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Industry Application Process
APPLICATION DEADLINE HAS EXPIRED. We are no longer accepting submissions. Thank you.
(Be sure your company Point of Contact (POC) has first Registered to Attend the Symposium)
The application deadline for presenting your company's emerging technology at the Symposium was extended to January 31. However, we will begin conducting rolling evaluations of the submissions, and start making selections of presenters, starting on Monday, January 16 (the day after the original January 15 deadline). The earlier you submit, the greater your chance to be selected to present in front of the audience on February 21.
This is your invitation to present your company's emerging technology before senior executives in DoD, DHS, and the Intel Community. We will have CTOs from government & industry, "Advanced Research" specialists, large prime contractors, venture capitalists, M&A firms, and other potential partners on-hand - who can help you bring your technology product to market, and ensure your efforts are sustainable over time. We are expecting approximately 500 of your colleagues in government, industry & academia to turn out for the day. There are also sponsorship packages available with booth space to give you further exposure at the event, regardless of whether you are selected to present on-stage.
Every sponsor and every individual registrant for the Emerging Technologies Symposium will be have the opportunity to apply to present their emerging technology on-stage. Sponsorship does not guarantee the ability to present on-stage. We will have a competitive, merit-based, vendor-blind process for determining the industry firms that will participate/present. All selections of presenting companies are at the sole discretion of AFCEA DC and the selection committees of leaders we assemble from Industry, Government and Academia. We anticipate a wide-variety of companies will have a chance to present on the main stage.
Because so much technology/IT innovation occurs in small businesses, the Emerging Tech Symposium will have an emphasis on ensuring small-to-medium-sized firms have an opportunity to showcase their potential. But, any company, of any size, may apply to present an emerging technology at the conference.
The primary focus will be topics that our mil/gov partners have told us represent their most pressing challenges:
- Cyber/Security
- Situational Awareness / Visualization
- Identity / Access Management / Biometrics
- Forensics / Automated Forensics
- Sensors
- Offensive Cyber
- Continuous Monitoring
- Other Cyber/security
- Mobile
- Security
- Tactical & Sensors
- Ubiquitous Device Management & Provisioning
- Connectivity/Networks & Bandwidth & Last-mile
- Offensive/Exploitive
- Consumerization / BYOD (Bring your Own Device)
- Spectrum & Spectrum efficiency
- Applications & App Ecosystem
- Other Mobile
- Cloud Computing
- Migration/Integration to Cloud / Data / Applications
- Cloud Security
- Federation
- Management & Automation
- Desktop as a Service
- Analytics/Big Data
- Predictive Analytics (Video, Social, Geospatial)
- Business Intelligence
- Storage
- Data Structure / Re-structure / NOSQL Database / Unstructured Data
- Enterprise Search / Retrieval
- Other analytics/Big Data
- Collaboration
- Visualization
- Information Sharing / Cross-domain Info Sharing
- Conferencing / Video/ Integration / Transcoding across devices/VTC
- Social Networking – data collection/learning/offensive
- Applications
- Location Services / Presence / Context Computing
While we believe many submissions will fit into one of these five subcategories, these themes will in no way limit the types of proposals that we receive. Presenters on the main-stage will be the strongest submissions, regardless of technology area or category. The level of innovation represented by your proposal will determine likelihood that you will present.
In the selection process we will consider your technology's:
- Applicability to the Mission to Protect
- Likelihood to Improve Efficiency or Reduce Costs
- Clear and convincing Usability
- How Cutting Edge/Emerging the Technology is
All successful applicants must be presenting a technology that
- Can be demonstrated/tested/shown to be functional in a lab now
- Can be deployed within the next 12-18 months, or sooner
- Can be matured rapidly
- Is commercially viable
- Can be presented/discussed in a non-classified environment
