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Lisa Lloyd

Keynote: "Fail Forward"

Saturday, May 4, 2019
Noon-1pm

Innovation fanatic, wicked-good problem-solver, insightful advisor and voracious learner, Lisa Lloyd has invented, licensed and brought to market numerous products, including products to major distributors, Goody Products®, Scunci®, and Helen of Troy®, as well as Shark Tank featured product TC Pets, for which she won the coveted investment from “Shark” Daymond John of FUBU.

She is also the founder of the Inventor’s Association of Arizona and has been a contracted consultant for hundreds of small businesses and startups as well as to major corporations like InventHelp®, Scunci® and Newell Rubbermaid®.

Her experience also includes of Director of New Business Development for Early Stage East. ESE is a high-level venture conference planning company specializing in early stage VC for High-Tech and Biotech companies.

A speaker and trainer for more than twenty years on the subjects of innovation, licensing and business tactics, she has been a featured lecturer at universities including the U of A Eller School of Business and Entrepreneurship, ASU College of Engineering, and the Arizona Intellectual Property Association’s continuing education program for patent and trademark attorneys.

Lisa V. Lloyd
Lloyd Marketing Group, Inc.
http://www.LloydMarketingGroup.com
Twitter: http://www.Twitter.com/icaninvent
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/lisavlloyd
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lmgservices

Aram Chavez

Keynote: Aha! to Exit
Panel Discussion Speaker - Lessons from the Trendsetter and the 'Gnombre'

Sunday, May 5, 2019
1pm-2pm - Q&A Interview on Stage

If you read Venture Beat or Crunchbase, it often sounds like startup unicorns go directly from idea to exit, without too much time or effort in between. But, the truth is that startup giants like Uber, Airbnb, and Slack were in business 8-10 years before they gained the widespread public attention they have today.

What were they doing all that time? Following the predictable path that most startups need to follow from AHA! to Exit.

Listen as Aram Chavez, entrepreneur, speaker, and former investment banker turned professor of entrepreneurship at ASU shares the key milestones every startup needs to hit on their way to mega-success. Co-developed by Chavez and fellow professor Steven Cho, the map outlines the ten steps every startup needs to take on their way to a unicorn exit.

Aram Chavez, Faculty, Arizona State University, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering and founder of Aha to Exit