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08:30
  1. Welcome address
    Keynote Stage
    15 mins

     

     

08:45
  1. DOD Keynote: Defense acquisition and industrial Strategy
    Keynote Stage
    30 mins
09:15
  1. COCOMS Keynote: Near-term capability requirements statements
    Keynote Stage
    45 mins
10:00
  1. DIU: DIU 3.0 and commercial technology exploitation at speed of need
    Keynote Stage
    45 mins
10:45
  1. Navigating blockers to adoption of dual-use technology for near term requirements
    Insights Stage
    45 mins
  2. Insights Stage
    165 mins

    DUAL-USE TECH | ITAR | VENTURE CAPITAL | RDER | VALLEYS OF DEATH

    PANEL AND Q&A | COMMERCIAL SECTOR INSIGHTS | IN CONVERSATION | OPEN MIC SESSION

  3. Sandbox Stage
    165 mins

    MOSA | INNOVATION | ATTRITABLE SYSTEMS | CCDD | EW

    SANDBOX SPRINTS | IDEATION SESSION | PANEL AND Q&A | LUNCHTIME WARGAME LIVE

  4. Discovery Stage
    165 mins

    TRUSTED AI & AUTONOMY | ADVANCED COMPUTING & SOFTWARE

  5. Targeted Briefings
    165 mins

    Intimate, closed-door sessions that tackle complex problems in a collaborative setting.

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11:40
  1. Traversing the valleys of death – DoD transition stories
    Insights Stage
    50 mins
12:00
  1. Venture capital and private investor viewpoints
    Insights Stage
    40 mins
13:30
  1. Networking Lunch
    30 mins
14:30
  1. Insight Stage
    135 mins

    DUAL-USE TECH | ITAR | VENTURE CAPITAL | RDER | VALLEYS OF DEATH

    BRIEFINGS | INTERNATIONAL SHOWCASE AND Q&A

  2. Sandbox Stage
    135 mins

    Crafted to encourage peer dialogue & fearless exploration to problem solve

    MOSA | INNOVATION | ATTRITABLE SYSTEMS | CCDD | EW

  3. Discovery Stage
    135 mins

    HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACES | SENSING, CYBER & ELECTRONIC WARFARE

  4. Targeted Briefings
    135 mins

    Intimate, closed-door sessions that tackle complex problems in a collaborative setting.

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16:45
  1. APEX After Hours: Reception and Networking
    InteropArena
    315 mins
10:00
  1. AUKUS Pillar 2: Harmonizing near term advanced capabilities
    Keynote Stage
    50 mins
10:50
  1. Industry Perspective
    Keynote Stage
    25 mins
11:15
  1. DOD: Defense readiness in an AI era
    Keynote Stage
    45 mins
12:00
  1. Insight Stage
    90 mins

    DIANA | SME | NEXT GEN MANUFACTURING | SOCOM | C4ISR | CRITICAL TECH

    BRIEFING AND Q&A | SME PANEL & Q&A

  2. Sandbox Stage
    90 mins

    INFORMATION WARFARE | DATA | AUKUS

    BREAKOUT SESSION | FIRESIDE CHAT

  3. Discovery Stage
    90 mins

    ADVANCED MATERIALS, COMPONENTS & MANUFACTURING | INTEGRATED NETWORK SYSTEMS-OF-SYSTEMS

  4. Targeted Briefings
    90 mins

     Intimate, closed-door sessions that tackle complex problems in a collaborative setting.

    Enquire with us to find out more.

13:30
  1. Networking Lunch
    30 mins
14:30
  1. Insights Stage
    120 mins

    DIANA | SME | NEXT GEN MANUFACTURING | SOCOM | C4ISR | CRITICAL TECH

    LUNCH & LEARN SESSION | KEYNOTE INTERVIEW | BRIEFINGS

  2. Sandbox Stage
    120 mins

    INFORMATION WARFARE | DATA | AUKUS

    IDEATION SESSION | CHALLENGE STATEMENTS

  3. Discovery Stage
    120 mins

    INTEGRATED NETWORK SYSTEMS-OF-SYSTEMS

  4. Targeted Briefings
    120 mins

     Intimate, closed-door sessions that tackle complex problems in a collaborative setting.

    Enquire with us to find out more.

16:30
  1. Apex After Hours: Engagement Wrap Up and Networking
    90 mins
08:40
  1. Defense acquisition and industrial strategy – the problems we need to solve
    Keynote Stage
    30 mins
    Speakers
    Speaker image for Bryan Clark
    Bryan Clark, Senior Fellow and Director - Center for Defense Concepts and Technology, Hudson Institute
09:10
  1. Near-Term Capability Needs | Commercial Tech Exploitation | Rapid Acquisition
    Keynote Stage
    80 mins

    USAF KEYNOTE: Near-term capability needs…and the gaps that need filling fast
    DIU KEYNOTE: Commercial technology exploitation
    SOCOM INTERVIEW: What can we learn from current rapid acquisition approaches?

    Speakers
    Speaker image for Bryan Clark
    Bryan Clark, Senior Fellow and Director - Center for Defense Concepts and Technology, Hudson Institute
09:35
  1. Commercial technology exploitation
    Keynote Stage
    20 mins
09:55
  1. SOCOM - What can we learn from current rapid acquisition approaches?
    Keynote Stage
    20 mins
10:15
  1. Rapid capability delivery
    Keynote Stage
    15 mins
10:30
  1. What does the Government have to do differently to reward and encourage innovation in advanced computing and software acquisition?
    Sandbox Stage
    90 mins
    Speakers
    Speaker image for Bryan Clark
    Bryan Clark, Senior Fellow and Director - Center for Defense Concepts and Technology, Hudson Institute
    Speaker image for Michael Frank
    Michael Frank, Deputy Chief Technology Officer - Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer
    Speaker image for Bryon Kroger
    Bryon Kroger, Founder & CEO - Rise8
    Speaker image for Greg Little
    Greg Little, Senior Counselor - Palantir
  2. The pace setting problem: Navigating adoption and scale of commercial technology for near term use
    Insights Stage
    75 mins
10:45
  1. Integrating advanced autonomy into existing mission architectures to support multi-domain operations
    Discovery Stage
    15 mins
11:00
  1. Tech Showcase
    Discovery Stage
    10 mins
11:10
  1. Tech Showcase - Arctic Horizons
    Discovery Stage
    10 mins
11:20
  1. Tech Showcase - SAID Autonomy
    Discovery Stage
    10 mins
11:30
  1. Interactive Discussion & Outputs
    Discovery Stage
    30 mins
11:45
  1. Solving operational problems with new technologies: How do we encourage iteration and lower regret?
    Insights Stage
    45 mins
    Speakers
    Speaker image for Bryan Clark
    Bryan Clark, Senior Fellow and Director - Center for Defense Concepts and Technology, Hudson Institute
12:00
  1. Unpacking International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) compliance to make the journey for the US defense industrial base to serve allied partners smoother
    Sandbox Stage
    30 mins
  2. Operating in Contested and Congested Spectrum
    Discovery Stage
    75 mins
12:45
  1. Private capital in defence
    Insights Stage
    90 mins
13:00
  1. Harnessing and harmonizing data to improve interoperability and enable decision-making advantage
    Sandbox Stage
    75 mins
13:15
  1. Battle management of distributed, highly disaggregated forces
    Discovery Stage
    15 mins
13:30
  1. Tech Showcase - Rowden Technologies
    Discovery Stage
    10 mins
13:40
  1. Tech Showcase - Reveal Technology
    Discovery Stage
    10 mins
13:50
  1. Tech Showcase - TBC
    Discovery Stage
    10 mins
14:00
  1. Interactive Discussion & Outputs
    Discovery Stage
    60 mins
14:15
  1. Tackling eroding readiness in an AI era
    Insights Stage
    60 mins
  2. C5ISR: What are the IT and communication capabilities required and how its role in warfighting changing?
    Sandbox Stage
    75 mins
15:00
  1. Live Synthetic Testing & Demo Environment
    Discovery Stage
    90 mins
15:15
  1. Achieving a combination of adaptability and scale in munitions and attritable systems within confines of money and manufacturing capability
    Insights Stage
    45 mins
15:30
  1. Achieving adaptability and systems sophistication at scale – is the Modular Open Systems Approach the answer or are there other approaches to consider?
    Sandbox Stage
    60 mins
16:00
  1. Harnessing creativity in DoD and the defense industry
    Insights Stage
    30 mins
09:15
  1. The Apex mission continues
    Keynote Stage
    10 mins
09:25
  1. Industrial Base Leadership | Replicator | AUKUS Pillar 2
    Keynote Stage
    45 mins

    PANEL: DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE LEADERSHIP PANEL
    KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Replicator – an update
    PANEL AND Q&A: AUKUS Pillar 2 Panel: Harmonizing near term advanced capabilities

10:10
  1. Replicator
    Keynote Stage
    20 mins
10:30
  1. Reserved
    Keynote Stage
    20 mins
10:50
  1. AUKUS Pillar 2 Panel: Harmonizing near term advanced capabilities
    Keynote Stage
    60 mins
11:50
  1. Near-term superiority with spectrum technologies
    Insights Stage
    40 mins
  2. Innovation journeys from global defense hubs
    Sandbox Stage
    40 mins
12:15
  1. Integration of unmanned maritime assets to support expeditionary naval forces in contested areas
    Discovery Stage
    15 mins
    Speakers
    Speaker image for Bryan Clark
    Bryan Clark, Senior Fellow and Director - Center for Defense Concepts and Technology, Hudson Institute
12:30
  1. Tech Showcase - TBC
    Discovery Stage
    10 mins
  2. How can we rethink camouflage, concealment, deception and disruptive capabilities for near term requirements?
    Sandbox Stage
    60 mins
12:40
  1. Tech Showcase - TBC
    Discovery Stage
    10 mins
12:45
  1. Next generation manufacturing methods: Winning the emerging technologies arms race
    Insights Stage
    45 mins
13:00
  1. Tech Showcase - Specialty Machine
    Discovery Stage
    10 mins
13:10
  1. Tech Showcase - Rapta AI
    Discovery Stage
    10 mins
13:20
  1. Tech Showcase - Tagup
    Discovery Stage
    10 mins
13:30
  1. The future of connectivity in an era of heightened information warfare – how do we develop operational concepts to scale quickly?
    Sandbox Stage
    40 mins
  2. Tech Showcase - AIVOT Robotics
    Discovery Stage
    10 mins
  3. Building a resilient SME industrial base to meet demand at speed, scale and cost
    Insights Stage
    60 mins
  4. Tech Showcase - TBC
    Discovery Stage
    75 mins
13:50
  1. Disrupting, Degrading and Defending against unmanned systems on the battlefield
    Discovery Stage
    30 mins
    Speakers
    Speaker image for Bryan Clark
    Bryan Clark, Senior Fellow and Director - Center for Defense Concepts and Technology, Hudson Institute
14:10
  1. Navigating DoD acquisition at whatever stage of the journey you are on
    Sandbox Stage
    65 mins
  2. VALLEY CROSSOVERS SPOTLIGHT: Lessons and learnings from DoD transition pathways
    Sandbox Stage
    65 mins
14:15
  1. Tech Showcase - White Fox Defense
    Discovery Stage
    10 mins
14:25
  1. Tech Showcase - TBC
    Discovery Stage
    10 mins
14:30
  1. Incentivising the US defence industrial base to leverage dual use technologies at the front line
    Insights Stage
    40 mins
14:45
  1. Interactive Discussion and Outputs
    Discovery Stage
    5 mins
15:00
  1. Tech Showcase - GuRu Wireless
    Discovery Stage
    20 mins
15:10
  1. How do we grow the innovation ecosystem in US, Japan, Australia and Europe?
    Insights Stage
    80 mins
15:15
  1. AUKUS PILLAR 2: Navigating opportunities in Pillar 2—deep-dives into Hypersonics, Undersea Warfare, Quantum, EW and AI & Autonomy
    Sandbox Stage
    75 mins
15:20
  1. Tech Showcase - HCI Energy
    Discovery Stage
    10 mins
15:30
  1. Tech Showcase - EM Antennas
    Discovery Stage
    10 mins