Fed Supernova 2026

Amitav Mukherjee

Founder and CEO — Tiami Networks

Andrew Couillard

Defense Innovation Summer Fellowship – Commercialization (DISF-C) program — Hydrastrike

Andrew Paulmeno

CEO — HopLynk

Aneel Alvares

Military Deputy Director — AFWERX

Art Trevethan

Ringmaster — Acceleration Reach Transition, LLC

Arthur Grijalva

Director — SpaceWERX

Ashley Farrier

Director — USSOCOM Office of Small Business Programs

Ashley Landes, CPA

Director — Badger

Athina Teicher

Major — AFWERX

Austin Hulbert

CEO, Co-Founder — Kyberdyne Systems

Benjamin McCrossan

Founder and CEO — Ensemble Space Labs

Blaise Zandoli

Army SBIR/STTR Portfolio Manager, Energy and AI/ML — Army xTech/SBIR/STTR

Bobby Gallagher

CEO & CTO Founder — Deployable Energy

Brad Morrison

Board Member — Texas Space Commission

Brance Hudzietz

Director of Government Programs — Capital Factory

Brendan Karp

CEO — Obviant

Brian Beachkofski

CTO — Rithmm

Brian McJilton

Director: AFRL/SB — AFRL/SB

Brian Shipley

Brian Stevens

Director - Plans, Programs, and Innovation — Texas Military Department

Brianna Peake

Investment and Trade Commissioner Americas — Government of Western Australia

Brig. Gen. Jason E. Bartolomei

Commander — Air Force Research Laboratory

Bryon Kroger

Founder & CEO — Rise8

Bryton Praslicka

Founder & CEO — FluxWorks, Inc.

Caitlin Percy

Second Sec Emerging Technology — UK Government

CAPT David Gast

PEO C4I Innovation Lead — Navy

Carolina Cruz-Neira

Interim Executive Director, Institute of Simulation and Training — University of Central Florida

Casey Perley

Executive Director — Army Applications Laboratory

Cassie Muffley

Cedric Ambulo

Senior Scientist — Electroninks Incorporated

Charlie Burgoyne

CEO — Valkyrie

Chris Haase

President & CEO, Gadolyn, Inc. — Gadolyn, Inc.

Chris Lynch

Cofounder — Arsenal

Chris Pimentel

Branch Chief — SpaceWERX Ventures

Christopher Chase

Marine Liaison Officer — U.S. Marine Corps

Christopher Lay

Founding Partner — Leonid Capital Partners

Christopher Zember

Z-Factor

Clay Duarte

Director, Austin Tech Hub — NavalX

Clif Luber

Head of Strategy and Growth, Defense — Kodiak

Col. Richard Lopez

Kessel Run Senior Materiel Leader — U.S. Air Force

Colleen Laughlin

Former Executive Director, Defense Innovation Board — Capital Atlas

Dan Fata

Founder and President — Fata Advisory, LLC

Dana Abramovitz

COO — Tempest Droneworx

Daniel Gansberger

Delivery Program Manager — Second Front Systems

Daniel Powell

CEO — Spark Biomedical

David Grover

Senior Director of Cyber Initiatives — Baylor University

Dino Mavrookas

Co-Founder & CEO — Saronic Technologies

Don Shafer

investor/mentor — Athens Group Holdings, LLC

Doug Beck

Director — Defense Innovation Unit

Doug Matty

Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer — Department of Defense

Drake Alexander Burciaga

CEO — Orchestra

Drew Hendricks

DICE - Sr. Strategy & Operations — DIU

Dyan Gibbens

Senior Advisor — DARPA

Elizabeth Muller

CEO — Deep Fission

Emilin Mathew

Founder of Omnyra — Omnyra

Enrique Oti

Chief Strategy Officer — Second Front Systems

Eric Hennenhoefer

CEO — Cerfe Labs

Eric Menser

Startup Fellowship Lead — Palantir

Eric Robinson

Special Counsel — Baker Botts L.L.P.

Eric Schank

Senior Vice President — DroneSense

Ernie Sawyer

Technical Director — 67th Cyberspace Operations Group

Evan Burfield

Managing Partner — Capital Atlas

Frank Gruber

Cofounder & Co-CEO — Established

George Ploss

Sr. Director, Startups + Venture — Oracle

Guy de Carufel

CEO — Cognitive Space

Hallie Coyne

National Security Advisor — Representative Rob Wittman (VA-01)

Holly Heinrich

Attorney — Husch Blackwell

Hope Shimabuku

Regional Director — USPTO Southwest Regional Outreach Office

Inessa Stepanenko

Deputy District Director — SBA

Jack De Santis

CEO — Omira systems ai

Jack Ryan

Sr. Program Manager — Defense Innovation Unit (DIU)

James Leo

CEO — NeoLens // DIU

James Oleen

Founder — American Tenent

James Parker

Co-Founding Partner — Leonid Capital Partners

Jason Curtis

Chief, Technology Transition Team — DARPA

Jason Dunn

Founder, CEO & CTO — Outpost Space

Jason Hundley

CEO / Founder — XBOW

Jen Warren

Founder — Exia Edge

Jesse Gipe

Director, Early-Stage Portfolio — Defense Innovation Unit

Jessica Walsh

Founder / CEO — Rx Bandz

Jim Cantrell

Phantom Space

Jim Rabuck

DoDx Director — DIU

Joel Fox

Program Manager — USSOCOM

John Beieler

Executive Director of the Applied Research Lab for Intelligence and Security — UMD

John Kottlowski

Account Exec / Palantir for Builders — Palantir

John Olson

President & CEO — AXIONS

Jonathan Marcel

Senior Venture Associate - HTX — Capital Factory

Joseph Kopser

Serial Entreprenuer — Grayline Group

Joshua Baer

Founder & CEO — Capital Factory

Jung Eun Park

Co-CEO — BLT&Partners

Justin Fanelli

Navy CTO — US Navy

Kanwar Singh

CEO — Skyline Nav AI, Inc.

Karen Roth

AFWERX Deputy Director — AFWERX

Kathy Reid

Deputy Spark Division — AFWERX

Keenan Blatt

Senior Program Manager — MIT

Kelly Perdew

Co-Founder & Managing General Partner — Moonshots Capital

Kevin Damoa

Founder & CEO — Glīd

Kevin Rustagi

Capital Factory - Advisor — The Restless Few LLC - Startup Advisor / Fractional Executive

Khalil Mack

Kristina Botelho

Consultant — Elciris, LLC

Launtz Rodgers

Project Manager — DARPA Commercial Accelerator | CF

Lee Rosen

Co-Founder & CEO — ThinkOrbital.com

Leonard Lublin

Deputy VPGM FAST Labs — BAE Systems

Ligeia Zeruto

Head of Government, Aerospace and Defense — Beyond Identity

Linda Lourie

Principal — WestExec Advisors

Luke Walter

Chief Strategy Officer — AFWERX

Maj Gen Steve “Bucky” Butow

Military Deputy — Defense Innovation Unit (DIU)

Marc Green

Deputy Chief, SpaceWERX Accelerate Branch — AFWERX

Marcus Weller

Chief Scientist — AIONIC Machine Learning

Margo Chandler

ThinkOrbital

Mark Benedict

Senior Scientist, Convergent Manufacturing — Air Force Research Laboratory

Mark Slominski

Mobilization Assistant to the Commander, Air Force Materiel Command — Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command

Mark Speegle

Partner (Intellectual Property) — Baker Botts

Marty Roodettes

Lead Program Manager — AFWERX Ventures

Mateo Petel

Co-Founder SupplyShield - DIU Fellow — SupplyShield

Matt Bigge

Partner — Crosslink Capital

Matt Gaston

Director, Artificial Intelligence Division — Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute

Matt Rabinovitch

Founder & CEO — Teleidoscope

Maureen Gannon

Co-Founder — X-Bow Systems Inc

Max Reele

Megan Stokes

Senior Program Analyst — DON SBIR/STTR Support Team

Melissa Garmoe

Accelerate, Branch Chief — SpaceWERX

MG Duane Miller

Deputy Commanding General — Security Assistance Group-Ukraine

Mia Blessing

Strategic Communications Lead — AFWERX

Mica Dolan

President and Chief Operating Officer — ATI

Michael Anderson

Chief Executive Officer — Seagate Space Corporation

Michael Morton

founder — Morton Consulting Group

Michael Webber

Centennial Energy Chair in Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin — UT Austin

Mike Galdo

Counsel — King & Spalding

Murray Collette

Product Line Director — BAE Systems

Nadya Bliss

Executive Director, Global Security Initiative — Arizona State University

Nat Higgins

Deputy Director, Human Systems Portfolio — DIU

Nathan Diller

CEO — Divergent Industries Inc

Neal Rickner

CEO — Airloom Energy

Nick Spiller

Venture Principal — Capital Factory

Nils Alstad

CEO — Stridar

Nina Shelat

Director, Center for Dual-Use Innovation — Capital Factory

Noam Oz

Navy Portfolio Lead — Divergent

Norman Garza Jr

Exec Dir — TSC

Olivia Mullaney

Military Legislative Assistant — Rep. Pat Ryan

Oluseun “Olu” Taiwo

CEO, Founder — Solideon

Omar Perea

Chief, National Security Space Ecosystems — US Space Force

Oran Farkas

Senior Tech and Commercialization Analyst — DIU & BMNT

Patrick Haddox

Co-Founder and CEO — Samara Aerospace

Patrick Shannon

Founder, CEO — TrustPoint Inc.

Riffat Manasia

Executive Director — Station Texas

Riley Knox

CEO — Leviathan Air

Ritesh Patel

Co-President — Electro-Technic Products

Robert Mathews

Deputy Program Executive Officer, SOF Digital Applications — SDA

Roger Antunez

Founder & CEO — Supernova

Ronen Lebi

Chief Business Officer — Machina Labs,

Ross Guieb

Executive Director, George H.W. Bush Combat Development Complex — Texas A&M University System

Russ Mathers

Director — Strikewerx

Sam Howell

Chief of Staff — DroneSense

Sam Moyer

Research Fellow — National Defense Industrial Association - Emerging Technologies Institute

Samantha Brown

Senior Strategist — Distinctive Edge

Sameer Garg

Managing Director — Citi

Sang Yi

Acting Administrator — U.S. Maritime Administration

Sara Scharf

Director, External Innovation — BAE Systems

Sean Singleton

Managing Director & U.S. Venture Partner — Oglethorpe Capital, LLC/Beaten Zone Ventures

Senator John Cornyn

Seth Taylor

Director of Business Development — VICTUS

Stevan Youssef

Defense Commercialization Incubator PM — DIU

Steve Poizner

CEO and Founder — oneNav

Steve Spear

Senior Lecturer — MIT Sloan School of Management

Steven Simoni

CEO & Co-Founder — Allen Control Systems

Susan Stuver

Director, Defense Energy and Collaborative Programs — GTI Energy

Tom Gardner

VP Military Affairs — Rx Bandz

Ty Audronis

Chief Executive Officer — Tempest Droneworx

Veronika Stelmakh

CEO and Cofounder — Mesodyne

Victor Lopez

AFWERX Autonomy Prime Program Manager — AFWERX

William Bailey

Director & Program Executive Officer, Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office — Acting Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, Acquisition, Technology & Logistics

Zac Staples

Founder & CEO — Fathom5

Zach Walker

Co-founder — ATX Defense

Zachary Rapp

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer — Sigma Genetics

Zack Zuniga

Defense Innovation Summer Fellowship – Commercialization (DISF-C) program — ZuLeris

Zeke Topolosky

U.S. Army SBIR|STTR Program Manager — Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition Logistics and Technology