Technology that protects, but also transforms. With this conviction, Know Hub Chile is organizing the Dual Hub Summit, the first Latin American conference dedicated to dual innovation: innovation that arises from the synergy between the civilian and defense sectors. The event will take place on May 6 and 7 at the University of Bío-Bío in the city of Concepción.
“At Know Hub Chile, we firmly believe that a country’s development is built on trust, knowledge, and cooperation among sectors that have often worked in isolation. That is why we have committed to creating a space that brings together technological capabilities, national challenges, and multisectoral collaboration,” says Javier Ramírez, executive director of Know Hub Chile.
The Dual Hub Summit aims to serve as a meeting point for universities, R&D centers, startups, companies, the Armed Forces, government agencies, and investors, with the goal of creating synergies that will help scale solutions from Chile to the rest of the world.
Over the course of two days, the Dual Hub Summit will address strategic questions such as: How do we collaborate to build a dual future? How does our defense sector drive regional and national technological development? How do we embark on these paths?
One of the key areas of focus will be the National Continuous Shipbuilding Plan, which will highlight the opportunities and challenges it presents for national development. A major milestone within this area will be the presentation of the Avante 04 program, developed in collaboration with the Chilean Navy, which aims to contribute to the national shipbuilding process through technological solutions emerging from the CTCI ecosystem.
The event is supported by CORFO and ANID and sponsored by Lockheed Martin, thereby strengthening a strategic partnership between public and private, national and international stakeholders.
“What is commonplace today was once strategic. We want dual-use innovation to cease being the exception and become a standard practice of collaboration between science, industry, and defense,” concludes Ramírez.