This event has ended. Visit the
official site
or
create your own event on Sched
.
Techstars DC Startup Week
DC Startup Week is free and open, but you must
register here
(Eventbrite) to attend. Already registered?
Log in here
(scroll down afterwards).
Create a profile and start building your schedule. Events are expected to fill up, so make sure to RSVP.
Schedule
Simple
Expanded
Grid
By Venue
Map
Speakers
Sponsors
Attendees
Search
or browse by date + venue
Developer
Founder
All
Kidpreneur
Teenpreneurs
Growth
Social Impact
All
Teenpreneurs
Technology
All
Developer
Hackathon
Teenpreneurs
Conference
DevFest DC
Popular
Log in
to bookmark your favorites and sync them to your phone or calendar.
menu
Menu
Log in
Schedule
Speakers
Sponsors
Attendees
Search
tune
Filter sessions
Simple
Expanded
Grid
By Venue
Map
Sunday
, September 23
3:00pm EDT
Kick Off DC Startup Week!
FILLING
Rooftop Bar - Eaton Hotel
Upside Business Travel
Monday
, September 24
9:00am EDT
Power up Breakfast
LIMITED
Logan Exchange
10:00am EDT
Starting a Nonprofit in College: Turning Adversity Into Opportunity
LIMITED
Logan Exchange
Sophie Capshaw-Mack
Building Inclusive Ecosystems with Intentionality: A Strategy to Enhance Support for DC's Women Founders
FILLING
In3
Deloris Wilson
Mentor Hours: Writing/Editing GURU
FULL
Hera Hub DC
Sandra Yin
DC GOV DAY
FULL
202Creates
11:00am EDT
HireHer Panel: The Minority Majority
FILLING
Logan Exchange
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
LIMITED
In3
Sydne DʼLes Barard • Whitney Griffith • Curry Hackett • Evan Ward • Deloris Wilson
1:00pm EDT
Value Mining & Saboteur Wrangling
FILLING
Logan Exchange
LaTanya Eggleston, M.A.
China, the Rise of Asia and Other Emerging Markets: Challenges and Opportunities for US Enterprises
FILLING
BAU International University
Sheldon L. Ray, Jr.
1:30pm EDT
How to Turn Your Idea Into a Money Machine
FILLING
In3
Richard Rothstein
2:00pm EDT
5 Questions to Ask Before Your Next Startup
FILLING
Mindspace
Lacey Loehr
Women = Change
FILLING
Logan Exchange
Stephenie Foster • Susan Markham • Deloris Wilson
2:30pm EDT
Minorities in Technology: Navigating through the tech industry
LIMITED
In3
Mollie Q. Coleman • Jide Ehimika • Stef Grant
3:00pm EDT
The Path to MVP: Building Software with Limited Resources
FILLING
Mindspace
Param Jaggi
Learn How to Maximize Mentorship Relationships
FULL
Logan Exchange
Lindsey Mask • Amy Banocy • Janice Omadeke • Jean Schindler
4:00pm EDT
Where do I Start with My Start-Up?
LIMITED
Mindspace
Toya Carmichael • Jessica Childress • Lucrecia P. Johnson • Kendell Renee Kelly
Panel: How to build a B2B sales team
FULL
Logan Exchange
Lizzie Baird • Tripp Brockway • Amelia Friedman • Kalliopi Vlastos
#MondayMotivation Happy Hour
FILLING
HalfSmoke
5:00pm EDT
Inaugural Day Happy Hours !!
FILLING
Mindspace
Tuesday
, September 25
8:30am EDT
Meeting the challenges of hiring service providers and gig economy professionals
FILLING
1776 DC
Ronald Lewis
9:00am EDT
202Creates Co-Working Day!
LIMITED
202Creates
9:30am EDT
Grow, Build Sustain: A Peer and Resource Exchange for African American Women Founders
FILLING
Anacostia Arts Center
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
FULL
1776 DC
Adam Mutschler
Building culture in the age of Social Media
FULL
Spaces, Arlington, VA
Grant Leonard
Microsoft's Magic Toolbox: Data Management, Data Visualization and Process Automation to Streamline Everything!
FULL
General Assembly
Tammie Harrison
Mentor Hours: Setting Bolder Goals GURU
FULL
Hera Hub DC
Emily Barrosse
11:00am EDT
Adopting a Coaching Mindset
FULL
Spaces, Arlington, VA
Leigh DeWulf
Pitch Deck & Fundraising Consideration
FULL
1776 DC
Gira Wieczorek
11:30am EDT
What Makes My Startup Investable?
FULL
Industrious, Bethesda, MD
Amu Fowler • William Goulding • Samantha Scott Ph.D • Kendrick Pullen
12:00pm EDT
Founder & Investor Lunch
FULL
Industrious, Bethesda, MD
Lunch & Learn: How to Create Team Culture
FILLING
Spaces, Arlington, VA
Sara Ashman • Shanaz Chowdhery • Chris Cummings • Torin Ellis • David Stillman • Kalliopi Vlastos
Lunch & Learn: Machine Learning with Amazon SageMaker
LIMITED
AWS - Washington DC
Mona Mona
12:15pm EDT
Lunch!
FULL
1776 DC
1:00pm EDT
Techstars Presents: How to Give a GREAT Elevator Pitch
FILLING
Google
Ryan Kuder
Mentor Hours: Website GURU
FULL
Hera Hub DC
Archana Mehta
2:00pm EDT
How to know what your customers want before building your product
FULL
1776 DC
Ebong Eka
Risky Business: Developing Risk Management Plan for New Startups
LIMITED
Spaces, Arlington, VA
John Morada • Kelly Siu
Techstars Presents: A Fireside Chat with Marcus Bullock
LIMITED
Google
Marcus Bullock • Ryan Kuder
3:00pm EDT
How to Make the Right Software Development Choice for your Business
LIMITED
1776 DC
Amelia Friedman
Techstars Presents: Raising Money When There's Not A Lot of Money Around
FILLING
Google
Warren Katz • Ryan Kuder
Personalized Digital Marketing
FILLING
Spaces, Arlington, VA
Dipen Patel • Naveen Singhal
4:00pm EDT
Techstars Presents: Non-Dilutive Funding from Government and Grants
LIMITED
Google
Warren Katz
Panel: How to build and manage an engineering team
FILLING
1776 DC
Devin Andrews • Emily Dresner • Amelia Friedman • Julia Poladsky • Swamy R
Using entrepreneurship to assist refugees and vulnerable communities
FILLING
Spaces, Arlington, VA
Lina Zdruli
4:30pm EDT
Become a Kidpreneur!
LIMITED
Hera Hub DC
Yurani Sandoval
5:00pm EDT
Does business school make sense for you?
LIMITED
1776 DC
Maurice Bakley • Stefan Bielski • Adam Segal • Francie Wasser
Techstars Accelerators Meet and Greet and Q&A with Techstars Managing Directors
LIMITED
Google
Warren Katz • Ryan Kuder
Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality & the Future of Content Marketing
FILLING
Alley powered by Verizon
Benjamin Ross • David Bittner • Joey Cathy • Rob Cloutier • Emma Mankey Hidem
6:30pm EDT
Fuck Up Nights
FILLING
1776 DC
Vanessa Ferragut • Andrew Garcia • Josh Lewis • Philip DiMuro & Dave Phelan • Alexandra Shaw
Wednesday
, September 26
8:30am EDT
1 Million Cups DC: Week 40
LIMITED
1776 DC
Steven A. Rodriguez • Ashley Artrip
9:00am EDT
Founder Speed Dating
LIMITED
National Building Museum- Auditorium
9:30am EDT
DevFestDC: Keynote: Kubernetes and KNative
LIMITED
Spaces, Arlington, VA
Ray Tsang
10:00am EDT
How to win the heart of Angel Investors
FULL
National Building Museum- Auditorium
George Farha
Innovation Marketplace
LIMITED
National Building Museum- Auditorium
10:15am EDT
Netwalking: The next evolution of networking
FILLING
1776 DC
Steven A. Rodriguez
10:30am EDT
DevFestDC: Build Your Own Voice Interface with Google Actions
LIMITED
Spaces, Arlington, VA
Jeremy Wilken
11:00am EDT
How to sell when you don't want to
FULL
National Building Museum- Auditorium
Ellie Thompson
11:30am EDT
DevFestDC: Supercharge your Data Studio dashboards with BigQuery, Firebase, and Apps Script
LIMITED
Spaces, Arlington, VA
Minhaz Kazi
12:00pm EDT
Lunch & Learn: Leveraging Media Relations to Get Your Startup to the Next Funding Round
FULL
National Building Museum- Auditorium
Nick Horowitz • Kirsten Maynard
12:30pm EDT
DevFestDC: Lunch & Network: Meet Google Engineers
LIMITED
Spaces, Arlington, VA
1:00pm EDT
Mentor Hours: Scale and Growth GURU
FULL
Hera Hub DC
Sarah Djamshidi
What is your startup worth?
FILLING
National Building Museum- Auditorium
Mark Modica
1:30pm EDT
DevFestDC: How to Erase Unconscious Bias from your AI Datasets
LIMITED
Spaces, Arlington, VA
Lauren Maffeo
2:15pm EDT
Strategic Partnerships: A growth engine for your startup
FULL
National Building Museum- Auditorium
Andrew Lendnal
2:30pm EDT
DevFestDC: Google + AI
LIMITED
Spaces, Arlington, VA
Naveen Nigam
3:30pm EDT
The Healthy Hustle
FILLING
National Building Museum- Auditorium
Megan Sanchez
DevFestDC: Launching a Voice Application - Field Lessons from a Product Manager
LIMITED
Spaces, Arlington, VA
Navya Nayaki Yelloji
4:00pm EDT
General Assembly: Web Developer Talent Spotlight
LIMITED
General Assembly
5:00pm EDT
Are you ready for the spotlight?
FULL
Mindspace
Michelai Graham • Kieran McQuilkin • Rob Pegoraro • Tara Silver
Office Hours with SI Mentors
LIMITED
Mindspace
Small Businesses v. Startups: Who We're Helping, Who We're Hurting and Why It Matters
FILLING
In3
Sibyl Edwards • Aaron Saunders • David Smith • Stephanie Thomas • Deloris Wilson
6:00pm EDT
Start Ignite: Happy Hour
FULL
Mindspace
Amu Fowler
Starup Grind DC - Walt Mossberg & Steve Clemons
FULL
Alley powered by Verizon
Steve Clemons • Walt Mossberg
6:30pm EDT
Vinetta Project Venture Challenge Final Showcase
FULL
Booz Allen Hamilton's Innovation Center
5G Future Dinner Series: First Responder Tech
FULL
TBA
Thursday
, September 27
9:00am EDT
Bias Breakers and Being an Ally
LIMITED
1776 DC
Raquel Breternitz • Diego Mariscal • Adam Mutschler • Ayris T. Scales • Derrick Jakolby Washington
Startup Finance 101
FILLING
Mindspace
"Negotiation Skills for Business" Workshop:
LIMITED
BAU International University
Theodore Boone
10:00am EDT
Marketing on a Shoestring
LIMITED
1776 DC
Liz Sara
11:00am EDT
Superpower: Creating a Community of Power through Entrepreneurship
LIMITED
1776 DC
Dr. Angela Reddix
Restaurant Entrepreneurs: Dishing on DC’s Food and Beverage Startup Scene
LIMITED
Prequel DC Restaurant Incubator
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
FILLING
Alley powered by Verizon
Alvin Carlos • Lisa Hodges
1:15pm EDT
Digital and Physical Product Development at The White House and in E-commerce
LIMITED
1776 DC
Cameron Hardesty
1:45pm EDT
Fireside Chat: How To Raise Money As A Restaurant Entrepreneur
LIMITED
Prequel DC Restaurant Incubator
April Johnson • Brandon Rule
2:00pm EDT
Winning Over A Retail Food Buyer
FILLING
Alley powered by Verizon
Kim Bryden • Caroline Howe • Stacey Price
2:15pm EDT
Panel: Creating Beautiful and Intuitive User Experiences
FULL
1776 DC
Emily Brannon • Maxim Leyzerovich • Selina McPherson • Jennifer Noinaj • Emily Rasowsky
3:15pm EDT
How to get started without a technical co-founder
FULL
1776 DC
Gaurav Harode
Perspectives from Migrant Founders
LIMITED
BAU International University
NZOGU KULYA • Shizu Okusa • Silvana Quiroz • Amita Shukla
4:00pm EDT
The Power of Teenpreneurs
LIMITED
Alley powered by Verizon
Anyssa Reddix
Hire DC: A Conversation of Workforce Development
FULL
1776 DC
Paul Klein • Lori Leadingham • Matt Lozada • Mawulom Nenonene • Christopher Wink
Stop Staying Up at Night: Addressing Business Risk
LIMITED
Alley powered by Verizon
Tyler Helms • Danny Lee
5:00pm EDT
Young Entrepreneurs Panel: How To Start and Grow Your Business
FILLING
Alley powered by Verizon
Sophie Capshaw-Mack • April Johnson • Anyssa Reddix
Office Hours with Startup Ignite Mentors
FILLING
Office Evolution
6:00pm EDT
How They Built It: A Conversation with Industry Leaders
FULL
WeWork K St
Startup Ignite: Happy Hour
FULL
Office Evolution- Startup Ignite
Amu Fowler
BEACON Awards Celebration
FULL
Pepco Edison Gallery
6:30pm EDT
5G Future Series: Balancing Community Safety & Tech in a 5G World
FULL
Alley powered by Verizon
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
FILLING
Google
Zach Giegel
Breakfast: Bagels & Networking
LIMITED
Cove
Corporate Partnerships: Community, Connections & Commitments to Closing Equity Gaps
FILLING
Google
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
LIMITED
1776 DC
LaNysha Adams
9:30am EDT
Mobile App Building Hackathon + Machine Learning
LIMITED
Industrious, Bethesda, MD
Adrián Catalán • Dong Chen • Sachin Kotwani • Kalyan Reddy • Sonakshi Watel
10:00am EDT
Finding our Authentic Voice
FULL
1776 DC
Shahier Rahman
Mentor Hours: Business Strategy GURU
FULL
Hera Hub DC
Rita Goodroe
10:15am EDT
PR 101 for Startups: Telling Your Brand Story
FULL
Google
Jamie Rismiller • Riley McBride Smith
10:45am EDT
Building Leaders at Every Level
FULL
1776 DC
Casey Enders • Jeffrey D. Richardson
11:00am EDT
Lessons Learned from Leading Disruptive Innovation: Winning (then Losing) the Fitness Tech Revolution
LIMITED
Google
Keith Camhi
On the Rise: Emerging Fashion and Retail Trends and Opportunities
LIMITED
The Yard
Jennifer Sigler • Lauren Dunne • Taylor Kerley • Jill Lynn • Syreeta
Mentor Hours: Social Media Marketing GURU
FULL
Hera Hub DC
Lisa Nicholls
11:15am EDT
How to Raise Seed Capital of $50K - $200K from Individual Angel Investors
FULL
American University
11:45am EDT
Entering the Government Market: When, How, & Why
LIMITED
1776 DC
Meagan Metzger
12:30pm EDT
Telling Your Story: Why I spent 600 hours for a 7 minute talk
FILLING
Google
Neelay Bhatt
Lunch & Learn: Flourishing as a Founder: How the Science of Happiness Applies to Entrepreneurs
FILLING
Capitol Post
Seda Goff • Emily McMahan • Erica Mohr
1:00pm EDT
5 Biggest Legal Mistakes Founders Make When Starting A Company
FULL
1776 DC
Joshua Radbod
Creating the Double Bottom Line – Impact Entrepreneurship
LIMITED
Google
Kevin Barrow • Dimitra Hatzudis • Sadaf Lakhani • Dr. Musstanser Tinauli
1:45pm EDT
Multi-Platform Content Marketing for Startups
FULL
Google
Cory Lawrence
2:00pm EDT
Scaling Your Impact Globally
LIMITED
Google
Miishe Addy • Sola Amusan • Ibraheem Babalola • Nandini Pandya • Mike Ravenscroft
Fireside Chat: The Startup Scene in Gaza
LIMITED
1776 DC
Paul Klein • Issam Zinati
2:20pm EDT
Video for Startups & Enterprise Business
FILLING
Google
Caleb Gritsko • Alex Herder • Ashtan Moore • Benjamin Ross
3:00pm EDT
David vs. Goliath: How to Break Into Media Industry Dominated By Corporations
LIMITED
1776 DC
Ksenija Pavlovic
5:00pm EDT
Are We Talking Teams? Moving from Startup to Scaleup
LIMITED
National Union Building
Messay Derebe • Kimberly Moore • Jaleel Reed • Brandon Rule • Ayanna Smith • Deloris Wilson
6:30pm EDT
Pitch Competition
FULL
National Union Building
Timezone
Techstars DC Startup Week
America/New York
Filter By Date
Techstars DC Startup Week
Sep 23
-
28, 2018
Sunday
, September 23
Monday
, September 24
Tuesday
, September 25
Wednesday
, September 26
Thursday
, September 27
Friday
, September 28
Filter By Venue
Washington, DC, USA
Sort schedule by Venue
1776 DC
202Creates
Alley powered by Verizon
American University
Anacostia Arts Center
AWS - Washington DC
BAU International University
Booz Allen Hamilton's Innovation Center
Capitol Post
Cove
General Assembly
Google
HalfSmoke
Hera Hub DC
In3
Industrious, Bethesda, MD
Logan Exchange
Mindspace
National Building Museum- Auditorium
National Union Building
Office Evolution
Office Evolution- Startup Ignite
Pepco Edison Gallery
Prequel DC Restaurant Incubator
Rooftop Bar - Eaton Hotel
Spaces, Arlington, VA
TBA
The Yard
WeWork K St
Filter By Type
Developer
Founder
All
Kidpreneur
Teenpreneurs
Growth
Social Impact
All
Teenpreneurs
Technology
All
Developer
Hackathon
Teenpreneurs
Conference
DevFest DC
Popular
Recently Active Attendees
PR
Pierre Rahal
LD
Laura Davidson
JC
Jeffrey Cooper
Lee Westell
UB
Uri Bombasi
CH
Carla Harmon
Stefan Bielski
Yoga Prakasa
More →
Filter sessions
Apply filters to sessions.
close
Dates
Sunday
, September 23
Monday
, September 24
Tuesday
, September 25
Wednesday
, September 26
Thursday
, September 27
Friday
, September 28
Venue
1776 DC
202Creates
Alley powered by Verizon
American University
Anacostia Arts Center
AWS - Washington DC
BAU International University
Booz Allen Hamilton's Innovation Center
Capitol Post
Cove
General Assembly
Google
HalfSmoke
Hera Hub DC
In3
Industrious, Bethesda, MD
Logan Exchange
Mindspace
National Building Museum- Auditorium
National Union Building
Office Evolution
Office Evolution- Startup Ignite
Pepco Edison Gallery
Prequel DC Restaurant Incubator
Rooftop Bar - Eaton Hotel
Spaces, Arlington, VA
TBA
The Yard
WeWork K St
Session Type
Developer
Founder
All
Kidpreneur
Teenpreneurs
Growth
Social Impact
All
Teenpreneurs
Technology
All
Developer
Hackathon
Teenpreneurs
Other Filters
Conference
DevFest DC
Popular