DON Digital Warfighting Symposium

Registration is now open for 2026 DON Digital Warfighting Symposium (West). The event is scheduled for February 9-12, 2026.

Formerly referred to as the DON IT Conference, the 2026 DON Digital Warfighting Symposium West will be a hybrid event with in-person and virtual components. The virtual side of the conference will be broadcast via Microsoft Teams. The in-person component will be held at the San Diego Convention Center.

The purpose of the DON Digital Warfighting Symposium is to educate Department of War (DoW) personnel on supporting and delivering the Information Superiority Vision (ISV) 2.0.

  • Learn how the DON can best align with the ISV 2.0's strategic objectives of Optimize: Prioritized, agile, resilient, and relevant Naval Information Environment; Secure: Defendable and survivable by design; and Decide: Maneuverable data driving decision advantage.
  • Sessions that provide continuous learning credits per SECNAVINST 1543.2, requiring 20-hours of continuous learning per year for the Cyberspace/IT workforce.
  • Provide an opportunity for the DON IT community to hear directly from DON IT leadership and engage with their peers, for clarifying information and insight into solutions to IT challenges.

Registration

The DON Digital Warfighting Symposium is free to DON government, military and contractor personnel providing direct support to the government ONLY; however, registration is required.

Register for In-Person Attendance
Register for Virtual Attendance

Industry Note

Industry attendees wishing to attend the DON Digital Warfighting Symposium events that are open to the public MUST register for the WEST 2026 conference, occurring at the same time and location. Industry registrations will be removed from the DON Digital Warfighting Symposium registration database. Once registered with WEST, please do not duplicate registration on the DON CIO site - duplicate entries will be deleted.

Dress Code

Military participants should wear the uniform of the day for all events. Civilians and contractors should wear appropriate business attire.