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Techstars DC Startup Week

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3:00pm EDT

Kick Off DC Startup Week! Rooftop Bar - Eaton HotelFILLINGUpside Business Travel

9:00am EDT

Power up Breakfast Logan ExchangeLIMITED

10:00am EDT

Starting a Nonprofit in College: Turning Adversity Into Opportunity Logan ExchangeLIMITEDSophie Capshaw-Mack Building Inclusive Ecosystems with Intentionality: A Strategy to Enhance Support for DC's Women Founders In3FILLINGDeloris Wilson Mentor Hours: Writing/Editing GURU Hera Hub DCFULLSandra Yin DC GOV DAY 202CreatesFULL

11:00am EDT

HireHer Panel: The Minority Majority Logan ExchangeFILLINGEboné F. Bel • Ruth Chandler Cook • Mary DePaolo Haddid • Adam Mutschler • DeShuna Spencer

11:30am EDT

Lunch & Learn: Building Your Own Career: From Student to Entrepreneur featuring graduates of Howard University In3LIMITEDSydne DʼLes Barard • Whitney Griffith • Curry Hackett • Evan Ward • Deloris Wilson

1:00pm EDT

Value Mining & Saboteur Wrangling Logan ExchangeFILLINGLaTanya Eggleston, M.A. China, the Rise of Asia and Other Emerging Markets: Challenges and Opportunities for US Enterprises BAU International UniversityFILLINGSheldon L. Ray, Jr.

1:30pm EDT

How to Turn Your Idea Into a Money Machine In3FILLINGRichard Rothstein

2:00pm EDT

5 Questions to Ask Before Your Next Startup MindspaceFILLINGLacey Loehr Women = Change Logan ExchangeFILLINGStephenie Foster • Susan Markham • Deloris Wilson

2:30pm EDT

Minorities in Technology: Navigating through the tech industry In3LIMITEDMollie Q. Coleman • Jide Ehimika • Stef Grant

3:00pm EDT

The Path to MVP: Building Software with Limited Resources MindspaceFILLINGParam Jaggi Learn How to Maximize Mentorship Relationships Logan ExchangeFULLLindsey Mask • Amy Banocy • Janice Omadeke • Jean Schindler

4:00pm EDT

Where do I Start with My Start-Up? MindspaceLIMITEDToya Carmichael • Jessica Childress • Lucrecia P. Johnson • Kendell Renee Kelly Panel: How to build a B2B sales team Logan ExchangeFULLLizzie Baird • Tripp Brockway • Amelia Friedman • Kalliopi Vlastos #MondayMotivation Happy Hour HalfSmokeFILLING

5:00pm EDT

Inaugural Day Happy Hours !! MindspaceFILLING

8:30am EDT

Meeting the challenges of hiring service providers and gig economy professionals 1776 DCFILLINGRonald Lewis

9:00am EDT

202Creates Co-Working Day! 202CreatesLIMITED

9:30am EDT

Grow, Build Sustain: A Peer and Resource Exchange for African American Women Founders Anacostia Arts CenterFILLINGMariko Bennett • Yvette M. Alexander • Sharon Jackson Bland • Lauren Buckner • Natalie Cofield • Camille A. John • Camille Kashaka • Melissa Resil • Ayris T. Scales • Angela Chester –Johnson

10:00am EDT

Scale Yourself From Founder To CEO 1776 DCFULLAdam Mutschler Building culture in the age of Social Media Spaces, Arlington, VAFULLGrant Leonard Microsoft's Magic Toolbox: Data Management, Data Visualization and Process Automation to Streamline Everything! General AssemblyFULLTammie Harrison Mentor Hours: Setting Bolder Goals GURU Hera Hub DCFULLEmily Barrosse

11:00am EDT

Adopting a Coaching Mindset Spaces, Arlington, VAFULLLeigh DeWulf Pitch Deck & Fundraising Consideration 1776 DCFULLGira Wieczorek

11:30am EDT

What Makes My Startup Investable? Industrious, Bethesda, MDFULLAmu Fowler • William Goulding • Samantha Scott Ph.D • Kendrick Pullen

12:00pm EDT

Founder & Investor Lunch Industrious, Bethesda, MDFULL Lunch & Learn: How to Create Team Culture Spaces, Arlington, VAFILLINGSara Ashman • Shanaz Chowdhery • Chris Cummings • Torin Ellis • David Stillman • Kalliopi Vlastos Lunch & Learn: Machine Learning with Amazon SageMaker AWS - Washington DCLIMITEDMona Mona

12:15pm EDT

Lunch! 1776 DCFULL

1:00pm EDT

Techstars Presents: How to Give a GREAT Elevator Pitch GoogleFILLINGRyan Kuder Mentor Hours: Website GURU Hera Hub DCFULLArchana Mehta

2:00pm EDT

How to know what your customers want before building your product 1776 DCFULLEbong Eka Risky Business: Developing Risk Management Plan for New Startups Spaces, Arlington, VALIMITEDJohn Morada • Kelly Siu Techstars Presents: A Fireside Chat with Marcus Bullock GoogleLIMITEDMarcus Bullock • Ryan Kuder

3:00pm EDT

How to Make the Right Software Development Choice for your Business 1776 DCLIMITEDAmelia Friedman Techstars Presents: Raising Money When There's Not A Lot of Money Around GoogleFILLINGWarren Katz • Ryan Kuder Personalized Digital Marketing Spaces, Arlington, VAFILLINGDipen Patel • Naveen Singhal

4:00pm EDT

Techstars Presents: Non-Dilutive Funding from Government and Grants GoogleLIMITEDWarren Katz Panel: How to build and manage an engineering team 1776 DCFILLINGDevin Andrews • Emily Dresner • Amelia Friedman • Julia Poladsky • Swamy R Using entrepreneurship to assist refugees and vulnerable communities Spaces, Arlington, VAFILLINGLina Zdruli

4:30pm EDT

Become a Kidpreneur! Hera Hub DCLIMITEDYurani Sandoval

5:00pm EDT

Does business school make sense for you? 1776 DCLIMITEDMaurice Bakley • Stefan Bielski • Adam Segal • Francie Wasser Techstars Accelerators Meet and Greet and Q&A with Techstars Managing Directors GoogleLIMITEDWarren Katz • Ryan Kuder Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality & the Future of Content Marketing Alley powered by VerizonFILLINGBenjamin Ross • David Bittner • Joey Cathy • Rob Cloutier • Emma Mankey Hidem

6:30pm EDT

Fuck Up Nights 1776 DCFILLINGVanessa Ferragut • Andrew Garcia • Josh Lewis • Philip DiMuro & Dave Phelan • Alexandra Shaw

8:30am EDT

1 Million Cups DC: Week 40 1776 DCLIMITEDSteven A. Rodriguez • Ashley Artrip

9:00am EDT

Founder Speed Dating National Building Museum- AuditoriumLIMITED

9:30am EDT

DevFestDC: Keynote: Kubernetes and KNative Spaces, Arlington, VALIMITEDRay Tsang

10:00am EDT

How to win the heart of Angel Investors National Building Museum- AuditoriumFULLGeorge Farha Innovation Marketplace National Building Museum- AuditoriumLIMITED

10:15am EDT

Netwalking: The next evolution of networking 1776 DCFILLINGSteven A. Rodriguez

10:30am EDT

DevFestDC: Build Your Own Voice Interface with Google Actions Spaces, Arlington, VALIMITEDJeremy Wilken

11:00am EDT

How to sell when you don't want to National Building Museum- AuditoriumFULLEllie Thompson

11:30am EDT

DevFestDC: Supercharge your Data Studio dashboards with BigQuery, Firebase, and Apps Script Spaces, Arlington, VALIMITEDMinhaz Kazi

12:00pm EDT

Lunch & Learn: Leveraging Media Relations to Get Your Startup to the Next Funding Round National Building Museum- AuditoriumFULLNick Horowitz • Kirsten Maynard

12:30pm EDT

DevFestDC: Lunch & Network: Meet Google Engineers Spaces, Arlington, VALIMITED

1:00pm EDT

Mentor Hours: Scale and Growth GURU Hera Hub DCFULLSarah Djamshidi What is your startup worth? National Building Museum- AuditoriumFILLINGMark Modica

1:30pm EDT

DevFestDC: How to Erase Unconscious Bias from your AI Datasets Spaces, Arlington, VALIMITEDLauren Maffeo

2:15pm EDT

Strategic Partnerships: A growth engine for your startup National Building Museum- AuditoriumFULLAndrew Lendnal

2:30pm EDT

DevFestDC: Google + AI Spaces, Arlington, VALIMITEDNaveen Nigam

3:30pm EDT

The Healthy Hustle National Building Museum- AuditoriumFILLINGMegan Sanchez DevFestDC: Launching a Voice Application - Field Lessons from a Product Manager Spaces, Arlington, VALIMITEDNavya Nayaki Yelloji

4:00pm EDT

General Assembly: Web Developer Talent Spotlight General AssemblyLIMITED

5:00pm EDT

Are you ready for the spotlight? MindspaceFULLMichelai Graham • Kieran McQuilkin • Rob Pegoraro • Tara Silver Office Hours with SI Mentors MindspaceLIMITED Small Businesses v. Startups: Who We're Helping, Who We're Hurting and Why It Matters In3FILLINGSibyl Edwards • Aaron Saunders • David Smith • Stephanie Thomas • Deloris Wilson

6:00pm EDT

Start Ignite: Happy Hour MindspaceFULLAmu Fowler Starup Grind DC - Walt Mossberg & Steve Clemons Alley powered by VerizonFULLSteve Clemons • Walt Mossberg

6:30pm EDT

Vinetta Project Venture Challenge Final Showcase Booz Allen Hamilton's Innovation CenterFULL 5G Future Dinner Series: First Responder Tech TBAFULL

9:00am EDT

Bias Breakers and Being an Ally 1776 DCLIMITEDRaquel Breternitz • Diego Mariscal • Adam Mutschler • Ayris T. Scales • Derrick Jakolby Washington Startup Finance 101 MindspaceFILLING "Negotiation Skills for Business" Workshop: BAU International UniversityLIMITEDTheodore Boone

10:00am EDT

Marketing on a Shoestring 1776 DCLIMITEDLiz Sara

11:00am EDT

Superpower: Creating a Community of Power through Entrepreneurship 1776 DCLIMITEDDr. Angela Reddix Restaurant Entrepreneurs: Dishing on DC’s Food and Beverage Startup Scene Prequel DC Restaurant IncubatorLIMITEDPaul Dahm • April Johnson • Matt Baker • Pia Carusone • Nick Freshman • Michael McGarvey • Don Morton • Sahil Rahman & Rahul Vinod

11:30am EDT

Lunch & Learn: Maximize your New LLC Startup: Tips on Taxes, Retirement, & Accounting Alley powered by VerizonFILLINGAlvin Carlos • Lisa Hodges

1:15pm EDT

Digital and Physical Product Development at The White House and in E-commerce 1776 DCLIMITEDCameron Hardesty

1:45pm EDT

Fireside Chat: How To Raise Money As A Restaurant Entrepreneur Prequel DC Restaurant IncubatorLIMITEDApril Johnson • Brandon Rule

2:00pm EDT

Winning Over A Retail Food Buyer Alley powered by VerizonFILLINGKim Bryden • Caroline Howe • Stacey Price

2:15pm EDT

Panel: Creating Beautiful and Intuitive User Experiences 1776 DCFULLEmily Brannon • Maxim Leyzerovich • Selina McPherson • Jennifer Noinaj • Emily Rasowsky

3:15pm EDT

How to get started without a technical co-founder 1776 DCFULLGaurav Harode Perspectives from Migrant Founders BAU International UniversityLIMITEDNZOGU KULYA • Shizu Okusa • Silvana Quiroz • Amita Shukla

4:00pm EDT

The Power of Teenpreneurs Alley powered by VerizonLIMITEDAnyssa Reddix Hire DC: A Conversation of Workforce Development 1776 DCFULLPaul Klein • Lori Leadingham • Matt Lozada • Mawulom Nenonene • Christopher Wink Stop Staying Up at Night: Addressing Business Risk Alley powered by VerizonLIMITEDTyler Helms • Danny Lee

5:00pm EDT

Young Entrepreneurs Panel: How To Start and Grow Your Business Alley powered by VerizonFILLINGSophie Capshaw-Mack • April Johnson • Anyssa Reddix Office Hours with Startup Ignite Mentors Office EvolutionFILLING

6:00pm EDT

How They Built It: A Conversation with Industry Leaders WeWork K StFULL Startup Ignite: Happy Hour Office Evolution- Startup IgniteFULLAmu Fowler BEACON Awards Celebration Pepco Edison GalleryFULL

6:30pm EDT

5G Future Series: Balancing Community Safety & Tech in a 5G World Alley powered by VerizonFULLDouglas Britt • Nicholas Nilan • Carol Politi • Steve Ressler

8:00am EDT

Breakfast: Leadership of Self as Impetus for Transformative Organizational Change 1776 DCLaNysha Adams • Cherida Boyles • Adam Mutschler • Marcus Nadel

9:00am EDT

How can a single person build a million dollar business 1776 DCNitesh Agrawal Financial Projections: Where to start and how they can help you grow your business GoogleFILLINGZach Giegel Breakfast: Bagels & Networking CoveLIMITED Corporate Partnerships: Community, Connections & Commitments to Closing Equity Gaps GoogleFILLINGRyan Palmer • Jessica Gappa • Ivory Johnson • Dekonti Mends-Cole • Irfana Jetha Norrani • Monique Rizer • Eshauna Smith • Schroeder Stribling • Stacey Ullrich

9:15am EDT

Netwalking: The next evolution of networking 1776 DCLIMITEDLaNysha Adams

9:30am EDT

Mobile App Building Hackathon + Machine Learning Industrious, Bethesda, MDLIMITEDAdrián Catalán • Dong Chen • Sachin Kotwani • Kalyan Reddy • Sonakshi Watel

10:00am EDT

Finding our Authentic Voice 1776 DCFULLShahier Rahman Mentor Hours: Business Strategy GURU Hera Hub DCFULLRita Goodroe

10:15am EDT

PR 101 for Startups: Telling Your Brand Story GoogleFULLJamie Rismiller • Riley McBride Smith

10:45am EDT

Building Leaders at Every Level 1776 DCFULLCasey Enders • Jeffrey D. Richardson

11:00am EDT

Lessons Learned from Leading Disruptive Innovation: Winning (then Losing) the Fitness Tech Revolution GoogleLIMITEDKeith Camhi On the Rise: Emerging Fashion and Retail Trends and Opportunities The YardLIMITEDJennifer Sigler • Lauren Dunne • Taylor Kerley • Jill Lynn • Syreeta Mentor Hours: Social Media Marketing GURU Hera Hub DCFULLLisa Nicholls

11:15am EDT

How to Raise Seed Capital of $50K - $200K from Individual Angel Investors American UniversityFULL

11:45am EDT

Entering the Government Market: When, How, & Why 1776 DCLIMITEDMeagan Metzger

12:30pm EDT

Telling Your Story: Why I spent 600 hours for a 7 minute talk GoogleFILLINGNeelay Bhatt Lunch & Learn: Flourishing as a Founder: How the Science of Happiness Applies to Entrepreneurs Capitol PostFILLINGSeda Goff • Emily McMahan • Erica Mohr

1:00pm EDT

5 Biggest Legal Mistakes Founders Make When Starting A Company 1776 DCFULLJoshua Radbod Creating the Double Bottom Line – Impact Entrepreneurship GoogleLIMITEDKevin Barrow • Dimitra Hatzudis • Sadaf Lakhani • Dr. Musstanser Tinauli

1:45pm EDT

Multi-Platform Content Marketing for Startups GoogleFULLCory Lawrence

2:00pm EDT

Scaling Your Impact Globally GoogleLIMITEDMiishe Addy • Sola Amusan • Ibraheem Babalola • Nandini Pandya • Mike Ravenscroft Fireside Chat: The Startup Scene in Gaza 1776 DCLIMITEDPaul Klein • Issam Zinati

2:20pm EDT

Video for Startups & Enterprise Business GoogleFILLINGCaleb Gritsko • Alex Herder • Ashtan Moore • Benjamin Ross

3:00pm EDT

David vs. Goliath: How to Break Into Media Industry Dominated By Corporations 1776 DCLIMITEDKsenija Pavlovic

5:00pm EDT

Are We Talking Teams? Moving from Startup to Scaleup National Union BuildingLIMITEDMessay Derebe • Kimberly Moore • Jaleel Reed • Brandon Rule • Ayanna Smith • Deloris Wilson

6:30pm EDT

Pitch Competition National Union BuildingFULL