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Mobile Apps: Billions in Portable Possibilities
 Digital Media: A Mashup of Entrepreneurs and Innovators Mixing Old and New  Entrepreneurship in a Real-Time World  Special guest Howard Lindzon, legendary investor, entrepreneur and CEO of StockTwits shared his perceptions on emerging technology and social trends intersecting communications, business, finance and media. He has a unique understanding of where we are headed as a result of his current role as Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Social Leverage LLC, a partnership that invests in exceptional entrepreneurs in the technology space. Howard Lindzon has over 20 years experience in the financial community acting in both an entrepreneurial and investing capacity. One of his latest ventures is StockTwits, an open, community-powered investment idea and information service built on the Twitter platform. Mr. Lindzon has spent 10 years managing his hedge fund, Lindzon Capital Partners and is Partner and Principal of Knight’s Bridge Capital, a private equity firm based in Toronto. Mr. Lindzon has tremendous insight into new media and is a very active angel investor in over 30 companies. He sold his startup videoblog Wallstrip to CBS Corp. and has made many successful angel investments including: Rent.com, (sold to Ebay in 2005 for $415M), Golfnow.com (purchased by Comcast June 2008), Lifelock and Internet Brands (NASDAQ). Mr. Lindzon’s new media and internet business investments include: MyTrade.com (purchased by Think or Swim in Dec 2008), Limos.com (sold Dec 2008), Covestor.com, Blogtalkradio.com, Foodzie, and Tweetdeck, to name a few. He earned an MBA from Arizona State University and MIM from The American Graduate School of International Management. You can follow Howard at www.howardlindzon.com or www.twitter.com/howardlindzon.
Energy Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Today's Challenges, Tomorrow's Opportunities
 Rewarding Breakthrough Innovation: An Evening with Dr. Peter Diamandis
On the evening of June 4, 2009, at the Arizona Science Center, attendees had a rare opportunity to meet and learn from the remarkable Dr. Peter H. Diamandis, Chairman & CEO of the internationally acclaimed X PRIZE Foundation and Vice-Chancellor & Chairman of Singularity University. He shared his experience in taking an unyielding passion for space and adventure to create multiple ground-breaking organizations and businesses. Discover his observations on how Arizona can drive innovation through science, technology and entrepreneurism on a global scale. YouTube on X PRIZE Foundation and Dr. Diamandis. A native New Yorker born in 1961 to Greek immigrant parents, Dr. Peter Diamandis is considered instrumental in thedevelopment of the personal spaceflight industry. He has created many space-related businesses or organizations throughout his career and is currently the Founder and Chairman of the X PRIZE Foundation, an educational non-profit prize institute whose mission is to create radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. His foundation is best known for offering the $10 million Ansari X PRIZE for the world's first non-government piloted spacecraft, a prize won in 2004 by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and famed aviation designer Burt Rutan.
Paint it Black: Avoiding the Financial Beast of Burden in 2009 and Beyond March 26, 2009 at the ASU SkySong Conference Center the MIT Enterprise Forum of Phoenix event included an informative telecast of global economic experts followed by a live panel discussion from Arizona business leaders sharing approaches organizations and start-ups are using to thrive in today’s tough economic climate. Top Arizona technology business leaders and start-up venture experts candidly shared how companies are avoiding dipping too far into the red during challenging economic times and the steps necessary to seize tremendous growth opportunities once the economy shifts to recovery. The Arizona panelists included Chad Little, CEO of FetchBack, Armando Viteri, president and CEO of Neubloc, Sandra Watson, director of The Office of Innovation & Technology, Arizona Department of Commerce, Michael Wolf, general partner of Lobodos Ventures, and Ed Zito, executive vice president commercial and corporate banking of Alliance Bank of Arizona, moderated by Bill Swartz, president of Swartz & Associates, Inc.Pathways to Entrepreneurship: Executive Women Share Challenges and Rewards of Leading in High-Tech Influential Arizona female business leaders followed the live telecast of “Pathways to Entrepreneurship” featuring national women panelists at EMTech08. Both panels provided enlightening experiences and lessons in launching, funding and leading technology start-ups. The event took place November 20 at ASU SkySong Conference Center. The prestigious Arizona entrepreneur panelists included Susan Cordts, president and CEO of Adaptive Technologies, Inc. (ATi), Jeanne Hertz, founder and CEO of Cranial Technologies, Inc., and Michelle King Robson, founder and CEO of EmpowHer.com. Donna J. Kent, SVP of global sales, marketing and services at Televerde and former president and CEO of the Arizona Technology Council, moderated the panel.
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