General manager Reid Snyder and writer Carl Pierre from InTheCapital, talk about what it takes to cover the DC Tech scene. Carl gives us some insights to how his inbox fills up every morning with pitches. Reid talks about their InTheCapital events and covering new beats around the Washington, DC area. Between style, education, and technology, these guys are looking to shake things up.

InTheCapital combines a fast, edgy, and opinionated editorial staff with an open community publishing platform to reinvent the model of local news online. InTheCapital believes hearing from innovators in the city will allow for a range of perspectives on the growth intelligent innovation in the District.

Corey Petree is an award winning, innovative producer, editor, and motion graphic designer with over 20 years of experience in film and video production. Corey creates marketing and promotional video, broadcast programs and commercials, as well as high-end corporate video designed for live audiences. He believes that the core of visual media production is storytelling - getting the point across clearly and memorably.

Story Store Media provides high-quality video production services from concept, planning and shooting, through all phases of post-production. The company's products are high production value, custom-crafted productions for discerning producers and other clients who want an impressive, attention-getting product to build energy at large gatherings, increase visitor involvement on websites, and create buzz over broadcast media.

Tinu Abayomi-Paul is the editor of Women Grow Business. Tinu rescues web sites from obscurity and shows business people how to generate leads and traffic from the web. Founder of Free Traffic Tips and Ask Tinu, she is widely published online as an ever-effective, end-to-end website promotion specialist — on Web Pro News, Search Engine Guide, AGBEAT and more.

Women Grow Business is a blog community focused on leadership, marketing, operations (especially in tough economic times), benefits of social cause partnership, talent retention, online presence, entrepreneurship, social technology, mentor-ship, failure and success.

Quin Woodward Pu is the Director of Public Relations for Brightline Interactive. Quin explains what Brightline’s experiential marketing services are versus tradition marketing. Think of integrating digital into live events and you start to get the right idea. Think of karaoke and green screens at live sporting events and now you got a party. But this is really about tracking raw data through the use social media, the kind of stuff brands like Nascar and Pepsi are looking for.

Brightline Interactive is a digital services agency that designs, produces, promotes, and installs fun social machines and digital experiences for national brands and agencies at sporting and entertainment events, mobile tours, museums, retail stores, lobbies, and conventions.

Tod Plotkin produces online and broadcast video content that help large organizations tell their story. His production experience includes national broadcast with ABC, Discovery Channel, and the Style Network. However my company focuses on corporate video storytelling for clients like Blackboard, Sears, Hilton Worldwide, Monster.com, BlueCross BlueShield, and Under Armour. Tod hosts the "What's Next DC" marketing and communication conference annually, where he and other speakers discuss viral videos, video marketing strategy and video SEO.

Green Buzz Agency is a strategic digital media company specializing in high quality video production services for organizations of all sizes. The Green Buzz team uses storytelling techniques from their experience in the feature film industry to guarantee the highest quality product for corporate clients.