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TechConnect is a series of interactive videoconferences that brings together great entrepreneurial minds to spark the creation of new technology ventures that address specific societal problems and market opportunities. This edition of TechConnect focuses on internationalizing your mobile app -- the steps you need to take in order to take your app GLOBAL.

TechConnect welcomes innovators, educators, entrepreneurs and students from all around the globe and equips them with practical insights, inspiration and support networks to power up their dreams of changing the world. Join us to welcome the panelists and engage in discussion with the experts.

*Note: The live broadcast will be from 11am-noon. In DC we will follow up with more discussion and a luncheon that will last until 1pm.

Speakers:

Amir Alexander Hasson, Chief Development Officer at Oxigen
Amir is an accomplished entrepreneur with expertise in business development, strategy, finance, management, Web technologies, mobile applications, telecom, and distribution. He has started 3 companies, raised over $5m from venture investors, and built networks impacting the lives of millions of people in the US, Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
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Andres Blank‎, Co-founder and COO of Pixable
Andres founded Pixable in 2009. Pixable became one of the biggest photo apps in the mobile space with almost 10 million downloads before selling to SingTel for $26.5M in 2012. At Pixable Andres was in charge of product design and growth. Before Pixable Andres started 3 companies in his native Venezuela. The first one, a site for college students at the age of 18 and the last one, a lumber trader and exporter with over 30 employees and $1M in annual revenues. Andres has an MBA from MIT and a degree in Industrial Engineering. LinkedIn

Scott Hartley, Partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures
Scott is a partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures, a $2 billion Sand Hill venture capital firm, where he is focused on how social, mobile, and analytics are disrupting traditional verticals. He is a columnist at Forbes, a contributor on Bloomberg TV's "Money Moves," and a contributing author at MIT Press. Prior to venture capital, Scott worked at Google, Facebook, and Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Passionate about global entrepreneurship, he has traveled to 70 countries, and is an international speaker with the US State Department, Google.org and MIT. LinkedIn

TechConnect VentureOut Moderator

Ovidiu Bujorean, Senior Manager, CRDF Global
Ovidiu manages and directs the GIST Initiative at CRDF Global. He is a professional speaker on topics such as professional networking, innovation, entrepreneurship and partnerships building. Previously, he was the Senior Associate at Rudyard Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in consumer technologies. Ovidiu serves as Chairman of the Board of Advisors of AIESEC DC and Vice-Chairman of MIT Enterprise Forum of Washington DC. He founded LEADERS, an organization that impacted the lives of approximately 10,000 young leaders and entrepreneurs in Romania and Southern-Eastern Europe and is a graduate of the MIT Sloan School of Management (MBA) and Harvard’s Kennedy School (MPA). www.ovibees.com

About VentureOut

infoDev at the World Bank and CRDF Global announce VentureOut, a new initiative to propel expansion-ready mobile entrepreneurs into enticing international markets. The program will run from August to November 2013 and help hundreds of entrepreneurs through hands-on training, virtual learning opportunities, mentorship, international exposure, and seed funding. Entrepreneurs will come from 33 countries from local technology community partners located in eight countries: Armenia, Jamaica, Kenya, Macedonia, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Trinidad & Tobago.

This program reaches out to the community of entrepreneurs and also identifies advanced entrepreneurs during a mobile app competition - applications accepted between August 14 and September 2, 2013. The top 12 entrepreneurs from the competition will meet in Moldova this October 30-31, 2013 for the Dragon’s Den, a pitching exposition to compete for $10,000 in seed funding. Thanks to a great partnership with TechCrunch, one selected VentureOut entrepreneur will also be attending TechCrunch’s Disrupt Europe event in Berlin this October 26-29.