Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George will speak Jan. 20 as part of the Association of the U.S. Army’s Coffee Series.

The event, AUSA’s first Coffee Series of 2026, will take place at AUSA headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. The event opens at 6:30 a.m. with registration, coffee and networking. The program is scheduled to begin at 7:15 a.m.

For more information or to register, click here.

Online registration is open until 5 p.m. Eastern on Jan. 16. On-site registration, on a first-come, first-served basis, begins at 6:15 a.m. on Jan. 20.

Sworn in on Sept. 21, 2023, as the 41st Army chief of staff, George has emphasized a focus on warfighting and transformation, warning that the Army “has to change.”

“It’s a dangerous world, and we’re seeing unparallelled enemy collaboration,” George said last fall. “The other thing we’re seeing that we haven’t seen since before World War II is just how rapidly tech is changing.”

The Army has been closely watching events and operations “on the battlefield in Ukraine and the Middle East and, really, around the world,” George said. “We’ve been doing something called transforming in contact, where we’re actually getting bottom-up innovation from our troops, but it’s not a lesson learned unless you’ve actually done something to change how you train and operate.”

As he has oriented the force toward a mindset of continuous transformation and a sense of urgency, George said last fall that he’s seeing a “lot of positive change happening up and down our formation.”

Young leaders across the Army are talented and innovative, George said. “They’re willing to take risks, push the envelope … and they understand how the modern battlefield is changing, and they are willing to help us figure out the adjustments we need to make for the Army.”