NENSC Committee Co-Chairs

Tom Fournier, Owner, OrgNxt LLC

Scott Merrick, Founder & Principal, Darby Field Advisors

8:00am – 8:30am Registration Opens

Main Level, Roger and Francine Jean Student Center, Saint Anselm College

8:30am – 9:00am Opening Remarks

Melucci Theater, Roger and Francine Jean Student Center

9:00am – 9:45am Keynote Address

• Lieutenant General Philip A. Garrant, Commander, Space Systems Command

9:45am – 10:25am Presentations by Defense Service Organizations

These presentations will be an overview of the organization, what technology needs they have, and how businesses can utilize their services.

• Army Applications Lab – Barry Tishgart, Entrepreneur in Residence, Army Futures Command
  
  Description

  AAL is an innovation organization. We help ensure that Army Futures Command consistently delivers the best technology in the world to Army units, we find the best ways to do that, and we capture and report best innovation practices to support their adoption across the enterprise. We energize the commercial innovation base to solve Army problems. We don’t simply release solicitations and wait for companies to reply. We actively work in every section of the Lab to make the Army a business partner of preference for the best innovators and technologists in the world. In so doing, we expand the base of viable companies willing and ready to work with the DoD.

• AFWERX – Aneel Alvares, Military Deputy Director, AFWERX
  
  Description

  As the innovation arm of the Department of the Air Force (DAF) and powered by the Air Force Research Laboratory, AFWERX cultivates and transitions impactful emerging technologies to deter and win wars.  AFWERX brings cutting edge American ingenuity from small businesses and start-ups to address the most pressing challenges of the DAF.  The four core arms of AFWERX – AFVentures, Spark, Prime and SpaceWERX – serve to expand the defense industrial base for advanced technologies, empower Airmen and Guardian talent, and drive faster technology transition to operational capability.

10:25am – 10:55am Coffee Break 

10:55am – 11:35am Presentations by Defense Service Organizations

These presentations will be an overview of the organization, what technology needs they have, and how businesses can utilize their services.

• DARPAConnect – Ms. Sana Hoda Sood, Communications, DARPAConnect
  
  Description

   DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is the U.S. Department of Defense’s premier R&D agency, relentlessly pursuing groundbreaking innovations in artificial intelligence, biotechnology, advanced manufacturing, cybersecurity, and more. Renowned for turning bold ideas into field-ready capabilities, DARPA continues to push the boundaries of possibility. The DARPAConnect program serves as the front door to the agency, with resources, opportunities and pathways to teach innovators “How to DARPA.”.

• DEVCOM – Mr. Jeffrey Pacuska, Program Manager- OUSD R&E ManTech, US Army DEVCOM Soldier Center

11:35am – 12:20pm Investing in National Security

• Jeremy Hitchcock, Co-Founder/Managing Partner, New North Ventures
• Laura Rippy, Managing Partner, Alumni Ventures
• Chip Walter, Managing Director, Marlinspike Partners
• Sherman Williams, Managing Partner, AIN Ventures
• Adam “AJ” Jarnagin, CEO & Founding Partner, Expansia

12:20pm – 1:20pm Lunch

1:20pm – 2:05pm Panel discussion with Defense Service Organizations

• Army Applications Lab – Barry Tishgart, Entrepreneur in Residence, Army Futures Command
• AFWERX – Aneel Alvares, Military Deputy Director, AFWERX
• DARPAConnect – Ms. Sana Hoda Sood, Communications, DARPAConnect
• DEVCOM – Mr. Jeffrey Pacuska, Program Manager- OUSD R&E ManTech, US Army DEVCOM Soldier Center

2:05pm – 2:55pm Tech Showcase

• Double D Design, LLC
• Lase-X
• Phoenix Tailings
• Safi Biotherapeutics
• Signal Processing Technologies
• URSA Inc.

2:55pm – 3:15pm Coffee Break 

3:15pm – 3:55pm Regional Ecosystem Panel

• Steve Fortier, Administrator of Rural Economic Development, NH Dept of Business & Economic Affairs
• Jay Kahn, Mayor of City of Keene, NH
• John Solomonides, President/CEO, Soldier Systems D-MIL, LLC
• Samrad Bukovcan, Director of Global Business Development, Moore Nanotechnology Systems
• Dr. Jim Kraly, Associate Dean of Academic Program Innovation, Keene State College

3:55pm – 4:35pm National Security Workforce and Ecosystem Development

• Jeromy Grimmett, CEO, Calhar Industries
• Jennifer MacDonald, MD, Chief Operating Officer, Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI)
• Butch Locke, Strategic Operations Director, BAE Systems, Inc.
• Jonathan Mason, Corporate Community and Continuing Education Coordinator, Nashua Community College
• Jeff Lapak, Director, UNH InterOperability Lab

4:35pm – 6:30pm Cocktail Reception

Event Space, Top Floor, Roger and Francine Jean Student Center