Speakers

177 speakers.

Amitav Mukherjee

Founder and CEO

Andrew Couillard

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

Andrew Paulmeno

Military Deputy Director

Acceleration Reach Transition, LLC

Arthur Grijalva

USSOCOM Office of Small Business Programs

Ashley Landes, CPA

CEO, Co-Founder

Kyberdyne Systems

Benjamin McCrossan

Founder and CEO

Ensemble Space Labs

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

Army xTech/SBIR/STTR

Bobby Gallagher

CEO & CTO Founder

Deployable Energy

Texas Space Commission

Brance Hudzietz

Director of Government Programs

Capital Factory

Brian Beachkofski

Director: AFRL/SB

Director - Plans, Programs, and Innovation

Texas Military Department

Investment and Trade Commissioner Americas

Government of Western Australia

Brig. Gen. Jason E. Bartolomei

Air Force Research Laboratory

Bryton Praslicka

FluxWorks, Inc.

Second Sec Emerging Technology

CAPT David Gast

PEO C4I Innovation Lead

Carolina Cruz-Neira

Interim Executive Director, Institute of Simulation and Training

University of Central Florida

Executive Director

Army Applications Laboratory

Senior Scientist

Electroninks Incorporated

Charlie Burgoyne

President & CEO, Gadolyn, Inc.

SpaceWERX Ventures

Christopher Chase

Marine Liaison Officer

U.S. Marine Corps

Christopher Lay

Founding Partner

Leonid Capital Partners

Christopher Zember

Director, Austin Tech Hub

Head of Strategy and Growth, Defense

Col. Richard Lopez

Kessel Run Senior Materiel Leader

Colleen Laughlin

Former Executive Director, Defense Innovation Board

Founder and President

Fata Advisory, LLC

Dana Abramovitz

Tempest Droneworx

Daniel Gansberger

Delivery Program Manager

Second Front Systems

Spark Biomedical

Senior Director of Cyber Initiatives

Baylor University

Co-Founder & CEO

Saronic Technologies

investor/mentor

Athens Group Holdings, LLC

Defense Innovation Unit

Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer

Department of Defense

Drake Alexander Burciaga

DICE - Sr. Strategy & Operations

Elizabeth Muller

Founder of Omnyra

Chief Strategy Officer

Second Front Systems

Eric Hennenhoefer

Startup Fellowship Lead

Special Counsel

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Senior Vice President

Technical Director

67th Cyberspace Operations Group

Managing Partner

Cofounder & Co-CEO

Sr. Director, Startups + Venture

Cognitive Space

National Security Advisor

Representative Rob Wittman (VA-01)

Husch Blackwell

Regional Director

USPTO Southwest Regional Outreach Office

Inessa Stepanenko

Deputy District Director

Omira systems ai

Sr. Program Manager

Defense Innovation Unit (DIU)

American Tenent

Co-Founding Partner

Leonid Capital Partners

Chief, Technology Transition Team

Founder, CEO & CTO

Director, Early-Stage Portfolio

Defense Innovation Unit

Program Manager

Executive Director of the Applied Research Lab for Intelligence and Security

John Kottlowski

Account Exec / Palantir for Builders

President & CEO

Jonathan Marcel

Senior Venture Associate - HTX

Capital Factory

Serial Entreprenuer

Capital Factory

Skyline Nav AI, Inc.

AFWERX Deputy Director

Deputy Spark Division

Senior Program Manager

Co-Founder & Managing General Partner

Moonshots Capital

Capital Factory - Advisor

The Restless Few LLC - Startup Advisor / Fractional Executive

Kristina Botelho

Project Manager

DARPA Commercial Accelerator | CF

Co-Founder & CEO

ThinkOrbital.com

Deputy VPGM FAST Labs

Head of Government, Aerospace and Defense

Beyond Identity

WestExec Advisors

Chief Strategy Officer

Maj Gen Steve “Bucky” Butow

Military Deputy

Defense Innovation Unit (DIU)

Deputy Chief, SpaceWERX Accelerate Branch

Chief Scientist

AIONIC Machine Learning

Senior Scientist, Convergent Manufacturing

Air Force Research Laboratory

Mobilization Assistant to the Commander, Air Force Materiel Command

Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command

Partner (Intellectual Property)

Marty Roodettes

Lead Program Manager

AFWERX Ventures

Co-Founder SupplyShield - DIU Fellow

Crosslink Capital

Director, Artificial Intelligence Division

Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute

Matt Rabinovitch

X-Bow Systems Inc

Senior Program Analyst

DON SBIR/STTR Support Team

Accelerate, Branch Chief

MG Duane Miller

Deputy Commanding General

Security Assistance Group-Ukraine

Strategic Communications Lead

President and Chief Operating Officer

Michael Anderson

Chief Executive Officer

Seagate Space Corporation

Morton Consulting Group

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

King & Spalding

Murray Collette

Product Line Director

Executive Director, Global Security Initiative

Arizona State University

Deputy Director, Human Systems Portfolio

Divergent Industries Inc

Venture Principal

Capital Factory

Director, Center for Dual-Use Innovation

Capital Factory

Navy Portfolio Lead

Norman Garza Jr

Olivia Mullaney

Military Legislative Assistant

Oluseun “Olu” Taiwo

Chief, National Security Space Ecosystems

Senior Tech and Commercialization Analyst

Co-Founder and CEO

Samara Aerospace

Patrick Shannon

TrustPoint Inc.

Executive Director

Electro-Technic Products

Deputy Program Executive Officer, SOF Digital Applications

Chief Business Officer

Executive Director, George H.W. Bush Combat Development Complex

Texas A&M University System

Research Fellow

National Defense Industrial Association - Emerging Technologies Institute

Senior Strategist

Distinctive Edge

Managing Director

Acting Administrator

U.S. Maritime Administration

Director, External Innovation

Managing Director & U.S. Venture Partner

Oglethorpe Capital, LLC/Beaten Zone Ventures

Senator John Cornyn

Director of Business Development

Defense Commercialization Incubator PM

CEO and Founder

Senior Lecturer

MIT Sloan School of Management

CEO & Co-Founder

Allen Control Systems

Director, Defense Energy and Collaborative Programs

VP Military Affairs

Chief Executive Officer

Tempest Droneworx

Veronika Stelmakh

CEO and Cofounder

AFWERX Autonomy Prime Program Manager

Director & Program Executive Officer, Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office

Acting Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, Acquisition, Technology & Logistics

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

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

U.S. Army SBIR|STTR Program Manager

Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition Logistics and Technology