The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs are highly competitive, encouraging small businesses to engage in Federal Research/Research and Development (R/R&D) work with potential for commercialization SBIR/STTR conferences specialize in helping small businesses learn about participating in SBIR/STTR programs. At this Summit, representatives from all 11 federal agencies with SBIR pro...

Placing Cities First Building upon the 2016 Smart Cities Innovation Summit, we are pleased to announce our program expansion and name change to the 2017 Smart Cities Connect Conference & Expo. In partnership with US Ignite, the program will once again deliver North America's largest concentration of C-Level Smart City Leadership working towards innovative solutions for progressive city needs. Join us in Austin, Texas as we expand our commu...

Placing Cities First Building upon the 2016 Smart Cities Innovation Summit, we are pleased to announce our program expansion and name change to the 2017 Smart Cities Connect Conference & Expo. In partnership with US Ignite, the program will once again deliver North America's largest concentration of C-Level Smart City Leadership working towards innovative solutions for progressive city needs. Join us in Austin Texas as we expand our commun...

DELIVERING INNOVATION TO OUR NATIONAL DEFENSE Join global innovation, business and defense leadership as they accelerate state-of-art technology solutions in support of national security and the warfighter. The Defense Innovation Technology Acceleration Challenges brings the Nation’s largest technology prospecting program to deliver state-of-the-art solutions for National Security needs. DITAC 2016 is co-located with the 4th Annual Defen...

DELIVERING ENERGY INNOVATION TO OUR NATIONAL DEFENSE Join the stakeholders and working groups building the foundation for a new Defense Energy Center of Excellence. The summit's focus will center on this proposed initiative and how to accelerate clean energy and infrastructure solutions for the DOD. DEFENSE ENERGY CENTER OF EXCELLENCE: Featuring the national leadership developing the backing for a Defense Energy Center of Excellence. Join the...

DELIVERING INNOVATION ACCELERATING COMMERCIALIZATION Join leadership from America's largest angel investment fund, representing over $2.5B of early-state, high-risk technology funding for small business. SBIR/STTR programs are the nation's largest source of early stage / high risk R&D funding for small business. Learn how to participate and compete for funding, engage in Federal Research/Research and Development (R/R&D) and to commerci...

DELIVERING INNOVATION TO OUR NATIONAL DEFENSE ENERGY • CYBER • MEDICAL • MATERIALS • SYSTEMS Join global innovation, business and defense leadership as they accelerate state-of-art technology solutions in support of national security and the warfighter. Co-located with the Defense Energy Technology Acceleration Challenges (DITAC). The Challenges are designed to deliver state-of-art Energy, Cyber, Medical, Materials and Syst...

In support of the White House and Congressional call for innovation commercialization initiatives, the National Innovation Summit and Showcase delivers the world's largest showcase of industry-vetted emerging-technologies ready for commercialization. Don't miss as TechConnect presents the Nation's top innovations emerging from our federal technology funding programs. All showcasing innovations are vetted by our industry and investment review c...

About the Summit: Join the stakeholders and working groups building the foundation for a new Defense Energy Center of Excellence. The summit's focus will center on this proposed initiative and how to accelerate clean energy and infrastructure solutions for the DOD. Defense Energy Center of Excellence: Featuring the national leadership developing the backing for a Defense Energy Center of Excellence. Join the stakeholders and working groups de...