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FREE On-Demand Professional Workspace!! Touchdown Space (local DC Startup) is offering up 12 private offices and 15 coworking / collaborative workspaces (first come first serve basis) to everyone attending DCWEEK for FREE. All week long. Click the link below for more information / to book a workspace right now! Get your work on. --> http://bit.ly/TkhKyV
4th Annual Moving Forward Together Secondary Transition Fair Friday, November 2 The DC Community is coming together to support youth and young adults with disabilities transitioning into employment, education, and independence. Please join us! Youth Transition Fair Friday, November 2, 9:30 AM - 2:30 PM Local schools serving DC students - DCPS, Charther, Non-public - are invited to bring their students. Career Exploration Learning Stations Exhibits Interactive demonstrations & activities Motivational Speaker: LeDerick Horne, Poet, Disability Advocate, & Entrepreneur DC Week participants are encouraged to register as exhibitors for the Friday Fair. Please register here: http://www.dctransition.org/events/event.cfm?eventID=119
Africa Gathering has a proud history and track record of bringing together a diverse community of individuals who care about Africa to share their ideas for positive change and will continue to highlight remarkable Africans on the continent and the diaspora reframing the continent’s landscape. By facilitating a solutions-oriented forum for Africa’s change makers and encouraging sharing of ideas and best practices in sustainable development, new technology and media, socia entrepreneurship, health, education and good governance, Africa Gathering aims to dramatically increase the speed of change on the continent. Africa Unlimited” kicks off Friday, November 2, with an evening of interactive brainstorming that will cover five different themes, spanning from the technology boom on the continent to the role of the diaspora in relation to the continent’s progress. To register for free: www.africagathering.org
Join us for a presentation + Q & A by Jonathan Grinham, who will discuss the role of “appliance architectures” in shaping the social and environmental fabric of space. His talk will explore how the new media culture has become an integral part of the design process of architects and designers, sparking a re-emergence of computationally embedded, responsive environments. Jonathan Grinham is a Visiting Lecturer in the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at Catholic University of America. He is also a project designer at StudioTwentySevenArchitecture in Washington, DC. Jonathan received a Bachelor of Architecture and Masters of Science in Design from the College of Architecture and Urban Studies at Virginia Tech. His research focuses on the areas of architectural robotics, computational design and digital fabrication. Current research projects focus on the implications of interconnecting, virtual and physical environments with building envelope systems through emerging building materials.
Friday, November 2nd, 7:30pm - 9pm, @ Fab Lab DC.
Registration:http://newmediacultureindesign.eventbrite.com/
Questions? Email: fab@fablabdc.org Jonathan will also be leading a hands-on, two-day, Arduino Weekend! workshop @ Fab Lab DC starting Saturday, November 3rd @ 10AM and continuing on Sunday, November 4th. See “Arduino Weekend!” on the DCWEEK schedule for registration details or email: fab@fablabdc.org.
This event is sold out and attendance is limited to 2,000. DCWEEK badge holders get in first and get access to the Opening Party, Keynotes, Conference and Tech Cocktail too (buy one here for $150)!
The DCWEEK Opening Party is one of the key "networking" events that happens during this festival. This year we're taking over Penn Social - a cavernous playground that includes skeeball, airhocky and 3 open bars for all of you thirsty DCWEEKers.
Entertainment: Listen Local First and Cannon.fm will be providing a streaming playlist of featured local artists (visit listenlocalfirst.com new artists will be up shortly) and live performances from DC’s very own: Black Masala (https://www.facebook.com/BlackMasala) and Dance for the Dying (http://danceforthedying.com/)
Rails Girls DC is a one-day workshop to give women a great first experience in software craftmanship using Ruby on Rails. The aim is to give the tools to understand technology along with the community and inspiration to get started. Rails Girls is not just about programming, it’s about building things. During the workshop, we’ll build an application and also have inspiring lightning talks and exercises.
For more information and to apply: http://railsgirls.com/dc and you can follow the latest news about Rails Girls DC on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RailsGirlsDC
Youth and Young Adults with Disabilities, Families/Caregivers, Educators, and Community Organizations are Invited: • Workshops (Possible for DCPS teachers to obtain Professional Learning Units) • Local Resources and Success Stories • Interactive Youth Self-Advocacy Workshop with LeDerick Horne (www.lederick.com) • Networking and Community Building • Door Prizes for Youth!
We would like to have an Intro to Game Programming workshop on Saturday, if we can get skilled volunteers to run the workshop. If you would like to volunteer please register for the event at: http://www.dctransition.org/events/event.cfm?eventID=119
Please also see our DCWEEK Accessibility Project: http://digitalcapitalweek.org/projects/accessibility-project/
Sign up for Fab Lab DC's Arduino Weekend* to learn about the new open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments. This hands-on Ardiuno Workshop, by Jonathan Grinham, begins Saturday @ 10AM & continues Sunday from 11AM - 4:30PM. You'll learn how Arduino works & the many things it can do. Bring your laptop and download open source software. Enrollment fee includes materials & supplies including your own Arduino! Advance registration required: http://arduinoweekendfablabdc.eventbrite.com/ Questions? Email: fab@fablabdc.org
In its second year, the DCWEEK Hackathon is the biggest event of its kind in the region. Hundreds of hackers, hustlers and designers gather to build new apps and companies -- whether for fun, for the prizes or for the opportunity to launch a new startup.
More details, including the prize pool will be announced in the early Fall.
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Saturday (11/3)
[10:00 AM] Coffee, Registration
[11:00 AM] Intro to the DCWEEK Hackathon
[11:30 AM] API & Data Lightening Talks (TBD talks by specific API/Data providers)
[12:30 AM] Hacker, Hustler, Designer Matching (only if you need additional team members)
[01:00 PM] Hacker cave land grab (go find a breakout room for the weekend) and get started
The venue will be open through the night.
Sunday (11/4)
[09:00 AM] Coffee and Bagels delivered
[2:00 PM] Organizers check in on team progress to see who's going to submit to win prizes
[4:00 PM] Prototypes are due for submission to Organizers
[5:00 PM] Live Demos & Judging by Entrepreneur/Investor/Sponsor panel
[6:00 PM] Exit
With Africans making up 17% of Washington D.C.’s foreign-born population, and Africa’s pace-setting emergence as a global center of technological innovation and enterprise, it is important for Africans to be a part of the conversation. This year’s Africa Gathering conference aims to displace the ubiquitous portrayal of Africa as a stagnant continent mired in conflict – with the balanced reality of an upwardly growing continent filled with an impassioned populace and a creative diaspora full of zest for progress – both with a penchant for technological solutions and an aptitude for entrepreneurship. Featured “Africa Unlimited” speakers include successful African technology and media start-up innovators, social entrepreneurs and thought leaders who will share challenges, insights and inspirations related to their work in Africa and the wider Diaspora. Invited speakers include Ghanaian software engineer Kwame Andah, co-founder of Coders4Africa, award-winning entrepreneur Saran Kaba Jones, the Liberian-born founder of FACE Africa, a non-profit that builds water wells in Liberia and Solome Lemma, Ethiopian philanthropist, White House ‘Champion of Change’ honoree and long-time activist. To Register: www.Africagathering.org
Lean Startup Machine is a three-day workshop where attendees use Customer Development and Lean Startup principles to validate an idea for a new product or service. Bring your team, or come alone and new teams will form on Friday night. Registration: http://bit.ly/UnDGuu
GO AMERICA!
Swing State All Stars, Southeast Engine visit the Nation's Capital to guarantee tax breaks for the middle class, fight poverty, quell conflict in the Middle East and rock out a night of Americana, Bluegrass and Blues at The Dunes!
Southeast Engine will be joined by DC favorites Second String Band and Brandon Butler!
Meet & Greet: To celebrate alternate bonds between Ohio and DC, Listen Local First (www.listenlocalfirst.com) and Cannon.fm (cannon.fm) founders will be holding a Meet and Greet at the Dunes starting at 8pm.
Come over early for some drinks and appetizers while you learn about DC's newest mobile local music streaming App.
Tickets - $8 http://preelectionpickathon.eventbrite.com/
Time & Place: 8:00pm at The Dunes (1402 Meridian Pl NW) Southeast Engine: http://southeastengine.com/
Second String Band: http://www.2ndstringband.tumblr.com/
Brandon Butler: http://brandonbutlermusic.com/home.html ........
Southeast Engine on NPR http://www.npr.org/2011/04/11/135313555/southeast-engine-on-world-cafe-next
Southeast Engine at Pickathon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4qNSovSYZ8
Second String Band at 9:30 Club https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a84HudwB9wg
Visit our Eventbrite page for more details: http://speekparty.eventbrite.com/ Celebrate the official launch of Speek at the Speek Easy Party during DC Week 2012. Our mission is to disrupt the the traditional conference call space and provide a fast, easy alternative using a personal URL instead of a bridge and PIN. There will be special party perks if you are a registered Speek user so be sure to get your Speek Link in time for the party. Speek will be sponsoring 1920's themed photo booths and will be giving away plenty of free swag.
In its second year, the DCWEEK Hackathon is the biggest event of its kind in the region. Hundreds of hackers, hustlers and designers gather to build new apps and companies -- whether for fun, for the prizes or for the opportunity to launch a new startup.
More details, including the prize pool will be announced in the early Fall.
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Saturday (11/3)
[10:00 AM] Coffee, Registration
[11:00 AM] Intro to the DCWEEK Hackathon
[11:30 AM] API & Data Lightening Talks (TBD talks by specific API/Data providers)
[12:30 AM] Hacker, Hustler, Designer Matching (only if you need additional team members)
[01:00 PM] Hacker cave land grab (go find a breakout room for the weekend) and get started
Sunday (11/4)
[09:00 AM] Coffee and Bagels delivered
[2:00 PM] Organizers check in on team progress to see who's going to submit to win prizes
[4:00 PM] Prototypes are due for submission to Organizers
[5:00 PM] Live Demos & Judging by Entrepreneur/Investor/Sponsor panel
[6:00 PM] Exit
Discussion about MyGov, a new government initiative meant to help individuals navigate through more than 1,200 federal websites.
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Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/103432243153882/
This session will kick off with a brief welcome and then look at the business case for social entrepreneurship—the opportunity to change lives and communities. Panelists will discuss socio-economic business models and the associated challenges, rewards, profit and potential for social good. This session will also explore the intersection of broadband technology and social entrepreneurship with an emphasis on nonadopters. The panel discussion will be moderated by Leslie Aun (Venture Philanthropy Partners). Panelists include: Zvi Band (ProudlyMadeInDC), Raymond Bell (H.O.P.E. Project), and Daniel Doll (SoapBox Soaps). Part of the DC Office of the Chief Technology Officer’s Connect.DC Fall 2012 Community Broadband Summit. Register here: http://fall2012summit.eventbrite.com
You have a unique mix of talents and strengths that gives you limitless potential. Do you know what they are? Understanding your strengths is valuable for not only surviving a competitive environment but essential to leading a productive and happy work experience. Knowing what you're good at gives you a confidence boost and helps you gain the trust and respect of your colleagues. Join StrengthsInsight in partnership with Jobwonk for a sneak preview of a new tool that can help you identify your strengths and unlock your potential. StrengthsInsight’s application measures your emotional, psychological, and cognitive resources to reveal your core character strengths. In this 1 hour workshop, you’ll learn how to leverage your strengths to... Understand yourself better Increase performance at work Improve communication We look forward to seeing you there - please sign up here: http://exploreyourstrengths.eventbrite.com/ StrenghtsInsight & Jobwonk www.strengthsinsight.com www.jobwonk.com
This event will kick off with a keynote speech by Victor L. Hoskins, Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development. After the keynote, we will look at the local tech start-up scene and the role of the District government in growing, supporting and retaining technology-related companies in the city. Panelists will discuss the challenges in starting a tech business, success secrets of tech start-ups and the benefits of starting a tech company in the District. The panel discussion will be moderated by Donna Harris (Startup America Partnership). Panelists include: David Zipper (Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development) and Julie Silard Kantor (Barrel of Jobs). An additional panelist will be announced soon. Part of the DC Office of the Chief Technology Officer’s Connect.DC Fall 2012 Community Broadband Summit. Register here: http://fall2012summit.eventbrite.com
This session will address some of the most important issues of inclusion in broadband technology, particularly whether greater gender and ethnic diversity is an important goal for tech organizations, employers, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. Panelists will discuss challenges to fostering diversity and strategies to unlock the untapped potential, markets and ideas that can come from unexpected sources. A panel discussion will be moderated by Dr. Nicol Turner-Lee (National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications). Panelists include: Liz Steininger (Rails Girls DC), Joseph Corbett (iStrategyLabs), and Christine Celise Johnson (DiversiTech). Part of the DC Office of the Chief Technology Officer’s Connect.DC Fall 2012 Community Broadband Summit. Register here: http://fall2012summit.eventbrite.com
This special event offers valuable perspectives from leading panelists on connecting the vital ecosystems of the Washington, D.C., Silicon Valley and Boston markets. Our panelists will discuss the techniques they used to accelerate their business development, improve their competitive position, attract funding, and acquire customers, both inside and outside their home region, while also providing crucial information on how you can leverage regional strengths to accelerate your company’s growth. To RSVP please e-mail gail.sobhalynes@bingham.com
Come to PunchRock on Monday night to follow up with all the new connections you made during DCWEEK's weekend festivities and to coordinate your schedules for the rest of DCWEEK. PunchRock is building a collaborative community for social entrepreneurs in the DC area, and we would love to have you and your friends come in to visit our shared office space in Adams Morgan and join our community. Please RSVP here http://punchrockhappyhourdcweek.eventbrite.com/.
Brookland X Brooklyn, Sponsored by Huge Founded in Brooklyn, NY in 1999, Huge is a leading digital design firm with offices in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. To celebrate opening an office in DC and in a shameless attempt to make new friends, they'd like to pay for your drinks. Join DCWW and the Huge DC team for an open bar from 6-8pm on November 5th at the Irish Whiskey Public House to celebrate Digital Capital Week and show New York how to party. Huge was named one of Advertising Age's top ten agencies across all marketing disciplines in 2012. The agency is known for combining digital business strategy with user-centric design and technology to create industry changing results for its clients. Clients include HBO, American Express, Comcast, Under Armour, Barneys NY, The City of New York, The United States Department of Energy, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and the United Nations Development Programme. http://hugedcwwmixer.eventbrite.com/
Join IamDTech as we share our first year successes and recognize those who made it all happen. The event will feature a keynote speaker and announce IamDTech\'s upcoming programming. You'll also have the chance to meet the new IamDTech Community Managers and Evangelists. RSVP: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4528226046 Amplify the IamDTech conversation. Request to join the closed FB group at: http://facebook.com/groups/diversityintechnology Connect on Twitter: @IAmDTech
The next generation of HTML and CSS offer powerful new features for creating content that is graphically rich. It's never been easier to leverage animation, motion graphics, and sophisticated graphical techniques when building for the modern web. Come see what Adobe is doing to move the web forward in these areas by working on new W3C specifications, tools that help designers create content, and services for testing content across screens. http://html.adobe.com/events Join us during DC Week at the Artisphere Arts and Cultural center in Rosslyn for the latest stop in the Create The Web World Tour. You'll learn all about new advancements on the web and the brand new tools from Adobe that will help you take advantage of them.
If you enjoy mobile apps and want to socialize with other mobile app enthusiasts and professionals, please attend and help kick-start a killer app. RSVP Via Meetup Group... http://www.meetup.com/App-Social/events/86315082/ Do you have a killer mobile app idea? Join us at the App Social. A social networking event where you will get 5 mins to pitch your idea and the winning idea (selected by those in attendance) will get $3,000 in app development support to build your mobile pilot. Contact ggodbout@mavenLIFT.com to sign up to pitch an app at the event. More about mavenLIFT.com app! Award recipients will get their mobile app idea turned into a functional prototype using mavenLIFT mobile services (up to a $3,000 value)* Schedule: 6:30PM - Doors Open and Bar is Open (Cash Bar and Full Restaurant Menu Available) 6:30PM to 7:30PM - Networking and Socializing 7:30PM to 8:15PM - Mobile App Presentations 8:30PM - Winner Announcement 8:30PM to 9:30PM - After Party More about mavenLIFT... http://www.mavenlift.com/ Make sure you understand the rules http://www.mavenlift.com/Rules.aspx * Award recipients will get up to $3,000 in mobile app consulting and development services toward building their app. This is not a cash award. It is an award for valuable mobile app development services. mavenLIFT mobile will work with you to create a quality prototype within this $3,000 price range. Some functionality, depending on the complexity, may not be achievable in this price range. However our template functional modules are likely to get you well on your way. Additionally, crowd funding sources will be used to help pay for development.
The (anti)social network - talking to people who don't want to talk to you
Nobody cares what you have to say. Beyond your tight circle of besties, there is an audience of people overwhelmed by the noise of thousands of individuals and brands attempting to engage on the web every day. And no matter how awesome your content may be, within that noise is enough garbage to drown out any good content–face it, they just don’t care. BRINKmedia attempts to first identify what makes “good” content and perhaps, more importantly, determine what it takes to get people to engage and take notice. Whether you are managing social media for a brand or trying to put your own best foot forward for career opportunities, you should benefit from this candid discussion from the people trying to crack the code every day. Networking starts at 6:30 and the program starts at 7:45. Space is limited.
To register, please go to: http://www.dcadclub.com/calendar_day.asp?date=11/5/2012
Come learn about the incredible work Motley Fool developers are doing to power one of the most innovative and dynamic financial news sites in the world. While you’re here, enjoy some beverages, take a tour of our office, play some games, and see why the Fool is consistently ranked one of the best places to work in the Washington DC Area. Tentative Schedule: 6:30 – 7:00 Registration 7:05 – Talk: How Fool developers have evolved their release process - from dropping DLL’s to releasing code whenever needed. 7:20 – Talk: How Fool developers use Composer to simplify development and deployment on international web sites. 7:35 – Talk: A step-by-step approach to creating auto-scaling web applications on Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk platform using .Net. 7:50 – Talk: SignalR...how we use it, and how you can use it to reshape your website. 8:05 – Pub Quiz, Games and Drinks 8:35 – Networking and Office Tours
// OVERVIEW We are organizing a Pitch Night to give benevolent media creators a chance to showcase their pitches and proposals in captivating 5- to 7-minute presentations, for a chance to win cash prizes to make their idea a reality. Have an idea? Submit your pitch proposal online: http://benevolentmedia.org/pitchnight A distinguished panel of judges will vote on the Grand Prize winner ($2,000.) The rest of the audience also gets to cast their vote on what project to fund with a People's Choice Award, using a portion of the money pooled from the price of admission ($5 from each person's ticket.) This event will be held during Digital Capital Week, a weeklong festival in Washington, D.C. focused on bringing together designers, developers, entrepreneurs and social innovators of all kinds. // BUY YOUR TIX: Register here: http://benevolentmedia.org/pitchnight $15 Complimentary beer, wine and specialty cocktails. Plus, sweet and savory treats. // AGENDA: Monday, November 5 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. - FEAST 8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - PITCH 9:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. - PARTY // CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Deadline: Sunday, October 28, 11:59 p.m. Want to use poetry for social justice? Photography for nature conservation? Filmmaking for women's empowerment? Fill out the online form and tell us what cause you care about, what community you aim to serve, and what form of media you'll be using to create positive and lasting social or environmental change. We'll invite the applicants with the most compelling proposals to come pitch their idea in front of a live audience on November 5. Submit your pitch proposal online: http://benevolentmedia.org/pitchnight // SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR PRODUCING SPONSORS: American University's Center for Social Media Ideal Design Fission Strategy Forum One Communications Free Range Projeqt Provoc Threespot Weber Shandwick // MEET OUR JUDGES: - Raj Aggarwal, President, Provoc - Kristen Argenio, Principal, Ideal Design - William (Bill) Colgrove, Chief Creative Officer, Threespot - Angelica Das, Associate Director, Center for Social Media, American University - Michaela Hackner, Project Director, Forum One Communications - Amy Hartzler, Studio Director, Free Range - Austen Levihn-Coon, Senior Strategist, Fission Strategy - Brandon Schmittling, Director of Experience Design, Weber Shandwick // ENJOY OUR FEAST: Complimentary beer, wine and specialty cocktails. Plus, sweet and savory treats generously provided by: Chouquette H &pizza Mezanmi MOD Arts The Muffin Man PapsJuices Zenful Bites
DT:DC is a design thinking meetup in DC that is 700 members strong! We have heard from many members of the DT:DC community that you would like to have the opportunity to be involved in design challenges that extend beyond our usual 2-hour meetup timeframe. What better way to create design challenges that inspire the DT:DC community than to have you develop them using design thinking skills and methods. This session will explore the steps and tools in defining a problem and creating and refining a design challenge. Creating a good design challenge can be one of the more difficult elements of design thinking – especially if you aren’t solving the right problem. We will break into teams and use a design thinking process to guide each team through developing a design challenge for DT:DC. The output of this session will be a set of design challenges designed by the DT:DC community that we will then implement over the coming months. Our hope is to create design challenges that solve real issues in the DC community. Start thinking about problems that you believe might benefit from a design thinking approach and bring those ideas with you to the session. They will be great input into designing challenges that inspire us. If you have a specific organization in mind that you would like us to consider for a design challenge please let us know. We are interested in organizations that are open to collaborating with DT:DC to help solve the issues they are facing. (Draft) Meeting Agenda: 6:45pm - Networking and Introductions 7:00pm - Session Overview 7:05pm - Process and Tools for Creating a Solid Design Challenge 7:30pm - DC Design Challenge Exercise 8:30pm - Discussion and Next Steps 9:00pm - Close
FREE On-Demand Professional Workspace!! Touchdown Space (local DC Startup) is offering up 12 private offices and 15 coworking / collaborative workspaces (first come first serve basis) to everyone attending DCWEEK for FREE. All week long. Click the link below for more information / to book a workspace right now! Get your work on. --> http://bit.ly/TkhKyV
From planning to promotion, technology to catering, guest management to photo management. Building great events is about building a great culture that starts before your event and lasts way beyond. Come, meet and hear some of DC’s biggest event professionals tell their stories and share their tips.
Panel to feature:
Dan Berger | Social Tables
Svetlana Legetic | Brightest Young Things
Christopher Naoum | Listen Local First
Mack Kolarich | SceneSquid
Lisa Markuson | The Pink Line Project
Moderated by Philippe Chetrit | Tixelated/Fatback
On Election Day, join QGA Public Affairs and Merge Creative Media for an afternoon of analysis, insights and networking with former Capitol Hill staff, White House officials, network news producers and senior political counselors at the War Room Lounge in Washington, D.C.'s Golden Triangle. We'll be mining the data, crunching the numbers, tracking exit polls and reporting both on the results AND the media. Complimentary lunch service, refreshments, device charging stations, and a Rapid Response Flashcam will be available.
TMI: Too Much Information is a free rapid-fire workshop in partnership with American University College of Arts & Sciences designed to cram as much essential information as possible about having a web presence in to 2 hours. This high energy round-table is designed for artists, nonprofit organizations, musicians, and other grass roots ventures. The program allocates 5 minutes per topic on a wide range of subjects that are crucial for DIY web publishing success and improved visibility online. The instructor, Jake Peterson of Arsenal Studios, will be “working against” a countdown timer for each topic. When “time is up”, the class must move on to the next topic. This is an interactive, high-energy round-table. Topics include: Search Engine Optimization: Inside the mind of Google || Building links and improving traffic || MAC vs. PC: Everyone Loses || Wordpress vs Icompendium vs. Other People's Pixels, vs Squarespace: The easiest ways to have an online presence || Creative Commons: a guide to copyrights on the web || Tumblr: Twitter and Wordpress had a baby! || The many faces of Facebook …and much more. The workshop will also be broadcast live on the web and a forum will be provided for offsite participants to contribute and interact. Learn more at http://arsenalstudios.com/tmi
An iPad Accessibility and Imagining session on Nov. 6 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. will introduce participants to iPad accessibility and then allow them to imagine how apps that use capabilities like SimpleEmotion's emotion recognition can be built and be useful to people using an iOs device. This session will be pretty informal, but a chance for interested participants to talk to specific organizations about what the rest of the week including a Nov 10th accessibility hackathon at the library will look like and what it will hope to achieve. Wednesday and Thursday will be spent doing the hacking, in part at the library, (maybe Wednesday tends to be more concept-oriented and Thursday more results-oriented). Then Friday there might be a final presentation, maybe some kind of judging and prize for the winner, and some general wrapping up. A final day long Hackathon to bring everyone together and to polish details so that there is a real final product will be held Saturday, Nov 10th all day at the MLK library.
Eventstir & RUNINOut are co-hosting an Election Night party @Rocketbar. We'll buy the first 200 draft beers to drink our happiness or sorrows away. Depending on which 24-hour news channel you watch we're either going to suffer Socialist hell or bask in progressive bliss so come drink to it! Event is Free, so bring a friend First 100 to RSVP gets a free drink. http://www.eventstir.com/events/dcweek
This event is SOLD OUT.
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Social Media has proven to be a tremendous force in the communications industry. Companies big and small have witnessed the positive and negative affects social can play in their day to day roles. As companies begin to look at ways to understand the impacts on a larger scale there has been an increased need to measure and analyze social data. Join the Northern Virginia Technology Council’s Social Media Committee as we discuss best practices around how to measure and analyze social data as part of DC Week 2012. Industry leaders will share best practices along with creative ways companies are using this data to positively impact their business objectives. The panel will be moderated by Chris Abraham, Team Lead, Special Projects at Reputation.com (@chrisabraham). Panelists include: Carmela Aquino, Senior Marketing Communications Manager, comScore Inc. (@caaquino); Sara Goo, Senior Digital Editor, Pew Research Center (@sarakgoo); and David Taub, Chief Creative Officer, R2integrated(@R2integrated).
Come to PunchRock any time between 8am and 2am to work/study/play. We encourage you to bring your laptop and all your creative ideas to take our shared office space for a test drive. This will be a fun-filled day alongside individuals who are putting social change into action. We have a kitchen with snacks, a shower (if you workout), wifi, and plenty of open workstations.
PunchRock is a collaborative community with shared office space in Adams Morgan for social entrepreneurs and groups working on social impact projects. We recently opened our doors on October 15, and we invite you to join our community!
Call 202-588-0218 for inquiries or email info@punchrockdc.com.
Social media is creating exciting new opportunities for government agencies to collaborate, engage with the public, gather useful data, and achieve their missions more efficiently and effectively. Featuring leading experts from on social media in the public sector, this panel will present a wide-ranging discussion including: examples of how government agencies are using social media, emerging opportunities for social data to inform agencies’ missions, evolving opportunities for social media to inform policymaking and drive change in government, the future of collaborative government – what to look for in the years to come, and the key areas the new administration should focus on to advance social government in the next four years.
Panelists will include Justin Herman, Social Media Evangelist at GSA’s Office of Citizen Services & Innovative Technologies, Steve Ressler, founder of GovLoop, Scott Horvath, Web & Social Media Chief at USGS, and Brandon Friedman, Vice President, Fleishman-Hillard (Former Director, Online Communications at Department of Veterans Affairs).
Since this event will be hosted the morning after the election, there’ll be a free complimentary breakfast and LOTS of coffee to get you going. Join us, and learn what’s next in social government. Register at: http://socialgovevent.eventbrite.com/
EVENT SCHEDULE:
8:30 – 9:00: Registration/Breakfast/Networking
9:00 – 10:00: Panel Discussion
10:00 – 10:30 Post-event networking
FREE On-Demand Professional Workspace!! Touchdown Space (local DC Startup) is offering up 12 private offices and 15 coworking / collaborative workspaces (first come first serve basis) to everyone attending DCWEEK for FREE. All week long. Click the link below for more information / to book a workspace right now! Get your work on. --> http://bit.ly/TkhKyV
Discussion about RFP-EZ, a new government initiative that promises to make it easier for small businesses in the digital space to work with the federal government.
SOLD OUT: This event is sold out, but the attorneys at Arnold Sai LLP are more than happy to schedule a free consultation with anyone interested in talking to a startup lawyer by contacting sai@arnoldsai.com to schedule a time on an individual basis.
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A brief presentation and Q&A session by Sai Pidatala and Justin Arnold, founding Partners of law firm Arnold Sai LLP (www.arnoldsai.com). OPEN TO TEN ATTENDEES ONLY. FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED. Come and hear seasoned startup-focused lawyers discuss some of the basic nuts-and-bolts legal issues that many startups and entrepreneurs often ignore when founding a venture. Hear what matters when it comes to legitimizing your venture and taking it from a mere idea to a more sophisticated, financed operation. Arnold Sai's attorneys will also outline issues related to financing one's venture and the legal hurdles involved in gaining audience with venture capital firms/angel investors AND going one step further to actually obtain financing from these parties. What should be in a proper Founders Agreement? What about crucial provisions in an Finance Agreement? Investor Rights Agreements? Intellectual property management? How will VC firms and angels want to change my equity structure? How do I minimize liability and maximize profitability? Come for an open discussion with lawyers that understand the sensitivities and motivations (and budgets!) of entrepreneurs. Arnold Sai LLP is a full-service corporate law firm based in Washington DC. The firm has a core practice area, however, dealing with startups and entrepreneurs. Its website: www.arnoldsai.com
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Join Social Media Club DC for a networking lunch and panel discussion featuring experts from across the political spectrum and non-profit advocacy space as we talk about the tools and tactics that worked and didn't work in 2012. Please note that you must RSVP on Eventbrite to confirm attendance + let us know what you would like to eat for lunch! http://smcdcweek.eventbrite.com/ Featuring: John Brougher - @JohnBrougher, Vice Presiden of Marketing and Nonprofit Sales, NGP VAN Colin Delaney - @epolitics, Director Online Communications, National Women's Law Center Tammy Gordon - @floridagirlindc, Director of Social Communications, AARP Dave Leichtman - @Dleichtman, Vice President, Services and Support, Salsa Labs, Inc. Moderated by: Tyler Gray, @tylergray, Digital Program Manager- Beekeeper Group Sponsored by Salsa Labs Venue Sponsor: Beekeeper Group
Join us for this fast-moving and informative brown bag event. Keep your launch on track and make quantum leaps in productivity with vastly improved time management tools and a better system for evaluating priorities. Sara Olivieri is the Metro area's master of applied positive psychology. She's an acclaimed local trainer/life coach and speaker Find her at http://saraoliveri.com/management/corporate-workshops Carter Ferrington is a businessman, attorney, appraiser, real estate pro and start-up advisor who is also the founder of the Dupont Circle Business Incubator http://www.vogelrealty.com/business-incubator
Hispanic Marketing 3.0: How to reach and engage the Social and Mobile Hispanic Consumer
• Understand top trends around the use of social media and mobile phones by Hispanic consumers. • Learn what is working to effectively reach Hispanics via social and mobile marketing. • Hear about specific case studies, strategies and tactics for marketing to the highly social and mobile Hispanic consumers. • Click here visit the event on our website.
Join Community IT staff in a discussion and dialogue from 3-5 pm about IT trends for nonprofits from 2012 and a look ahead at 2013. Other topics that will be covered include: Windows 8, Bring Your Own Device Policy, and Office 365 vs. Google Apps. We will have several presentations followed by a community dialogue. Space is limited, but registration is free. If you can't make it to the event, join us for the happy hour from 5:30-6:30 pm at Local 16. Click here to see a detailed description of the event and sign up. http://bit.ly/SiHY8C
Physical and information security are increasingly on converging paths within many companies. That may be good news for start-ups, who don’t have the overhead or infrastructure to tackle the same problem by two different names. Learn more about physical and information security convergence, considerations for your start-up or company and how to tackle issues from cloud security to big data. Register at http://cjcybersecuritypanel.eventbrite.com Panelists include: Gal Shpantzer, Information Security and Risk Management Consultant (http://shpantzer.blogspot.com/) Joshua Marpet, Physical and Logical Security Consultant (http://guardedrisk.com) Deb Salons, Attorney Tom Stamulis, Regional Director, East and Central U.S., Terremark (A Verizon Company) Event location: Chef Geoff's Downtown (13th St. NW between E and F) A complimentary happy hour with panelists and attendees will follow the panel discussion.
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Calling all foodies, techies and innovators! This session brings three local startups together that are tackling technology in the food industry for a delectable + geeky exchange. Learn how these entrepreneurs are transforming the B2B and B2C markets with new solutions and more efficient approaches to increasing revenue and lowering food costs. One of the coolest sessions during DC Week, the panel will tell all about their experience in this space and welcomes questions from those interested in this new frontier.
Program highlights:
3 food startups offering advice and sharing best practices on how they come up with their startup idea, the lessons they have learned and the struggles of being a first time or seasoned entrepreneur - Q/A with audience Speakers
Bios:
Kash Rehman, Founder & CEO, Foodem.com (www.foodem.com) After experiencing firsthand how lack of pricing transparency and manual processing increase costs and impair customer satisfaction throughout the wholesale food supply chain, Kash Rehman founded Foodem.com in 2010. Foodem is an online trading, business intelligence, and process automation solution for the $650 Billion U.S. wholesale food distribution industry. Essentially, it is a marketplace that connects food distributors, local farms and specialty food manufacturers with wholesale food buyers, such as restaurants, schools, hospitals, etc. Foodem also enables the sustainable food movement by satisfying the growing business demand for more local, sustainably-produced, and healthier food choices in restaurants and institutions. Prior, Kash was the Director of Operations for a broadline food distributor where he managed company-wide food procurement, sales, marketing and logistics departments and had full P&L responsibility. From 2002 to 2008 he grew revenue from $2MM to $12MM by expanding the company’s product offering and by obtaining the company’s first federal and state government agency contracts. In early 2004 he launched the first ever Internet cafe and restaurant in College Park, Maryland catering to the University of Maryland students. Selling the business to a Chinese restaurant chain after 23 months produced a 3X return on investment. Kash started his career working as a Business Analyst for a business and technology consulting firm where he worked on the planning and implementation of several projects for NEXTEL, including a Wireless Number Portability Program. Kash is part of the MindShare class of 2012, an invitation-only networking group for the CEO's of high growth companies in the D.C. area, and he was nominated for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year Award for 2012. He graduated from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland with a B.S. in Management and Information Systems.
Valerie Coffman, Founder, Feastie (www.feastie.com) After earning a B.S. in Physics from Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Cornell, Valerie spent five years at the National Institute of Science and Technology writing software for Materials Science research. She left N.I.S.T. in July 2011 to combine her talents for crunching numbers and programming with her love of cooking (and eating) great food by founding Feastie. She is also a graduate of the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School INNoVATE program and the Founder Institute.
Karl Johnson, CTO, Venga, (www.GoVenga.com) Karl has spent the last 13 years in software development working for multiple early stage DC startups as well as top firms like Microsoft, Accenture and Booz Allen. Two years ago, he somehow got involved with opening a coffee shop on Capitol Hill, which quickly blossomed into a full service restaurant, and is the majority partner. Finding a way to merge his passions for food and technology, Karl joined restaurant software startup Venga, as the CTO, in early 2011, and continues to push the envelope in data analytics and guest relationship building for the restaurant industry.
VENUE: Washington, DC Economic Partnership -- 1495 F Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20004
At this Meetup we will offer a Cloud Computing Introduction: an overview of cloud computing, deployment models, service models, terminology, and related technologies. Virtual machine instances, cloud IP addresses, storage, security, resource overcommitment, and high availability. Cloud access tools, online resources, and use cases. Food and beverages will be provided. Space is limited to the first 50 people.
What are the keys to virality? It's about so much more than just the content. Will people share your stuff? Will they click on it from their news feeds and tweet streams? At eight-month old start-up Upworthy, we've become experts at making stuff that matters go viral. Learn about what we've built and how we've optimized our website to maximize sharing. The lessons here are essential for anyone who wants to spread ideas throughout the modern social web. The presentation will be led by Luigi Montanez, founding engineer, and Andrew Forrest, audience, analytics, and business manager. We'll go over our editorial process, how we curate and optimize content, and our technical and analytical approach to achieving virality. Register: http://engineeringviralitydcweek.eventbrite.com/ The event is being graciously hosted by the New Organizing Institute at their new offices in the Verizon Building on 19th St NW. Drinks and appetizers will be served.
BUILD, a nonprofit/after school program that helps high school students plan, pitch, fund, and grow businesses while in high school, wants to diversify the type of businesses BUILD students start. With the mobile tech/social media adoption and usage rates in the communities from which BUILD students come, simple tech or tech inspired businesses may be a logical area for BUILD students to explore. The DCWeek event would be an interactive discussion/info session/demo session with the focus on showing BUILD students how they can take the skills acquired through mobile tech/social media use and turn that into a businesses.
Upworthy, the fastest-growing start-up in media history, is on a mission to make important content go viral online. What are the keys to virality? It's about so much more than just the content. Will people share your stuff? Will they click on it from their news feeds and tweet streams? Amassing an audience of millions in a matter of months, the folks at Upworthy have become experts at making stuff that matters go viral. Learn about what we've built and how we've optimized our website to maximize sharing. The lessons here are essential for anyone who wants to spread ideas throughout the modern social web. The presentation will be led by Luigi Montanez, founding engineer, and Andrew Forrest, audience, analytics, and business manager. We'll go over our editorial process, how we curate and optimize content, and our technical and analytical approach to achieving virality. The event is being graciously hosted by the New Organizing Institute at their new offices in the Verizon Building on 19th St NW. Drinks and appetizers will be served. About Upworthy At best, things online are usually either awesome or meaningful, but everything on Upworthy has a little of both. There's no empty calories. No pageview-juking slideshows. No right-column sleaze. Just a steady stream of the most irresistibly shareable stuff you can click on without feeling bad about yourself afterwards. The site went live on March 26, 2012, and has quickly established itself as one of the go-to places for millions of people who would rather share something substantive than Instagram their lunch. Upworthy has drawn large audiences to videos and graphics about a range of topics often considered “unsexy,” such as protecting the environment, deporting high school honors students, corporations that stood up for gay couples, inspiring facts about science, and even a jaw-dropping rant by the President of Ireland against a far-right radio host. After just about 6 months in business, the site's core audience has grown to a community of more than 550,000 Facebook fans and more than 300,000 daily email subscribers. Upworthy hit its first million unique visitors in its first month, and they’ve been on the rise ever since, reaching more than 8 million people in October. The company recently announced a major round of investment from media venture fund NEA, as well as the founders of sites like Facebook, BuzzFeed and Reddit, to build on this solid foundation in 2013.
App Social at the Arlington Drafthouse - $3,000 for Winning App Idea Finalist - Sponsored by mavenLIFT.com If you enjoy mobile apps and want to socialize with other mobile app enthusiasts and professionals, please attend and help kick-start a killer app. RSVP Via Meetup Group... http://www.meetup.com/App-Social/events/87083542/ Do you have a killer mobile app idea? Join us at the App Social. A social networking event where you will get 5 mins to pitch your idea and the winning idea from each group (selected by those in attendance) will make the finals. mavenLIFT.com will select the winning app from the finalists from Group A (11/5) & B (11/7). The final winning app will get $3,000 in app development support to build thier mobile pilot. Contact ggodbout@mavenLIFT.com for any questions regarding pitching your app at the event. Finalist award recipients will get their mobile app idea turned into a functional prototype using mavenLIFT mobile services (up to a $3,000 value)* Schedule: 6:30PM - Doors Open and Bar is Open (Cash Bar and Full Restaurant Menu Available) 6:30PM to 7:30PM - Networking and Socializing 7:30PM to 8:15PM - Mobile App Presentations 8:30PM - Winner Announcement 8:30PM to 9:30PM - After Party More about mavenLIFT... http://www.mavenlift.com/ Make sure you understand the rules http://www.mavenlift.com/Rules.aspx Due to popular demand we have added this Group B to qualify for the $3K app development award. Please only attend one event to allow the most participants possible. Group A is on 11/5 * Finalist award recipients will get up to $3,000 in mobile app consulting and development services toward building their app. This is not a cash award. It is an award for valuable mobile app development services. mavenLIFT mobile will work with you to create a quality prototype within this $3,000 price range. Some functionality, depending on the complexity, may not be achievable in this price range. However our template functional modules are likely to get you well on your way. Additionally, crowd funding sources will be used to help pay for development.
The DCWEEK keynote are a big deal. 2000+ of your closest friends -- all in one room -- for a couple hours getting crazy-inspired by talks from a handful of luminaries. Don't miss it.
[6:00 PM] Doors Open & Gold/VIP Badge Pickup
[7:00 PM] Welcome by DCWEEK Producers & Mayor Vincent Gray
[7:10 PM] Brian Mcclary, Social and Emerging Media Analyst, Ford Motor Company
[7:30 PM] Travis Kalanick (CEO, Uber)
[8:00 PM] Emily Brew, Formerly of the NIKE Foundation (Co-Creater of the Girl Effect)
[8:30 PM] Robin Chase, Buzz Car (Founder of ZipCar) and CEO of Buzzcar
[9:00 PM] Exit
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The evening after Election day, we'll review how news agencies used maps in their election coverage - including their process, what worked well, and what didn't. We'll have presentations from several news organizations showing the election maps they are making, talking about the technology behind them, and discussing how they're using maps to tell the stories behind the election. We'll also have at least one talk focused on how to make maps with election data. The lineup will be (and we'll add to this as we confirm speakers):
GeoDC meets once a month on the first Wednesday of the month to socialize, network, and hear about the work people are doing with maps, GIS, and geodata. For updates, join this group and follow us on Twitter at @Geo_DC.
Please note that Stetson's is a bar, and therefore 21 and over. If you're underage and want to attend, message us and we'll do our best to get you in.
Join Dating in Groups at L2 to celebrate that latest evolution in Online Dating at one of the premier clubs in Washington D.C. We will have drink specials for those who RSVP. All you have to do is click that RSVP button at the top and email Jeff to get on this list only party. You can also check out the partial guest list here: http://www.facebook.com/events/124542647695421/
canvas.co is hosting DC Nightowls again at their AMAZING co-working space. BYOProject, your brilliant minds, and your willingness to help your peers. Short, capped introductions will occur around 9:30pm. Bring your headphones! hooot hooot! Gulnara @gulnara @dcnightowls to RSVP go to : http://nightowls.dcacm.org/events/85115372/
Opower is sponsoring the Keynote After Party at Penn Social on November 7. Come join us!
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HTML5 APIs will change the web and your designs. The next generation of APIs will change the very nature of the web and how people use it. This session will explore the emerging next generation of APIs, and the new cutting edge applications that are possible.
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We are surrounded by rising stars - you know them. The people who are doing amazing things all around us, but might not be featured on prime time news for the world to see. DCWEEK wants to shine a light on the amazing changemakers among us. So join us for short keynote talks by some of America's most amazing minds and inspirational voices.
Brian Wong, CEO, Kiip
Lisa Friedlander, Founder, Activity Rocket
Valerie Coffman, Founder, Feastie
Natalia Oberti Noguera, Director, Pipeline Fellowship
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As consumers increasingly rely on mobile devices, applications, and networks in their everyday lives, the wireless industry is working hard to keep up with the exploding rise in demand. Panelists will discuss what it takes to maintain U.S. leadership in the dynamic mobile sector and the most important issues on the tech agenda for 2013. Major topics will include the need for more mobile spectrum, privacy issues, and best practices for ensuring continued innovation and investment in the wireless space.
Moderated by Allison Remsen, Executive Director of Mobile Future, with Jim Kohlenberger of JK Strategies, Bryan Tramont, Managing Partner of Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP, and Jennifer Kuhn, Executive Director Public Affairs of AT&T.
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This session will explore how open government data, and commercial data are changing the way citizens and consumers experience their world. Panelist will explore the Code for Europe project as well as open data efforts at Capital One, HHS and more.
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We can no longer design online services for one device, location, etc. This panel will look at ways to design products and services for different locations, environments and product ecosystems.
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We are surrounded by rising stars - you know them. The people who are doing amazing things all around us, but might not be featured on prime time news for the world to see. DCWEEK wants to shine a light on the amazing changemakers among us. So join us for short keynote talks by some of America's (and beyond!) most amazing minds and inspirational voices.
Shane Green, CEO & Founder, Personal
Lauren Delisa Coleman, Author
Keya Dannenbaum, CEO, ElectNext
Ari Gesher, Palantir
Kalsoom Lakhani, CEO, Invest2Innovate
Katalin Gallyas, Open Innovation Lobbyist, Amsterdam
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A rapid-fire showcase of DC's hottest startups competing up on stage with only one focus: nailing the perfect 60-second pitch.
Like the NBA Slam Dunk Competition, judges will hold up signs ranging from 1-10 after each pitch, and the audience will have a chance to weigh in on the action. 18 startups will compete for a few special prizes.
Here are some of the companies you'll see:
PRIZES!!
1st Place = 2x Embassy Suites Hotel Room Nights + Cool Trophy + 3 mo. Intelligent Office Membership + Zappos Gift Card + Otterbox Case
2nd Place = 1x Embassy Suites Hotel Room Night + Less Cool Trophy + Zappos Gift Card + 1 mo. Intelligent Office Membership + Otterbox Case
3rd Place = 1x Embassy Suites Hotel Room Night + Still Kinda Cool Trophy + Zappos Gift Card + 1 mo. Intelligent Office Membership + Otterbox Case
Everyone Else = Otterbox Gear + Love From The Crowd!
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Three years ago Washington, D.C. was as the very forefront of civic tech, blazing a trail of apps, open data, and open government that other cities were following. This was innovation by the people of D.C. for the people of D.C. with effects that rippled throughout the country.
In this interactive session -part presentation and part un-conference - Kevin Curry will introduce you to Code for America and their civic engagement program called "Brigade" that builds off of this foundation. You're invited to contribute your thoughts about what should go into a strategic plan for rebooting civic tech by and for the people of D.C.
You don't have to be a coder to participate! Code for America loves designers, story tellers, gov experts.. all are welcome. If you care about the intersection of the Internet and civil society as it applies to Washington, D.C. then you should come to this session.
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Moderated by Kevin Curry, Program Director, Code for America Brigade
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Over a decade ago, Napster became a household name when they started a music revolution, transforming the way music is distributed and shared and challenging the role of record labels in an artists' career. Could we be on the verge of a similar revolution in the art world? In an age when artists can easily promote and distribute their own work through online portfolios, social media, personal websites and more, what is the role of the gallery in the 21st century? Are there lessons that visual artists, filmmakers, and creatives of all types can learn from the music industry?
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Whether you have a startup that you're looking to take to the next level, or you're just looking for some inspiration from some of the organizations playing a massive role in the burgeoning DC Tech scene, don't miss this rundown of DC's various Accelerator programs. You'll hear from The Fort, Acceleprise, EndeavorDC, MTech, GMU, and Fishbowl Labs -- followed by Q&A from the crowd.
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In today's world of ever-changing expectations and technology, innovation is the key to success. Too often, companies rely solely on a few highly specialized people to innovate, such as Product Managers or Business Strategists. Companies who can continuously tap into the creativity of their entire workforce, especially engineers, have an enormous strategic advantage over those who can't. Learn the best practices for getting everyone to innovate, and see real-world examples of how these strategies have been applied effectively at Opower, the DC region's hottest technology company. Opower Speakers: Ben Foster-Vice President, Product Yoni Ben-Meshulam- Data Scientist
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We use the Internet for almost all of our work and leisure activities, but few of us have thought about what actually connects the smartphone, tablet or PC to the rest of the world. In this session we'll discuss how the Internet connects us over the air, fiber, copper, coax, even through thousands of miles of space, and discuss FiOS, DSL, LTE and other access networks. We'll also look at the undersea cables that connects continents together.
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Building on, and leveraging, open API’s is now a norm. But they can also be a risk as companies can change the way they allow developers to use APIs. This session will look at today’s hottest API’s, and the risks and rewards for using them in your products.
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"Ask An Investor" will provide an opportunity to ask questions and gain insights from a range of some of DC's best-known investors, ranging from angels to VC's and accelerators. This short panel will be moderated by Bill Flook of the Washington Business Journal, followed by plenty of Q&A & discussion with the audience.
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Building a Locally Global Community: How the World Economic Forum Global Shapers in Washington, DC are using the networked world to have impact at home and abroad
This session will explore the ways in which millennials are leveraging their ability to make impact using technology, networking and dialogue. We will discuss the opportunities available in DC, using a global community, like the World Economic Forum, to not just tackle problems and share solutions in Washington, D.C., but globally. This dynamic conversation will include members of the Washington DC Hub of the Global Shapers, an initiative of the World Economic Forum.
Increasingly, innovative uses of technology for social good are being implemented by for-profits, not nonprofits. Come learn more about where tech meets profit AND purpose.
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Let's face it. This start-up stuff ain't easy and anyone who tells you that it is has lost their marbles. EverFi CEO Tom Davidson has been through every phase of the startup world -- from backing early stage tech businesses as a VC to founding one of D.C.'s hottest tech companies to raising over $22 million from the leaders of Silicon Valley. He'll bring some outside-the-box thinking to startup life.
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Media is one of the most rapidly evolving industries today, growing and changing - and permeating our everyday lives. We'll hear from some of the bigest names in media and what their doing to innovate, evolve and keep up with today's technologies.
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The rise of the "intrapreneur" has been an fascinating phenomemon of the 21st Century economy, by treating employees like startup CEO's and allowing them to flex their creative muscles, new products, revenue and even companies are being created.
Here from some of DC's new crop of "intrapreneurs" -- and get inspired to shake things up in your own organization.
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With so many large organizations starting to recognize the value of a lean approach, after you strip away all of the hype and the talk at the surface, what does it really take to get there? Angie Shelton, Product Team lead at Capital One's Digital Innovation Lab, will talk about how one of the largest banks in America builds, tests, and ships products at startup speeds.
Featured speaker: Angie Shelton, Head of Product, Digital Lab at Capital One
Join us for this special keynote session by Rachel Cook, a previous Futures/Equities Trader who left that world to direct/produce The Microlending Film Project. The project is a global exploration of the impact of microloans on women, which was shot on four continents and premiered as the Feature Presentation at the Chicago International Film Festival. Filming in Nairobi and seeing the sophisticated text-message based money transfer infrastructure there led Cook to patent and launch Seeds, a social game for mobile microlending from the developed to the developing world.
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Exponential development in technology and social media over the past four years has allowed us to see political campaigns through a different light, shifting conversation and debate into the hands of the people. This year, scholars, media, and the campaigns themselves have utilized unprecedented amounts of data to look beyond the polls in order to cultivate strategies and tell compelling stories. This panel takes a look at how social data has impacted our ability to understand sentiment, make predictions, activate the people, and devise strategies impacting a presidential campaign.
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Steps the pros take to build a website, design an experiential exhibit, and launch a start-up. This exciting session is composed of three 10 minute talks, with 20 minutes of Q&A after. Please join us for this lively discussion.
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Tech communities are blossoming across the DC region and far beyond. Come hear from a variety of community builders about what's happening in DC, Baltimore, Las Vegas and more!
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"The Share Economy" will highlight the companies shaking up entire industries by creating peer-to-peer marketplaces. In this fast-tempo'd panel moderated by Stacey Price of Think Local First, you'll see what obsticles they've encountered, what they've learned, and where it's all going.
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Andy Carvin (@acarvin) is NPR's senior product manager for online communities, has been called "a one-man Twitter news bureau" by the Washington Post, and is the 2011 winner of the Knight-Batten Award for Innovation for his Twitter reporting. From Tripoli to Tunisia to the 2012 Presidential Election - Andy's real-time view into what's moving the world is a unique perspective and an real asset his audience.
Andy will be interviewed by Peter Corbett (@corbett3000), CEO of iStrategyLabs and co-producer of DCWEEK.
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Also known as crowd financing, equity crowdfunding, social funding or hyper funding, these terms describe the collective effort of individuals who network and pool their resources, usually via the Internet, to support an individual or organization. Crowdfunding has been used to support everything from disaster relief, citizen journalism, artists, political campaigns, free software development and scientific research.
Because of new policy changes, startups will soon be able to raise money by crowdfunding in exchange for small amounts of equity. This session will look more in depth at how crowdfunding might affect entrepreneurs, investors and the entire startup ecosystem from multiple viewpoints.
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Tips, tricks and lessons learned from years in the Freelance Trenches. Composed of a panel discussion, with 20 minutes Q&A.
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When digital technology collides with a movement of socially-minded citizens and entrepreneurs, good things happen. As digital technology has become more ubiquitous, it has empowered citizens the world over to improve their lives and communities, and to solve problems in new and effective ways. It has enabled governments to provide greater value to their citizens, and has provided voices to those who have for too long been unheard. This session will take a deeper look at some of the ways technology is being used to make a tangible social impact.
Join us for this exciting talk with Steve Davis, Director of Advanced Projects at Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX). Davis has worked at SpaceX since 2003 and was one of the first employees in a company which has grown to 1500 employees. At SpaceX, Steve has also worked as Chief Engineer on the Falcon-1 Guidance, Navigation, and Control system and as Lead Systems Engineer on the Dragon Spacecraft Program. The latter culminated in SpaceX’s “Dragon Demo C1 Mission,” the first time in history that a private entity launched, orbited, reentered, and recovered a space capsule.
Steve will be interviewed by Frank Gruber, Tech Cocktail CEO and DCWEEK Co-producer. This will be an excellent opportunity to learn more about the private space company founded by Elon Musk that was the first privately owned company to send a spacecraft to the space station.
On November 8th, Reboot America will launch its inaugural summit in the afterglow of the 2012 Elections and during DCWeek. This unique time and place will give startups and corporations the opportunity to grow their networks while discussing innovative solutions to help spur business and economic growth in America. The main focus of Thursday night's Welcome Reception is a speed dating event to connect startups and corporations in areas of mutual interest. The main Reboot America events will take place on Friday, November 9th. For more info, please see www.rebootamerica.org Buy tickets at http://rebootamerica.eventbrite.com/
Join us for drinks and music with the best treppy crowd in DC!
What's Tech Cocktail? The premise is simple; we mix together your region’s hottest tech startups with a few hundred passionate technophiles- and serve over cocktails. The result is delicious blend of entrepreneurs, investors, employers, job seekers, and those simply looking for a fun environment to mingle with fellow local tech enthusiasts.
Come see over a dozen of the regions hottest startups at DCWEEK's Tech Cocktail Startup Showcase & Mixer!
The panel is going to be an introduction to how real estate developers, web developers, and community developers shape the way we interact with the world around us. We will discuss: - What they have in common. - What they were thinking when they created the framework for their project(s). - Their thoughts on art, creativity and cross-pollination in real estate, technology, and community development, and if these things make their project(s) more relevant, interesting and better received by the public. - AND what "placemaking" means to them and their field of expertise. So come and enjoy this once in a life time opportunity to see all three types of developers (real estate, web and community) in one room at the same time and enjoy 'Developing Digital & Physical Communities.'
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On November 8th and 9th, Reboot America will hold its inaugural summit in the afterglow of the 2012 Elections and during DCWeek. This unique time and place will give startups and corporations the opportunity to grow their networks while discussing innovative solutions to help spur business and economic growth in America. Following the Thursday night's Welcome Reception, the second day of the Summit will begin with a keynote speaker and then an open innovation series during which innovators will present 1-minute pitches of their latest disruptive ideas. The track-specific portion of the Summit will feature an industry panel and a startup pitch showcase. We will end the day with a closing keynote speaker. For more info, please see www.rebootamerica.org Buy tickets at http://rebootamerica.eventbrite.com/
FREE On-Demand Professional Workspace!! Touchdown Space (local DC Startup) is offering up 12 private offices and 15 coworking / collaborative workspaces (first come first serve basis) to everyone attending DCWEEK for FREE. All week long. Click the link below for more information / to book a workspace right now! Get your work on. --> http://bit.ly/TkhKyV
Advances in technology have provided storytellers with new platforms to play and experiment with. In this session, innovative storytellers will showcase their boundary-pushing projects, share their process, and discuss practical concerns like distribution, funding, and marketing. Featured projects include: a web-based cinema project that combines verité and participatory footage; a transmedia project that fuses app production and the web; and an experiential learning and cross-media project geared towards children. This session is hosted by Felicia Pride of Pride Collaborative and The Create Daily.
One of the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative’s signature events is the annual Georgetown Entrepreneurship Day Conference. At this event students and alumni interact with world-class entrepreneurs, student entrepreneurs pitch business ideas, and the campus community celebrates entrepreneurial success. Event Highlights: •Career Panel Series: Panelists will discuss a diverse set of topics such as entrepreneurial first steps, startups when in school or after working for a large company, and how to join the entrepre neurial community without being a founder. •Keynote Speakers: Keynote speakers throughout the day will describe his or her journey with entrepreneurship. •Break Out Sessions: Small group sessions focused on International Entrepreneurship, Social Entrepreneurship, Non-Technology Entrepreneurship, Technology Entrepreneurship, and Finance Entrepreneurship. Groups will be lead by Georgetown’s very own Emerging Markets Group, Net-Impact Group, Gourmet Club and Sports Club, Technology Club, and Finance Club. •Rocket Pitch: A two-minute pitch made by aspiring student entrepreneurs. •Closing Reception: Interact and meet successful entrepreneurs including: student entrepreneurs, alumni entrepreneurs, panelists, speakers, and Hoya Challenge competitors. Rocket Pitch winners will be announced. Eventbrite link: http://entrepreneurshipday.eventbrite.com/ Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/events/381780981900132/
100s of DC/MD/VA Students Looking for Internships and Jobs at the Hottest DC Area Startups! All Majors, All Skills, All Levels Students from over 10 local universities including University of Maryland, George Washington University, Georgetown University, and George Mason University http://www.careers.umd.edu/events_description.cfm?event_id=3379
Events are crucial to our daily lives, anything from a birthday, wedding, non-profit event or something a bit more professional like networking sessions, conferences or expo. Its something we all take a part of, either we're aware of it or not, we need events to stay connected to people around us. As the world changes, it seems like events fail to move forward at the same pace. Once events are created, organizers are still wary about turnout. Once the event is a sure thing, we still have questions of WHO, WHEN & WHERE. Once we get there, we have no connection to the organizer/event/agenda/table or seat. After, attendees constantly clawing for photos to keep the memory going.
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If you don't have a Gold or VIP Badge - buy tickets to this party here.
The DCWEEK Closing Party presented by Ford will take place in an abandoned and reinvented space on DC's revitalized H Street NE. Attendance is limited to 3,000.
It will feature:
There are two ways to get tickets:
Ford Artists Installations:
Status Update (by Farah Ahmed)
Dash (by Greg Deal)
Trans-Fusion (by Kate Warren)
Untitled (by James Kern)
Harmony (by Matthew Curran)
Drive You Life (by Thomas Pipkin)
Drive You Life (by Xander Walker)
NKC Artists:
The show will feature prominent DC and national artists who will invade the transformed environment in distinct zones within the space. Participating artists include Kelly Towles, Gregg Deal, Brandon Hill,Paul Mericle, Truth Among Liars, Strata Artists Collective, Anthony Smallwood, Rock Creek Social Club, Tim Conlon, Juan Pineda, Decoy, Katie Warren, Xxist, Michael Owen, Matt Curran, Martin swift, Tariq Tucker, Margo Elsayd and James Kerns.
DJ sets by Jerome Baker III
