Register by April 24th to get the early-bird special at $175. Ticket prices increase to $250 on April 25th. Registration costs are waived for any Tech Startup Founder.
Cortado Ventures is hosting a first-of-its-kind Midcontinent Venture Capital Summit, highlighting all facets of the burgeoning startup technology industry outside coastal bubbles, to be hosted on May 10th at the First National Center in Oklahoma City.
With $100B represented from investors and startups, this gathering will celebrate the achievements, challenges, and opportunities of our domestic emerging market for technology innovation. Anticipated speakers include VC general partners, institutional investors, family office managers, founders, government officials, and startup ecosystem builders.
Key speakers include David Epstein, Journalist and New York Times Best-selling author of Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. He will be joined in a fireside chat by James Rogers, who started a $2 billion ag-tech company, Apeel Sciences, that uses plant-based materials to keep moisture inside the produce and oxygen out, dramatically slowing the rate that produce spoils.
Other speakers include Aaron Pierce (Partner at Perot Jain), Charu Thomas (CEO/Founder of Ox), Mike Gorton (CEO/Founder of Recuro Health), Dan Kerr (Partner at Flyover Capital, Elizabeth Pollard (President at Oklahoma State University Research Foundation/Cowboy Technologies), Scott Mueller (Managing Director at Goldman Sachs), Chase Rankin (Executive Director at Oklahoma Firefighters Pension and Retirement System), Sarah Chen-Spellings (Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Beyond the Billion), and many more investment and entrepreneurial leaders!
Special thanks to our sponsors: the University of Oklahoma Price College of Business, Citizens Bank of Edmond, Oklahoma State University Cowboy Technologies, Citizen Capital, Saxum, HoganTaylor, Atento Capital, GKFF, Regent Bank, McAfee & Taft, SpiritHR, Barnes & Thornburg, Bison Technologies, Beneficent and the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce.
For more info, contact J.D. Baker at jbaker@cortado.ventures.