#ETE16 Festival by STEM4US!

STEM4US! is a non-profit organization formed to support colleges, universities, and K-12 schools along with afterschool programs, parents and advocates in training students in STEM.  Realizing our nation's shortage in IT workers, as an organization, we have a specific focus on ramping up the numbers and diversity of our country's cybersecurity, data analytics, and artificial intellegence workforce.We achieve this mission through several national and DC-based initiatives including the Capitol Hill STEM Power Lunch ™ Series and the Energy, Technology, and Finance STEM & Cybersecurity Festival  ™, the organization’s signature events.  These high-level policy conversations provide platforms to examine ways to boost American innovation with a particular emphasis on removing barriers for women, African American, and Hispanic innovators.A video from a prior event can be foundathttp://bit.ly/1FZS9tk.More about STEM4US! can be found atwww.stem4us.org.

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Join STEM4US! for the third annual Energy, Tech, and Education Festival, #ETE16.  This event is set for Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at the Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place Northwest, Washington, DC 20001.  The theme for the #ETE16 Festival is “Mission Critical: Training the Cybersecurity Workforce of Today, Tomorrow.”  
#ETE16 is a space for executives and professionals in the energy, technology, and venture capital sectors to engage government, academic, and nonprofit leaders. Thus, look at #ETE16 as a pop-up incubator for innovative business ideas and public policy initiatives.  Guests can expect to enjoy interactive workshops, networking, and receptions.  
Check out our #ETE16 Festival Overview below and RSVP today! Space is limited and given the high profile business and tech executives plus venture capital and policy leaders we've invited to participate, tickets are likely to sell out quickly.  For video and pics from last year's Festival click: <A HREF="http://stem4us.org/stem4us-historic-cbc-week-tech-stem-fest-a-hit-see-for-yourself/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://stem4us.org/stem4us-historic-cbc-week-tech-stem-fest-a-hit-see-for-yourself/</A>.   
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What: 2016 Energy, Technology &amp; Education Festival (#ETE16) Sponsored by Pepco
When: Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Tentative Location: Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC
Preliminary Schedule
8:00 AM: Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM: Cyber Security Showcase, Job Fair &amp; STEM Education Fair: Join leading businesses, governments, and academic institutions seeking talented professionals and students to diversify their workforce.  Spaces in this fair provide participants opportunities to conduct on-site interviews and collect resumes.  A pool of 200-300 potential candidates for jobs, co-op positions, and internships are expected to attend this fair.  This is also a perfect opportunity for large businesses and start-ups alike to showcase their products and services to government, business, and academic leaders expected to attend the annual conferences of the Congressional Hispanic Institute (Sept. 13-15) and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (Sept. 14-17).  Colleges, K-­12 schools, as well as STEM related after-school programs are also expected to attend and promote their programs to the hundreds of #ETE registered guests including parents, students, and educators.
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM: CEOs Roundtable: Protecting Confidential Infrastructure, Email, &amp; Data; C-Suites Top Priority: A panel of CEOs and senior executives from energy, technology, financial services, health, and telecom companies discuss the importance of cybersecurity to their bottom line and the need for increasing the ranks and diversity of the Cyber workforce. Participants can also expect to learn about current and future innovations that seek to protect online networks used by businesses, governments, and individual consumers. Confirmed panelists include:
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Marc Battle, Pepco, Vice President, Washington, DC Region
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Paula Glover, American Association of Blacks in Energy, CEO
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Jonathan Godfrey, ACT: The App Association, Vice President for Public Affairs
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Cory Stafford-Jackson, Department of Energy, Office of Human Capital Management
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Hassan Karim, PNC Bank Cybersecurity Consultant (Moderator)
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12:00 PM - 1:30 PM: STEM Power Lunch &amp; Congressional/Regulators Roundtable:  
This event is designed as a virtual and in-person town hall discussion with Members of Congress, federal, and state regulators involved with oversight of energy, technology, and telecom infrastructure and cyber security needs.  To expand the audience, the event is expected to be live streamed and presented as a Google Hangout and Live Twitter Chat.  Following a moderated discussion, members of the audience have the opportunity to pose questions to the panelists.Confirmed panelists include:
This event is designed as a virtual and in-person town hall discussion with Members of Congress, federal, and state regulators involved with oversight of energy, technology, and telecom infrastructure and cyber security needs.  To expand the audience, the event is expected to be live streamed and presented as a Google Hangout and Live Twitter Chat.  Following a moderated discussion, members of the audience have the opportunity to pose questions to the panelists.  Confirmed panelists include:
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Congressman G. K. Butterfield, Congressional Black Caucus Chairman, House Energy &amp; Commerce Committee Member
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Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, Ranking Member, House Science &amp; Technology Committee
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La Doris “Dot” Harris, Director of the Office of Economic Impact and Diversity at the U.S. Department of Energy
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Thomas Reed, Federal Communications Commission Director of the Office of Communications Business Opportunities
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Commissioner Willie L. Phillips, DC Public Service Commission
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Sandra Mattavous-Frye, Director, DC Office of People's Counsel
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Talib I. Karim, STEM4US! CEO (Moderator)
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2:00 PM- 3:00 PM: Black, Brown, Female Venture Capital Matters:  This forum seeks to analyze the reasons why venture capital investment in businesses led by people of color and women is below 5% combined, even though they are the majority in the US.  Listen to venture capitalists together with women and entrepreneurs of color discuss strategies for democratizing capital and ensure that it flows equitably into the hands of all people in our nation.  Through this conversation, we hope to provide policy makers and the public alike with recommendations to help African American, Latino, and women innovators access the capital they deserve, thus making #AllLivesMatter more than a slogan.  Confirmed panelists include:
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Larry Irving, CEO Irving Group
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Ebony Pope, Senior Associate at Village Capital
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Jameel Johnson, Associate Vice President, NASDAQ (Moderator)
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3:30 PM - 4:30 PM: From Social Media to Social Justice: Creating New Social Innovation Ventures to Hack Racism, STEM Diversity: This session features a conversation between leading social justice and social media innovators to discuss collaborations designed to cure the social disease of racism and expand diversity in the STEM fields.  Confirmed panelists include:
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Hon. Arthur Burnett, (Retired Judge), Executive Director, National African American Drug Policy Coalition
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Major General (US Army Retired) John R. Hawkins,  III, JD, MPA, President and CEO of Hawkins Solutions International, LLC
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Michael Lyles, Executive Director, Prince George’s County Human Rights Commission
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Eugene Puryear, Black Lives Matter Movement Activist &amp; Author (tentative)
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Marcus Noel Founder and CEO of Heart of Man (HōM), an immersive entrepreneurship program and youth-powered online marketplace (Moderator)
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5:00 - 6:00: Education &amp; Training Leaders Forum; Incubators and Other Innovations for Scaling the Cyber Workforce:  
Join distinguished educational innovators, corporate leaders and officials with federal and local governments working to boost the nation's ranks of cyber security and other IT workers.  We intend to survey best practices for building cyber incubators and other innovations for boosting the cyber workforce. Confirmed panelists include: 
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Vennard Wright, Prince George's County Chief Information Officer
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Theia Washington Smith, Director, City of Atlanta’s Women’s Entrepreneurship Initiative
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Karl W. Reid, Ed.D., Executive Director, National Society of Black Engineers/NSBE
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Dr. Ivory Toldson, CEO of The Quality Education for Minorities Network (Former Executive Director, White House Historically Black Colleges and Universities Initiative)
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Ralph Smith, Global Solutions Consulting, CEO (Cyber Security Contractor with Federal Agencies including the Department of Homeland Security)
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Mariko Bennett, Manager Government Affairs at Baxter International Inc. (Moderator)
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6:30 PM - 9:00 PM: #ETE16 STEM Presidential Debate &amp; Reception hosted by NASDAQ (1100 New York Avenue, N.W., Suite 310 East Tower, Washington, DC, 20005, USA):  In the days leading up to the November elections, come listen to a policy driven conversation between representatives of Presidential campaigns from the Democratic, Green, Independent, and Republican parties.  Panelists can expect questions from energy, technology, and education professionals including investments in STEM education, reigniting US manufacturing vs. TPP, and police brutality vs. crime. Participants also have an opportunity to enjoy refreshments during the conversation.   Following a moderated discussion, members of the audience have the opportunity to pose questions to the panelists.
#ETE16 is: A unique opportunity for executives and professionals in the energy, technology, and venture capital sectors to network with government, academic, and nonprofit leaders.  #ETE16 seeks to incubate innovative business and public policy initiatives by creating a space for exchanging information, debating ideas, and forging key relationships.  Guests can expect to enjoy interactive workshops, networking, and receptions.  
History: STEM4US! held its first #ETE festival in 2014 and featured a host of speakers, companies, and institutions including Congressman Bobby Scott (VA) and David Owens, Executive Vice President with the Edison Electric Institute.  Like in past years, #ETE16 coincides with both the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's 46th Annual Legislative Conference (Sept. 14-17) and the Congressional Hispanic Institute’s Annual Conference (Sept. 12-13). These two large conferences attract over 10,000 of the top executives, policy makers, and academic leaders. Over the years, the festival has become known as the nation’s top forum on innovation and STEM diversity.  A video from last year’s festival, #ETE15, can be found at:<A HREF="http://stem4us.org/stem4us-historic-cbc-week-tech-stem-fest-a-hit-see-for-yourself/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> http://stem4us.org/stem4us-historic-cbc-week-tech-stem-fest-a-hit-see-for-yourself/</A>.
Target Audience: 200-300 energy, tech, and other STEM industry executives along with Members of Congress and other senior federal government officials, venture capitalists, academic leaders, professionals at large, parents and students.  
About STEM4US!: Launched in 2013, STEM4US! is a non-profit advocacy organization formed to increase investments in colleges, schools and nonprofit organizations to expand the quantity and diversity of people trained for careers in energy, technology, and other STEM professions.

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