Ignite UC San Diego

AI in Healthcare continues. What uses of artificial intelligence in healthcare does FDA regulate? Come to West Ballroom and listen to Attorney Bradley Merrill Thompson of @EpsteinBecker answer this exact question. #igniteucsd #tritonchangemaker

#igniteucsd announces the beginning of the Startup Roadshow: AI in Healthcare Come to West Ballroom for a series of six panel sessions discussing AI in Healthcare. #igniteucsd #tritonchangemaker

The Recruitment Fair is in the East Ballroom, today. Come to ignite for career opportunities in #innovation and #entrepreneurship. #igniteucsd #tritonchangemaker

Ignite 2019 #workshop: How to Measure Early & Often: Make Data Driven Decisions Learn how to measure everything about your product as early as possible so that you are making data-driven decisions later. Put 'sensors' all over your startup. Panel Members:... Neal Bloom, #entrepreneur, Fresh Brewed Tech. #Serialentrepreneur, #startupecosystem organizer & #angelinvestor. Passionate about building a strong San Diego business community, especially in tech-enabled businesses. He helped San Diego Startup Week build itself into a non-profit that helps #startups launch & #entrepreneurs enrich themselves and their employees. He currently sits as chairman of Startup San Diego, is on the board of San Diego Venture Group, and runs the popular local blog Fresh Brewed Tech. Gregg Anderson, CEO, 41 Orange Marketing, a growth agency. Started his entrepreneurial career at the Small Business Development Center where he ran a #youngentrepreneurs program. He then started a marketing consulting business. He was accepted into SDSU's Zip Launchpad & launched a version of LinkedIn for students. The company pivoted to become a #B2B lead generation agency. Since then, the company has grown 134% YoY% for the past 3 years & is private equity-backed. #igniteucsd #tritonchangemaker

Ignite 2019: Starting with Your Exit in Mind Jeff (J.D.) Davids, #SerialEntrepreneur. Helping entrepreneurs raise money, scale rapidly and complete successful exit events. Served on the management teams of 8 #venturecapital backed #startups, 3 of which completed successful #IPOs and 3 were acquired by #largecorporations. Closed over $1 Billion in #financialtransactions including raising money from #AngelInvestors, #VentureCapitalFirms, #StrategicCorporateInvestors and complet...ing IPOs and #MergersandAcquisitions from the buy side and the sell side. Jeff helps transform entrepreneurs from merely product inventors into successful dealmakers who make a positive impact on their customers & communities. His passion is to dramatically improve outcomes in the Innovation Ecosystem #igniteucsd #tritonchangemaker

Ignite at UC San Diego 2019: Scaling Your Startup - Using Product Management tools to innovate and scale Devang Thakkar, Chief Product Innovator, Product Management Training & Coaching. Devang Thakkar is a #ProductManagement Executive, Trainer / #Coach / #Mentor / #Consultant, with expertise in building and launching #techproducts on a #globalscale for #largecorporations and #startups alike. His experience is in #Cloud / #SaaS / #Desktop / #Enterprise products across many ver...ticals including #BusinessProcesses, F&A, #Media and #Entertainment, #MedicalDevices, #Imaging and #Storage. He is a Fellow of #ISPMA (International Software Product Management Association), Entrepreneur-In-Residence #EIR at Connect Springboard in San Diego, a co-chair for #EvoNexus Special Interest Groups (SIG), an Executive Committee member of #TiE, #ASEI Board Member, and a frequent #speaker and organizer of select events and #conferences. #igniteucsd #tritonchangemaker

Ignite at UC San Diego 2019 #workshop - Becoming a Fierce Startup Founder: Bias Training for Startups Want to become a fierce startup founder from working from the inside out? Want to get some #practicaltools for optimal #startupsuccess? Gain insight from the 3 founding partners of adastra.ventures, real #investors on what makes a #startupfounder shine. Panel Members:... Silvia Mah PhD, MBA , Co-Founding Partner, AdAstra.Ventures; Executive Director of Hera Labs; Founding member of Hera Angels & Investment Committee member of Next Wave Impact. Dr. Mah’s currently serves as the Student Programs Diversity Director at The Basement, University of California, San Diego & Fund Manager for the San Diego Angel Conference. Allison Long Pettine, Founding Partner, Ad Astra Ventures. She actively #invests in #entrepreneurs developing #disruptivetechnologies across all multiple to build successful & #sustainable companies. Vidya Dinamani, Founding Partner, adastra.ventures, she helps #founders change the way they see themselves & the world in order to successfully fund, grow, and #scale companies. Specializing in business & #technologystrategy #development and #productdesign, development & #management. #igniteucsd #tritonchangemaker

Ignite at UC San Diego 2019 #workshop: Prep that #Pitch Learn how to be an amazing presenter and make a stand-out pitch Panel Members:... Silvia Mah PhD, MBA, Co-Founding Partner, AdAstra.Ventures; Executive Director of Hera Labs; Founding member of Hera Angels & Investment Committee member of Next Wave Impact. Dr. Mah’s currently serves as the Student Programs Diversity Director at The Basement, an #accelerator for #undergraduate startups at University of California, San Diego & Fund Manager for the San Diego Angel Conference. Ana B., Founder & CEO, Get TAGit Inc. A business leader with 12+ years of experience, including #executivemanagement. An #entrepreneurial, tenacious spirit with the ability to #lead companies from #startup to #profitability. A creative #innovator and dynamic #publicspeaker with exceptional #communication and #problemsolvingskills. Summer Rogers, President, maxiaNET, an #internationaldistribution & #branddevelopment company that helps #consumerpackagedgoods #CPG companies expand to #globalmarkets. #Serialentrepreneur whose companies have launched products and services for new & #nichemarkets in food & beverage, #digitalhealth, #AI, #clinicaltrials, #fitness & #biotech / #pharma #igniteucsd #tritonchangemaker

See you tomorrow! Thank you for presenting, speaking, pitching, battling, organizing, sponsoring, volunteering, and participating in Ignite at UC San Diego. Get a head start in planning your schedule, and check out tomorrow's agenda: https://ignite.ucsd.edu/schedule/agenda/ #igniteucsd #tritonchangemaker

Ignite at UC San Diego 2019 #workshop: #ContentMarketing and #SEO for #Startups #Google receives 90% of #onlinesearches, but their #algorithms are kept secret. Learning how to #structure your site correctly so that you appear on Google is key to any business. We'll discuss how SEO (#searchengineoptimization) works in getting your #content to appear on Google and how you can tie it to your #ContentMarketingStrategy to bring visitors to your site and keep them coming back for m...ore. Panel Members: Vincent Nero, #ContentMarketingManager, Siege Media, a content marketing agency with a focus in #SEO located in downtown San Diego and Austin, TX. After studying music in New York City, he made a career shift into #marketing. He began working with #startups in the city working on various #digitalmarketing initiatives like #SEO, #contentwriting, and #graphicdesign. He is fascinated by the way people behave online and the types of content they consume. Caroline Gilbert, Director of Content Strategy, Siege Media. Caroline has spearheaded #sixfigure monthly #traffic for several #B2B and #B2C clients. With an 8+ year background in SEO, digital marketing and #publicrelations, she enjoys helping organizations implement and grow their content marketing presence. #igniteucsd #tritonchangemaker

Ignite at UC San Diego 2019 #workshop: #BusinessModelCanvas Panel Members: Gloria N. Director of The Basement / Director of #Strategy and #Planning, UC San Diego Innovation, University of California, San Diego. Her role involves directing annual initiatives & programs to #connect #industry, community & students with the campus’s #innovationecosystem. She's spent 8 years managing & directing business related programs in #highereducation & is a former university faculty member ...with a #communications, #business, and #arts background. Her expertise includes experience working with both tech and non-tech #startups for well over ten years. Vilavanh S., Founder & CEO, Innovations City. A #BoardMember and #StrategicAdvisor to local #nonprofit and #startup #organizations, #communityleader and #advocate for #womenentrepreneurs and #minorityentrepreneurs. She has built herself from the ground up in #leadership positions within major companies and started her first business helping #smallbusinesses, startups and nonprofits launch, #scale and grow. Her work has contributed to new #policies and #procedures, sparked conversations within #publicsector and #privatesectors and has a book of business that’s generated over $10 million. #igniteucsd #tritonchangemaker

#breakoutsession: Mindfulness in High Performance Entrepreneurship Pete Kirchmer is the Program Director for the UC San Diego Health - Center For Mindfulness Mindful Performance Enhancement, Awareness and Knowledge: m/PEAK 3-Day Intensive Training Program. Pete’s private mindfulness coaching practice includes executives, #entrepreneurs, #athletes, #firstresponders and anyone looking to apply the practice of mindfulness to making #healthy #lifestyle changes, managing stress an...d improving #performance in life, work and sport. Pete is also a teacher of #Mindfulness Based #StressReduction (#MBSR), a consultant for the Chopra Center for #Wellbeing, a specialty presenter at Rancho La Puerta Wellness Resort, and a guiding teacher for the Encinitas Mindfulness Community. #igniteucsd #tritonchangemaker