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Startup Weekend Ventura County: Healthcare & Agriculture
Friday, April 21 - 23, 2017
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Startup Weekend Ventura County: Healthcare & Agriculture
Friday, April 21 - 23, 2017
Friday, April 21 - 23, 2017
Event starts at 6:30 pm
Rancho Campana High School
4235 Mar Vista Drive
Camarillo,
CA
93010
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Intrapreneurs, Entrepreneurs and Engineers to join forces and create innovative IoT and Big Data solutions for Healthcare and Agriculture
Our inaugural event (March 2016) attracted 70+ entrepreneurs. Out of the 34 ideas presented, 9 formed teams and over the weekend took these ideas to proof of concepts. The judge panel, consisting of CEOs of significant local companies awarded one team with $10,000 for use as seed money. Of the 9 teams, five are still actively pursuing their ideas. For more details, see BLOGS.
One thing we have learned from our first event is that subject matter expertise is crucial to staying on the right track in solution development. For this SWVC (April 2017), we have decided to create a union between intrapreneurs and entrepreneurs. We ask end user companies that they go to their rank and file and seek ideas for innovation and bring these ideas to SWVC. There, these intrapreneurs will get teamed up with entrepreneurs, engineers and business professionals. Collectively, they will work to create solutions and compete with the other teams.
Dignity Health St. John Regional Medical Center, Dignity Health St. John Pleasant Valley Hospital and Ventura County Medical Center have agreed to participate as healthcare end user sponsors. Limoneira, Reiter Affiliated Companeis and Bonipak have agreed to participate as agriculture end user sponsors. We believe this level of cooperation between intrapreneurs, entrepreneurs and engineers in tackling problems, inefficiencies and game changers is unprecedented and we look forward to some great outcomes. Come join us. To see the list of challenges posted by these leading companies, click here.
Judging will be done by a panel of distinguished CEOs chosen by the organizers of the event. Teams will be evaluated based on the entrepreneurialism of the team leader, strength in skill set of the team, value of the proposed product/service, understanding of the customers, size of market opportunity, competitiveness of proposed product/service, feasibility of proposed product/service and ease of market entry. To see the judging criteria, click here.
Each "Best in Class" winner, healthcare and agriculture, and the winner of "Peoples' Choice" will receive a in-kind award book valued at over $3,000. Each "Most Likely to Succeed" winner, healthcare and agriculture, will receive $10,000 in cash. This money carries no repayment or interest obligation but does require that the winning team establish a registered corporation in order to gain access to the $10,000 awarded. In addition, each Most Likely to Succeed winner is eligible to receive an additional $15,000 cash award from Semtech Corporation if Semtech judges that the proposed product/service is the best product based on LoRa Wireless RF Technology. Semtech may also connect the winning team, upon request and at Semtech's discretion, to angel investors, venture capitalists and their 400+ members of LoRa Alliance Partners. Both the $10,000 Cash Award and the Semtech Corporation awards are subject to the discretion of the event organizers and Semtech Corporation respectively.
SWVC has compiled, with contributions from a number of attorneys fluent in startup speak, a series of videos covering topics such as intellectual property, advisory board, corporate formation, incentive stock option plan, board of directors and venture capital deal terms. These videos are available on YouTube in a playlist called “Learn to be an On the Grid Entrepreneur”. Take advantage of it. Learn all you can.
At SWVC 2017, you will meet a valuable group of advisors, mentors, subject matter experts and potential business partners. They have been assembled to help you take your idea to proof of concept. General George Patton Jr. said “Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.” Starting a business is the same. Yes, you will need an innovative idea but it takes a strong team to make your startup real.
EVENT SCHEDULE
Friday April 21st
Saturday April 22nd
Sunday April 23rd
Speakers
Rennee Dehesa, Esq.
Legal- Schuck, Becker & Dehesa, LLP
Rennee Dehesa is a long-time board member of the Ventura County Bar Association’s Barristers and is the Chair of the Barristers Mentorship Program. She is also a board member of the Ventura County Bar Association. Ms. Dehesa is Vice President of Education Foundation of the VC MABA, Inc. She serves as Board Member on the Camarillo Chamber of Commerce Board and is Chair of its CSUCI Connection Committee. She is also a member of the Ventura County Women’s Lawyers and a regular volunteer with Girls, Inc. Additionally, Ms. Dehesa has served as an Attorney Coach for the Simi Valley High School Mock Trial Team and as a volunteer with the Ventura County Family Law Self-Help Center and Casa Pacifica. Ms. Dehesa attended California Western School of Law and completed her law degree in two years (August 2006). She was on the Dean’s list.
Ryan Hong, Esq.
Brent Reinke, Esq.
Partner
Brent Reinke is a corporate/business partner in the Westlake Village office of Musick, Peeler & Garrett. His practice emphasizes the areas of mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, advising emerging growth companies, corporate securities and finance, strategic alliances and licensing. He represents numerous technology and "brick and mortar" companies who are in various stages of development, ranging from start-ups and venture backed companies to corporations with multi-national operations. His clients are involved in a broad array of industries, including, high-tech, biotech/life science, telecommunication, software, venture capital, real estate and manufacturing.
Mr. Reinke is an entrepreneur himself, having Co-Founded Vapur, Inc. (www.vapur.us). Since its founding in 2009, Brent has actively advised Vapur in all aspects of its business operations, sales and marketing strategies and product development initiatives to help Vapur become a well recognized consumer brand both National and Internationally.
He was named by the San Fernando Valley Business Journal in 2016 to the “Valley 200” as one of the 200 most influential business leaders in the region as well as being recently featured on the cover of special edition of SFVBJ entitled “Valley Visionaries”. Los Angeles Magazine also named Mr. Reinke as a Southern California “Super Lawyer” for his work in the mergers and acquisition area.
Laura MaAvoy, Esq.
Partner
Steve Sereboff
Partner, SoCal IP Law Group LLP
Steve Sereboff has specialized in intellectual property law since 1991. His practice includes licensing and contracts, patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets. He holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, and had seven years of experience in the computer software business before earning his law degree from Boston University. While at Boston University, Mr. Sereboff founded Boston University’s Technology, Science and Law Association, and was employed by MIT to negotiate and manage software licenses. His technical expertise includes many aspects of computers (both software and hardware) and myriad electronic and electrical devices, their operation and manufacture.
Event Judges
Darren Lee, Esq.
President & CEO
Chris Meissner
Founder, President & CEO
Alex Teague
Senior Vice President & COO
Kim Milstien
President & CEO
Alain Pincot
Managing Partner, Operations
Mohan Maheswaran
President & CEO
Hugh Gagnier
Senior Vice President
Daniel Schoenewald
Founder, Executive Vice President
Garland Reiter
Coaches and Mentors
Donald Skinner
Eltron/Zebra Technologies
Dr. Kelvin Loh
Dr. Lee Wan
Richard Montmeny, PhD, PT
Vice President, Professional and Support Services
Sean Walters, Ph.D.
Originally from California, attended Cal Poly SLO, and Iowa State with a focus on crop breeding. Worked for DeKalb Genetics for 10 years as a Corn Breeder, then for Monsanto in various Research and Development roles in Seed Production in the US and Europe. Currently lead a global R&D team focused on reliable, sustainable and high quality seed production and innovative seed processing.
Minos Athanassiadis
Dr. Lynn Jeffers
Peter Barry, Ph.D.
Partner
Steve Sereboff
Partner, SoCal IP Law Group LLP
Steve Sereboff has specialized in intellectual property law since 1991. His practice includes licensing and contracts, patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets. He holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, and had seven years of experience in the computer software business before earning his law degree from Boston University. While at Boston University, Mr. Sereboff founded Boston University’s Technology, Science and Law Association, and was employed by MIT to negotiate and manage software licenses. His technical expertise includes many aspects of computers (both software and hardware) and myriad electronic and electrical devices, their operation and manufacture.
Steven Ow
Vistage Chair
After the sale, Steve came on board Andrew Corporation as Global Operations Director. He was responsible for over 2,000 employees shipping over a $1 billion in revenue and managing 5 plants across the globe having saved over $52 million (in expenses) during his first year.
He founded his second company, which developed a satellite system for power grid management and control. Eventually most of the Western half of the United States power grid was controlled by this system and the company sold in 2008.
Smiths (a $4 billion company) tapped him to develop a commercial division to overcome a drop in military revenue. Taking the opportunity to lead a team of 56 engineers, the group developed the system powering the satellite broadband internet for SouthWest airlines, Mango, and Norwegian Air Shuttle.
Kevin Bromber
Hi-tech Executive, Entrepreneur and Investor
Dr. Duke Bahn
Lately, he brought a concept of “Male Lumpectomy” in the prostate cancer treatment and standardizes the focal cryoablation technique that is freezing the cancerous portion of the prostate only as an outpatient, minimally invasive procedure. His latest task of cryoimmunotherapy clinical trial has FDA approval and being studied.
Dr. Bahn has held many academic and professional appointments including clinical professor of urology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California. He actively promotes prostate cancer education and patient empowerment through his extensive speaking appearances with both patient support groups and medical communities throughout the world.
Martin Shum
Board Member, Camarillo Chamber of Commerce
Chris Sullivan
Global Healthcare Practice Lead
stuart long
Engineering Consultant
Stuart holds a Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from CSULB and AA in plastics and composites from Cerritos College. Prior to forming S2Engineering, Stuart was a staff engineer and supervisor in Hot Wheels, Boys toys at Mattel.
Stuart also enjoys being on Ventura County Search and Rescue Fillmore Mountain team 1 and has been on this team for 4 plus years.
Chris Gardner
CEO, Vitesse Semiconductors
Event Sponsors, and Partners
The Startup Weekend Ventura County: Healthcare & Agriculture team is grateful for the support of local community partners without whom this event would not be possible.
Learn how to become a sponsor here.
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Executive Sponsor and cofounder of SWVC
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Organizing Team
Techstars Startup Weekend Camarillo is 100% led by volunteer community leaders.
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Facilitators
Event Staff
Mike Panesis
Executive Director, Center for Entrepreneurship, California Lutheran University
Mike is Chairman of the Board of Governors of Tech Coast Angels (TCA), the largest accredited angel investor group in the country. He heads TCA’s Central Coast Investor Network.
Mike’s career spans a diverse range of industries and roles, including executive management, tech start-ups, information technology management and management consulting for companies like Semtech, Whitestone Research, DealerTrack, Church & Dwight, Deloitte & Touche and AT&T.
Mike has an MBA Marketing from Rutgers University and a BS in Computer Science for Business from the DeVry Institute of Technology. He lives in Camarillo with his wife and two children. He is on the Board of the MIT Enterprise Forum Central Coast Chapter and Steering Committee of the Ventura County Greek Festival.
Eric Went
Director @ Matter Labs
Ping Fang
Gladys Rodriguez
Steven Ow
Vistage Chair
After the sale, Steve came on board Andrew Corporation as Global Operations Director. He was responsible for over 2,000 employees shipping over a $1 billion in revenue and managing 5 plants across the globe having saved over $52 million (in expenses) during his first year.
He founded his second company, which developed a satellite system for power grid management and control. Eventually most of the Western half of the United States power grid was controlled by this system and the company sold in 2008.
Smiths (a $4 billion company) tapped him to develop a commercial division to overcome a drop in military revenue. Taking the opportunity to lead a team of 56 engineers, the group developed the system powering the satellite broadband internet for SouthWest airlines, Mango, and Norwegian Air Shuttle.