9th SOF & Worldwide Operations Symposium

Defense Strategies Institute’s 9th Annual SOF and Worldwide Operations Symposium provides members within the Special Operations community, regional combatant commands, Department of State, U.S AID, academia, industry, and other critical partners an open ‘Town Hall’ forum that serves as a conduit for information exchange, idea generation, and open dialogue in order to support strategic priorities and operational needs required to meet national goals.

This cross sector Symposium will serve as a catalyst for collaboration and the interchange of knowledge and ideas across the Special Operations community, leaders of regional combatant commands, The Department of State and U.S. AID, the Intelligence Community, academia, and industry.

This ‘Town Hall’ open forum will focus on strategic and operational capabilities for recalibrating and expanding the utility of SOF in pursuit of gaining decisive competitive advantage against peer / near peer competitors that supports our National Defense Strategy.

It will delve into areas of innovations such as applying AI / ML and advanced data driven capabilities across the SOF spectrum for improving capabilities to gain influence and narrative control in the Information Space to supporting recruitment and training.

Equally important will be the focus on efforts to strengthen a Whole of Government strategic and operational approach to fostering stability through increasing local and nation partners’ abilities for development and resilience.

By facilitating two days of structured content in an open ‘Town Hall’ type forum, the Symposium will provide the SOF community and stakeholders an opportunity to engage in information exchange, inform industry of important initiatives and gain feedback to best support the US Government’s mission and goals, and to generate collaboration across expertise to support the SOF community.