
Monday, May 9, 2022
Machine Learning Models & Coffee
Join us for this welcome event to have some coffee and talk about Machine Learning. Get to know the community of people who are working on Machine Learning around Boulder.
A biased take on platform tools for better Machine Learning
Join for this biased presentation of state of the world of ML platform, how different OSS technologies are shaping the ML Infrastructure landscape, and wether it makes sense to use some of them earlier or later as your ML platform. This talk will be pretty biased on my own experiences, so take with a grain of salt, but come join as I introduce you to some of the technologies I have worked with and listen to some of my experience with them.
Fireside Chat with Royce Haynes
A discussion with Royce Haynes, the CTO of Tilt, about his experiences as a first time CTO in the Denver/Boulder (global) SaaS space. Dave Mayer of Technical Integrity will moderate.
How to raise a pre-seed or seed round - open Q&A on fundraising for startups
Join us for a lively discussion on how to fundraise for your startup. You'll leave with a better understanding of what it means to fundraise for your startup, what investors are looking for, how to raise your first few rounds of capital and some special insider tips and tricks. I've helped over 100 companies raise collectively almost $1B in capital and I'll share many learnings and answer your questions in hopes of helping you navigate the VC world.
New To Boulder? Let's Welcome You.
Are you new to town? Want to meet others into startups and new as well? This hour session is focused on building community of the next members of our community. We will head out to dinner after the session and you are welcome!
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
How CU Can Help Your Startup
Looking for ways to grow your startup and wish you could get more support from CU Boulder? Look no further – CU Boulder has a myriad of resources no matter what your startup stage may be, and we will walk you through some options to get help.
Digital Marketing 101
Zak Weinberg, Founder + CEO of Echo Boomer Design, will lead an interactive session around the building blocks of digital strategy for startups. Attendees will engage in a build-measure-learn process across essential marketing tools such as, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Digital Media and Email Marketing, for startups of any size or industry. There will be breakfast burritos and coffee (limited to the first 75 attendees!).
AI for Recycling
This is a talk about developing robotics, computer vision, software and artificial intelligence in the name of enabling a world without waste.
Protecting Your API with OAuth`
OAuth is a well known standard and is useful for delegating authentication and authorization decisions to a central identity provider. As a developer, you’ve given a token when a grant completes.
But what happens then? This talk will discuss client and server side code and logic needed when calling an API after you have a token. This will include how to store a token in the API client and what your API code should examine when presented with a token.
Montreal Entrepreneurs Meet SAGE Feedback
3 of HEC Montreal's best entrepreneurial teams will pitch in front of a group of Boulder SAGE advisors and get live feedback. Pitching is hard enough in your first language, but these French speakers are pitching in English. This was a great event last BSW and they are back for more.
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
1 Million Cups
1 Million Cups Boulder! Every week, entrepreneurs present business ideas to the local community and learn how those around them can support their business in it's growth.
Presenting: fyiio - Product training/onboarding platform
fyiio, https://fyi.io - Alex Kuklinski presenting, is a how-to platform sold B2B empowering companies to create, place, and maintain accessible learning experiences that show the world how to do anything.
(Note: Event will be In-Person only and part of Boulder Startup Week)
Creating tutorials is complicated, expensive, and time-intensive to maintain for rapidly-evolving products. It requires that companies learn, use, and maintain several different platforms. Ones that might not be tailorable to an individual’s attention span, learning preference, and accessibility needs. Fyiio’s Tutorial Builder makes instructional design accessible, content distribution simple, and updating content painless by synchronizing changes across multiple distribution channels. Our Tutorial Player caters to the four primary types of learners, translates itself to a person's preferred language, and can be embedded nearly anywhere to be as accessible as possible.
We’re revenue-generating now and are being used in automotive, eCom, food safety, and AgTech. We have four granted U.S. Patents on our approach to creating, presenting, interacting with, and finding tutorials.
Our current target market is B2B SaaS companies with 10+ employees and a rapidly growing product and customer base. We're also planning an expansion to include Creators, maker spaces and co-working spaces.
Buying and Selling Roca Robotics
This talk is about the process of buying and selling Roca Robotics, a company that produces the Roca Sorter - a robotic card sorters for the Trading Card Game market.
How to Make Giving Back Part of Your Brand's DNA
Startup and social impact veterans demystifies the give-back process and shows how everyone can harness the power to do good while supercharging their lives and drive business. This interactive session will discuss and share simple, flexible, and scaleable ways to integrate giving back into the DNA of all companies, especially startups.
Thursday, May 12, 2022
Crypto and Coffee
Join for a lively discussion on Crypto over some coffee.
Intro To Crypto: What, Wonder, Why, Where
An introduction to the wild world of Crypto from those in it and beyond. This session will discuss the What (how does this work), Wonder (what dreams can be built in the industry), Why (purpose behind projects), and Where (what local companies are contributing to the success of the industry).
Fundraising in Robotics
Learn about the challenges, successes and war stories surrounding VC fundraising in robotics over the last few years.
Moderator - Kira Noodleman https://www.linkedin.com/in/kiranoodleman/; Panelists: Nima Keivan https://www.linkedin.com/in/nkeivan/
Brett Jackson https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettrjackson/
Matanya Horowitz https://www.linkedin.com/in/matanya/
Vanessa Clark https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessajaneclark/
This Crazy Real Estate Market - Beyond the Data
What is going on in the Real Estate market? There is data, and then there is beyond the data where the real story forms.
Uncovering Relief - Finding rest where we are
Global conditions have accelerated a pervasive sense of unease in our personal and professional lives. We are learning to acclimate to novel stressors in our society and at work. In this session, we will practice some straightforward methods that provide a sense of relief and help us cultivate resilience amidst uncertainty.
Data-to-Dollars
This interactive session will include lessons from the battle field, and how to transform client intelligence into adoption, growth and revenue. You will leave with actionable insights on how to implement; 1. Capturing unique client and prospect identifiers, 2. Simplifying Marketing models, 3. Structuring data, 4. Enabling a single source of truth, and 5. Automating everything and everywhere.
Friday, May 13, 2022
Future of Fintech
This panel is focused on the infrastructure of Fintech deals and will be a discussion on what is coming in the next 5-10 years in the industry.
Fintech: Building to Scale
A discussion on what it takes to build to scale in the Fintech industry.
Fintech Networking
Join the panelists from the past two sessions for networking and further discussion on the future of Fintech.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain for Robotics Panel
Come learn about managing manufacturing & supply chain logistics in the time of Covid from local high growth Denver robotics startups and operators.
Moderator: Ravi Shah https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravi-shah-a6ba041/
Panelists: Brian Merkel https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-merkel-ba3b2760/
Haley Cashdollar https://www.linkedin.com/in/hayleycashdollar/
Andre Neumann-Loreck https://www.linkedin.com/in/andre-neumann-loreck-a9a6/