10 Trending GovCon Events on G2X | September 6, 2026

These ten upcoming events drew the most attention on The GovCon Calendar in the past 48 hours. The range is wide. GSA is convening federal agencies and industry on post-quantum cryptography migration in Washington. The 432d Security Forces Squadron is walking qualified small businesses through a crash beam barrier requirement at Creech Air Force Base. Modev is filling two days in Reston with agentic, physical and sovereign AI programming, and the American Small Business Chamber of Commerce is running a webinar on building an OASIS+ proposal. Format matters as much as subject here: a defense conference with nearly 300 exhibitor booths, a virtual member forum for federal acquisition professionals, a free online AI conference, and a breakfast discussion with an Army command leader. Each entry below covers the organizer, the theme, the intended audience, and what the program actually includes.

1. 2026 Post-Quantum Cryptography Summit - In Person

GSA's summit examines how federal agencies are preparing for quantum threats, with the program covering migration to post-quantum cryptography, crypto-agility, identity management and IT procurement. It runs September 16 in Washington, DC, at the Department of Transportation's West Atrium, in a hybrid format that puts federal agencies alongside industry experts and implementation partners. GSA also ties part of the agenda to the role its contract vehicles play in federal IT buying, which is the hook for cyber and identity firms tracking routes to market for quantum-safe technology. The intended audience runs from agency technology and security leaders to modernization delivery teams and capture professionals following GSA procurement paths.

2. Applied AI Technology Conference 2026 | Free Online AI Conference

Community Day is running this free online conference on October 1 for business analysts, product managers, solution architects, and other technology professionals and AI practitioners. Organizers describe the agenda as deliberately practical: enterprise AI case studies, live demonstrations, coding sessions, and walkthroughs of frameworks and workflows drawn from real projects and architectures rather than forecasts about future tools. Sessions group around how AI is changing professional roles, collaboration and decision-making; AI-assisted workflows for discovery, validation, prototyping and delivery in product development; and everyday productivity in analysis, documentation, communication and execution. The definition of applied AI the organizers work from starts with a business challenge instead of a tool, and favors work that can be tested, implemented and measured. Registration is free.

3. The Global Agentic AI Summit

Modev's two-day summit in Reston, Virginia, gathers enterprise, public-sector and AI leaders around agentic, physical and sovereign AI. Executive programming runs at The AI House on October 6 and 7, with workshops, breakout sessions and panels at a separate conference venue in Reston. Topics span defense AI, government automation, AI security and trust, compliance, responsible AI, and enterprise automation. The public-sector angle is the draw for contractors: the program covers how the Navy, the Library of Congress, the Energy Department and local governments are approaching secure automation, AI governance and data risk. Modev aims it at capture and growth leaders pursuing public-sector AI work, delivery teams building governed agentic workflows, government program managers running AI or data initiatives, and agency technology executives comparing implementation approaches. No solicitation briefings, contracting sessions or set-aside programming appear on the published agenda.

4. 2026 Air, Space & Cyber Conference

The Air & Space Forces Association's conference at the Gaylord National Resort in National Harbor, Maryland, covers air and space dominance, force development and sustainment, cyber capabilities, and emerging military requirements and technologies. The September 14 to 16 program carries more than 40 sessions plus technology exhibit halls with nearly 300 booths, with the Department of Defense named as the agency stakeholder and military leaders, defense industry representatives and government stakeholders filling the audience. For contractors, that pairing is the reason to go: sessions to assess emerging requirements across air, space and cyber missions, and exhibit space to put relevant technologies in front of prospective customers.

5. 432 SFS Crash Beam Barriers

The 432d Security Forces Squadron is hosting an in-person site visit at Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nevada, on September 8 for a crash beam barrier requirement. The agenda covers the statement of work, base access coordination, installation requirements, and the physical-security infrastructure behind the work, and the visit lets qualified small businesses inspect the installation environment and clarify access and delivery constraints before the solicitation. The audience is narrow by design: small businesses and specialty trade contractors supplying crash barriers, installation or shipping services, along with the capture, proposal and field-delivery staff supporting them. The Air Force has structured the coming requirement as a total small-business set-aside for crash beam barrier work at Creech.

6. ACT-IAC Acquisition COI

ACT-IAC's Acquisition COI convenes virtually on September 16, a member forum for federal acquisition professionals and contractors. No specific agency buyer, program or procurement appears on the listing; the draw is direct discussion of current procurement trends between government acquisition personnel and industry. For capture and business-development staff, that makes the meeting an hour to test market assumptions against what acquisition peers are seeing.

7. Coffee Series Featuring LTG Edmond Brown

AUSA puts Edmond Brown, acting commanding general of T2COM, in front of a small-format defense and government audience in Arlington, Virginia, on September 29. The morning at the General Gordon R. Sullivan Conference & Event Center opens with informal coffee and networking, then moves to opening remarks, a discussion with Brown, and audience questions as time allows. Programming centers on Army leadership, T2COM command priorities, and engagement between military and civilian government personnel and industry, with major defense companies among the sponsors. AUSA aims the session at Army and defense capture and growth leads, government program personnel, and delivery leaders who want a firsthand leadership perspective on T2COM priorities rather than a technical or proposal working session.

8. Critical Infrastructure Security Summit

GovCIO Media & Research is convening federal civilian, defense and industry leaders in Tysons, Virginia, on January 8, 2027, around threats to critical infrastructure including energy grids, water systems, supply chain, hospitals and operational technology. Organizers say attendees will hear how federal agencies are securing IT and OT environments, addressing industrial control systems security, improving cyber resilience, strengthening supply chain security, and applying AI, zero trust and emerging technologies to protect services. It is the furthest-out listing in this edition, which leaves resilience and OT security teams a long runway for planning.

9. Florida Public Sector Cybersecurity Summit

Florida state and local security leaders gather in Tallahassee on September 17 for a Government Technology summit built around ransomware resilience, AI governance, cloud continuity and security automation. The agenda at the Florida State Conference Center also takes in AI vendor risk, vulnerability management, identity security and workforce pressures, mixing policy sessions and technical discussions with a capture-the-flag competition and exhibit-area networking. Government Technology has assembled state and local technology executives, security officials, cyber operators and commercial security providers, so vendors selling into Florida government get a read on the operational and procurement concerns shaping cybersecurity work there.

10. GSA OASIS+: Building Your Proposal

Charmagne Giardina, president of The American Small Business Chamber of Commerce, leads this virtual session on September 30 on building a compliant, competitive proposal for GSA's OASIS+ vehicle. The webinar reviews proposal components, solicitation instructions, evaluation criteria, teaming arrangements and on-ramping opportunities, plus how firms can align their capabilities with OASIS+ domains and interpret the solicitation for current or future opportunities on the vehicle. The format is instructional rather than a buyer meeting or networking event. The audience is proposal managers, capture and growth leads, and small and set-aside firms preparing to compete, including women-owned, HUBZone, service-disabled veteran-owned, veteran-owned and 8(a) businesses.

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