Event Agenda
8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. | Doors Open and Registration
9:00 a.m. to 9:05 a.m. | Introductory Remarks
- Tom Quaadman, Senior Vice President, Economic Policy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
9:05 a.m. to 9:25 a.m. | Panel: Compute to Compete keeping the U.S. AI Edge
- Sethuraman Panchanathan, Director, National Science Foundation
Moderated by Michael Richards, Senior Director, C_TEC
9:25 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. | Fireside Chat: Building America’s Computing Capacity
- Laurie Locascio, Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards & Technology, and Director, National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST)
Moderated by Tom Quaadman, Senior Vice President, Economic Policy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
9:45 a.m. to 10:05 a.m. | Off the Cloud: On Device AI
- Durga Malladi, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Technology Planning & Edge Solutions, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Moderated by Neil Chilson, Head of AI Policy, Abundance Institute
10:05 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. | Networking Break
10:05 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. | Fireside Chat: Empowering Small Business to Compete
- Michael Kennedy, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Intuit
- Shirley Boubert-Rumble, Chief Executive Officer, Usource
Moderated by Jordan Crenshaw, Senior Vice President, C_TEC
10:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. | VIP Fireside Chat:
- Arati Prabhakar, Director, Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP)
Moderated by Rick Wade, Senior Vice President, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
10:45 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. | Networking Break
11:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. | Accelerating Compute: Bridging Quantum and AI
- Kate Weber, Head of Governance & External Affairs, Google
Moderated by Denise Turley, Vice President, Corporate Systems, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
11:30 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. | Congressional Fireside Chat with Congressman French Hill
- Congressman French Hill, AR-02
Moderated by Tom Quaadman, Senior Vice President, Economic Policy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
11:50am - Noon | Closing Remarks
- Jordan Crenshaw, Senior Vice President, C_TEC