Sixth look: 15 sessions to look forward to at NewCo ATX!

By Joshua Baer | 05/28/2015 | Uncategorized

If you haven’t already heard we’re bringing NewCo Festivals to Austin on May 29th! This is your chance to connect with companies in Austin making a difference and driving innovation within our city limits. It all starts tonight! Join Capital Factory and NewCo VIPs at Atlassian’s offices in downtown to kick off the festival with a special fireside chat featuring NewCo Co-Founder, John Battelle (Co-Founding Editor of Wired). In addition, we will have former CNN correspondent, and current Daily Dot Executive Producer, Josh Rubin, interviewing John Betelle for the night! If anyone is interested in a press pass, please email press@capitalfactory.com.

All VIP attendees will receive a special preview of what the Capital Factory birthday celebration entails! You won’t want to miss this. Buy tickets and add to your schedule below.

What is NewCo?
NewCo is a new kind of event experience: a mashup of an open studio tour and a business conference, with the vibe of a music festival. Register to attend sessions given by local companies and organizations. You get to pick which sessions you would like to see and which company/organization you’d like to visit in their native environment.

Why should you attend?
80+ of Austin’s awesome and innovative companies are ready to tell you how they’re making an impact both globally and locally. These companies will open their doors for one-hour experiential sessions led by local founders and entrepreneurs. Get ready for behind-the-scene tours of cutting-edge work environments and founders candidly sharing insights from their journey.

Which sessions should you sign up for?
A few times a week, we will feature 10 sessions you should check out on 5/29!

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10 more sessions to sign up for at NewCo ATX!

Session: Getting skilled in the 21st century

Speaker: Regional Director, Danielle Barnes

At General Assembly, we are creating a global community of individuals empowered to pursue work they love, by offering full-time immersive programs, long-form courses, and classes and workshops on the most relevant skills of the 21st century – from web development and user experience design, to business fundamentals, to data science, to product management and digital marketing. General Assembly was founded in New York in 2011 and now has 13 campuses across 4 continents.

Learn more about and sign up for their session here.

Session: 3 Terrors of Bootstrapping

Speaker: CEO, Chris Taylor

Grab a beer and join Square Root CEO Chris Taylor to hear about his struggles in bootstrapping Square Root from his apartment to a $15M SaaS software business. Also, tour Square Root’s unique three 1920’s house “campus” and find out why we were recently named Fortune’s third best small and medium sized technology company to work for in the US.

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Session: Leading with Location: How Brands Can Succeed in the Connected Future

Speaker: Chairman and CEO, Alan Knitowski

In an increasingly connected world with mobile devices, appliances, cars, and every other kind of technology at the consumer’s fingertips and easy to control, how do brands maintain a strong presence? How can they possibly leverage all of the data collected by those connected devices to gain a better understanding of—and deeper engagement with—their customers? We’ll explore the potential of location marketing automation to expose customer insights and create a cohesive brand experience.

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Session: Doctor’s Office 2.0: A journey into the future of outpatient care

Speaker: Founder and CEO, Andrew O’Hara

This session will focus on how tech companies are finally beginning to transform physician practices. From comparison shopping for the first time in healthcare to communication tools for remote access to care, physician practices are now on the verge of joining the modern world! Join Founder and CEO, Andrew O’Hara, for a tour of Chiron’s new eastside office, a candid discussion on the future of healthcare delivery, and a live telemedicine appointment on Chiron’s platform.

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Session: The Changing Face of Employee Engagement

Speaker: Co-Founder and CEO, Autumn Manning

What is total engagement and why is every company looking for it? Companies spend more and more money each year to engage employees, yet the number of disengaged workers continues to climb. Why? YouEarnedIt will share how to bring together all the elements and programs that make your people better employees and your employees’ better people- elements that lead to happier employees like learning, wellness, connectivity, recognition, impact and rewards. When these areas are in alignment, employees experience greater job and life satisfaction and companies experience better results. In this session, we are going to discuss a vision for total employee engagement and how YouEarnedIt has taken ownership of this new way of thinking and provide companies with a simple way to deploy this across their organization.

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Session: What We’ve Learned from Watching 2,000 Companies Interview 20,000 Engineers

Speaker: CEO and Co-Founder, Matt Mickiewicz

This session will focus on how to scale your company to 100+ people. Hired will share the data, insights and best practices we’ve collected from watching 20,000 engineers interview with 2,000 companies, equaling $6 billion in offers through our platform.

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Session: Everfest’s One Hour Festival of Future Awesome

Speaker: Founders, Paul Cross, Jay Manickam, Brad Dixon

Join Everfest for a one-hour mini-fest! We’ll give you a glimpse into how we infuse fun into everything we do – because who wants to hang out on a festival site that isn’t fun? We’ll have mini-stations highlighting what we’re planning on building and where we see festivals and technology intersecting in the future: – Meet the Founders & Team – Product, Prototypes & Crazy Ideas – Festival Games, Mystery & Intrigue Free Beer | Free Snacks | Live Music | Costumes Encouraged | Fun Mandatory

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Session: Using technology, design and experience to build community

Speaker: Co-Founder and CEO & Design Director, Jagath Narayan & Matt Omohundro

Learn how WeWork uses technology, design and experience to actively expand its global community. Every WeWork location incorporates unique, local personality while leveraging the experience of building communities across the globe.

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Session: The Million More Mission of Civitas Learning

Speaker: CEO and Chief Learning Officer, Charles Thornburgh and Mark Milliron

The United States must produce roughly one million more graduates a year by 2025 to ensure the country has the skilled workers and entrepreneurial leaders it needs–not to mention more deeply engaged and informed citizens. Civitas Learning partners with forward-thinking colleges and universities to forever change higher education and meet that goal. Join us to learn how Charles Thornburgh and Mark Milliron co-founded the fastest-growing ed-tech startup in the U.S., along with a team representing the best of new technology, design thinking, and data science driven to improve student outcomes and change education.

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Session: Do Awesome Stuff: With DoStuff

Speaker: CEO, Scott Owens

DoStuff was born out of wanting to find a way for local culture hunters to give the community an easy way to find the awesome stuff that is happening in their city. Come hear how our network is creating global scale with a hyper-local business model, some of the hurdles and successes we’ve had along the way and maybe play some bocce with us (if time allows)!

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Session: Fundraising Post Pivot

Speaker: Co-Founder, Evan Baehr and Will Davis

Able Cofounders Evan Baehr and Will Davis have raised more than $10M in three years for two different startups. Able’s NewCo session will cover the ups and downs of fundraising, storytelling of their most memorable moments, and useful learnings along the way including a big pivot. Will and Evan will also share the history of small business lending and interested small businesses can apply for an Able loan on-site during the session.

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Session: How to Disrupt An Industry

Speaker: CTO, Allen Darnell

Silvercar CTO, Allen Darnell, knows a thing or two about shaking things up. Allen and his team will take you on the journey of Silvercar, the game-changing, all-Audi challenger brand that has successfully reimagined car rental. Through the power of a proprietary app, Silvercar has eliminated the dreaded lines, counters, paperwork and hassles that have plagued the car rental industry for decades. Learn the history of the brand, where it is headed, and the caliber of talent the company seeks to have in the driver’s seat as it continues to revolutionize not only the car rental industry, but the next generation of personal transportation.

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Session: Disrupting the PR Industry

Speaker: Founder, Matt Allison

TrendKite helps the world’s biggest brands communicate and connect with their global audiences. Organizations use our data to make better, more informed decisions for the greater good and also to navigate through global crises and epidemics. Want to learn how TrendKite is disrupting the PR industry? Founders Matt Allison and AJ Bruno will give you a look at one of the fastest growing startups in Austin and will show you why the world’s biggest brands and agencies are using TrendKite to measure and magnify the impact of their PR.

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Session: Austin’s Opportunity to Revolutionize Health Care

Speaker: Inaugural Dean of the Dell Medical School // Vice Dean for Strategy and Partnerships, Dr. Clay Johnston // Mini Kahlon, PhD

The session will be held at the Dell Medical School offices on the University of Texas Campus. It will feature an in-depth look at the vision behind the school, the possibilities that underlie this first brand new medical school to be built at a Tier 1 research university in decades, the health care challenges that its work and innovation will help address, and transformative opportunities for innovators to plug in and support the vital, inclusive health ecosystem that the school is helping to create.

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Session: How Did I Get Here? The Retailmenot Story.

Speaker: CEO, Cotter Cunningham

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Sixth look: 15 sessions to look forward to at NewCo ATX!

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