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Monday, September 24
 

9:00am EDT

Power up BreakfastLIMITED Logan Exchange

10:00am EDT

DC GOV DAYFULL 202Creates

11:30am EDT

Lunch & Learn: Building Your Own Career: From Student to Entrepreneur featuring graduates of Howard UniversityLIMITED In3Sydne DʼLes Barard • Whitney Griffith • Curry Hackett • Evan Ward • Deloris Wilson

1:00pm EDT

China, the Rise of Asia and Other Emerging Markets: Challenges and Opportunities for US EnterprisesFILLING BAU International UniversitySheldon L. Ray, Jr.

1:30pm EDT

How to Turn Your Idea Into a Money MachineFILLING In3Richard Rothstein

3:00pm EDT

The Path to MVP: Building Software with Limited ResourcesFILLING MindspaceParam Jaggi

4:00pm EDT

Panel: How to build a B2B sales teamFULL Logan ExchangeLizzie Baird • Tripp Brockway • Amelia Friedman • Kalliopi Vlastos
 
Tuesday, September 25
 

8:30am EDT

Meeting the challenges of hiring service providers and gig economy professionalsFILLING 1776 DCRonald Lewis

9:00am EDT

202Creates Co-Working Day!LIMITED 202Creates

10:00am EDT

Building culture in the age of Social MediaFULL Spaces, Arlington, VAGrant Leonard Microsoft's Magic Toolbox: Data Management, Data Visualization and Process Automation to Streamline Everything!FULL General AssemblyTammie Harrison Scale Yourself From Founder To CEOFULL 1776 DCAdam Mutschler

11:00am EDT

Pitch Deck & Fundraising ConsiderationFULL 1776 DCGira Wieczorek

11:30am EDT

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

12:00pm EDT

Founder & Investor LunchFULL Industrious, Bethesda, MD Lunch & Learn: How to Create Team CultureFILLING Spaces, Arlington, VASara Ashman • Shanaz Chowdhery • Chris Cummings • Torin Ellis • David Stillman • Kalliopi Vlastos Lunch & Learn: Machine Learning with Amazon SageMakerLIMITED AWS - Washington DCMona Mona

1:00pm EDT

Techstars Presents: How to Give a GREAT Elevator PitchFILLING GoogleRyan Kuder

2:00pm EDT

Risky Business: Developing Risk Management Plan for New StartupsLIMITED Spaces, Arlington, VAJohn Morada • Kelly Siu

3:00pm EDT

How to Make the Right Software Development Choice for your BusinessLIMITED 1776 DCAmelia Friedman

4:00pm EDT

Panel: How to build and manage an engineering teamFILLING 1776 DCDevin Andrews • Emily Dresner • Amelia Friedman • Julia Poladsky • Swamy R

4:30pm EDT

Become a Kidpreneur!LIMITED Hera Hub DCYurani Sandoval

5:00pm EDT

Does business school make sense for you?LIMITED 1776 DCMaurice Bakley • Stefan Bielski • Adam Segal • Francie Wasser

6:30pm EDT

Fuck Up NightsFILLING 1776 DCVanessa Ferragut • Andrew Garcia • Josh Lewis • Philip DiMuro & Dave Phelan • Alexandra Shaw
 
Wednesday, September 26
 

8:30am EDT

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

9:00am EDT

Founder Speed DatingLIMITED National Building Museum- Auditorium

9:30am EDT

DevFestDC: Keynote: Kubernetes and KNativeLIMITED Spaces, Arlington, VARay Tsang

10:00am EDT

Innovation MarketplaceLIMITED National Building Museum- Auditorium

10:30am EDT

DevFestDC: Build Your Own Voice Interface with Google ActionsLIMITED Spaces, Arlington, VAJeremy Wilken

11:00am EDT

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

11:30am EDT

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

12:00pm EDT

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

12:30pm EDT

DevFestDC: Lunch & Network: Meet Google EngineersLIMITED Spaces, Arlington, VA

1:00pm EDT

What is your startup worth?FILLING National Building Museum- AuditoriumMark Modica

1:30pm EDT

DevFestDC: How to Erase Unconscious Bias from your AI DatasetsLIMITED Spaces, Arlington, VALauren Maffeo

2:15pm EDT

Strategic Partnerships: A growth engine for your startupFULL National Building Museum- AuditoriumAndrew Lendnal

2:30pm EDT

DevFestDC: Google + AILIMITED Spaces, Arlington, VANaveen Nigam

3:30pm EDT

The Healthy HustleFILLING National Building Museum- AuditoriumMegan Sanchez

4:00pm EDT

General Assembly: Web Developer Talent SpotlightLIMITED General Assembly

5:00pm EDT

Are you ready for the spotlight?FULL MindspaceMichelai Graham • Kieran McQuilkin • Rob Pegoraro • Tara Silver Office Hours with SI MentorsLIMITED Mindspace Small Businesses v. Startups: Who We're Helping, Who We're Hurting and Why It MattersFILLING In3Sibyl Edwards • Aaron Saunders • David Smith • Stephanie Thomas • Deloris Wilson

6:00pm EDT

Start Ignite: Happy HourFULL MindspaceAmu Fowler

6:30pm EDT

5G Future Dinner Series: First Responder TechFULL TBA
 
Thursday, September 27
 

9:00am EDT

Startup Finance 101FILLING Mindspace

10:00am EDT

Marketing on a ShoestringLIMITED 1776 DCLiz Sara

11:30am EDT

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

1:15pm EDT

Digital and Physical Product Development at The White House and in E-commerceLIMITED 1776 DCCameron Hardesty

2:00pm EDT

Winning Over A Retail Food BuyerFILLING Alley powered by VerizonKim Bryden • Caroline Howe • Stacey Price

2:15pm EDT

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

3:15pm EDT

How to get started without a technical co-founderFULL 1776 DCGaurav Harode

4:00pm EDT

Hire DC: A Conversation of Workforce DevelopmentFULL 1776 DCPaul Klein • Lori Leadingham • Matt Lozada • Mawulom Nenonene • Christopher Wink Stop Staying Up at Night: Addressing Business RiskLIMITED Alley powered by VerizonTyler Helms • Danny Lee

5:00pm EDT

Office Hours with Startup Ignite MentorsFILLING Office Evolution

6:00pm EDT

How They Built It: A Conversation with Industry LeadersFULL WeWork K St

6:30pm EDT

5G Future Series: Balancing Community Safety & Tech in a 5G WorldFULL Alley powered by VerizonDouglas Britt • Nicholas Nilan • Carol Politi • Steve Ressler
 
Friday, September 28
 

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 Breakfast: Bagels & NetworkingLIMITED Cove

9:30am EDT

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

10:00am EDT

Finding our Authentic VoiceFULL 1776 DCShahier Rahman

10:15am EDT

PR 101 for Startups: Telling Your Brand StoryFULL GoogleJamie Rismiller • Riley McBride Smith

10:45am EDT

Building Leaders at Every LevelFULL 1776 DCCasey Enders • Jeffrey D. Richardson

11:00am EDT

Lessons Learned from Leading Disruptive Innovation: Winning (then Losing) the Fitness Tech RevolutionLIMITED GoogleKeith Camhi Mentor Hours: Social Media Marketing GURUFULL Hera Hub DCLisa Nicholls On the Rise: Emerging Fashion and Retail Trends and OpportunitiesLIMITED The YardJennifer Sigler • Lauren Dunne • Taylor Kerley • Jill Lynn • Syreeta

11:45am EDT

Entering the Government Market: When, How, & WhyLIMITED 1776 DCMeagan Metzger

12:30pm EDT

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

1:00pm EDT

5 Biggest Legal Mistakes Founders Make When Starting A CompanyFULL 1776 DCJoshua Radbod

1:45pm EDT

Multi-Platform Content Marketing for StartupsFULL GoogleCory Lawrence

2:00pm EDT

Fireside Chat: The Startup Scene in GazaLIMITED 1776 DCPaul Klein • Issam Zinati

2:20pm EDT

Video for Startups & Enterprise BusinessFILLING GoogleCaleb Gritsko • Alex Herder • Ashtan Moore • Benjamin Ross

3:00pm EDT

David vs. Goliath: How to Break Into Media Industry Dominated By CorporationsLIMITED 1776 DCKsenija Pavlovic

6:30pm EDT

Pitch CompetitionFULL National Union Building