Your conference experience begins at Registration! Visit the Registration Desk on the second floor of the convention center to collect your name badge and conference materials.

Registration Mixer

1730 - 1900  |  Tampa Convention Center: East, Central & West Hall

Kick off the conference by picking up your badge, reconnecting with colleagues, and getting your first look at the Exhibit Hall before conference sessions begin. Explore the latest technologies, meet exhibiting organizations, and start building connections in a relaxed setting to make the most of the days ahead.

Your conference experience begins at Registration! Visit the Registration Desk on the second floor of the convention center to collect your name badge and conference materials.

Fuel your morning with a fresh cup of coffee! Visit Carahsoft Booth 505 for specialty espresso beverages from the Café Ala Carte Espresso Bar, and XMS Solutions Booth 1005 for premium coffee at their Signature Coffee Bar.

Thank You to Our Morning Break Sponsors:

IC CIO Panel

Panel Moderator:
Mr. Douglas O. Cossa, Intelligence Community Chief Information Officer

Panel Members:
Mr. Edacheril “E.P.” Mathew, Chief Information Officer, Defense Intelligence Agency
Mr. Mark Chatelain, Chief Information Officer, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Mr. Roger S. Greenwell, Director, Enterprise Integration and Innovation and Chief Information Officer, Defense Information Systems Agency
Mr. Colin Hankey, Chief Information Officer, and Director of the Technology and Innovation Office, Bureau of Intelligence and Research and the Intelligence Chief Information Officer, Department of State

Attendees must register in advance to attend the lunch and learns. (Limited seats)

Agentic AI for the Analyst: From LLMs to Multi-Agent Systems

Agentic AI is rapidly evolving from simple large language models (LLMs) into intelligent, multi-agent systems that can reason, plan, and act on behalf of analysts. This session will showcase Microsoft Scout and Work IQ as examples of this shift—demonstrating how AI can function as a personal analytic assistant that automates research, synthesizes insights across disparate data sources, and proactively supports mission workflows. We will also highlight the underlying infrastructure and compute required to operationalize these capabilities at scale, and how these advancements are fundamentally transforming analyst productivity, decision velocity, and mission impact across the Intelligence Community.

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Coffee Talk

To Catch a Predator (Shahed): An OSINT-Based Iranian Drone Investigation in 15 Minutes

The session will demonstrate how Tangles can leverage social media and open-source intelligence to identify Iranian drone production, track launch sites, and assess impact zones in a short, end-to-end investigation.

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Attendees must register in advance to attend the lunch and learns. (Limited seats)

From Fragmented Workflows to the Autonomous Enterprise

Defense and intelligence agencies face a persistent challenge: connecting acquisition workflows, financial systems, and purchase orders across fragmented enterprise environments without compromising security, control, or mission readiness. Disconnected platforms and manual handoffs make it difficult to achieve the visibility, speed, and coordination needed to support operations at scale.

In this 20-minute lunch-and-learn product demo, we show how the SAP Autonomous Suite—powered by agentic AI on SAP S/4HANA Cloud—will help address these challenges while keeping human oversight at the forefront. Attendees will see how SAP solutions integrates across platforms in a secure environment to unify acquisition, finance, and operational workflows, enabling more intelligent, responsive, and mission-aligned operations. The SAP Autonomous Suite will show how to run these critical business processes autonomously with AI.

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Immediately Following

Coffee Talk

Commercial Hyperspectral Imaging: Revealing the Unseen

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Attendees must register in advance to attend the lunch and learns. (Limited seats)

Building Custom AI Agents with Gemini Enterprise

Go beyond question and answer prompts and leverage generative AI for complex workflows on demand. This session explores the practical application of Gemini Enterprise Agent Designer on GenAI.mil, a low-code environment that empowers military and civilian personnel to build and deploy custom AI agents.

Attendees will learn the step-by-step process of configuring a specialized agent, from grounding it in agency-specific policy documentation to setting up iterative reasoning pathways. We will showcase live, practical use cases applicable across the Department of War and Intelligence Community. Discover how to transition from manual prompting to custom, agentic automation that operates at the speed of mission requirements.

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Coffee Talk

Preparing for Your Crypto Transition

The next crypto transition is approaching, bringing new challenges for mission-critical organizations. Join Viasat for a discussion on how organizations can prepare for evolving security requirements, reduce transition complexity, and maintain mission continuity while planning for the future of secure communications.

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Attendees must register in advance to attend the lunch and learns. (Limited seats)

From AI Chaos to AI Control: Governing Agentic AI at Enterprise Scale

Every enterprise is deploying AI. Very few can tell you with confidence what AI they’re running, who owns it, whether it’s compliant, and whether it’s delivering value. That gap between AI deployment and AI control is the defining operational challenge of the agentic era.

This session introduces AI Control Tower as the governance layer that closes that gap. We’ll cover how organizations are using it to automatically discover AI assets across their estate, manage risk and compliance through the full AI lifecycle, monitor agent behavior in production, and connect usage to measurable business outcomes.

The framing is practical, not theoretical: what breaks without governance, what good looks like, and what it takes to get there. You’ll leave with a clear mental model for operationalizing AI governance at your organization and a concrete understanding of where most enterprises have blind spots.

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Coffee Talk

You Can't Find What You Don't Keep: Mission Intelligence with Full-Fidelity Data

Modern intelligence operations depend on the ability to discover, correlate, and act on information hidden within massive volumes of data. Yet many organizations are forced to limit retention, reduce fidelity, or accept lengthy processing times that can delay mission-critical decisions.

In this Coffee Talk, Tom Hofmann, Vice President of Ocient National Security Solutions (ONSS), will discuss how intelligence organizations can retain and analyze full-fidelity data at scale while accelerating access to actionable insights. Attendees will learn how OcientAIQ™ enables analysts to correlate information across cyber, geospatial, communications, and operational datasets, uncover hidden connections, and support faster decision-making across complex mission environments.

Through real-world mission examples, Tom will demonstrate how modern data architectures can help intelligence teams move beyond data overload and transform massive datasets into operational advantage.

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Panel Moderator:
Mr. Martin Kindl, Deputy Director for Global Integration, Defense Intelligence Agency

Panel Members:
Mr. Angel Rodriguez, Vice Deputy Director for Analysis, Defense Intelligence Agency
Mr. Stephen "Shayne" Grubbs, Chief, Office of Mission Integration, Defense Intelligence Agency
Mr. Don Leon, Chief Financial Officer, Defense Intelligence Agency
Mr. Sean Tytler, Vice Deputy Director, Directorate for Science and Technology, Defense Intelligence Agency
Ms. Coleen Kalina, Deputy Director for Mission Services, Defense Intelligence Agency

It's time for an Afternoon Boost Break! Recharge with a sweet treat and connect with exhibitors throughout the exhibit hall.

Sweet Treats – Booth 505, compliments of Carahsoft
Ice Cream Sundae Bar – Center Aisle, compliments of KBR

Thank You to Our Afternoon Break Sponsors:

Bright Ideas. Meaningful Connections.

Continue the conversations at our Evening Networking Socials, where innovation meets connection as the sun sets over Tampa Bay.

1700 - 1900  |  Tampa Marriott Water Street

Amazon Web Services - Grand Ballroom, Salons A-D
Everfox - Grand Ballroom, Salon E
Optiv+ClearShark - Grand Ballroom, Salon F

Thank You to our Social Hosts

Your conference experience begins at Registration! Visit the Registration Desk on the second floor of the convention center to collect your name badge and conference materials.

Take a mid-morning break and enjoy a fresh bagel. Visit Carahsoft Booth 505 for a Bagel Bar featuring a selection of freshly prepared bagels and spreads.

Thank You to Our Morning Break Sponsor:

Attendees must register in advance to attend the lunch and learns. (Limited seats)

Ethernet Data Encryption: Resilient, High-Performance Networks for Battlespace Lethality

What does it take to move classified data at high speeds without compromise? A modernized, connected and resilient enterprise network demands secure communications that don't force a tradeoff between throughput and High Assurance protection — especially across high-performance, mission-critical networks.

This session introduces the TACLANE E-Series, a next-generation High Assurance Ethernet Data Encryption platform and the fastest, most capable solution available today. Delivering unmatched throughput up to 800 Gb/s Full-Duplex, this industry-leading capability shatters the performance limitations of legacy approaches, providing the low-latency, high-throughput performance that warfighters and intelligence systems demand. TACLANE E-Series stands apart as the most secure EDE solution on the market — setting a standard nothing fielded today can match.

Whether you're architecting classified infrastructure, evaluating backbone encryption, or advising on network security strategy, this session will equip you with a clear understanding of EDE capabilities and how to position solutions for cloud and data center environments.

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Coffee Talk

From Persistent Monitoring to Predictive Intelligence: Automating the Path from Observation to Decision

Modern intelligence missions demand more than collecting imagery—they require the ability to detect meaningful change, identify emerging threats, and deliver decision-ready intelligence at mission speed. As the volume of data and diversity of sensors continue to grow, defense and intelligence organizations need automated workflows that help analysts spend less time managing data and more time making informed decisions.

This session explores how persistent monitoring, automated multi-sensor collection, and AI-powered analytics enable organizations to move from reactive observation to predictive intelligence. Attendees will learn how integrating multi-domain data sources can accelerate indications and warning, reduce analyst workload, and strengthen operational decision-making across mission-critical areas of interest.

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Attendees must register in advance to attend the lunch and learns. (Limited seats)

The Cost of Missing the Signal: How Mission-Configured AI Turns Fragmented Data into Decisive Intelligence

This session explores how mission-configured AI workflows can help intelligence teams transform disparate information into a coherent operational picture aligned with commander’s intent. Attendees will learn how customizable AI agents can accelerate the intelligence cycle by connecting data across sources, supporting PIR and CCIR management, streamlining analysis, and reducing the time required to produce finished intelligence. Through real-world operational examples, we'll examine how human-centered AI enhances analyst effectiveness, improves decision quality, and enables intelligence organizations to move from reactive reporting to proactive mission support without sacrificing governance, security, or operator control.

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Coffee Talk

Executive Order 14412 & The Road To Post Quantum Cybersecurity

Join us for a 15 minute coffee chat as we unpack Executive Order 14412, Securing the Nation Against Advanced Cryptographic Attacks, and the Department of War's Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) strategy. We'll highlight the five most significant takeaways, including the accelerated adoption of NIST approved PQC, federal migration deadlines, expanding contractor expectations, and efforts to streamline FIPS validation and deployment. We'll also discuss how PQC is becoming a strategic cybersecurity priority that is shaping procurement, compliance, and enterprise risk management. Finally, we'll walk through a practical three step migration framework to help organizations assess cryptographic risk, prepare for modernization, and align with the federal government's transition to quantum resilient security.

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Attendees must register in advance to attend the lunch and learns. (Limited seats)

Relieving the DevOps Bottleneck: Next-Gen Compliance Automation for Federal Missions

Federal compliance and Authority to Operate (ATO) processes are notoriously complex and time-consuming. Join Accenture at DoDIIS Worldwide for an exclusive Lunch & Learn where we will demo our Continuous Operational Risk Evaluation (CORE) solution, powered by Kovr.ai.

Discover how this GenAI-driven compliance automation platform is transforming federal missions by accelerating ATO package development. During our live demo, you'll see how CORE integrates seamlessly with your DevOps pipeline—including GitHub, Jenkins, and eMASS —to provide 15-minute gap assessments and real-time compliance tracking. Learn how your agency can achieve up to 75% faster compliance and an 80% reduction in complexity, allowing you to redeploy top talent to strategic initiatives. Grab some lunch and see the future of automated risk management in action!

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Attendees must register in advance to attend the lunch and learns. (Limited seats)

From Fragmented to Fused: Making Intelligence Intelligent for the Warfighter

Artificial intelligence is reshaping how intelligence organizations process information, identify patterns, and support decision-making. But realizing its full potential requires more than deploying models—it requires a trusted foundation that connects data, people, and workflows across the mission.

What does it take to turn AI from a promising technology into a trusted mission teammate?

Join SAIC's Chief Data Scientist, Jay Meil, for a discussion and demonstration of how mission-focused AI can help agencies move beyond isolated tools to operational outcomes. Explore how advances in data integration, semantic reasoning, orchestration, and human-machine teaming are enabling analysts and operators to rapidly transform vast amounts of information into actionable insight.

Today's battlefield is shifting faster than ever, demanding trusted AI ecosystems that help analysts work more effectively, accelerate mission workflows, and deliver transparent, explainable insights when speed, accuracy, and confidence matter most.

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Small Business and NeedipeDIA are teaming up to provide attendees an introduction to DIA, providing small businesses information on interacting with DIA, an overview of DIA's small business goals, how to do business with DIA (the basics), where to find opportunities, lessons learned, agency needs and NeedipeDIA's whitepaper process for businesses of all sizes.

Focus: Innovation

This briefing will provide an overview of the Department of War Counterdrug (CD) Program and its support to the Narco-terrorism mission. DIA will describe what DoW does and does NOT do in the counterdrug mission, identify the DoW components that provide direct and indirect support to the CD mission, explain how DoW supports US and Foreign Law Enforcement agencies, and the critical role counter threat finance supports plays in the CD mission.

Digital Modernization Accelerator (DMA) is building comprehensive data orchestration capability to transform DIA's enterprise data into AI-ready states enabling machine learning at scale across all intelligence disciplines. Our approach addresses the full data lifecycle through efficient discovery of disparate data sources across all classification domains, standardized metadata tagging and lineage tracking, quality assessment and remediation pipelines, and secure cross-domain data movement. We are implementing modern data platforms selecting and consolidating shareable data from source systems into unified EDW/datalakes with tiered data security zones supporting operational systems and AI/ML workloads. Central to our strategy is the ITSPCS framework (Identify, Tag, Store, Protect, Clean, Share) establishing repeatable processes for curating mission-critical datasets into golden data products meeting accuracy thresholds required for AI tools, models, and user consumption. DMA designs, builds, operates, and delivers these AI-ready data products at scale, leveraging AI tools for efficient data transformation and migration. We seek insights from industry, academia, DoW/IC partners, and FVEY/coalition partners on proven data orchestration architectures, automated quality remediation techniques, and advanced data models that accelerate transformation from fragmented data landscapes to AI-ready enterprises.

Focus: AI/ML/Data

This brief explores the integration of Military Constructions (MILCON) projects through the interconnected perspective of facilities management, security protocols, and information technology (IT) infrastructure. MILCON, as defined by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), involves planning, design, construction, and sustainment of military facilities to support operational readiness. Effective integration ensures that new or renovated installations are resilient, secure, and technologically advanced. Drawing from DoD guidelines (e.g. Unified Facilities Criteria (UFC) and DoD Instruction 8510.01 for risk management), this brief highlights synergies, challenges, and best practices. Integrating MILCON through facilities, security, and IT lenses is essential for building future-proof military installations that enhance deterrence and readiness. By fostering collaboration, the DoD can achieve cost savings, improved security postures, and technological superiority.

Take a mid-afternoon break and refuel with refreshing treats. Visit Carahsoft Booth 505 for Trail Mix, stop by XMS Solutions Booth 1005 for a Gourmet Juice & Infused Water Bar, and cool off with Ice Cream Bars at Peraton Booth 1319.

Thank You to Our Afternoon Break Sponsors:

Spark New Connections at Carahsoft's Networking Social

Wrap up your day and join Carahsoft from 1700 - 1930 in the Grand Ballroom at the Tampa Marriott Water Street hotel. It's the perfect opportunity to continue conversations, make new connections, and unwind after a full day of the conference.

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Set sail after a full day of conference sessions and join fellow attendees for an evening of networking, refreshments, and Tampa's legendary Gasparilla spirit. Gather your crew and chart a course to one of the city's favorite waterfront destinations.

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Enterprise Architecture (EA) and standards provide the blueprints and guardrails to increase integration, interoperability, and efficiency. IC Chief Information Officer is modernizing EA development, compliance assessments, and technical specification development with a focus on actionable and usable outputs. Gone are the days of 100-plus page PDFs with the shift to model-driven EA. The goal is to focus on the top IT challenge areas and build decision-support artifacts centered on community requirements, required data interfaces, and increasing interoperability. Furthermore, IC IT programs will be held accountable for compliance with the EA throughout the lifecycle from concept to operations & maintenance. Compliance is no longer a paper-drill but instead directly driven by community requirements to increase efficiencies and align with spend plans. IC technical specifications are going through a complete overhaul by listening to the demands of the community to move away from dictating specific formats, and focusing on usability and consistency. Our initial focus areas include Human Capital Management, DevSecOps, and Workplace Productivity and Collaboration, ensuring alignment across the community to increase efficiencies, enable interoperability, and better manage spending across the community.

Focus: Data

Supply chain security has increasingly attracted attention in the last few years. Economic competition has highlighted U.S. reliance on foreign components and upstream materials. Cyberactors have also increasingly targeted companies impacting the defense industrial base. This session intends to provide attendees with an understanding of supply chain risk management from underlying threats to implementing mitigation. This session will provide a discussion on the threat vectors that foreign adversaries us to access the supply chains of the DoW and defense industrial base, security best practices to protect your company and information, and how the DoW looks at mitigations and risk management.

Enterprise Architecture (EA) and standards provide the blueprints and guardrails to increase integration, interoperability, and efficiency. IC Chief Information Officer is modernizing EA development, compliance assessments, and technical specification development with a focus on actionable and usable outputs. Gone are the days of 100-plus page PDFs with the shift to model-driven EA. The goal is to focus on the top IT challenge areas and build decision-support artifacts centered on community requirements, required data interfaces, and increasing interoperability. Furthermore, IC IT programs will be held accountable for compliance with the EA throughout the lifecycle from concept to operations & maintenance. Compliance is no longer a paper-drill but instead directly driven by community requirements to increase efficiencies and align with spend plans. IC technical specifications are going through a complete overhaul by listening to the demands of the community to move away from dictating specific formats, and focusing on usability and consistency. Our initial focus areas include Human Capital Management, DevSecOps, and Workplace Productivity and Collaboration, ensuring alignment across the community to increase efficiencies, enable interoperability, and better manage spending across the community.

Focus: Data

Attendees must register in advance to attend the lunch and learns. (Limited seats)

Turning Defense Workforce Data into Mission Readiness

Managing the nation’s defense workforce across commands has reached a critical inflection point. While the Department of War successfully collects massive amounts of data, legacy mindsets and endless software customizations create paralyzing data silos. This technical debt severely compromises military readiness and slows decision-making for nearly 3 million employees.

This presentation examines how a unified enterprise AI platform engineered for government brings together operations, people, and finance data to ensure warfighters are equipped and deployed in the right place at the right time. Using a secure data cloud, agencies can blend internal records with external sources to maintain an operationally ready environment. Next-generation AI ingests unstructured data, such as project histories, missions, and languages, to build dynamic skills inventories, allowing commanders to instantly recognize talent. Operating within rationalized frameworks and strict "lawful AI" security structures, this approach turns dormant data into decisive mission readiness.

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Attendees must register in advance to attend the lunch and learns. (Limited seats)

From Visibility to Mission Impact

In today’s threat environment, visibility is no longer a technical capability—it is a mission prerequisite. Across federal organization, teams continue to invest in new tools and programs, yet many still lack a complete and authoritative understanding of what exists across their environments. Without this clarity, cyber risk cannot be accurately measured, prioritized, or reduced.

This session explores the “visibility plateau” and why many organizations struggle to translate awareness into measurable outcomes. Attendees will examine how leading agencies are evolving from fragmented data collection to integrated asset intelligence—where signals from across security, IT, and compliance systems are correlated into a unified operational picture.

Participants will gain insight into how synthesizing asset data improves prioritization, enables automation, and drives faster, more informed decision-making—ultimately bridging the gap between visibility and mission impact.

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Panelists:
Major General Robert Kinney, Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, Defense Intelligence Agency
Dr. Michelle Aten, Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Ms. Katie Noyes, Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, Federal Bureau of Investigation