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Monday, February 27
 

10:00am MST

Creativity and Magic
Limited Capacity seats available

Looking for an unusual way to jumpstart your teams creativity? Feel like your idea production is in a rut and need a new way to look for new and innovative ways to create, brand, or promote your products or ideas? Local magician James Lopez is hosting a workshop where you he will teach you how magicians look at creativity. Learn the methods and tactics to creating a memorable experience. Learn where you can find inspiration in the mundane and how to craft, practice and perform something memorable for your audience.


Speakers
avatar for James Lopez

James Lopez

Magician/Copywriter, Freelance Copywriter
James Lopez is a magician and freelance writer based out of Denver, CO. He specializes in close-up magic for corporate cocktail parties and events. James is also a public speaker, known to jump on the storytelling circuit, and a full-time copywriter working with companies all over... Read More →


Monday February 27, 2017 10:00am - 11:00am MST
Downtown Artery

11:00am MST

Creative Team-Building Tactics
Limited Capacity filling up

Building working relationships, company culture and cohesion of teams within your organization is paramount for business success and staff optimization. Come learn thoughts about the value of team building and creative approaches to this business standard.

Speakers
avatar for Ron Baker

Ron Baker

Owner/Co Founder, Green Events
Promoting positive community and fitness in Northern Colorado. Ron wants to live in a world filled with environmental & social consciousness, healthy happy people that floss, and a daily cup of Starbucks coffee followed by a 3-15 mile run. As a retired dentist with more than 30-years... Read More →
avatar for James Lopez

James Lopez

Magician/Copywriter, Freelance Copywriter
James Lopez is a magician and freelance writer based out of Denver, CO. He specializes in close-up magic for corporate cocktail parties and events. James is also a public speaker, known to jump on the storytelling circuit, and a full-time copywriter working with companies all over... Read More →
avatar for Kaarina Robson

Kaarina Robson

Special Events Director, Cheers United
Kaarina is the founder of Cheers United, an event planning service specializing in Brewery Tour Experiences for business groups. A native Nebraskan, prior to moving to Fort Collins in 2012, she was in PR/publications for Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Having a passion for craft... Read More →
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Trish O'Neill with The Cooking Studio

Founder & Owner, The Cooking Studio
Trish O’Neill is the Founder & Owner of The Cooking Studio, a recreational cooking school in Old Town Fort Collins. The Cooking Studio was founded in 2015 and has hosted over 1500 amateur cooks since opening. Chefs from all over Northern Colorado work as Chef Instructors. Programs... Read More →


Monday February 27, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm MST
Downtown Artery

3:00pm MST

Blockchain: The magic behind bitcoin, ethereum, and cryptoassets
Limited Capacity filling up

Blocks and bits and chains and coins. What's it all mean and why is it important?

The technology behind crytpo currenies is maturing, and you'll want to see where its going to take the world. Don't get left behind!

Speakers
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Jeffrey Abrams

Jeff is a technology enthusiast currently working in the field of blockchains and digital assets. He is passionate about developing these technologies in a safe and secure way, specifically for the benefit of citizens of unstable or undeveloped states. Additional interests include... Read More →
avatar for caleb

caleb

Caleb Tebbe is currently a Data Science Software Engineer on the Risk and Growth team at Coinbase. His job includes turning data into dollars (or digital currency) by developing machine learning and data pipelines used for business intelligence, fraud detection, risk management, and... Read More →


Monday February 27, 2017 3:00pm - 4:30pm MST
Downtown Artery

4:00pm MST

Women in Tech Happy Hour
Limited Capacity filling up

Join us for drinks and networking to celebrate the Fort Collins Startup community! This happy hour will be at The Artery in Old Town Fort Collins.
 

Speakers
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Ellie Morris

Software Developer, purch


Monday February 27, 2017 4:00pm - 5:00pm MST
Downtown Artery
 
Tuesday, February 28
 

11:00am MST

Why Your Message Matters and How to Make it Count
Limited Capacity full
Adding this to your schedule will put you on the waitlist.

Are you frustrated when people don't understand what you do? Unfortunately, the problem usually lies in our messaging. This session will be about swallowing pride and learning from messaging experts and professionals on how to craft a compelling message that gets your passion across.

Speakers
avatar for Travis Barhaug

Travis Barhaug

Founder/Chief Design Officer, Bonfire Effect
A leading advocate for the strategic application of creative thinking. More than 27 years of experience in the overall supervision of three different agencies’ creative output. Specializes in guiding brands through strategy, positioning, creative development, marketing, and promotion... Read More →
avatar for Jana Sanchez

Jana Sanchez

Chief Alchemist, Alchemy With Words
Jana Sanchez has been helping companies get results for more than 20 years. With an extensive background in organizational management, marketing, and facilitation, she helps companies get clarity to know where they need to go, and which tools will get them there. She’s an entrepreneur... Read More →
avatar for Cindy Skalicky

Cindy Skalicky

Owner, On Point Communications
Cindy Skalicky is the owner of On Point Communications, LLC. She provides public speaking coaching and brand consulting to clients who seek to master their message on stage, online and in publications. Cindy coaches clients on storytelling techniques, pitch decks, presentation... Read More →

Organizers
avatar for Seth Silvers

Seth Silvers

CEO & Lead Strategist, Story On Media
Story On Media is a premier podcast production agency helping established business leaders launch and grow their podcasts. Seth and his team have worked on numerous podcasts in hyper-niche industries and categories along with shows regularly in the top-50 business podcasts in the... Read More →


Tuesday February 28, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm MST
Downtown Artery

1:00pm MST

Endurance Is The Price Tag of Achievement
Limited Capacity seats available

Startup life is all about tenacity. Sometimes your plans may become obsolete as society (or technology) evolves. Sometimes the community doesn't hold as much value in your product as they once did before. And sometimes the toll of startup life almost kills you. I've been there. Most (sane) people throw in the towel and quit when the going gets tough, and I've found that "fail fast" doesn't always work in Fort Collins. Entrepreneurs generally aren't sane nor do they quit easily. I'll share how our foray into market research got us ready for a pivot and how burnout led to new business perspective.

Speakers
avatar for Kristin Mastre

Kristin Mastre

Founder, The Scoop Blog Network
Kristin Mastre has been writing for many years, starting with her family blog in 2005. Her personal family blog had been highlighted on NewParent.com and various other parenting blogs around the world after writing about the challenges of pregnancy, parenthood and the adventures of... Read More →


Tuesday February 28, 2017 1:00pm - 2:00pm MST
Downtown Artery

2:15pm MST

Shave Quarters Off Your Dev Cycle: Flexible Distributed Computing with EB and Js

Getting your app from idea to scalable product in weeks vrs Quarters using Elastic Beanstalk, Graphql and React for Desktop, Web and Native applications. Javascript frameworks have become the dominant force for productivity and scale. Learn them or get left behind:  

Amazon Web Services (AWS) comprises dozens of services, each of which exposes an area of functionality. While the variety of services offers flexibility for how you want to manage your AWS infrastructure, it can be challenging to figure out which services to use and how to provision them.

With Elastic Beanstalk, you can quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS Cloud without worrying about the infrastructure that runs those applications. AWS Elastic Beanstalk reduces management complexity without restricting choice or control. You simply upload your application, and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, scaling, and application health monitoring.


Speakers
avatar for Patrick Ortell

Patrick Ortell

CTO, TurboTenant
Patrick thrives on the ability to take large data sets and massage them into user friendly applications building momentum on the users journey leveraging scalable low latency back-ends and bleeding edge web standards.


Tuesday February 28, 2017 2:15pm - 3:00pm MST
Downtown Artery

3:00pm MST

Social Media ~ More Than Just Posting
Limited Capacity full
Adding this to your schedule will put you on the waitlist.

If you want to effectively manage your social media presence to get results for your business, it takes more than just posting.  Come to this workshop and learn a few steps that will take your social media to the next level.

Speakers
avatar for Amy Alcorn

Amy Alcorn

Marketing Director, Aspen Grove Marketing
Amy Alcorn is the Marketing Director at Aspen Grove Marketing. She works to help local businesses connect with their customers through multiple digital marketing channels. One thing Amy loves about social media is that it creates another place for people and businesses to connect... Read More →


Tuesday February 28, 2017 3:00pm - 4:00pm MST
Downtown Artery
 
Wednesday, March 1
 

1:30pm MST

Food Trends 2017: The Comings and Goings at the Dinner Table
Limited Capacity seats available

Find out what's new and hip for the center of the plate and what is considered passé. Trends come and go and here is what several experts predict the changes to your diet will be in the coming year.

Speakers
avatar for Doug Cannon

Doug Cannon

Specialist, Larimer County Economic Development
Doug Cannon is a Specialist with Larimer County Economic Development Department. He is responsible for Community outreach ensuring the citizens of Larimer County know about are resources. Doug is also responsible for leading the county’s Business Retention and Expansion efforts... Read More →


Wednesday March 1, 2017 1:30pm - 2:30pm MST
Downtown Artery
 
Thursday, March 2
 

10:30am MST

Curating Your Shows & Building Your Portfolio
Limited Capacity seats available

Artists, want to learn about gallery show curation? Hear how to put together your own show and essentials to build your portfolio. 

Speakers
avatar for Jeanne Shoaff

Jeanne Shoaff

Gallery Coordinator, Fort Collins Lincoln Center
Jeanne Shoaff is the Program Coordinator for the Carnegie Center for Creativity. After a brief career in Special Education, Jeanne eventually followed her passion for the visual arts, and found a career in Arts Administration. With 18 years of experience ‘behind the gallery walls... Read More →
avatar for Jill Stilwell

Jill Stilwell

Consultant, Stilwell Cultural Consulting LLC
Jill Gardner Stilwell is a Fort Collins-based consultant helping arts and culture organizations adapt to growing community needs, thrive in an ever-changing environment, and reach for excellence. She brings 25 years of expertise and experience to arts and culture projects of all sizes... Read More →


Thursday March 2, 2017 10:30am - 11:30am MST
Downtown Artery

1:00pm MST

Did I Lose You Between the P or the R? What is Public Relations, Really?
Limited Capacity filling up

So what is PR really? A dive into the world of PR and tips for how to activate a grassroots strategy for your brand. 

Speakers

Thursday March 2, 2017 1:00pm - 2:00pm MST
Downtown Artery

3:00pm MST

CSU Ventures Demo Day
Limited Capacity seats available

Join CSU Ventures for demo day at Fort Collins Startup Week. Engage with CSU startup companies.

Demo Day Agenda:
  • 3:00 - 4:00 pm – Presentations
  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm - Networking & Happy Hour

Demo Day Companies:
  • Growcentia was founded by a team of three Colorado State University soil microbiologists that share a passion for enhancing soil health and promoting sustainable agriculture. Using innovative proprietary technology, this team developed an approach to identify and apply nature’s very best microbes to improve nutrient availability to plants. Growcentia's first product Mammoth P is helping thousands of growers around the country maximize the health of their soils or growth media to enhance plant health and yields, while minimizing the environmental impacts of agriculture.

  • Nexus Bioenergy offers a turnkey modular anaerobic digestion appliance for the agriculture, food and beverage industry. Our Bio1 process digests solid waste in a compact footprint with no waste water produced. Since there is no cost to dispose digester wastewater, the Bio1 systems have significantly lower operating costs compared to competition. Nexus offers zero-wastewater anaerobic digesters in formats for a full range of applications for organic waste processing.  Standard anaerobic digesters require lengthy on-site construction with significant project risk. Nexus’s turnkey design is delivered as a preassembled unit that is ready to produce biogas in just a few weeks.

  • Sahti develops a range of highly nutritious, delicious, and sustainable foods. We have two lines of food, one for humans and one for dogs. While this might seem strange, the fact is that the genomes of humans and dogs have evolved together for over 32,000 years!* As quoted by National Geographic, Ya-ping Zhang, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Kunming says “in addition to sharing genes that deal with diet and behavior, dogs and humans also share diseases, including obesity, obsessive-compulsive disorder, epilepsy, and some cancers including breast cancer.”

Speakers
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Steve Albers

Associate Director, NewCo Launchpad Initiative, CSU Ventures
Steve Albers is a Licensing Manager in the Technology Transfer Office at CSU Ventures. He is responsible in assisting the Directors of Marketing & Business Development with technology marketing, license negotiation, patent prosecution, and intellectual property identification for... Read More →
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Syed Reza

President and Co-founder of Nexus, Nexus Bioenergy
Syed Reza PhD is a co-founder and the President of Nexus. Syed has more than a decade of experience in technology commercialization, licensing and product development working with biotechnology organizations to define strategies for early-stage proof of concept. Syed has held progressively... Read More →
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Dr. Elizabeth Ryan

Co-Founder, Sahti
Our name, “Sahti” is adapted from an ancient Sanskrit word which means “companion.” We chose this name because we believe that every person and pet has the potential to live a long joyful life, and the right companion can make it possible. Our mission is to be that companion... Read More →
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Gregg Steinberg

Gregg Steinberg is Growcentia’s CEO. He has been involved in startups to mature companies and from private to public entities. He has expertise in launching and scaling early stage companies, executing on valuation creation strategies and in raising seed / venture capital. He has... Read More →


Thursday March 2, 2017 3:00pm - 5:00pm MST
Downtown Artery
 
Friday, March 3
 

10:00am MST

Marketing with an authentic voice
Limited Capacity full
Adding this to your schedule will put you on the waitlist.

For online, digital, or new products, the number one marketing advice that people will offer is "make sure your voice is authentic."

Well what does that really mean? How do you write authentic sales content? How do you create an honest conversation with your customers to create credibility and become a trusted service rather than be perceived as a snake oil salesman?

To aid you in understanding what an "authentic voice is" sit down with a panel of writers and businesses who have created an authentic voice in the crowded market and learn the simple steps you can take to improve your businesses message and make sure that it is less about tricking customers into purchasing something and more about creating a trusting relationships.

Moderators
avatar for James Lopez

James Lopez

Magician/Copywriter, Freelance Copywriter
James Lopez is a magician and freelance writer based out of Denver, CO. He specializes in close-up magic for corporate cocktail parties and events. James is also a public speaker, known to jump on the storytelling circuit, and a full-time copywriter working with companies all over... Read More →

Speakers
avatar for Jonathan Jarrow

Jonathan Jarrow

Founder, Harbinger Coffee
Coffee industry veteran of 13 years. Former head roaster at Ipsento Coffee in Chicago. 2011 NCRBrC Champion. Founded Harbinger Coffee in 2011. Authenticity in marketing is much more than posting pretty and cool photos to social media. The actual execution of your day to day business... Read More →
avatar for Kyle Shannon

Kyle Shannon

Founder & CEO, Storyvine
My background and skills are eclectic, but a common thread that has emerged is storytelling in one form or another. I'm a professionally trained writer and actor who's found a way to apply my skills and passions to projects and companies ranging from Inventing, Patenting and Manufacturing... Read More →
avatar for Seth Silvers

Seth Silvers

CEO & Lead Strategist, Story On Media
Story On Media is a premier podcast production agency helping established business leaders launch and grow their podcasts. Seth and his team have worked on numerous podcasts in hyper-niche industries and categories along with shows regularly in the top-50 business podcasts in the... Read More →


Friday March 3, 2017 10:00am - 11:00am MST
Downtown Artery

4:00pm MST

Hempreneurs
Limited Capacity filling up

There is an industrial revolution happening in the United States right now and Colorado based businesses and entrepreneurs are leading the county. Industrial Hemp is fast becoming a multi-billion dollar industry that includes: food, medicine, body care products, fiber, biodegradable plastics, fuel and building materials. This session will bring together an amazing group of experts and ‘Hempreneurs’ to discuss what you need to know before starting a hemp based business and how to overcome barriers to Hemp startups.

Moderators
avatar for Hunter Buffington

Hunter Buffington

Directing Manager, Sauce Promotion & Productions & Everybody Loves Sauce Consulting
Hunter Buffington has owned and operated Sauce Promotion & Productions, a successful small business for over 10 years. She also works in Enterprise Development and Resource Management using her experience to assist other entrepreneurs to create businesses that make the world a better... Read More →

Speakers
avatar for Morris Beegle

Morris Beegle

Founder and CEO, Colorado Hemp Company
Morris Beegle is founder and president of WAFBA, LLC - We Are For Better AlternativesMorris spent 25 years in the music and entertainment industry before launching Colorado Hemp Company in 2012. In 2015 the WAFBA umbrella was created and there you will find Colorado Hemp Company... Read More →
avatar for David Bush

David Bush

Principle, David Law
David B. Bush earned an M.S. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Arizona and a J.D. in law from the University of Wisconsin. He is admitted to practice in all courts in Colorado, as well as the United States Court of Federal Claims. David began practicing law in Minnesota... Read More →
avatar for Kristen Kunau

Kristen Kunau

Founder, Frieda Farms
Kristen has been a supporter of hemp since beginning her quest for earth-friendly product alternatives in high school. Through years of research she found that hemp products were the safest and best for keeping her family nourished, healthy, and clothed. The added bonus that hemp... Read More →
avatar for John Long

John Long

Founder, Fat Pig Society
John R. Long graduated from the University of Florida in 1995 with a BS in Zoology and from Colorado State University in 1999 with a MS in Botany. Since then, he has launched a number of successful nonprofits and for-profits, including the Sustainable Living Fair in 1999, Blue Sun... Read More →
avatar for Wendy Mosher

Wendy Mosher

CEO and Co-founder, New West Genetics
Wendy is the CEO and a co-founder of New West Genetics. She holds an MA from California State University in Education, which she uses to wrangle her partners into a cohesive, prioritized force. Prior to working in education for 12 years, Wendy worked in the nonprofit sector in HR... Read More →
avatar for christy thiel

christy thiel

Director of Business Development, Elixinol
I'm a Nutrition Therapist that specializes in DNA and CBD. Prevention is at the heart of health. Your individual genetic blueprint is an important piece for knowing specifically how and why your body does, or doesn't do what it's designed for. Nothing scary- everything supportive... Read More →


Friday March 3, 2017 4:00pm - 5:00pm MST
Downtown Artery

5:30pm MST

First Friday Gallery Sneak Peek
Limited Capacity seats available

Downtown Artery opens their doors early this First Friday Gallery Walk for FCSW Attendees. Beat the crowds and get the first look at another highly anticipated new exhibition of art. 

The #FCSW17 volunteer crew thanks our friends and neighbors at New Belgium Brewing for giving back to our community and providing libations for this event.

About Gallery Walk:
Historic Downtown Fort Collins is home to a vibrant art community! Each month, our fine and “folk” art galleries display new showings and open their doors for this self-guided walking tour. The Gallery Walk takes place the first Friday of each month, from 6pm-9pm.


Friday March 3, 2017 5:30pm - 6:30pm MST
Downtown Artery
 
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