Science and Technology Events

The AFVentures team is excited to bring another series of topics to small businesses and government representatives. The series is designed to educate and provide insight on how the AFWERX SBIR/STTR Open Topic process operates. Join us every Thursday at 12pm ET.

Sept. 23rd STTR

Sept. 30th Intro to AFVentures

Do you want to know how to convey the most pertinent information about your ideas or projects to prospective stakeholders or leadership? This is usually referred to as an “elevator pitch”. The ability to give a good elevator pitch is an important and valuable skill for any S&E to have in today’s busy work environment. Please join us on Tuesday, September 28th for the next AFRL S&E Collider where we will get an overview and basic instruction for this valuable skill.

The AFVentures team is excited to bring another series of topics to small businesses and government representatives. The series is designed to educate and provide insight on how the AFWERX SBIR/STTR Open Topic process operates. Join us every Thursday at 12pm ET. 

Sept. 30th Intro to AFVentures

AFA's Air, Space, & Cyber Conference is the leading professional development event for Air Force and Space Force officers, enlisted members, civilians, veterans, and defense industry leaders and representatives. Our conference brings together top Air Force and Space Force leadership, industry experts, and government officials to discuss challenges facing the aerospace and cyber communities today and in the future. This year’s conference celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Air Force Association and will build on AFA’s successful recent events featuring record-breaking attendance and speakers, including the Vice President of the United States, Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, Elon Musk, Sir Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Cuban.

Join us on Sep 20th for a webinar hosted by our Director of National Engagement, Kathleen Gilpin, PhD, PMP. It will be focused on helping university and small business entrepreneurs connect with one another as well as with regional organizations with resources in place to help entrepreneurs. The region of focus is the Pacific & Pacific Northwest regions, but entrepreneurs from everywhere are invited to join.

Fed Supernova is a two-day hybrid event where defense priorities and trending technology collide for good. Fed Supernova promises insight into Department of Defense (DoD) problems, technology needs, and new opportunities. Learn how entrepreneurs, government, and industry can work together to ignite more value for everyone.

For over 20 years the TechConnect World Innovation Conference and Expo has connected top applied research and early-stage innovations from universities, labs, and startups with industry end-users and prospectors. The 2021 TechConnect World Innovation event includes the annual SBIR/STTR Innovation Conference, AI TechConnect, and the TechConnect Technical Program - more than 35 world-class technical symposium, and the Nanotech Conference Series – the world's largest and longest running nanotechnology event.

Through these joint programs, TechConnect has published over 10,000 technical papers, connected over 20,000 innovations with industry partners, provided prospecting to most all Fortune 500 technology companies, and supported most every U.S. Science and Technology agency including the National Nanotechnology Initiative since its inception.

Join the world's brightest researchers, innovators, and technology prospectors as they convene in Washington, DC, Gaylord National Harbor, October 18-20, 2021.

Connecting top S&T military, industry and investment leadership with the world's best innovations. Connect with more non-traditional innovators as we co-locate TechConnect World and SBIR National Innovation Summits! October 19-21, 2021 in Washington DC.

Connecting emerging tools and platforms with the global innovation ecosystem. Converging research, corporate, and government leadership seeking solution providers for their sector specific dataset challenges.

DoD funding for unmanned systems has never been more critical, and Phase II of Unmanned Systems Defense is bringing together leaders with real-time insights to champion future investment. Hear directly from the the Chief of Naval Research, key congressional reps, and program managers from Agility Prime, NASA, DARPA, DIU and more! At only $9 per day, your ROI will be off the charts! Select your days below to start your registration: Join military officials from across all branches - federal security personnel, and industry leaders to understand the latest programs of record and collaborate on the acquisition and integration of unmanned technologies.

Day 1: Maritime

Day 2: Air

Day 3: Ground

We are proud to launch the TechConnect Europe Innovation Conference & Expo, designed to connect top applied research and early-stage technologies from universities, labs and startup with industry and investment end-users and prospectors.

DMC is the nation’s annual forum for enhancing and leveraging the efforts of engineers, managers, technology leaders, scientists, and policy makers across the defense manufacturing industrial base. Leaders and manufacturing subject matter experts from government, industry, and academia exchange information and perspectives on defense manufacturing policies, strategic direction, best practices, funding opportunities, and the latest manufacturing innovations that will benefit our warfighters.