1) Your Best Pitch

At this Startup-Centric Event, we work with you to prepare your best message and performance, combined with maximum visibility, so you can reach your best audience:

• Virtual Pitch Prep & Practice Sessions with Top Pitch Coaches: In the weeks leading up to the event, we arrange Virtual Pitch Prep & Practice Sessions with top Pitch Coaches who will help you eliminate clutter on your slides and advise you on how to delivery your most impactful pitch.
• Event Platform & Playbook Profile Support: We help you create your "XYZ Statement" and information on your company in your Platform and Playbook Profile, and sort all Pitch Presentations into Themed Sessions to ensure you are seen by your best audience (no "random acts of pitching!").
• On-site Presentation Coaching: Your Pitch is more than just slides - we provide opportunities to sign on on "Prep Day" for one-on-one Coaching on your PRESENTATION in the roo, getting you comfortable with the Space & AV so you can deliver a Pitch That Connects!
• Pitch Intros and Session Facilitation: We provide Facilitated Pitch Sessions with Prepared Intros to keep Pitches on time and get the audience excited to hear from you!
• Pitch Feedback and Best Pitch Awards: Get feedback from your audience, invitations for meetings, and compete for Best Pitch Awards in each session, with awards provided by leading Startup Service Providers (Legal, IP, Messaging, and More!)

2) WaterPreneur Capacity-Building Clinics, Reverse Pitches & Connections

You are more than just your Pitch! We care about WaterPreneurs and recognize that, in Founding a company, you become "The Captain of Your Ship (and Master of Your Soul)!" Your ticket includes Capacity-Building opportunities throughout the program.

• Capacity-Building Clinics & Workshops:
  We begin our event with Prep Day Clinics that provide you with the knowledge, skills, and strategies, including programs for Earlier Stage and Later Stage Startups as well as Clinics for Investors, Advisors & Entrepreneur Support Programs.
• Reverse Pitches Designed to Provide Useful Information: We work with all of the Investors, Funders, Clients, and Entrepreneur Support Programs (From Ideation to Exit) to develop Reverse Pitches - not just discussions and opinions about their experiences but concrete information on what they are looking for, how they make their decisions on which WaterPreneur or Solution they select, and how to get in the door.
• NEW "Hackathon" Client Discussion Tables at Lunch: To maximize discussion opportunities, we do NOT have luncheon speakers - but NEW THIS YEAR we are holding the Client Reverse Pitches before lunch, and then setting up tables for Clients for Startups to discuss solutions they can provide to the Water Challenges presented by the Clients.
• Facilitated Introductions: Feeling shy about introducing yourself? Let our team know who you want to meet and we would be happy to facilite introductions online or onsite!
• NO "Pitch & Run": We ask our Pitch and Reverse Pitch Presenters - as well as other participants - not to "Pitch and Run" i.e. to stay and be accessible to WaterPreneurs at the meals and breaks throughout the event!

3) VIP Reception, DC National/Federal, Congressional & International Connections - Plus Opportunities to Hire Former Feds & Other Professionals For Your Team!

As the ONLY WaterPreneur Event in Washington, DC (the US Capital), we make the most of our proximity to Federal Agencies and Congress, National Organizations and Think Tanks, International Organizations and Embassies throughout the event!

• NEW VIP Expo Preview Reception: We offer a limited number of WaterPreneur Exhibit Spaces in the Atrium between the DC Water Board Room, Large Conference Room, and smaller Clinic Rooms (high traffic area) where the Breaks and Meals are set up. NEW THIS YEAR we are adding time at the end of Prep Day (Day 1) for an Expo Preview Reception, inviting Members of Congress and Staff; Federal Agency, Association and Think Tank Leadership to come "see, touch and play with" exhibited WaterPreneur Innovations!
• Washington Insiders Breakfast: Get insights from people "in the know" on what's happening on Capitol Hill and in Federal Agencies related to Water Innovations and Entrepreneurship
• Congressional Briefing & Opportunity for Visits: Head to Capitol Hill to attend the WaterPreneurs' Congressional Briefing on Day 3 of our event (Policy, Partnerships & Personnel, plus opportunities for visit your own Members' Offices
• NEW WaterPreneurSHIP Goes Global! Workshop: NEW THIS YEAR we are connecting with the US State Department and other Federal Agencies, International Organizations, DC Government, and the nearly 200 Embassies and Consulates in DC (which include Trade Representatives from those countries) to develop our first WaterPreneurSHIP Goes Global! Workshop with opportunities to learn the latest on tariffs, visas, supply chain and other issues and opportunities for US WaterPreneurs who want to expand globally, and International WaterPreneurs who want to work in the US!
• Fed-To-Tech H2O Hiring Opportunities: Got a Growing Startup? When WaterPreneurs get an investor check or new contract, they often can hire faster than the large, bureaucratic organizations that dominate the Water Sector and other Water-Challenged Industries. Many of the reductions in workforce and funding for Agencies, Federal Contracting and Grants impacted people with water-related backgrounds who are eager to begin a new career in the Startup Space! We held our first Fed-To-Tech H2O event in September 2025, with many requests by both WaterPreneurs and Former Feds (and others) to hold another event! Great opportunity to build your team!