Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael Weimer will speak March 6 as part of the Association of the U.S. Army’s Coffee Series.

The event 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 available until 5 p.m. March 3. On-site registration will be available beginning at 6:30 a.m. March 6.

Weimer was sworn in Aug. 4, 2023, as the 17th sergeant major of the Army. A career special operations soldier, he previously was the command sergeant major for Army Special Operations Command.

As the Army’s senior enlisted leader, Weimer has focused on the Army’s push to transform, particularly the role of NCOs in the Army’s transformation in contact initiative, which puts new technology in soldiers’ hands for testing and experimentation. “NCOs are going to be the ones that implement transforming in contact,” Weimer said last fall.

Soldiers are innovative, and they are eager to for the opportunity to test new equipment. “Soldiers love experimenting. ‘You’re going to give me new equipment and then you’re going to allow us to develop a plan to find out how to best fight it?’ They’re all in,” Weimer said.

Weimer also has pushed soldiers to master the basics.

In his first message to the force as sergeant major of the Army and in troop visits since, Weimer has called on soldiers to cultivate what he calls a brilliance at the basics. “What are the fundamental basics that are no-fail for you that you have to bring to whatever commander you’re working for?” Weimer said shortly after he was sworn in. “Those are the things you absolutely have to be really good at.”

Soldiers can’t rely on a piece of equipment to make up for their shortcomings or make excuses for why they’re not keeping up with their basic skills, Weimer said at the time. “When we talk about a warfighting culture, change really starts happening at that lowest level,” Weimer said. “We can talk about change all day long in the Pentagon, but, really, it’s the leaders at echelon that have to lead that change.”