The Hon. David L. Norquist
President and CEO
National Defense Industrial Association

The Hon. Michael Bayer
Chair of the Board, National Defense Industrial Association
President, Dumbarton Strategies, LLC  

The Hon. Dr. Kathleen Hicks
Deputy Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense

The Hon. William (Mac) Thornberry
NDIA ETI Advisory Board Member
Former Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee
Moderator

 

ADMl John C. Aquilino, USN
Commander
U.S. Indo-Pacific Command

Gen Joseph Dunford, USMC (Ret)
19th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Moderator

 

Balancing Research Security with Delivering New Capabilities at Speed: Tips & Tools
Dr. Jessica Appler
Director, Maintaining Technology Advantage Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering

Mobilized Large-Format Additive Manufacturing Bolsters Tactical Readiness
Jeremey Heerdink
Vice President of Business Development
Snowbird Technologies

Mission Adaptive Autonomy on a Black Hawk Helicopter
Matthew Whalley
Capability Area Lead, Autonomous and Unmmaned Systems
U.S. Army DEVCOM

Digitally Connected Solutions for Empowering the Modern Navy
Trey Taylor
Director of Digital Innovation
Fairbanks Morse Defense

Dr. Mark Lewis
Chief Executive Officer
Purdue Applied Research Institute
Moderator
 

Microelectronics: DoD Capability Enabler and a “Must Win” for the DoD
Dr. Dev Shenoy
Principal Director for Microelectronics
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
Moderator

Bridging From Commercial Technology to DoD Needs
Jim Brinker
President and General Manager
Intel Corporation

SHIP-Digital Enabled Small Form Factor EW System
Dr. William “Bill” Angerer
Director and Chief Engineer
Lockheed Martin Spectrum Convergence

Connect, Protect, and Power the Future
Doug Bostrom
General Manager of Defense and Aerospace
Qorvo, Inc.
 

Dr. Kate Sixt
Principal Director for Biotechnology
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
Moderator

Dean Kamen
Executive Director
Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute/BioFabUSA

Dr. Doug Friedman
Chief Executive Officer
BioMADE

 

Advances in Atom-Based Sensors for PNT
Dr. Dana Anderson
Founder & Chief Strategy Officer
Infleqtion

The Counter UAS Mission Set: A Case for Directed Energy
Mark Neice
Former Executive Director
Directed Energy Professional Society

Quantum RF Sensing
Dr. William Clark
Vice President
Quantum Development, Infleqtion

Dr. Michael Fritze
Senior Fellow and Former Vice President
Potomac Institute for Policy Studies
Moderator
 

Dr. Bindu Nair
Director of Basic Research
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering

Tracy Frost
Director
DoD Manufacturing Technology Program

Dr. Michelle Atchison
Director of Federal Relations
University of Texas, San Antonio
Moderator
 

Dr. Robert Mantz
Principal Director Renewable Energy Generation & Storage
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
Moderator
COL Christopher Vitale, USA
Director, Army Operational Energy Directorate & Army Climate Change Directorate

Dr. Andrew Higier
Director, Energy Portfolio
Defense Innovation Unit

Anthony Di Stasio
Director of Manufacturing, Capability Expansion, and Investment Prioritization
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition & Sustainment
 

Maj. Gen. Lee Levy, USAF (Ret.) Chair, NDIA Logistics Division
Moderator

The Hon. Christopher Lowman
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Sustainment
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition & Sustainment

LTG John Sullivan, USA
Deputy Commander U.S TRANSCOM

Lt Gen Leonard Kosinski, USAF
Director of Logistics
J4 Joint Staff

Brad Bunn
Vice Director
Defense Logistics Agency  

Dr. Tom Rondeau
Principal Director for Future G & 5G
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
Moderator

Lizy Paul
Director of 5G .MIL
Lockheed Martin

Mike Murphy
CTO for North American
Ericsson

Juan Ramirez
Deputy Director
Department of Defense, Chief Information Officer – C3I

Dr. Paul Jacobs
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
XCOM

 

Data Abyss: Empowering the Warfighter with Secure Research Intelligence and Actionable Insight
L.J. Eads
Director of Research Intelligence
Parallax Advanced Research

Enhancing Security Against the Targeting of Emerging Technologies by Adversaries While Increasing Private Capital Flows to Defense Industrial Base Companies
John O'Connor
Chairman and CEO
JH Whitney Investment Management, LLC

The Crisis in Ukraine - The Needs and Results of New Technologies of the Most Modern Battlefield on the NATO Frontiers
Malgorzata Kieltyka
Founding Partner
KG Legal

Jakub Gladkowski
Founding Partner
KG Legal

Advanced Sphere Brake Kits
Aaron Lewis
CEO
Sphere Brake Defense, Inc.

James Chew
Global Group Director
Aerospace & Defense, Cadence Design System
Moderator
 

Dr. Stefanie Tompkins
Director
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
 

The Honorable Dr. William LaPlante
Under Secretary of Defense, Acquisition and Sustainment

Marcus Weisgerber
Global Business Editor
Defense One
 

The Honorable David L. Norquist
President & Chief Executive Officer
National Defense Industrial Association
 

Maynard Holliday
Performing the Duties of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Critical Technologies
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
 

The Hon. Heidi Shyu
Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering

The Hon. Ellen Lord
NDIA ETI Advisory Board
Former Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment
Moderator
 

ML Mackey
Chair, NDIA Small Business Division and CEO and Co-Founder
Beacon Interactive Systems
Moderator

Dr. Eric Volmar
Chief Strategy Officer
Office of Strategic Capital
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering

 

Improving Dynamic Target Localization for Future Autonomous Counter-UAS
Daniel Gil
Program Manager
Ultra Labs

Leonidas High- Power Microwave System for Counter- Electronics Effects
Mara Motherway
Chief Growth Officer
Epirus

Counter UAS with the application of Computer Vision and AI combined with Small Arms and Robotics
Joel Anderson
CEO
ZeroMark

Unpredictable Space- Based ISR Capability
David Balser
CSO/COO
Honu Consulting LLC
 

The Hon. Alan Shaffer
NDIA ETI Distinguished Visiting Fellow
Former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for A&S
Moderator

Dr. Vic Ramdass
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Materials Readiness

Jeffrey Singleton
Director for Technology
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology
US Army

Erica Plath
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Navy- Sustainment
Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Research, Development and Acquisition

Angie Tymofichuk
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force
Logistics and Product Support

 

Matt Williams
Director, OSD Transitions SBIR/STTR Technology (OTST) Program
OSD R&E Technology Portfolio Manager

Devin Bohanan
APFIT Project Manager
U.S. Department of Defense

ML Mackey
Chair, NDIA Small Business Division and CEO and Co-Founder
Beacon Interactive Systems
Moderator
 

Artifical Intelligence and Future Analytic Tools Improve Discovery
Christopher Thomas, SES
Administrator, DoD Defense Technical Information Center (DITIC)

Yvette Jacks
Deputy Administrator
DOD Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)

Hypersonics Supply Chains: Securing the Path to the Future
Rebecca Wostenberg
Research Fellow
National Defense Industrial Association Emerging Technologies Institute

The Rapidly Expanding Need for Quantum Atomic Clocks
Dr. Judith Olson
Infleqtion

Dr. Mark Lewis
Chief Executive Officer
Purdue Applied Research Institute
Moderator
 

Kevin Sampels
Vice Chair, NDIA Logistics Division and Associate Vice President
Defense Logistics, LinQuest
Moderator

Oliver Fritz
Director for Operational Energy
Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Environment and Energy Resilience

RuthAnne Darling
Director
Operational Energy- Innovation
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense Research and Engineering

Troy Warshel
Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary
Air Force for Operational Energy

 

Dr. Kim Sablon
Principal Director for Trusted AI and Autonomy
Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering

Dr. Steven Rogers
Senior Scientist for Automatic Target Recognition and Sensor Fusion
Air Force Research Laboratory

Dr. John Long
Deputy to Navy Chief AI Officer
Office of Naval Research

Bharat Patel
Product Lead, Project Linchpin- Senors AI, PEO Intelligence Electronic Warefare Sesnors

 

Megan Milam
NDIA Policy Committee Co-Chair and Senior Vice President, Government Relations
Anduril Industries
Moderator

Dr. Amy Sunshine Smith-Carroll
Director for Surface Warfare
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment

COL Michael Rodick, USA
Chief, Operations Division
Joint Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office
 

Dr. Kim Sablon
Principal Director for Trusted AI and Autonomy
Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
Moderator

Ryan Luley
Senior Mathematician
Information Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory

Dr. Matthew Gaston
Director
SEI Artificial Intelligence Division
Carnegie Mellon University

Dr. Bruce Swett
Chief AI Architect & NG Fellow
Northrop Grumman

 

Long Life 3D Printed Silicon Anode Reserve Batteries
Yash Mirchandani
President & CEO
Myoniks

Hybrid-Electric Energy in Aviation Assets
David Friedmann
AFC, DEVCOM, AvMC, Technology Development Directorate

Enabling Autonomous, Persistent, and Resident Capabilities in Critical Maritime Environments
Reenst Lesemann
CEO
C- Power

Green Batteries for High Performance Grid Storage
Dr. Lin Xu
Postdoctoral Associate
Department of Material Sciences and Engineering, University of Maryland College Parl

Dr. Maren Leed
Independent Consultant
Moderator
 

Doug Beck
Director
Defense Innovation Unit

Paul Madera
NDIA ETI Advisory Board Member and Co- Founder
Meritech Capital Partners
Moderator

 

Jason Zander
Executive Vice President
Strategic Missions and Technologies
Microsoft Corporation
 

The Hon. Gabe Camarillo
Under Secretary of the Army

The Hon. Kristyn Jones
Performing the Duties of Under Secretary of the Air Force

The Hon. Erik Raven
Under Secretary of the Navy

The Hon. Lisa Disbrow
Former Under Secretary of the Air Force
Moderator
 

Dr. Arun Seraphin
Executive Director, NDIA Emerging Technologies Institute
 

Dr. Steve Wax
Performing the Duties of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Science and Technology
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering

 

Margie Palmieri
Deputy Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer
U.S. Department of Defense
 

Better, Faster, Cheaper
James Chew
Global Group Director
Aerospace & Defense, Cadence Design Systems
Chair, NDIA Science and Engineering Technology Division

Adaptive Engineering: A Gamechanger in the Evolution of Systems Development
LCDR Vinny DiGirolamo
USN (Ret), Independent Consultant
CITC2

Using Digital Twins for Drone Swarm Data Aggregation, Presentation, Mission Planning and Control
Dr. Dirk Reiners
University of Central Florida

Dr. Richard “Doc” Klodnicki
President and CEO
AERETI, Inc.
Moderator
 

BG Frank Lozano
Army PEO Missiles and Space

Stephen Bowdren
USMC PEO Land Systems

LTC Gabriela Arraiz
Deputy Chief Technology Officer
Joint Special Operations Command

 

Moshe Schwartz
NDIA Senior Fellow for Acquisition Policy
Moderator

Halimah Najieb-Locke
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Resilience
Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment

Ms. Danielle Miller
Director of Policy, Analysis, and Transition
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy

David Busigo
Senior Advisor
Department of Defense Office of Small Business Programs

Mr. Josh Pavluk
Director of Industry Engagement
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy

 

Jared Summers
VP, CTO - Defense Market
Logistics Management Institute
Moderator

Supersonic Mobility Aircraft to Mitigate Contested Logistics
Nathan Forbes
Boom Supersonic

Solving Contested Logistics Challenges with Energetics
John Wilkinson
Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head Division

Drift Adaptation in Contested Logistics: Rapid Convergence through Bayesian Deep Learning
Ramaswamy Srinivasan
iWorks Corporation
Chris Angelini
Radar Systems Engineer
Lockheed Martin

Code as Logistics: Transparency in Software Supply Chains
Munish Walther-Puri
Exiger
JC Herz
Senior Vice President
Exiger Cyber Supply Chain

 

A Broader View: From Tunnel Vision to Panoramas
Dr. Erik Hadland
Director of Technology Policy
Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA)
Moderator

Secure Infrastructure Platform
Mujtaba Hamid
General Manager
Silicon and ModSim Strategic Missions and Technologies, Microsoft

Making Defense Mission Modernization a Reality
Dr. Wesley Allen
Advanced Electronics Director of RF, Electronics, Cyber (R3), BAE

Operationalizing Edge Intelligence
Dr. May Casterline
Principal Solutions Architect
NVIDIA
 

Dr. Chris Miller
Author, "Chip War"
Associate Professor of International History at the Fletcher School, Tufts University  

The Honorable David L. Norquist
President & Chief Executive Officer
National Defense Industrial Association