SECTOR: PUBLIC

Cameron Evans (Irving, TX) — Waiting for Superman continues to get a lot of buzz. A documentary about failures in the American educational system told through the lives of a number of individual students, it has people questioning a host of inter-related issues. At the same time, controversial local education reformers like Washington, DC’s Michelle ... Read more »

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) — Beth Kanter, CEO of Zoetica and long-time writer about nonprofit organizations, described the “networked nonprofit” as …nonprofits [that] can unleash the power of social good by transitioning from stand-alone institutions to networks energized by abundant resources in their ecosystem… they need to work with free agents, hyper-connected individuals who are passionate ... Read more »

Lewis Shepherd (Reston, VA) - A lot of people don’t realize that Microsoft spends billions of dollars a year on research and development, with laboratories near Seattle, Boston, and around the world. Most of the time, the researchers are huddled together and working hard in private, but every once in a while they come out to ... Read more »

What is your current position, and what work do you do as part of that? Well, I currently do two things. I am VP of Sales at a local company called Cvent and been there since the beginning about 11 years ago. It was a very small group back then…maybe 10-15 of us. Now, we ... Read more »

This is the second in a series of interviews for a series we’re calling Geek 2 Chic, which is a personal style, a social movement, and a new event series all in one. The first Geek 2 Chic fashion show is powered by Microsoft and will take place at Bloomingdales in Chevy Chase, MD on ... Read more »

Post by: Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) This is the first in a series of interviews for a series we’re calling Geek 2 Chic, which is a personal style, a social movement, and a new event series all in one. The first Geek 2 Chic fashion show is powered by Microsoft and will take place at Bloomingdales ... Read more »