Call for Speakers
Maryland Defense Forum
Tuesday, June 17th
Hilton Baltimore BWI Airport
The Office of Military and Federal Affairs is pleased to announce that abstract submissions for the Maryland Defense Forum are now open.
All abstracts should be submitted via the online abstract system. We welcome abstracts geared toward the following subject matter or other topics to help manage through a changing administration.
Maryland Defense Forum tracks will highlight:
- Defense and Community Leadership
- Community and Quality of Life Stakeholders
- Military Technology and R&D
- Defense Industry Members
Suggested Call for Speaker Topics:
- The Big Change Bang - What Shifting Defense Priorities and RIFs Mean to Maryland
- Bracing the Workforce Tide - What Goes Down Can Rise Again
- Beyond the Pale: Game Changing Partnerships & Collaboration
- Resilience v. Readiness
- Lighthouse Station: Growing Emerging Clusters, Strengthening the Backbone for Critical Technologies: Computational Biology, Quantum and PNT
A broader list of topics may include:
- Housing, Child Development, Soldier and Family Quality of Life
- Smart Arsenal
- Building the Defense Workforce of Tomorrow
- Military Tech innovation in Maryland
- Military Technology
- Military Health
- Hypersonics
- Autonomous Systems & AI
- Directed Energy
- Advanced Materials
- C5ISR
- Microelectronics
- Maryland Lighthouse economic sectors (Including: Aerospace & Defense including Position/Navigation/Timing, Quantum Technologies, and Life Sciences including Computational Biology)
Submission Guidelines
Tell us what you would like to share in 500 words or less! Abstracts are due by April 18, 2025 Midnight Eastern
with notification of acceptance/rejection by May 1.
You can present a technical talk/session (40 minutes total including audience questions) or propose a panel discussion.
Bio about you (1000 characters or less)
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