An exclusive, invitation-only event that will bring together Israel’s most promising battle-tested defense startups, and key players in the U.S. defense industrial base.

We recently sat down with Brian Schettler, Head of AE Ventures at AE Industrial. Brian was previously founder and head of Boeing HorizonX Ventures.

Former Small Business Administration official Sarah Bard recently led a fantastic session for Israeli startups, providing a game plan for using small-business pathways and “set-asides” to enter the U.S. market.

We chatted with Pillsbury partners Justin Rubin and Aaron Ralph to explore different DOD engagement frameworks, from Cooperative Research and Development Agreements to SBIRs and more.

We recently chatted with Joe Fluet, founder and Chairman of defense contractor MAG Aerospace, to learn his from his experiences as a successful startup founder in the defense space.

We sat down with Adam Tarsi, International Program Manager at the Irregular Warfare Technical Support Directorate, to discuss the rapid prototyping group within the DOD.

We sat down with Erik Berdy — who spent more than three decades at the U.S. Army, Pentagon, and Capital Hill — to discuss engagement with Congressional leaders, government staffs, and the DOD.

We recently sat down with Sarah Pearson of the DOD’s Defense Innovation Unit to understand details on their Commercial Solutions Openings process.

We recently spoke with Andrew Pahutsky, a former senior advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Defense, who provided myriad insights on entering the U.S. defense-tech market.

We recently chatted with Heather Richman, founder of The Defense Investor Network, a group of Silicon Valley venture capitalists tracking dual-use technologies of interest to the Pentagon.

We recently hosted a conversation with Graham Plaster, Deputy Director at the Office of Naval Research, and Director of innovation group Nautilus22. Graham provided a guide to “PIAs”

We recently hosted a session with David Rader, Senior Advisor in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and Bryan Wilson of the DOD’s Defense Innovation Unit, on how Israeli startups can work with them.

We recently sat down with Kurt Scherer, Managing Director at C5 Capital, to discuss his current focus, his investment hypotheses, and his learnings on U.S. go-to-market with the DOD and intelligence community.