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Friday, we went to the SXSW WeDC Roll Call Kick Off Event at Carnegie Library at Mount Vernon Square. We snapped Trustify's Archana Krishna, Acedia Thomas, Lauren Chiarina and Abi Varela.

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Guests at the Carnegie Library enjoyed the event’s showcase of local food, drink, tech, music, art and the DC entrepreneurs that create them. Those included specialty cocktails by Service Bar's Chad Spangler and Saab Harrison, here with with Gordy's Pickle Jar's Sarah Gordon and Sheila Fain.

Alfredo Flores

The kickoff party unveiled the much-anticipated music lineup and programming that guests of South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, will experience as part of the WeDC initiative from March 11 to 14. The WeDC House will showcase the city’s inclusive technology, entertainment and creative scene, while growing new partnerships between DC and the national business community. Here, the U.S. Department of Transportation's Nancy Rodriguez Brown with Concourse Federal Group's Genevieve Hanson.

Alfredo Flores

Friday’s event was hosted by the WeDC initiative, which is composed of The Washington DC Economic Partnership (WDCEP) in collaboration with the Executive Office of the Mayor of the District of Columbia, the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development, and Events DC, the city’s convention and sports authority. Here, WDCEP CEO Keith Sellars, Events DC chairman Max Brown, Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington president Kathy Hollinger, Clearly Innovative CEO Aaron Saunders and DC Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development Brian Kenner. Among the highlights of the WeDC initiative in Austin will be legendary DC musicians Thievery Corporation co-headlining a show with the Wu-Tang Clan on March 14.