NewCo Los Angeles 2015

Session Title: Saving Our Kids’ Futures— One Appliance at a Time

Find out why the most impactful way to reduce emissions begins in your own home with energy-efficiency upgrades. This session will look at new public data on how much of a long-term impact these improvements have on our communities, and how Enervee is working locally with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power to save energy.

Special Message to Attendees from Host Company:

Street parking is available on Victoria Ave, our cross street, and the surrounding streets, most of which have no permit or time restrictions. 

Session Title: Why female entrepreneurs rock! Tour, interactive "fireside" chat and meditation

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.

Session Title: The Market for Top Talent in LA

Hired plays match maker to in-demand tech and sales candidates and the amazing local companies who want to hire them. After facilitating hundreds of hires in the LA area, we know what makes this city's startup system so unique, and what advantages it offers over other tech hubs like San Francisco and New York. In this session, hear from our West Coast GM Courtney Montpas on what makes a career in this city different from its counterparts around the country, what skills local companies are looking for and the best way to lure top talent.

Attendees will enjoy mini cupcake treats while taking in the session. The Hired team will raffle a gift box with Hired swag and a bottle of Dom Perignon! 

Special Message to Attendees from Host Company:

There is street parking or there is a meter parking lot on the corner of Electric Avenue and Santa Clara right next to Feed. 

Session Description: Helping Men Live Smarter, More Successful Lives

Get a glimpse into Dollar Shave Club's mission to change the way men address their shaving and grooming needs. From its BS-free razor subscription, to its Shave Butter chemistry, to tomorrow’s cutting edge user experience – the company is dedicated to inventing smart products to help guys live better, more successful lives. Attendees will meet the founder and get an inside peak into the company with plans to own mens' bathrooms.

Session Title: Breaking Time and Space— Mixed is the New Reality

Visit the research center where Oculus founder Palmer Luckey worked as a lab assistant, and see first-hand how VR and other immersive technologies can be used for good. Meet the virtual humans that are helping solve problems in the physical world. See the technologies that are leading to a profoundly mixed reality and hear from the experts who are advancing capabilities and dreaming up new uses and applications.

Special Message to Attendees from Host Company:

Our offices are located in the Campus at Playa Vista complex. Parking is approximately $8.00 for an hour and $2.00 for every 15 minutes after that. Guests are asked to park in the exterior lot to the right of the driveway entrance. Street parking may be available. Read posted signs carefully. Santa Monica Blue Bus 14 stops right around the corner and Metro Bus 110 is a short walk away. Please note that our parking lot pay machine does not accept cash. Payment must be by credit card only. Map and location information: http://ict.usc.edu/about/location/
 

The program will be hosted by NewCo Founder John Battelle and will include a mix of 1:1 conversations and spotlights from some of the LA's host companies, followed by a networking cocktail reception.

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

 

Session Title: Bouqs— The Most Genuine Flower Experience

The experience of ordering flowers online is ripe for disruption. Big players have dominated the space for years, yet the customer experience is dismal at best with deceptive pricing and flowers that don’t look like what was ordered. Bouqs.com has changed the game for this industry with flat rate pricing and flowers that are shipped directly from sustainable, eco-friendly farms and local, artisan florists. This new model includes a proprietary supply chain that streamlines the process, allowing for low prices and the best experience possible. Enjoy a tour of Bouqs’ space, check out video of the farms where the flowers are grown, and maybe even take home a complimentary bouquet.

Special Message to Attendees from Host Company:

We are located close to the corner of Washington and Lincoln. Street parking is available on Washington Blvd and our side streets, Yale Ave and Stanford Ave. Parking is limited in our area, so grabbing an Uber or Lyft is highly recommended. Please avoid parking in the lots of our neighbors, Cafe Buna and Akbar Cuisine, as you may get towed.

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: Changing the Game for Restaurants: the Role of Tech and the Consumer

Fancy yourself a foodie? Join co-founders Chris Webb and Eric Jaffe for a tour of ChowNow’s new Playa Vista headquarters and learn how ChowNow is changing the game for local restaurants nationwide with a product that enables your favorite eateries to compete against the big national chains. Chris and Eric will take NewCo attendees through a deep dive on the current state of restaurant technology, food trends analyzed from over 3,000 U.S. restaurants, and seemingly small consumer decisions that can yield a big impact on the long term success of a restaurant. It wouldn’t be a ChowNow fete without food, so come hungry — we'll be serving up Stumptown coffee and an afternoon snack from one of our favorite LA restaurant clients.

Special Message to Attendees from Host Company:

Please use this link (http://bit.ly/1LCp6fU) and/or see below for directions to ChowNow HQ. We're looking forward to seeing you! 

Address:
ChowNow HQ
12181 W. Bluff Creek Drive, Suite W200 (2nd floor)
Playa Vista, CA 90094

Directions:
1. From the 405, head west on Jefferson Blvd.
2. Turn left on Campus Center Drive, then turn left on W. Bluff Creek Drive.
3. Enter the parking structure off of W. Bluff Creek Drive (contains a roundabout). Pull a parking garage ticket and ChowNow will provide validation. 
4. After parking, walk to Building 12181. Check in with lobby security and take the elevators up to the 2nd floor. Turn right to enter the ChowNow office - Suite W200. 

Session Title: How Facebook is Changing Online Video

With over 30 million fans on Facebook, MoviePilot never intended to be a video-centric company. And yet with the more recent rollout of video and distribution tools at Facebook, Moviepilot is now delivering video to over 20 million millennials a month. Find out how this shift has changed how the company sees content, and what major changes Facebook is bringing to the online video space.

Session Title: Building Brand Loyalty— How to Connect with and Reactivate Your Best Customers

Home textiles is an "old school," traditional retail category with no brand loyalty. Learn how Parachute is changing the game and building a lifestyle brand— discover the tactics they use to empower their customers, how they're building a community centered around sleep and wellness, and the importance of reactivating their customer base ahead of the traditional purchase lifecycle.

Special Message to Attendees from Host Company:

Parachute is located on 54 Paloma Ave, a walk street between Pacific Ave and the beach. Street parking or the lot on the corner of Rose Ave & Main street is recommended. 

Session Title: Inside Headspace

A glimpse of life at the world's most popular meditation app. Created through a partnership between a former Buddhist monk and an adman, Headspace's product delivers the 3000 year old practice of meditation, straight to your iPhone. You'll meet the founders, explore Headspace's phenomenal growth and even experience meditation first-hand.

Session Title: Upgrade Your Game

Learn how Pogoseat’s enterprise solution for sports teams and concert venues enables fans to upgrade seats and purchase VIP promotions during events. Get a hands on demo of the product as Director of Business Development, Wesley Newhouse explains how the company’s platform increases fan engagement, monetizes unused inventory and gathers data to improve the fan experience. Then, enjoy an interactive Q&A on the state of the industry and Pogoseat’s place in the ticketing arena.

Session Title: Reimagining & Reinventing Innovation

Rubicon Project will host a roadshow on its Culture of Innovation and how it has enabled the creation of various technologies. This session will delve into the question of how to create and maintain a Culture of Innovation while growing from a startup into a public company. The roadshow will incorporate presentations and demos from Rubicon’s innovation lab, its semi-annual Olympics of Technology hackathons, and its leading engineers and Culture team members.