VIRTUAL PASS

Where GovTech leaders learn to ship mission-critical software, faster

  • Watch the Day 1 keynotes and Day 2 deep dives stream live from Nashville, so you hear what worked and what didn't from the people who shipped it.
  • Build working software in the virtual Impact Lab for Leaders on August 27, a full day you opt into when you register.
  • Trade notes with everyone attending in the Prodacity Slack, including the people in the room.

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

09:25 AM
Mission Outcomes in Space Systems Command

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

9:50 AM
What the Mission Needs From Industry

Shannon Pallone, PAE, BMC3I

10:25 AM

BREAK

10:55 AM
Fireside Chat

Announced Soon

11:20 AM
Delivering in Government: The 2026 Reality

Suzette Kent

11:55 AM

LUNCH

12:55 PM
AI That Moves the Mission Forward

Josh Marcuse

1:20 PM
Fireside Chat

Announced Soon

1:55 PM
How AI Changes the Craft of Software Development

Kent Beck

3:05 PM

BREAK

3:25 PM
Making Delivering Mission Outcomes Easier

Peter Dixon

3:50 PM
Fireside Chat

Mina Hsiang

4:25 PM

BREAK

4:45 PM
Building AI Fluency Across Government

Patti Fletcher

5:10 PM
Differencemakers Panel

Announced Soon

5:35 PM

LIVE MUSIC HAPPY HOUR

Feat. Brooks Herring

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
The Leader's Guide to AI in Production

Russ Miles

1:20 PM
Fireside Chat with Palantir

Announced Soon

1:45 PM
AI in Government: What's Working Now

Moderated by Mike Gehard
Joined by Tom Roderick and B

2:20 PM

BREAK

2:40 PM
Outcome-Oriented Contracting: Writing Contracts to Buy Mission Impact

Jonathan Mostowski

3:05 PM
Using SBIR Phase III's as an Acquisition Weapon

Bryan Guinn

3:30 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

3:55 PM

BREAK

4:05 PM
Case Study: How Palantir Delivers at the Edge
4:00 PM
From ATO to cATO: Compliance at Delivery Speed

Chris Hughes

4:25 PM
What It Takes to Sustain Continuous Compliance

Moderated by Lloyd Evans

5:00 pm
Where GovTech Needs to Go From Here

Bryon Kroger
Founder & CEO, Rise8

5:15 pm

LIVE MUSIC HAPPY HOUR

Feat. Derek Stoner

Sponsored by SBIR Advisors

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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07:30 AM

BREAKFAST

08:30 AM

WORKSHOPS
See descriptions below and make your selection during registration

11:30 AM

LUNCH

12:00 PM

WORKSHOPS

2:45 PM

CLOSING

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 Jeremy Arzuaga

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 in 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.