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Shanon Foster

Microsoft
Software Design Engineer
Washington D.C. Metro Area

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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

Building Inclusive Ecosystems with Intentionality: A Strategy to Enhance Support for DC's Women FoundersFILLING In3Deloris Wilson DC GOV DAYFULL 202Creates

11:00am EDT

HireHer Panel: The Minority MajorityFILLING Logan ExchangeEboné F. Bel • Ruth Chandler Cook • Mary DePaolo Haddid • Adam Mutschler • DeShuna Spencer

2:00pm EDT

Women = ChangeFILLING Logan ExchangeStephenie Foster • Susan Markham • Deloris Wilson

2:30pm EDT

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

4:00pm EDT

Where do I Start with My Start-Up?LIMITED MindspaceToya Carmichael • Jessica Childress • Lucrecia P. Johnson • Kendell Renee Kelly

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

9:00am EDT

202Creates Co-Working Day!LIMITED 202Creates

9:30am EDT

Grow, Build Sustain: A Peer and Resource Exchange for African American Women FoundersFILLING Anacostia Arts CenterMariko 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

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

12:00pm EDT

Founder & Investor LunchFULL Industrious, Bethesda, MD Lunch & Learn: Machine Learning with Amazon SageMakerLIMITED AWS - Washington DCMona Mona

2:00pm EDT

How to know what your customers want before building your productFULL 1776 DCEbong Eka

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 Techstars Accelerators Meet and Greet and Q&A with Techstars Managing DirectorsLIMITED GoogleWarren Katz • Ryan Kuder

6:30pm EDT

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

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

10:15am EDT

Netwalking: The next evolution of networkingFILLING 1776 DCSteven A. Rodriguez

10:30am EDT

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

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

1:30pm EDT

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

2:30pm EDT

DevFestDC: Google + AILIMITED Spaces, Arlington, VANaveen Nigam

3:30pm EDT

DevFestDC: Launching a Voice Application - Field Lessons from a Product ManagerLIMITED Spaces, Arlington, VANavya Nayaki Yelloji

6:00pm EDT

Start Ignite: Happy HourFULL MindspaceAmu Fowler

9:00am EDT

Bias Breakers and Being an AllyLIMITED 1776 DCRaquel Breternitz • Diego Mariscal • Adam Mutschler • Ayris T. Scales • Derrick Jakolby Washington

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

4:00pm EDT

Hire DC: A Conversation of Workforce DevelopmentFULL 1776 DCPaul Klein • Lori Leadingham • Matt Lozada • Mawulom Nenonene • Christopher Wink

6:00pm EDT

Startup Ignite: Happy HourFULL Office Evolution- Startup IgniteAmu Fowler

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 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

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

1:45pm EDT

Multi-Platform Content Marketing for StartupsFULL GoogleCory Lawrence

6:30pm EDT

Pitch CompetitionFULL National Union Building