Strategic Research Partner
International Data Corporation (IDC) is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets. With more than 1,100 analysts worldwide, IDC offers global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry opportunities and trends in over 110 countries. For more information, please visit www.idc.com
Strategic Alliance Host
The Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation (MDI) began informally on September 23, 2015 at the Brookline, Massachusetts home of Gov. Michael Dukakis during his Distinguished Leadership Lecture delivered to the first Michael Dukakis Leadership Fellows of 2015-2016. Some two years later, on September 9, 2017, the Michael Dukakis Institute was officially launched at Loeb House, Harvard University with a Board of Leaders composed of: Chairman Michael Dukakis, Director Nguyen Anh Tuan, and members Nazli Choucri, Thomas Patterson, David Silbersweig and John Savage. The MDI mission was also established at that time: “Develop leaders in technology and science while providing an ethical framework for future generations of innovators and influentials, who will create a safe and secure environment based on shared human values, dignity and respect for all Citizens of the World, and to enrich their leadership capability in the interest of global peace and security with an emphasis on generating ideas, developing solutions, and deploying initiatives to solve global issues involving Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence.” For more information, please visit dukakis.bostonglobalforum.org
Luncheon Keynote Sponsor
VMware streamlines the journey for organizations to become digital businesses that deliver better experiences to their customers and empower employees to do their best work. Our software spans compute, cloud, networking and security, and digital workspace. For more information, please visit www.vmware.com
Gold Sponsors
Cray combines computation and creativity so visionaries can keep asking the difficult questions. Cray develops the world’s most advanced supercomputers, pushing the boundaries of performance, efficiency and scalability. At the convergence of data and discovery, Cray offers a comprehensive portfolio of supercomputers, high-performance storage, data analytics and artificial intelligence solutions.
Darktrace is the world’s leading AI company for cyber defense. With thousands of customers worldwide, the self-learning AI protects the cloud, SaaS, corporate networks, IoT and industrial systems against cyber-threats and vulnerabilities, from insider threats and ransomware, to stealthy and silent attacks. For more information, please visit www.darktrace.com
DataRobot offers an enterprise machine learning platform that empowers users to make better predictions faster. Incorporating a library of hundreds of open source machine learning algorithms, the DataRobot platform automates, trains and evaluates predictive models in parallel, delivering more accurate predictions at scale. For more information, please visit www.datarobot.com
Based in Arlington, Virginia, eGlobalTech’s mission is to redefine traditional consulting services by combining business insight and technology to fundamentally enhance performance. For more information, please visit www.eglobaltech.com
UiPath is a leading provider of Robotic Process Automation technology enabling global enterprises to design, deploy and manage a full-fledged robotic workforce that mimics employees in administering rules-based tasks and frees them from the daily routine of rote work. The UiPath RPA computing platform is dedicated to automate business processes. It provides process modelling, change management, deployment management, access control, remote execution and scheduling, execution monitoring, auditing and analytics in full compliance with enterprise security and governance best practices. For more information, please visit www.uipath.com
AI World Government Exhibitors
Alegion provides training data for enterprise CV, NLP and Entity Resolution initiatives. We combine an AI-assisted data and task management platform with a nearly million-member pool of trained data specialists to deliver high-quality datasets. We completely offload training data preparation, model testing and post-production exception handling.
Brillient is an award winning Solutions Engineering company focused on Information Management, ALICE Intelligent Solutions and Business Process Management that helps clients achieve better efficiencies and lower costs in their digital government and IT modernization initiatives. For more information, please visit www.brillient.net
eXalt’s mission is to enable companies to sell more, more profitably. Our patented Knowledge Work as a Service (KWaaS) cloud platform gives B2B enterprises unlimited scale with digital knowledge workers making processes digital end-to-end without human touch. For more information, please visit www.exaltsolutions.com
iMerit provides high-volume data labeling services using our internal workforce of 2,200+ full time data technicians, domestically and abroad. We specialize in text/audio/image/video data with over 60 million data points labeled to date. Teams partner with iMerit for our balance of scalability, consultation, security, competitive pricing, and quality. Our flexible team of solutions architects, project managers, and data technicians have the expertise to work with you through the ebbs and flows of your nuanced projects.
Nuance Communications, Inc. is the pioneer and leader in conversational AI innovations that bring intelligence to everyday work and life. The company delivers solutions that can understand, analyze and respond to human language to increase productivity and amplify human intelligence. With decades of domain expertise, Nuance works with thousands of organizations to create stronger relationships and better experiences for their customers and workforce. For more information, please visit www.nuance.com
Pure Storage helps customers build a better world with data through the industry’s first purpose-built AI data platform. Data-rich applications like deep learning, machine learning and data analytics are accelerated by Pure’s massively parallel architecture – delivering unprecedented performance (10x) and time-to-insight at scale. For more information, please visit www.purestorage.com
AI World Government Startup Pavillion
Calypso specializes in cybersecurity solutions specifically for artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science systems. Founded by DoD and DARPA researchers, we are leading edge experts in assessing, defending, and securing AI systems. For more information, please visit www.calypsoai.com.
Kyndi is building the first Explainable AI product and Intelligent Process Automation software for government, pharmaceutical, and financial services organizations. Our product exists because Deep Learning is a "black box" and cannot be used in regulated industries where organizations are required to explain the reason for any decision.
Premier Association Sponsors
ACT-IAC aims to advance U.S. government mission performance through the use of technology by enabling and leveraging government and industry collaboration. For more information, please visit www.actiac.org
SEA promotes policies and programs that empower its constituent members to accomplish their vital mission responsibilities as well as advance their personal professional development. https://seniorexecs.org/
TechNet Augusta 2019 gives participants the opportunity to examine and explore the intricacies of the cyber domain. With assistance from the U.S. Army Cyber Center of Excellence and industry experts, the conference is designed to open the lines of communication and facilitate networking, education and problem solving. Leaders and operators also discuss procurement challenges the military, government and industry face during a time of uncertain budgets and runaway technology advances.
Association Sponsor
AAIH is the global advocacy organization for the advancement and use of artificial intelligence in healthcare to improve patients’ lives and create more efficient, sustainable, and accessible healthcare systems. Through investment, invention, and innovation in AI, the AAIH and its member companies and organizations are creating novel interventions and product solutions that reduce failure rates and costs while improving quality across the entire healthcare spectrum.
Strategic Seminar Sponsors
Cognilytica cuts through the noise to identify what is really happening with adoption and implementation of AI in public, private, and academic settings. We focus on the usage of AI in the real world, not the buzzword hype. For more information, please visit www.cognilytica.com
OODA is comprised of a unique team of international experts capable of providing advanced intelligence and analysis, strategy and planning support, investment and due diligence, risk and threat management, training, decision support, crisis response, and security services to global corporations and governments. For more information, please visit www.ooda.com
Vision Sponsor
The IBM Watson AI XPRIZE is a $5 million AI and cognitive computing competition challenging teams globally to develop and demonstrate how humans can collaborate with powerful AI technologies to tackle the world’s grand challenges. This prize focuses on creating advanced and scalable applications that benefit consumers and businesses across a multitude of disciplines. The solutions will contribute to the enrichment of available tools and data sets for the usage of innovators everywhere. The goal is also to accelerate the understanding and adoption of AI’s most promising breakthroughs.
Research Sponsors
rpa2ai Research - rpa2ai Research is an independent global industry analyst and advisory firm focused on enterprise automation and artificial intelligence. rpa2ai (pronounced as RPA to AI), has extensive experience in advising global organizations on profitable digital transformation. rpa2ai combines hands-on experience with AI and Automation technologies with an in-depth understanding of their business impact. For more information, please visit https://rpa2ai.com.
Tractica’s global market research and consulting services combine qualitative and quantitative research methodologies to provide a comprehensive view of the emerging market opportunities surrounding Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, User Interface Technologies, Advanced Computing, Connected & Autonomous Vehicles, and Wearables & Digital Health. For more information, please visit www.tractica.com
Official Publication
AI Trends is the leading industry media channel focused on the business and technology of enterprise AI. It is designed for business executives wishing to keep track of the major industry business trends, technologies and solutions that can help them keep in front of the fast-moving world of AI and gain competitive advantage. For more information, please visit www.aitrends.com
Strategic Media Sponsors
Conversations with the world's most innovative leaders on digital disruption, customer experience. and the impact of technology on business. Hosted by top Industry Analyst Michael Krigsman.
Media Sponsors
AUVSI Unmanned Systems—Defense. Protection. Security. is the most comprehensive event in the unmanned systems industry, bringing together military leadership, defense experts and solution providers to dig into how unmanned and autonomous systems are changing the landscape of military and intelligence operations and what that means for procurement, technology development and inter-agency collaboration. For more information, please visit www.thedefenseshow.org
At CTOvision.com we write about technology, with a focus on topics of relevance to enterprise technologists. The blog was founded by Bob Gourley, our editor and publisher, in 2007. CTOvision has over 100 contributors in our network. Our premier publication is the monthly technology review, sent to over 33,000 technology thought leaders. For more information, please visit www.ctovision.com
The FinTech Weekly is a free newsletter, featuring the latest articles on developments, solutions and innovations in the business. Additionally, FinTech Weekly provides the largest fintech conference list on the web and a lot more to discover – just everything worth knowing in the business.
GovLoop is a community of more than 300,000 federal, state and local government employees and government professionals. Our mission is simple: connect government to improve government. We do this by acting as a knowledge network and creating free and helpful resources about critical topics facing government.
Inside HPC: Founded on December 28, 2006, insideHPC is a blog that distills news and events in the world of HPC and presents them in bite-sized nuggets of helpfulness as a resource for supercomputing professionals. As one reader said, we’re sifting through all the news so you don’t have to!
BigData: Founded on August 28, 2011, insideBIGDATA is a news outlet that distills news, strategies, products and services in the world of Big Data for data scientists as well as IT and business professionals. Our editorial focus is big data, data science, AI, machine learning, and deep learning.
Inventions is an international, peer-reviewed journal that publishes original scientific research of significance concerning innovation/invention, or patent-based/extended/reviewed research papers in all fields of science, engineering and product development processes.
IoT Global Network is the ultimate intelligence platform for the global machine-to-machine communication value chain. IoT Global Network serves as an invaluable source of information for IoT decision makers in all areas of industry and public services, including consumer-related, energy, financial, industrial, healthcare, security and transportation, – and anyone else who would like to learn more about how the Internet of Things will shape tomorrow’s society. Discover. Learn. Connect. Engage.
IoT Now - How to run an IoT enabled business. With exclusive analyst reports and specialist journalists, IoT Now is the leading global brand covering the Internet of Things, machine-to-machine communications (M2M), embedded devices and connected consumer devices. Delivering webcasts, bi-monthly magazines, white-papers, daily news and expert opinion pieces, IoT Now focuses on the deployment of these technologies across the enterprise, automotive, logistics, healthcare, utilities, travel, security and smart city verticals. To join our community, register at: www.iot-now.com For more information, contact: Charlie Bisnar at c.bisnar@wkm-global.com
Mediaplanet delivers top class content marketing campaigns together with 15 000+ clients globally and distributing 1000 campaigns annually. Branding made easy.
Transforming news into insights, not only do we serve as a source of information but as the breeding ground for innovative ideas and exchange of breath-taking strategies that can make a difference in your technological understanding. We bring forth an enhanced, clever and a comprehensive platform which can assist the information seekers a filtered view of what they are searching. Our technology magazine is spearheading a revolution to provide knowledgeable articles written in simple yet lucid language that can give an insight into the latest in the world of technology.
OODA Loop provides actionable intelligence, analysis, and insight on global security, technology, and business issues. OODA Loop informs the decision making process of our members and helps them understand and navigate global risks and opportunities. For more information, please visit www.oodaloop.com
Rethink Research is an expert in the technology, wireless, video and the internet of things (IoT) and prides itself on telling you the news you need to hear, not the news you want to hear. It offers consulting, advisory services, research papers, plus three weekly research services
RioT (Rethink Internet of Things) is a forwarding-thinking collection of paid weekly research articles, focusing on IoT, automotive, utility, AI and digital transformation, and assesses the impact of events which have happened through the week, in the world of IoT.
SIGNAL Media offers print and digital content featuring in-depth, relevant and timely news in the communications and information technology realms of defense, intelligence and global security. As the official media of AFCEA, SIGNAL has exclusive access to the AFCEA community, and it is one of the highest rated benefits of membership. Topics include: Cloud • Cyber • Microelectronics • Defense Electronics • Blockchain • Operations in the Services • AI • Weaponized Information • Warfighter Solutions • Hypersonic Technologies • The Cyber Workforce • Robots • Infrastructure • NATO • Homeland Security • Intelligence• DISA and Civil Government • Biotechnologies • and much more.
Wireless Watch is a set of weekly research notes assessing the impact of events which have happened through the week, in the world of wireless and mobile technology. It provides a framework of technical understanding to help predict the future of Wireless and the global broadband economy.
Meet Up Group Partners
The D.C. Cybersecurity Professionals. Founded in 2012, by Tyrone E. Wilson, The D.C. Cybersecurity Professionals (@DCCyberWarriors) is the largest cybersecurity meetup group in the United States. Our meetup group is a community of professionals that gather to discuss various information security topics at the unclassified level. It is free to join and designed to fit all skill levels. We accept anyone who is interested in networking, learning about security threats, and gaining experience through our hands-on training sessions. The D.C. Cybersecurity Professionals' dedication to providing networking opportunities, informative discussions and educational sessions on all things cyber, has allowed the group to grow to nearly 7,000 members strong while providing a real benefit to the cyber community.