Film & New Media

A Day of Foster.ly

Join entrepreneurs from across the region

Sat May 12 / 12:30pm-12:30am
Daytime sessions sold out; evening party $15 until May 7 at 5pm; $20 ($25 at the door)
Artisphere wide

Please note that the daytime session is sold out and Artisphere is closed to the general public for this event. There are tickets available for the evening party with Two Car Living Room and FatBackDC DJs and a screening of Ctrl-Alt-Compete. 

Join entrepreneurs from Virginia, Maryland and D.C. for multiple speaker panels and demos, Study Hall, an entrepreneurship expo, multiple mentorships sessions with angel investors, serial entrepreneurs and journalists.

Unfamiliar with Foster.ly? They have a mission of supporting the community of entrepreneurs who share a collective goal of facilitating entrepreneurship in Virginia, Maryland and D.C.

Described as one of the fastest growing entrepreneurship communities in the region, Foster.ly has provided online and offline resources to boost entrepreneurship in D.C., Maryland and Virginia since its inception last year. They're working hard to accelerate the pace of development of Foster.ly’s platform to introduce additional features, such as a robust all-inclusive searchable entrepreneurship resource directory, a news platform, and events page. Searching for a female entrepreneur who lives in Arlington that knows Ruby on Rails and is available to freelance? Foster.ly will help. Interested in seeing a historical record of where a company has showed up in the news? Foster.ly will help. Having trouble figuring out what events are coming up?

About Study Hall
A component of the Day of Foster.ly, although registration to Study Hall was originally restricted to designers and developers, we've cut the expo area down to make room for non-designers and developers as well. Within a great space at Artisphere, a Study Hall (developer or designer) attendee will also win a free Ultrabook courtesy of Microsoft BizSpark. As a collaborative effort between Foster.ly, Bolster Labs, Intridea, nclud, Viget & Whitmoyer, the developer and designer component of Study Hall will have a significant amount of talent in the room.

Space is limited for the developer and designer component Study Hall, and there will be a wait list.

The Day of Foster.ly Charity Component

$1 from every registration will go in to a charity pot. Every registrant will get a single vote toward their desired charity. The charity with the most votes will receive 75% of the charity pot while a random charity will receive the other 25%. (Charities will include NFTE, CodeNow and others.)Made possible by Arlington Economic Development, Microsoft, Artisphere, Avison Young, Parature, Startup America Partnership regions (Virginia, Maryland, D.C.), Opower, FounderCorps, Ladies D.C., D.C. Entrepreneurship Week, Arlington Mobility Lab, Capital Bikeshare, Uber and more.