About the Conference
The Super Entrepreneur – In the Relentless Pursuit of Success…
The key to entrepreneurship is often recognizing that the path to success can be a meandering journey or an all-out race. Join us for this marquee event and TiE Atlanta’s 15th Anniversary Celebration at TiECON Southeast 2013!
Register Now for TiECON Southeast 2013, to be held on Saturday, April 27th, to meet and learn from leading serial entrepreneurs, active Angel & Venture Capital investors, and the brightest minds on all things startup and scale up!
Our keynote speakers include: Don Panoz, Founder of Chateau Elan Winery & Resort and Panoz Motorsports, and credited with tremendous contributions to inventing the nicotine patch; Dr. Kiran Patel, a leading entrepreneur, community leader and philanthropist whose several achievements are only matched by his demonstrated acts of charity around the globe; Dr. Sid Gautam, Founder and Director of STEP (Society to Educate People) and Founder of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Methodist University; Dr. Tim Fox, a medical physicist and co-founder of Velocity Medical Solutions, LLC; and Dr. Ashok K. Goel, Director of the Design & Intelligence Laboratory at Georgia Institute of Technology, and a Co-Director of the Institute’s Center for Biologically Inspired Design.
The event will be emceed by the one and only Dan Nainan – heralded as one of the world’s leading comedians who delights everyone from entrepreneurs to President Obama.
In addition to our fantastic and inspiring keynote speakers, TYE (TiE Young Entrepreneurs) students, early stage, later stage, and social entrepreneurs will all pitch before local, national and international Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists.
Helpful Morning and Afternoon mentor-roundtable sessions with 40+ experts will increase your knowledge and skill sets around customer acquisition, monetization, and startup team building as well as sector focus on mobile, healthcare, cleantech, financial services and enterprise software.
TiECON Southeast will conclude with a dazzling Awards Ceremony, which will recognize top entrepreneurial companies from the Southeast!
TiE Global, a not-for-profit organization created for the advancement of entrepreneurship, presents TiECON Southeast 2013, the largest one-day professional and networking conference for entrepreneurs offering mentor roundtables, pitching opportunities and keynote speakers. Developed by TiE Global chapters from Georgia, Tampa and the Carolinas, TiECON Southeast is designed to introduce attendees, including entrepreneurs at all stages of development, to the essential skills and traits of the super entrepreneur.
Whether it is the willingness to fail today to bring tomorrow’s success one step closer or the ruthless pursuit of key talent, the super entrepreneur recognizes that the payoff for today’s investment may be around the corner or years in the making. Attendees of TiECON Southeast 2013 will have an opportunity to learn firsthand what it takes to be a super entrepreneur and succeed where others have not.
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TiECON Southeast 2013 Agenda
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8:00 AM - 8:45 AM
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Conference Registration, Networking & Continental Breakfast
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8:45 AM - 9:00 AM
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Welcome Address & Conference Overview (Habersham Ballroom)
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9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
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Morning Keynote Speaker: Dr. Kiran Patel, Chairman, Freedom Healthcare (Habersham Ballroom)
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10:00 AM - 11:50 AM
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Morning Mentor Roundtable Session: (Ascot Room)
Super Entrepreneur Secrets
Topics Include:
Building a Startup Team
Mentors: Sue Boehlke, Sandra Hofmann, Eric Langley
Facilitator: Kristie Nicodemus
Bootstrapping/Self-Funding
Mentors: Heath Hyneman, Shankar Balan
Facilitator: Ham Naran
Angel Rounds
Mentors: Sanjay Parekh, Gordon Rogers
Facilitator: Scott Perry
VC Rounds
Mentors: Ashish Mistry, Mark Carlson, Darrell Glasco
Facilitator: Heena Sampat
Customer Discovery + Validation
Mentors: Rachel Orston, Pete Santora, David Duncan
Facilitator: Chia Chi
Go from 0-10m in Revenue
Mentors: Mark Wilson, Satya Tiwari
Facilitator: Matthew May
Product Development
Mentors: David Moeller, Kevin Wallace
Facilitator: Steve Thome
Sponsored by:
Northwestern Mutual & Baker Donelson
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TiE Young Entrepreneurs (TYE) Pitch Session (Habersham Ballroom)
Moderator: Kishore Masand
Teams
Team Angel Wings
Team Zelen
Team Spark
Team Legendary
Team Xeratech
Judges
Jim Beach, Merrick Furst, Sig Mosley, Arul Murugan, KP Reddy
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Social Business Pitch Session (Habersham Ballroom)
Moderator: James Watson
Teams
Sevamob – Shelley Saxena
Village Defense – Sharath Mekala
Skillsify – Linda Brenner
Rimidi – Lucienne Ide
Judges
Dr. Mohammad Bhuiyan, Doug Reid, Jay Cranman, Jeff Woodward, Sig Mosley, Charlie Paparelli, Robert Smulian, B. Scott Sadler, Brian Cayce, Mark Thornton
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Noon - 1:30 PM
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Lunch & Afternoon Keynote “TedTalk” Speakers (Habersham Ballroom)
Dr. Sid Gautam, Founder, STEP (Society to Educate People) & Center for Entrepreneurship at Methodist University
Dr. Tim Fox, Co-Founder of Velocity Medical Solutions
Dr. Ashok Goel, Professsor, Georgia Institute of Technology
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1:30 PM - 1:45 PM
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BREAK
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1:45 PM - 3:15 PM
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Afternoon Mentor Roundtable Session: (Ascot Room)
Inside Track to Hot Industry Opportunities
Topics Include:
Big Data
Mentors: Radhika Subramanian, Devon Wijesinghe, Burt Smith
Facilitator: Scott Perry
Healthcare
Mentors: Kunal Jain, Samirkumar Patel, David Asbury
Facilitator: Ashish Thakur
Social, Mobile, Local
Mentors: Dr. Joe Profit, Ed Rieker
Facilitator: Ham Naran
Opportunities in Consulting
Mentors: C.N. Madhusudan, Eric Ensor, Ramesh Maturu
Facilitator: Heena Sampat
Cloud & SaaS
Mentors: Abhi Muthiyan, Blake Patton, Sanjoy Malik
Facilitator: Steve Thome
Fintech
Mentors: Jeff McConnell, Jeremy Wing
Facilitator: Matthew May
Sales & Marketing Automation
Mentors: Adam Steinberg, Adam Blitzer, Neera Mathur
Facilitator: Chia Chi
Sponsored by: Cherry Bekaert & Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
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Early Stage Pitch Session (Habersham Ballroom)
Moderator: Kris Gadde
Teams
cMeCompete – Dan Popovic
Innovatia Medical Systems LLC – Peter Savage
LumaMed – Shabbir Bambot
Mr. Arlo – Chuck Job Lang
TransacXion Technologies Corp – Michel Fontaine
Judges
Richard Brock, Ashok Kartham, Prashanth Rajendran, Shilen Patel, KP Reddy, Larry White, Ashish Mistry
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Later Stage Pitch Session (Habersham Ballroom)
Moderator: Dinesh Raturi
Teams
P2P Cash – Tom Meredith
Attentively – Roz Lemieux
ScholarLab — Robert Taylor
Open Solutions for Education — Bob Ghosh
Judges
Richard Brock, Ashok Kartham, Prashanth Rajendran, Shilen Patel, Alan Taetle, KP Reddy, Ashish Mistry
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3:15 PM - 3:30 PM
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BREAK |
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3:30 PM - 3:45 PM
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Dan Nainan presents… (Habersham Ballroom) |
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3:45 PM - 5:20 PM
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TYE Atlanta Competition Awards Presentation (Habersham Ballroom)
TiECON Southeast 2013 Awards
Closing Keynote Speaker (Habersham Ballroom) – Don Panoz, Creator of the nicotine patch, founder of Chateau Elan Winery & Resort and Panoz Motorsports.
Introduction by Rick Cope, CEO, Nanolumens
Followed by a Q & A.
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5:20 PM - 5:30 PM
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Closing Remarks
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Pricing
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Attendee
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Regular
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On Site
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Charter Members
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$0
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$0
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Members
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$99
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$150
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Non-Members
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$125
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$175
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Students
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$50 Anytime
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