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olayinka akinhanmi

Nerditt
Co-founder

1:30pm EDT

How to Turn Your Idea Into a Money MachineFILLING In3Richard Rothstein

2:00pm EDT

5 Questions to Ask Before Your Next StartupFILLING MindspaceLacey Loehr

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

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

Mentor Hours: Setting Bolder Goals GURUFULL Hera Hub DCEmily Barrosse 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: 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

3:00pm EDT

Techstars Presents: Raising Money When There's Not A Lot of Money AroundFILLING GoogleWarren Katz • Ryan Kuder Personalized Digital MarketingFILLING Spaces, Arlington, VADipen Patel • Naveen Singhal

4:00pm EDT

Techstars Presents: Non-Dilutive Funding from Government and GrantsLIMITED GoogleWarren Katz Panel: How to build and manage an engineering teamFILLING 1776 DCDevin Andrews • Emily Dresner • Amelia Friedman • Julia Poladsky • Swamy R

5:00pm EDT

Does business school make sense for you?LIMITED 1776 DCMaurice Bakley • Stefan Bielski • Adam Segal • Francie Wasser Techstars Accelerators Meet and Greet and Q&A with Techstars Managing DirectorsLIMITED GoogleWarren Katz • Ryan Kuder

9:00am EDT

Founder Speed DatingLIMITED National Building Museum- Auditorium

10:00am EDT

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

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

2:15pm EDT

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

3:30pm EDT

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

5:00pm EDT

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

6:30pm EDT

Vinetta Project Venture Challenge Final ShowcaseFULL Booz Allen Hamilton's Innovation Center

9:00am EDT

Startup Finance 101FILLING Mindspace

10:00am EDT

Marketing on a ShoestringLIMITED 1776 DCLiz Sara

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

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

6:00pm EDT

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

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

10:00am EDT

Mentor Hours: Business Strategy GURUFULL Hera Hub DCRita Goodroe

11:00am EDT

Mentor Hours: Social Media Marketing GURUFULL Hera Hub DCLisa Nicholls

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

1:45pm EDT

Multi-Platform Content Marketing for StartupsFULL GoogleCory Lawrence

5:00pm EDT

Are We Talking Teams? Moving from Startup to ScaleupLIMITED National Union BuildingMessay Derebe • Kimberly Moore • Jaleel Reed • Brandon Rule • Ayanna Smith • Deloris Wilson

6:30pm EDT

Pitch CompetitionFULL National Union Building