Speakers
Keynote Speaker

Secretary Harry Coker Jr.
Maryland Department of Commerce

Secretary Susan Lee
Office of the Secretary of State

Tamla Olivier
Baltimore Gas & Electric

President Bill Ferguson
Maryland General Assembly

Speaker Joseline Peña-Melnyk
Maryland House of Delegates

Tami Howie
Small Business Administration

Troy LeMaile-Stovall
TEDCO

Jay Perman
University System of Maryland

David Tohn
BTS Software Solutions

Nona Minnifield Cheeks
Innovatyr, LLC
Speakers

Lisa Friedlander
NEXT/My NEXT Raise

Shannon Collins
Lightwork Enterprise

Ann-Marie Waterman
Coppin State University

Rondall Allen
University of Maryland Eastern Shore

Erica Anthony
Morgan State University

Kory Bailey
Independent

Joseph Durham
Fulton Bank

Mike Ravenscroft
Maryland Momentum Fund

Jess Grant
High Street Equity Partners

Tien Wong
Opus8, Inc

Annie Kathuria
Organotics

Bill Collier
Noblis Ventures

Seth Ament
University of Maryland School of Medicine

Kapil Bharti
National Institutes of Health, National Eye Institute

Arti Santhanam
Institute of Women Entrepreneur Excellence

Matt Keesan
IonQ

Jerry Colonna
Reboot.io

Sandy Hart
SC&H Group

Mary Kane
Maryland Chamber of Commerce

Jason Michael Perry
PerryLabs

Priscilla Christie
Priscilla Christie, LLC

Allison Alexander
The Marathon Fund

Geoffrey Lynn
Aletira Therapeutics

Abhishek Motayed
N5 Sensors Inc.

Maryam Tayeri
Bank of America

Bob Storey
LaunchPort, LLC

Jorge Diaz Schneider
ION Storage Solutions

David Narrow
Sonavex

Therese Canares
CurieDx

Sarah Sedlak
SC&H

Kavita Verma
Maryland Department of Commerce

Caroline Popper
Nemphos Braue LLC

Mac Conwell
RareBreed Ventures

Jacqueline Cooper
Maryland Blockchain Association

Casey Williams
Fenway Summer

Jennifer Thabet
DARPA

Ken Lawrence
Mind Over Machines

Ricardo Benn
Maryland Department of Commerce

Meredith Amdur
Advanceo Capital

Erwin Gianchandani
NSF

Greg Baker
Balance Theory

Vishal Amin
AERTRON, Inc.

Ed Gibson
Pillar Innovations

Andrew Peng
Collide Capital

Amanda Stein
Quantum Catalyzer

Amir Ansari
xFoundry Alliance

Fay Zein
Zelaris Group

Todd Ruppert
Ruppert International

Gretchen Campbell
University of Maryland

Francesca Ioffreda
Executive Office of Governor Wes Moore

Zachary Mitchell
Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.

Michael O'Brien
Síol Venture Capital

Thomas R. Bundy, III
Zealous Advocates

Leslie Babich
SOFWERX

Kate Vahdani
Kelly Benefits

Angie Lienert
IntelliGenesis LLC

Jesse Alton
Virgent AI

Jonathan Hess
The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company

Blaise Zandoli
US Army FUZE

Jack Cable
Corridor

Brooke Lierman
Office of the Comptroller of Maryland

Seeyew Mo
Maryland Department of Labor

Percy Dangerfield
Maryland Department of Transportation

Grace Webster
Total Wine & More

Anita Gupta
KiwiTech

Andrew Serafini
Wealth Enhancement Group

Shalanda Armstrong
100KM Ventures

Emily McMahan
AIN Ventures

Rachel Grace
RAISE US

Allen Franke
AWERX

Tobias Musser
MNS Group

Senator Cory McCray
Maryland General Assembly

April Falcon Doss
Maryland Dept of Commerce

Rose Wang
1104Health

Marina Dorotheo
Welldoc

Brad Fallon
Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development

Naresh Patel
OPTIMOZ

James Saunders
State of Maryland Department of Information Technology

Jacob Hsu
Just Ventures

Paul Sharkey
UnitedHealthcare Group

Delegate Marlon Amprey
The Maryland General Assembly

Steward Smith
FSC First

Delegate Chris Adams
Maryland General Assembly

Wendy Perrow
Princeton Capital Advisors

Ruchika Nijhara
TEDCO

Jack Miner
TEDCO

Ben Antebi
TEDCO

Justin Ferguson
TEDCO

Sephora Saint-Armand
TEDCO

Jean-Luc Park
TEDCO
