Program
Keynotes
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Trae Stephens
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, Anduril
Partner, Founders Fund -
Admiral (ret.) John Aquilino
Former Commander, United States Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM)
Key Panels
The Future of War
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Shyam Sankar
CTO
Palantir -
Major General (ret.) Volodymyr Havrylov
Former Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Defense
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Shaun Maguire
General Partner
Sequoia Capital -
Brad Boyd
Visiting Fellow
Hoover Institution
Defining Success in Defense Tech Investments
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Raj Shah
Managing Partner
Shield Capital -
Steve Bowsher
Chief Executive Officer
In-Q-Tel -
Chris Mintle
Managing Director, Aerospace & Defense
Lazard -
Asad Akram
Deputy Director (Strategy)
DOD Office of Strategic Capital -
Sarah Hess
Operating Partner
Point72 Ventures
Breakout Panels
Breakout Panel Session #1
Building Teams for the Future of Defense
Akhil Iyer
Partner
Shield Capital
The Future of the Industrial Base: From Steel to Silicon
Space: Launch, Observation, and Development
Nini Hamrick
Co-Founder & President
Vannevar Labs
Cameron McCord
Co-Founder & CEO
Nominal
Ian Cinammon
Co-Founder & CEO
Apex
Chris Baker
VP of Operations
Hadrian
Andrew Palmeno
MBA Candidate
GSB
Daniel Owins
Director Emerging Tech Acquisition
National Geospatial Intel Agency
Nirav Patel
PM, Space Portfolio
DIU
Mark Seidel
CFO
True Anomaly
Johnny Dyer
CEO
Muon Space
Matt Gratias
VP of Federal Program
Relativity Space
Mark Dickinson
Director Acquisitions Division
Naval Reactors
Paul Kwan
Managing Director
General Catalyst
Alex Lubkin
MBA Candidate
GSB
Breakout Panel Session #2
Innovation in the IC
The R&D Ecosystem for Critical Technologies
Innovation and Investing in Critical Minerals Resilience
Samuel Semwangu
CEO
Bazze
Jonathan Clifford
Technology & Innovation Staff
House Select Committee on Intel
Nand Mulchandani
CTO
CIA
Larsen Jensen
Founder & GP
Harpoon Ventures
Brian Katz
Business Unit Lead
Vannevar Labs
Bilal Zuberi
General Partner
Lux Capital
Subodh Kulkarni
CEO
Rigetti
Patricia Falcone
Deputy Director for Science & Tech
Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Ethan Klein
MBA Candidate
GSB
Taso Arima
CEO
IperionX
Matthew Sloustcher
Senior VP of Comms & Policy
MP Materials
Nathan Ratledge
CEO
Alta Resource Technologies
Chris James
Founder & CIO
Engine No. 1
Barclay Jones
MBA Candidate
GSB
Vy Nguyen
Deputy Director of Industrial Policy
Office of Under SecDef for Acquisition
Breakout Panel Session #3
Crypto, Web3, and National Security
Jay Long
Founder & COO
Parlay
Powering the AI Future
Autonomy in Action
Gus Lersten
CEO & Co-Founder
Labrys
Daniel Goldsmith
CEO
Heights Labs
Frank Liddy
Partner
Terranet Ventures
Nico Enriquez
MBA Candidate
GSB
Andy Ott
Head of Technical & Partner Ops
X, The Moonshot Factory
Jeff Cox
Chief Innovation Officer
Tract
Newt McKissick
Senior Military Advisor, Energy Portfolio
DIU
Emily Jin
China Analyst
Datenna
Connor Love
Partner
Lightspeed Ventures
David Michelson
Director, Autonomy Porfolio
DIU
Dino Mavrookas
Co-Founder & CEO
Saronic
Stephanie Bonk
Co-Founder & President
Overland AI
James Carlson
Chief Legal and Info Officer
Shield AI
Breakout Panel Session #4
Spectrum Dominance and Electronic Warfare
Justin Asuncion
CS MS Candidate, LT US Navy
DIU
Best Practices for Dual-Use Technologies
Defense Applications for AI
William “Dollar” Young
Fmr Commander, 350th Spectrum Warfare Wing, US Air Force
Nathan Mintz
Co-Founder & CEO
CX2
John Davies
PM, Microsystems Tech Office
DARPA
Andrew Couillard
MBA Candidate
GSB
Peter Wilczynski
Chief Product Officer
Maxar
AJ Piplica
CEO
Hermeus
Liz Stein
Managing Director
USIT
Ahmad Nasir
JD/MBA Candidate
Stanford University
Andrew Moore
Founder & CEO
Lovelace AI
Ian Kalin
Co-Founder & CEO
TurbineOne
Greg Sands
Founder & Managing Partner
Costanoa Ventures
Lindsey Sheppard
Deputy Director
DoD, Chief Digital & AI Office
Yaroslav Kalinin
CEO
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