Speakers

• 

  Krzysztof Sitko

  Krzysztof Sitko is the cofounder of health IT startup Aegle. He studied electrical engineering at the Johns Hopkins University. He writes about his thoughts on entrepreneurship and engineering experiences on his personal blog.

  @k_sitko
• 

  Chris Tonjes

  A native of New York City, Chris has over 20 years of IT experience, including working in finance, wireless communications, and government. Chris has a broad based background supporting mainframe applications, middleware, web and mobile applications, and large-scale enterprise resource planning projects.

  @chris444
• 

  Melissa Burk

  Melissa Burk has been a licensed Property and Casualty and Life and Health Insurance Broker since 1995. She is a Certified Insurance Counselor (CIC), is currently in the process of earning the Certified Risk Manager (CRM) designation, and, in addition, is pursuing the Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States (CIPP/US) certification. Drawing on her experience, Melissa works with clients to identify, analyze, control, transfer and manage their risk and utilizes her superior carrier relationships to provide the best possible coverage and terms to her clients. In recent years, Melissa has developed a specialty in Technology and Cyber Liability after identifying that this segment was underserved by the insurance industry. She is committed to helping technology businesses, startups, and those with cyber liability exposures properly protect themselves, attract investors and clients, and position themselves for growth.

  @insurebaltimore
• 

  Kelly Keenan Trumpbour

  Kelly Keenan Trumpbour works to inspire women to become investors in women-led startups. Her website, See Jane Invest helps women understand how and when to invest, and why entering the marketplace as entrepreneurs and investors enables women to express their values, give back to our communities, and model smart risk taking. Her mission is to grow a supportive female investment community in her hometown of Baltimore where she is a member of the Baltimore Angels and a 2014 Washington Pipeline Fellow.

  @KKTrumpbour
• 

  McKeever Conwell

  Mckeever E. Conwell, 2nd aka Mac is a Baltimore native that attended Morgan State University where he majored in Computer Science. In October of 2009 Mac decided to start his first Tech Startup, Given.to, along with 2 friends from college. The Given.to team went through two accelerators, Accelerate Baltimore followed by NewMe Accelerator, where he was later named entrepreneur in residence helping the following class through the program. After working hard to make Given.to a great product, Mac and his team failed and Given shut down in 2014 after 4 years. But, with that failure Mac learned a lot which lead to his latest venture RedBerrry (with 3 r’s) which was recently accepted into Dreamt Ventures in Philadelphia. Mac has been a guess on Huffington Post live several times and his companies have been featured in many media outlets such as USA Today, Washington Post, BET, CNN Headline News, Black Enterprise and many more.

  @MacConwell