Thursday, October 22
7:45a - 9:00aBreakfast + NetworkingConnect with industry peers over breakfast and learn how they’re driving innovation and success in BD, capture, proposals, contracts, and security roles.
Location:
Regency Ballroom A-C (1st Floor)
8:00a - 6:30pCX Lounge: Live Demos and DiscussionsStop by the CX Lounge to connect with TechnoMile team members and partners and see live demos of our newest solutions.
Location:
Regency Ballroom Foyer (1st Floor)
9:00a - 9:05aOpening RemarksSpeaker:
Tom Temin - Former Host and Managing Editor, The Federal Drive
Location:
Regency Ballroom A-C (1st Floor)
9:05a - 9:35aCEO Briefing: The AI-Native Mission BackboneIn this session, Ashish Khot shares TechnoMile's vision for the future of mission execution, now spanning growth, contracts, and industrial security on one platform. As the market tightens and the threat environment sharpens, TechnoMile is connecting the work that has always been done apart – and setting the stage for a day of new capabilities and a look at what's ahead.
Speaker:
Ashish Khot - CEO, TechnoMile
Location:
Regency Ballroom A-C (1st Floor)
9:35a - 10:20aKeynote Address: The Current State of DoW AcquisitionsA career Air Force officer and former Director of the DoD Special Access Program Central Office, Maj. Gen. Abba brings firsthand experience from the highest levels of Pentagon acquisition. Drawing on decades of leadership, he'll share a unique insider's perspective on the current state of DoW acquisitions and what it means for the future of defense contracting. Whether you're focused on growth, contracts, or security, this is a can't-miss keynote for anyone navigating today's rapidly evolving GovCon landscape.
Speaker:
Major General David W. Abba (Ret.) - Former Director, DoD SAPCO
Location:
Regency Ballroom A-C (1st Floor)
10:20a - 11:05aBuilding the Future of Mission-Driven Organizations: Inside TechnoMile's Product RoadmapGet an exclusive look at where TechnoMile is headed next. Join our Product Management team as they unveil the roadmap for Growth, GovSearchAI, Contracts, and SIMS, highlighting the innovations that will shape the future of government contracting. Learn how agentic AI, connected workflows, and a unified platform strategy are transforming the way government contractors pursue opportunities, manage contracts, maintain compliance, and protect critical assets.
Speakers:
Ashish Khot - CEO, TechnoMile
Anupriyo Chakravarti - CPTO, TechnoMile
Patrick Farrell - SVP of Product Management, TechnoMile
Tim Brett - VP of Product, TechnoMile
Location:
Regency Ballroom A-C (1st Floor)
11:05a - 11:15aNetworking Break
11:15a - 12:00pAI and the New National Security Imperative: Competing for Power in the Intelligence AgeJoin us for a fireside chat with The Honorable Kirstjen Nielsen, the 6th U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security. A leading voice on cybersecurity and national security, Secretary Nielsen brings firsthand experience from the highest levels of the U.S. government, having led DHS through a pivotal era of emerging cyber and national security threats. Joined by Glenn Gerstell, Senior Advisor at Center for Strategic & International Studies and former General Counsel of the National Security Agency, she'll share a candid, insider's perspective on how AI is reshaping national security, intelligence, and mission-critical government operations. As AI reshapes the balance of power in intelligence and defense, this conversation offers a rare, insider's view of what's at stake – and what comes next.
Speakers:
The Honorable Kirstjen Nielsen - The 6th U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security
Glenn Gerstell - Senior Advisor at Center for Strategic & International Studies & Former General Counsel at the National Security Agency
Location:
Regency Ballroom A-C (1st Floor)
12:00p - 1:00pLeadership LuncheonTake a break for lunch while networking with industry peers and exchanging insights from across the public sector community.
Location:
Regency Ballroom A-C (1st Floor)
12:15p - 12:45pLunch & Learn: Get to Know GovSearchAI & MilaJoin us for a walkthrough of GovSearchAI, TechnoMile’s AI-powered opportunity and market intelligence solution for government contractors that comes with your Growth Suite. This session will show you how to uncover highly relevant opportunities and leverage Mila – TechnoMile's intelligent digital assistant – to qualify leads faster and gain deep insights into agencies, competitors, and teaming partners.
Speakers:
Chrissy McMasters - Enterprise Customer Success Manager, TechnoMile
Greg White - Sales Engineer, TechnoMile
Location:
Peachgrove A-B (4th Floor)
1:15p - 2:00pThe Future of Contract Vehicles: Buying Trends, AI & What's Next (Growth Track)Federal contract vehicles are evolving rapidly. What does that mean for contractors – and where is government buying headed next? We'll discuss the latest developments shaping federal procurement, including the broader shift toward contract vehicle consolidation and growth. From there, we'll showcase what’s new in NoticesIQ and how TechnoMile is putting AI to work to help contractors capitalize on these opportunities. Discover how Mila, TechnoMile’s intelligent digital assistant, can help rapidly evaluate and qualify task order opportunities, while new NoticesIQ enhancements make it easier to manage the multiple sources feeding your pipeline. For BD, Capture, and GWAC/IDIQ teams, the result is faster opportunity decisions, less manual work, and greater visibility into where to focus pursuit resources. Includes a live product demonstration.
Speakers:
Nick Wakeman - Editor-in-Chief, Washington Technology
Grant Gearhart - Product Manager, Growth, TechnoMile
Tim Brett - VP of Product, TechnoMile
Location:
Peachgrove A-B (4th Floor)
1:15p - 2:00pMod Madness Managed: End-to-End Automation with AI (Contracts Track)Contract modifications are a relentless, high-volume burden for many contracts teams – one that still demands painstaking manual effort to keep the CLM accurate and up to date. This session introduces the next evolution of Transform Copilot, extending AI beyond mod summarization to take action, helping teams move from insight to update with far less manual effort. See how this enhanced workflow reduces administrative burden, minimizes errors, and frees your team to focus on higher-value work. Includes a live product demonstration.
Speaker:
Mai Suzuki-Scull - Product Manager, Contracts, TechnoMile
Location:
Commonwealth A-B (4th Floor)
1:15p - 2:00pAI & Innovation in SIMS: A Look at What's Ahead (SIMS Track)Since joining forces, TechnoMile and SIMS Software have been investing in what's next for industrial security technology and exploring how AI can be applied responsibly to help security teams work smarter. In this session, discover how Mila – TechnoMile's intelligent digital assistant – is expanding into SIMS Infinity as part of our combined platform vision. See Mila in action today through a live demo, then explore what's ahead for SIMS – from surfacing overdue clearance tasks to flagging personnel due for NATO rebriefing – along with our forward-looking vision for AI-powered insider threat detection. The session closes with an open conversation on responsible AI and the practical compliance, security, and administrative questions FSOs are asking about AI in sensitive environments. Includes a live product demonstration.
Speakers:
Patrick Farrell - SVP of Product Management, TechnoMile
Scott Yale - Software Architect, TechnoMile
Location:
Colvin Run (4th Floor)
2:00p - 2:15pNetworking Break
2:15p - 3:00pAgentic Capture: Accelerating Every Pursuit (Growth Track)Winning more government contracts starts long before a proposal is due. Success depends on identifying the right opportunities early, qualifying them effectively, and executing a disciplined capture strategy that gives your team the best chance to win. In this session, discover how TechnoMile’s Growth Suite and our new Agentic Capture capabilities help BD and Capture teams accelerate every stage of the pursuit lifecycle. See how domain-trained AI agents surface the right opportunities, eliminate hours of manual research, automate administrative tasks, and help execute key capture activities – so your team can spend more time building relationships, shaping opportunities, and developing winning strategies. The result is a smarter, faster pursuit process that improves pipeline quality, reduces capture costs, and increases win rates. Includes a live product demonstration.
Speakers:
Grant Gearhart - Product Manager, Growth, TechnoMile
Tim Brett - VP of Product, TechnoMile
Location:
Peachgrove A-B (4th Floor)
2:15p - 3:00pAsk More of Mila: Tools, Recommendations, and Best Practices (Contracts Track)Most users know Mila, TechnoMile’s intelligent digital assistant, as a fast, conversational way to get answers about contract details – but that's just the beginning of what she can do. This session unveils new capabilities that let Mila produce downloadable artifacts in Excel, Word, PPT, and PDF, from executive reports to risk matrices and SWOT analyses. You'll also be introduced to a brand-new concept: a library of pre-built AI tools – repeatable, ready-to-use tasks like a price analysis or a deliverables register – that Mila can recommend and run based on your conversation. Walk away with best practices to move beyond simple Q&A and put Mila's expanding capabilities to work to save you time and inform decision-making. Includes a live product demonstration.
Speakers:
Chrissy McMasters - Enterprise Customer Success Manager, TechnoMile
Greg White - Sales Engineer, TechnoMile
Location:
Commonwealth A-B (4th Floor)
2:15p - 3:00pWhat's New in SIMS Infinity v8 (SIMS Track)SIMS Infinity's latest and upcoming releases bring impactful upgrades to both the Documents and Information Systems (IS) modules, and this session is your first look at all of it. On the Documents side, we'll cover improved performance for large transactions, customizable validations, a unified audit trail across SIMS 7 and Infinity, and a redesigned Transact screen with in-transaction validation correction. On the IS side, we'll preview Release 1 (arriving early Q4), including support for complex IS structures like cloud, expanded artifact and authorization tracking, and new sub-modules and fields built for interrelated systems. Includes a live product demonstration.
Speakers:
Alexandra Grantham - Senior Customer Success Manager, TechnoMile
Jared Cameron - Regional Vice President, Sales, TechnoMile
Sean McMillan - Director, Corporate FSO & Enterprise Customer Success Manager, TechnoMile
Location:
Colvin Run (4th Floor)
3:00p - 3:15pNetworking Break
3:15p - 4:00pAI-Powered Growth: The Roadmap from Opportunity to Award (Growth Track)Take a deeper look at the future of TechnoMile’s Growth Suite and the innovations designed to help government contractors identify, pursue, and win more business. This session will explore upcoming roadmap investments across AI-powered capture, opportunity intelligence, OTA opportunities, proposal integration, and task order management. Discover how TechnoMile is connecting the full opportunity-to-award lifecycle – from identifying the right opportunities to carrying critical capture intelligence into proposal development and maximizing the value of existing contract vehicles. Join the Growth Product team for an inside look at what’s next and how these enhancements will help teams pursue opportunities with greater speed, insight, and efficiency.
Speakers:
Grant Gearhart - Product Manager, Growth, TechnoMile
Tim Brett - VP of Product, TechnoMile
Location:
Peachgrove A-B (4th Floor)
3:15p - 4:00pSkill Up: Pre-Built AI for Everyday Contracts Work (Contracts Track)Get your first look at TechnoMile's AI Library – a growing set of pre-built, customizable AI tools designed to tackle real Contracts challenges out of the box. This session brings the concept to life with live demos tailored to Contracts use cases, including the Labor Category Ingestion skill, which uses Mila to produce documentation that automates the import of labor categories and rates into the CLM, streamlining this process. See how these skills can be applied and tailored to your organization's needs to save your team time and put AI to work on the tasks that matter most.
Speaker:
Mai Suzuki-Scull - Product Manager, Contracts, TechnoMile
Location:
Commonwealth A-B (4th Floor)
3:15p - 4:00pSIMS Workflow: Accelerated Processes & Data Integrity (SIMS Track)SIMS Workflow began as a highly-configurable foundation – and we're evolving it toward COTS-ready solutions built for speed. This session traces that roadmap evolution, then dives into the workflow library itself: PAR, Foreign Travel, Security Reporting, Affiliate Visitor Request, Area Compliance Form, IS Request & Terminations, Medical Device, and SCIF Form, including a look at Document Control (custodian assignment, loan in/out, automated tracking) and our newest medical device workflow. We'll cover how AI is being integrated into Workflow itself, and close with the metrics that matter most – predictability, data integrity, and measurable improvement across the people and processes that keep your security program audit-ready. Includes a live product demonstration.
Speakers:
Scott Yale - Software Architect, TechnoMile
Sean McMillan - Director, Corporate FSO & Enterprise Customer Success Manager, TechnoMile
Location:
Colvin Run (4th Floor)
4:00p - 4:15pNetworking Break
4:15p - 5:00pClosing Session: The Connected, AI-Native Future of Mission-Driven OrganizationsGrowth, Contracts, and SIMS users come together for a closing look at TechnoMile's vision for the future: an AI-native platform designed to be the operational backbone for government contractors. When growth, contracts, compliance, and industrial security workflows are connected in a single platform, organizations can move faster, collaborate more effectively, and eliminate the disconnected processes that create risk, inefficiency, and compliance challenges. In addition, learn how TechnoMile's AI Library brings this vision to life with pre-built AI skills and agents that automate high-value work across the platform – and the flexibility to create your own. The result is an AI ecosystem that grows alongside your organization, adapting to your processes, priorities, and mission as your business evolves.
Speakers:
Ashish Khot - CEO, TechnoMile
Anupriyo Chakravarti - CPTO, TechnoMile
Patrick Farrell - SVP of Product Management, TechnoMile
Tim Brett - VP of Product, TechnoMile
Location:
Regency Ballroom A-C (1st Floor)
5:00p - 6:30pCustomer Community ReceptionWrap up the day at our Customer Community Reception – an evening of connection, conversation, and customer appreciation.
Location:
Barrel & Bushel (3rd Floor)
