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Serge Znu

X3EM
Founder

3:00pm EDT

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

9:00am EDT

Power up BreakfastLIMITED Logan Exchange

10:00am EDT

Starting a Nonprofit in College: Turning Adversity Into OpportunityLIMITED Logan ExchangeSophie Capshaw-Mack

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. Value Mining & Saboteur WranglingFILLING Logan ExchangeLaTanya Eggleston, M.A.

1:30pm EDT

How to Turn Your Idea Into a Money MachineFILLING In3Richard Rothstein

2:30pm EDT

Minorities in Technology: Navigating through the tech industryLIMITED In3Mollie Q. Coleman • Jide Ehimika • Stef Grant

3:00pm EDT

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

4:00pm EDT

#MondayMotivation Happy HourFILLING HalfSmoke Panel: How to build a B2B sales teamFULL Logan ExchangeLizzie Baird • Tripp Brockway • Amelia Friedman • Kalliopi Vlastos

5:00pm EDT

Inaugural Day Happy Hours !!FILLING Mindspace

8:30am EDT

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

10:00am EDT

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

12:15pm EDT

Lunch!FULL 1776 DC

1:00pm EDT

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

2:00pm EDT

How to know what your customers want before building your productFULL 1776 DCEbong Eka Risky Business: Developing Risk Management Plan for New StartupsLIMITED Spaces, Arlington, VAJohn Morada • Kelly Siu Techstars Presents: A Fireside Chat with Marcus BullockLIMITED GoogleMarcus Bullock • Ryan Kuder

3:00pm EDT

How to Make the Right Software Development Choice for your BusinessLIMITED 1776 DCAmelia Friedman Techstars Presents: Raising Money When There's Not A Lot of Money AroundFILLING GoogleWarren Katz • Ryan Kuder

4:00pm EDT

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

5:00pm EDT

Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality & the Future of Content MarketingFILLING Alley powered by VerizonBenjamin Ross • David Bittner • Joey Cathy • Rob Cloutier • Emma Mankey Hidem Does business school make sense for you?LIMITED 1776 DCMaurice Bakley • Stefan Bielski • Adam Segal • Francie Wasser

8:30am EDT

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

9:30am EDT

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

10:00am EDT

How to win the heart of Angel InvestorsFULL National Building Museum- AuditoriumGeorge Farha

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

12:00pm EDT

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

1:00pm EDT

Mentor Hours: Scale and Growth GURUFULL Hera Hub DCSarah Djamshidi

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

5:00pm EDT

Are you ready for the spotlight?FULL MindspaceMichelai Graham • Kieran McQuilkin • Rob Pegoraro • Tara Silver

6:30pm EDT

5G Future Dinner Series: First Responder TechFULL TBA

9:00am EDT

Bias Breakers and Being an AllyLIMITED 1776 DCRaquel Breternitz • Diego Mariscal • Adam Mutschler • Ayris T. Scales • Derrick Jakolby Washington "Negotiation Skills for Business" Workshop:LIMITED BAU International UniversityTheodore Boone

10:00am EDT

Marketing on a ShoestringLIMITED 1776 DCLiz Sara

11:00am EDT

Superpower: Creating a Community of Power through EntrepreneurshipLIMITED 1776 DCDr. Angela Reddix

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

2:15pm EDT

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

3:15pm EDT

Perspectives from Migrant FoundersLIMITED BAU International UniversityNZOGU KULYA • Shizu Okusa • Silvana Quiroz • Amita Shukla

4:00pm EDT

Stop Staying Up at Night: Addressing Business RiskLIMITED Alley powered by VerizonTyler Helms • Danny Lee

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

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 businessFILLING GoogleZach Giegel Corporate Partnerships: Community, Connections & Commitments to Closing Equity GapsFILLING GoogleRyan Palmer • Jessica Gappa • Ivory Johnson • Dekonti Mends-Cole • Irfana Jetha Norrani • Monique Rizer • Eshauna Smith • Schroeder Stribling • Stacey Ullrich

9:30am EDT

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

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 On the Rise: Emerging Fashion and Retail Trends and OpportunitiesLIMITED The YardJennifer Sigler • Lauren Dunne • Taylor Kerley • Jill Lynn • Syreeta

11:15am EDT

How to Raise Seed Capital of $50K - $200K from Individual Angel InvestorsFULL American University

12:30pm EDT

Lunch & Learn: Flourishing as a Founder: How the Science of Happiness Applies to EntrepreneursFILLING Capitol PostSeda Goff • Emily McMahan • Erica Mohr

1:00pm EDT

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

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