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10yr Anniversary Edition:

2026 ConvergX®

Congress Agenda

08:00 – 12:00

14:00 – 16:00

16:00 – 20:00

Invite Only Executive Roundtable -TBD

Invite Only Executive Roundtable – TBD

 Welcome Reception – Romero Distillery

Welcome & Opening Remarks

Kimberley Van Vliet – Founder & CEO WaVv and ConvergX®; Cdn Delegation NATO Industrial Advisory Group (NIAG)

Welcome from the Province – TBC

Opening Keynote – Tracy Latourette –

Tracy “JackieO” LaTourrette—Colorado’s first female fighter pilot and among the first women globally to fly fighter aircraft—is a combat mission-ready F-16 pilot, leadership expert, and resilience coach. A retired Lieutenant Colonel with 22 years in the U.S. Air Force and Colorado National Guard, she flew worldwide missions, including post-9/11 presidential protection and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

A graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy and Air War College, Tracy earned numerous military honors and logged 3,300+ flight hours as a pilot and AWACS Air Weapons Director.

Today, she is an internationally recognized keynote speaker, executive coach, and 4X Emmy-nominated PBS host, helping leaders and teams build accountability, resilience, and high-performance cultures. Tracy has worked with Fortune 100 companies, spoken at Harvard Business School, and shared stages with a U.S. President.

Building Resilience to Perform in the Storm™

Session #1 – ConvergX-U

• State of the Union on Defence – Dr. David Perry – President – CGAI –  Aerospace, Defence, Security Update
• State of the Union on Energy – Gupreet Lail  – President  Enserva – TBC
• State of the Union on Mining – TBC
• State of the Union on Agriculture – TBC

Panel #2 – The Convergence Reckoning: What Worked, What’s Buying Now

A decade of cross-sector innovation across defence, energy, mining, tech, agriculture, construction, manufacturing, medicine, and motorsports has produced real successes and a graveyard of bets that didn’t scale.
This opening panel names both. The first half is honest retrospective: which convergence stories delivered operational value, which became conference slides, and what the nnovation community has gotten structurally wrong — in any sector.
The second half is forward-looking. Each panelist publicly names capability gaps their organization is trying to fill in the next 18 months. Defence procurement gaps and commercial cross-sector procurement gaps are surfaced at parity.
Delegates leave with a published Demand Signal Brief listing every gap surfaced, with named contacts at each represented organization.
The intent is not nostalgia. It is to set the standard of honesty and specificity the rest of the congress will hold itself to — across every sector in the room.

Panelists:

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Moderator –TBA

Lunch & Keynote Speaker

TBA

Panel #3 – Industrial Sovereignty and the Commercialization Engine: Defence and Commercial Scale

Allied industrial capacity is a sovereignty question across both defence and commercial domains. Critical minerals, semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, energy infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, food production, and construction capacity have all been re framed as strategic — and the procurement pathways, capital flows, and partnership structures that scale them now serve both military and commercial buyers, often through the same factories, the same supply chains, and the same workforces.
This panel brings together the full buyer set across the industrial base.

Panelists:

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Moderator –TBA

Panel #4 – Extreme Environments as Innovation Accelerators

The Arctic, the deepwater offshore, the contested battlefield, the racetrack, the open-pit mine, the disaster zone, the high-altitude research station. Harsh environments have always forced engineering disciplines that transfer across sectors.
This panel brings operators from each — military, energy, mining, motorsports, expeditionary medicine, agricultural extremes, construction in austere conditions, and autonomous systems operators across all of them.
The Transfer Auction is the centerpiece. Each panelist publicly names one capability from another panelist’s sector they would pilot within 12 months, given the right partner. Mining wants what motorsports has built. Construction wants what offshore has built. Agriculture wants what mining has built. Defence is one operator among many, not the destination for all transfer.
A Cross-Sector Pilot Forum runs immediately after — structured meetings between operators who flagged transfer interest and providers in the delegate base, pre-matched by ConvergX.
The romantic version of cross-sector transfer is “racetrack to road.” The realistic version is slower, more expensive, and usually ends in a procurement dead-end. This panel exists to make the realistic version work — across every sector, not only into defence.

• TBA

Moderator –TBA

Welcome & Opening Remarks

Kimberley Van Vliet – Founder & CEO WaVv and ConvergX®; NATO Industrial Advisory Group (NIAG)

Keynote

TBA

Panel #5 – Integrated Resource Security and Commercial Resilience

Energy, food, and public health systems are no longer separable from the commercial systems that operate them. The same sensing and infrastructure capabilities — satellite, IoT, AI, biosensing, edge computing — are bought by intelligence agencies and by major utilities, by national health authorities and by major hospital networks, by defence sustainment and by major agricultural cooperatives.
This panel is a buyer’s panel that includes both security buyers and commercial industrial buyers at parity. Each panelist describes their three highest-priority capability acquisitions over the next 18 months — specific, named, with budget signal and procurement timeline.
The Buyer-Supplier Roundtables the following morning convert the panel content into structured pitching sessions between each represented buyer organization and 12-15 pre-qualified suppliers from the delegate base.
If the next major resource shock hits in the next three years, are allied systems more prepared than they were in 2020 — across both security and commercial resilience — or have we just convinced ourselves we are?

Panelists:

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Moderator –TBA

Panel #6 -AI, Autonomy, and Human Performance at the Edge

The technologies augmenting humans and machines in high-stakes environments — defence, motorsport, surgery, mining operations, agricultural systems, construction projects, energy infrastructure — are converging faster than the institutions deploying them can adapt.
This panel puts the three sides of a deal on stage: operators who need the capability, providers building it, and capital financing the scaling. The Triangle Segment runs three rounds. At least two are commercial cross-sector deals — mining with autonomy providers and commercial capital; motorsports with AI providers and corporate strategic capital; agriculture with sensing providers and commercial dual-use capital. One may be defence-anchored.
A Deal Structuring Workshop runs in parallel, producing anonymized term sheets and partnership structures across commercial and defence deal types.
The panel closes on the sharpening edge: where autonomous decision-making crosses the line in each sector, who gets to draw it, and whether the answer is converging or diverging across sectors. The trust and ethics question is not separate because it is not separate.

Panelists:

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Moderator –TBA

Lunch & Keynote Speaker

TBA

Panel #7 – Capital, Competition, and the Geopolitics of Convergence

Two forces will determine whether allied convergence succeeds over the next decade: who finances it across both defence and commercial domains, and what adversaries are building in parallel across every converging sector — critical minerals, energy, agriculture, biotechnology, advanced manufacturing, and AI, not only defence.
The Capital Signal Round runs first. Each capital panelist describes deployment thesis with specificity — sectors, stages, check sizes, timeline. Defence-tech capital, commercial industrial capital, sovereign strategic capital, and corporate strategic investors all signal where money is moving.
The adversary cross-examination addresses positioning across the full convergence landscape — defence, critical minerals, biotechnology, energy, advanced manufacturing — with honest assessment of where allied positioning is genuinely behind.
A Capital Connect Session runs afterward where capital allocators meet pre-qualified delegates in 20-minute slots. The published Capital Deployment Map names deployment across all three capital categories.
Are we actually competing with adversaries who deploy capital with fewer constraints, longer time horizons, and tighter state coordination — across every converging sector — or are we losing slowly and explaining it away?

Panelists:

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Moderator –TBA

Panel #8 – Convergence as Commercial Opportunity

Cross-sector convergence is not only a defence story. Mining buys autonomy. Healthcare buys AI and sensing. Energy utilities buy precision capability from agricultural-tech sources. Motorsports sells advanced materials to construction. Advanced manufacturing serves multiple commercial sectors and defence through the same factories.
This panel is explicitly about commercial cross-sector convergence — where the buyer, the partner, or the capital is commercial rather than defence-procurement-anchored.
The Commercial Triangle Segment runs three rounds modeled on real commercial deal structures: a commercial buyer names a need, a cross-sector provider responds with capability, commercial capital indicates scaling terms.
Where is commercial cross-sector convergence moving faster than defence convergence right now — and what does that mean for the companies that have been treating defence as the primary convergence customer?

Panelists:

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Moderator –TBA