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October 18-20, 2026

The US-Taiwan Defense Industry Conference 2025 will be held October 19-21, 2025, in Ellicott City, Maryland. This will be the 24th annual event in a series of ongoing conferences addressing the future of U.S. defense cooperation with Taiwan, the defense procurement process, and Taiwan’s defense and national security needs.

This year, the first session will provide updates and a broad-spectrum assessment of the national security challenges currently facing Taiwan and will examine how Taiwan is preparing to respond. Panelists in the second session will build on Session I by analyzing potential responses to Taiwan’s identified security challenges, offering insights on integrated defense from global, regional, and local perspectives. We will discuss how coalition-building and partnerships can play a crucial role in supporting a comprehensive and robust defense posture for Taiwan.

The third session will focus on political warfare, examining current challenges for Taiwan along with existing and potential countermeasures, while the fourth session will explore how potential structural or tactical adjustments could help support Taiwan’s societal resilience and total defense efforts. The fifth and final session will zero-in on the strategically critical battles for electromagnetic spectrum and information environment control and access, with a discussion on potential strategies that could help support improved resilience and effective readiness for Taiwan.

Keynote Addresses & Conference Program

Keynote speakers will include senior representatives from the Taiwan and U.S. governments. Conference sessions at the US-Taiwan Defense Industry Conference feature a moderator and several speakers on the panel, and some sessions may include additional commentators. Each speaker gives a short presentation on the session topic from his or her own viewpoint and expertise. Those presentations are then followed by a moderator-led discussion among the panelists, as well as a moderator-driven question and answer period with the attendees. This format offers the maximum amount of time for exchanges among the panelists, as well as between the panel and the audience, allowing the sessions to become a forum for substantial and valuable interaction and discussion.

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Conference Registration

Please use the registration form to register. If you are unable to submit the form, please try again from a different network location (such as your home computer). If the issue persists, or if you have questions about conference registration in general, please contact the US-Taiwan Business Council directly at (703) 465-2930. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Conference History

The first conference in this series was the St. Petersburg, Florida event where former Taiwan Minister of National Defense Tang Yiau-ming gave the keynote address in March 2002. The second conference in the series was held in February 2003 in San Antonio, Texas, the third in October 2004 in Phoenix, Arizona, the fourth in September 2005 in San Diego, California, the fifth in September 2006 in Denver, Colorado, and the sixth in September 2007 in Annapolis, Maryland.

Taiwan’s Minister of National Defense Chen Chao-min gave the keynote address at the seventh conference in the series, held in September 2008 on Amelia Island, Florida. The eighth conference was held in September 2009 in Charlottesville, Virginia, the ninth in October 2010 in Cambridge, Maryland, and the tenth in September 2011 in Richmond, Virginia. The eleventh conference was held in September 2012 in Hershey, Pennsylvania, and the twelfth in September 2013 in Annapolis, Maryland. The thirteenth conference in October 2014, the fourteenth in October 2015, and the fifteenth in October 2016 all took place in Williamsburg, Virginia.

The sixteenth conference was held in October 2017 in Princeton, New Jersey, while the seventeenth conference was held in October 2018 in Annapolis, Maryland. The eighteenth conference took place in October 2019 in Ellicott City, Maryland. The nineteenth conference took place as a virtual event online in October 2020, while the twentieth conference was held in October 2021 in Leesburg, Virginia, the twenty-first in October 2022 in Richmond, Virginia, and the twenty-second in Williamsburg, Virginia in October 2023. The twenty-third conference was held in September 2024 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.