Join Steve Blank, author, entrepreneur, and Stanford University professor; and Jim Woolsey, DAU president; for an in-depth exploration of innovation in the defense acquisition ecosystem. From artificial intelligence to new chip manufacturing techniques and methods of storing energy, harnessing the innovation of individuals and the marketplace is critical to the providing cutting edge capabilities to our warfighters. Steve Blank and Jim Woolsey will discuss how the Department of Defense can learn to embrace innovation from within its own ranks and from external sources.