Current Event Speakers
Dave Baggett
Dave Baggett received a B.S/B.A. in Computer Science and Linguistics from the University of Maryland College Park, and has an S.M. in Computer Science from MIT. A linguist and software entrepreneur, he was co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of ITA Software, whose search technology powers many airline websites and travel search sites such as Orbitz, Kayak and Bing Travel. Prior to joining ITA Software, Dave was instrumental in developing and licensing to Sony one of the first games for the Sony PlayStation, Naughty Dog's global hit Crash Bandicoot. Since returning to the DC area in 2007, Dave has focused on Arcode, his Bethesda-based startup focusing on messaging technologies.
Aaron Batalion
Aaron Batalion is CTO and Co-Founder of LivingSocial, an online community that connects 80 million people to all the things they care about. The creator of top Facebook applications "Visual Bookshelf" and its flagship "LivingSocial," the team recently built Deals, a new social commerce platform which invites people to save 50-80% off at their favorite restaurants, spas, etc in major cities. Prior to LivingSocial, he was Architect at Revolution Health, and led the development of Blockbuster's Online Subscription effort.
Corey Brown
Corey Brown is COO and one of the founding members of Squidoo.com, the popular publishing platform he started with Seth Godin, Megan Casey and Gil Hildebrand in 2005. In his spare time, Corey is active in community building (currently managing a coworking spot and running Refresh Winchester in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley), consulting to businesses on the topics of web and social media, cooking up his own new projects and - his favorite of all - spending lots of time with his family.
Keith Casey
D. Keith Casey, Jr. has been a PHP developer for about six years and a professional agitator within the local Washington, DC tech community for a few years longer. To pay the bills, he works as the CTO of Blue Parabola, LLC and has developed large-scale PHP-based systems for organizations ranging from major news media companies to small non-profits to a professional sports league. In his spare time, he is a core contributor to web2project, works to build and support the DCPHP community, blogs regularly on technology issues at http://CaseySoftware.com/blog and is completely fascinated by monkeys.
Kevin Dewalt
From the Startup Trenches, (blog)
Kevin is an authority on new product innovation and currently Entrepreneur in Residence with Innovation Accelerator, a public-private partnership with National Science Foundation. He helped make over $20M of venture investments in 25 start-ups at In-Q-Te and founded 2 companies himself. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering as the #1 graduate from the US Coast Guard Academy and an MS in EE from Stanford University. He is a Board member of SENS Foundation, funded by Peter Theil to develop regenerative medical solutions to the diseases of aging and the founder of the DC Lean Startup Circle.
Aaron Dragushan
Aaron Dragushan doesn't have any advanced education... 12 years ago he was working as an usher at a movie theater, sweeping floors and dreaming of having his own business. He founded Wondermill Inc. in 1998 as an employee-oriented startup. Because money was tight the company focused on rapid testing and iteration as a way to find successful products. The company now runs itself, and Aaron is free to spend time with his family, hang out with friends and other entrepreneurs who are doing the same thing.
Tim Grahl
After graduating with a B.S. in Computer Science, I bounced around at a few jobs before deciding the corporate world wasn't for me. I started Out:think three years ago and quit my day job soon after to run it full time. I am a passionate lifestyle entrepreneur that believes anyone can start a business that provides the freedom and fulfillment that often can not be found in the traditional workplace.
Brent Halliburton
Brent Halliburton co-founded and sold an Internet professional services firm in the dot-com boom. After spending the last 5 years at Advertising.com/Aol Advertising in a variety of product management roles, culminating in leading New Product Development, Brent recently left to start his own business, Deconstruct Media.
Chris Hopkinson
Chris is a serial entrepreneur, which means he's started a bunch of companies, most of which have failed and now thinks he might be onto something. He's in charge of strategic partnerships, distribution, marketing and keeping the Dub development team on its toes. He received a BA from the University of Maryland and just crossed over from PC hell to MacBook heaven.
Nate Mook
Nate is a proven Internet entrepreneur, with successes including Betanews.com, a technology news website launched in 1998 that reaches more than 3 million unique visitors each month, and PowerArchiver, an award-winning archiving utility used by millions of people around the world. Nate is the founder of a new startup called Localist, which aims to change the way students organize their social activities on campus and better enable universities to promote engagement among students, faculty and alumni.
Adam Ostrow
Adam Ostrow is a new media entrepreneur, consultant, and commentator. As Editor in Chief at Mashable, Adam is responsible for the editorial management and direction of one of the most widely read blogs in the world, covering the latest technologies, trends, and individuals that are driving the current evolution of the Web. Adam is a graduate of The University of Maryland, from which he holds a B.A. in Journalism and was awarded Most Outstanding Senior in the school’s prestigious Hinman CEOs program. Adam has been frequently quoted by mainstream media, including mentions in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, The Times of London, The Globe and Mail, Forbes, BusinessWeek, Newsweek, AdAge, BBC, ABC News, CNN, and MSNBC.
Martin Ringlein
Martin is a veteran creative director & passionate entrepreneur. Striving to bring together creativity and innovation. His enthusiasm for design is complemented by his progressive web-standards and industry best-practices mentality. Martin has extensive experience building and managing web teams; creating innovation through design by advocating best practices in usability, accessibility and user-experience design complimented with semantic and extensible standards based development.
Jill Stelfox
Accession Point, (blog)
Jill Stelfox is the CEO of Code 9 Mobile, a company launching shortly. She has 15 years experience in mobile & wireless software. Jill is a successful serial entrepreneur, having bought & sold dozens of companies, raised over fifty million in venture capital & returned over 1000X to investors. Prior to Code 9 Mobile, Jill was the CEO & Co-Founder of Defywire, Co-Founder of Riverbed and a co-owner of Noblestar.
Past Event Speakers
Mario Armstrong
John Burke
Aaron Brazell
Matthias Broecheler
Greg Cangialosi
Peter Corbett
Tim Grahl
Frank Gruber
Scott Harris
Haroon Mokhtarzada
Martin Ringlein
Amy Senger
Paul Singh
Mike Subelsky
Matt Swartz
Andrew Turner
Jay Virdy
Kaitlyn Wilkins
