Power Breakfast: Doing Business with the DIU

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At our recent Washington Technology Power Breakfast on Doing Business with DIU, we dove into how DIU operates and what it is looking for from industry partners. This included high level briefings from DIU executives who shared the various tools and mechanisms that they use to get powerful new technologies into the hands of the warfighter.

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7:45 AM	Registration, Breakfast & Networking
8:30 AM	Welcome and Opening Remarks Nick Wakeman, Editor-in-Chief, Washington Technology
8:35 AM	Keynote Address Mike Madsen, Deputy Director, DIU Gregory Coleman, Principal, National Security Innovation Capital
9:05 AM	Artificial Intelligence: How Cutting Edge Technologies Go From Prototype To Product Jaime Fitzgibbon, AI Program Manager, DIU Brian Drake, Federal Chief Technology Officer, Accrete.AI Kiley Naas, Chief of Operations, SineWave Ventures
9:35 AM	Innovation by the Numbers Susan Rose, Senior Director of Insights and Content for GovExec's Government Business Council, will dive into how the Defense Department drives innovation. Using GovTribe data and original research, this session will focus on spending and and budget trends from several DOD innovation centers. Susan Rose, Senior Director of Insights and Content, GovExec Paige Elmore, Head of Customer Success, GovTribe
9:50 AM	Making Change: How DOD Partners Leverage Commercial Technology Army Lt. Col. Amanda Love, Joint Program Manager for the Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense Luis Velazquez, CTO, US Systems Command, USMC William McHenry, Senior Advisor to the Director of the Defense Innovation Unit, DIU
10:20 AM	Closing Remarks Nick Wakeman, Editor-in-Chief, Washington Technology