Community Connect #8 | Where to Grow: The Capital Region's Next Life Sciences Chapter

Join us for the Community Connect, Montgomery College’s signature biotech networking event hosted by the Pinkney Innovation Complex for Science + Technology (PIC MC). This event is part of DC Startup & Tech Week (DCSTW), the DMV’s largest Startup & Tech Conference and Community. Think SXSW, but for DC — five days, 9,000+ attendees. OVERVIEW Every life sciences company that scales eventually faces the same question: where do we grow? In the Capital Region, that question gets contested twice. Companies weigh the region against Boston, the Bay Area, and North Carolina. Then Maryland and Virginia compete for the same companies, the same talent, and the same capital. Some of the region's most important companies have stopped choosing and simply built on both sides of the Potomac. The region has the science, the talent, and the room to grow. What it needs is gravity: places that pull companies in and give them reasons to stay. Building that gravity depends on three groups that rarely share a room. Innovation hubs create the pull. Developers decide what gets built. Public leaders decide what it's worth to close the gap. This program brings them together for a candid conversation about what's taking shape, where deals break, and how the region compounds when it builds as one ecosystem. If you're building, investing, or scaling in life sciences anywhere in Maryland, DC, or Virginia, this is the room. AGENDA Stay for the whole program or drop in at your convenience.