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  • Schedule of Events
  • Venue & Booth Sales
  • Accomodations
  • Sponsorship Packages
  • Golf Tournament
  • Contacts & FAQ
  • Meeting Space

2026 Symposium schedule of events

This schedule is tentative and subject to change

Saturday 11 April 2026

1200 - 1900: Badge Pick-up at the Hilton Garden Inn


1700 - 1830: ARNG Welcome Cocktail Social

Sunday 12 April 2026

Hilton Garden Inn

  • 0700 - 1900: Badge Pick up
  • 0700: ARNG Fires Breakfast
  • 0800: Opening Comments
  • 0815: ARNG Symposium Keynote 1
  • 0900: BG Costello, CG, FCoE
  • 0930: BG Williams, Chief of the FA
  • 1000: Break
  • 1015: MG Porter, AG, Wyoming
  • 1045: ARNG Fires Strat Panel


  • 1200 - 1330 : Lunch


  • 1330: ARNG Modernization Panel
  • 1500:  Break
  • 1530: ARNG Sustainment Panel


FISTA

  • 0900 - 1900: Badge Pick up
  • 1000 - 1700: Outside Vendor Load-In
  • 1200 - 1900: Indoor Booth Load-In


Southwest Oklahoma Brewing

  • 1800 - 2000: ARNG Social


Monday 13 April 2026

Fort Sill Golf Course

  • 0700 - 1300: Fires Symposium Golf Tournament


Hilton Garden Inn

  • 0700 - 2000: Badge Pick up
  • 0815: FAB BN Breakout
  • 0815: FA Div BN Breakout
  • 1045: Break
  • 1100: FRAC Panel 1 (ARNG)


  • 1200-1300 : Lunch


  • 1330: FRAC Panel 2 (ARNG)
  • 1445: FRAC Panel 3 (ARNG)


FISTA

  • 0800 - 2030: Badge Pick up
  • 0900 - 1600: Inside/Outside Vendor Load-in
  • 1730 - 2030: Fires Symposium Ice Breaker Social

Tuesday 14 April 2026

Hilton Garden Inn

  • 0700: ADA Command Team Breakfast
  • 0700: FA DivArty Commanders Breakfast
  • 0700 - 1200: Badge Pick Up


FISTA

  • 0700 - 1600: Badge Pick Up
  • 0820 - 0830: Opening Comments
  • 0830 - 0915: BG Costello, CG, FCoE
  • 0915 - 1000: Keynote Address
  • 1000 - 1030: Break
  • 1030 - 1115: LtGen Mead (UK), DCG, NATO Joint Force Command


  • 1115 - Open Lunch
  • 1115 - CSM Breakout & Lunch
  • 1115 - WO Breakout & Lunch



  • 1300 - 1415: PAE Fires Panel
  • 1415 - 1530: Cross Domain Fires Panel
  • 1530 - 1600: Break
  • 1600 - 1645: LTG McFarlane, CG, I Corps
  • 1645: Closing Comments



Hilton Garden Inn

  • 1730 - ADA Cocktail Social
  • 1830 - ADAA Tattoo

Wednesday 15 April 2026

Hilton Garden Inn

  • 0700: FA BDE Commanders Breakfast
  • 0700: ADA CSM Breakfast


FISTA

  • 0700 - 1200: Badge Pick Up
  • 0820 - 0830: Opening Comments
  • 0830 - 0915: Keynote Address
  • 0915 - 0945: Break
  • 0945 - 1100: Composite Fires Panel


           1100-1300  LUNCH & Association(s) Membership Meeting

    


FA Break outs (Wed)

ADA Break outs (Wed)

ADA Break outs (Wed)

FISTA Room 1

  • 1230 - 1300: CMDT's Update
  • 1300 - 1415: Enhancing the Lethality of the DIVARTY through Transformation in Contact (Panel)
  • 1415 - 1445: Break
  • 1445 - 1600: Transforming Operational and Strategic Fires for the Future Fight (Panel)
  • 1600 - 1715: Fire Support for the BCT (Panel)
  • 1715 Closing Comments

ADA Break outs (Wed)

ADA Break outs (Wed)

ADA Break outs (Wed)

FISTA Room 2

  • 1230 - 1300: CMDT's Update
  • 1300 - 1415: Combat Lessons Learned (Panel)
  • 1415 - 1445: Break
  • 1445 - 1600: Transforming AMD in Contact (Panel)
  • 1600 - 1715: People, Organization, and AMD Composite Formations (Panel)
  • 1715 Closing Comments

Hilton Garden Inn

  • 1800 - FA Cocktail Social
  • 1915 - USFAA Musical Tattoo


Thursday 16 April 2026

Hilton Garden Inn

  • 0700 - FA BCD Commanders Breakfast


FISTA

  • 0800 - 0830: Continental Breakfast
  • 0820 - 0830: Last Day Comments

FA Break outs (Thurs)

ADA Break outs (Thurs)

ADA Break outs (Thurs)

FISTA Room 1

  • 0830 - 0945: Innovating at the Round: Improving Range Lethality and Precision for Indirect Fires (Panel)
  • 0945 - 1100: FA Fireside Chat (Panel)
  • 1100 - 1115: Comfort Break
  • 1115 - 1200: Keynote

ADA Break outs (Thurs)

ADA Break outs (Thurs)

ADA Break outs (Thurs)

FISTA Room 2

  • 0830 - 0945: Training: Air Battles & IBCS Gunnery (Panel)
  • 0945 - 1100: ADA Fireside Chat: "So What" (Panel)
  • 1100 - 1115: Comfort Break
  • 1115 - 1200: Keynote

FISTA ROOM 3B

  • 1200 - ARNG Lunch
  • 1300 - ARNG Closing Session




1215 : All Vendor Load out


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