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