I'm Ian Cinnamon, CEO and co-founder of Apex, and we're ensuring that the US and the West win the new space race by building the core platform for satellites, known as the satellite bus, to rapidly produce spacecraft at our facility in Los Angeles.

Anduril is not a startup anymore; we are a growing company that is navigating the complexities of defense contracts and production at scale.

I'm Harrison, co-founder and CEO of LangChain, where we build developer tools to simplify application development with large language models (LLMs).

At SpaceX, I work closely with the engineering team to improve the Falcon 9 and Dragon spacecraft, as well as develop the Mars colonial architecture.

Now, there's a collective expectation in Washington for companies like Anduril to address major defense challenges, shifting from justifying our existence to being recognized as essential problem solvers. We've partnered with various companies that share our fast-paced, risk-tolerant DNA, which enhances our command and control capabilities.

I'm Bihan, and I lead product at Decagon, a Series B startup building AI agents for customer service and support use cases.

I spend about 80% of my time on engineering and design, focusing on developing the next generation of products at SpaceX and Tesla.

After eight years, Astranis has grown to over 400 employees and is now operating from a historic building at Pier 70, which is becoming a tech hub.

At Apex, we wanted to combine traditional engineering and manufacturing with new space companies, and Los Angeles is the only place that offers all three elements we need.