Theme Hardening the Lone Star State against foreign adversaries and natural disasters.
Date May 12, 2026
Time 09:00 AM – 01:00 PM
Location IBM Innovation Studio, Austin, TX, USA
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09:00 AM Welcome: The 2026 State Resilience Framework
Opening: Introductions of state leaders and agency stakeholders.
The Vision: Building a secure AI backbone that reaches every corner of the Lone Star State—providing mission-critical protection from the southern border and the Port of Houston to the far reaches of the Panhandle. Our goal is to create a unified, secure, and sharable AI picture of real-time operations across the state.
Modernizing the Standard: Moving from Trust as a concept to Verification as a practice.
The Roadmap: Delivering tactical infrastructure protection and long-term continuity for state agencies.
09:20 AM Innovation Briefing: Why SanQtum is the New Texas Standard
The "Local Vault" Advantage: Instead of sending state data to external cloud environments, SanQtum keeps intelligence local. It’s faster, private, and functions independently of the public internet.
Legacy Protection: How SanQtum acts as a Digital Bodyguard, allowing agencies to secure their current hardware and grid assets without requiring a costly "rip and replace."
Enterprise Power at the Edge: Bringing IBM watsonx directly to the field to enable machine-speed decision-making for first responders.
The Managed Solution: A look at SanQtum’s Fully Managed Offering—delivering national-security-grade AI with total budget certainty and zero hidden infrastructure costs.
10:00 AM The Drone Frontier: Secure Airspace & Operational Safety
Ensuring Airspace Integrity: Addressing the coordination and safety of drone activity over critical energy corridors and state borders.
Post-Quantum Resilience: Leveraging post-quantum encryption and a localized AI brain to process mission data in real time, ensuring that all autonomous operations remain secure and verifiable.
Real-Time Agency Notification: Automatically identifying critical incidents and notifying the appropriate state agencies the moment action is required to keep Texans safe.
Sovereign Operations: Ensuring all state-operated unmanned systems are HB41 compliant and strictly controlled by Texas personnel through a secure, localized framework.
10:45 AM Resilience in the Storm: Emergency Response & Continuity
Season Readiness: Final tactical prep for the June 1st Hurricane Season and current wildfire/flood response strategies.
Independent Intelligence: Demonstrating how SanQtum provides "Always-On" AI that remains fully operational even when the power grid or cellular networks are compromised.
Unified Field Awareness: Connecting multiple agencies with real-time information and ingesting live data from a multitude of connected sensors at the edge.
Mission Impact: Providing first responders with local, high-fidelity flood modeling and fire tracking when connectivity is lost.
11:30 AM Fortifying the Frontier: Infrastructure & Data Sovereignty
Zero Trust Sovereignty: How the SanQtum solution provides the State of Texas with a verifiable, zero trust framework that ensures total data sovereignty.
Infrastructure Resilience: Ensuring the long-term protection of the Texas grid and water systems through secure, verifiable AI layers.
Data Borders: How SanQtum guarantees that Texas citizen data remains strictly within state-controlled systems, protected by the highest encryption standards.
12:15 PM Closing: Strategic Alignment and Next Steps
Strengthening the State: High-level closing remarks on achieving mission continuity through the IBM and SanQtum partnership.
Defining Your Path: How to align these resilience capabilities with your agency’s operational requirements.
Taking the Next Step: Information on scheduling a personalized "Agency Mission Briefing" to move from strategy to implementation.
12:30 PM Networking and IBM Innovation Studio (Optional)
Optional Exploration: You are invited to network with peers and explore the IBM Innovation Studio at your own pace.
