My name is Melissa.
Oh, I'm the managing director for the Silicon Valley Innovation Program, or SVP.
And SVP is within the Science and Technology Directorate,
is really focused on accelerating the advancement and emerging
innovative technologies from commercial startups into DHS.
The Silicon Valley Innovation Program Demo Week
is our opportunity to showcase the active companies.
We have got 32 startups that are developing technologies
for DHS missions, it's just an opportunity for one for them to talk to each other
and to collaborate, but also for the 30% of the attendees were government agencies
and very much DHS agencies.
So part of that is helping them
see what are some of those technologies that can benefit their mission as well.
I think it's extremely important that DHS is looking at all
sorts of technologies because we have such a wide and broad mission
that anything from computer vision to cybersecurity to data analytics
that's being developed in the commercial sector should be usable by DHS as well.
And so I think it's great
that we have such a wide portfolio of companies working in this space,