Events Calendar

UT System Trauma Research Symposium

10-11 February 2025, AT&T Hotel and Conference Center | Austin, TX

The 2nd Annual UT System Trauma Research Symposium will take place on February 10-11, 2025. The symposium brings together experts, researchers, and practitioners from across the UT System and the U.S. Department of Defense [DoD] to facilitate the exchange of new ideas and to build new professional partnerships.

Disruptive Defense at Capital Factory House

7-9 March 2025, Austin, TX | Capital Factory House

Prepare to connect and collaborate during Disruptive Defense – the must-attend joint innovation programming powered by DIU, AFWERX and NavalX at Capital Factory House that bridges technology and national security from March 7-9, 2025 in Austin, Texas. This event is designed for bold thinkers and technologists looking to solve real-world problems and scale their impact. Connect with thought leaders, disruptors, and partners who are driving change at the intersection of national security and commercial technology. This year, we’re creating a space where visionaries and innovators can explore critical technology areas and drive strategic impact. Our dynamic agenda revolves around impactful tracks shaping the future of defense, and we encourage you to submit a question for our panel discussions.

Operational Medicine Symposium & Technology Showcase

18-19 March 2025, JW Marriot Hill Country | San Antonio, TX

The 7th Annual Operational Medicine Symposium (OpMed) & Technology Showcase is one of the largest and most influential military medical events in North America for senior medical officials, clinicians, government leaders, and solution providers. OpMed offers the unique opportunity to learn, network and engage with military medical professionals in an information driven, networking focused environment.

CU ELITE Research Symposium

3-4 April 2025, CU Anschutz Medical Campus | Aurora, CO

The CU Anschutz Center for COMBAT Research is hosting its inaugural conference, called Educating Leaders for Innovation and Team Research Symposium (ELITE). This program is unique in that it will be highly interactive; program outcomes are engagement, new connections, and collaborations. Keynote speakers and presenters will lead discussions on high impact medical research and health care innovation to solve the military’s most pressing health challenges.

USU Research Days

13-15 May 2025, Bethesda, MD

“Celebrating Excellence in Research” reflects the complementary roles that basic science, medicine, nursing, dentistry, public health, and behavioral science play in health promotion. The poster presentations, invited speakers, and panels demonstrate USU’s special role in civilian, military, and public health research initiatives across the health sciences.

ProPEL 2025

30 May 2025, VelocityTX | San Antonio, TX

Join to showcase groundbreaking research from our local military medical laboratories. This dynamic scientific gathering aims to foster collaboration and strengthen connections among military medicine researchers.

Special Operations Medicine Association (SOMA)

5-9 May 2025, Raleigh, NC | Raleigh Convention Center

SOMA is the only medical association in the world that brings together the unique blend of prehospital, tactical, wilderness, austere, disaster, and deployed medicine. SOMA 2025 provides the opportunity for military and civilian medical providers, academia, and industry partners from around the world to meet and exchange ideas. It is the largest gathering of SOF medical providers in the world that includes U.S. military, foreign military, domestic tactical law enforcement, and tactical EMS providers.

MTEC Annual Member Meeting

28-29 May 2025, Denver, CO

Human Performance and Biosystems

11-12 June 2025, National Harbor, MD

DSI’s 7th Annual Human Performance & Biosystems Summit will convene senior level experts and decision makers from across the DoD, Military Research Labs, Industry, and Academia for in-depth discussions on the latest advancements and innovations in human performance capabilities that ensure the peak performance and health of the Warfighter. The 2025 Summit will highlight current and future efforts to strengthen the physical, mental, nutritional, and social fitness of the Joint Force through Total Force Fitness (TFF), Holistic Health and Fitness (H2F), and Marine Corps Total Fitness (MCTF) initiatives that optimize performance and maximize Warfighter potential.

AIM Health R&D Summit (SURF)

24-25 June 2025, San Antonio, TX | The Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

The Academic, Industry, and Military (AIM) Health R&D Summit brings together experts from across the life sciences ecosystem to promote collaboration in the development of life-saving battlefield technologies and advance the military’s medical mission. The summit includes three events: Military Medical Industry Day, the BexarBio pitch competition, and the San Antonio Military Health and Universities Research Forum. The Summit will be hosted on June 24-25, 2024, at The Henry B Gonzalez Convention Center in downtown San Antonio, TX.

Medical, Biomedical, and Biodefense: Support to the Warfighter Symposium

4-5 June 2025, Chapel Hill, NC | University of North Carolina, The Friday Center

Medical Support to the Warfighter, will connect businesses in North Carolina with military and other federal agencies that require or purchase medical supplies, equipment, devices, staffing, pharmaceuticals, medical information technology and medical services. Representatives from the Departments of Defense, Veterans Affairs and Health and Human Services, their prime vendors and major contractors – from national commands and from bases, commands and facilities in North Carolina – will highlight current technology or resource gaps and needs, future requirements and procurement processes to supply military and federal medical facilities and agencies. All medical-related businesses in North Carolina – large or small, prime contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, manufacturers and service providers – will benefit from briefings on military requirements, procurement processes and supplier qualifications, from informal networking with buyers and users, and from exhibiting or viewing demonstrations of the latest medical technologies designed to support America’s warfighters.

MCDC and CWMD Annual Member Meeting

23-24 July 2025, Baltimore Convention Center | Baltimore, MD

Military Health Research Symposium

4-7 August 2025, Kissimmee, FL | Gaylord Palms Resort