Where GovTech leaders learn to ship software in the age of AI

  • Learn production-hardened strategies from leaders who've shipped in the toughest environments.
  • Spend three days training with the people who decide what gets built, who builds it, and who buys it.
  • Walk away with a plan and allies to drive real change.

August 25-27 | Nashville, TN

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08:00 AM

BREAKFAST & REGISTRATION

09:00 AM
Uncharted: Shipping Software in the Age of AI

Bryon Kroger
Founder & CEO, Rise8

09:35 AM
Mission Outcomes in Space Systems Command

General Stephen N. Whiting, Commander, U.S. Space Command

10:00 AM
What the Mission Needs From Industry

Announced Soon

10:25 AM

BREAK

11:05 AM
AI That Moves the Mission Forward

Josh Marcuse

11:30 AM
Delivering in Government: The 2026 Reality

Fireside chat with Suzette Kent, Mina Hsiang

12:05 PM

LUNCH

1:05 PM
Equipping the Workforce with the Skills of the Future

Announced Soon

1:30 PM
Building AI Fluency Across Government

Announced Soon

1:55 PM

BREAK

2:05 PM
How AI Changes the Craft of Software Development

Kent Beck

2:55 PM
Removing Barriers & Clearing the Path to Mission Outcomes

Announced Soon

3:30 PM

BREAK

4:00 PM
AI for Good: Delivering Public Value in 2026

Announced Soon

5:00 PM

DINNER BREAK

8:00 PM

SHIP STOCK CONCERT

08:00 AM

BREAKFAST & REGISTRATION

09:00 AM
Navigating Uncharted Territory in Innovation

Dan Ward

09:25 AM
The Outcome Factory: A New Model for Government Delivery

Bryon Kroger
Founder & CEO, Rise8

10:00 AM

BREAK

10:30 AM
Value Stream Mapping: See Where Delivery Stalls

Steve Perreira

10:55 AM
From Chaos to Clarity: Designing Around the Domain

Paul Rayner

11:20 AM
Mapping the Mission: What Actually Works

Moderated by Rob Monroe

Monroe
11:55 PM

LUNCH

12:55 PM
Outcome-Oriented Contracting: Writing Contracts to Buy Mission Impact

Jonathan Mostowski

1:20 PM
Using SBIR Phase III's as an Acquisition Weapon

Bryan Guinn

1:45 PM
How to Actually Buy Outcomes — A Panel

Moderated by Max Reele
Joined by Lori-Ann Rissler, Dr. Dolores Kuchina-Musina, and more announced soon

2:20 PM

BREAK

2:50 PM
The Leader's Guide to AI in Production

Russ Miles

3:15 PM
AI in Government: What's Working Now

Moderated by Mike Gehard
Joined by Tom Roderick and B

3:50 PM

BREAK

4:05 PM
Case Study: How Palantir Delivers at the Edge
4:30 PM
From ATO to cATO: Compliance at Delivery Speed

Chris Hughes

4:55 PM
What It Takes to Sustain Continuous Compliance

Moderated by Lloyd Evans
Joined by Dakota Riley and more announced soon

5:30 pm
Where GovTech Needs to Go From Here

Bryon Kroger
Founder & CEO, Rise8

Pick one full-day workshop and focus on a single area of practice, turning the strategies from Days 1 and 2 into a working playbook for delivery in the age of AI. You'll leave with applied work in hand.

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Workshop Title

Description

Impact Lab for Leaders: Build Purposeful Software with AI

Led by Impact Lab Team

AI mandates and speed-first directives are moving faster than any GovTech strategy decks can keep up with. Impact Lab for leaders is a one-day, hands-on AI build. You’ll use AI-native tools to solve a real-world problem, build technical confidence, evaluate what AI can do, and leave with working software in production.

Policy-as-Code: Secure Delivery Without Slowing Your Builders

Led by Lloyd Evans and Dakota Riley

Security can’t live in slide decks, waiver queues, or a checklist someone signs at the end. This hands-on workshop teaches Policy-as-Code as fieldcraft for government delivery teams: how to turn compliance and security requirements into automated tests that run against Kubernetes, infrastructure, and platform workflows. You’ll practice using the evidence those tests produce to harden delivery and keep builders moving.

Outcome-Based Acquisition: Mapping Contracts to Mission Outcomes

Led by Rob Monroe

Most acquisitions buy deliverables: features, milestones, hours. This facilitator-led workshop shows you how to trace work from mission need to user value, then use what the map reveals to structure an acquisition around measurable mission outcomes and continuous delivery—instead of a fixed list of deliverables a vendor can complete without moving the mission. You'll leave with a method you can run with your own team, the language to make the case for it, and a prioritized plan for restructuring an acquisition around the outcomes that matter.

Find Your Flow: A Value Stream Mapping Workshop for Navigating Constraints

Led by Steve Perreira

You can’t improve a system you can’t see. This hands-on workshop applies Flow Engineering and Value Stream Mapping to trace your work from mission need to user value, exposing the queues, handoffs, rework, decision latency, and hidden dependencies slowing it down. You’ll leave with a map of where the work stalls and a prioritized plan to clear obstacles and deliver measurable outcomes in production.

From Chaos to Clarity: A DDD EventStorming Workshop

Led by Paul Rayner

Stop guessing and start mapping. This hands-on DDD EventStorming workshop helps technical and non-technical delivery teams make sense of mission complexity through a realistic simulation. You’ll map the step-by-step workflows of a real mission area, uncovering the inconsistencies and gaps in how work actually flows. Then you’ll practice connecting commands, aggregates, and events—the raw material for event-driven and event-sourced architecture decisions. You’ll leave with the method, the muscle memory, and a map you can rebuild with your team back home.

Agentic Engineering: Stop AI-Assisted Code from Drifting into Production

Led by Russ Miles

Government delivery teams are under pressure to move faster, and mission-critical codebases are drifting quietly—because every session ends with the agent forgetting your conventions, your decisions, and the production incident that reshaped your error-handling. This hands-on workshop teaches agentic engineering as fieldcraft: a trust protocol for verifying AI output before it ships, a five-question interview for surfacing the constraints the model can't see, and a version-controlled harness that makes your team's hard-won understanding durable and enforced. You'll leave with a working HARNESS.md in your own repo, garbage-collection rules wired into your pipelines, and a 30-day plan to stop the drift before it reaches production—or your next authorization review.

5:45 pm

HAPPY HOUR