Welcome to OODAcon 2025
29 October 2025
Hyatt Regency Reston

The annual OODAcon event brings together the hackers, thinkers, strategists, disruptors, leaders, technologists, and creators with one foot in the future to discuss the most pressing issues of the day and provide insight into the ways technology is evolving. 

Our theme for OODAcon 2025 is:  Accelerating Disruptive Technologies

Every year, we work with our community to ensure OODAcon addresses the most critical topics shaping the year ahead. In 2025, our focus is on Accelerating Disruptive Technologies, recognizing that the pace of technological advancement demands new frameworks for assessing, adopting, and scaling innovation in support of mission success across government and industry.

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The Thematics of OODAcon 2025

Architecting the Edge: Welcome to OODAcon 2025
This opening session will set the tone for OODAcon 2025 by examining the inflection points shaping the global landscape, from accelerating AI and fusion energy breakthroughs to heightened geopolitical friction and the retooling of industrial strategy. It will provide an executive-level preview of the technologies and national security trends driving this year’s discussions and offer a call to action for navigating disruption with clarity, agility, and foresight.

Quantum Advantage in Action
The quantum revolution is no longer theoretical, it is materializing across computing, sensing, and security. This session will explore the state of quantum readiness, including updates on trapped ion and superconducting platforms, the race toward quantum networking, and the impact of NIST’s post-quantum cryptography standards. Executives will leave with a practical understanding of how quantum disruption is unfolding in the next 12–18 months, and what steps they should take to prepare.

China’s Technology Disruption Strategy
The PRC’s efforts to assert dominance across AI, biotech, space, and advanced manufacturing are increasingly strategic and coordinated. This session analyzes China’s integrated approach to reshaping global technology standards and supply chains while expanding influence through legal, cyber, and gray-zone tactics. Expect an unclassified but deeply informed look at how these moves affect U.S. competitiveness, national security, and the global innovation order.

From Vision to Velocity: The New U.S. Policy Toolkit for Tech Acceleration
This session will explore how U.S. government and private sector leaders are adapting to a world where time-to-field matters more than ever. Topics include new policy mechanisms for accelerating the adoption of dual-use technology, updates from OSTP, DoD innovation offices, and the private sector’s role in shaping national tech strategy. Attendees will walk away with a roadmap for plugging into America’s evolving deep tech acceleration infrastructure.

The New Cyber Terrain: How AI Will Disrupt the Cyber Domain
AI-driven agents are redefining both cybersecurity defense and offense. This session covers how generative models and multi-agent systems are being used to autonomously hunt threats, optimize defenses, and simulate adversary behavior at scale. It will also assess how nation-states are evolving their cyber arsenals with similar tools, creating new dynamics in deterrence and escalation.

From Orbital to Operational: Scaling the Commercial Space Ecosystem
Space is now a contested and commercialized domain. This session highlights how startups and legacy players alike are partnering with national security agencies to deliver ISR, communications, and navigation services from orbit. Topics will include dual-use innovation, acquisition trends, launch capabilities, and the implications of proliferated LEO and GEO systems for global competition and deterrence.

Annual Global Threat Brief
This high-impact briefing will examine the most urgent and emerging global threats that decision-makers must track. From cybercrime-as-a-service and regional conflict escalation to systemic risks in energy and technology supply chains, this session will provide a concise, scenario-driven view of where the world is heading, and what it means for your organization.

Biotech Warfare and Biosecurity in the Age of AI
Biotech is advancing rapidly, but so are the risks. This session examines the convergence of synthetic biology, AI-aided gene design, and dual-use research, raising urgent questions about detection, attribution, and governance. The panel will outline strategies for public-private collaboration on biosecurity, as well as the challenges posed by CRISPR misuse, designer pathogens, and rogue labs.

Privacy in the Age of AI and Constant Connection
Data is being captured everywhere, from edge devices and satellites to biometric wearables and smart infrastructure. This session will examine how governments, corporations, and malicious actors are weaponizing data at scale using AI, and what it means for civil liberties and organizational risk. Strategies for preserving privacy, operational security, and resilience in the face of ubiquitous surveillance will be discussed.

The Golden Dome and its impact on modernizing the military
This session explores the Department of Defense’s Golden Dome initiative, a transformative effort to create a national missile defense architecture capable of countering advanced hypersonic, cruise, and ballistic threats. Panelists will discuss how this initiative integrates AI, space sensors, and next-gen interceptors to shift the paradigm from deterrence to active defense. Attendees will gain insight into the program’s strategic implications, technological hurdles, and its role in modernizing U.S. military posture for the 21st century.

Navigating the Deep Future: From Strategic Foresight to Action
Closing the day, this session will draw on years of national security and innovation leadership to explore how strategic foresight can drive better decision-making in an era defined by cascading crises and continuous disruption. Attendees will be challenged to rethink planning assumptions and adopt more adaptive, anticipatory approaches to strategy.

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