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Sunday
, September 23
3:00pm EDT
Kick Off DC Startup Week!
Rooftop Bar - Eaton Hotel
FILLING
Upside Business Travel
Monday
, September 24
9:00am EDT
Power up Breakfast
Logan Exchange
LIMITED
10:00am EDT
Starting a Nonprofit in College: Turning Adversity Into Opportunity
Logan Exchange
LIMITED
Sophie Capshaw-Mack
Building Inclusive Ecosystems with Intentionality: A Strategy to Enhance Support for DC's Women Founders
In3
FILLING
Deloris Wilson
Mentor Hours: Writing/Editing GURU
Hera Hub DC
FULL
Sandra Yin
DC GOV DAY
202Creates
FULL
11:00am EDT
HireHer Panel: The Minority Majority
Logan Exchange
FILLING
Eboné 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
In3
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Sydne DʼLes Barard • Whitney Griffith • Curry Hackett • Evan Ward • Deloris Wilson
1:00pm EDT
Value Mining & Saboteur Wrangling
Logan Exchange
FILLING
LaTanya Eggleston, M.A.
China, the Rise of Asia and Other Emerging Markets: Challenges and Opportunities for US Enterprises
BAU International University
FILLING
Sheldon L. Ray, Jr.
1:30pm EDT
How to Turn Your Idea Into a Money Machine
In3
FILLING
Richard Rothstein
2:00pm EDT
5 Questions to Ask Before Your Next Startup
Mindspace
FILLING
Lacey Loehr
Women = Change
Logan Exchange
FILLING
Stephenie Foster • Susan Markham • Deloris Wilson
2:30pm EDT
Minorities in Technology: Navigating through the tech industry
In3
LIMITED
Mollie Q. Coleman • Jide Ehimika • Stef Grant
3:00pm EDT
The Path to MVP: Building Software with Limited Resources
Mindspace
FILLING
Param Jaggi
Learn How to Maximize Mentorship Relationships
Logan Exchange
FULL
Lindsey Mask • Amy Banocy • Janice Omadeke • Jean Schindler
4:00pm EDT
Where do I Start with My Start-Up?
Mindspace
LIMITED
Toya Carmichael • Jessica Childress • Lucrecia P. Johnson • Kendell Renee Kelly
Panel: How to build a B2B sales team
Logan Exchange
FULL
Lizzie Baird • Tripp Brockway • Amelia Friedman • Kalliopi Vlastos
#MondayMotivation Happy Hour
HalfSmoke
FILLING
5:00pm EDT
Inaugural Day Happy Hours !!
Mindspace
FILLING
Tuesday
, September 25
8:30am EDT
Meeting the challenges of hiring service providers and gig economy professionals
1776 DC
FILLING
Ronald Lewis
9:00am EDT
202Creates Co-Working Day!
202Creates
LIMITED
9:30am EDT
Grow, Build Sustain: A Peer and Resource Exchange for African American Women Founders
Anacostia Arts Center
FILLING
Mariko 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 DC
FULL
Adam Mutschler
Building culture in the age of Social Media
Spaces, Arlington, VA
FULL
Grant Leonard
Microsoft's Magic Toolbox: Data Management, Data Visualization and Process Automation to Streamline Everything!
General Assembly
FULL
Tammie Harrison
Mentor Hours: Setting Bolder Goals GURU
Hera Hub DC
FULL
Emily Barrosse
11:00am EDT
Adopting a Coaching Mindset
Spaces, Arlington, VA
FULL
Leigh DeWulf
Pitch Deck & Fundraising Consideration
1776 DC
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Gira Wieczorek
11:30am EDT
What Makes My Startup Investable?
Industrious, Bethesda, MD
FULL
Amu Fowler • William Goulding • Samantha Scott Ph.D • Kendrick Pullen
12:00pm EDT
Founder & Investor Lunch
Industrious, Bethesda, MD
FULL
Lunch & Learn: How to Create Team Culture
Spaces, Arlington, VA
FILLING
Sara Ashman • Shanaz Chowdhery • Chris Cummings • Torin Ellis • David Stillman • Kalliopi Vlastos
Lunch & Learn: Machine Learning with Amazon SageMaker
AWS - Washington DC
LIMITED
Mona Mona
12:15pm EDT
Lunch!
1776 DC
FULL
1:00pm EDT
Techstars Presents: How to Give a GREAT Elevator Pitch
Google
FILLING
Ryan Kuder
Mentor Hours: Website GURU
Hera Hub DC
FULL
Archana Mehta
2:00pm EDT
How to know what your customers want before building your product
1776 DC
FULL
Ebong Eka
Risky Business: Developing Risk Management Plan for New Startups
Spaces, Arlington, VA
LIMITED
John Morada • Kelly Siu
Techstars Presents: A Fireside Chat with Marcus Bullock
Google
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Marcus Bullock • Ryan Kuder
3:00pm EDT
How to Make the Right Software Development Choice for your Business
1776 DC
LIMITED
Amelia Friedman
Techstars Presents: Raising Money When There's Not A Lot of Money Around
Google
FILLING
Warren Katz • Ryan Kuder
Personalized Digital Marketing
Spaces, Arlington, VA
FILLING
Dipen Patel • Naveen Singhal
4:00pm EDT
Techstars Presents: Non-Dilutive Funding from Government and Grants
Google
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Warren Katz
Panel: How to build and manage an engineering team
1776 DC
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Devin Andrews • Emily Dresner • Amelia Friedman • Julia Poladsky • Swamy R
Using entrepreneurship to assist refugees and vulnerable communities
Spaces, Arlington, VA
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Lina Zdruli
4:30pm EDT
Become a Kidpreneur!
Hera Hub DC
LIMITED
Yurani Sandoval
5:00pm EDT
Does business school make sense for you?
1776 DC
LIMITED
Maurice Bakley • Stefan Bielski • Adam Segal • Francie Wasser
Techstars Accelerators Meet and Greet and Q&A with Techstars Managing Directors
Google
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Warren Katz • Ryan Kuder
Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality & the Future of Content Marketing
Alley powered by Verizon
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Benjamin Ross • David Bittner • Joey Cathy • Rob Cloutier • Emma Mankey Hidem
6:30pm EDT
Fuck Up Nights
1776 DC
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Vanessa Ferragut • Andrew Garcia • Josh Lewis • Philip DiMuro & Dave Phelan • Alexandra Shaw
Wednesday
, September 26
8:30am EDT
1 Million Cups DC: Week 40
1776 DC
LIMITED
Steven A. Rodriguez • Ashley Artrip
9:00am EDT
Founder Speed Dating
National Building Museum- Auditorium
LIMITED
9:30am EDT
DevFestDC: Keynote: Kubernetes and KNative
Spaces, Arlington, VA
LIMITED
Ray Tsang
10:00am EDT
How to win the heart of Angel Investors
National Building Museum- Auditorium
FULL
George Farha
Innovation Marketplace
National Building Museum- Auditorium
LIMITED
10:15am EDT
Netwalking: The next evolution of networking
1776 DC
FILLING
Steven A. Rodriguez
10:30am EDT
DevFestDC: Build Your Own Voice Interface with Google Actions
Spaces, Arlington, VA
LIMITED
Jeremy Wilken
11:00am EDT
How to sell when you don't want to
National Building Museum- Auditorium
FULL
Ellie Thompson
11:30am EDT
DevFestDC: Supercharge your Data Studio dashboards with BigQuery, Firebase, and Apps Script
Spaces, Arlington, VA
LIMITED
Minhaz Kazi
12:00pm EDT
Lunch & Learn: Leveraging Media Relations to Get Your Startup to the Next Funding Round
National Building Museum- Auditorium
FULL
Nick Horowitz • Kirsten Maynard
12:30pm EDT
DevFestDC: Lunch & Network: Meet Google Engineers
Spaces, Arlington, VA
LIMITED
1:00pm EDT
Mentor Hours: Scale and Growth GURU
Hera Hub DC
FULL
Sarah Djamshidi
What is your startup worth?
National Building Museum- Auditorium
FILLING
Mark Modica
1:30pm EDT
DevFestDC: How to Erase Unconscious Bias from your AI Datasets
Spaces, Arlington, VA
LIMITED
Lauren Maffeo
2:15pm EDT
Strategic Partnerships: A growth engine for your startup
National Building Museum- Auditorium
FULL
Andrew Lendnal
2:30pm EDT
DevFestDC: Google + AI
Spaces, Arlington, VA
LIMITED
Naveen Nigam
3:30pm EDT
The Healthy Hustle
National Building Museum- Auditorium
FILLING
Megan Sanchez
DevFestDC: Launching a Voice Application - Field Lessons from a Product Manager
Spaces, Arlington, VA
LIMITED
Navya Nayaki Yelloji
4:00pm EDT
General Assembly: Web Developer Talent Spotlight
General Assembly
LIMITED
5:00pm EDT
Are you ready for the spotlight?
Mindspace
FULL
Michelai Graham • Kieran McQuilkin • Rob Pegoraro • Tara Silver
Office Hours with SI Mentors
Mindspace
LIMITED
Small Businesses v. Startups: Who We're Helping, Who We're Hurting and Why It Matters
In3
FILLING
Sibyl Edwards • Aaron Saunders • David Smith • Stephanie Thomas • Deloris Wilson
6:00pm EDT
Start Ignite: Happy Hour
Mindspace
FULL
Amu Fowler
Starup Grind DC - Walt Mossberg & Steve Clemons
Alley powered by Verizon
FULL
Steve Clemons • Walt Mossberg
6:30pm EDT
Vinetta Project Venture Challenge Final Showcase
Booz Allen Hamilton's Innovation Center
FULL
5G Future Dinner Series: First Responder Tech
TBA
FULL
Thursday
, September 27
9:00am EDT
Bias Breakers and Being an Ally
1776 DC
LIMITED
Raquel Breternitz • Diego Mariscal • Adam Mutschler • Ayris T. Scales • Derrick Jakolby Washington
Startup Finance 101
Mindspace
FILLING
"Negotiation Skills for Business" Workshop:
BAU International University
LIMITED
Theodore Boone
10:00am EDT
Marketing on a Shoestring
1776 DC
LIMITED
Liz Sara
11:00am EDT
Superpower: Creating a Community of Power through Entrepreneurship
1776 DC
LIMITED
Dr. Angela Reddix
Restaurant Entrepreneurs: Dishing on DC’s Food and Beverage Startup Scene
Prequel DC Restaurant Incubator
LIMITED
Paul 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 Verizon
FILLING
Alvin Carlos • Lisa Hodges
1:15pm EDT
Digital and Physical Product Development at The White House and in E-commerce
1776 DC
LIMITED
Cameron Hardesty
1:45pm EDT
Fireside Chat: How To Raise Money As A Restaurant Entrepreneur
Prequel DC Restaurant Incubator
LIMITED
April Johnson • Brandon Rule
2:00pm EDT
Winning Over A Retail Food Buyer
Alley powered by Verizon
FILLING
Kim Bryden • Caroline Howe • Stacey Price
2:15pm EDT
Panel: Creating Beautiful and Intuitive User Experiences
1776 DC
FULL
Emily Brannon • Maxim Leyzerovich • Selina McPherson • Jennifer Noinaj • Emily Rasowsky
3:15pm EDT
How to get started without a technical co-founder
1776 DC
FULL
Gaurav Harode
Perspectives from Migrant Founders
BAU International University
LIMITED
NZOGU KULYA • Shizu Okusa • Silvana Quiroz • Amita Shukla
4:00pm EDT
The Power of Teenpreneurs
Alley powered by Verizon
LIMITED
Anyssa Reddix
Hire DC: A Conversation of Workforce Development
1776 DC
FULL
Paul Klein • Lori Leadingham • Matt Lozada • Mawulom Nenonene • Christopher Wink
Stop Staying Up at Night: Addressing Business Risk
Alley powered by Verizon
LIMITED
Tyler Helms • Danny Lee
5:00pm EDT
Young Entrepreneurs Panel: How To Start and Grow Your Business
Alley powered by Verizon
FILLING
Sophie Capshaw-Mack • April Johnson • Anyssa Reddix
Office Hours with Startup Ignite Mentors
Office Evolution
FILLING
6:00pm EDT
How They Built It: A Conversation with Industry Leaders
WeWork K St
FULL
Startup Ignite: Happy Hour
Office Evolution- Startup Ignite
FULL
Amu Fowler
BEACON Awards Celebration
Pepco Edison Gallery
FULL
6:30pm EDT
5G Future Series: Balancing Community Safety & Tech in a 5G World
Alley powered by Verizon
FULL
Douglas Britt • Nicholas Nilan • Carol Politi • Steve Ressler
Friday
, September 28
8:00am EDT
Breakfast: Leadership of Self as Impetus for Transformative Organizational Change
1776 DC
LaNysha Adams • Cherida Boyles • Adam Mutschler • Marcus Nadel
9:00am EDT
How can a single person build a million dollar business
1776 DC
Nitesh Agrawal
Financial Projections: Where to start and how they can help you grow your business
Google
FILLING
Zach Giegel
Breakfast: Bagels & Networking
Cove
LIMITED
Corporate Partnerships: Community, Connections & Commitments to Closing Equity Gaps
Google
FILLING
Ryan 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 DC
LIMITED
LaNysha Adams
9:30am EDT
Mobile App Building Hackathon + Machine Learning
Industrious, Bethesda, MD
LIMITED
Adrián Catalán • Dong Chen • Sachin Kotwani • Kalyan Reddy • Sonakshi Watel
10:00am EDT
Finding our Authentic Voice
1776 DC
FULL
Shahier Rahman
Mentor Hours: Business Strategy GURU
Hera Hub DC
FULL
Rita Goodroe
10:15am EDT
PR 101 for Startups: Telling Your Brand Story
Google
FULL
Jamie Rismiller • Riley McBride Smith
10:45am EDT
Building Leaders at Every Level
1776 DC
FULL
Casey Enders • Jeffrey D. Richardson
11:00am EDT
Lessons Learned from Leading Disruptive Innovation: Winning (then Losing) the Fitness Tech Revolution
Google
LIMITED
Keith Camhi
On the Rise: Emerging Fashion and Retail Trends and Opportunities
The Yard
LIMITED
Jennifer Sigler • Lauren Dunne • Taylor Kerley • Jill Lynn • Syreeta
Mentor Hours: Social Media Marketing GURU
Hera Hub DC
FULL
Lisa Nicholls
11:15am EDT
How to Raise Seed Capital of $50K - $200K from Individual Angel Investors
American University
FULL
11:45am EDT
Entering the Government Market: When, How, & Why
1776 DC
LIMITED
Meagan Metzger
12:30pm EDT
Telling Your Story: Why I spent 600 hours for a 7 minute talk
Google
FILLING
Neelay Bhatt
Lunch & Learn: Flourishing as a Founder: How the Science of Happiness Applies to Entrepreneurs
Capitol Post
FILLING
Seda Goff • Emily McMahan • Erica Mohr
1:00pm EDT
5 Biggest Legal Mistakes Founders Make When Starting A Company
1776 DC
FULL
Joshua Radbod
Creating the Double Bottom Line – Impact Entrepreneurship
Google
LIMITED
Kevin Barrow • Dimitra Hatzudis • Sadaf Lakhani • Dr. Musstanser Tinauli
1:45pm EDT
Multi-Platform Content Marketing for Startups
Google
FULL
Cory Lawrence
2:00pm EDT
Scaling Your Impact Globally
Google
LIMITED
Miishe Addy • Sola Amusan • Ibraheem Babalola • Nandini Pandya • Mike Ravenscroft
Fireside Chat: The Startup Scene in Gaza
1776 DC
LIMITED
Paul Klein • Issam Zinati
2:20pm EDT
Video for Startups & Enterprise Business
Google
FILLING
Caleb Gritsko • Alex Herder • Ashtan Moore • Benjamin Ross
3:00pm EDT
David vs. Goliath: How to Break Into Media Industry Dominated By Corporations
1776 DC
LIMITED
Ksenija Pavlovic
5:00pm EDT
Are We Talking Teams? Moving from Startup to Scaleup
National Union Building
LIMITED
Messay Derebe • Kimberly Moore • Jaleel Reed • Brandon Rule • Ayanna Smith • Deloris Wilson
6:30pm EDT
Pitch Competition
National Union Building
FULL
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