Speakers & Mentors

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  Maksim Tsvetovat
  DeepMile Networks
  Max Tsvetovat is the CTO of DeepMile networks, author of
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  Michael Mayernick
  Spinnakr
  Michael is an entrepreneur and developer of metrics driven web-based applications. He is the co-founder of Spinnakr, a predicative web analytics platform.
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  Teague Hopkins
  THG
  Teague is the founder and principal of Teague Hopkins Group, a lean product development firm. Over the last decade, he has advised businesses, nonprofits, and governments on using technology to solve their most pressing problems, run an internationally-recognized fire performance troupe, and completely failed to learn how to read music.
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  Pat Sheridan
  Modus Create
  Pat dropped out of engineering school to study art and dropped out of art school to start a design firm. He's co-founder of Modus Create, a design/build shop helping companies like Time Inc., EJ Gallo, Intuit, PBS, put their apps into the cloud and onto mobile devices.
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  Mark McGovern
  Mobile System 7
  Founder of Mobile System 7 - Mark brings 20+ years of experience building, breaking, securing and investing in technology...for the good guys (i.e., Fortune 500 companies and the US Intelligence Community).
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  Ben Willman
  ClientHat
  Ben has fifteen years experience in the startup world. He has been a developer and CTO and has founded several startups his current one being ClientHat. He is an enthusiast of the Lean Startup methodology and blogs at www.leanondc.com.
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  Dan Berger
  Social Tables
  Dan is the Founder of Social Tables. He does everything from customer development to code. He holds an MBA from Georgetown.
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  Sarge Salman PhD
  Baltimore Lean Startup
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  Rohan Puri
  PhotoCache
  Rohan Puri is a recent graduate from UVA where he created multiple successful mobile bus apps. A winner of LSM DC in March 2012, Rohan is now working with an incredible team to bring the winning app, PhotoCache, to your smartphone.
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  Danny Boice
  Speek
  Speek co-founder & CTO. Product & tech focused. Successful exit in 2000's (Jaxara). Former executive at The College Board. Harvard & MIT.
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  Pete Oliver-Krueger
  MillionMunkeys
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  John Bracken
  Speek
  John is currently the Co-Founder & CEO of Speek and previously Co-Founded Evite.com twelve years ago. John has spent his career working as an entrepreneur and at AOL where he worked on AIM and other viral communications products.
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  Mike Bradicich
  Logic Method IT
  Mike is a technology strategist and business leader. With two decades of IT management experience he has lead successful businesses in IT consulting, non-profit management, dot com startups, and enterprise systems.
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  Jabe Bloom
  TLC Labs
  Jabe Bloom is the CTO of The Library Corporation and an international speaker on Lean Product development. As a creative technologist who specializes in managing innovation, Jabe has been leading teams and companies, as well as developing software and products, for nearly 20 years. He is interested in strange problems.
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  Simon Marcus
  TLC Labs
  Simon is the COO of the The Library Corporation and TLCLabs. Right now, Simon is experimenting with using Lean Startup for enterprise change and creating learning organizations. Simon is active participant in the Lean Software, Lean Startup and Kanban communities.
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  Kevin May
  Brothers May
  Kevin runs a boutique new media strategy consultancy and is completing a doctorate in entrepreneurship at GWU. He is the assistant director of the George Washington University's annual $50,000 business plan competition and formerly employee #2 & partner of a global interactive agency (ranked top 25 in DC at that time).
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  Frank DiMeo
  In-Q-Tel
  Frank is currently a Vice President, Technical Staff in the Physical and Biological Technologies Practice at In-Q-Tel, where he evaluates new technologies from start-ups for their applicability to US Government applications. Prior to In-Q-Tel, Frank was a Principal Investigator working on semiconductor process development and MEMS sensor research, and has over 15 issued patents.
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  Arianne Gallagher
  Office of Science and Technology Policy
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  David Rees
  Expanded Web
  David has been working with startups and high-tech companies for over fifteen years. He was an early adopter/promoter of Extreme Programming and then Agile software development. He loves how Lean expands it to level of the entire business by aggressively focusing on and measuring what matters – the customer.