Fireside Keynote

Date/time: Tuesday, September 22, 2026 | 8:20-8:45 a.m. ET

Moderator: Rebecca Weaver, Vice-President, CGI Federal

Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey Pullen, Associate Director, Financial Systems, U.S. Department of Justice (invited)

Physical AI with the End Users

Date/time: Tuesday, September 22, 2026 | 2:00-2:40 p.m. ET

Moderator: Martial Michel, Chief Technologist and VP, InfoTrend

Panelist:

  • Anil Chaudhry, Senior Advisor for AI, Autonomy, and National Security, U.S. Department of Transportation (invited)
  • Matt Quinn, Science Director, U.S. Army Institute and Surgical Research (invited)
  • Dr. John Zehnpfennig, Director and Cyber Expert, CGI Federal
  • Henry Meyer, Vice-President and Total Asset Visibility Lead, CGI Federal

Session description: Generative AI produces content. Physical AI takes action. Foundation models, cheap sensors, large-scale simulation and edge computing have converged to put perception and decision-making into machines that move, and the results are already operating in warehouses, on highways, in fields and in operating rooms.

Guardrails at Mission-speed: Securing Federal AI from Pilot to Production in the M-25-21 Era

Date/time: Tuesday, September 22, 2026 | 2:45-3:30 p.m. ET

Moderator: TBD

Panelist: 

  • Courtney Kay-Decker, Deputy Chief, Taxpayer Experience, U.S. Internal Revenue Service (invited)
  • James Burd, Chief Privacy Officer, CISA (invited)

Session description: Federal AI has entered its most exciting chapter yet — where mission speed and mission trust are engineered together, not traded off. Guided by EO 14179, OMB M-25-21 and M-25-22, and the June 2026 Advanced AI Innovation and Security EO, agencies are accelerating adoption and delivering real outcomes. The leaders furthest ahead are building guardrails from day one. Join federal experts to see what is working in production today — and walk away with a playbook you can put to work Monday morning.

 

Stop by our booth for a conversation around the current state and future of AI-enabled pilots in government. Learn more about our expanding library of mission-ready AI agents, engineered for rapid deployment across critical federal challenges such as cybersecurity, fraud detection, asset visibility and operational modernization. These agents integrate seamlessly into agency environments to elevate decision-making at scale and reduce inefficiencies.