Government & AI Summit 2026

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Welcome to Government & AI Summit!

In this opening keynote, Adam Starr will discuss how OPM is approaching AI adoption, from agency-wide initiatives and new tools to strategies for preparing the workforce and navigating rapidly evolving AI capabilities.

In 2025 alone, there were $3.04B in losses due to BEC, and today's attacks are getting harder to spot. As threats evolve to mirror real conversations and blend into normal behavior patterns, traditional "known-bad" detection leaves organizations dangerously exposed. In this session, we'll explore why signature-based tools fail, how shifting to "known-normal" can transform your security posture, and where behavioral AI is headed next.

The next generation of government will be shaped by organizations that can adapt faster, make smarter decisions, and deliver mission outcomes in an increasingly complex world. AI is the critical enabler of that transformation, redefining how agencies work, secure their environment, and serve the public. This session will examine how agencies are already using AI agents to enhance workforce productivity, improve operational efficiency, and strengthen threat predictions.

As AI becomes part of everyday government operations, federal CIOs are responsible for directing where it fits, how to deploy it safely and securely, and what agencies need to support long-term adoption. During this panel discussion, federal CIOs will discuss how their agencies are approaching AI, where they’re seeing the most impactful changes, and what they envision for the future of AI strategy in government.

As demand for AI grows, agencies are looking for ways to balance performance, security, and cost. This session examines how Edge AI enables mission-critical outcomes by bringing data closer to users, devices, and operations, helping reduce latency, enhance data privacy, optimize cloud usage, and reduce cost.

As federal agencies move from AI experimentation to implementation, one thing has become clear: AI can no longer sit outside the mission as a standalone tool. It must operate inside the decisions, services, and workflows that shape mission outcomes. This session will explore how agencies can operationalize secure, governed AI inside real mission operations. The discussion will focus on how connected systems, agentic workflows, human-in-the-loop oversight, and workforce readiness can help agencies accelerate decisions, improve service delivery, and deliver measurable outcomes with accountability.

NIST's benchmarks have helped government and industry measure the performance of technologies ranging from facial recognition to today’s generative AI systems. This conversation will explore the challenges of evaluating increasingly complex AI and how NIST’s new TEVV-Athlon Framework builds on that work to create a more effective approach to testing and evaluating modern AI systems.

The unlock isn't choosing between speed and safety, it's building a trust architecture that makes both measurable. This session reframes the CISO as the architect of AI trust, showing how converged data security and resilience give you the evidence to say yes where it's safe and no where it's not.

Government agencies need a repeatable foundation for AI without forcing every workload into the same design. The right partners, platform, and repeatable process can help move agencies from experimentation to supportable mission outcomes. HPE and NVIDIA will discuss how customized infrastructure and an accelerated AI platform can provide a consistent, governable foundation from edge systems to the data center, while allowing agencies to tailor mission data, models, retrieval, security, and operations.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has been expanding the use of AI across the agency through pilot programs and new initiatives. USDA will share how the agency has built its AI program, lessons learned from early pilots, and the challenges of scaling AI across different mission areas. The discussion will also explore why governance, security, and responsible implementation are just as important as the technology itself.

Explore how AI embedded directly into standard financial and procurement processes creates an evidence-driven system of outcomes for the agency.

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As AI gives government new tools to detect and prevent fraud, it is also giving bad actors more sophisticated ways to exploit government systems. During this session, Chad Bungard of the Social Security Administration Office of the Inspector General will discuss how SSA is using AI to strengthen fraud detection and investigations, and what agencies need to do to govern these tools and stay ahead of emerging threats such as deepfakes, impersonation, and identity fraud.

The AI Executive Order established the baseline policy—now, how do you translate mandates into operational success? Join Okta Federal Leader Amy Johanek and Head of Industry Product Nick Apostolu for a high-impact session on navigating the AI Innovation Executive Order. Discover how public sector agencies can safely scale secure AI deployments, transition to identity-centric authorization, and effectively govern autonomous agents using their existing identity infrastructure.

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