Mission Meets Market: Making The Case For Defense And Dual-Use Technology

​Join us for the opening session of Mission Meets Market — a six-week speaker series hosted by the Defense & Dual-Use (DDU) Technology Club at UC Berkeley exploring the intersection of national security and commercial innovation.

​In this kickoff session, we'll examine why defense and dual-use technology have never mattered more, how government mission needs create opportunities for private-sector builders, and why the "Valley of Death" is becoming a hotbed of entrepreneurial energy.

​Featuring Nand Mulchandani, the CIA's first-ever Chief Technology Officer (2022–2025). A serial entrepreneur who co-founded four Silicon Valley exits (Oblix, Determina, OpenDNS, ScaleXtreme), he previously served as CTO & Acting Director of the DoD's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, and is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford — holding degrees from Cornell, Stanford GSB, and Harvard Kennedy School.

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