CHAOS Industries is a Los Angeles defense technology company building Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN), software-defined sensing systems that detect aerial and missile threats faster and cheaper than traditional radar. Founded in 2022, it makes distributed radar products like Vanquish and Astria for counter-drone, border, and homeland defense. By late 2025 the company had raised over $1 billion and reached a roughly $4.5 billion valuation.
David J. Bier is the Director of Immigration Studies at the Cato Institute, where he holds the Selz Foundation Chair in Immigration Policy. A relentless data-driven analyst of legal immigration, border security, and interior enforcement, he is best known for showing that fewer than 1 percent of people who want to move to the United States can legally do so, and for the Powerball analogy that reframed the legal-immigration debate. His research has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court and multiple federal appeals courts, and he testifies regularly before House and Senate committees.
Doug Aley is the CEO of Paravision, a San Francisco-based AI company building the world's most accurate facial recognition and identity AI technology. A Stanford and Harvard Business School alumnus, Aley co-founded his first company at 19, scaled Zulily from $100M to $700M in sales pre-IPO, and eventually landed at Paravision where he has guided the company to back-to-back #1 global rankings on NIST's Face Recognition Vendor Tests. Under his leadership, Paravision has raised $47M in funding, established itself as the only US company in the top 10 globally for facial recognition accuracy, and built a portfolio of AI tools spanning liveness detection, deepfake detection, and biometric authentication used in government, travel, border security, and enterprise applications worldwide.