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Presented by Maryland Life Sciences (MDLS), a division of the Maryland Tech Council, the Bio Innovation Conference showcases Maryland’s innovation and success in the life sciences industry.

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Pro bono advising sessions every month for startups and aspiring life science and technology entrepreneurs.Harbor Launch at the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET) gathers repres…

A weekend summit dedicated to aiding minority innovators in launching tech-focused startups, exploring technology and innovation, and showcasing tech startups that have a minority founder or co-founde…

The Big Idea CONNECTpreneur Forum is a Community of over 8000 CEOs, Entrepreneurs, VCs and angels, CXOs and other business leaders in the Mid-Atlantic Region.Each bi-monthly CONNECTpreneur Forum mas…

Our Cyber Innovation Briefings are focused on topics that are most relevant to entrepreneurs in the cyber world today. Typically held 2-3 times per year, these breakfast events are open to the broader…

Beta City: an annual event that recognizes and celebrates leaders, makers and innovators in Baltimore. Beta City brings together Baltimore’s greatest minds for a full day of pitches, startup demos and…

Leonard and Phyllis Attman established the Competitive Business Prize in 2011 as a way for UB students and alumni to compete for business venture seed funding. The Leonard and Phyllis Attman Competi…

Black + Techie = Us. We're HYPED to host Baltimore's first Black coding meet up! Join us every Thursday at Impact Hub Baltimore (10 E North Ave) to learn and code with others. Whether you're an experi…

Founded in 2012 by Stephen Johnston and Katy Fike, Aging2.0 strives to accelerate innovation to address the biggest challenges and opportunities in aging. Aging2.0’s international, interdisciplinary a…

This annual event series is a unique collaborative effort from industry leaders across seven defined sectors. This is where technology meets science, creatives, students, entrepreneurs, sales…

The Raymond V. Haysbert, Sr. Entrepreneurship Lecture Series provides a platform for successful entrepreneurs to candidly share their experiences and insights with UMBC students, faculty, alumni and t…

The Up/Start Venture Competition, an initiative of MICApreneurship, focuses on incubating and building creative business ventures within the MICA community. Working with industry partners, the UP/St…

At every Ignite Baltimore, 16 artists, technologists, thinkers and personalities get 5 minutes and 20 slides to spark new conversations and collaborations across cultures and disciplines.…

Artificial Intelligence Maryland (MD-AI) is for researchers, developers, data scientists, founders, and investors interested in learning and networking around AI technologies, applications, and opport…

MTC’s Industry Awards Celebration honors the best in the region’s technology and life science communities and is one of Maryland’s largest and most prestigious award ceremonies. This is our 30th anniv…

Anchor Ventures is a speaker series aimed at inspiring and supporting the development of startups and other technology companies across Maryland. It is based on the Venture Café model that started in …

The annual spark: Where Fearless Ideas Start is an ideation event during the fall semester co-hosted by the Dingman Center and Startup Shell, a student-run incubator at the University of Maryland. The…

We bring community together to create & launch sustainable solutions for social impact.…

Our signature pitch summit is an opportunity for invited women and non-binary femme social entrepreneurs to present their for-profit social ventures for a chance to secure funding.…

TEDCO’s Annual Entrepreneur Expo will bring together all of Maryland’s entrepreneurial resources from across the state into one place, at one time.You can expect to see 900+ of the region’s top entr…

The GBC Newsmaker Breakfast Series consists of 10 events scheduled throughout the year, with each program consisting of an elected official, government or business leader or panel of high profile infl…

Startup Founder 101 brings together aspiring and experienced tech entrepreneurs to discuss, meet, and collaborate to build great new startups, and to push the local startup ecosystem forward.This gr…

Youth Business Builders(YBB) summer camp is a hands on learning experience for youth who have an interest in entrepreneurship as a career. The camp features guest speakers, leadership activities, game…

Our Spring/Summer Pop-Up Shop re-opens May 1 at 20 W North Ave, and applications are due April 10. There are loads of benefits to putting your products in the pop-up shop, and applying is easy. We req…

If you are a company who uses technology to communicate your business to customers, enter pitch your business to five celebrity judges as part of Baltimore Homecoming’s inaugural Crab Tank: A Startup Pitch Competition event sponsored by M&T Bank. Contest will be held Friday, October 18th at the B&O Railroad Museum for the chance to win a $25,000 grand prize.

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One of the major challenges facing small businesses is access to capital to start, grow, and/or scale. In 2018 we created a platform for small business owners to learn how to plan for, prepare to, and…

Join us for a chance to build and develop your entrepreneurial talents over a series of workshops hosted at the UB Business Center…

Join Downtown Partnership and the region's most influential business, government, and community leaders for our largest networking event of the year …

The Baltimore Hackerspace Open Hack night is an opportunity. It's an opportunity to show off your newest idea, creation, or prototype, meet people with similar or different skill sets, and an opportun…

BHI and Launch Workplaces are co-hosting a series of education and 1:1 consulting sessions on topics of interest to early stage biohealth and technology companies. These sessions are open to all start…

Do you have an interest in entrepreneurship? Or an innovative idea you want to pitch? What about a problem to solve? Want to hear feedback and network with industry professionals who own and operate b…

AgPitch18 is an open competition seeking those who have innovative ideas to enhance the agricultural and aquacultural industries.…

Dingman Jumpstart is where you lay the foundation for your idea to become a reality. This pivotal workshop is a 3 hour crash-course in business models, financials, understanding your competition and m…

Baltimore Black Entrepreneurs & Startup Founders was created for Black business owners, entrepreneurs & startup founders to be able to come together, connect and network locally in Baltimore, MD....

A student-led collaborative event that awards cash prizes to teams solving real-world problems using technology.…

The CEO Roundtable groups 10 to 12 non-competitive portfolio entrepreneurs around a common theme – industry vertical, demographic, or stage of development. It is expected that each roundtable will co…

We hold our E2E (Expert-to-Entrepreneur) Speaker Series events monthly, bringing our companies together to learn more about general business topics from experienced subject matter experts. Our speaker…

This two day event brings together youth, families, sponsors, and tech community enthusiasts from the Baltimore region for a curated experience in robotics, drone technology, and coding. Youth design,…

Find out if your Start-Up is investor ready. Each month, TEDCO invites five companies to give their pitch. They will pitch in front of our team members and experienced mentors to receive valuable feed…

EYE for Change hosts an annual one day youth entrepreneurship conference aimed at exposing youth to a career in entrepreneurship and employing an entrepreneurial attitude to excel and remain competiti…

The DataTribe Challenge is a competition to identify high-technology startups with a vision to disrupt cybersecurity and data science. The three finalists will split $20,000 in prize money, and one may receive up to $2 million in seed capital from DataTribe.

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Build out a business model for your idea using the Business Model Canvas and you could win money to help get your idea off the ground and running! Participants put their models on posters, which will …

A quarterly event for movers, shakers, start ups, technology gurus, and entrepreneurial business leaders alike.…

Startup Grind is the largest independent startup community, actively educating, inspiring, and connecting more than 1,500,000 entrepreneurs in over 500 chapters. We nurture startup ecosystems in 125 c…

The Grid Pitch is a student event that promotes entrepreneurial ideas. This showcase allows for students to pitch their innovative business ideas to a panel of experts and investors in the entrepreneu…

The Economic Outlook Conference focuses on a particular segment of the economy, the projected economy of our nation, state, region or other pressing issues affecting economic growth and prosperity.…

The Boost program is a joint entrepreneurial development workshop between Innovation Works and Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship. IW Boost packs core business lessons into a powerful three-day…

Baltimore Data Day is an annual workshop to help communities expand their capacity to use technology and data to advance their goals. At the 9th Annual Baltimore Data Day, community leaders, nonprofit…

The EdTech Innovation Showcase is a networking event featuring product demonstrations and lightning presentations from entrepreneurs who are leading the regional EdTech space.…

Pitch Dingman Competition is an annual business competition where University of Maryland students can compete for more than $30,000 in startup funding. The competition consists of a fall Semifinals an…

Baltimore AI is a group of AI enthusiasts that meets weekly in downtown Baltimore.We're on a mission to make Baltimore beautiful, prosperous, and safe using Artificial Intelligence.We meet every w…

The Baltimore & Beyond Conference showcases over 50 student-run ventures from 15+ local colleges and universities. Bringing together nearly 500 attendees, the Baltimore & Beyond conference is one of the....

The nationally recognized Johns Hopkins University Business Plan Competition, hosted by the Center for Leadership Education, provides an opportunity for students to take a novel idea or innovative tec…

Join us as the EAGB celebrates the Region’s economic assets and opportunities.

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Cycle down to the center of Baltimore to pedal your ideas & projects with other innovators, creatives, thinkers and doers for an amazing weekend.Three tracks will help you direct your ideas full-ste…

Do you have a great idea for a business, product or nonprofit organization? Put that idea on paper and get feedback in a low-pressure environment from judges. *Limited to TU students*…

We host 20-25 Networking Luncheons and Happy Hour events each month throughout the state of Maryland. 20-35 local business professionals typically attend these events. There is no cost to attend for m…

The Robert G. Hisaoka Speaker Series was created through a generous three-year gift from Robert G. Hisaoka ’79, who aims to bring business leaders and startup founders to the University of Maryland th…

The Hatch Innovation Conference is the biggest celebration of entrepreneurship at Johns Hopkins. Each spring, Hatch brings dozens of startup companies and renowed innovators to the JHU Homewood campus…

Ready to practice your business pitch and potentially win prizes to help you get your idea off the ground? In this fast-paced pitch competition inspired by TV’s “Shark Tank” series, you will give a s…

Naked Lightning Talk & Happy Hour is a special happy hour event that we host in both our Cyber and Life Sciences Incubators. At these happy hours, our companies are given the opportunity to practice t…

Collaboration matters to us. We work closely with management teams to define success and create a sustainable road map for growth. Growth is not always predictable or linear, so we course-correct and …

What if the most creative minds channeled their focus into solving the most impactful problems of today? Imagine if we could apply the ingenuity that powers the most profound technology into the most …

The Rise to the Challenge Pitch Competition offers over $20,000 in cash and professional services up for grabs. The Competition promises to be UB’s most exciting competition of the year. This could be…

Sell your product or service to UMD students, faculty and staff at an upcoming Terp Marketplace! Find out if what you have is a product or service people want and the price they are willing to pay. Th…

Business mixers are the GBC’s signature networking events. These events occur quarterly and present an opportunity for members to come together to unwind.…

NET/WORK is a technology jobs fair showcasing vibrant companies seeking talent and talented people seeking work. Nothing stiff or stuffy about it. The companies at NET/WORK are psyched to show off the…

Baltimore is known across the US for a few signature events like Artscape and Light City. This year, we’re ready to add Hack Baltimore to that list! Our city is home to a wide variety of hackathons ev…

Want to see cool new technology? Want to interact with other cool techies, startups, and business folks? Have some time in the morning? Then come to TechBreakfast, a monthly demo-style event where ent…

Baltimore Women in Tech is for women and female-identifying technologists in Baltimore or the Greater Baltimore region who are working and playing with any kind of technology. We host events and educa…

Meet successful, award-winning entrepreneurs, hear their stories and learn what it takes to launch a business. The entire TU community is invited to attend these intimate events.…

A series of hands-on workshops developed collaboratively by UM Ventures, Mtech, and Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship specifically for UMD faculty and graduate students to teach business concepts an…

The Do Good Accelerator is proud to host its Lunch with Leaders Series on the 2nd Wednesday of (almost) every month. This series provides UMD students and members of the local community a chance to me…

Our CyberTini’s have had a major impact on the cyber community over the last few years. These happy hour events are typically held as a kick-off event for the Cyber Maryland Conference and the RSA Con…

The CBIC is designed to attract the real entrepreneurs at UMBC, the ones who know they are going to start a company, or in some cases have already. You’re the ones this entrepreneurship program was de…

The W.O.M.E.N Conference is a network of resources that support women in developing and retaining competitive enterprises…

Join to explore the possibilities for your health tech idea and connect with Johns Hopkins clinicians.

The Maryland Tech Council’s Young Professionals Society (YPS) advances young professionals through professional development and networking events throughout the state. YPS aims to connect the next gen…

Presented by Maryland Life Sciences, a division of the Maryland Tech Council, the Bio Innovation Conference showcases Maryland’s innovation and successes in the life sciences industry. This conference…