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IEEE'S GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP SUMMIT

FULL DAY PROGRAM + 3 EDUCATION TRACKS + STARTUP SHOWCASE

Austin, Texas 17 September 2016 | Returning to Toronto, Ontario Fall 2016

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"You should be talking about your idea all the time and not worrying about people stealing your ideas."

- Adeo Ressi, Founder of IEEE N3XT Event Partner, Founder Institute

2015 Partners & Contributors

Partners

Contributors

2015 Programs

Three Tracks

The Bigger Picture
Startup Inspiration
Founder Institute Workshops

Featured Speakers

Peter Shankman, ShankMinds, HARO
Michael Hyatt, Dragons' Den, Bluecat
Lynette Kucsma, Natural Machines

Startup Pitch Bootcamp

Facilitated Pitch Training
Pitch Practice
Finalist Presentations

2015 Schedule at a Glance

Time
Session
8:00 - 8:30
Breakfast
8:30 - 9:30
Opening Keynote with Peter Shankman
9:30 - 10:00
• Track 1 - Founder Institute Start-up Pitch Bootcamp
9:30 - 10:00
• Track 2 - Startup Inspiration: Will you be Founder of the Robot Workforce?
9:30 - 10:00
• Track 3 - The Bigger Picture: Creative Destruction Lab
10:00 - 10:30
• Track 1 - Founder Institute Start-up Pitch Bootcamp
10:00 - 10:30
• Track 2 - Startup Inspiration: Will you be Founder of the Robot Workforce? (continued)
10:00 - 10:30
• Track 3 - The Bigger Picture: VC and Angel Q&A
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break and Startup Showcase
11:00 - 11:30
• Track 1 - Founder Institute Start-up Pitch Bootcamp
11:00 - 11:30
• Track 2 - Startup Inspiration: From Idea to Reality
11:00 - 11:30
• Track 3 - The Bigger Picture: OMERS
11:30 - 12:00
• Track 1 - Founder Institute Start-up Pitch Bootcamp
11:30 - 12:00
• Track 2 - Startup Inspiration: IP & You
11:30 - 12:00
• Track 3 - The Bigger Picture: Alternate Funding Paths & Founder Locations
12:00 - 1:00
Networking Lunch
1:00 - 1:30
Post Lunch Keynote Panel
1:30 - 2:00
• Track 1 - Founder Institute Workshop - Build the Simplest MVP Possible
1:30 - 2:00
• Track 2 - Startup Inspiration: 3D Food Printing
1:30 - 2:00
• Track 3 - The Bigger Picture: How and When to Get Involved with Standards
2:00 - 2:30
Coffee Break and Startup Showcase
2:30 - 3:00
• Track 1 - Founder Institute Workshop - Startup Marketing
2:30 - 3:00
• Track 2 - Startup Inspiration: Successfully Selling Your Business
2:30 - 3:00
• Track 3 - The Bigger Picture: From Start-up to Scale-up
3:30 - 4:30
Capstone Keynote - Opportunity Ahead with Michael Hyatt
4:30 - 5:30
Pitch Bootcamp Winners Final Round with Michael Hyatt
5:30 - 7:30
IEEE Reception with Startup Showcase

2015 Speakers

Peter Shankman
Best-selling author, keynote speaker, angel investor, marketer, NASA advisor, HARO Founder, ShankMinds Founder.
Peter Shankman
Founder of ShankMinds, Entrepreneur, Investor
Michael Hyatt
Michael Hyatt became a self-made millionaire at 25 and built two successful tech firms valued in the hundreds of millions. He ranks as one of Canada’s top entrepreneurs, is a celebrated “Dragon” on CBC’s Dragons' Den - Next Gen Den, and is a weekly Business Commentator on CBC News Network.
Michael Hyatt
Entrepreneur and "Dragon" on CBC’s Dragons' Den - Next Gen Den
Lynette Kucsma
Lynette, co-founder & CMO at Natural Machines, the makers of Foodini: the first 3D food printer kitchen appliance to contribute to healthy eating. CNN named her one of only seven 'tech superheroes' to watch in 2015, and Fortune says she “wants to sell the 21st century’s version of the microwave.”
Lynette Kucsma
Co-Founder and CMO at Natural Machines
Emilio Sepulveda
Emilio has proven experience in global markets and technology innovation with over 20 years of hands-on experience in the technology space. Most recently, he was a strategy and Innovation manager at Telefónica, leading multiple global start-up projects with successful launches.
Emilio Sepulveda
Co-Founder, Natural Machines
Blake Lloyd
Since co-founding Iris Power in 1990, Blake has been one of the principle architects of Iris’s line of diagnostic test instrumentation and analysis software. Mr. Lloyd has two US patents, and has published 20 refereed papers in IEEE and CIGRE, as well as over 50 conference papers.
Blake Lloyd
Co-Founder, Iris Power
Tom Lowden
Tom Lowden is the Director of the Creative Destruction Lab and has worked in the marketing and advancement space. Most recently, Tom worked with a small private equity group based out of Toronto that specialized in the food and beverage industry.
Tom Lowden
Director at Creative Destruction Lab
Pramod Abichandani
Pramod Abichandani is an academic and a technology entrepreneur. He is the founder of LocoRobo Inc., an educational technology company whose mission is to introduce kids to programming using robotics.
Pramod Abichandani
Founder of LocoRobo
Marylin Ma
Marylin Ma is on a mission to help entrepreneurs accelerate their dreams. She has advised 100+ early stage tech startups in the Waterloo Region on their customer discovery and validation process.
Marylin Ma
Manages the Communitech Rev Accelerator
James Slifierz
In Spring 2014, co-founded Sproutr an online platform for entrepreneurs. In April 2014, with a team of five, built SkyWatch (SkyWatch.co), a project Maclean's Magazine called "Twitter for the sky." The project went on to win the 2014 NASA International Space Apps Challenge.
James Slifierz
Co-Founder and CEO of SkyWatch
Zenas Hutcheson
Zenas has been involved with high-tech venture companies since 1981 as an investor, board member, CEO and consultant. Before forming Vesbridge, Zenas was SPVC’s Co-Managing General Partner and the Managing General Partner of the NITI group within SPVC. Zenas joined SPVC in 1997.
Zenas Hutcheson
Venture Capitalist and CEO
Ana Luisa Santos
Ana Luisa Santos is co-founder of mobgeek.com.br. She has led an MIT D-Lab team acting as an advisor in the Humanitarian Technology Challenge Project, developing solutions for the reuse of waste vegetable oil as part of the MIT Green Grease Project.
Ana Luisa Santos
MobGeek Co-Founder
Alpesh Shah
Alpesh Shah serves as the Senior Director of Global Business Strategy & Intelligence at the IEEE Standards Association, where his focus is on organizational growth and advancements of ecosystems towards accelerated outcomes.
Alpesh Shah
Sr Dir of Global Business Strategy & Intelligence, IEEE Standards Assoc.
Ken Stauffer
Ken Stauffer is a serial entrepreneur and Chair of the IEEE TAB Entrepreneurship Ad Hoc Committee helping to plan this event. His professional career spans 16 years at AT&T Bell Labs, and 16 years as an entrepreneur-first with a $480M startup then with others, which took in venture capital funding.
Ken Stauffer
Entrepreneur, CEO & Co-Founder of Technology Assurance Labs
Kamal Hassan
earn from Kamal Hassan, Founder and CEO of IncMind, and founding Director of Founder Institute Toronto. IncMind is a platform for entrepreneurs to govern their business, manage fundraising, and keep the support of all key stakeholders.
Kamal Hassan
Founder & CEO of IncMind
Oleg Logvinov
During the last 25 years Mr. Logvinov has held various senior technical and executive management positions in the telecommunications and semiconductor industry. He currently serves on the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) Corporate Advisory Group.
Oleg Logvinov
Director of Special Assignments, STMicroelectronics
Elena Iosef
Elena is an associate lawyer at Dipchand LLP interested in advising clients in areas such as intellectual property, corporate & commercial law, and civil litigation.
Elena Iosef
Associate Lawyer at Dipchand LLP
Mark Wingate
Mark is the Chairman of the Board for Maxi Volt Corporation; an electronics manufacturing company whose sales and services span the globe doing business in dozens of countries on five continents. He is a third generation entrepreneur, and a serial entrepreneur having formed to date five successful companies.
Mark Wingate
Chairman of the Board for Maxi Volt Corporation
Ryan Gariepy
Ryan believes that the benefits of robotics should be accessible to anyone, and is personally driving this vision as the CTO of Clearpath Robotics. He is also a co-founder of the Robot Operating System developers' conference and is on the Board of Directors for the Open Source Robotics Foundation.
Ryan Gariepy
CTO of Clearpath Robotics
April Dunford
An engineer by training, April has worked as a marketing and sales exec for much of her career including a number of startups such as Tulip Retail, DataMirror (acquired by IBM), Janna Systems (acquired by Siebel Systems), Sitraka (acquired by Quest software), Watcom (acquired by Sybase).
April Dunford
Startup Marketing Consultant and Speaker
Michael Katchen
Founder and CEO of Wealthsimple, Canada’s fastest growing online investment manager, Michael's vision is to make smart, simple investing accessible to every Canadian, regardless of age or net worth.
Michael Katchen
Founder and CEO of Wealthsimple
Prashant Matta
Prashant Matta is responsible for researching and executing on investment opportunities in the Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (TMT) sectors.
Prashant Matta
Associate at OMERS Ventures
Alvin Chen
Alvin Chen, from VascuLogic whose business idea was a portable, image-guided medical robot that improves the accuracy, safety, and cost-effectiveness of venipuncture by drawing blood and performing intravenous procedures in an automated fashion.
Alvin Chen
Co-founder of Vasculogic
Allan Tear
Through Betaspring, Allan has worked with 89 high-growth startups and managed a portfolio of companies that has raised more than $50M+ in follow-on funding.
Allan Tear
Co-founder and Managing Partner of Betaspring

Event Location

NEED A HOTEL ROOM?

IEEE N3XT has reserved a limited block of rooms at the nearby Holiday Inn Downtown Centre.
The hotel is within walking distance of the MaRS venue.
To reserve, call +1 416 977 6655 or +1 800 367 9601 and request the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers rate (IEEE); or RESERVE ONLINE.
Cutoff date for reservations is Wednesday, 14 October.