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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 answer this exact question.

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.

The Recruitment Fair is in the East Ballroom, today. Come to ignite for career opportunities in and .

Ignite 2019 : 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, , Fresh Brewed Tech. , organizer & . 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 launch & 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 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 lead generation agency. Since then, the company has grown 134% YoY% for the past 3 years & is private equity-backed.

Ignite 2019: Starting with Your Exit in Mind

Jeff (J.D.) Davids, . Helping entrepreneurs raise money, scale rapidly and complete successful exit events. Served on the management teams of 8 backed , 3 of which completed successful and 3 were acquired by . Closed over $1 Billion in including raising money from , , and completing IPOs and 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

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 Executive, Trainer / / / , with expertise in building and launching on a for and alike. His experience is in / / / products across many verticals including , F&A, and , , and .

He is a Fellow of (International Software Product Management Association), Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Connect Springboard in San Diego, a co-chair for Special Interest Groups (SIG), an Executive Committee member of , Board Member, and a frequent and organizer of select events and .

Ignite at UC San Diego 2019 - 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 for optimal ? Gain insight from the 3 founding partners of adastra.ventures, real on what makes a 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 in developing across all multiple to build successful & companies.

Vidya Dinamani, Founding Partner, adastra.ventures, she helps change the way they see themselves & the world in order to successfully fund, grow, and companies. Specializing in business & and , development & .

Ignite at UC San Diego 2019 : Prep that

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 for 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 . An , tenacious spirit with the ability to companies from to . A creative and dynamic with exceptional and .

Summer Rogers, President, maxiaNET, an & company that helps companies expand to . whose companies have launched products and services for new & in food & beverage, , , , & /

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/

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Ignite at UC San Diego 2019 : and for

receives 90% of , but their are kept secret. Learning how to your site correctly so that you appear on Google is key to any business. We'll discuss how SEO ( ) works in getting your to appear on Google and how you can tie it to your to bring visitors to your site and keep them coming back for more.

Panel Members:
Vincent Nero, , Siege Media, a content marketing agency with a focus in located in downtown San Diego and Austin, TX. After studying music in New York City, he made a career shift into . He began working with in the city working on various initiatives like , , and . 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 monthly for several and clients. With an 8+ year background in SEO, digital marketing and , she enjoys helping organizations implement and grow their content marketing presence.

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Panel Members:
Gloria N. Director of The Basement / Director of and , UC San Diego Innovation, University of California, San Diego. Her role involves directing annual initiatives & programs to , community & students with the campus’s . She's spent 8 years managing & directing business related programs in & is a former university faculty member with a , , and background. Her expertise includes experience working with both tech and non-tech for well over ten years.

Vilavanh S., Founder & CEO, Innovations City. A and to local and , and for and . She has built herself from the ground up in positions within major companies and started her first business helping , startups and nonprofits launch, and grow. Her work has contributed to new and , sparked conversations within and and has a book of business that’s generated over $10 million.

: 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, , , and anyone looking to apply the practice of mindfulness to making changes, managing stress and improving in life, work and sport. Pete is also a teacher of Based ( ), a consultant for the Chopra Center for , a specialty presenter at Rancho La Puerta Wellness Resort, and a guiding teacher for the Encinitas Mindfulness Community.

Ignite at UC San Diego 2019 - The Chicks are in the House

As women take on more roles in & , the evidence is stacking up. If you want to build better companies, make better investments or have more impact on the bottom line, is a path that pays off.

Panel Members:
Mod: Mysty Rusk, Director, The Brink SBDC, an innovation focused support organization that is & stage . She is an expert in & & has been involved from idea to on numerous .

Debbie K. Chen, PhD, CEO, Hydrostasis, Inc. Providing personalized hydration monitoring systems for coaches & athletes. She has & experience in , , high-content , & . Through her business, she strives to be an empathetic leader with diversity, inclusion and integrity in mind.

Vidya Dinamani, Founding Partner, AdAstra.Ventures, an early-stage & that helps change the way they see themselves and the world in order to successfully fund, grow, and companies. Specializing in business & and , development and .

The Pitch awards are taking place right now.

Ignite 2019 : Relations: Sitting on the Investor Side of the Table

Have you ever stood in the shoes of an investor? This panel discussion with be candid, honest & actionable about what to do during investor meetings, what to do to and & over investors.

Panel Members:
Moderator: Victoria Lakers, President, Frank Management and Consulting. 17 years building departments and companies, with expertise in , & , and .

Ashok Kamal, Executive Director, Tech Coast Angels/ Tech Coast Angels - SD Chapter. . Entrepreneur-In-Residence at the University of California, San Diego.

Denise Longley, Managing Partner, Longley Capital. Focused on companies that invests in meaningful companies at the forefront of emerging .

Allison Long Pettine, Founding Partner, AdAstra.Ventures. She actively in developing across all multiple to build successful & companies.

Eric Gasser, Co-Founder, Seed San Diego. He actively participates in the community to kickstart in the & to keep an eye on the best and .

It’s a battle! Startup Battle begins!

Ignite at UC San Diego 2019 - The Magic of M&As: How Do They Really Happen

Understand realities, and likelihood, of selling your company. Learn some things to make it smoother and pitfalls to avoid.

Grant Olsen, VP and Ventures, ResMed. Grant Olsen leads business development/ and activities for ResMed and has over 20 years experience in and (M&A), , , , and . He has led the development of numerous M&A and venture strategies; successfully completed acquisitions, , investments, and integrations of public, private, international, and domestic companies; advised numerous ; helped raise nearly $500 million in ; and founded, and subsequently sold, an enterprise SaaS company. He holds a holds a Bachelors of Science from USC and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

Battle at Ignite 2019!

MC Ashok Kamal, Executive Director, Tech Coast Angels/Tech Coast Angels - SD Chapter. Ignite 2019’s fun, fast-paced, rap-battle style competition for ALL who go head to head battling it out for bragging rights (and cool prizes!)

The Dark Side of Being Frugal: Protecting is Expensive but Not Protecting it Could Mean Disaster

Insight into the options for protecting new ideas and - , , , , ,

Panel Members
Eleanor M. Musick, Partner, Musick Davison LLP. Her law practice focuses on patent and prosecution, & licensing. applications spanning technical fields including , & , technology, & , , & more.

Scott Davison, Partner, Musick Davison LLP. He focuses exclusively on intellectual property law, including patents, trademarks, & trade secrets. Patents in technology fields including , , , , engines.

Ming Shui, Primary Examiner, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. After graduating law school, Ming served as a law clerk to the Honorable Howard McKibben of the District of Nevada. After clerking, Ming worked for Baker Botts in Dallas and then in-house at Amazon. Ming is now currently a primary examiner at the US Patent and Trademark Office.

Ignite at UC San Diego 2019 : San Diego: A Collaborative Ecosystem like no other

The building a in that are not obvious.

Panel Members:
Moderator: Roland Ligtenberg, Co-Founder at Housecall Pro. whose passions encompass all things , , and accelerated by technology.

Alex Waters, Dir., Connect All at the Jacobs Center, an for & .

Ellen Bateman, Director for U.S. Ecosystems, Global Entrepreneurship Network. She has worked on providing and access to for local .

Briana Weisinger, , , , University of California, San Diego. Influential leader with proven successes in the activation and of in large matrix organizations.

Jarrod Russell, Executive Dir., Startup San Diego. Served as co-chair of the tech-startup committee for the Downtown San Diego Partnership. He's been a advocate of the local startup community ever since.

Regina Bernal, Entrepreneurship Manager, University of San Diego helped to create a network for new entrepreneurs to become progressive leaders empowered with the ability to transform passion into enterprise.

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Spinach, Quinoa, Kale... ALGAE. New businesses are rising to meet the demands for , healthy food and nutritional supplements. Algae packs a big punch on the superfood scale and can be grown . Learn from and who are with algae. Find culinary applications on the challenges and the ocean of opportunities for .

Join Ignite at UC San Diego 2019 for the panel session, "Play with your Food: Innovating with Algae to Feed the 21st Century," and listen to speakers Dr. Jennifer Smith of Scripps Institution of Oceanography and President of California Seaweed Company, Brant Chlebowski, present on algae and its future .

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Ignite at UC San Diego 2019 : Leveraging Uncle Sam: Government Incentives for Startups

Government incentives that can support a / .

Panel Members:

Ross Epstein, Partner, CKR Law. to U.S., European & Asian multinational corporations; universities & other research institutions; & companies; and sole inventors and primarily in high tech and life sciences.

Aman Badyal, Partner, CKR Law LLP. Transactional with advice on , , , transactions, investment, , , , , and projects.

Greg Elias, CPA, Partner, Think LLP. Specialty tax areas: R&D Tax Credit Studies, IC-DISC, Studies, Sales & including Post-Wayfair Nexus Studies and other State & Local tax credits and incentives

Martin Kleckner III, Senior Advisor, The Brink. 29 years of experience on senior level operations, business & economic development & public policy in the life sciences, , oil & gas, & cable television.

Ignite 2019 : The Hockey Stick : Small Business vs. Startup.

The difference between a vs a . Why startups are built for massive and while they may start small, they have to hit growth objectives that look nothing like a small business.

Panel Members:
Neal Bloom, Entrepreneur, Fresh Brewed Tech.
, organizer and . 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.

Jimmy Kim, Co-founder & CEO, Sendlane, a cross-channel multi-communication platform. 10+ years as a , he leads his team to help & businesses track, personalize, and automate their customer journey communications to help automate 1-on-1 interactions, at scale.

Jonathan Berke, Entrepreneur, Shout to Me. Started several tech companies, the most popular being the freeway traffic service Sigalert. With a degree in from UCSD, he has a passion for tech and is particularly enamored with at the moment.

Ignite at UC San Diego 2019 - Crafting (Not Correcting) the Culture

, … you don’t hear about until something goes wrong. The Design Lab has assembled a panel to discuss experiences & field insights from the crowd. Discover how to design right from the start so you will be on the sunny side of the news.

Panel:
Mod: Steven Rick, CompSci PhD Student, University of California, San Diego. His research is on & ubiquitous in environments.

Ada Powers, Co-Managing Dir. of Community, Startup San Diego. Leads the community experience team for Startup San Diego. Advises others on being more inclusive with their words, products, and policies

Zeki Pagda, Adj. Prof. of Mgmt, USD & SDSU Schools. Executive coach & consultant. 23+ years of experience in global organizations.

Alex Waters, Dir., Connect All at the Jacobs Center, an for & . having years of experience in , & .

Jennifer Taylor, Scholar, UCSD. Cultivating relationships between university & external community partners, toward for to collaborate w/ other public & private sector orgs & individual citizens & groups in the local community.

Ignite at UC San Diego 2019 : Over the Wall: A World of Possibilities South of the Border

This is the best time to go south for really cool to partner with and very high quality skills at the

Panel Session:
Moderator: David Peguero, Entrepreneurial Relationships, GrowthHax. Builds connections across the globe, growing platform in different regions. Builds network through PR, connecting organizations & community leaders worldwide. Leads the marketing efforts.

Bianca Alvarado, Founder, Baja Urban. Works w/ local communities on in the SD/TJ border. Her vision is to continue to support artisans’ products by innovating and with that bringing social change to their local communities. Enjoys motivating Hispanic youth to be in their own communities.

Charles Gillespie, Partner, BlueBox. Deep experience in formation, ( & ), & successful exit. New w/ proven track record in legal cannabis, , , Department of Defense, , , , integrated media strategies, , / .

Ignite at UC San Diego 2019 : My How the Tools Have Changed

New tools that are available to & how the landscape has changed in the last few years. New resources for , , , , & have leveled the playing field for entrepreneurs. This session will cover changes in the landscape and highlight some of the tools that are now available to new products.

Panel Members:
Moderator: Mysty Rusk, Dir., The Brink - SBDC, an innovation focused support org that is industry & stage agnostic. in innovation & & has been involved from idea to on numerous .

Dan Hendricks, PE, CISSP, Founder & Pres., Open Source Maker Labs. Experienced engineer, leader, mentor, citizen scientist. Promoting entrepreneurial & educational development of .

Michèle Morris, Assoc. Dir., The Design Lab. Defining as a way of thinking & operating as it pertains to how people interact w/ complex systems & .

Raven O'Neal, Marketing Dir., Hera Labs. Transforming the commercial landscape by equipping businesses with the marketing acumen & resources needed to present innovative & effective companies to market.

Ignite at UC San Diego 2019 is just a day away! Check out our agenda to see more information about our keynote speakers, breakout sessions, workshops, and more! https://ignite.ucsd.edu/schedule/.

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Ignite at UC San Diego 2019 : How to Sell Ice to Eskimos: Setting Up a & for

Just starting who understand who your is? Learn how to use to understand your customer better and demonstrate how to set up a marketing & for

Danielle Rowley IMBA, CEO / President, BizProfi. Serial EdTech and Entrepreneur-in-Residence for University of California, San Diego, Danielle has experience in both and international digital marketing and .

Ignite at UC San Diego 2019 / : Fostering a : Applying Three Theories of to help Founders and Stay Motivated on the Journey

Your expertise isn't enough: how to stay motivated to achieve your life changing idea

Panel Members:
Jeremy Richter MBA, MA, Owner, Process Infinity. Jeremy is passionate about improvement, particularly in the area of . Jeremy has worked with thousands of leaders on , , , and . He has worked within , , and industries. Formal education includes MBA and MA in Sport Psychology.

Sean M. Chamberlain, MA, Director of and , Process Infinity. He has worked with coaches, athletes and business professionals to help empower and develop each individual to their full potential. Sean considers himself a student, always seeking out new concepts and practices to help better himself and the people he interacts with daily. His compassion for others and wanting the best for them allows Sean to connect on an individual basis to provide whatever help is needed.