Date: May 12, 2026

Time: 3:00 PM - 7:00 PM ET

Venue: Hotel Melby Downtown Melbourne, Florida

Event Overview

AI is reshaping the aerospace and defense industry at speed. Yet, the true differentiator is no longer experimentation, it is the ability to scale intelligence securely, responsibly, and with outcomes that matter.

Mission Ready AI: Navigating the Path to Measurable Outcomes is an exclusive, in person gathering that brings together senior leaders across the aerospace and defense industry to explore how organizations are moving decisively from experimentation to execution. The focus is clear: turning AI ambition into real world impact across acquisition, engineering, supply chains, manufacturing, and sustainment.

This curated afternoon of insights and dialogue will throw a spotlight on how leading organizations across this industry are charting a clear AI flight path, balancing innovation with security, responsibility, and resilience, while keeping outcomes front and center for the warfighter, the customer, and the enterprise.

Through keynotes, executive conversations, and interactive working sessions, participants will exchange perspectives on what it truly takes to make AI mission ready.

Agenda

Time Session Description
3:30 pm Meet & Greet Arrival, registration, and networking with peers across aerospace and defense. Light refreshments served.
3:45 pm Opening Keynote: The Intelligent Flight Path How AI is transforming the A&D industry and why scaling for value (not pilots) matters now.
4:10 pm Guest Speaker Keynote: AI and the Future of Aerospace & Defense Industry perspectives on where AI is headed across acquisition, product development, operations, and sustainment and the customer impact ahead.
4:40 pm Executive Panel: From Strategy to Scale, AI That Delivers Customer Impact Leaders share lessons in moving AI from experimentation to enterprise-scale impact across engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, and sustainment.
5:10 pm Partner presentation: Enabling the AI Flight Path How technology ecosystems and platforms help A&D organizations scale AI securely, compliantly, and at speed.
5:55 pm AI Canvas: Turning AI Vision into Measurable Value An interactive session mapping AI opportunities across the A&D value chain, acquire, build, sustain with a focus on customer outcomes.
6:00 pm Closing Remarks  
7:00 pm Executive Dinner Informal networking and continued conversations over dinner.

About us:

Infosys is a Global Leader in Next-Generation Digital Services and consulting. We enable clients in 59 countries to navigate their digital transformation.

With over four decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises, we expertly steer clients, in 59 countries, as they navigate their digital transformation powered by cloud and AI. We enable them with AI-first core, empower the business with agile digital at scale and drive continuous improvement with always-on learning through the transfer of digital skills, expertise, and ideas from our innovation ecosystem. We are deeply committed to being a well-governed, environmentally sustainable organization where diverse talent thrives in an inclusive workplace.