business Administration
Lead Systems Engineer, US Army - OCE - PAE Fires
Defense Technologies Associate, DAGER Technology
Branch Chief Engineer, AFLCMC/EBZC
Managing Partner, Merlin Ventures
Deputy Director, Advanced Technology International
Sr. Vice President, Medical and Threat Countermeasures Division, Advanced Technology International (ATI)
Partner, Frontera Group
Systems Engineering Lead, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Principal Technical Fellow and Sr. Director of Services & Strategy, Dassault Systèmes
Senior Engineering Fellow, Embedded Software Engineering, RTX
Senior Associate, Two Lanterns Venture Capital
Chief Architect for the MV-75 Cheyenne II program and Associate Tech Fellow for Systems Engineering, Bell Textron
Founder & CEO, OppsSpot, LLC
Founder and CEO, Vadum, Inc.
Executive Vice President, Potomac International Partners, Inc.
Senior Project Manager and Research Analyst,, Advanced Technology International (ATI)
Defense and Aerospace Executive, DDC-I
Action Officer - Wargaming, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (RDT&E), US Navy
Lead for Communications, Knowledge, and Performance Management, DoW Intellectual Property Cadre
Founder & Managing Partner, Oval Park Capital
Co-Founder, DMV Bio
Naval Operational Energy Office, Tech Advisor, US Navy
Senior Technical Expert, Vehicle Electronics and Architecture (VEA), GVSC, US Army
CEO and Founder, BadVR, Inc.
SOSA® Consortium Director, The Open Group
Technology-to-Market Advisor, ARPA-E
EVP and CSO, RunSafe Security
Principal, Muswell Orange LLC
Digital Solutions Architect, Integration Innovation, Inc. (i3)
Senior Technical Fellow, Collins Aerospace
WOSA Lead Engineer, AFRL Air Warfare Directorate
Senior Architect – MV-75 Cheyenne II, Bell
Director, System of Systems Acquisition Decision Information, Assistant Deputy for Acquisition Systems Management (Data, Engineering, and Software), Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics and Technology) [ADASM (DES) / SAAL-ZE / ASA(ALT)]
Co-Chair, National Defense Industrial Association's Cyber Division's Cyber Legal Regulatory Policy Committee
Co-Founder and CEO, Metavonics
Senior Embedded Engineer and Team Lead, DESE Research, Inc.
Managing Partner, In-Q-Tel
Director, Developmental Flight Tes, Airbus Helicopters, Inc.
Director of Digital Engineering, Modeling & Simulation (DEM&S), Office of the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering (OUSW R&E)
Vice President of Technology, Colvin Run Networks
Founder, Big Idea Ventures
Systems Engineering SME and Deputy, Enterprise Platform, Innovation & Conformance Center (EPICC), US Army CPE Aviation / CE Solutions, Inc.
Principal Deployment Strategist, LMI
Senior Materiel Leader for the Mission Systems Architecture and Systems Engineering Group, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Air Force Materiel Command
Systems Engineer, PM UAS, CPE Aviation
Technical Fellow and Advanced Concepts Engineering Lead, L3Harris
Director and Chief Intellectual Property Counsel for Data Rights, Lockheed Martin
Senior Technical Advisor, Technology, KBR
Vice President, Peerless Technologies Corporation
Vice President, Peerless Technologies
Vice Chancellor for Research and Engagement, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Lead Enterprise Liaison Engineer Boeing Defense Space & Security, Boeing
Program Manager, Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program, Lockheed Martin
Chief Architect, Electronic Warfare Division, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC)
Program Director, National Science Foundation
Staff Field Application Engineer, Real-Time Innovations
Sr Principal Systems Engineer, RTX
Senior Technical Program Manager, Rapid Innovation Team, Google Public Sector
Technical Account Manager, Lynx
Chief Technology Officer, Empower AI
SBIR/STTR Program Director and Policy Liaison, National Science Foundation
Associate Director, Business Development for Army Rotary Wing Programs, Collins Aerospace
Deputy Open Architecture Functional Lead / Avionics Architecture Team Deputy IPT Lead, NAVAIR/PMA-209
Founder and CEO, Colvin Run Networks
Founder, Principal Consultant, To The King LLC
Head of Strategic Alliances, Wind River X
General Manager - Electronic Warfare, AeroVironment
Cyber & RF Effects Branch Chief, Army’s C5ISR Center
Technical Director, Joint Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations Center (JEC), Joint Electromagnetic Warfare Center (JEWC)
Senior VP, Growth Operations & GM Huntsville Site, Parry Labs
Chief Strategy Officer, Qualis
Architecture Technical Area Lead, US Army, DEVCOM AvMC
Jammer Technique Optimization (JATO) National Lead, Navy’s PMA-234 Airborne Electronic Attack Systems
Chief Engineer, PM Apache, Development & Modernization Product Office
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