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Fireside chat with Julian Setian: Building a Private Defense Champion
November 20, 2025
One of the most compelling moments of the DigiTec 2025 conference was a deep-dive conversation on the U.S. experience in organizing the defense industry and the broader defense-tech ecosystem.
Speaker: Julian Setian, CEO of SOSi, and one of the key figures in the U.S. defense-technology landscape.
Moderator: Areg Alimian (SmartGateVC)
The discussion explored several key questions:
- How does the U.S. defense-tech industry actually work?
- Why do private companies move faster?
- How is the sector regulated in the United States?
- How does the government work with private contractors?
- And finally: how can Armenian companies enter the U.S. market for defense-related solutions?
