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My name is Melissa.

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Oh, I'm the managing director for the
Silicon Valley Innovation Program, or SVP.

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And SVP is within the Science
and Technology Directorate,

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is really focused on
accelerating the advancement and emerging

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innovative technologies
from commercial startups into DHS.

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The Silicon Valley Innovation Program
Demo Week

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is our opportunity
to showcase the active companies.

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We have got 32 startups
that are developing technologies

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for DHS missions, it's just an opportunity
for one for them to talk to each other

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and to collaborate, but also for the 30%
of the attendees were government agencies

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and very much DHS agencies.

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So part of that is helping them

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see what are some of those technologies
that can benefit their mission as well.

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I think it's extremely important
that DHS is looking at all

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sorts of technologies because we have such
a wide and broad mission

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that anything from computer vision
to cybersecurity to data analytics

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that's being developed in the commercial
sector should be usable by DHS as well.

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And so I think it's great

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that we have such a wide portfolio
of companies working in this space,