SPEAKERS:
Tammi Thomas
Vice President, Marketing, TEDCO
Dan Gincel
Executive Director, Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund, TEDCO
Susan Banks
Director, Dorchester County Economic Development
John Gustin
Assistant Director, TEDCO's Maryland Innovation Initiative
Gigi Schumm
Senior Vice President of World Wide Sales, ThreatQuotient
Myra Norton
President and COO, Arena
Justin Klein
Founder and Managing Partner, Vensana Capital
Emily P. English, PhD
Chief Executive Officer, Gemstone Biotherapeutics
Charles Andres
Associate, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, PC
Dan Dawes
Co-founder & CEO, Response Labs
Lisa First-Willis
President & CEO, Trigger Transformation, Inc.
Brian Darmody
CEO, Association of University Research Parks (AURP)
Claire Broido Johnson
Managing Director , University System of Maryland Momentum Fund
Kimberly Morales
Director, Marketing Communications, Outback Steakhouse
Mark W. Gent
Director, Venture Investments, Abbott Ventures
Ken McCreedy
Senior Director, Cyber and Aerospace, Maryland Department of Commerce
Abba David Poliakoff
Partner, Gordon Feinblatt LLC
Ann Quinn
Principal, Quinn Strategy Group
Gary Evans
Executive Director, MD Defense Technology Commercialization Center
Violet Apple
Chief Executive Officer, Girl Scouts of Central Maryland
Juan Pablo Segura
President and Co-Founder, Babyscripts
Martha P. Jimenez
Senior Business Counselor, Maryland Women's Business Center
Alex Antoniou, MD|MBA|MA
Medical Director of Innovation & Director of Corporate Venture, CareFirst BCBS
Jacqueline M. Baker
Director of AARP Innovation Labs, Innovation Programming , AARP Innovation Labs
AMITA SHUKLA
FOUNDER & CEO, VITAMITA
M. Jason Brooke
Co-Founder & General Counsel, Vasoptic Medical Inc.
Chris Hlubb
Principal, American Salmon Aquafarms, Inc.
Matt Gittleman
Sr. Associate, Blu Ventures
Luke Cooper, Founder @ Fixt
CEO, Fixt Inc
Robert Lord
President and Co-Founder, Protenus
John A. Davis
General Manager & CEO, SBIR Resource Center (R)
Jessica Reynolds
Sr. Director, Office of International Investment and Trade, Maryland Department of Commerce
Neil Davis
Director, Entrepreneurial Development, TEDCO
Frank Glover
Lead Director, Seed Investment Fund, TEDCO
Richard A. Bendis
Founder, President and CEO of BioHealth Innovation, Inc., BioHealth Innovation
Ernesto Chanona, Ph.D.
Manager, Business & Innovation Development, Maryland Department of Commerce
Bill Niland
CEO, NeoProgen
Chris Panagiotopoulos
Chief Technology Officer, LifeBridge Health
Jaci Tomek
Managing Partner, TomahawX Technologies LLC
Annastasiah Mudiwa Mhaka, PhD
Co-Founder & President , Alliance for AI in Healthcare
Brandon Mason
Business and Technology Specialist, Maryland SBDC
Bill Collier
Associate , TEDCO Seed Fund
Greg Crimmins
CEO, Founder, Remedy Plan Therapeutics
Sam Glickstein
CEO, Biotrophics
Mary Morris
Director, Baltimore Fund, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Angie Collier
Director of Business Development & Marketing, Aronson LLC
Shivani Paleti
Student, University of Maryland, College Park
Sally Sternbach
MTC VMS Managing Committee, Maryland Tech Council Venture Mentoring Services
Michael O. Willis
Dr., Kaiser Permanente
Timothy Guinan 3rd
Co-Founder, Givhero
Chichi Nyagah-Nash
Director of the Department of General Services, City of Baltimore
Olessia Smotrova
President/CEO, OST Global Solutions, Inc.
Wayne Schepens
Managing Director, LaunchTech Communications
Scott Garber
Operations Director and Managing Partner, Operations Director, Baltimore Angels and Managing Partner, Early Light Ventures
Kelly M. Schulz
Secretary, Maryland Department of Commerce
Marco A. Chacón
Founder, Paragon Bioservices, Inc.
Laura Neuman
Entrepreneur, Self-employed
Dawn Musil
Founder, Hivelend
Mike Leffer
Principal, Squadra Ventures
Tien Wong
CEO, Opus8, Inc.
James S Gammie, MD
Chief & Professor, Cardiac Surgery , University of Maryland Medical Center
Vennard Wright
CIO/VP of Operations, Iron Bow Technologies
Carl N. Grant, III
EVP, Business Development, Cooley, LLP
Elizabeth Good Mazhari
President, Transition Health Ventures
Stephen Auvil
Executive Vice President, Operations and Programs, TEDCO
Kolaleh Eskandanian
Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer, Children's National Health Sys
Liz Sara
Chairwoman of the Board, National Women's Business Council
Dr. Michael Tangrea
Senior Scientific Director, LifeBridge Health
Kapila Ratnam
General Partner, NewSpring Capital
Murat Kalayoglu
Chief Executive Officer, Cartesian Therapeutics
Mike Thielke
Executive Director, F³ Tech Accelerator
Julie Lenzer
Chief Innovation Officer, University of Maryland
Tina C. Williams-Koroma
President/CEO, TCecure
Christian Souza
Vice President, Silicon Valley Bank
Elizabeth Hecker
Attorney, Ballard Spahr
John Zurawski
Partner, Ballard Spahr LLP
Angie Duncanson
Senior Business Counselor/Trainer, Maryland Women's Business Center
Heather Gramm, CEcD
Senior Director, Strategic Industries and Entrepreneurship, Maryland Department of Commerce
Dawn Medley
Senior Vice President, FSC First
Deb Tillett
President and Executive Director, Emerging Technology Centers (ETC)
Jacob Hsu
Chief Executive Officer, Catalyte
Mckeever Conwell
Manager, Seed Portfolio Development, TEDCO
Kate Krupey
President, CoreBlue Advisory
Drew Cohen
CEO, Zuul
Kyp Sirinakis
Co-founder and Managing Partner, Epidarex Capital
Deborah Jordan
Senior Design Thinker, AARP
Anish Sebastian
Co-founder and CEO , Babyscripts
Anne Balduzzi
Director, Advisory Services, TEDCO
Greg Laird
Co-Founder, Accelevir Diagnostics
Arti Santhanam
Director, Maryland Innovation Initiative, TEDCO
Angela Singleton
Manager, Pre-Seed Builder Fund, TEDCO
Nigel Smith
Director, Hatchery Ventures , AARP Innovation Labs
Ebony Stocks
Executive Vice President, prince George's County Economic Development Corporation
John Gossart
Co-Founder and COO, Goodworld
Bob Ackerman
Founder and Managing Director , AllegisCyber Capital
Anthony Millin
Chair, NEXT/Shulman Rogers
Mark Walsh
Managing Director, Ruxton Ventures, LLC
Brittany Sickler
Senior Innovation Policy Advisor, U.S. Small Business Administration