AMERICAN AUTONOMY FORUM

MAY 20–21, 2027AUSTIN, TEXASPROPOSED FIRST EDITION · TWO DAYS

Build the next American century.

Ambitious founders. Working technology. A country ready to build. Bring America’s next era of jobs, industry and discovery to life.

Attend the first edition Meet the builders

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American technicians at NASA working on Artemis rocket hardware — AMERICAN AMBITION. REAL WORK.

THE NEXT GREAT
AMERICAN BUILDER PRIZEProposed pool · 10 categories × $1M

MANUFACTURINGSPACEENERGYDEFENSEAIROBOTICS

The main speaker invitation list

The builders of
what comes next.

Founders and technology leaders shaping American capability. Proposed speakers; participation is not confirmed.

INVITATION TARGET

SpaceX · Tesla

Manufacturing, autonomy and space

INVITATION TARGET

NVIDIA

The infrastructure of physical AI

INVITATION TARGET

OpenAI

Intelligence and national capability

INVITATION TARGET

Anduril

Building America's defense future

INVITATION TARGET

Palantir

Technology and national execution

INVITATION TARGET

AMD

The computing capacity we need

Explore all 118 speaker targets

Public leadership. A shared ambition.

The people serving
America’s future.

Government, science and military leaders on the invitation list. All participation and agency involvement remain unconfirmed.

INVITATION TARGET

U.S. Department of War

Secretary of War

INVITATION TARGET

U.S. Department of War — Research and Engineering

Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering

INVITATION TARGET

White House OSTP

Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

INVITATION TARGET

U.S. Department of Energy

Secretary of Energy

INVITATION TARGET

NASA

NASA Administrator

INVITATION TARGET

Joint Chiefs of Staff

Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

All public leadership targets Full speaker invitation list

What must America be able to build?

Who will build it?

One mission. Five experiences.

The future has
a meeting place.

A working forum. A floor full of technology. A national search for builders. Your next opportunity.

Audience at NASA’s Aerospace Industry Roundtable near Kennedy Space Center, Florida, September 8, 2025.

The Forum

Where ambition becomes a plan.

A working room for the founders, customers, capital and leadership advancing America’s capabilities.

Explore the Forum

Visitors explore NASA’s technology exhibits at the 2026 FIRST Robotics World Championship in Houston.

The Expo

See what works.

Working technology, live demonstrations and the people building it.

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Engineers collaborate on assembling a robotic prototype at a workshop bench.

The Next Great American Builder Prize

$10 million. Ten categories.

A proposed $1 million award per category for the builders moving America forward.

Explore the $10M prize

Workers operate cotton-gin machinery in North Carolina, United States.

Help America Build

Find your place in the future.

A jobs expo connecting talent with the teams building what comes next.

Explore the Jobs Expo

The television control room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center during global precipitation live shots, April 1, 2015.

American Autonomy Live

Watch the future take shape.

Founder stories, consequential conversations and demonstrations worth watching.

Explore American Autonomy Live

The technology

Intelligence becomes
American capability.

A robotic wire-arc additive manufacturing system at ORNL produces a steam turbine blade.

Manufacturing & materials

Turn breakthroughs into production capacity.

Automated factories · machining · critical materials

Artemis I launches from Kennedy Space Center, carrying Orion toward the Moon.

Space & aviation

Expand where we can go, connect and build.

Launch · satellites · propulsion · new aircraft

Operators work above the blue-glowing pool of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s High Flux Isotope Reactor.

Energy & power

Reliable power for the next era of American growth.

Fusion · nuclear · geothermal · storage · grid

The Sea Hunter unmanned surface vessel departs Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego.

Defense & resilience

Build the systems that protect people and essential infrastructure.

Autonomous defense · sensing · cybersecurity

Frontier exascale supercomputer cabinets at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

AI & intelligence

From software that assists to systems that accomplish useful work.

AI agents · chips · computing · scientific discovery

NASA’s Robonaut 2 inside an electromagnetic interference test chamber at Johnson Space Center.

Robotics & autonomy

Intelligence moves into factories, construction sites and everyday operations.

Humanoids · industrial robots · autonomous mobility

Container cargo operations and quay cranes at the Port of Savannah, Georgia.

Infrastructure & logistics

Build, transport and maintain the systems people depend on.

Construction · ports · freight · supply chains

Megan Elliott and Steven Tavis work with mass spectrometry instrumentation at ORNL.

Biology & discovery

Better tools for the next scientific breakthrough.

Automated labs · engineering biology · medicines

THE NEXT GREAT AMERICAN BUILDER PRIZE

Big ambition.
Meet your moment.

Ten categories. A proposed $1 million award in each. For the founders and inventors building what America needs next.

Explore all ten prizes

Sponsor a category →Proposed pool. Funding, eligibility and final award terms are pending.

Concept photograph of builders working on a robotics prototype

NOMINATE FOR THE NEXT GREAT AMERICAN BUILDER PRIZE

Who is building
America’s next chapter?

A founder in a garage. A company solving a hard problem. A team with a working breakthrough. Put them forward for the proposed $10 million prize.

How nominations work

10 CATEGORIES
ONE AMERICAN AMBITIONProposed prize pool. Funding and award terms pending.

Two days. A shared ambition.

Decide. Demonstrate.
Find your place.

THURSDAY · MAY 20

Decide what to build.

National priorities. Frontier technology. The founders, buyers and public leaders turning ambition into action.

Forum · Public + private · Buyers · Capital FRIDAY · MAY 21

Show it. Build it. Join it.

Working demonstrations, the Jobs Expo, builder finalists and the proposed $10M prize finale.

Expo · Careers · Demonstrations · Builder Prize

Explore the complete agenda

ENTREPRENEURIAL MASTERCLASS

Build the company
behind the breakthrough.

Product. Customers. Capital. An audience that believes in what you build. Four proposed founder sessions across two days.

Explore the masterclass

PROPOSED MASTERCLASS SPEAKERS

Invitations and participation are unconfirmed.

HELP AMERICA BUILD JOBS EXPO

A future worth building.
A place for you.

Every ambitious founder needs people who can make things work. Machinists. Electricians. Welders. Technicians. Engineers. Find the skills, teams and opportunities building America’s next chapter.

Explore the Jobs Expo

Machinist Margaret Paone operates a vertical milling machine at Watervliet Arsenal, New York, November 22, 2016. — Machinists & makers

Brian Lawson and Kenesaw Burwell work on a solar-panel installation featured by the U.S. Department of Energy, June 4, 2012. — Clean energy crews

Electrician Donald Davis and pipefitter Jamison Walker connect power cables at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia, August 2026. — Electricians & lineworkers

State carpenter Shawn Kostek planes a replacement door at Muscatatuck Urban Training Center in Indiana while Darby Morris observes, July 2020. — Carpenters & tradespeople

An NIH researcher handles a sample at a laboratory bench. — Scientists & researchers

Visiting scientist Liping Kou and technician Ellen Turner harvest microgreens for studies of nutrients and shelf life. — Agriculture & food teams

NASA Dexterous Robotics Team member Emma Zemler receives a duffel bag from Valkyrie during a robot demonstration at Johnson Space Center. — Robotics & aerospace engineers

Geoff Woo, Jake Paul and Logan Paul in the current official Anti Fund team photograph

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THE PEOPLE BRINGING THE BUILDERS TOGETHER

Conviction.
Capital.
An audience.

Bring the people building America’s future into the national conversation.

Jake Paul

Builder challenges & national reach

Logan Paul

Founder conversations & storytelling

Geoff Woo

Technology, capital & company building

Meet Anti Fund

A PROPOSED PUBLIC + PRIVATE PROGRAM

One country.
A shared
Building mission.

Public priorities. Private ingenuity. The people who define America’s needs in the room with the people building the answers.

Explore the public-private program

NASA aerospace manufacturing with an American flag

A small-town main street at dusk, lined with American flags and brick storefronts.

FROM EVERY PART OF AMERICA

The next chapter
starts here.

In our hometowns. On our factory floors. In garages, labs and workshops. Motivated founders can create more than companies: new jobs, stronger communities and a future more people can help build.

Find your place

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The next American century is ours to build.