Shweta Kajuri

Thank you so much.

Well, you know, this year is our fifth year of doing the Hill and Valley Forum.

It's the fifth.

It started as a small dinner in 2022 during the Biden administration.

And it's obviously grown to become one of the largest, if not the largest gatherings of D.C.

and tech leaders.

I think this year is very special because it's obviously happening during the 250th anniversary for the country.

And I also think this year will be a little bit unique in that we're really focused not just on technological leadership, which is the underpinning, but industrial leadership, which has been a huge focus in this administration, and then also alliance leadership.

And so you'll actually have leaders there from other countries, from within NATO, and I think that's going to be a big difference is the global scale of everyone's focus on building deeper bridges between technology and government.

I think that's a great question.

You know, for us, the fundamental goal is creating an environment for there to be a rebuilding of these bridges.

That was kind of the goal from the beginning, and it still remains that.

So I think first and foremost is gathering everyone together and having these open discussions, and most importantly, actually gathering people from different backgrounds.

You'll see actually, you know, Vinod Khosla, who's spoken every single year,

and is attending this year has very different views on certain regulatory opportunities or certain industrial opportunities than maybe you'll have from another partner at another firm.

Maybe you'll have, obviously every year we've had OpenAI and Anthropicspeak who are competitors, but in this case they're both alive in the importance of technological leadership in AI.

So I think first and foremost it's gathering everyone together.

We don't per se take goals or things that we think about.

We really want to create the stage for there to be open debate

and have a rare opportunity for there to be unity.