Learn more about
SOF Week
Held in Tampa, Florida, SOF Week is an annual conference for the international SOF community to learn, connect, and honor its members. The event is jointly sponsored by USSOCOM and Global SOF. The 2024 edition attracted over 19,000 attendees.
Key Highlights for SOF Week 2025
Exhibition & Demos
Don’t miss the exhibition halls spread throughout the venues, organized by functional areas for easy navigation. Plus, we’re growing the outdoor industry demonstration program.
Extensive Programming
Sessions include senior keynote speakers, professional development seminars, industry matchmaking, and non-profit interests.
USSOCOM Annual Awards Ceremony & Dinner
The annual awards ceremony and dinner honors special operations community leaders and showcases SOF accomplishments.
Welcome reception
The Monday Global SOF Anniversary Reception is now the SOF Week Welcome Reception–and it’s the best way to kick off the week!
SOF WEEK BY THE NUMBERS
The 2025 SOF Week Report
The 2025 SOF Week Report provides a comprehensive look at this year’s event, highlighting industry participation, partner-nation collaboration, the growing economic impact on Tampa, and more. With expanded programming, new innovation platforms like Accelerator Alley, and enhanced opportunities for engagement across government, industry, and international SOF, this report captures the evolving scope and strategic value of SOF Week. Whether you’re shaping defense policy, driving innovation, or seeking collaboration, the 2025 report offers critical insights and key takeaways you won’t want to miss.
Future SOF Week Dates
A Unique View of
The 2024 SOF Week Campus
Hovermap is a unique product that allows the rapid capture of rich 3D data and 360-degree images in challenging GPS-denied areas to aid decision support, mission planning, Sensitive Site Exploration, CBRNe operations, and more.
It provides both GPS-denied autonomy and lidar mapping in a single device. When mounted to a compatible drone or UGV, it uses the lidar data to provide autonomous navigation in GPS-denied areas beyond line-of-sight and communication range while streaming a live 3D map to the operator for situational awareness and mission planning.
The rich lidar data is stored onboard and post-processed to generate accurate 3D maps of the environment. It can easily be removed from the drone or UGV via quick release and used as a handheld or backpack-mounted lidar scanner. This versatility makes it suitable for data capture almost anywhere.
Hovermap was first developed for the underground mining market, where it is used daily to map inaccessible areas in hundreds of mines around the world. It is now being used for Defence and Public Safety applications.
The video shows a 3D map generated by walking with Hovermap for 45 mins inside and outside the Tampa Convention Center during SOF Week 2024.
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