Event Schedule
Explore each session to understand the opportunities, connections, and outcomes you can expect at DIBCON West.
Final times and speakers will be announced soon. This draft schedule is subject to change.
Previous Agenda From DIBCON 26 Milwaukee
DIBCON26 Highlighted Sessions: A look back at the depth of discussion and insight from our program in Milwaukee.
Panel - Opportunity or Sunk Cost?: Dual-Use Strategy, Government Work, and Commercial Growth
Manufacturers with varying approaches to government work discuss the practical tradeoffs between compliance, growth, and operational flexibility.
Keynote Address - Thursday Luncheon
Democratic Resilience and Defense Innovation: Taiwan’s Role in Strengthening Allied Supply Chains in the Year of America's 250th Anniversary and Taiwan's 30 Years of Direct Democracy.
Panel - The Platform Industrial Base
How emerging digital platforms may redefine how manufacturing capacity is surfaced, coordinated, and activated across the defense industrial base.
Panel - Manufacturing for Asymmetric Warfare
How emerging technologies, distributed production, and resilient supply chains are shaping how nations sustain operations in contested environments.
Workshop - Building the Manufacturing Workforce: A Model for Training
A practical workshop examining a workforce development model that has successfully trained and placed hundreds of veterans as welders and machinists.
Panel - CMMC Market Signals: Enforcement, Readiness, and Risk in 2026
A situational awareness briefing on how primes are enforcing compliance, where contractors are misaligned, and which trends will shape competitiveness.
Workshop - Preparing for CMMC: Think Like an Assessor
Learn how certified assessors evaluate objectives—not just the 110 controls—and how to align documentation to reduce stress, cost, and surprises.
Panel - Running a Modern Manufacturing Business
How forward-thinking manufacturers are using digital tools, data, and automation to improve quoting, planning, and supply chain coordination.
Panel - AI and CMMC: Managing Data Risk in the Age of Automation
As defense contractors adopt AI tools, questions are emerging about how those tools interact with CMMC and NIST 800-171 requirements.
Workshop - From Zero to CMMC Level 2: A Practical Roadmap
A hands-on workshop outlining the phases manufacturers go through on the path to CMMC Level 2—from defining scope to surviving assessment.
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