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Monthly on a Tuesday morning, somewhere new in greater Richmond. Browse 115 events since 2015 — searchable by speaker, topic, year or venue.
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2026
5 events
The Old Man & the Sea
Chuck “Papa” Swaim
Entrepreneur, educator and Great Loop boater
WayPoint
Printing Affordable Housing
Chris Thompson
Director of Strategic Housing, Virginia Housing
The Virginia Cliffe Inn
Full Speed Ahead
Richard Conti
Chief Wonder Officer, Science Museum of Virginia
Science Museum of Virginia
From Ink to AI
James A. "Jim" Bacon
Founder & Publisher, Bacon's Rebellion
Woody Funeral Home – Parham
An Olympic Experience
Special Olympics Virginia
Athletes, coaches & staff
Special Olympics Virginia
2025
8 events
Limitless Energy?
Jessica Strunkin
Commonwealth Fusion Systems
Bon Air Baptist Church
"Pharming" Virginia
Dr. Frank Gupton
Founder, Medicines for All Institute
Henrico Police Athletic League
Boomers, Broadband & the Road Ahead
John Martin
President & CEO, RVA757connects
Firehouse Theatre
Test Drive AI: Encorepreneurs Take the Wheel
Hands-on AI Workshop
Our third program on artificial intelligence
Woody Funeral Home – Parham
Broken Links: The Battlefield of the Future
Gen. Robert B. Newman, Jr.
Retired Air Force general & fighter pilot
The Virginia Cliffe Inn
Capitol Secrets
Bill Leighty
Former Chief of Staff to two Virginia governors
Feed More
Global & Local Leadership
Kristen Cavallo
First female CEO of The Martin Agency
The Branch House Museum
Discover the James
Capt. Mike Ostrander
A fisherman with a fine arts degree
Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen
2024
6 events
Bitcoin: Ready or Not, It's Here
James Murphy
MetaLawMan
UMFS
Build, RVA
Science, Tech, Math, Art & Invention
A hands-on tour — our 71st venue
Build RVA
Are We Ready for AI?
Will Willis
Chair, AI Ready RVA
The Virginia Cliffe Inn
The U-2 Incident
Francis Gary Powers, Jr.
Son of the U-2 pilot shot down over the USSR
Cristo Rey Richmond High School
The James River in Richmond
John Bryan
Author, The James River in Richmond
Woody Funeral Home – Parham
Rocks Across the Pond
Kathy & Richard Verlander
Curling's unlikely champions
Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen
2023
6 events
Country Over Party
Neal Simon
Business leader & Unite America advocate
The New Community School
Exercising Your Brain
Dr. Kelly Lambert
UR Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience
The Virginia Cliffe Inn
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
Patrick Henry
Re-enacted at the scene of the 1775 speech
Historic St. John's Church
Health, Healing & Purpose on the Water
Joe Mornini & Lance Sharp
Team River Runner
SwimRVA
Secretariat: Racing Into History
Kate Tweedy & Jocelyn Russell
Author and sculptor
Randolph-Macon College
A Front Row Seat to Richmond's Business
Greg Gilligan
Former Business Editor, Richmond Times-Dispatch
Virginia Rep Center for Arts & Education
2022
9 events
Adjusting Your Focus
Stan Maupin
Co-founder, Encorepreneur! & photographer
Cristo Rey Richmond High School
Entrepreneur, Writer & Filmmaker
B.K. Fulton
Founder, Soulidifly Productions
The Virginia Cliffe Inn
Never a Tumbleweed
Michael Mason
From top of the FBI to head of the bus
5200 Fitzhugh Avenue
Leading VCU Athletics
Ed McLaughlin
VCU Director of Athletics
VCU Athletics – Sports Medicine Center
It's Your Art, Virginia!
Alex Nyerges
CEO & Director, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Comedy Is a Way to Find Common Ground
Micah "Bam Bamm" White
Comedian
Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen
Oil, Industry & Business With a Local Perspective
Roben Farzad
Host of public radio's "Full Disclosure"
Zoom
Brace for Impact!
Shawn Brixey
Artist, educator, researcher & inventor
Zoom
Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Academics
Dr. Garret Westlake
Executive Director, VCU da Vinci Center
Zoom
2021
9 eventsEncorepreneur Reaches 100!
A Celebration of 100 Breakfasts
Favorite speakers return
Zoom
The Silver Tsunami
Paige Wilson
Founder & CEO, Naborforce
Zoom
Winning With Science
Camille Schrier
Miss America 2020
Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen
The Future of Travel
Stella Capocelli & Herb Farrar
Travel industry veterans
The Virginia Cliffe Inn + Zoom
The Future of History
Greg Werkheiser
Co-founder, ARtGlass
Virtual tour
A New Tour of Old Richmond
Bill Martin
Director, The Valentine
Virtual tour
It IS Rocket Science
William E. "Bill" Cutlip
A lifetime of reaching for the stars
Zoom
Capitol Reflections
Rep. Abigail Spanberger
Highlights from two years on the Hill
Zoom
Art at a Crossroads?
Jenni Kirby
Owner, Crossroads Art Center
Zoom
2020
11 events
Reimagining Live Music
Carlos Chafin
With Desiree Roots & James "Saxsmo" Gates
Zoom
COVID-19: Update & Lessons Learned
Hon. Daniel Carey, MD
Virginia Secretary of Health & Human Resources
Zoom
Finding Connection Through Creativity
Eva DeVirgilis
Actor, artist & activist
Zoom
An Ordinary Hero
Joan Trumpauer Mulholland
Civil rights Freedom Rider
Zoom
Feeding 200,000 People in a Pandemic
Doug Pick
CEO, Feed More
Zoom
24 Years to Freedom
Rojai Fentress & Deirdre Enright
An Innocence Project success story
Zoom
Creating a New Normal
What's Next for Encorepreneur!
A community conversation
Zoom
The Local Impact of a Global Pandemic
Dr. Bob Holsworth
Political analyst
Zoom
Ensuring Access to Medicines in a Post-Pandemic World
Dr. Frank Gupton
Medicines for All Institute, VCU
Zoom
The Untold Story of America's Women Code Breakers
The Family of Dorothy Braden Bruce
Introduced by Rep. Abigail Spanberger
Virginia War Memorial
Voters Should Choose — Not Politicians
Wyatt Durrette
Redistricting reform advocate
U-Turn Sports Academy
2019
13 eventsWhat's Good, Bad & Really Scary About 5G
Probodh Chiplunkar
ProfitOptics – Ithena
Williams Mullen
Stories Have the Power to Transform
Michael Bisceglia & Jayme Swain
Stauer / Virginia Foundation for Public Media
VPM Studio A
It's Not Your Daddy's Driving Range
A Morning at Drive Shack
Networking with a swing
Drive Shack
I Had No Idea!
WellcomeMD & VCUarts
A special evening event
VCU Cabell Library
Whiskey Business
Michelle Davenport
Three Crosses Distilling Co.
The Virginia Cliffe Inn
From "The Shot" to the Top
Barry Parkhill
UVA basketball legend
UMFS
Naked & Afraid
Dr. Suzänne Zeta
Survivor, mom & biosciences executive
Ashland Theatre
RVA's Legendary Encorepreneur
J. Smith Ferebee
Told by Gary LeClair & Stan Maupin
Dominion Payroll
The Country Seinfeld
Robin Traywick Williams
Humor writer & racing expert
U-Turn Sports Academy
Returning to Katahdin
Bruce Matson
Thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail
ATLAS42
Is Your College Ready for Its Students?
Dr. Paula Pando
President, J. Sargeant Reynolds CC
Veritas School
Fighting Bots, Big Data & Fake News
James "Chip" Cottrell
International cyber security
Regency
Can I Still Sell Thin Mints?
Rep. Abigail Spanberger
Three weeks after being sworn in to Congress
Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen
2018
13 events
Discovering Your Hidden Talents
David Shuford
Lawyer turned painter
LeClairRyan
In My Chair
Eva DeVirgilis
Actor, artist & activist
Community Idea Stations Studio
Why They Never Talk About It
Dr. Bruce Heilman
Chancellor, University of Richmond & WWII veteran
Tang & Biscuit
World's Craziest Man
Will Turner
60 Ironman triathlons in one year — at age 60
West End Assembly of God
Immigration Policy: Who Knew It Would Be So Complicated?
Lakshmi Challa
The Challa Law Group
Institute for Contemporary Art
The Lawyer's Guild
Gary LeClair
Co-founder, LeClairRyan
St. Joseph's Villa
A Prep School for College & Career
Peter McCourt
President, Cristo Rey Richmond
Zacharias Ganey Health Institute
From the Links to LinkedIn
Maggie Will
Three-time LPGA Tour winner
Richmond Ballet
Precision Medicine
Dr. Neal Carl
WellcomeMD
Dominion Payroll
Airbnb by the Acre
Jamie Christensen & Buck Robinson
Co-founders, OutdoorAccess
Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen
The "MILO" Use of Force Simulator
Richmond Police Training Academy
Step into an officer's shoes
Richmond Police Academy
Data: More Important Than You Think
Dr. Peter Aiken
Data-driven transformation
Richmond Police Academy
All You Need to Know About Virginia Politics
David Poole
Founder, Virginia Public Access Project
The Robinson Theater
2017
13 events
Kwanzaa & the Elegba Folklore Society
Janine Bell
Founder, Elegba Folklore Society
LeClairRyan
Driving CarLotz
Michael Bor
Co-founder & CEO, CarLotz
Virginia Repertory Theatre
Healing the World's Children
Susan Rickman
CEO, World Pediatric Project
The New Community School
Richmond Raceway Reimagined
Dennis Bickmeier
President, Richmond Raceway
Richmond Raceway
UNOS: A Vital Link
Lisa Schaffner
United Network for Organ Sharing
Huguenot High School
Road Trip to the Great American Eclipse
70 Encorepreneurs, 2 Buses
Richmond → Sumter, SC
Sumter, South Carolina
Technology & Public Safety
Hon. Brian Moran
Virginia Secretary of Public Safety & Homeland Security
SwimRVA
Home Grown Capital
Ted Chandler
Co-founder, New Richmond Ventures
Benedictine College Preparatory
An Entrepreneurial Non-Profit
Karen Stanley
CEO, CARITAS
The Virginia Cliffe Inn
Bring the Car Around!
Matt Donlon
Founder, UZURV
Library of Virginia
Richmond's Best Experiences
Nate Marcus
OccasionGenius.com
UMFS
What Most People Only Read About
Michael Herring
Richmond Commonwealth's Attorney
Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen
The Creative & Innovative Genius in All of Us
George Barbee
Author & original Batten Fellow
1717 Innovation Center
2016
13 events
From "The Bush" to the Boardroom
Joe Boling
Vietnam veteran & former Chair, Middleburg Bank
LeClairRyan
Navigating the Future of Driverless Cars
Andrew Rose
CEO, compare.com
St. Joseph's Villa
Exporting Education to China
Gail Johnson
Founder & CEO, Rainbow Station
Cobb Technologies
Virginia: Red, Blue or Purple?
Jeff Schapiro
Political columnist, Richmond Times-Dispatch
Beth Ahabah Synagogue
Virginia's Grape Rush
Stan Joynes & Paul Kreckman
Valley Road Vineyards
VCU School of Business
Uncovering Our Personal Past
Leonard Sandridge
Former EVP & COO, University of Virginia
St. Christopher's School
Exercise for Your Brain
Claire Herring
Co-creator, BlueOceanBrain
Virginia War Memorial
A Lifetime of Ventures
David Gee
Founder, GetLoaded.com
The Virginia Cliffe Inn
Why People Think Politics Is Rigged
Wyatt Durrette & Jim Ukrop
And what we can do about it
Crossroads Art Center
The "MILO" Use of Force Simulator
Capt. Harvey Powers
Richmond Police Training Academy
Richmond Police Academy
Applying Street Savvy to Real Life
Dr. Sarah Scarbrough
Richmond City Jail-to-Home program
Richmond Police Academy
Taking Another Swing at It
Bryan Bostic
Serial entrepreneur
Virginia Holocaust Museum
Myths & Misconceptions About Islam
Malik Khan
Muslim Community Center of Chesterfield
Muslim Community Center of Chesterfield
2015
9 events
Commissioner's Corner
Tom Yeager
Commissioner, Colonial Athletic Association
LeClairRyan
Launching the DieHappy App
Shawn Boyer
Founder, Snagajob
Robins School of Business, UR
It's Not Your Daddy's Accelerator Anymore
Todd Nuckols
Founder, Lighthouse Labs
Hostelling International Richmond
Maxx-imizing Potential
Kim Mahan
Maxx Potential
The Steward School – Bryan Innovation Lab
Serial Entrepreneur
Linda Nash
Founder, PartnerMD
Collegiate School
RVA's Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
Bob Mooney
Partner, New Richmond Ventures
VCU School of Business
Banking for a Cause
Jane Henderson
President & CEO, Virginia Community Capital
The Virginia Cliffe Inn
Breakfast by the Edge of the Pool
Jim Edge
Developer, Scott's Edge
Scott's Edge Apartments
On the Road to Find Out
Bruce Matson
500 miles on the Camino de Santiago
Mobility Supercenter