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Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Time
Location
7:30 am - 5:00 pm
7:30 - 8:15 am
8:15 - 9:00 am
Jim Segelstrom
Chairman, NDIA’s Manufacturing Division
Chief Executive Officer, McNally Industries

Ron Perlman
Chair, NDIA’s Defense Manufacturing Communications Committee
General Counsel, NDTA, Retired Partner, Holland & Knight

Jeff Shubrooks
Chair, NDIA’s Technology for Manufacturing Committee
Manufacturing Technology Director, Raytheon

Ethan Plotkin
Chair, NDIA’s Supply Chain Network Committee
CEO, GDCA Inc

Jeannine Kunz
Chair, NDIA’s Manufacturing Workforce Committee
Executive Director & CEO SME

Brig Gen Guy Walsh, USAF (Ret)
Executive Vice President and COO, NDIA
 
9:00 - 9:45 am
Hon. Nazak Nikakhtar
Partner, Wiley
 
9:45 - 10:00 am
10:00 - 11:15 am
Ben DiMarco
Technology Transition Director, America Makes/NCDMM
Moderator

Chris Beck
Operations Manager/Owner, Innovative 3D Manufacturing

Charlie Phillips
Vice President, Penn United Technologies

Thomas Pomorski
Director of Additive Manufacturing, Ursa Major

Jonaaron Jones
President & GM External Parts, Beehive Industries
 
11:15 am - 12:00 pm
Eric Lofgren
Professional Staff Member, U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee
 
12:00 - 1:00 pm
1:00 - 2:00 pm
Marcus Jones, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow, Energetics Technology Center
Moderator

Honorable Mike Gallagher
Head of Defense, Palantir Technologies, Inc.
 
2:00 - 2:45 pm
Stacy Newstead
Co-Vice Chair, NDIA Manufacturing Division
Chief Executive Officer, Evolution Energy Solutions
Moderator

Reza Nikfarjam
Deputy Director, Credit Program, Office of Strategic Capital
 
2:45 - 3:00 pm
3:00 - 4:00 pm
Brian Gabriel
Co-Vice Chair, NDIA Manufacturing Division
Senior Manager, Lockheed Martin
Moderator

Del Renigar
Vice President for External Affairs, Rio Tinto

Zoe Oysul
Senior Policy Analyst, SAFE

Eric Bender
Vice President & General Manager, Rare Earths, Tronox

Sam Stein
Chief of Strategic Planning, Defense Logistics Agency Strategic Materials

Sarah Whitten
Senior Vice President, China and Transformational Exports Program (CTEP), U.S. EXIM
 
4:00 - 5:00 pm
Adele Ratcliff
Director, Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment (IBAS) Program
 
5:00 - 7:00 pm
Stacy Newstead
Co-Vice Chair, NDIA Manufacturing Division
Chief Executive Officer, Evolution Energy Solutions
Moderator

Paul Burfield
Minister-Counsellor, Senior Trade & Investment Commissioner
Australian Trade and Investment Commission
 

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Time
Location
7:30 - 8:15 am
8:15 - 8:20 am
Brian Gabriel
Co-Vice Chair, NDIA Manufacturing Division
Senior Manager, Lockheed Martin
 
8:20 - 9:05 am
William “Greg” Davis
Acting Director, Manufacturing Capability Expansion & Investment Prioritization (MCEIP)
 
9:05 - 9:20 am
9:20 - 10:00 am
John Matlik
Fellow-Digital Transformation Strategy, Northrop Grumman

Brench Boden
Digital Enterprise Lead, Air Force Research Lab
Virtual

Michael McGrath
Co Chair, NDIA’s Manufacturing Working Group
Principal Consultant, McGrath Analytics
 
10:00 - 11:00 am
Stacy Newstead
Co-Vice Chair, NDIA Manufacturing Division
Chief Executive Officer, Evolution Energy Solutions
Moderator

Dr. Paul Deignan
LM Fellow, Lockheed Martin

Carolyn Mulhern
Executive Vice President Manufacturing, Palantir

Amir Abrari
Systems Engineer, SPEC Innovations
 
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Chris Peters
Senior Advisor, U.S. Partnership for Assured Electronics (USPAE)
Moderator

Katharina McFarland
Former Assistant Secretary of Defense (Acquisition)

Mitch Free
Chief Executive Officer & Founder, ZYCI CNC Machining

Dr. Steven Melnyk
Professor of Supply Chain and Operations Management, Michigan State University
 
12:30 - 12:35 pm
Jim Segelstrom
Chairman, NDIA’s Manufacturing Division
Chief Executive Officer, McNally Industries