FED SUPERNOVA 2025 SPEAKERS
Joseph Kopser
Serial Entreprenuer
Grayline Group
Mica Dolan
President and Chief Operating Officer
ATI
Joshua Baer
Founder & CEO
Capital Factory
Maj Gen Steve “Bucky” Butow
Military Deputy
Defense Innovation Unit (DIU)
Doug Beck
Director
Defense Innovation Unit
Mark Slominski
Mobilization Assistant to the Commander, Air Force Materiel Command
Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command
Ross Guieb
Executive Director, George H.W. Bush Combat Development Complex
Texas A&M University System
Kelly Perdew
Co-Founder & Managing General Partner
Moonshots Capital
Colleen Laughlin
Former Executive Director, Defense Innovation Board
Capital Atlas
William Bailey
Director & Program Executive Officer, Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office
Acting Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, Acquisition, Technology & Logistics
Justin Fanelli
Navy CTO
US Navy
Riffat Manasia
Executive Director
Station Texas
Doug Matty
Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer
Department of Defense
Nathan Diller
CEO
Divergent Industries Inc
Noam Oz
Navy Portfolio Lead
Divergent
Steven Simoni
CEO & Co-Founder
Allen Control Systems
Brig. Gen. Jason E. Bartolomei
Commander
Air Force Research Laboratory
Mia Blessing
Strategic Communications Lead
AFWERX
Arthur Grijalva
Director
SpaceWERX
Karen Roth
AFWERX Deputy Director
AFWERX
Art Trevethan
Ringmaster
Acceleration Reach Transition, LLC
Christopher Zember
Z-Factor
Casey Perley
Executive Director
Army Applications Laboratory
Aneel Alvares
Military Deputy Director
AFWERX
Clay Duarte
Director, Austin Tech Hub
NavalX
Christopher Chase
Marine Liaison Officer
U.S. Marine Corps
Zach Walker
Co-founder
ATX Defense
Zac Staples
Founder & CEO
Fathom5
Ligeia Zeruto
Head of Government, Aerospace and Defense
Beyond Identity
Russ Mathers
Director
Strikewerx
Charlie Burgoyne
CEO
Valkyrie
Oluseun “Olu” Taiwo
CEO, Founder
Solideon
Sam Moyer
Research Fellow
National Defense Industrial Association - Emerging Technologies Institute
Mark Benedict
Senior Scientist, Convergent Manufacturing
Air Force Research Laboratory
Dan Fata
Founder and President
Fata Advisory, LLC
Dino Mavrookas
Co-Founder & CEO
Saronic Technologies
CAPT David Gast
PEO C4I Innovation Lead
Navy
Sang Yi
Acting Administrator
U.S. Maritime Administration
Jen Warren
Founder
Exia Edge
Maureen Gannon
Co-Founder
X-Bow Systems Inc
Nina Shelat
Director, Center for Dual-Use Innovation
Capital Factory
Hallie Coyne
National Security Advisor
Representative Rob Wittman (VA-01)
Olivia Mullaney
Military Legislative Assistant
Rep. Pat Ryan
Ashley Landes, CPA
Director
Badger
Frank Gruber
Cofounder & Co-CEO
Established
Marcus Weller
Chief Scientist
AIONIC Machine Learning
Jason Curtis
Chief, Technology Transition Team
DARPA
Dyan Gibbens
Senior Advisor
DARPA
Steve Spear
Senior Lecturer
MIT Sloan School of Management
Victor Lopez
AFWERX Autonomy Prime Program Manager
AFWERX
Robert Mathews
Deputy Program Executive Officer, SOF Digital Applications
SDA
John Olson
President & CEO
AXIONS
Matt Bigge
Partner
Crosslink Capital
Kevin Rustagi
Capital Factory - Advisor
The Restless Few LLC - Startup Advisor / Fractional Executive
Susan Stuver
Director, Defense Energy and Collaborative Programs
GTI Energy
Keenan Blatt
Senior Program Manager
MIT
Jason Dunn
Founder, CEO & CTO
Outpost Space
Omar Perea
Chief, National Security Space Ecosystems
US Space Force
Norman Garza Jr
Exec Dir
TSC
Jim Cantrell
Phantom Space
Brad Morrison
Board Member
Texas Space Commission
Holly Heinrich
Attorney
Husch Blackwell
Joel Fox
Program Manager
USSOCOM
Blaise Zandoli
Army SBIR/STTR Portfolio Manager, Energy and AI/ML
Army xTech/SBIR/STTR
Brian Stevens
Director - Plans, Programs, and Innovation
Texas Military Department
Neal Rickner
CEO
Airloom Energy
Elizabeth Muller
CEO
Deep Fission
Samantha Brown
Senior Strategist
Distinctive Edge
Mike Galdo
Counsel
King & Spalding
Linda Lourie
Principal
WestExec Advisors
Jung Eun Park
Co-CEO
BLT&Partners
Eric Robinson
Special Counsel
Baker Botts L.L.P.
David Grover
Senior Director of Cyber Initiatives
Baylor University
John Beieler
Executive Director of the Applied Research Lab for Intelligence and Security
UMD
Nadya Bliss
Executive Director, Global Security Initiative
Arizona State University
Matt Gaston
Director, Artificial Intelligence Division
Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute
Nat Higgins
Deputy Director, Human Systems Portfolio
DIU
Matt Rabinovitch
Founder & CEO
Teleidoscope
Kristina Botelho
Consultant
Elciris, LLC
ES
Ernie Sawyer
Technical Director
67th Cyberspace Operations Group
Sean Singleton
Managing Director & U.S. Venture Partner
Oglethorpe Capital, LLC/Beaten Zone Ventures
CP
Caitlin Percy
Second Sec Emerging Technology
UK Government
Brianna Peake
Investment and Trade Commissioner Americas
Government of Western Australia
Michael Anderson
Chief Executive Officer
Seagate Space Corporation
Roger Antunez
Founder & CEO
Supernova
MG Duane Miller
Deputy Commanding General
Security Assistance Group-Ukraine
Jason Hundley
CEO / Founder
XBOW
Luke Walter
Chief Strategy Officer
AFWERX
Dr. Michael Webber
Centennial Energy Chair in Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
UT Austin
Christopher Lay
Founding Partner
Leonid Capital Partners
James Parker
Co-Founding Partner
Leonid Capital Partners
Eric Schank
Senior Vice President
DroneSense
Chris Lynch
Cofounder
Arsenal
Tom Gardner
VP Military Affairs
Rx Bandz
Sameer Garg
Managing Director
Citi
SH
Sam Howell
Chief of Staff
DroneSense
Chris Pimentel
Branch Chief
SpaceWERX Ventures
DH
Drew Hendricks
DICE - Sr. Strategy & Operations
DIU
Bobby Gallagher
CEO & CTO Founder
Deployable Energy
Clif Luber
Head of Strategy and Growth, Defense
Kodiak
George Ploss
Sr. Director, Startups + Venture
Oracle
