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The people, partners and community at Prodacity 2026. August 17, 2026 Agendas get you in the door. The people in the room are why you come back. Its first look at Prodacity 2026 covered the program. This covers who you'll spend three days with. Prodacity is Rise8's three-day training event, August 25-27 in Nashville, where GovTech leaders learn to ship mission-critical software faster. The draw is what you can take home: tangible learnings you can put to work the week you're back, and the peer connections that tend to outlast the event. You'll learn alongside Government decision-makers, practitioners and industry partners who are working on the same problems you are. AI is the throughline in every session as an accelerant of the delivery work. The conversations focus on how to get software into production and into the hands of the people who depend on it for the nation's most critical missions. Who's teaching at Prodacity 2026. General Stephen N. Whiting, Commander of U.S. Space Command, headlines the 2026 stage. The roster spans leaders from Government agencies and industry with expertise in acquisitions, AI, cybersecurity, software engineering and organizational transformation. Newly announced speakers include: * Shannon Pallone, Portfolio Acquisition Executive at Battle Management, Command, Control, Communications, and Space Intelligence, U.S. Space Force, Space Systems Command * Ryan Connell, Deputy, Rapid Acquisition Cell, Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) * Josh Marcuse, Director of Defense Strategy & Growth, Google * Paul Rayner, Author of The EventStorming Handbook * Thomas Roderick, PhD, Founder and Chief Technology & AI Officer, Flamelit * Steve Pereira, Creator of Flow Engineering * Lori-Ann Rissler, Founder, LASR Ops and former U.S. Air Force contracting officer * Chris Hughes, Vice President of Security Strategy, Zenity and U.S. Air Force Veteran * Russ Miles, AI and Platform Engineering Expert * Dr. Dolores Kuchina-Musina, Founder and CEO, REXOTA Solutions, specializing in Other Transaction Authorities and acquisition reform * Dan Ward, Co-Founder, SparkLit Group and U.S. Air Force Veteran * Bryan Guinn, Chief Growth Officer, SBIR Advisors * Dr. Patti Fletcher, Author of Disrupters, Strategic Advisor and Machine Learning Pioneer * Nick Setterberg, Staff Engagement Manager, Skylight and U.S. Air Force Reservist * Bharat Patel, Managing Director, AI & Data Lead for Defense, Accenture Federal Services They join previously announced speakers including Kent Beck, Mina Hsiang, Suzette Kent, Jonathan Mostowski, Bryon Kroger and Lloyd Evans. More names are still landing. Special offer for eligible Veterans. Prodacity is also investing in the next generation of GovTech leaders with complimentary passes for eligible Veterans. You'll attend all three days. On Day 3, you'll join Impact Lab for Leaders where you will use AI-native tools to build working software. No coding experience is required, just a desire to keep serving in a new way. Apply here. Prodacity days are for building. Prodacity nights are for music. The conversations don't stop when the sessions end. Rise8 has partnered with Operation Encore, a nonprofit collective of Veteran and military singer-songwriters, to bring live music to the Tuesday and Wednesday happy hours. Veterans Brooks Herring and Derek Stoner will perform, so you get a little Nashville between sessions and more time with the people you spent the day learning with. Thank You to the Partners Making Prodacity Possible Prodacity runs on a community of sponsors advancing Government technology: Palantir, Red Hat, Spectro Cloud, Infusion Points, Accenture, Coder, Security Compass, SBIR Advisors and Improvix. Several of them are members of the Carahsoft partner ecosystem, and that overlap is what makes Prodacity different. Government, industry and technology leaders sit in the same room and trade what's working and what's still stuck. Come Trade Notes in Nashville The problems aren't getting easier. Mandates are landing faster than most agencies can absorb them, and fixed-price contracting is the default now. Everyone is still working out where AI belongs in a compliance-heavy pipeline. The leaders making real progress are the ones comparing notes with peers under the same constraints. That's the room. Three days of it, plus a set of people you can call in October when something breaks. Carahsoft Technology Corp. is The Trusted Government IT Solutions Provider, supporting Public Sector organizations across Federal, State and Local Government agencies and Education and Healthcare markets. As the Master Government Aggregator for its vendor partners, including Rise8, Carahsoft Technology Corp. deliver solutions for Geospatial, Cybersecurity, MultiCloud, DevSecOps, Artificial Intelligence, Customer Experience and Engagement, Open Source and more. Working with resellers, systems integrators and consultants, its sales and marketing teams provide industry leading IT products, services and training through hundreds of contract vehicles. Explore the Carahsoft Blog to learn more about the latest trends in Government technology markets and solutions, as well as Carahsoft's ecosystem of partner thought-leaders. Adam Furtado. Vice President of Enablement, Rise8 Adam Furtado is Vice President of Enablement at Rise8 where he focuses on growing high-performing teams and enabling customer success across federal and defense agencies. Previously, he was the founder and CEO of Sagely, an AI-powered social learning startup. He also served as Chief Product Officer at Kessel Run, scaling the organization from five to over 1,500 personnel while continuously delivering over 30 products into production.

U.S. Air Force 309th Software Engineering Group selects Rise8 to accelerate delivery of Torque, the enterprise system powering Aircraft Readiness. Rise8 to augment 309th SWEG product teams as Torque scales to more than 100,000 users across the U.S. Air Force, directly supporting the Aircraft Readiness Machine (ARM) initiative TAMPA, Fla., May 21, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Rise8 announces its selection by the U.S. Air Force 309th Software Engineering Group (309th SWEG) to support Torque, a mission-critical enterprise system that delivers aircraft and personnel scheduling, fleet inventory, and forecasting capabilities across the Air Force. Under the contract, Rise8 will embed balanced product teams alongside 309th SWEG to accelerate delivery of high-priority capabilities and help scale Torque to support operational readiness at enterprise scale. Owned and operated by the 309th SWEG, Torque sits at the center of how the Air Force plans, schedules, and executes missions. As the platform expands from tens of thousands to more than 100,000 users in support of the Aircraft Readiness Machine (ARM) initiative, performance, reliability, and delivery speed become decisive factors in mission outcomes. Rise8 will support field-side applications, key data services, and new capabilities while helping the program navigate major technical migrations and scaling challenges. This work will strengthen DevSecOps practices, standardize architectures, enable product management at scale, and help teams collaborate effectively across a growing platform. "Torque is exactly the kind of mission-critical software where getting delivery right has direct consequences for the Warfighter," said Bryon Kroger, CEO and founder of Rise8. "The 309th SWEG team is doing extraordinary work, and we're proud to bring experienced product teams to help Torque scale safely and quickly. When the Air Force can make faster, better-informed decisions about aircraft and people, readiness goes up." The award builds on Rise8's growing portfolio of mission-critical software work across the Department of War and federal government. To learn more about how Rise8 works to create a future where fewer bad things happen because of bad software, visit https://www.rise8.us/. About Rise8 The views expressed are those of Rise8 and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the U.S. Air Force, the Department of the Air Force, the Department of War, or the U.S. government. Media Contact: Casey Dell'Isola REQ for Rise8 [email protected] Disclaimer: The above press release comes to you under an arrangement with GlobeNewswire. TheTechOutlook.com takes no editorial responsibility for the same.