300 5th Avenue, Marshall Hall

Fort Lesley J. McNair

Our goal is simple; we believe that Veterans have a unique set of skills, discipline, courage and ability and are exceptionally qualified in launching and building successful companies. Keynote Speaker, Jay Walker founder of Priceline.com and TEDMED will be the keynote speaker followed by presentations of 20 companies.

8:30 9:30am

Entrepreneur Set-up

Marshall Hall Atrium

9:30-11:00am

Registration
Marshall Hall Atrium

Expo Session open
Marshall Hall Atrium

11:30-11:45am

Welcome

Baruch Auditorium

Cathleen Pearl, President, National Defense University Foundation
Major General Gregg F. Martin, PhD, President, National Defense University

11:45-12:45pm

Keynote Speaker

Mr. Jay Walker

Baruch Auditorium

Jay Walker, one of America's best-known business inventors and entrepreneurs, has founded multiple successful startup companies that today serve more than 75 million customers in 15 different industries.

12:45-1:15pm

Lunch

Marshall Hall Atrium

1:15-1:40pm

Kickoff

Marshall Hall Rotunda

Doug Doan, Hivers & Strivers
A living example of a military veteran who has been a successful entrepreneur kicks off the pitch sessions portion of the program.

1:40-2:00pm

Scott Borgeson, Cargo Metrex

Marshall Hall Rotunda

An amazing success story from a coast guard veteran

2:00-5:00pm

Pitches Begin, Expo Open

Pitch Room 1 and 2, Marshall Hall Atrium

15 min for each pitch and Q&A session.

Time ROOM#1 ROOM#2 2:00pm RideScout Team of Care 2:15pm lettrs Gladius Health 2:30pm American Light Works Prevently 2:45pm Shur-a-Tak Rofori 3:00pm Bouncing Image Visio4C 3:15pm Flight Spectrum Stevie Boi 3:30pm ASR&D Topsail Brewing 3:45pm Darling Betty Meritoc 4:00pm PokerFundLLC Kaprica Security, Inc 4:15pm Invisidata Active Endeavor 4:30pm Feature Faceoff Global Reconnaissance Solutions

JAY WALKER

Jay Walker, one of America's best-known business inventors and entrepreneurs, has founded multiple successful startup companies that today serve more than 75 million customers in 15 different industries.

Mr. Walker is curator and chairman of TEDMED, a global community of people who passionately believe that the future of health and medicine is here. As the sole licensee of world-famous TED organization, TEDMED organizes the nation's only conference that brings together thousands of medical and non-medical leaders from every sector of society. With no agenda and no policy prescriptions,TEDMED seeks to serve the nation and the world by creating a safe place where people with very different ideas can come together to combine the best thinking from every field and create infinite new possibilities.

Mr. Walker is chairman of Walker Digital, a privately-held R&D lab founded in 1994 and based in Stamford, Connecticut. He is widely known as the founder of Priceline.com, which brought a new level of value to the travel industry. Today, Priceline is a highly profitable, billion-dollar public company with tens of millions of active customers. The business processes that guide Priceline's success were created in the Walker Digital invention lab.

Mr. Walker is a key member of several organizations that promote innovative solutions to the world's problems, including The Atlantic Council; the non-profit Preventative Medicine Research Institute (Dean Ornish, founder); World Information Transfer (NGO in General Consultative Status with the UN); the non-profit TED; and the Young Presidents Organization. Mr. Walker funded two public policy documentary films about the space race and the role of science in American life.

A striking embodiment of Mr. Walker's focus on innovation is his vast personal library. Within a multi-level, mazelike setting, the Walker Library of the History of Human Imagination contains thousands of landmark books and museum-level artifacts. The Walker Library has hosted numerous world leaders from business, government, science, medicine, the arts and education as part of Mr. Walker's commitment to foster thoughtful discussions on the challenges facing the U.S. and the world community.

Jay and his wife Eileen have two children and live in Connecticut. Eileen Walker is a trustee for Cornell University, Vice Chairman of the Harvey School and a former personnel executive at IBM.