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“The “Fast Pitch” sessions are among my favorite. This year I moderated a panel of investors who critiqued three minute pitches from ten entrepreneurs randomly selected from a fish bowl of cards.”

“One of the things we heard from our customers and potential customers is that it’s a little confusing to navigate the kind of alphabet soup of programs,” said John Wasilisin, CEO of TEDCO.

“For three hours, I sat across from startup founders and entrepreneurs working in life sciences, technology and cybersecurity fields and listened to their elevator pitches. The sessions were part of this week’s Entrepreneur Expo in Baltimore, hosted by Maryland’s Technology Development Corp.”

The startup-centered event was held in Baltimore this year. Here’s a social media rundown of what happened.

Harbor Bank hosted a pitch event through its Community Development Corp., with 15 presenters from local startups and businesses and 10 prospective investors.

Dr. Rebecca Bridgett, St. Mary’s County Administrator, and Mr. John Wasilisin, President and Chief Operating Officer, TEDCO, focused on three key areas for Southern Maryland: economic development, technology innovation and the current progress of the recently announced incubation space to be built

TEDCO created a diversity outreach work group this year to try and figure out why programs are not attracting more diverse applicants and how the organization can begin to fix the problem.

Carol L. Alter, MD to Lead Collaborative Care Efforts for Leading Behavioral Healthcare Company

Much like in real life, when you go on the internet you leave fingerprints, digital ones, that show what you like, what you believe and what websites you’ve visited recently.