Innovate
HerE 2025

Innovate Here Virtual Conference
September 25, 2025

The 2025 Innovate Here Conference is a virtual event connecting early-stage technology startups specializing in AI-driven innovations critical to defense, life sciences, ag-tech, and other sectors. The conference is designed to provide a platform for networking, knowledge exchange, and collaboration among entrepreneurs, researchers, support organizations, and industry experts and to highlight federal investments in commercially viable innovations through America’s Seed Fund.

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Our Story

In 2024, we launched the inaugural Innovate Here conference to celebrate and highlight Montana's innovators and the people and programs that support them. We welcomed internationally renowned experts in Quantum technology, Bob Sutor, Clarice Aiello, and, our own, Krishna Rupavatharam. Montana small tech firms, SBIR program officers, Department of Defense leaders, private equity investors, and many of our partners and friends joined for this fully-virtual event to talk about opportunities, leverage connections, and participate in break-out sessions to learn more about America's Seed Fund, intellectual property and technology transfer, and finding DoD and government acquisition partners.