About ROADMAP Summit
ROADMAP is a new, major U.S. Government summit hosted by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) in partnership with the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) to elevate and convene the teams leading the historic place-based innovation investments supported by the federal government. These ecosystems are focused on a range of key technologies that have the capacity to reshape the economic landscape, including novel net-zero energy technology, quantum computing, semiconductor advanced packaging, climate resilience and carbon sequestration, regenerative medicine, advanced agriculture, precision fermentation, and more.
Since Congress passed the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, the federal government has invested tens of billions of dollars in place-based innovation initiatives, ushering in a new, ambitious chapter for how the federal government can spur future of innovation and economic development. This summit is an opportunity to shape and inform the direction of innovation- driven and place-based economic development, together with policymakers, leading experts, innovation ecosystem builders, and technologists.
The ROADMAP Summit Mission
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Elevate America’s key placed-based investments in science, technology, and innovation.
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Assemble the nation’s emerging innovation ecosystems and the leaders building them.
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Connect industry, capital and community stakeholders to the new frontiers of American innovation.
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Chart a roadmap for the future of science and technology for U.S. competitiveness.
Attendees
ROADMAP attendees include the leaders and teams behind the federal government’s place-based innovation investments; officials from the U.S. National Science Foundation, Economic Development Administration and other federal departments and agencies leading these place-based innovation efforts; and a highly curate and select group of leading thinkers, current and former elected officials, industry leaders, and journalists invited to share their perspectives about the landscape for U.S. competitiveness, emerging technology opportunities and challenges, and an emerging consensus on our national industrial strategy.
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If you’d like to be considered to attend or speak, please contact invitations@roadmapsummit.com.
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A New Frontier of American Innovation
The interactive map below highlights investments made through the NSF Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines) as well as those made through EDA's Build Back Better Regional Challenge (BBBRC) and Regional Technology and Innovation Hubs (Tech Hubs) programs. Notably, the map demonstrates the geographic diversity and intentional layering of investments across the two agencies. ROADMAP Summit will highlight these ecosystems and others as they work to bolster and expand America's global science and technology competitive advantage and leadership role.
