San Diego Startup Week has already started and will run through Friday, June 23, 2017, in Downtown, San Diego and you can be a part of this much-awaited event that will draw various talented entrepreneurs, startups, speakers, developers, community leaders and mentors on a single platform. They will be sharing their mantras of success, exchange resources, and talk about the flourishing innovation society.
Jason Calacanis, a leading Angel Investor, Serial Entrepreneur, and Radio Celebrity will be the Keynote Speaker of this year’s Startup Week. The stage has been set for bringing together the community to showcase exciting local innovation, share resources, and knowledge, and strengthen connections. You should attend these events if you are a founder or entrepreneur who will eventually have to get your product in front of people and sell it. The Marketing Track is where you will learn to build your growth model, discover your traction channels, build systems and processes for scalable growth, and learn how to sell and close leads.
Over 150 events over 5 days — categorized into ‘Tracks’
The Idea Track brings education on how to validate your idea and the basics for getting it off the ground. Every startup begins as an idea, but not every idea ends up as a startup. What is it that makes one idea go the distance while others fall by the wayside? What separates a great idea from the merely good ones? And just how do you get from idea to startup?
Whether you are someone armed with an idea looking for your next move or just merely curious about the startup world, someone who’s finding your footing as a first-time startup founder/CEO or looking to join a startup team, the Idea Track is where you go to get your questions answered.
The Seed Track will bring events helping with achieving product-market fit, solidifying your business model, refining your MVP to potentially groom for a seed round. The Seed Stage Track at San Diego Startup Week 2017 will focus primarily on taking your startup, core team, and product to the next level. This is where you’ll learn to define, as well as refine, an MVP, engage with initial and early adopters, begin building traction, and start grooming your company for the seed round financing.
The Seed Stage Track will help identify the value of an idea by exposing early stage startup founders to speakers and panel discussions with entrepreneurs who have successfully moved out of the seed stage. The experience will be interactive and rewarding for everybody from startup veterans to newcomers to the industry.
The Scale Track is for startups ready to grow fast. Events cover raising large rounds, biz dev, scaling operations and customer support, to know when to exit. Once you’ve developed a solid product, have some traction, and secured customers, what’s the next move? The Scale Track was built to specifically examine this question and train a laser focus on building to the next level of growth. This includes marketing, sales, building teams, raising capital, and scaling operations – and more.
The Scale Track will also cater to founders, marketing specialists, salespeople, and operational teams who are running, or are part of, companies just beginning to grow. However, as long as attendees have a vested interest in scaling an idea, company, or product, the Scale Track won’t turn them aside. Expect to learn a wide range of growth tactics and strategies from entrepreneurs who have legitimately scaled businesses in the past.
The Developer Track will connect developers in the San Diego tech ecosystem, offer career advice, and teach new tech skills. The Social Track at San Diego Startup Week 2017 is all about getting connected with the people around you. Specifically designed to break away from the ‘classroom’ feel, the Social Track will forego typical panels and talks for networking events and opportunities to get out and meet like-minded entrepreneurs in the San Diego ecosystem.
The Social Track brings you the evenings’ fun! Join us for an epic event each evening of Startup Week. A business in the technology space, or any website for that matter, will simply not exist without a Developer. The developer takes the vision of a company and brings it to life. This is the lifeblood of most businesses today.
The Design Track focuses on teaching both entrepreneurs and designers how to apply new perspectives of thinking to their business. Great design can make or break your company. Wildly successful companies like Apple and Airbnb understand this and weave great design into the heart of their products. Thankfully, good design is accessible to any company that is willing to apply a human-centered approach to building products and services.
The CyberSecurity Track events will discuss vulnerabilities, top Defense Tech, best practices, and the future of the emerging Cybersecurity industry. Cyber security is one of the most important assets of any company. The protection of the consumer’s information, as well as the information of the company, is paramount to continued success. This is where the importance of cybersecurity lies.
The BioTech Track events in SD’s renowned BioTech and Medical industries — meet and learn from top players in the field. With major research institutions and the presence of nearly every major big pharma, San Diego is one of the major biotech centers in the world. The Bio/MedTech track is working to leverage our unparalleled resources and prominence in the biotech space into a dynamic ecosystem for biotech, medtech and life sciences startups.
The Craft Beverage Track a haven for techies who want to get in on the fast-paced, successful craft beer scene — this year adding wine and kombucha! The Craft Beverage Track is filled with a variety of educational sessions focused on craft beverages. You’ll get to learn from and mingle with leading craft beverage experts.
The CrossBorder (Cali/Baja) Track invites attendees to examine Tijuana’s tech scene and explore business opportunities across the border. San Diego and Tijuana are two cities connected by far more than just a highway. In recent years, technology and entrepreneurship have brought the two closer than ever before. In fact, instead of viewing San Diego and Tijuana as two separate regions, many say we should consider them one large super-region.
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The Impact Track will focus on entrepreneurs with philanthropic missions, educating around social enterprise business models and inclusion-focused programs. With a keen focus on the hard to discuss topics, the Impact track seeks to have discussions around the inclusion and equity of certain groups in the workplace and San Diego ecosystem.
The Cannabis Track will explore up and coming advancements and tech in the Cannabis field. Did you hear about the new incubator? The SD Cannabis Track covers the do’s and don’t’s in the cannabis industry in San Diego with a focus on technology, business, medical, legal, banking, and regulatory issues that cannabis consumers and companies. Learn from people who live and work in this field on a daily basis.
The Marketing Track will include many types of events to educate, connect, share resources, and advance practices. Most companies don’t fail because they fail to ship a product. They fail because they don’t get traction. Marketing and Sales are the crux of a successful startup, and if you don’t know what you’re doing, you don’t have a chance. We’re bringing in some of the world’s best marketers to help you not make the same mistakes we did.
The Future Track presenting topics on Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI), Robotics, VR, Internet of Things (IoT) and other advancing technologies. The FutureTech track is intended to proliferate awareness and collaboration in the developing industries of IoT, VR, Robotics and Data Intelligence. A wide array of professionals from these industries will showcase interactive demonstrations of their cutting edge technologies. There will also be an open discussion on how these industries cross-pollinate to develop their products and services.
The CleanTech Track Where sustainability meets profitability. Discover why San Diego is the Mecca for CleanTech Innovation. Come learn about an industry in which what’s good for business is also great for the environment. This track host events that speak to how innovative technologies can be used to improve the way we generate and consume precious resources like water, fuel, energy, and waste.
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