Social Hour and PPi (ISC)

Come mix and mingle with like-minded tech folks, entrepreneurs and innovators. Appetizers are on us, drinks on our sponsor/co-organizer, Mason Enterprise Center this month!

In 2015 we learned more about the Maker's movement now start the New Year by exploring Loudoun County's Maker space, Makersmiths Innovation Forge (https://makersmiths.org/).

The mission of Makersmiths is to build opportunities for other people to learn, make and inspire (and hack, break, fail and all of the other components of innovation and creation).

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We are excited to add to our guest speaker list to include the CEO of Prototype Productions Inc (http://www.protoprod.com/pages/index.html#page-top). (PPi), Joe Travez, and CTO, Martin Fischer.

PPi is a project management, design, and product development and manufacturing firm located in Ashburn, VA. PPi's manufacturing platform allows the organization to build final products in house for proof of concept.

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Our guest speaker is Ken Spedden with Innovative Solutions Consortium. With national reach, intensive collaboration and a virtual presence, the Innovative Solutions Consortium (ISC) provides thought-leadership and delivers innovative solutions to the toughest problems facing government and commercial industry. They focus on measured performance improvement in US intelligence, defense, and homeland security missions.

Ken is the Founder and CEO of ISC and committed to supporting public-private partnership initiates and the value they can provide the Government, economy and the Nation.

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