Schedule

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The China Challenge: The View from Taiwan

Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Fusion Industry Association

Fathom Consulting

ClearanceJobs

Center for Maritime Strategy

Keynote: FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty

Panel: Strengthening the U.S. Bioeconomy

Panel: Robotics and the AI Era

Fireside: The Case for American Optimism

A New Domain of Warfare: Supply Chains, AI and the Fight for Economic Dominance, Exiger

Panel: Turbocharging America’s Industrial Comeback

Panel: The Next 250 Years: Technology, Strategy, and American Progress

Boston Dynamics: Spot: The AI-Powered Robot Dog

Parallel Systems: Activating the Autonomous Rail Network

Windward AI

Anthropic

Nvidia

Perplexity

AI+ Careers: Alex Schildt, Clearance Jobs

AI+ Careers: Keith Sonderling, Deputy Secretary of Labor

AI+ Careers: Felipe Millon, OpenAI

David Sanger on “New Cold Wars”

Africa AI Village

Center for European Policy Analysis

Council on Global Competition and Innovation

The Chertoff Group

XR Association

Atlantic Council

EqualAI

Institute for Security & Technology

Registration / Expo floor open

Keynote: The Next Wave of Drug Discovery

Technology and Innovation in American Markets

Panel: Financing the Next American Century

Fireside: AI, Industry, and the American Dream

Fireside: Technology and the Golden Age of America

Keynote: SEC Chairman Paul S. Atkins

Fireside: The Future of Embodied AI

Fireside: Powering the Next American Century

OpenAI

Boston Dynamics: Spot: The AI-Powered Robot Dog

Colossal Biosciences: De-Extinction, AI, and the Future of Conservation

AI+ Careers: Lydia Logan, IBM

AI+ Careers: Ambassador Kristjan Prikk, Estonia

Katrina Manson on “Project Maven”

The U.S.-India AI and Emerging Technology Forum

Innovation Under Fire: Lessons Learned from Ukraine

Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

Gallup

Copyright Alliance

Registration / Expo floor open

Interview: Austen Alexander from Battle Bunker

Inside the Genesis Mission with Under Secretary Darío Gil

Interview: Sundas Khalid and Megan Lieu on How AI is Transforming Careers

Keynote: Dr. Eric Xing, President, MBZUAI

Interview: Ume Habiba on Navigating Tech as an Early Career Professional

Presentation: Sajjaad Khader on Breaking into Tech in 2026

Rewriting Education with AI Humanoids

PianoPal, Presented by AyseDeniz Gokcin

Tech Talk: How to Sound Smart about Quantum Technologies

Watts Up: What AI, Data Centers, and Energy Mean for Your Future

AI+ Careers: Department of State National Foreign Affairs Training Center

David Marsh on “Can Europe Survive?”

Rt Hon. Sir Vince Cable on “Eclipsing the West”

Learning Journey AI: Building Applications with AI Coding Agents

Virginia Tech: You Can be a Game Changineer

IBM: From Anxiety to Agency: Equipping Faculty to Teach Responsible AI with Confidence

MIT: Building with AI: A Practical, Human-in-the-Loop Workshop

CodeVA: K-12 Learning in the Age of AI

Coursera: Interactive Session: Building AI Readiness from a Place of Confidence

Princeton University: When Robots Disappear – Drones and Haptic Illusions in Virtual Reality

Workshop: Cyber.org: Building an AI-Ready Workforce Through K-12 Education

Registration / Expo floor open