DCWEEK Overview (05.05.10)

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What is DCW?

Digital Capital Week (DCWEEK) is a 10 day festival in Washington DC focused ontechnology, innovation and all things digital in our nations capital.

Modeled after Internet Week NY, Social Media Week, FotoWeek DC, Fringe Festival-- DCWEEK will consist of a series of distributed events produced and hosted byindividuals, organizations and community groups.

DCWEEK is a time to do the following:

to learn from others through sessions, keynotes, workshops and panels to meet new friends, clients, partners, investors and collaborators to focus on the issues in DC that can be addressed in new ways to come together to support innovative businesses, people and ideas to work on projects that benefit the city and the world to experiment with whats possible to have fun at some great parties

Visit http://digitalcapitalweek.org for registration, schedule and details.

DCW is June 11th to June 20th, 2010
http://digitalcapitalweek.org/http://digitalcapitalweek.org/


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Whos behind this?

Created by iStrategyLabs and Shiny Heart Ventures

Supported by the Washington DC Economic Partnership,DCs Office of The CTO, and DCs Office of Planning

Brought to life by the DC creative & technology community

istrategy labs shiny heartventures


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4,000+ expected participants

100+ expected sessions, projects and parties10 days long from June 11th to June 20th

1 mission to explore and build the Digital District

By the Numbers


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DCWEEK will serve as a call to the digital arts andtechnology community to do the following:

1. Host an event/session that explores a digital interest area2. Host a studio tour to show off your stuff 3. Host a party or fundraiser for a digital cause4. Create a project for execution that week

What will happen at DCW?


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Quick View of Some Current Sessions


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Quick View of Some Current Projects


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People participating in DCW will be:

Artists, Technologists, Entrepreneurs, Communicators,Govies, and Citizens

These are the people building the digital economy in DC.Theyre typically 21-40 years old with $75k+ HHI.

We will be making a concerted effort to include underservedcommunities and youth - we believe Digital Capital Week canmake significant progress in terms of bridging the digitaldivide in DC.

Who will participate?


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Status as of 5/17/2010

+ Registrations to date: 3,202

+ Average age of attendee: 34.2

+ Percentage of female attendees: 44.4%+ Percentage of attendees w/ iPhones: 40.5%

+ Percentage that live/work in DC: 51.1%

+ Number of Canadians: 3


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Attendee Geography

Mostly local, but many from across the US/World


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Attendee Geography

Mostly local, but many from across the US


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Attendee Geography

Mostly local, but many from across the US


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Attendee Geography

Mostly local, but some from far away


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Kinds of People Attending

Hundreds of designers, developers and creatives


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Thematic Breakout by Day

It order to make navigating the festival easier, weve putin place themes each day

Theme Core VenueFriday, June 11, 2010

Saturday, June 12, 2010Sunday, June 13, 2010

Monday, June 14, 2010Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Wednesday, June 16, 2010Thursday, June 17, 2010

Friday, June 18, 2010

Saturday, June 19, 2010Sunday, June 20, 2010

Opening Party Long View Gallery

CityCamp GWUCityCamp GWU

Open VariousMedia 2.0 NatGeo

Gov/Org/Policy/Diplomacy 2.0 UMC140Conf + TECH cocktail UMC

Digital Garage UMC

Digital Garage + Closing Party UMC + 9:30ClubFlash Picnic The Mall

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Sponsorship

All sponsorships for Digital Capital Week aretailored to your brand/clients specific needs.

Please get in touch with the following so we

can help you get the most out of this event:1) What are your objectives?

2) Whats the budget?

3) What else should we know?

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What to do now?

RSVP to get updates:

Join the Facebook Group to meet others:

Follow us on twitter:

Submit an event you plan to host:

Think about a project you want to lead/join

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Were known for causing a stir in DC with

great events that get media coverage. Oursponsors enjoy the benefit of w ord of mouthspread by our happy participan ts.

DCWEEK is going to be big...really big...andwe want you to be a part of it.

Get in touch.Peter Corbett, iStrategyLabsCell: [email protected]://twitter.com/corbett3000

Frank Gruber, Shiny Heart VenturesCell: 312-498-3026 [email protected]://twitter.com/frankgruber

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