About this Event
Location: Kennedy Caucus Room (SR-325)
Description:
Forging the Future will highlight the renewed focus on revitalizing the U.S. industrial base through innovation.
Founders, investors, and thought leaders from the defense and energy sectors will share insights from their experiences as entrepreneurs, military veterans, and policymakers.
With the Capitol as our backdrop, Forging the Future will provide congressional staff and industry stakeholders with new ideas on how to accelerate American reindustrialization.
Agenda
🕑: 11:30 AM
Welcome & Registration
🕑: 12:00 PM
Keynote: Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) (Chair, Senate Small Business Committee)
🕑: 12:20 PM
Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) (Chair, SASC Cybersecurity Subcommittee)
🕑: 12:30 PM
Panel 1 – Rebuilding the Arsenal of Democracy
Info: Jacob Becraft (CEO, Strand Therapeutics), Ben Kohlmann (Advisor, New American Industrial Alliance), Dan Magy (CEO, Firestorm Labs), Adam Warmoth (CEO, Chariot Defense), Moderator: Nate Walton (Principal, Sachem Strategies)
🕑: 01:15 PM
Rep. Pat Ryan (D-NY) (Co-Chair, House Defense Modernization Caucus)
🕑: 01:50 PM
Panel 2 – Defense Reindustrialization: Challenges and Opportunities
Info: Ryan Evans (CEO, War on the Rocks), Pete Modigliani (Senior Advisor, Govini), Madeline Zimmerman (Defense Business Development, Palantir), Jerry McGinn (Executive Director, George Mason Center for Govt. Contracting), Moderator: Amanda Bresler (Chief Strategy Officer, PW Communications)
🕑: 02:45 PM
Fireside Chat – Fueling a Nuclear Renaissance
Info: Lauren Hughes (Deputy Director of the Nuclear Energy Policy Initiative, Atlantic Council), Kurt Terrani (CEO, Standard Nuclear), Moderator: Thomas Hendrix (Managing Partner, Decisive Point)
🕑: 03:20 PM
Concluding Remarks
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Russell Senate Office Building, 2 Constitution Avenue Northeast, Washington, United States
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