I'm here at the University of Maryland's Tech Startup Bootcamp, which is a full-day event featuring local startup CEOs, academics, entrepreneurs, investors and others sharing their knowledge on what people need to kickstart a start-up. The crowd is officially at a little over 600 people. Wowsers! (About half the crowd raised their hands when asked how many were here because they want to start a company.)

I'll be blogging about it all day, so I'll give you a quick peek at the schedule ahead, so you can tune in later, if you wish. But you may just want to keep this blog open all day and just periodically refresh.

Here's the agenda:

*) Dean Darrell Pines and Dean Chang kicked off the event with introductions.

* ) Bob Proctor, CEO of FlexEl Inc. and Anik Singal, CEO of Lurn Inc., are both UM alumni who tapped the university's resources to start their businesses. They're giving the crowd an overview of what those resources were that they used.

*) 10:25 am -- Brian Hinman, venture partner with Oak Investment Partners and cofounder and former CEO of Polycom Inc.

*) 11 a.m. -- Networking break

* Three tracks for participants to choose from the rest of the day.

-- Track 1: Developing a great business plan

-- Track 2: Biotech ventures

-- Track 3: Technology ventures (for people further along with their biz plan)

I plan on bouncing around on some of these different tracks and looking for the best nuggets of wisdom to bring back to you here on BaltTech, so stick around!