Ignite Tampa Bay Videos Now Available
This year’s record setting Ignite event left a lot of people energized and asking for more. We walked away with new friends, a new batch of volunteers to help out with future tech community and startup focused events and most importantly a new found respect among the region’s leaders and media. There are things far more important than the size of the audience or who spoke from the stage, what Ignite’s organizers want to convey is that the very diverse and sometimes chaotic tech community is working hard to make Tampa Bay a better, more energized place to live. They hope that by holding an event where “average” citizens can get up and express their passions others will will get involved to help.
This year’s event touched on a lot of topics some interesting and some not so much, but all delivered with passion and a sincere desire to build community. See the wrap-up coverage of the event in the May 3rd issue of the Tampa Bay Business Journal @TBBJNewsroom.
Startup Tampa Bay – May 3rd
This week’s webcast was hosted by the University of Tampa’s Entrepreneurship program (part of the Sykes School of Business at UT). Students from the program talk about their projects and the challenges of building a new product / company.
Participating in this week’s discussion about the local startup ecosystem and the Hillsborough county economic development innovation initiative (#EDI2) were:
Joy Randels – New Market Partners
Joel Lopez – Founder, Tampa Bay BarCamp & HealthCamp
Jovanna Williams – USF Student & President of Createch
Tyler Pitchford – Attorney at Brannock & Humphries
James Zebrowski – President, UT Entrepreneurs
Mark Sharpe – Commissioner, Hillsborough County
David Wistocki – UT Student Entrepreneur
Dr. Rebecca White – Director of the UT Entrepreneurship Program
Ken Evans – @StartupMonkey
Stephanie Cvetetic – Hillsborough County Economic Development
Next week’s webcast will be at USF’s Marshall Student center, the host facility for this year’s Tampa Bay HelathCamp. Registration for HealthCamp ends Thursday May 9th.
Startup Tampa Bay – April 19th
This week’s webcast we welcome the newest member of the EDI2 team, Stephanie Cvetetic who will be working for Hillsborough County Economic Development to help rollout and administer the Economic Development Innovation Initiative.
Participants in this week’s webcast were:
Fritz Eicheliberger – @Fritz_Hotspaces
Stephanie Cvetetic – @HillsboroughFL
Mark Sharpe – @MarkSharpeFL
Ken Evans – @StartupMonkey
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