Two-day invite-only gathering of 600 cyber operators, with a declared mix of 27% startup founders, 21% active investors and 38% CISOs. Day one (DMV Rising) is panels on autonomous offense, AI-native enterprises and CMMC. Day two is the DataTribe Challenge, the region's highest-stakes cyber startup pitch competition with cash and investor commitments on the table. The acceptance rate is low and the room is tight, which is why founders raising a cyber seed or Series A spend weeks preparing to get in.

  • conference
  • cybersecurity
  • pitch
  • investors
  • defense
  • ai
  • dmv