Agenda

Time

Location

8:00 - 8:30 am

Registration and Networking Breakfast

8:30-9:00am

Kickoff and Finance 101

9:00 - 9:45 am

The Process of Raising Capital

9:45 - 10:00 am

Networking Break

10:00 - 10:15 am

DoD Industry Engagement Office

Joshua Pavluk

10:15 - 11:00 am

Venture Capital Deep Dive

David Rothzeid, Shield Capital

11:00-11:45 am

Fireside Chat: Founding an Investment Firm

Paul Madera, Co-Founder, Meritech Capital

11:45am-12:30pm

Lunch

Lunch will be provided!

12:30-1:30pm

DoD Tactics for Engaging Capital

Christopher Zember, DoD Office of Industrial Base Policy

1:30 -2:30 pm

Catalytic Capital

Jason Rathje, Former Director of Office of Strategic Capital

2:30-3:30pm

Deep Dive: Commercial Banking

Jonathan Calhoun, Bank of America
Ryan Lemoine, Director, Bernhard Capital Partners

3:30 - 4:45 pm

Networking Break

2:45-4:00 pm

Mezzanine & Non-Bank Financing

Glenn Noble

4:00 - 4:30 pm

Closing & Congressional Staffer Perspective

Arun Seraphin, Executive Director, Emerging Technologies Institute