SPEAKERS:

Violet Apple

Chief Executive Officer, Girl Scouts of Central Maryland

Anish Sebastian

Co-founder and CEO , Babyscripts

Sally Sternbach

MTC VMS Managing Committee, Maryland Tech Council Venture Mentoring Services

Wayne Schepens

Managing Director, LaunchTech Communications

Robert Lord

President and Co-Founder, Protenus

Kelly M. Schulz

Secretary, Maryland Department of Commerce

Tammi Thomas

Vice President, Marketing, TEDCO

Susan Banks

Director, Dorchester County Economic Development

Richard A. Bendis

Founder, President and CEO of BioHealth Innovation, Inc., BioHealth Innovation

Lisa First-Willis

President & CEO, Trigger Transformation, Inc.

Marco A. Chacón

Founder, Paragon Bioservices, Inc.

Justin Klein

Founder and Managing Partner, Vensana Capital

Murat Kalayoglu

Chief Executive Officer, Cartesian Therapeutics

Tien Wong

CEO, Opus8, Inc.

Carl N. Grant, III

EVP, Business Development, Cooley, LLP

James S Gammie, MD

Chief & Professor, Cardiac Surgery , University of Maryland Medical Center

Kapila Ratnam

General Partner, NewSpring Capital

Kyp Sirinakis

Co-founder and Managing Partner, Epidarex Capital

Kolaleh Eskandanian

Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer, Children's National Health Sys

Michael O. Willis

Dr., Kaiser Permanente

Ken McCreedy

Senior Director, Cyber and Aerospace, Maryland Department of Commerce

Gigi Schumm

Senior Vice President of World Wide Sales, ThreatQuotient

Matt Gittleman

Sr. Associate, Blu Ventures

Greg Crimmins

CEO, Founder, Remedy Plan Therapeutics

Bill Niland

CEO, NeoProgen

Timothy Guinan 3rd

Co-Founder, Givhero

Brittany Sickler

Senior Innovation Policy Advisor, U.S. Small Business Administration

Emily P. English, PhD

Chief Executive Officer, Gemstone Biotherapeutics

Olessia Smotrova

President/CEO, OST Global Solutions, Inc.

John Gustin

Assistant Director, TEDCO's Maryland Innovation Initiative

Abba David Poliakoff

Partner, Gordon Feinblatt LLC

Dan Dawes

Co-founder & CEO, Response Labs

Ebony Stocks

Executive Vice President, prince George's County Economic Development Corporation

Alex Antoniou, MD|MBA|MA

Medical Director of Innovation & Director of Corporate Venture, CareFirst BCBS

Liz Sara

Chairwoman of the Board, National Women's Business Council

Anthony Millin

Chair, NEXT/Shulman Rogers

Ernesto Chanona, Ph.D.

Manager, Business & Innovation Development, Maryland Department of Commerce

M. Jason Brooke

Co-Founder & General Counsel, Vasoptic Medical Inc.

Deb Tillett

President and Executive Director, Emerging Technology Centers (ETC)

Bill Collier

Associate , TEDCO Seed Fund

Neil Davis

Director, Entrepreneurial Development, TEDCO

Heather Gramm, CEcD

Senior Director, Strategic Industries and Entrepreneurship, Maryland Department of Commerce

Jessica Reynolds

Sr. Director, Office of International Investment and Trade, Maryland Department of Commerce

Greg Laird

Co-Founder, Accelevir Diagnostics

Kimberly Morales

Director, Marketing Communications, Outback Steakhouse

Bob Ackerman

Founder and Managing Director , AllegisCyber Capital

Anne Balduzzi

Director, Advisory Services, TEDCO

Mark W. Gent

Director, Venture Investments, Abbott Ventures

Ann Quinn

Principal, Quinn Strategy Group

Dan Gincel

Executive Director, Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund, TEDCO

Dr. Michael Tangrea

Senior Scientific Director, LifeBridge Health

AMITA SHUKLA

FOUNDER & CEO, VITAMITA

Mark Walsh

Managing Director, Ruxton Ventures, LLC

Vennard Wright

CIO/VP of Operations, Iron Bow Technologies

Tina C. Williams-Koroma

President/CEO, TCecure

John Zurawski

Partner, Ballard Spahr LLP

Gary Evans

Executive Director, MD Defense Technology Commercialization Center

Mckeever Conwell

Manager, Seed Portfolio Development, TEDCO

Kate Krupey

President, CoreBlue Advisory

Laura Neuman

Entrepreneur, Self-employed

Deborah Jordan

Senior Design Thinker, AARP

Stephen Auvil

Executive Vice President, Operations and Programs, TEDCO

Brandon Mason

Business and Technology Specialist, Maryland SBDC

Dawn Musil

Founder, Hivelend

Elizabeth Hecker

Attorney, Ballard Spahr

Shivani Paleti

Student, University of Maryland, College Park

Drew Cohen

CEO, Zuul

John Gossart

Co-Founder and COO, Goodworld

Angie Collier

Director of Business Development & Marketing, Aronson LLC

Chichi Nyagah-Nash

Director of the Department of General Services, City of Baltimore

Myra Norton

President and COO, Arena

Angela Singleton

Manager, Pre-Seed Builder Fund, TEDCO

Chris Panagiotopoulos

Chief Technology Officer, LifeBridge Health

Mike Leffer

Principal, Squadra Ventures

Mike Thielke

Executive Director, F³ Tech Accelerator

Mary Morris

Director, Baltimore Fund, University of Maryland, Baltimore

Chris Hlubb

Principal, American Salmon Aquafarms, Inc.

Arti Santhanam

Director, Maryland Innovation Initiative, TEDCO

Dawn Medley

Senior Vice President, FSC First

Julie Lenzer

Chief Innovation Officer, University of Maryland

Jacqueline M. Baker

Director of AARP Innovation Labs, Innovation Programming , AARP Innovation Labs

Christian Souza

Vice President, Silicon Valley Bank

John A. Davis

General Manager & CEO, SBIR Resource Center (R)

Nigel Smith

Director, Hatchery Ventures , AARP Innovation Labs

Jacob Hsu

Chief Executive Officer, Catalyte

Sam Glickstein

CEO, Biotrophics

Juan Pablo Segura

President and Co-Founder, Babyscripts

Jaci Tomek

Managing Partner, TomahawX Technologies LLC

Annastasiah Mudiwa Mhaka, PhD

Co-Founder & President , Alliance for AI in Healthcare

Martha P. Jimenez

Senior Business Counselor, Maryland Women's Business Center

Charles Andres

Associate, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, PC

Brian Darmody

CEO, Association of University Research Parks (AURP)

Scott Garber

Operations Director and Managing Partner, Operations Director, Baltimore Angels and Managing Partner, Early Light Ventures

Elizabeth Good Mazhari

President, Transition Health Ventures

Luke Cooper, Founder @ Fixt

CEO, Fixt Inc

Angie Duncanson

Senior Business Counselor/Trainer, Maryland Women's Business Center

Claire Broido Johnson

Managing Director , University System of Maryland Momentum Fund

Frank Glover

Lead Director, Seed Investment Fund, TEDCO