UCLA Founder's School

Thank you to all of the attendees who showed up for this year's conference! The UCLA FS team would like to further thank the following organizations for their contributions and support towards the event: UCLA Upsilon Pi Epsilon UCLA ACM UCLA Housing... Easton Technology Management Center at UCLA Anderson Startup UCLA Stay posted for hear early about next year's conference!

We have released our second wave of acceptances! Due to overwhelming demand, we will keep applications open until tomorrow, Friday May 11th at 12:00pm and release one more wave of acceptances. Don't miss out on this year's speakers! uclafs.com The final speaker we will be hosting this year is Jessica Willison, Co-founder of Enrou, who will be talking alongside Ann Wang. Bio: Jessica earned a Communication Studies degree from UCLA and has a background in fashion working at bra...nds like Refinery29, Nordstrom and Reformation. Jessica was named Forbes 30 Under 30 in Social Entrepreneurship in 2016 and was the recipient of UCLA’s Recent Graduate Achievement Award in 2015. Their talk will run from 11am-12pm. If you have already been accepted, please don't forget to RSVP before we reach capacity!

Last day to apply! Applications close tonight at midnight. uclafs.com Wrapping up with our speaker introductions, we would like to introduce Susie Kim, Cofounder of Pluto. Bio: A multidisciplinary brand/product experience designer and full-stack marketer, Susie is Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Pluto Money, where she leads design, branding and marketing. Pluto is a mobile personal finance app that fuses behavioral science, contextual data and financial technology to... help college students manage their money. Pluto was a part of QC FinTech Incubator 2016 cohort, Startup UCLA Accelerator 2015 cohort, won 2nd place at Startup Weekend Bay Area, and was a Global Startup Battle Startup Women Track finalist and Project Entrepreneur 2016 alumni. Susie’s expertise as a creative strategist, experience designer and full-stack marketer has been seen at several Silicon Beach startups. In 2012, she founded a coffee roastery franchise by combining an artisan roastery with ceramic studio based on trends from the U.S. and adopting it to the Korean market, and generated over $1M in revenue. Her talk, "Designing a product that everyone needed but no one wanted to build" will run from 2-3pm. Don't miss out!

Only two days left to apply! Apply here: uclafs.com Continuing with our guest speaker introductions, Alex Capecelatro is the founder and CEO of Josh.ai, a voice controlled home automation system with a focus on artificial intelligence. Josh.ai utilizes a proprietary natural language understanding (NLU) engine with state of the art home control integrations for a powerful smart home experience. Alex started his career as a research scientist for NASA, the Naval Research Lab, a...nd later Sandia National Laboratory. He then ventured into consumer technology first with electric car manufacturer Fisker Automotive, then through founding two social software products "At The Pool" and "Yeti" with members in more than 120 countries. Alex's focus is at the intersection of elegant design, cutting-edge software, and purposeful hardware to offer transformational experiences. Alex received his engineering degree from UCLA and currently splits his time between LA and Denver. His talk is titled, "Lessons learned in starting multiple venture backed startups" and will run from 2-3pm.

Our first wave of acceptances have been released! We will be closing applications on Thursday, May 10th and the second wave of acceptances will be out this Friday. Sign-up if you haven't already! uclafs.com We are thrilled to introduce our opening keynote speaker, Alaina Percival. Alaina Percival is Chief Executive Officer of Women Who Code, a global nonprofit dedicated to inspiring women to excel in technology careers. Under Alaina’s leadership, Women Who Code has grown to s...erve more than 137,000 women in 20 countries and 70 cities across the globe. This thriving movement offers more than 1,500 free technical and leadership events, per year. In addition to her role at Women Who Code, Percival is an accomplished tech speaker, appearing at WSJ.d Live, CodeMotion Milan, Grace Hopper, Columbia University’s Social Enterprise, MIT’s Venture Capital and Innovation Conference and more. Alaina has been interviewed by Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Wired, and other publications across the globe to share her expertise on best practices for increasing diversity in tech. Prior to Women Who Code, Alaina worked at PUMA's headquarters in Germany, as well as Riviera Partners and Snip.it, acquired by Yahoo. Alaina is also an Angel Investor and CodePath Advisor. Spots are almost full so apply soon!