Applications for the 2026 cohort, three named summits across four days in Long Beach, are open now. The week is curated and seats are capped at ~150 per summit. Apply to each event you want to attend.
A recurring convening on one hard industrial-base problem. Naval operations and maritime commerce run on the same space-based stack of GPS timing, satellite links, and AIS — more than 170,000 vessels were jammed at least once worldwide in a single quarter this year. Ships navigate by satellite, so this is space resilience worked at the waterfront. The problem is national; the work happens on the Long Beach waterfront.
Satellite forums, lab tours, hangar receptions, and partner-hosted side events running alongside the summits, open by application across the district all week.
Southern California is the spine of the American industrial renaissance: the aerospace corridor from El Segundo to Long Beach, the advanced-manufacturing belt of Orange County, the test ranges of the Mojave, and the ports anchoring Indo-Pacific logistics. SDTW brings this ecosystem into one room for one week each September.
We program across four pillars: Sea to Space, Build It in Time, The Capital Stack, and The Allied Base, with three named flagship summits, keynote firesides & cohort discussions, parallel VIP dinners, an OTA clinic, and a Long Beach corridor showcase.
Opening & closing receptions and the public-policy forum on the Queensway promenade.
Floor walks and corridor showcase across the Long Beach aerospace & manufacturing belt.
Flagship summits and founder dinners in East Village & Pine Avenue.
Operating thesis, three-year arc, and how the Week is structured.
Read about → 02Numbers, moments, quotes, and coverage from last September.
View recap → 0374 partners across two editions: primes, programs, capital, operators.
View partners → 0422 questions across attending, program, sponsors, and press logistics.
Read FAQ →Three ways to get on the 2026 program: apply for the cohort, request the sponsorship prospectus, or host a side event under the SDTW banner.
Invite-only. Founders and operators building critical technology, general partners at deep-tech and defense funds, program leads at DIU / AFRL / ONR / DARPA, and executives from the industrial primes. The cohort is curated; applications are reviewed rolling.
SDTW runs as a hybrid. The flagship summits and founder dinners are invite-only. District-wide satellite forums, lab tours, and the opening and closing receptions are open by application. Roughly a third of the week is open-access.
Yes. Sponsorship is gated behind the 2026 prospectus. Request the deck here. Tiers range from event partner through title sponsor; we respond within five business days.
Yes. Funds, primes, labs, and community builders can host satellite events under the SDTW banner. Apply to host. The host council reviews weekly through August 2026.
Monthly dispatches from the SDTW team: partner news, program drops, and the occasional memo from the ecosystem. Built for people who'd rather read than tweet.
We'll email you when applications open, plus the monthly program dispatch.