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