Our events present high level strategic insight into different tech sectors such as Digital Media, Mobile Application Platforms, Healthcare Technology, and Cloud Computing, by showcasing the hottest and most innovative business models and companies in these areas at our events. We bring together investors, entrepreneurs, start-up-centric executives, and key influencers in an environment that is informal, inclusive, and inspiring.

 

 

As part of our plan to drive innovation within the community, we are inventing new ways to attract investors and the emerging companies to a forum that provides discovery and interaction. One of our innovations is the MIT Enterprise Forum Phoenix Entrepreneurs Showcase.

 

The Entrepreneur Showcase is a part of our monthly events where we invite some of the most compelling emerging companies within the featured sector of the evening's presentations. We hand select up to 20 emerging local companies from the target sector to participate. The company founders and other key staff are invited to participate and share their story during the networking session.  Each participating company is easy to identify at the event with special badges. Companies are promoted at our Website in advance and after the event for long term promotion.  Every participating company is offered table top space to provide contact information and company literature.  We also promote our Entrepreneurs Showcase participants through our social media sites.  Our goal is to link them with potential investors at the event. This is both an attendance driver and differentiator. There is nothing like this in Arizona today, nor has there ever been. We are creating new models of grass roots economic development with this concept. 

 

Our strategy for giving the community access to these new and exciting companies encompasses several pieces, including: