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AI & Career Transition Event for Veterans

Tuesday, September 29, 2026 · 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM ET

Hosted by Tria Federal

Where

Tria Federal HQ
3100 Clarendon Boulevard, Suite 1400
Arlington, VA 22201

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• Directly across from the Clarendon Metro station (Orange and Silver lines), with direct building access from the station.
• Paid parking is available in the garage under the building, accessed from N Highland Street.

Checking in

1. Tell the security guard in the lobby that you are here for the Tria event. They will escort you to the elevators.
2. Take the elevator to the 14th floor — it opens directly onto the Tria suite.
3. Sign in at the reception desk, where you will be checked in and oriented to the office.

Available on-site

Resume support

Email a copy of your resume to Ashley Cosey (ACosey@triafed.com) ahead of time, or bring a printed copy with you.

Complimentary professional headshots

Headshots are available on-site at no cost. Come dressed as you would like to appear in the photo — business or business-casual attire works well.

Who to contact

• Tylor HewetteCheck-in and on-site logisticsTHewette@triafed.com
• Ashley CoseyResume support — send your resume ahead of timeACosey@triafed.com

Before you come

A couple of hours of preparation changes what you take away from the day. You will have sharper questions, you will remember more of what you hear, and the conversations you have will be with people you chose to seek out rather than whoever you happened to stand next to.

Run the event prep checklistWhat to bring, who to research, and how to follow up afterward.

Decide which market you are aiming atFederal, contractor, or commercial. Five minutes, and it makes every conversation on the day sharper.

Set up an AI toolHave an account created and the warm-up prompt run before you arrive, so you can work live.

Bring your resumeEven a rough draft. It is far easier to improve something than to start from nothing.

Read the safety guidanceTwo minutes on what must never go into an AI chat window.

What to bring

• A printed copy of your resume, or email it ahead if the event offers resume review.
• A laptop or tablet if you have one — you can work through prompts during the session.
• A notebook and pen. Write down names immediately after each conversation.
• Business or business-casual attire if headshots are offered.
• Your ID, for building security.
• The questions you have been stuck on. Bring the real ones.

Do not wait until the resume is finished

Bring what you have, in whatever state it is in. A rough draft you can work through with someone who reviews resumes for a living is worth far more than a polished version you bring to next year’s session. Half-finished is exactly the right state to arrive in.

During the session

• Sit near the front. It is a small thing and it reliably leads to asking more questions.
• Run the prompts live rather than reading them. The value is in the output about your own background, which takes about four minutes to generate and is yours to keep.
• Talk to the other attendees. They are standing exactly where you are standing, several of them will land somewhere interesting, and in two years they are your network.
• Ask the question you think is too basic. Several other people in the room are wondering the same thing and will be glad you said it out loud.

After

The site stays up, and everything covered on the day will still be here whenever you come back to it — along with a good deal more than fits into a single morning.

Bookmark it before you leave. Most people find they return to it several times over the following months, and quite a few send it on to someone still in.

1. Work through the prompt library in order over the following weeks.
2. Use the checklists to keep yourself honest about pace.
3. Follow up with everyone you met within 48 hours — see the event follow-up checklist.
4. Share this site with someone still in. The best time to start is twelve months before separation.

For organizers

This site is built to be reused across events. Everything specific to a single session — dates, location, contacts and on-site services — lives in one data file, src/data/events.ts.

Updating that file updates this page. Setting the upcoming event to null between sessions switches the page to an evergreen state automatically, with no other edits required. Every other page is written to stand on its own, so the guide keeps working for attendees long after the day itself.