About Elevate

Now in its fourth year, Elevate25 is TechnoMile’s premier customer conference, bringing together clients, industry and government thought leaders, partners, and the TechnoMile team for a day of learning, collaboration, and innovation. Designed for those navigating the rapidly evolving federal market, Elevate25 empowers attendees to thrive through engaging keynotes and panels with leaders shaping our industry, and practical strategies to leverage smarter workflows, cutting-edge technology, and domain-trained AI.

This year, Elevate25 goes further — spotlighting leaders and innovators driving the future of government contracting as well as offering a wide range of sessions designed to enhance your team's daily use of TechnoMile solutions and boost efficiency. As AI becomes essential to how companies find, pursue, win, and manage federal business, Elevate25 will explore how domain-trained AI is being applied to streamline operations, improve decision making, and gain a competitive edge. Learn how today’s innovations are reshaping the federal market — and how leveraging AI will be critical to future success.

Gain actionable insights on industry trends, expand your TechnoMile product expertise, hear inspiring customer success stories, and discover new ways to modernize operations and elevate performance.

Be part of the conversation shaping the future of federal business — and the next generation of AI-powered innovation at Elevate25.

Agenda

Wednesday, November 5

At Elevate25, we’re offering pre-conference training sessions designed specifically for end users and administrators of TechnoMile’s Growth Suite, Contracts Suite, and the underlying Salesforce or Microsoft Dynamics 365 platforms.

In just two focused hours, participants will deepen their product expertise and learn best practices to drive greater adoption, efficiency, and business impact. Whether you're new to TechnoMile or looking to advance your knowledge, this hands-on training is the perfect way to kickstart your Elevate25 experience.

To learn more and register, go to Elevate 2025 Training.

Thursday, November 6

7:45a - 9:00aBreakfast + Networking

Connect with industry peers over breakfast and learn how they’re driving innovation and success in business development, capture, proposals, IT, and contracts roles.

Location:
Grand Ballroom Foyer

8:00a - 5:00pCX Lounge: Live Demos and Discussions

Stop by the CX Lounge to connect with TechnoMile team members and partners and see live demos of our newest solutions.

Location:
Grand Ballroom C

9:00a-9:05aOpening Remarks

Tom Temin, Former Host & Managing Editor of The Federal Drive and Elevate25 Emcee, kicks off the day.

Location:
Grand Ballroom D

9:05a-9:10aStar Spangled Banner

Enjoy a powerful performance of the national anthem by guitarist Eamonn Hubert, honoring tradition while setting the tone for innovation.

Location:
Grand Ballroom D

9:10a - 9:30aCEO Briefing: TechnoMile's Vision for AI-Human Collaboration

In this session, Ashish Khot shares TechnoMile’s vision for the future of government contracting. Powered by agentic AI, this future is defined by systems that understand context, anticipate needs, and drive outcomes with intelligence and precision. TechnoMile is building a new standard for how work gets done, where AI acts with purpose, learns continuously, and keeps humans in control.

Presenter:
Ashish Khot, CEO, TechnoMile

Location:
Grand Ballroom D

9:30a - 10:15aKeynote Address: AI Eats the World

Benedict Evans, visionary tech strategist and defining voice on the future of AI, delivers sharp insights into how macro trends in AI are reshaping industries. This powerful session will inspire bold thinking about leveraging AI within your own organization and across the public sector ecosystem.

Presenter:
Benedict Evans, Tech Analyst & Consultant

Location:
Grand Ballroom D

10:15a-11:10aBuilding the Future of GovCon: Inside TechnoMile’s Product Roadmap

Join the TechnoMile Product Management team as they delve into what TechnoMile’s vision for the future of government contracting means in practice. This session will explore the future of TechnoMile’s Growth, GovSearchAI, and Contracts solutions and how our product roadmap brings agentic AI to life, empowering clients to drive measurable value, reduce risk, and accelerate digital transformation.

Presenters:
Kevin Brancato, SVP of Product Strategy, TechnoMile
Mick Fox, COO, TechnoMile
Grant Gearheart, Product Manager, TechnoMile
Mai Suzuki-Scull, Product Manager, TechnoMile

Location:
Grand Ballroom D

11:10a - 11:20aNetworking Break

11:20a - 12:00pM&A Momentum: Navigating Value, Risk, and Growth in GovCon

This session explores key trends shaping M&A activity in today’s federal contracting landscape – from valuation drivers and regulatory considerations to integration challenges and strategic positioning. Learn how evolving market dynamics, deal structures, and risk factors are influencing acquisitions and what it means for companies navigating growth through M&A. Gain first-hand perspectives from both those driving transactions and C-suite executives pursuing M&A as a strategic growth lever. Learn what today’s market signals mean for your organization’s future positioning and competitive advantage.

Presenters:
Kevin Flannery, Partner, RSM US LLP
Jay Shah, Former COO, Octo, an IBM Company
John Jongbloed, Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig LLP
Austin Pace, Managing Director, Tide Lock Partners
Billy Biggs, President and CRO, TechnoMile

Location:
Grand Ballroom D

12:00p - 1:00pLeadership Luncheon

Location:
Grand Ballroom Foyer

12:15p - 1:00pGovSearchAI: Discover the AI-Driven Market Intelligence at Your Fingertips

Join us for a walkthrough of GovSearchAI, TechnoMile’s AI-powered opportunity and contact intelligence solution for government contractors that comes with your Growth Suite. This session will show you how to uncover more opportunities, qualify leads faster, and gain deep insights into agencies, competitors, and teaming partners—right from your CRM.

Presenters:
Greg White, Sales Engineer, TechnoMile
Stephen Hardy, VP of Customer Success, TechnoMile
Chrissy McMasters, Customer Success Manager, TechnoMile

Location:
Grand Ballroom A

12:15p - 1:00pAI-Powered Support: Delivering Smarter Service for Every Customer

From small GovCon firms to global enterprises, TechnoMile’s Customer Support team is harnessing AI to deliver faster, more accurate resolutions and a better overall experience. Learn how AI-driven tools, automation, and intelligent data insights help lean SMB teams do more with less, enable mid-size companies to scale efficiently, and empower enterprise clients to manage complexity with confidence. See how TechnoMile is redefining support excellence through an AI-enhanced, customer-first approach that drives measurable results across Growth, GovSearchAI, and Contracts.

Presenters:
Tony Vye, Director of Customer Support, TechnoMile
Shalaka Khot, Co-Founder, TechnoMile

Location:
Grand Ballroom D

1:15p - 2:00pGrowth Breakout | Autonomous Opportunity Identification: How AI is Transforming Building a Pipeline

Discover how AI is transforming the opportunity identification process by scanning and analyzing hundreds of data sources—from public databases to private IDIQs and derivative content—to surface and prioritize the most relevant opportunities. Learn how organizations are significantly reducing manual research time while improving decision-making speed and accuracy. This session includes a live demo as well as a customer spotlight that showcases how American Roll-On Roll-Off Carrier Group has transformed its task order management with help from TechnoMile.

Presenter:
Grant Gearhart, Product Manager, TechnoMile
PJ Roberts, Senior Logistics Specialist, American Roll-On Roll-Off Carrier Group
Stephen Hardy, VP of Customer Success, TechnoMile

Location:
Grand Ballroom A

1:15p - 2:00pContracts Breakout | Take Back Your Time: Inside the AI-Powered Transform Copilot

Manual contract and mod intake processes are time-consuming, error-prone, and keep contracts professionals buried in administrative work instead of focusing on strategic priorities. This session explores how Transform Copilot is helping federal contractors overcome these challenges by applying domain-trained AI to rapidly digitize prime awards, subcontracts, and contract modifications. Attendees will see how Transform Copilot extracts key data, such as performance periods, clauses, financials, and CDRLs, presents it for easy validation alongside source documents, and compares clauses to internal standards to flag deviations—drastically streamlining contract and mod intake and freeing up your contracts professionals' time. This session includes a customer spotlight that showcases how CDM Smith is transforming its contract management with help from TechnoMile.

Presenters:
Kevin Brancato, SVP of Product Strategy, TechnoMile
Mai Suzuki-Scull, Product Manager, TechnoMile
Christy Mallett, Contracts Operations Manager, CDM Smith
Chrissy McMasters, Customer Success Manager, TechnoMile

Location:
Grand Ballroom B

2:00p - 2:15pNetworking Break

2:15p - 3:00pGrowth Breakout | Agentic-Fueled Capture: Transforming Execution with Intelligent Automation

Running a federal capture is often complex and time-consuming, leading to missed opportunities and high pursuit costs. This session introduces a new approach: AI-powered support that reinforces proven capture execution best practices. TechnoMile AI agents act as virtual team members—automating research, analysis, writing, CRM updates, and more—so capture professionals can focus on strategy and relationships. Learn how this solution boosts win rates, expands team capacity, and drives more cost-efficient, high-impact captures.

Presenters:
Mick Fox, COO, TechnoMile
Grant Gearhart, Product Manager, TechnoMile

Location:
Grand Ballroom A

2:15p - 3:00pContracts Breakout | Supercharging Pre-Award Analyses with AI

Contracts teams play an integral role in helping the organization evaluate potential opportunities and make strategic bid/no bid decisions. In this session, we’ll showcase how AI can fast track your team’s analysis of a solicitation’s risk and compliance. See how AI-powered extraction of key business intelligence from the solicitation—including proposed CLINs/SLINs and clauses—eliminates hours of manual data entry and accelerates risk assessments and compliant proposal creation. This session includes a demo.

Presenters:
Kevin Brancato, SVP of Product Strategy, TechnoMile
Mai Suzuki-Scull, Product Manager, TechnoMile

Location:
Grand Ballroom B

3:00p - 3:15pNetworking Break

3:15p - 4:00pGrowth Breakout | From Compliant to Competitive: AI-Powered Proposal Development

Today, AI helps generate compliant proposals—but compliance alone doesn’t win. This session explores the next frontier: AI that autonomously creates high-quality, winning proposals. Learn how emerging technology is reducing proposal preparation time by up to 80%, while elevating strategic messaging and win probability. This session includes a live demo.

Presenters:
Mick Fox, COO, TechnoMile
Vishwas Lele, CEO, pWin.ai

Location:
Grand Ballroom A

3:15p - 4:00pContracts Breakout | Smarter Contracts: Automating the Full Lifecycle with AI Agents

Discover how AI agents are revolutionizing contract management – from ingestion to closeout. This session showcases how intelligent automation can extract and summarize data, assess contract details, and take action across workflows. Explore real-world use cases such as delivery order intake, tracking of deliverables to fulfill CDRLs, and acceleration of review/approval cycles. Learn how these agents save substantial time, empower users to focus on higher-value tasks, and help clients concentrate on outcomes rather than process. If you're ready to streamline operations and boost efficiency, this is a must-attend session. This session includes a demo.

Presenters:
Kevin Brancato, SVP of Product Strategy, TechnoMile

Location:
Grand Ballroom B

4:00p - 4:15pNetworking Break

4:15p - 5:00pGrowth and Contracts Breakout | The AI Roadmap: Emerging Trends Shaping the Future of Government Contracting

AI is rapidly transforming how government contractors identify, pursue, and win business and manage contracts. Join TechnoMile leadership as we explore the next wave of AI innovation—from intelligent opportunity capture to predictive risk analytics—and what it means for the future of government sales. Gain insights into where the technology is headed, what to expect from TechnoMile—from our product offerings, to initiatives, like FedRAMP equivalency, that strengthen our security posture—and how to best prepare your organization.

Presenters:
Kevin Brancato, SVP of Product Strategy, TechnoMile
Mick Fox, COO, TechnoMile
Aaron Tate, CIO, TechnoMile

Location:
Grand Ballroom D

5:00p - 6:30pCustomer Community Reception

Location:
Conservatory

Speakers

Ashish Khot CEO, TechnoMile

Benedict Evans Independent Analyst

Jay Shah Former COO, Octo, an IBM company

Kevin Flannery Partner, Transaction Advisory Services, RSM US LLP

John Jongbloed Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig LLP

Austin Pace Managing Director, Tide Lock Partners

Mick Fox COO, TechnoMile

Vishwas Lele CEO, pWin.ai

Billy Biggs President and CRO, TechnoMile

Tom Temin Host and Managing Editor, The Federal Drive

Kevin Brancato SVP of Product Strategy, TechnoMile

Shayne Forsyth SVP of Marketing, TechnoMile

PJ Roberts Senior Logistics Specialist, American Roll-On Roll-Off Carrier Group

Aaron Tate CIO, TechnoMile

Christy Mallett Contract Operations Manager, CDM Federal Programs Corporation

Shalaka Khot Co-founder, TechnoMile

Stephen Hardy Vice President of Customer Success, TechnoMile

Tony Vye Director Customer Support, TechnoMile

Grant Gearhart Product Manager, TechnoMile

Mai Suzuki-Scull Product Manager, TechnoMile

Greg White Sales Engineer, TechnoMile

Chrissy McMasters Customer Success Manager, TechnoMile

Cary Reddell Director of Product Marketing, TechnoMile

Denis Dobias Consultant, TechnoMile

Emina Sinanovic Associate Consultant, TechnoMile

Michael Onaga Customer Success Manager, TechnoMile

Osama Alkahily Functional Consultant, TechnoMile

Yash Manek Associate Consultant, TechnoMile

Ashley Canty Practice Director Implementation, TechnoMile

Venue

Elevate25 will be hosted at the Hyatt Regency Reston, one of the largest hotels near Dulles International Airport and offering easy conference access via the Metro Silver Line.

Need a hotel room? TechnoMile has secured a block of rooms at the Hyatt Regency Reston at a discounted rate of $259/night. Please book your room by Monday, October 13 before this special room block rate expires.

Room reservations can be made here.

RSM US LLP

Platinum Sponsor

RSM US LLP is an award-winning Microsoft Solutions Partner for the Microsoft Cloud and works with clients to implement D365 solutions. Their consultants have deep government contracting experience and understand compliance and other regulatory concerns related to enterprise applications.

Infotek Consulting LLC

Gold Sponsor

Infotek Consulting's expert services leverage cutting-edge technology to streamline processes, enhance customer experience, and drive growth for government contractors and businesses across industries and around the world.

Ardent

Silver Sponsor

Ardent provides one platform to manage privacy, data security and AI governance.

Sponsorship Opportunities

As a sponsor, you'll gain exclusive access to a high-value audience, elevate your brand's visibility, and position your company as a key player in the future of government contracting.

Don't miss this opportunity to connect with attendees, showcase your solutions, and build meaningful relationships with decision-makers across the industry.

View sponsorship and exhibit opportunities here.

FAQs

Registration

1. Are early bird tickets available this year?

Yes! Early bird tickets offer the best value to attend Elevate25 at $65. Early bird pricing is available until Friday, August 29. After that, prices will increase to $109.

2. Do you offer a group discount?

Yes! If your organization would like to send a group of 3 team members or more, early bird tickets offer the best value at $55 per person. Early bird group pricing is available until Friday, August 29. After that, group prices will increase to $99 per person.

Note: You must purchase a minimum of 3 tickets to qualify for the group discount.

3. Who should attend Elevate25?

Elevate25 includes content that is relevant for GovCon and Aerospace & Defense executives, sales and contracts leadership, and IT and digital transformation leaders, as well as business development, capture, and contracts professionals who are daily users of TechnoMile solutions.

4. Can you help me justify the expense of attending Elevate25?

Yes! Here’s a template you can customize and share with your leadership.

5. How will the optional pre-conference training sessions differ from the hands-on breakout sessions for users at the conference?

Pre-conference training is designed to provide a more in-depth review of your TechnoMile solution, plus offers the opportunity to submit your topics of interest in advance to ensure they're covered during the training. The hands-on user breakout sessions will dive into key workflows within our Growth and Contracts Suites as well as focus on tips and tricks for using some of the more recent new features and enhancements in these products.

6. I can no longer attend. What are my options?

All Elevate25 conference tickets are non-refundable. However, you may transfer your registration to another team member by contacting us at [email protected].

7. Who should I contact with questions about Elevate25?

Attending the Event

8. What’s the attire?

The conference attire is business casual.

9. What are the parking options at the Hyatt Regency Reston?

Self-parking is available at the Hyatt Regency Reston and is included with each Elevate25 conference ticket. You can view information about all transportation options to the event venue here.

10. Will Elevate25 be livestreamed?

No. Elevate25 is designed to be an in-person event, offering ample opportunity for networking and sharing ideas with peers and the TechnoMile team.

11. Is there a discounted room block at the Hyatt Regency Reston?

Yes! TechnoMile has secured a block of rooms at a discounted rate of $259. Room reservations can be made here. Please book your room by Monday, October 13.

Sponsoring the Event

12. How do we become a sponsor of Elevate25?

View sponsorship opportunities here. Contact us at [email protected] with any questions related to existing or custom sponsorship opportunities.

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