Startup Community Events Calendar
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2026 MTC's 12th Annual Golf Tournament
Join us for the 2026 MTC's 12th Annual Golf Tournament at PB Dye Golf Club.
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2026 MTC's Annual Golf Tournament
Join us for the 2026 MTC's Annual Golf Tournament at PB Dye Golf Club.
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TEDCO’s BRIDGE Program Open Forum
Learn about TEDCO's BRIDGE program and resources for business growth at this Open Forum.
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Healthcare Heroes
The Daily Record will honor organizations and individuals impacting health care quality in Maryland.
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Claude SMB Workshop AI Fluency for Small and Medium Business Leaders
Learn how to put AI to work. Fewer errors. Faster turnaround. Work you can actually put your name on.
Join Anthropic, Tenex, the Maryland Governor’s Office of Innovation, and GBC for a half-day AI fluency training and hands-on workshop for business owners and operators who want to learn how to leverage AI to solve real world business problems.
No prior experience needed. Just practical skills you can put to work the next morning, and a room full of local leaders problem solving alongside you.
Please register by June 11th. This workshop is designed for small and mid-sized business leaders, and a brief application helps us bring together a room of peers facing similar challenges — keeping the day focused and valuable for everyone.
About this event
Small and mid-sized businesses employ nearly half the American workforce — but most of the AI conversation skips right past them. In our research with SMB leaders, the #1 pain point wasn't skepticism about AI. It was employees being unsure how or when to use it effectively. That's the gap this workshop is built to close.
The Claude SMB Workshop is a free, hands-on session built for leaders running real companies with real operational complexity. You'll spend the afternoon with Anthropic — the company behind Claude — learning practical AI skills, working through exercises on your own laptop, and trading notes with other business owners in Baltimore navigating the same questions.
You'll walk out with at least one workflow you can run the next morning. That's the bar we're holding ourselves to.
Why we're doing this: SMBs are where AI will actually change how work gets done — and frankly, we learn as much from these rooms as you do. This is an education and research initiative, not a sales pitch. The skills you'll learn work with any AI tool, not just ours.
This is part of The Claude SMB Tour, a national series of workshops Anthropic is running in partnership with local business communities across the country.
Who should attend
This workshop is built for you if you are:
An owner, operator, or senior leader at a company with 1-500 employees
Running a business with real workflows — departments, teams, backoffice, customers, vendors
Curious about AI but not sure where to start, or already experimenting and want to go further
Based in or around the Baltimore area
You do not need any technical background. If you can use email, you can do this workshop.
What you’ll learn
Turn messy data into clean reports and dashboards — pulling from the spreadsheets and systems you already use
Automate the repetitive stuff: customer follow-ups, order management, forecasting, scheduling, status updates
Connect Claude to the tools you’re already in all day — Gmail, Google Drive, Microsoft 365, PayPal, HubSpot, Canva
Know where the limits are: what to trust, what to double-check, and how to keep your data yours
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Baltimore, MD, USA
Claude SMB Workshop
Anthropic, in partnership with Tenex, the Maryland Governor's Office of Innovation, and GBC, is hosting a free half-day AI fluency workshop in Baltimore on June 18, 2026 for small and mid-sized business owners and operators who want practical, hands-on skills for using AI in their day-to-day workflows. No technical background required and attendees leave with at least one workflow they can run the next morning, plus one month of Claude Max.
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The 5th Annual Taste Of The DMV Food Music Culture Festival
Experience the food and music of the DMV at this annual festival!
Tech Unity 2026
How pleasant it is when the people of tech come together in unity! For the second year in a row: Baltimore's largest tech cookout. Come touch grass with us.
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FREE Mastering DevOps with GenAI - Bootcamp
A free online bootcamp for learning DevOps with a focus on AI integration.
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Master DevOps with GenAI - Bootcamp
A free bootcamp offering hands-on training in DevOps and GenAI for career development.
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Odoo Business Show - Baltimore, MD
Attend the Odoo Business Show for free and discover how Odoo can transform your business processes.
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No es personal, es la empresa
An interactive session helping you separate your personal finances from your business finances for success.
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The GovCon Blueprint: 2-Day Intensive for Founders
A 2-day intensive designed for founders to build strategies for winning government contracts.
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AI & AIOps for Enterprise Networks with Cisco Catalyst Center
Join us for an exclusive complimentary webinar on AI-Driven Network Operations with Cisco Catalyst Center.
MTC Member Only Social Mixer Baltimore
Join us for a members-only social mixer at Diamondback Brewing Company in Baltimore.
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GBC in Three: Impact, Momentum, and What’s Next
A briefing on business growth and regional competitiveness in Baltimore with networking opportunities.
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MTC Member Orientation Events GZ
Join the Maryland Tech Council for an orientation to learn about member benefits.
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George Washington American Revolution
Celebrate the American Revolution and George Washington at The Lyceum on July 4th, 2026.
George Washington American Revolution
A historical event celebrating George Washington and the American Revolution at The Lyceum, Alexandrias History Museum.
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2026 SMALL BUSINESS ADVANCEMENT CONFERENCE ATTENDEE REGISTRATION
The 2026 Small Business Advancement Conference in Baltimore focuses on networking and growth for business professionals.
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Quantum Threat Landscape: Where We Stand and How to Prepare
Workshop on the Quantum Threat Landscape and its implications for blockchain and finance.
The Inflection Point Healthcare Summit
The Inflection Point Healthcare Summit focuses on how emerging technologies are transforming healthcare delivery.
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Idea to Industry: From Discovery to Clinic: A Chemist’s Guide to Drug Development
Join Tim Dore for an insightful seminar on drug development from discovery to clinic.
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IS Clean Tech 2026
Join us for the IS Clean Tech 2026 conference in Wilmington, DE, focusing on clean technology startups and innovations.
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MTC CRC BBQ on the Bay June 2026
Join us for the MTC CRC BBQ on the Bay at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.
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The Inflection Point Healthcare Summit
The Inflection Point Healthcare Summit brings together leaders across healthcare, technology, and policy to explore how value-based care and emerging technologies, including Artificial Intelligence, are transforming healthcare delivery. With Maryland's all-payer model as a national testbed, the summit will focus on how aligned incentives can drive innovation, better outcomes, and sustainable costs.
Maryland is in the midst of the most substantial value-based care experiment in the country, via its all-payer system. This economic model will fund AI and other innovative healthcare technology. As Maryland succeeds, the rest of the country will follow.
Why Attend?
For Health System, Health Plan, and Clinical leaders – The status quo in healthcare in not sustainable and the Maryland rate setting system creates unique challenges and opportunities. The inflection point summit is an opportunity to learn from your peers, policy makers and innovators about pressures and opportunities to inform your plans for the months and years ahead.
For Policymakers – As representatives of patients and citizens, this is a great opportunity to voice your positions - and pressures - to a curated audience of health system, health plan, business and technology leaders.
For Innovators – This is a unique opportunity to listen and learn about the challenges of enterprise customers and policy makers, and about the unique opportunities afforded by the Maryland model.
Featured Speakers:
Mohan Suntha, MD, MBA – CEO, University of Maryland Medical System
Mark Dredze, PhD – Director, Data Science and AI Institute at Johns Hopkins University
Meena Seshamani, MD, PhD – Secretary of Health, State of Maryland
Kevin Sowers – President, Johns Hopkins Health System
Abe Sutton – Director, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI)
Kristen Valdes – CEO, b.well Connected Health
John Lock – Chief Digital Transformation Officer, MedStar Health
Craig Behm – CEO, Chesapeake Regional Information Systems for our Patients (CRISP)
Ricardo Johnson – Chief Growth Officer, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
Abid Khan, DrPH – Senior Technical Advisor for the AHEAD model, CMMI
Tressa Springmann – Chief Digital and Information Officer, LifeBridge Health
Scott Rifkin, MD – Founder and Executive Chairman, Real Time Medical Systems
Nick Culbertson – Managing Director, Techstars AI Health Baltimore accelerator
Rushika Fernandopulle, MD – CEO, Liza Health
Suchi Saria, PhD – CEO, Bayesian Health
Chris Brandt – Managing Director, Audacious Capital
and more.
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200 International Drive, Baltimore, MD 21202, USA
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Inflection Point Healthcare Summit
The Inflection Point Healthcare Summit explores the transformation of healthcare delivery through value-based care and emerging technologies.
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MTC CRC BBQ on the Bay
Join us for a networking BBQ event at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.
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