Imagine a world where software can be bought as easily as a beach chair. Imagine a world where your powerful but complex software can be made to run in the cloud, sold, bought, and used in the cloud. All the backend operational and transactional issues will be taken care of and you can seamlessly interact with your buyer or seller and the software. This session will walk you through the world of cloud commerce and Orbitera's vision for it. Attendees will have a chance to explore the company's solution, and ask questions.
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Session Title: Get to Know the Startup/Entrepreneur
At this session Cross Campus will highlight some of its most interesting Member companies. Attendees will hear from Simple Practice, an online platform for social workers, psychologists, and more; Heal, an on-demand medical service and Whole Life Challenge, an interactive online game that allows friends and groups to create healthier lifestyles and showcase their respective work. All three companies will be discussing how technology is influencing health and wellness.
Join us for demos and a discussion with some of our member companies, who will share insight into operating a successful startup in the LA ecosystem.
Join us at One Roof Co-Working Venice Beach to tour our beautiful co-working space and gardens. We will have 3 of our most interesting members leading a discussion on entrepreneurship, sharing their stories and answering questions. The panel will include Michelle Wahler, Co-Founder Beyond Yoga, Bella Action, Founder of Never Liked it Anyway, and Jessie May, Igniter of the HeartRise Movement.
Attendees will be treated to a free, one day co-working pass and juices by Renew Juicery, using 100% organic ingredients meant for you to drink, breath and glow— founded by a rockstar woman entrepreneur, Brooke Rewa. There is no better way to wrap up than with a group meditation led by by Jessie May. Get ready to sit on floor cushions, we do things differently here.
Co-Founders and Co-CEO's Matt and Ryan will talk about Omaze's origins, and how the company has changed the way people view philanthropy. Learn how Omaze is solving for the challenges faced by nonprofits in fundraising, and how Omaze is on a mission to make giving fun and easy. Then, enjoy an interactive Q&A, tour the office, chat with Omaze team members, and even play a little cornhole.
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Session Title: Startup Tips— How VCs Vet Investments Across Verticals
FlashFunders will host angel investors and Venture Capital panelists who actively invest across Digital Media, SaaS, Music, Enterprise, Consumer, Retail Innovation and more to learn about the trends they are seeing in their vertical. The panel will dive into their diligence process as investors as it relates to their vertical and give startups an unbiased perspective to apply to their fundraising process. FlashFunders will open the session with a brief introduction to their commitment to helping entrepreneurs across all verticals make their ideas a reality and raise capital for free. The panel will include:
Mark Linao, Technicolor Ventures - Future of Content, Business Applications. Austin Clements, TenOneTen - Big Data, Enterprise, Consumer. Lawrence Antoine, Paradigm Talent Agency - Digital Media. Steven Greitzer, Upfront Ventures - Digital Media, Retail Innovation, Consumer, SaaS. Erin Shipley, Karlin Ventures - Enterprise, Commerce Platforms, Marketplaces.
Special Message from Host Company to Attendees: There will be valet parking for attendees. Enter on 20th Street between Colorado & Broadway and valet will be stationed with signage nearby. Proceed to the second floor for the session.
Speaker list:
John Battelle, Founder & CEO, NewCo Platform
Michael Dubin, CEO, Dollar Shave Club
Marta Ferro, Co-Founder, Pink51
Michelle Garakian, Office of Economic Development, Office of LA Mayor Eric Garcetti
Michael Jones, CEO, Science
Ariel Kaye, Founder & CEO, Parachute
Ann Lawrence, Co-Founder, Pink51
Peter Marx, CTO, City of Los Angeles
Tara Roth, President, Goldhirsh Foundation/LA2050
GRID110 is a nonprofit economic and community development organization focused on activating the startup ecosystem in Downtown Los Angeles. We support startups during the most critical stage of their growth cycle by connecting them to office space, mentors and resources. Join us as we showcase the current fashion tech startups within our inaugural incubator program.
Meet the companies within GRID110's space:
Casetify allows you to personalize your Apple Watch band and phone accessories with Instagram images, and artisan designed styles.
ShapeShifter uses software to reduce the labor costs of producing fabrics, leathers, and metals to make the industrial textile process more efficient.
SimpleTux is a state of mind. Stylish online tux rentals.
Team Tassy works to eliminate poverty in Haiti by placing families into jobs. Their sister company Thread, turns trash into fabric, and employs Team Tassy's families.
Vrai & Oro offers beautiful fine-jewelry essentials without the retail markup. Made in LA, and sold online-only, direct to consumers.
Session Title: Changing the Future
Hyperloop’s vision is to move people and cargo at speeds never thought possible, making the world smaller, cleaner and more efficient. CEO Rob Lloyd and VP of Design and Analysis Josh Giegel will explain why Hyperloop Tech, is the future of transportation and what that means for people, cargo and trade. Sharing Hyperloop’s story and vision our session will get attendees excited about the future of transportation.
How does a 12-week career accelerator for software engineering prepare graduates to join top flight engineering teams? Why are bootcamps so successful in training future software engineers? Go behind the scenes of MakerSquare to find out how they are flipping the traditional computer science degree on its head and crafting skilled software engineers in just three months.
NewCo L.A. guests will get a tour of the campus and a chance to have any questions answered during a Q&A led by Managing Director Michael Frank. Then, students of the graduating class will showcase the skill set they've garnered in the program by presenting their final projects including 50/50, an event planning app, cryptFit, a social platform for fitness enthusiasts, and OnWords, a social network for sharing annotated versions of web content.
Along with the explosive growth of tech companies, coworking has helped fuel demand for “creative office spaces.” But it’s one thing to design an expensive office space with costly overhead; and quite another to create a revenue-generating work environment. BLANKSPACES is unique in that it’s one of just a few coworking spaces with a practicing architect as founder, who can take innovation in the work environment further than most. Attendees will learn how this progressive creative office environments enables a wide variety of people to work efficiently within the same office space.
Session Title: The Future of Workplaces
In this session, Brittany will educate attendees on how to find the next cool office space for your growing company. With the help of CBRE’s Liquid Galaxy — a stunning interactive mapping technology — participants will get an overview of existing, as well as up-and-coming neighborhoods particularly relevant for technology and creative companies. You will receive invaluable information on the ins and outs of finding and securing existing new space that fits your company culture and helps attract and retain top talent. Brittany will sahre real world client examples, like her recent work with Vubiquity.
Brittany is focused on Workplace Strategies, creating the perfect interior space to fit your culture and attract talent. Speakers Jerome Fried and Michael Nieman are the market experts who will show the group how to choose the right space and give the liquid galaxy overview of the market. They have done work with Dropbox, Theranos and OpenTable.
A tour of CBRE’s downtown Los Angeles headquarters, the first office to receive the Delos Well Certification, will also provide you with actionable information on how you can incorporate new technology to successfully accomplish such forward-thinking concepts as "free addressing” and “going paperless,” building a collaborative environment that will help you create your own office of the future. #officeofthefuture
Interested in attending? Check out a few videos featuring CBRE:
The DTLA Boom, featuring CBRE's Liquid Galaxy technology
CBRE New Way - Why DTLA?
Creating the Graffiti mural @ CBRE
Session Title: Yxta Cocina Mexicana— Beginning a Restaurant Empire on Skid Row
Tour the first restaurant Jesse Gomez opened 6 years ago— named for his former professor at Loyola Law School. Find out how Gomez pivoted away from practicing law, building a delicous empire that’s grown to six restaurants. Attendees will learn how he’s driven growth at the company, developing his own philosophy of business, followed by an interactive discussion.
This session on tech and civic innovation will be co-presented by Peter Marx, Chief Technology Office for the City of LA and Michelle Garakian, Tech liaison for the Mayor's Business Team. Learn how Peter and the Innovation team are bringing the City into the 21st century from a technology standpoint, and efforts by the Mayor's Office of Economic Development to grow the City's booming tech ecosystem. Then, tour the LA DOT ATSAC system and find out how it adjusts signal timing for nearly 4,400 signalized intersections citywide, significantly reducing travel time for the denizens of LA.
Special Message from the Host Company to Attendees: You may only enter City Hall through the Main St. entrance. (The public CANNOT enter through the Spring Street entrance). Upon entering check in with security, then take the elevator up to the 3rd floor. Exit the 3rd floor towards the Mayor's Help Desk. Before reaching the Mayor's Help Desk, make a right into the Mayor's 3rd floor office area. Proceed past the security station, towards the receptionist's desk. The Mayor's Press Conference Room where the City of LA session will take place, is immediately adjacent to the receptionists desk. The door to the conference room will be open for guests upon arrival. Also, NewCo signs will be posted directing attendees where to go.
Want to build a better city? Start with what you know. Join Hack for LA Brigade Captain, Vyki Englert, and Impact Hub LA's Co-Directors Dyanne Cano and Ani Okkasian to discuss how this partnership in the Arts District has created a forum for innovators in social impact and civic tech. Experienced in building physical and digital communities, they're using these skills together to build a network and home for Los Angeles's burgeoning civic tech and open government community. Hear why Hack for LA, Impact Hub LA and what's in store for 2016.
Special Message to Attendees from Host Company:
Parking is extremely limited at this session. Please arrange for alternatives such as ridesharing, carpooling, and public transportation where possible. Bicycle lock station is available in front of building entrance. Public Transportation: Blue Line Metro - Grand St Platform; The Silver Line - Grand / LATTC Stop. All Train stations are a 2-3 block walk to The Reef building on Broadway. Parking: There are two parking lots available in front of our building. Parking rate is $10 per day. Be sure to check in with front desk security in the lobby upon arrival.
Everyone knows about the great California Gold Rush. NextRX is a pioneer in its next incarnation - The Green Rush, so named because of the incredible opportunities created by the legalization of medical marijuana. A rapidly growing industry is emerging out of the shadows.
This session will explore the many challenges NextRX faced in it’s quest to create the best possible patient experience through the use of cutting edge technology in the form of its RX-Pass, which allows patients to register securely and easily and then provides one-scan access at subscribing dispensaries. Members are automatically enrolled in the RX-Point system, the industry’s first and only industry-wide rewards system in which they can earn and redeem points when they order their meds - for pickup or delivery.
Attendees will gain considerable insight into the legalized marijuana industry and those who have a valid recommendation and ID can get a free VeriPass (because one shouldn't leave the dispensary without it).
Session Title: The World's 1st Full-Stack Wine Company
Wine is amazing. It should also be approachable. The entire experience of discovering, buying, and learning about wine should be great — not just the drinking part. Club W's founders started with these simple ideas when they set out to create a customer-centric, tech-enabled wine club. Four years later, Club W is a 200,000-case-per-year producer and one of the fastest-growing wine companies in the world, making over 130 small-lot wines each year under their new winery name, WINC. Join CEO Xander Oxman for a discussion on their mission to revolutionize the grape-to-glass wine industry. You'll get an inside look at the recent 2015 harvest, and of course, you'll taste some wine.
Session Title: Designing Social Impact Campaigns
Join the teams of GOOD, LA2050, and Propper Daley for a tour of their shared office space and get a behind-the-scenes look at their unique approaches to designing effective social impact campaigns. Learn about how they combine technology and storytelling for good, enlist the power of Angelenos to build a better LA, and work to discover the secret sauce for creating impactful advocacy campaigns.
Contrary to what you may believe, there’s a proven formula for raising capital— the world’s best CEOs and expert fundraisers have been using it for decades. Now with fundraising and investing transitioning online through equity crowdfunding, this formula can be amplified and made exponentially more valuable to fundraisers.
Crowdfunder has shared this method with founders raising on its platform, and the data shows that those who follow the formula raise ten times the amount of investment as those who don’t.
This session will teach attendees how to unlock capital through proven methodology, maximizing returns on their fundraising efforts.
Peek inside the onefinestay operation, and meet the team that’s redefining the hospitality landscape in LA, London, Paris, and New York. Attendees will learn how hospitality and homes go hand in hand at onefinestay, and why the company designed its service for stays in the finest homes. Learn how a staff member visits each potential new home in person looking for character, space and comfort, inviting only 1 out of every 10 into the program.
Hear from GM, Jason McGrath, how onfinestay is there to meet guests upon arrival introducing them to the home before handing off the keys and an iPhone fully loaded with local recommendations and information about the homes. Then, explore the company’s open-plan office, and connect with members of the team to learn how onefinestay deliver handmade hospitality.
