Discovery Summits
Where mission owners meet vetted solutions
Held periodically for a sponsoring agency, Discovery Summits put technologies recommended by FINNDERs directly in front of the government mission owners who need them.
Discovery Summits
Vetted solutions in front of the people who own the mission
Discovery Summits
From mission need
to vetted solution
Held periodically, Discovery Summits are FINND’s flagship gatherings, where technologies recommended by FINNDERs are put directly in front of the government mission owners who need them.
01
GOVERNMENT SURFACES THE NEED
GOV FINNDERs bring forward the real mission needs and interests of their offices.
02
THE NETWORK SEARCHES
FINNDERs recommend technologies and capabilities out of their networks against those needs.
03
THE SUMMIT CONNECTS
Vetted solutions are introduced directly to the mission owners – measured, timely, and on target.
What is a Discovery Summit – 1 minute
Who is in the room
Three seats at every Summit
A Summit works because each seat brings something the others cannot: the need, the network or the capability.
Gov FINNDERs · The need
The sponsoring agency
A government office shares its interests list: the technologies and capabilities it is looking for. The Summit is tailored to that mission need, at negligible cost to the government.
FINNDERs · The network
The people who know where to look
FINNDERs recommend companies and capabilities out of their own networks against the agency’s needs, and earn a seat at the Summit when their recommendations are chosen.
Members · The capability
The companies with the answer
Every Member is automatically screened for every Discovery Summit. When a capability fits the sponsoring agency’s mission categories, the FINND puts it in front of the people who own that mission.
Why it works
Measured, timely and on target
Transparent
An open process for bringing emerging technologies to the attention of agency leaders and program managers.
Tailored
Every Summit is built around one agency’s actual mission needs, not a generic pitch day.
Non-proprietary
The FINND culture promotes non-proprietary collaboration between government and industry.
Negligible cost
Agencies get vetted, on-target solutions at negligible cost to the government.
Represent a technology, a network, or a government office? The FINND has a role for you.
Reach us at info@finnd.org or 703-574-0215.