Techstars DC Startup Week: Full Schedule

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11:30am EDT

What Makes My Startup Investable?

Limited Capacity full
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Seed-stage founders share their thoughts and experiences on getting their first round of recent funding.

Speakers

Amu Fowler

Startups Ignite

Where vision meets doingness. An ecosystem creating programs and communities to accelerate #startup ventures.

William Goulding

Founder, BlackbookApp

Founder of BlackbookApp which brings mobile ordering to busy bars and venues. Prior experience working in private equity, design and banking.

Samantha Scott Ph.D

Founder, JuneBrain

Founder of a start-up company developing a wearable imaging device that provides non-invasive measurement of retinal pathology to help monitor eye and brain health in multiple sclerosis patients.

Kendrick Pullen

Co-founder, LifeTagger

Kendrick Pullen is the co-founder of LifeTagger, a content sharing platform that augments our users connection to their community based on their proximity to any person, place, thing, or idea.

Tuesday September 25, 2018 11:30am - 12:30pm EDT
Industrious, Bethesda, MD 7200 Wisconsin Ave NW Suite 500 (5th floor) Bethesda, MD 20814

Growth

12:00pm EDT

Founder & Investor Lunch

Limited Capacity full
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Founders: Are you looking to raise capital?
Investors: Are you looking for the next startup to invest it?

If yes, this is the event for you! We will be bringing together investors and founders for lunch at Industrious.

Tuesday September 25, 2018 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Industrious, Bethesda, MD 7200 Wisconsin Ave NW Suite 500 (5th floor) Bethesda, MD 20814

Founder

9:30am EDT

Mobile App Building Hackathon + Machine Learning

Limited Capacity seats available

In collaboration with Google Developer Group DC and part of DevFestDC Fall Edition - 2018

Come and build your dream app with distinguished Google Engineers to build Mobile Apps with Machine Learning features using the powerful Firebase Mobile Development Platform ( https://firebase.google.com/ )

Starting the day with a kick-off presentation followed by around 5 hours of hacking time for attendees. We'd expect about 75-100 to be hacking during the day, and we would expect a few community mentors with some Firebase knowledge in addition to our Firebasers to help attendees. Google Engineers will be there in co-ordinating this hackathon.

Tentative Schedule
09:30am - 10:00am Kick-off presentation
10:00am - 11:00pm Hackathon Kick-off
11:00pm - 4:00pm Hacking time
4:00pm - 5:00pm Judging and Prizes

Firebase announced ML Kit. This hackathon designed to to see what developers can build Machine Learning Apps with this product.

Speakers

Adrián Catalán

Google Developer Expert, Innovation Lab, Galileo University

Adrián is an educator, tinkerer and software developer. He's been in the software engineering industry for over ten years, working as a developer (web/mobile), consultant and project manager.At Galileo University (where he leads the Innovation Lab) Adrián is trying to empower as... Read More →

Dong Chen

ML Kit Lead, Google

Dong leads the iOS engineering team of ML Kit, and is responsible for architecting the product and leading the development. For the past 12 years he has been leading several engineering teams across Gmail, Google Maps, and On-Device Machine Learning. Most recently, he helped starting... Read More →

Sachin Kotwani

Product Manager, Google

Sachin is a product manager with a special passion for making software development easy and fun. He has worked on several teams at Google, including Google Cloud, Play, and now Firebase. Before joining product management he worked worked as a strategy & ops manager in Google’s Sales... Read More →

Kalyan Reddy

Developer Programs Engineer, Google

Kalyan is an engineer at Google and has worked on the Firebase team for the past three years. In this role, he focuses on simplifying machine learning so that more people can use it to build awesome apps. Prior to Google, he worked at Medtronic where he helped develop cardiac and... Read More →

Sonakshi Watel

UX designer, Google

Sonakshi is a UX designer at Google who is passionate about designing user-centred interfaces for developers. She wants to combine her software development experience and UX skills to bridge the gap between engineers implementing code and designers building user-centred interfaces... Read More →

Friday September 28, 2018 9:30am - 5:00pm EDT
Industrious, Bethesda, MD 7200 Wisconsin Ave NW Suite 500 (5th floor) Bethesda, MD 20814

Technology, Hackathon