Register early and secure your opportunity to engage fellow entrepreneurial explorers, executives and experts during this one day exclusive event packed with high quality content, insights, and interactions!

Building on the success of last year’s event, StartupHPC-15 delves into the entrepreneurial mindset, startup activation, and success. Contributed talks combine with spirited discussions in this open forum, offering attendees a mix of rare and deeply personal experiences, professional best practices, and practical learnings.

StartupHPC returns with its ever popular ‘perspectives from the trenches’ and ‘CxO Probe’ series featuring a cast of new and notable champions and challengers:

• The “Get-Funded” Framework. What needs to get done? How the pieces relate to each other? How do you clear the hurdles?
• Case study: follow a success story from seed funding to incubation and initial networking to launch.
• Target markets: what are the hot market segments that need your HPC/STEM expertise and mindset? What are the key application areas? And how STEM/HPC can help.
• Marketing: what is it and when do you need it?
• Learning from Failure! We select 3 companies and discuss what they did wrong. [Let us know if you’d like us to discuss/analyze a particular company.]
• First person stories and CEO panel. How did they take the plunge? What did they learn? How can we learn from their experience?
• Extra Credit: open Q&A with select speakers after the official close of the conference. Stay if you can.

We’re honored to have such prominent invited speakers. Their enthusiasm to participate is an indication of how much fun we’re all going to have listening to them and interacting with them.

8:30 am	Registration & Mixer
9:00 am	Eye Opener and Today’s Agenda	Steve Campbell (MC for the event)	Partner, OrionX
9:05 am	The “Get-Funded” Framework: From Idea to Launch	Shahin Khan	Partner, OrionX
9:15 am	Entrepreneur Ecosystem: Grooming for Growth	Mellie Price	MD/Fund Director & GP, Capital Factory, and Founder/CEO, Front Gate Tickets
9:40 am	Incubators: Cultivating Ideas	Blake Yaeger	Managing Director, TechStars
10:05 am	Founder Stories: BitFusion	Subbu Rama	CEO, BitFusion.io
10:30 am	Break & Mixer
10:40 am	Hot Markets, Key Apps, Core Algorithms	Peter ffoulkes	Industry Insight & Advisory, Partner, OrionX
11:05 am	The “Inside” Scoop: Signs Your Pitch Won’t Stick	Rich Brueckner	President, Inside-HPC Media
11:15 am	Go to Market: Vision & Value Proposition	Shahin Khan	Partner, OrionX
11:40 am	Digital Marketing: Essentials in Engament	Kim McMahon	CEO, McMahon Consulting
12:05 pm	Founder Stories: Virtual Bridges	Leo Reiter	CTO, Nimbix/former Founder, Virtual Bridges
12:30 pm	Lunch & Mixer
1:15 pm	Building Your Base: Landing Early Customers	Dale Geldart	Startup Executive/former CEO eXludus Technologies
1:40 pm	Learning from Failure: 3 Companies (interactive)	Dan Olds	Principal, Gabriel Consulting Group, and Contributing Editor, The Register
2:10 pm	CxO Probe: Q&A Panel	Dr. Stephen Perrenod (Moderator) (Panel to be announced)	Partner, OrionX
2:55 pm	Founder Stories: WhamCloud	Brent Gorda	Intel, and Founder, WhamCloud
3:20 pm	Session Wrap & Staying in touch	Shahin Khan	Partner, Orion Advisors
3:30 pm	Break & Mixer
3:35pm	Extra Credit: Group Discussion, Q&A (Stay if you can!)	Select Speakers

Video clips of last year’s event are available with registration for this year’s conference or by subscription.