U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is set to visit Fort Wayne next week for the fourth annual Northeast Indiana Defense Summit.

The two-day event runs November 11-12, with the first day at The Pearl Event Center downtown and the second at Purdue University Fort Wayne’s International Ballroom, where Hegseth will attend.

The summit gathers policymakers, defense industry experts, and business leaders to highlight and strengthen northeast Indiana’s role in national defense.