There's a lot happening across the defense innovation ecosystem. But there's only one event that brings entrepreneurs, government, and industry together in one place to bridge the Valley of Death between commercial technology and DoD programs.

DESCRIPTION As women navigate the path of higher management positions, they are challenged to proactively manage their growth and development to prepare for the leadership roles they desire. ACT-IAC is planning a forum that will bring together a diverse mix of successful women leaders, who will provide an understanding of the steps they have taken to climb the corporate ladder to a successful leadership position. It is the intent of this forum...

May 12-13, 2021 | Mary M. Gates Learning Center, Alexandria, VA The 20th Biannual DoD/VA & Government HIT Summit was designed as a “Town Hall” full spectrum view towards the DoD, VA, and Federal’s efforts to provide Veterans a secure, interoperable and connected health IT ecosystem. This Summit will examine current initiatives being implemented across the DoD & VA to focus on the needs of Veterans’ & active...

April 14-15, 2021 | National Harbor, MD DSI’s Assured Positioning, Navigation, & Timing (PNT) Summit will bring together members of the Military Services, DoD, Federal Government, Industry & Academia in a ‘Town-Hall’ style forum to discuss how important GPS & space based PNT systems are to the overall resilience of the Warfighter as well as critical infrastructure across the United States & abroad. This event...

December 8-9, 2020 | Mary M. Gates Learning Center, Alexandria, VA DSI’s 2nd Annual Digital Forensics for National Security Symposium will once again bring together members of the Federal Government Agencies, DoD, US Military Services, & Industry in a ‘town-hall’ style forum to examine how advances in Digital Forensics, sometimes called ‘Computer Forensics’, are transforming the way investigations into digital...

The United States transitioned from just a recurring flu season to a full pandemic with the infiltration of the Corona Virus. This pandemic caused the healthcare system to turn upside down and develop new pathways, processes, and techniques for not only tending to and treating the COVID patients, but also treating the general populations with the daily medical and surgical conditions. So many changes occurred in the healthcare system in a very...

Emerging Technologies, whether mobile/5G, artificial intelligence/machine learning, blockchain, Quantum Robotics, and many others are evolving at a faster pace than ever with government and industry. The technologies can be new or existing where the latter new capabilities are being developed and where both will change status quo and provide unrealized social and economic benefits. These technologies provide enhanced connectivity regardless of...

November 4th-5th, 2020 | Mary M. Gates Learning Center, Alexandria, VA DSI’s 7th Annual Identity Management Symposium will provide a town-hall type forum focused on innovative identity technologies and capabilities that are helping to further develop identity and access management used by the DoD, DHS, Law Enforcement, and Federal Government. This Symposium will detail the various efforts underway by these agencies to leverage biometrics...

To protect the health and safety of attendees, this event has been rescheduled due to COVID-19 concerns. New Dates: 10/12-10/13/2020 The 6th annual Future Armoured Vehicles Central and Eastern Europe conference returns to Prague, Czech Republic on the 18th and 19th May 2020. With regional nations overhauling their legacy equipment to bring their combat vehicles in line with current allied capabilities, Future Armoured Vehicles Central and East...

September 29th-30th, 2020 | Mary M. Gates Learning Center, Alexandria, VA The 2020 Autonomous Capabilities for DoD Summit will provide a ‘town-hall’ style forum to discuss the advanced capabilities that AI-enabled autonomous systems and machine learning provide to the Warfighter in the battlespace, and how these emerging technologies are bolstering current and future DoD efforts to achieve mission impact at scale. The Summit will f...