August 25-27 | Nashville, TN
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Spend three days in Nashville with government decision-makers, practitioners, acquisition officers, and industry partners.
Every session is built around what works in real production environments, and what it took to get there. That includes what AI-native tools are making possible right now, and what it takes to lead when the pace keeps accelerating.
The path forward is Uncharted. The people who are leading are in this room.
Gen. Stephen N. Whiting is Commander, U.S. Space Command, Peterson Space Force Base, Colo. Gen. Whiting is responsible for defending U.S. and Allied interests in the space domain while providing space-enabled combat effects to joint warfighters around the globe.
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Shannon Pallone is the Portfolio Acquisition Executive (PAE) for Battle Management, Command, Control, Communications, and Space Intelligence (BMC3I), United States Space Force, Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif. She manages a $21B portfolio of programs across Space Domain Awareness, Battle Management, Data Services, Satellite Control, and Space Intelligence, ensuring dependable capabilities that support synchronized multi-domain operations.
Kent Beck created Extreme Programming and Test-Driven Development by doing what others said not to. Author of four influential books, former Tektronix, Apple, and Facebook engineer, longtime industry tinkerer obsessed with craft, AI, and how we treat each other while building software.
Mina Hsiang, former Administrator of the United States Digital Service (USDS), led the agency through a period of historic growth and modernization. Under her leadership, USDS launched the first free government tax filing tool and streamlined critical services for Social Security and veterans. Her work focused on shifting federal agencies toward high-security, cost-effective strategic investments that saved tens of billions of dollars.
Continuous Delivery in Government
in an AI-native world
How high-performing teams ship mission-critical software fast.
Bureaucracy Navigation
Tested strategies for procurement modernization, policy workarounds, and the playbooks that turn blockers into solved problems.
Leadership & Culture Change
in the age of AI-native delivery
How the best government leaders build teams that ship, while changing minds inside resistant organizations.
Product & Mission Alignment
How to connect software delivery directly to outcomes so every sprint has a reason and every release advances something real.
Acquisition Modernization
New approaches for contracting, funding,
and governance that enable continuous,
AI-accelerated delivery.
Peer Intelligence
Direct access to the leaders and practitioners dealing with the same problems you are.
Government Leaders
Program managers, acquisition leads, and military officers who set the direction. You'll leave with peer intelligence from the agencies dealing with the same challenges, and a network that keeps paying off long after you're back at your desk.
Government Practitioners
Software engineers, product managers, and contracting officers. You'll pick up practical tools and tested playbooks from people who've delivered in systems like yours.
Acquisition & Contracting Officers
Modernization strategies from peers across agencies and the chance to sit across the table from the practitioners and partners building what you're buying.
Industry & Contractors
Learn what's working, what's stalled, where the priorities are shifting. Pressure-test your assumptions against real operational reality and build relationships with the people living it every day.
Change thrives in new environments—and Music City delivers. Centrally located, Nashville offers more than convenience. It’s a backdrop for reinvention. With its bold tech scene and deep-rooted culture of creativity, the city reflects the same spirit that drives Prodacity: risk-takers and dreamers building what’s next.
Category 10 is steps from Broadway and offers the ultimate setting for an unforgettable Prodacity experience. Formerly Wildhorse Saloon, there is no other venue like this newly remodeled, 67,000-square-foot multi-level complex - it is the place to be.
After a full day of sessions:
August 25-27, Nashville, TN • All sessions, workshops, breakfast, lunch, and CPE/CLP credits included.
INDUSTRY
Bringing a team? Groups of 4+ save 20%
Need to justify your attendance?
For federal/civilian agencies: get your justification letter
Government leaders, practitioners, acquisition professionals, and industry partners who care about shipping software in government. If your job involves digital transformation, procurement, or organizational change in a defense or civilian agency, this is built for you.
AI is reshaping how agencies think about what to build, how to buy it, and how fast to move. Prodacity gives you the tools to navigate that shift — strategies for continuous software delivery, getting past bureaucratic blockers, leading culture change, modernizing acquisition, and connecting product work to mission outcomes. Every session is built to give you something you can actually put to work when you get back.
Yes. Government attendees can get CPE or CLP credits. The final agenda determines total awardable credits.
An intensive where the strategies from Days 1 and 2 become tactical playbooks for your specific situation. Pick from six workshop options. Learn more here.
Yes. Prodacity has the hardest stage in GovTech to earn. Fill out this form to submit your speaking proposal by July 8, 2026 or reach out to sponsorships@rise8.us to request a sponsorship prospectus.
Yes. A limited number of Veterans attend all three days free, including the Day 3 hands-on build with AI-native tools where you leave with a working app you made yourself. No code experience required. The program is open to Veterans who want a path into GovTech and aren't currently working as a GovTech contractor, and applications close August 17. See the Veteran Program and apply here.
60+ days before event - 100% refund to original payment method, or ticket transferable to another attendee.
30-59 days before event - 50% refund to original payment method, or ticket transferable to another attendee.
Within 30 days of the event - No refund available, or ticket transferable to another attendee.
While Prodacity 2026 does not offer a room block, we recommend the following hotels based on proximity to Category 10 and the likelihood of honoring a government rate. Please contact the selected hotel directly or confirm room availability at the government rate in DTS or GO.gov:
Live music on Broadway, the Grand Ole Opry, hot chicken, the Frist Art Museum. Nashville has a lot going on and Category 10 is in the middle of all of it.
Smart casual. It's a working event, not a formal one.
Category 10 is in downtown Nashville. Nashville International Airport (BNA) is about 20 minutes away by rideshare. Most downtown hotels are within walking distance of the venue.
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