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