Space Beach: Summit 001

Tuesday, September 15 · Program 9:00 AM–3:00 PM

Long Beach, CA  ·  Cohort access: 150 curated attendees

Space Beach is where Southern California’s deep tech builders, operators, and investors get serious about the future of American security. It’s one day inside SoCal Deep Tech Week focused on how Long Beach and the broader region are turning defense problems into products, factories, and jobs.

We want to solve this problem: can we build, test, and field what warfighters need at the speed our threats are moving? From space and air to maritime and cyber, the day is built around people who are actually shipping hardware and winning contracts in SoCal, not just talking about it.

This day is built for founders and operators, investors, and government and military professionals who want a clear view of what’s working in SoCal, and where the next wave of opportunity is.

NOTE: Registration is not "first-come, first-served." We will screen all registrations and notify approval or disapproval by August 21st. If you are not initially approved, you will go on a wait-list.

Tentative schedule

  • 9:00 AM Welcome & framing: "Scaling American Manufacturing, The SoCal Model"

  • 9:15 AM Opening keynote fireside

  • 10:00 AM Panel, Go Faster: From Concept to Test to Deployed in Weeks, Not Years

  • 10:45 AM Fireside / Q&A, The New Acquisition Landscape

  • 11:30 AM Coffee break & networking

  • 12:00 PM Lunch & networking

  • 1:00 PM Panel, Space Beach: The Long Beach & SoCal Model of Innovation

  • 1:45 PM Coffee break

  • 2:00 PM Panel, Single Points of Opportunity: Finding & Fixing the Defense Industrial Base's Chokepoints

  • 3:00 PM Closing synthesis

Agenda is tentative and speakers will be announced soon. Chatham House Rule in effect.