Agenda & Highlights

When you register for DIBCON 2026, your pass includes full access to the entire conference experience.That means:

  • All keynotes, talks, and panel discussions

  • Hands-on workshops and breakout sessions

  • The exhibit hall

  • Networking receptions and hosted events

  • Direct access to speakers, sponsors, and fellow attendees

DIBCON26 Highlighted Sessions

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 Proven Model for Training and Placement

A practical workshop examining a workforce development model that has successfully trained and placed hundreds of veterans as welders and machinists into leading manufacturing organizations.

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 in the coming year.

Workshop - Preparing for CMMC: Think Like an Assessor

Learn how certified assessors evaluate objectives—not just the 110 controls—and how to align documentation and artifacts 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, supply chain coordination, and decision-making.

Panel - AI and CMMC: Managing Data Risk in the Age of Automation

As defense contractors rapidly adopt AI tools across their workflows, 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 for Manufacturers

A hands-on workshop outlining the phases manufacturers go through on the path to CMMC Level 2—from defining scope and protecting CUI to preparing documentation and surviving the assessment.