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2025 Association Leadership Awards
DCA Live is pleased to honor once again a group of DC-area Association Leaders who have made extraordinary contributions to the growth and health of their organizations over the past 12 months. This group was nominated by their peers and selected for their excellence and leadership.

2024 Association Leadership Awards
DCA Live is pleased to honor once again a group of DC-area Association Leaders who have made extraordinary contributions to the growth and health of their organizations over the past 12 months. This group was nominated by their peers and selected for their excellence and leadership.

2025 VC & PE Stars
Our third annual special program to recognize the DC region’s up and coming venture capital and private equity investors. Whether rising stars with established firms or private capital entrepreneurs raising new funds, there is a deep and diverse pool of investor talent in the region putting capital to work. We’ll gather this group for drinks, food, and networking at Pillsbury’s space downtown DC. Join DCA Live, our co-hosts, and dozens of investors, founders, and connectors from DC finance. See you March 4!

2025 GovCon CFO Stars
DCA Live is excited to recognize some of the top finance leaders in the DC region’s robust and dynamic government contracting community. We’ll profile these executives in the coming weeks and toast them at a special event on October 22. Join us! You will want to get to know senior leaders and others from the GovCon community.

Association and Non-Profit Leaders
Join our host committee and business leaders from the DC area to honor the great leadership talent in the Washington region's association community. We’ll recognize leaders who have distinguished themselves in the past year by driving growth, spurring innovation, and advancing the missions of their organizations in extraordinary ways.
Come enjoy two hours of music,food,drink,and great networking with these great leaders and movers and shakers from Washington's business & association community.

Trending 40 Young Entrepreneurs
The DC region is exploding with new start-ups and exciting innovation, led by a new generation of entrepreneurs building the next great DC-based companies. On February 12 join us to recognize the top young entrepreneurs that are making it happen at a fun, Mardi Gras-themed event featuring food, drink and music from New Orleans.
Join our honored guests, event hosts, and Washington's top young entrepreneurs, their management teams, and investors, for an evening of networking and celebrating in Crystal City, Virginia, recently named by Forbes Magazine as the top city in the nation for young entrepreneurs. We will also recognize 20 rising entrepreneurs from Generation Z who are already doing amazing things.
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