# Intelligence and National Security Summit **Entity class:** Recurring public-private intelligence summit **Organizers:** [[wiki/AFCEA International|AFCEA International]] and [[wiki/Intelligence and National Security Alliance|Intelligence and National Security Alliance]] **As of:** 2026-09-23 ## Definition The **Intelligence and National Security Summit** is a major U.S. public-private intelligence convening co-hosted by AFCEA International and the Intelligence and National Security Alliance. Recent editions have brought roughly two thousand or more intelligence, defense, national-security, academic, and industry participants to the Washington region for plenaries, panels, and technology exchange. Its importance is architectural: it gives government leaders a large venue for describing mission priorities while companies, researchers, and practitioners compare the commercial infrastructure, workforce, data, AI, cyber, and collection capabilities available to answer them. It is broader and more publicly accessible than a compartmented working session such as the [[wiki/AFCEA Spring Intelligence Symposium|AFCEA Spring Intelligence Symposium]]. ## Relationships - **organizers:** [[wiki/AFCEA International|AFCEA International]] and [[wiki/Intelligence and National Security Alliance|Intelligence and National Security Alliance]]. - **ecosystem role:** [[wiki/Public-Private Intelligence Ecosystem|Public-Private Intelligence Ecosystem]] and [[wiki/Commercial Technology and Intelligence|Commercial Technology and Intelligence]]. - **event ecosystem:** [[wiki/Intelligence and Defense Conferences|Intelligence and Defense Conferences]]. - **collection route:** [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [INSA — 2025 Intelligence and National Security Summit](https://www.insaonline.org/detail-pages/event/2025/09/18/default-calendar/2025-insa-afcea-intelligence-national-security-summit) - [INSA — 2023 Intelligence and National Security Summit](https://www.insaonline.org/detail-pages/event/2023/07/13/default-calendar/2023-intelligence-national-security-summit)