Schedule-at-a-Glance
The AI+ Expo will bring 20,000 leaders and luminaries across the innovation ecosystem to build pride and momentum in national technological competitiveness. Join c-suite executives, senior government officials, and top academic researchers to witness the future of AI and emerging technology, and advance our shared prosperity and security.
Angeda highlights for the AI+ Expo 2026 are below!
2026 Themes
01AI
02Energy
03Biotech
04Compute
05Finance
06Aerospace
07Robotics
08Connectivity
09Advanced Manufacturing
10AR / VR
11Defense & Security
12Mobility
13Science
14Talent
15Education
16Workforce
Expo floor experiences
Main stage
Keynotes and Panel Discussions
Senior Officials, founders, technologists and researchers discussing the latest in AI and emerging tech.
01
Interactive
Drone Competition Arena
Service members, drone enthusiasts, and the public navigate live drone obstacle courses.
02
Careers
AI+ Careers Stage
Connect with organizations leading the AI transformation.
03
Startups
Partner Special Events
Partner curated sessions in meeting rooms on the sidelines of the Expo.
04
Culture
AI+ Bookstore
Author Meet & Greets, Q/A sessions and book signings.
05
Co-located
The Exchange
The Exchange is America’s premier forum connecting innovation and national security.
06Featured Speakers
Leaders across government, industry, academia and more will continue to be announced ahead of the Expo.
Noubar Afeyan
Chairman and
Co-founder, Moderna; Founder and CEO, Flagship Pioneering
Austen Alexander
Creator, Battle Bunker;
Founder, AMA Marketing
Paul S. Atkins
Chairman, Securities and
Exchange Commission
Rye Barcott
Co-Founder and CEO,
With Honor
Gina Bennett
Director, All Secure Design
Lab, Girl Security
Lauren Buitta
Founder and CEO, Girl
Security
Sir Vince Cable
Chair, Element 2 and
eFreight 2030
Charlene Cooper
Director, CYBER.ORG
Sanmay Das
Professor, Virginia Tech
Brandon Daniels
CEO, Exiger
Sviat Dulianinov
CEO, Bright
Machines
Keith Dunbar
Founder & Chief
Executive Officer, FedLearn
Ray Eitel-Porter
Author; Founder, Lumyz
Advisory
Lindsay Ellis
Reporter, The Wall Street
Journal
Rebecca Fannin
Founder / Editor,
Silicon Dragon Ventures
Steve Feldstein
Senior Fellow, Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace
Eyck Freymann
Hoover Fellow,
Stanford University
AyseDeniz Gokcin
Pianist, Composer, and AI
Producer, Borderless Music LLC
Arun Gupta
CEO, NobleReach
Foundation
Ume Habiba
Software Engineer,
Microsoft
Ravit Jain
Founder & Host, The
Ravit Show
Kimberly Kagan
Founder and President,
Institute for the Study of War
David Kelly
Head of Government and
Regulatory Affairs, Parallel Systems
Kathleen Kennedy
Executive Director,
MIT
Sajjaad Khader
Founder, SWE
Launchpad
Sundas Khalid
Principal Analytics
Lead, Google
Alex Kotran
CEO and Co-Founder, The AI
Education Project (aiEDU)
Keith Krach
CEO, Freedom 250;
Chairman, Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy
Torsten Kroeger
Chief Science Officer,
Intrinsic
Lindy Kyzer
Vice President,
ClearanceJobs
Megan Lieu
CEO, ML Data
Lydia Logan
VP for Global Education and
Workforce Development, IBM
Katrina Manson
Reporter,
Bloomberg
Dave Marchick
Dean of Kogod School
of Business, American University
Vasileios Maroulas
Associate Vice Chancellor
and Director, AI Tennessee Initiative, University of Tennessee
Knoxville
David Marsh
Author
Patrick McHenry
Former Chairman, House
Financial Services Committee
Ed Mehr
Co-founder & CEO,
Machina Lab
Felipe Millon
Head of Government Go to
Market, OpenAI
Dr. James Moore III
Assistant Director,
NSF
Anne Neuberger
Senior Advisor, a16z;
Former Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging
Technologies
Balakrishnan (Prabha)
Prabhakaran
Director, AI Plus
Institute, University at Albany
Liz Reynolds
Professor of the Practice,
MIT
Justin Reynolds
Deputy Director
Technology Cooperation, State Department
David Sanger
Author
Alex Schildt
President,
ClearanceJobs
Brendan Schulman
Vice President of
Policy & Government Relations, Boston Dynamics
Damion Shelton
Co-Founder and Chairman,
Agility Robotics
Mohammed Soliman
Senior Fellow, Middle
East Institute
Keith Sonderling
Deputy Secretary of
Labor, U.S. Department of Labor
Nicholas Thompson
CEO, The
Atlantic
Mac Thornberry
Board of Advisors,
SCSP
Olivia Trusty
Commissioner, Federal
Communications Commission
Miriam Vogel
President & CEO,
EqualAI
Eric Xing
President and
University Professor, Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial
Intelligence
Agenda highlights
May 6 – 9, 2026 · Walter E. Washington Convention Center
WednesdayMay 6
ThursdayMay 7
FridayMay 8
SaturdayMay 9
8:30 am – 4:00 pm
Early badge pickup | Room 155
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Partner special events
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
The China Challenge: The View from Taiwan
Room 151AB
10:30 – 11:45 am
Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Room 150B
10:30 – 11:45 am
Fusion Industry Association
Room 152A
10:30 – 11:30 am
Fathom Consulting
Room 150A
12:30 – 1:30 pm
ClearanceJobs
Room 150A
2:30 – 3:30 pm
Center for Maritime Strategy
Room 150A
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Registration / Expo floor open
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Stage programming
10:00 – 10:25 am
AI+ Careers: Alex Schildt, Clearance Jobs
Careers Stage
10:30 – 10:45 am
Keynote: FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty
South Stage
10:30 – 10:55 am
AI+ Careers: Keith Sonderling, Deputy Secretary of Labor
Careers Stage
10:35 – 11:00 am
Fireside: The Case for American Optimism
Central Stage
10:50 – 11:20 am
Panel: Strengthening the U.S. Bioeconomy
South Stage
11:00 – 11:15 am
Boston Dynamics: Spot: The AI-Powered Robot Dog
Demo Stage
11:05 – 11:30 am
A New Domain of Warfare: Supply Chains, AI and the Fight for Economic Dominance, Exiger
Central Stage
11:05 – 11:35 am
Panel: Turbocharging America’s Industrial Comeback
Central Stage
11:25 – 11:40 am
Parallel Systems: Activating the Autonomous Rail Network
Demo Stage
11:50 – 12:05 pm
Windward AI
Demo Stage
12:30 – 12:55 pm
AI+ Careers: Felipe Millon, OpenAI
Careers Stage
12:35 – 12:50 pm
Anthropic
Demo Stage
12:55 – 1:10 pm
Nvidia
Demo Stage
1:00 – 2:00 pm
David Sanger on “New Cold Wars”
Bookstore
1:05 – 1:35 pm
Panel: Robotics and the AI Era
South Stage
1:55 – 2:25 pm
Panel: The Next 250 Years: Technology, Strategy, and American Progress
Central Stage
3:10 – 3:25 pm
Perplexity
Demo Stage
Partner special events
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Africa AI Village
Room 151AB
10:30 – 11:30 am
Center for European Policy Analysis
Room 150B
10:30 – 11:30 am
Council on Global Competition and Innovation
Room 152B
10:30 – 11:30 am
The Chertoff Group
Room 152A
10:30 – 11:30 am
XR Association
Room 150A
12:30 – 1:30 pm
Atlantic Council
Room 152B
2:30 – 3:30 pm
EqualAI
Room 150A
2:30 – 3:45 pm
Institute for Security & Technology
Room 150B
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Registration / Expo floor open
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Stage programming
11:05 – 11:20 am
Keynote: SEC Chairman Paul S. Atkins
Central Stage
11:05 – 11:20 am
Keynote: The Next Wave of Drug Discovery
South Stage
11:25 – 11:40 am
OpenAI
Demo Stage
11:25 – 11:55 am
Technology and Innovation in American Markets
South Stage
11:25 – 11:55 am
Panel: Financing the Next American Century
South Stage
11:30 – 11:55 am
AI+ Careers: Lydia Logan, IBM
Careers Stage
12:00 – 12:25 pm
Fireside: The Future of Embodied AI
Central Stage
12:00 – 12:25 pm
Fireside: AI, Industry, and the American Dream
South Stage
1:10 – 1:25 pm
Boston Dynamics: Spot: The AI-Powered Robot Dog
Demo Stage
2:05 – 2:30 pm
Fireside: Powering the Next American Century
Central Stage
2:45 – 3:10 pm
Fireside: Technology and the Golden Age of America
South Stage
3:00 – 3:15 pm
Colossal Biosciences: De-Extinction, AI, and the Future of Conservation
Demo Stage
3:00 – 3:25 pm
AI+ Careers: Ambassador Kristjan Prikk, Estonia
Careers Stage
3:00 – 4:00 pm
Katrina Manson on “Project Maven”
Bookstore
Partner special events
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
The U.S.-India AI and Emerging Technology Forum
Room 151AB
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Innovation Under Fire: Lessons Learned from Ukraine
Room 154AB
10:30 – 11:30 am
Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
Room 150A
11:00 – 11:45 am
Gallup
Room 150B
2:30 – 3:30 pm
Copyright Alliance
Room 150A
9:30 am – 4:00 pm
Registration / Expo floor open
10:30 am – 3:00 pm
Programming sessions
Educational Workshops
10:30 – 11:45 am
Learning Journey AI: Building Applications with AI Coding Agents
Room 101
11:00 – 11:45 am
Virginia Tech: You Can be a Game Changineer
Room 102A
11:00 – 11:45 am
IBM: From Anxiety to Agency: Equipping Faculty to Teach Responsible AI with Confidence
Room 102B
11:00 – 11:45 am
MIT: Building with AI: A Practical, Human-in-the-Loop Workshop
Room 103B
12:00 – 12:45 pm
CodeVA: K-12 Learning in the Age of AI
Room 102A
12:00 – 12:45 pm
Coursera: Interactive Session: Building AI Readiness from a Place of Confidence
Room 103B
1:00 – 1:45 pm
Princeton University: When Robots Disappear – Drones and Haptic Illusions in Virtual Reality
Room 102A
1:15 – 2:00 pm
Workshop: Cyber.org: Building an AI-Ready Workforce Through K-12 Education
Room 103B
Featured stage programming
10:30 – 10:50 am
Interview: Austen Alexander from Battle Bunker
South Stage
11:00 – 11:25 am
Inside the Genesis Mission with Under Secretary Darío Gil
South Stage
11:00 – 12:00 pm
David Marsh on “Can Europe Survive?”
Bookstore
11:30 – 11:55 am
Rewriting Education with AI Humanoids
Demo Stage
11:30 – 12:00 pm
Interview: Sundas Khalid and Megan Lieu on How AI is Transforming Careers
South Stage
12:00 – 1:00 pm
Rt Hon. Sir Vince Cable on “Eclipsing the West”
Bookstore
12:05 – 12:25 pm
Keynote: Dr. Eric Xing, President, MBZUAI
South Stage
12:30 – 12:50 pm
Interview: Ume Habiba on Navigating Tech as an Early Career Professional
South Stage
1:15 – 1:35 pm
PianoPal, Presented by AyseDeniz Gokcin
Demo Stage
1:30 – 1:50 pm
Presentation: Sajjaad Khader on Breaking into Tech in 2026
South Stage
1:30 – 1:55 pm
AI+ Careers: Department of State National Foreign Affairs Training Center
Careers Stage
12:00 – 12:20 pm
Tech Talk: How to Sound Smart about Quantum Technologies
Demo Stage
12:25 – 12:45 pm
Watts Up: What AI, Data Centers, and Energy Mean for Your Future
Demo Stage
MAY 7 – 9, 2026
The race is on. America is built to finish first.
The decisions made in the coming years will shape geopolitics and technology for decades. This is where those conversations happen.