Boulder Startup Week

Creativity is many things: It’s turning big, new, crazy ideas into a reality, thinking flexibly to find opportunity, and experimenting to leverage what you have and overcome obstacles. It’s countless adventures in learning & re-imagining to craft company culture, built-it-better, and harness the power of “original” to establish a brand that connects. 

It’s hard work…it’s also what keeps most entrepreneurs going. 

We’re bringing together a powerhouse of entrepreneurial leaders from across the spectrum of startup-land to share their truth as they know it about entrepreneurship…and creativity. They’ll each have 4 minutes share a their juicy insights and story on what they have learned in the trenches and how they keep imagining, inventing, growing & thriving. 

The short intro will then lead into a workshop- how to cut through the noise to lead and build using key brainstorming techniques.

We believe in the power of doing. During the second portion the event, we get hands-on. Come ready to dig into the ideas and techniques that foster constructive creativity and an interactive and collaborative experience. SheSays leadership and facilitators will guide the room in a participatory workshop. The goal is to provide tools and structure to unlock your own creativity and bring insight to your next innovation challenge. 

FOOD & DRINKS

Don't worry, we'll have tasty food & drinks on hand to keep your creative juices flowing.  

EVENT TIMELINE

6-6:30 Networking 

6:30-7:10 - Presentations

7:15-8pm - Workshop

Community Mentors to give back and share their perspectives and experiences with founders and entrepreneurs of all walks of life in fast paced 20 minute sessions. Choice your own adventure! Please limit to 1-2 bookings for each day of mentor office hours as slots are very limited.  Unfilled or cancelled time slots are available FCFS the day of the event - just check in with the event host at the event.  This session will be hosted on Tuesday,  May 17th, 9am - 11am @ Galvanize: 5th Floor, 1035 Pearl St, Boulder, CO 80302.

Please note that adding this event to your Sched does not sign you up to meet with a mentor.  You must click one of the links below labelled "Book a slot" with each specific mentor.

Please choose a session with an amazing mentor, below:

• Anke Corbin | Profile | Filled 
• Dan DeGolier | Profile | Filled
• Josh Forman | Profile | Filled 
• Josh Horwitz | Profile | Filled 
• Tom Keller | Profile | Filled
• Emilie Kintner | Profile | Filled
• Carly Kiser | Profile | Filled
• Seth Levine |  Profile | Filled
• Yoav Lurie | Profile | Filled
• Amy Marmolejo | Profile  | Filled
• Allen Shriver | Profile | Book a Slot
• Paul Wagner |  Profile | Filled

To see a video recording of the event (including all slides presented), please see: https://youtu.be/65FBnuYtVBY

Welcome to Analyze Boulder 36!  We're so thrilled to be hosting a special Boulder Startup Week edition of AB for a FOURTH year.  We've rounded up some of our most popular 5-minute flash data talks from the past year:

Theresa Becker presents a web-based visualization of co-mutation data to assist researchers and clinicians in understanding the complex mutational dynamic of cancer, with potential future application in personalized medicine.

Damian Wandler highlights some sneaky ways bias can end up in well-intentioned AB tests, how machine learning can be the nemesis of causal inference, and some methods to address these issues.

Aman Ahuja will talk about applications of data science in the non-profit sector: how they can be different from popular views of data science, what we can all learn from these projects, and why it’s important that we do so.  

Erich Wellinger will show us how, what, and when media sources have covered various topics in the 2016 Presidential Election, analyzed using the web-scraping and Natural Language Processing techniques. 

As always, we'll be pouring great beer from Vindication Brewing Company.  

Please contact us if you want to give a 5-minute flash talk on any data-related subject! 

Presented by people who have lived it, the attendee will be exposed to the benefits and challenges of the entrepreneurial life on relationships and families. Attendees will hear what works and what doesn't work in negotiating the demands of family life while getting a business off the ground.

One of White Tale Coffee’s founders, Nicolás Anzellini, will prepare and discuss two of the company’s select roasts for tasting and comparison. Participants will savor the brews while discussing how things like elevation, processing, and roasting impact coffee. Nicolás will also share personal stories about the coffee farmers behind each roast.

What will the world look like in 2026? How will cryptocurrencies disrupt finance? How is photographic technology changing the way in which the world processes information? How will machine learning and data science revolutionize the way in which trends are discovered and analyzed?

Join our speakers to hear about the trends that are bleeding edge today, but have the potential to turn entire industries upside down by 2026.

* Piper Merriam (Engineer, QuickLeft): The Blockchain Revolution
* Jeffrey Donenfeld (EIR, Boomtown) : Sensors and Photons: The Technologies That Enable Your Creative Vision
* Dean Wyatte (Sr Data Scientist, LogRhythm): using Machine Learning to identify network behavior and detect suspicious activity
* Zooko Wilcox (Founder, ZCash): Bitcoin is HTTP for money. Zcash is HTTPS
 
 

Legalized marijuana is green in a few different ways, including the amount of cash generated by the industry, but when it comes to energy use the impacts of growing pot indoors are not quite as environmentally friendly. Growing marijuana indoors requires a huge amount of energy, from not just lighting needs but also heating and cooling along with humidity management. Working with utility energy efficiency programs can sometimes be complicated for these businesses because the product they product remains illegal on a federal level. This panel will explore the energy use challenges of legalized marijuana along with some of the solutions that entrepreneurs in this space are creating.