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Google Defense Roadshow: The AI mission advantage

Decisive capability. Secure infrastructure. Unmatched readiness.

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Aug. 5, 2026
8 AM-3 PM ET
25 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001

The mandate for defense and national security agencies is clear: transform technology and cybersecurity into a decisive advantage. Meeting this challenge requires modernizing the network backbone, upgrading legacy IT, and accelerating the deployment of secure, accredited AI from the core to the tactical edge.


At the 2026 Google Defense Roadshow in Washington, DC, we will convene the brightest minds from Google Cloud and pioneering trailblazers from across the defense and national security communities. Together, we will explore real-world use cases and emerging technologies that are driving mission success today and safeguarding the operations of tomorrow. Our mission-focused agenda will explore:

  • Gemini for Government & Agentic Workflows: Discover how agencies are leveraging highly secure, sovereign AI, including the historic enterprise rollout of Gemini for Government on the Department of War’s GenAI.mil, to automate complex tasks, synthesize massive intelligence datasets, and build autonomous agents for mission support.
  • Tactical Edge & Cloud Readiness: Ensure secure, always-on data access and resilient compute power, whether at headquarters, across globally distributed networks, or at the tactical edge.
  • Agentic Cyber Defense & Threat Intelligence: Outpace adversaries whose attack cycles now compress to seconds. Explore Google's newly expanded Agentic SOC capabilities and deploy autonomous threat-hunting and detection-engineering agents to protect critical data, secure AI workloads, and intercept modern vector threats.


Google goes to great lengths to ensure compliance with applicable ethics obligations. Google is offering to provide all attendees with complimentary attendance at this event. If you would like to reimburse Google for the cost of this event, please click here. If you have questions regarding the event, please email us-gov-ethics@google.com.

Program Speakers

Adarryl Roberts Headshot

Chief Information Officer

Defense Logistics Agency

Cameron Stanley Headshot

Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer

Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office



Justin Fanelli Headshot
Justin Fanelli

Chief Technology Officer

Department of Navy 

Valerie Warner Headshot
Valerie Warner

Director, Digital Enterprise

Office of the Deputy Chief of Space Operations (DCSO) for Cyber and Data (SF/S6)


Ryan Hetrick Headshot
Ryan Hetrick

Generative AI Task Force Lead

Department of War, Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office

Sean Maday headshot
Sean Maday

Founder and Chief Technology Officer

Game Plan Tech

Michael Gerstenhaber Headshot

VP & PM, Gemini Enterprise

Google Cloud


Luke McNamara Headshot
Luke McNamara

Deputy Chief Analyst, Google Threat Intelligence

Google Cloud

Travis Rapp Headshow

Head of Defense Rapid Innovation

Google Public Sector

Josh Marcuse Headshot

Director, Strategic Initiatives - Defense

Google Public Sector

Andrew Tash Headshot

Technical Solution Architect

Google Public Sector

Jan Niemiec Headshot

Managing Director, Defense and National Security

Google Public Sector

Agenda

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Registration & Breakfast

9:00 AM - 9:10 AM

Welcome Remarks

9:10 AM - 9:45 AM

Opening Keynote
Michael Gerstenhaber, Google Cloud

9:45 AM - 10:30 AM

Gemini on GenAI.mil: Scaling Secure AI Across the Defense Enterprise

The Department of War's rollout of GenAI.mil signals a broader shift toward operationalizing AI across the defense enterprise. As agencies move beyond experimentation, the focus is increasingly on deploying secure, accredited AI capabilities that can deliver measurable mission outcomes.


In this panel, leaders across the defense market will discuss how they are leveraging frontier AI to automate workflows, accelerate decision-making, synthesize complex data, and lay the foundation for future autonomous and agentic capabilities. Hear lessons learned, emerging use cases, and what it takes to scale AI from isolated pilots to enterprise-wide impact.

Adarryl Roberts, Defense Logistics Agency (pending agency approval), Cameron Stanley, Chief Digital and AI Office, Justin Fanelli, Department of Navy , Joshua Marcuse (Moderator), Google Public Sector

10:30 AM - 10:45 AM

Partner Spotlight

10:45 AM - 11:30 AM

Outpacing the Adversary: Autonomous Mission Protection with Google AI Threat Defense

As near-peer adversaries weaponize AI to discover and exploit vulnerabilities at machine speed, traditional, manual cyber defense can no longer protect critical infrastructure or mission-essential networks. The exploitation window has collapsed from weeks to hours.


This session introduces Google AI Threat Defense, an always-on, autonomous cybersecurity platform designed to outpace automated attacks by fighting AI with AI. Tailored for the public sector and national security leaders, this session will break down how Google fuses the contextual cloud risk prioritization of Wiz, multi-model reasoning powered by Gemini, and the autonomous code-remediation capabilities of CodeMender and triage capabilities of SecOps.


Attendees will learn how this comprehensive ecosystem shifts operations from reactive triage to autonomous patching under human supervision, minimizing attack surfaces, predicting adversarial paths, and securing the defender’s advantage across complex, multi-cloud environments


11:30 AM - 11:45 AM

Coffee Break

11:45 AM - 12:45 PM

Securing Data Anywhere: The Rise of Software-Defined Sovereignty

As agencies accelerate the adoption of cloud, AI, and data-driven operations, they face a growing challenge: how to deliver modern capabilities while maintaining control over sensitive data, workloads, and mission environments. Traditional approaches to security and sovereignty are evolving, giving rise to software-defined architectures that enable organizations to operate securely across classified, disconnected, and globally distributed environments.

This session will explore how defense leaders are rethinking data sovereignty, mission assurance, and cloud operations in an era where information must move seamlessly across domains without sacrificing security or control. This expert panel will discuss emerging approaches to securing data anywhere, enabling AI at the edge, and building resilient digital infrastructure that supports mission execution from the enterprise to the tactical edge.

Andrew Tash, Google Public Sector

12:45 PM - 1:00 PM

Closing Remarks
Jan Niemiec, Google Public Sector

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Networking Lunch

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Gemini on GenAI.mil Hack-a-thon

Separate registration required for attendance. Reserve your seat here.


As CDAO and the DoW accelerate the adoption of secure, enterprise-ready artificial intelligence, the transition from theoretical capability to operational advantage is paramount.


Join Google Public Sector for an invitation-only hackathon designed to put the power of generative AI directly into the hands of the mission owners, analyst, and specialists. Utilizing the secure GenAI.mil platform, this event focuses on a single directive: building, testing, and deploying custom AI Agents that immediately alleviate cognitive burden and optimize daily mission workflows.


Whether your objective is streamlining intelligence synthesis, automating logistics and readiness tracking, accelerating contract and policy analysis, or optimizing staff summary sheets, this hackathon provides the sandbox and the technical scaffolding to build tailored solutions. This is a mission-focused forge designed to convert administrative and operational drag into automated efficiency.


Please note: Either your GFE laptop, or personal laptop with a VDI instance and your military issued credentials to access the GenAI.mil platform are required to participate in this exercise. Please register using your .mil email to help us verify access automatically and prevent approval delays.

Ryan Hetrick, Department of War, Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office

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