Next March, thousands of the world’s most active, forward-thinking change makers in the technology space will gather again in Austin for South by Southwest. Do your part and cast your vote in SXSW PanelPicker to decide who gets to be on stage! 🫵🏽 This is your chance to have a say in defining the largest, most influential startup innovation event of the year. Help groundbreaking Austin innovators get the spotlight⚡️ !

Next March, thousands of the world’s most active, forward-thinking change makers in the federal & defense industry will gather once again in Austin for South by Southwest. Now is the time to cast your vote in the SXSW PanelPicker to decide who gets to be on stage! — 🫵🏽 This is your chance to have a say in defining the largest, most influential federal innovation event of the year. Help us bring influential defense leaders from around the country here to Austin!

Join Phil Chudoba, NGA’s Associate Director for Capabilities, to learn more about what’s happening with Moonshot Labs, why this space aligns with NGA’s mission imperatives, and how you can get involved in the unprecedented collaborative environment to come. — What you’ll learn What is the “moonshot” (00:33) Decision Theory & John Boyd (02:44) Differentiating capability in NGA’s portfolio (07:31) Global Giant Nervous System (09:24)

Take the next step with us as we hear from key leaders how joint solutions activate the full potential of defense innovation possibilities. — What you’ll learn Problem-driven vs capabilities-driven innovation (01:45) How each organization identifies priorities (13:55) What makes it useful to work together as a DoDx community? (21:00) Advice to startups & entrepreneurs looking to start their tactical action plan (28:00)

Sign up to be a Community Organizer for Global Entrepreneurship Week November 14th-20th and celebrate the entrepreneurs in your city in Texas while tapping into a global movement. Everything is bigger in Texas, which means we need you too! — Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) is the world’s largest collection of events, competitions, and activities in +170 countries, reaching millions of people of all ages and backgrounds. The only way it could get any bigger is to bring more TEXAS to it! Texas is a country, isn’t it?

In this session, DIU staff and other experts from across the services will share details about the Blue UAS project and how they are using this project to build a robust, trusted UAS domestic industrial base amid cyber security and global supply chain challenges. — What you’ll learn Overview of UAS, how DoD and USG Policy has changed and evolved over time, and the 5 lines of effort to rapidly prototype and scale commercial use technology (01:32)

Get an update and briefing on the returns on investment on current STRATFIs of the Air Forces big collaborative opportunities. Learn more about the upcoming opportunities and how you can take advantage of these as well. — What you’ll learn AFVentures Vision and Mission (02:01) Program Growth (02:43) What’s their ROI? (05:31) Adding Causality (07:07) Opening Up to Military Innovation Results (09:04)

In this session, companies that have participated in AAL cohorts will take the stage alongside Army leaders and PMs to talk about how the Cohort Program works, why it works, and what it will take to scale this novel approach to solution innovation across a million-person organization. — What you’ll learn What is an Army cohort?(05:22) How the Army cohort compares to other innovation experiences with the Army or in private industry? (10:01)

The mission of the Program Executive Office, Integrated Warfare Systems (PEO IWS) is to develop, deliver and sustain operationally dominant combat systems for Sailors. How? And what’s next? Join this session to learn just that and also how NESTT is adapting its model to take advantage of commercial capabilities. — What you’ll learn Who/what is PEO IWS (01:03) PEO IWS Portfolio (01:26) Digital Strategy Vision & Mission (02:53)