BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Alliance for SoCal Innovation - ECPv6.15.17//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Alliance for SoCal Innovation X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://alliancesocal.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Alliance for SoCal Innovation REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241115T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241115T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T154445 CREATED:20241108T211541Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241114T022610Z UID:6211-1731663000-1731682800@alliancesocal.org SUMMARY:Sixth Annual SoCal Ecosystem Leadership Forum DESCRIPTION:Brought to you by Alliance for SoCal Innovation\n\n\n\nDriving economic development in our diverse SoCal communities through industry/sector selection and alignment\, targeted program development\, business incentives\, and brand building. \n\n\n\n\n\nLong Beach\, CA \n\n\n\nEvent Sponsors\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Overview \n\n\n\n​This annual strategic planning workshop is focused on uniting and catalyzing the leadership of Southern California’s diverse and compelling innovation nodes which define the SoCal innovation network. To accomplish this\, we convene a diverse cross section of leaders from across the region for a facilitated workshop to generate a shared understanding of innovation-focused economic development opportunities\, challenges\, and best practices in the region. \n\n\n\n​This year’s focus \n\n\n\n​This year we will explore strategies and best practices for driving innovation-based economic development in our diverse SoCal communities through presentations\, city-specific case studies and group discussions where we’ll identify and discuss best practices around industry/sector selection and alignment\, targeted program development\, business incentives\, and brand building. \n\n\n\n​The primary audience will be representatives from SoCal ecosystem-focused organizations such as economic development agencies\, accelerators\, regional and industry-specific startup support organizations\, and local and state government agencies. \n\n\n\n​Why are we doing this? \n\n\n\n​There are common challenges and opportunities that unite the often fragmented\, geographically dispersed hubs of innovation throughout Southern California. Our analysis of the region\, in partnership with the Boston Consulting Group\, has revealed that there is little coordination among these compelling pockets of innovation to address common issues. However\, the Alliance believes aligning best practices\, external messaging\, and delivery of services and resources are necessary to harness the collective potential of the region’s innovation assets to make Southern California the next great innovation ecosystem. \n\n\n\n​Forum Goals\n\n\n\n\n​Connect the key people and organizations working to drive economic development and prosperity within SoCal’s innovation ecosystem\n\n\n\n​Identify trends and best practices that drive innovation-based economic development initiatives\n\n\n\n​Instigate and support deeper relationships between SoCal’s innovation ecosystem leaders to ensure improved coordination of effort and collaboration within the region\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Forum Agenda\n \n \n \n 9:30 AM: Informal networking \n​Come early for coffee and refreshments while you (re)connect with colleagues. \n​​10:00a: Welcome + State of the Region report \n​10:20a: Rapid Introductions. Let’s see who’s in the room. \n​10:50a: Conversation Round 1. Where We’re At – Current Landscape and Opportunities for the Region. \n​Let’s set the table for the rest of the day’s discussions by getting up to speed on regional economic development priorities and initiatives through presentations and discussion. \n​Speakers: \nModerator: Stacy Cumberbatch\, Managing Director at Blended Impact \n​Chris Earl\, Acting Deputy Director & So Cal Regional Advisor at Go-Biz CalOSBA \n​Matt Horton\, VP of Policy and Research at LAEDC \n​Jennifer McLain Hiramoto\, Chair at CALED and Director of Economic Development at City of Ontario \n​12:00p: Lunch Break \n​12:30p: Conversation Round 2. Going Vertical: Selecting and Developing Industry Specialization. \n​Presentations and interactive group discussion on best practices for industry/sector selection and alignment\, effective stakeholder collaboration\, targeted program development\, business incentives\, messaging and brand building. \n​Industry Deep Dives: \nModerated by John Keisler\, CEO & Managing Partner at Sunstone Management \n​Cleantech/Bluetech: Jenny Krusoe\, Chief Operations Officer and EVP at AltaSea + Michael Galvin\, Director of Waterfront & Commercial Real Estate at Port of LA) \n​Life Science: Dan Gober\, Executive Director\, Los Angeles at Biocom + Howard Kozloff\, Founder & CEO at Noblespace + Gunjan Siroya\, Chief Solutions Officer at Larta Institute \n​Aerospace & Defense: Chris Pimentel\, Mayor Pro Tem at City of El Segundo + Lucius Martin\, Deputy Mayor at City of Long Beach + Drew “Murph” Busbee\, COO at DTI \n​1:45p: Conversation Round 3. Getting it Done: How Cities Invest in Innovation \n​Moderated chats with city representatives who are driving innovation-based economic development initiatives that reflect a range of complex strategic decision making\, collaboration and overcoming pragmatic challenges. \n​Glendale expands beyond Hollywood to support startup innovation: David Crawley Delgado\, Senior Economic Development Coordinator at City of Glendale + Neal Bloom\, Managing Partner at Rising Tide Partners and Interlock Capital \n​Pasadena’s path to build leading Biotech + Deep Tech hubs: Felicia Williams\, Councilperson at City of Pasadena + Mike Schaffer\, CEO at Echo Factory + Patrick Church\, Managing Director at JLL Los Angeles + Andy Wilson\, CEO at Alliance for SoCal Innovation and former Councilperson at City of Pasadena \n​2:30p: Wrap Up \n​3:00p: Networking and Refreshments URL:https://alliancesocal.org/event/socal-ecosystem-leadership-forum-2024/ CATEGORIES:Alliance Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241030T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241030T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T154445 CREATED:20241025T181618Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T185859Z UID:6163-1730286000-1730296800@alliancesocal.org SUMMARY:Health Systems Innovation Council Inaugural Meeting DESCRIPTION:Reshaping Health Care with A.I.: How we can be a leader (and not a laggard) in this next technology wave\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Sponsors\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\nStartup Showcase Sponsors\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Hosts\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAGENDA \n\n\n\n11:00 AM Welcome \n\n\n\nHASC\, Cedars-Sinai\, Keck Medicine of USC\, and Alliance for SoCal Innovation \n\n\n\n11:20 AM Rapid Fire Introductions \n\n\n\n11:30 AM Keynote \n\n\n\nDr. Eran Halperin\, SVP of AI and Machine Learning in Optum AI (UnitedHealth  \n\n\n\nGroup) and Adjunct Professor\, Computer Science\, UCLA \n\n\n\n12:00 PM Lunch \n\n\n\n12:15 PM Startup Showcase Introduction \n\n\n\nJay Goss\, Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health \n\n\n\nHelen McBride\, Bold Capital Partners \n\n\n\n12:20 PM Startup Presentations \n\n\n\nAkara Robotics \n\n\n\nEsperto Medical \n\n\n\nRegard \n\n\n\n12:50 PM Group Discussion \n\n\n\nModerated by Austin Gispanski\, Managing Director and Partner at BCGX \n\n\n\n1:35 PM Wrap up and Conclusions \n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Dr. Eran Halperin\n SVP of AI and Machine Learning in Optum AI (UnitedHealth  Group) and Adjunct Professor\, Computer Science\, UCLA\n Keynote Speaker\n View Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dr. Eran Halperin\n SVP of AI and Machine Learning in Optum AI (UnitedHealth  Group) and Adjunct Professor\, Computer Science\, UCLA\n Keynote Speaker\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dr. Halperin’s research focuses on the development of computational tools for the analysis of genetic data; particularly in the development of tools that enable and facilitate genetic and epigenetic studies of common complex diseases\, such as cancer\, rheumatoid arthritis\, or cardiovascular diseases. These studies shed important light on the biological mechanisms of these diseases\, and they will pave the way to improved diagnosis and a personalize treatment based on an individual’s genetics. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Austin Gispanski\n Managing Director & Partner\, BCGX\n Group Discussion Moderator\n View Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Austin Gispanski\n Managing Director & Partner\, BCGX\n Group Discussion Moderator\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ​Profile summary \n\nAustin is a Managing Director and Partner within BCG X\, BCG’s tech build and design unit focused in healthcare\nAustin partners with healthcare companies to launch innovative new products and businesses ranging from digital front door solutions to digital care delivery products\nAustin lead the GenAI efforts for the Healthcare Payer and Provider unit at BCG\nPrior to BCG\, Austin has held roles across strategy\, engineering\, product\, design\, and operations in consulting\, technology companies\, and start-ups\n\nRelevant BCG experience \n\nLed shift for hospital from digital to product organization launching multiple products across maternity postpartum\, migraine treatment\, next-gen urgent care\nLaunched digital 2nd opinion platform for top specialty health system\nDeveloped digital home health business and product strategy for regional health system\nBuilt digital engagement platform aimed at preventing the progression of cardiac disease through sustained behavior change\nBuilt AI-patient engagement app to improve adherence and experience\nLaunched healthcare business and hardware / software AI medical device for consumer goods company focused on driving health at home and preventative care\nConducted enterprise assessment and redesign for prior-authorization technology portfolio at a large national payer\n\nEducation \n\nStanford University\, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering & Product Design\nUniversity of Florida\, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering & Business Administration\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\nStartup Showcase\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n FOUNDING HEALTH SYSTEMS INNOVATION COUNCIL MEMBERS\nAndrew Goldfrach \nCEO \nArrowhead Regional Medical Center  \nGeoffrey Hall \nCEO \nCalifornia Rehabilitation Institute  \nKelly Linden \nPresident and CEO \nCasa Colina Hospital and Centers for Healthcare \nBryan Croft \nExecutive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer \nCedars-Sinai \nNaser Mohammad \nCEO \nCentinela Hospital Medical Center \nHarlan Levine \nPresident\, Health Innovation and Policy \nCity of Hope \nMick Zdeblick \nCEO \nCommunity Memorial Healthcare \nAnthony Russell \nCAO\, Ambulatory Medicine \nCommunity Memorial Healthcare \nJeremy Zoch \nPresident and CEO \nDignity Health\, Northridge Hospital Medical Center \nCarolyn Caldwell \nHospital President and CEO \nDignity Health\, St. Mary Medical Center \nLori Morgan \nCEO \nHuntington Hospital \nTad Funahashi \nChief Innovation Officer \nKaiser Permanente \nCamille Applin-Jones \nSVP & Area Manager \nKaiser Foundation Hospitals\, Panorama City Medical Center and Antelope Valley \nAlen Oganesyan \nAssoc. Chief Information Officer \nKeck Medicine of USC \nManeesh Goyal \nCOO \nMayo Clinic Platform \nMichael Torgan \nChief Transformation Officer \nMission Community Hospital  \nKent Hoyos \nVP & Chief Information Officer \nPomona Valley Hospital Medical Center \nBernie Klein \nCEO \nProvidence Holy Cross \nJohn Chapman \nPresident and CEO \nSan Antonio Regional Hospital \nNana Deeb \nCEO \nSouthwest Healthcare\, Palmdale Regional Medical Center \nKhurram Mir \nDirector of Innovation \nUCI Health \nJennifer McCaney \nChief of Innovation \nUCLA Health \nArmand Dorian \nCEO \nUSC Verdugo Hills Hospital \nSteven Shapiro \nSenior Vice President for Health Affairs \nUSC Health \nGus Valdespino \nPresident and CEO \nValley Presbyterian Hospital URL:https://alliancesocal.org/event/health-systems-innovation-council-inaugural-meeting/ CATEGORIES:Alliance Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240918T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240918T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T154445 CREATED:20240827T231031Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250527T210832Z UID:6017-1726666200-1726684200@alliancesocal.org SUMMARY:Deep Tech Symposium DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Deep Tech Symposium\, a meticulously curated one-day event during SoCal Deep Tech Week in Los Angeles. Hosted by The Alliance for SoCal Innovation and proudly sponsored by Edison International. \n\n\n\nEvent Sponsored by \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n📅 When: September 18\, 2024\, 1:30 PM – 6:30 PM📍 Where: El Segundo\, CA👥 Who: 125 Deep Tech industry leaders\, innovators\, and subject matter experts \n\n\n\n🔑 What to know: A one-day\, highly curated event during SoCal Deep Tech Week\, featuring keynotes and panels on cutting-edge innovations in Aerospace & Defense\, Cleantech & Sustainability\, and AI/Robotics & Advanced Manufacturing. \n\n\n\n🎤 Opening remarks: Mayor Drew Boyles\, City of El Segundo \n\n\n\n🎤 Keynote: Stephen Cheung\, President & CEO of LAEDC and WTCLA \n\n\n\n🛠️ Panels: \n\n\n\n\nNavigating the Future of Aerospace and DefenseLatest advancements in aerospace and defense\, including new materials and satellite technologies.\n\nModerator: Conn Doherty (RTX)\n\n\n\nPanelists: Jordan Noone (Embedded Ventures\, Zoo\, Relativity Space)\, Erin Hammons (Northrop Grumman)\, Elizabeth Reynolds (Starburst Aerospace)\, Zane Mountcastle (PicoGrid)\n\n\n\n\n\nHarnessing Hard Tech for a Sustainable FutureThe intersection of technology and sustainability\, focusing on cleantech and renewable energy.\n\nModerator: Sergej Mahnovski (Edison International)\n\n\n\nPanelists: Eric Lee (Aligned Climate Capital)\, Adrienne Lindgren (LACI)\, Jess Adkins (Caltech)\n\n\n\n\n\nPioneering Innovations in AI\, Robotics\, and Advanced ManufacturingHow AI and robotics are reshaping industries like healthcare\, transportation\, and manufacturing.\n\nModerator: Krisztina “Z” Holly (Good Growth Capital)\n\n\n\nPanelists: Alice Liu (ID8 Innovation)\, Scott Graybeal (Caelux)\, Peter Lee (Embark Ventures)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n💬 Why it matters: Connect with top minds and explore the technologies driving the future of deep tech. \n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Andy Wilson\n Emcee\n CEO\, Alliance for SoCal Innovation\n View Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Andy Wilson\n Emcee\n CEO\, Alliance for SoCal Innovation\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Andy is a leader in the Southern Californian innovation ecosystem and has started\, led or invested in more than two dozen tech start-ups. In addition to leading the Alliance as its Executive Director\, he served on the City Council for the City of Pasadena for almost 8 years (2 years as vice mayor) and he is a founder of Innovate Pasadena (www.innovatepasadena.org)\, which is dedicated to advancing the Eastside of Los Angeles as a vibrant innovation center for deep tech. \nPreviously\, as founder of Momentum Ventures\, an early stage tech accelerator and venture fund\, he personally led more than a half dozen SoCal tech start-ups and invested in almost a dozen others. He previously held senior executive roles (President\, SVP Product\, CIO\, COO) at Overture Services/Yahoo!\, RiverOne\, Bowne & Co and RR Donnelley & Sons. He has extensive board experience in not-for-profit and community organizations such as Pacific Oaks College\, Pasadena Heritage\, STEAMCODERS\, and currently serves on the Hollywood-Burbank Airport Authority. He has a deep track record of community service including the Pasadena Design Commission\, the Pasadena Planning Commission\, Pasadena Operating Company and the Burbank Airport. \nHe is a regular speaker at entrepreneurs’ events and business schools and was named one of the 50 Most Innovative Men in the San Gabriel Valley. Andy holds an engineering degree with honors from Dartmouth College and received his MBA with a concentration in operations and technology management from Harvard Business School. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Drew Busbee\n Speaker\n Chief Operations Officer\, DTI\n View Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Drew Busbee\n Speaker\n Chief Operations Officer\, DTI\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Drew Busbee is the Chief Operations Officer of DTI. He has spent the better part of the last decade supporting early-stage dual-use startups to navigate the federal funding landscape and has helped portfolio companies secure 500+ million in government contracts and non-dilutive financing. He is a founding member of several government innovation organizations\, secured multiple cooperative research and development agreements between venture firms and the DOD\, and has spent time as a Defense Ventures Fellow. He holds an MBA from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and a master’s in international real estate from Florida International University. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mayor Drew Boyles\n Speaker\n The City of El Segundo\n View Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mayor Drew Boyles\n Speaker\n The City of El Segundo\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n In addition to serving as El Segundo’s Mayor since 2018\, Drew Boyles is an entrepreneur and CEO of businesses in multiple states with several hundred employees. Drew achieved his Bachelor’s Degree by the age of 21\, while fully enlisted in the US Navy. After the military\, Drew quickly progressed through the leadership ranks at Brunswick Corporation and Starbucks Coffee\, while solely raising his two sons. Drew went on to get his MBA in Finance from USC and became a Big 5 Management Consultant. \nOn the entrepreneurial front\, Drew has owned and operated as many as three dozen 1-800-GOT-JUNK? franchises.  Drew founded HazAwayToday.com\, which provides the first of its kind residential and commercial hazardous waste removal services. Drew’s latest ventures involve a patented consumer product for the action sports industry and wave pool\, surfing centric large real estate developments. Drew believes building great relationships is even more valuable than building businesses\, taking great pride in the dozens of leadership and company ownership opportunities he has created for his employees. \nBeyond the world of his businesses\, Drew has served in various leadership capacities with Entrepreneurs’ Organization\, including President of the LA Chapter and the U.S. West Regional Director. He is a Board Member of The World Is Just a Book Away\, which builds libraries for impoverished children in Mexico and Indonesia. Drew served as Co-Chairperson of the Surfrider Foundation Malibu/Santa Monica chapter. \nIn government capacities\, Drew served as Chairman of the El Segundo Economic Development Advisory Council from 2014 through 2016. He was then elected to the El Segundo City Council in 2016\, immediately voted in as Mayor Pro Tem and then voted in as Mayor in 2018\, where he has served since. During his time on the Council\, Drew has emphasized bringing performance-based and private industry techniques to government\, driving economic development and fostering nimble\, effective communication and leading responsible fiscal strategy\, while ensuring our residents and businesses love where they live and work. \nDrew’s personal passions are spending time with his wife\, Lee and his five children\, working to leave the world a better place\, and surfing\, skiing and snowboarding as hard and as often as possible. Drew has a goal of surfing every country in the world; somehow\, even the land locked ones! As of 2024\, he has surfed 25 countries. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Stephen Cheung\n Keynote Speaker\n President & CEO\, LAEDC\n View Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stephen Cheung\n Keynote Speaker\n President & CEO\, LAEDC\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Stephen Cheung is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC) and its subsidiary\, the World Trade Center Los Angeles (WTCLA).  As CEO of the LAEDC\, Mr. Cheung leads LAEDC’s efforts to drive equitable economic growth in the Los Angeles Region. \nPrior to joining LAEDC and WTCLA\, Cheung was the Secretary General and Managing Director of International Trade and Foreign Affairs for Los Angeles Mayors Eric Garcetti and Antonio Villaraigosa and was responsible for managing policies and programs related to the Port of Los Angeles\, Los Angeles World Airports\, International Affairs\, Global Trade and Clean Technology. \nCheung currently sits on the Board of Advisors of UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs\, UCLA Extension\, Coro Southern California and Sister Cities of Los Angeles\, while also serving on the Los Angeles County Workforce Development Board. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\nPanel: Navigating the Future of Aerospace and Defense\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Elizabeth Reynolds\n Panelist\n Managing Director\, USA at Starburst\n View Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Elizabeth Reynolds\n Panelist\n Managing Director\, USA at Starburst\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n As the Managing Director of Starburst’s US business\, Elizabeth Reynolds is championing today’s aerospace renaissance\, aligning early-stage technology innovators with government and commercial stakeholders and investors to modernize infrastructure in space\, transportation\, communications\, and intelligence. Her team works alongside hundreds of technology startups developing new aircraft\, spacecraft\, satellites\, drones\, sensors\, autonomy\, robotics\, and much more. \nElizabeth brings 15 years of experience in deep tech entrepreneurship\, growth\, business operations\, and strategy to the team. Prior to joining Starburst\, she served as an executive for biotech\, medtech\, mobility\, and interactive media companies\, from founding through IPO. She is also an advisor to a number of startups and nonprofits supporting STEM education. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin Hammons\n Panelist\n Director\, Program Manager\, Military Space Systems\, Northrop Grumman Space Systems\n View Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin Hammons\n Panelist\n Director\, Program Manager\, Military Space Systems\, Northrop Grumman Space Systems\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin Hammons is the Director and Program Manager for the Evolved Strategic Satellite Communications System (ESS) program within the Military Space Systems (MSS) Business Unit of Northrop Grumman Space Systems. In this role\, Erin is responsible for the day-to-day management and oversight of the ESS Rapid Protype (RP) effort as well as the ESS Production contract slated for award later this year. \nPrior to her current position\, Erin was the Business Development Director for the National Security Space (NSS) Business Unit\, formulating and executing growth strategies in support of NSS core programs and new business\, including the management of all NSS strategic investments and partnerships. She was also responsible for leading NSS engagement with senior USG and international customers as well as industry partners. \nErin previously worked a number of years within various Restricted portfolios at Space Park\, holding leadership roles in program management\, integrated planning\, risk management\, and new business. Most recently\, she was the Director of Operations for a large-scale Class A program\, leading the team through multiple critical milestones in both design and production phases. \nPrior to joining Northrop Grumman\, Erin was with Boeing Space and Launch\, occupying roles of increasing responsibility within Systems Engineering\, Mechanical Design\, and Business Development organizations. \nErin holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Nebraska and a master’s degree in management from the International Space University in Strasbourg\, France. \nNorthrop Grumman solves the toughest problems in space\, aeronautics\, defense and cyberspace to meet the ever-evolving needs of our customers worldwide. Our 90\,000 employees define possible every day using science\, technology and engineering to create and deliver advanced systems\, products and services. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Zane Mountcastle\n Panelist\n Co-Founder and CEO\, PicoGrid\n View Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Zane Mountcastle\n Panelist\n Co-Founder and CEO\, PicoGrid\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Zane is Co-Founder and CEO at Picogrid\, a defense technology company building a command and control technology for unmanned systems. Prior to Picogrid\, Zane started his career developing autonomous vehicles and field sensors for the US Army and US Navy. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Jordan Noone\n Panelist\n Co-Founder and General Partner\, Embedded Ventures // Co-Founder and Executive Chairman\, Zoo // Co-Founder\, Relativity Space\n View Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Jordan Noone\n Panelist\n Co-Founder and General Partner\, Embedded Ventures // Co-Founder and Executive Chairman\, Zoo // Co-Founder\, Relativity Space\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Jordan Noone is the Co-Founder and General Partner at Embedded Ventures\, along with Co-Founder Jenna Bryant. Launched in 2020\, Embedded Ventures is a next generation venture capital firm investing in early-stage deep tech startups. With a thesis that takes a commercial-first approach to investing in early-stage startups with applications that can serve the Department of Defense\, Embedded has a first-of-its-kind partnership with the United States Space Force. In addition to his role at Embedded\, Jordan is Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of portfolio company Zoo\, the world’s only company to develop advanced tools for hardware design. \nJordan and Jenna both have nontraditional industry experiences and strong passions for the communities they represent. The firm invests in the pre-seed\, seed and Series A rounds for startups focused on space operations\, digital engineering\, and advanced manufacturing. To date\, Embedded Ventures has announced investments in Akash Systems\, Anduril\, Chromatic 3D Materials\, Inversion\, OurSky\, Slingshot Aerospace\, Skyryse and Zoo. \nIn 2015\, at 22 years old\, Jordan started Relativity Space\, which was most recently valued at $4.2B. As Relativity’s CTO for five years\, Jordan focused on technical direction and engineering design\, including: developing printing technology\, launch vehicle design\, propulsion design\, software development\, infrastructure development\, and government affairs. Jordan also led many Relativity initiatives including: expansion of Relativity’s Stargate Factory into the rest of aerospace manufacturing\, Relativity’s strategy for expanding printing technology off-planet; and the ability of Relativity’s factory to flexibly scale to a wide range of rocket sizes. \nJordan has had a lifelong interest in aerospace and began designing and building spaceflight hardware at the University of Southern California. Jordan led USC’s Rocket Propulsion Lab and became the first student and youngest individual in the world to receive Federal Aviation Administration clearance to fly a rocket into space. \nJordan has been chosen for “30 Under 30” lists by Forbes\, Business Insider\, and Inc. Magazine. He received a BS in Aerospace Engineering\, and dropped out of a BS in Biophysics\, both from University of Southern California. Jordan lives in the greater Los Angeles area and is still involved with USC’s Rocket Propulsion Lab advising student members. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Conn Doherty\n Panel Moderator\n VP & GM\, Strategic Solutions at RTX\n View Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Conn Doherty\n Panel Moderator\n VP & GM\, Strategic Solutions at RTX\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Conn Doherty is a seasoned executive with extensive experience in the defense and aerospace industries. Currently serving as Vice President and General Manager of Strategic Solutions at RTX\, Conn has held key leadership roles at Collins Aerospace\, including Vice President and General Manager of BMC2 and Autonomy Solutions. Prior experience at Raytheon Intelligence & Space includes positions as Vice President of Strategic Campaigns\, Vice President of Future Assured Systems & Technology\, and Deputy Vice President of Advanced Concepts & Technology. Conn’s educational background includes an MBA in International Business from UCLA Anderson School of Management and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\nPanel: Harnessing Hard Tech for a Sustainable Future\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Adrienne Lindgren\n Panelist\n Senior Vice President\, LACI\n View Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Adrienne Lindgren\n Panelist\n Senior Vice President\, LACI\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Adrienne Lindgren joined LACI in January 2024 as the Senior Vice President of Unlocking Innovation. In this role\, she is responsible for incubation and investment services\, overseeing the development\, delivery\, and execution of LACI’s founder-facing programs\, in addition to the administration of LACI’s in-house debt and equity financing vehicles. A dynamic professional with a mix of skills and expertise spanning policy analysis\, project finance\, partnerships\, and go-to-market strategies\, she brings demonstrable success in industries including zero-emissions transportation\, sustainable aviation tech\, consulting\, banking\, and municipal government. Prior to joining the team at LACI\, she held key positions at Hyundai Motor Group\, WSP USA\, the City of Los Angeles\, and Goldman Sachs. She is a graduate of London Business School (Ex. Ed. – Project Finance)\, the University of Southern California (M.A. – Urban Planning)\, and Scripps College (B.A. – Political Economy). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Scott Graybeal\n Panelist\n CEO\, Caelux\n View Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Scott Graybeal\n Panelist\n CEO\, Caelux\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScott Graybeal is a veteran executive who led the Energy Solutions Segment at Flex Ltd (NASDAQ: FLEX)\, a $2B division within the company serving the solar\, energy storage\, and LED lighting markets. Under his leadership\, Flex Energy became the third largest producer of PV modules outside of mainland China\, and patented several key solar manufacturing innovations. Scott’s career spans several industries from construction tech to solar to semiconductors. Before joining Caelux\, Scott was COO of Veev Group & CEO of Veev Build and has held key leadership roles at Intevac\, Amonix\, Oerlikon Solar\, Veeco Instruments\, Applied Materials\, and General Electric.Scott has guest lectured on renewables and entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon and Georgetown. He served with distinction as a nuclear submarine officer and is a certified nuclear engineering officer by the Departments of the Navy and Energy. Scott earned his MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management and his BS in Chemistry from UC San Diego. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Eric Lee\n Panelist\n Sr. Vice President\, Aligned Climate Capital\n View Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Eric Lee\n Panelist\n Sr. Vice President\, Aligned Climate Capital\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Eric Lee is a Senior Vice President with Aligned Climate Capital\, an asset manager that invests exclusively in the companies and real assets that are decarbonizing the global economy and its infrastructure. In this role\, Eric leads Aligned’s Environmental\, Social\, and Governance (ESG) analysis of climate infrastructure and venture capital investment opportunities. \n \nPreviously\, Eric was an investment professional at TriLinc Global\, a global impact investing fund manager based in Los Angeles\, CA. At TriLinc\, Eric led the firm’s ESG & Impact efforts across all portfolios and served as a member of TriLinc’s Credit Committee and Sustainability & Impact Committee. Prior to TriLinc\, Mr. Lee worked at Sustainable Insight Capital Management\, an ESG public equities fund based in New York\, NY. \n \nMr. Lee holds a B.S. from Cornell University and a M.S. in Sustainability Management with a concentration in Sustainable Finance from Columbia University.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Jess Adkins\n Panelist\n Founder at Calcarea and Professor at Caltech\n View Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Jess Adkins\n Panelist\n Founder at Calcarea and Professor at Caltech\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Jess Adkins is the Smits Family Professor of Geochemistry and Global Environmental Science in the Department of Geological and Planetary Sciences at Caltech.  He is a member of the Linde Center for Global Environmental Sciences and on the faculty of the Department of Engineering and Applied Science.  Jess started at Caltech in 2000 after receiving a BS in Chemistry from Haverford College in 1990 and a PhD in Chemical Oceanography from the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in 1998.  The Adkins lab studies the history of earth’s climate on a variety of timescales and biogeochemical cycles in the modern ocean.  They use stable isotopes and trace metals in deep-sea corals to understand the mechanisms of rapid climate change during the last glacial cycle.  Uranium series and radiocarbon dating provide constraints on the rate of the ocean’s overturning circulation in the past.  Pore water measurements from sediments retrieved by the IODP constrain the temperature and salinity of the glacial deep ocean and lead to theories and models of the density structure of the past deep ocean.  The group has also worked on stalagmite records of tropical climate change\, biomineralization mechanisms in corals\, and iron isotopes in the modern ocean.  A recent innovation has lowered the detection limit for sulfur isotopes by 1\,000x and has led to work on the sulfur cycle more generally\, investigating the modern budget of river sulfur isotopes\, ice core records of volcanic eruptions\, and measuring the history of marine sulfate isotopic change from the Archean to the Cenozoic.  With Will Berelson at USC\, the Adkins lab has measured the dissolution rate of calcite in seawater with a new technique that is very precise even close to equilibrium.  They have unpacked the dual effects of solution chemistry and surface energy on carbonate dissolution in the lab and in the ocean water column\, leading to the first physical chemistry-based understanding of carbonate dissolution mechanisms in seawater.  This work pushed Jess to start a company\, Calcarea\, that is focused on using the accelerated weathering of limestone to decarbonize the ocean shipping industry and participate in the larger decarbonization economy. \nJess was awarded the Houtermans medal from the European Association of Geochemistry in 2003.  He received the Ruth and Paul Fye MIT/WHOI and the Geochemical Society Best Paper Awards in 2005 and 2009 respectively.  He was the Chow Lecturer at The Scripps Institute of Oceanography in 2017.  Adkins won the Shackleton Medal of the EAG and was named a fellow of the AGU and Geochemical Societies in 2018. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sergej Mahnovski\n Panel Moderator\n Managing Director\, Strategy\, Technology\, and Innovation at Edison International\n View Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sergej Mahnovski\n Panel Moderator\n Managing Director\, Strategy\, Technology\, and Innovation at Edison International\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sergej Mahnovski is a member of Evergreen Climate Innovations’ Investment Committee. Sergej is Director of Growth and Innovation at Edison International\,  where he leads a team focused on identifying\, incubating\, and commercializing growth opportunities in four key focus areas of clean energy\, transportation electrification\, grid edge\, and customer choice. \nPrior to Edison\, Sergej served as the Director of the Utility of the Future team at Consolidated Edison and as the Director of the Office of Long Term Planning and Sustainability for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. \nUnder Mayor Bloomberg\, Sergej and his team managed citywide energy and sustainability policy\, developing a strategy for reducing carbon emissions in NYC by 80 percent by 2050\, and a comprehensive evaluation and approach to resilience of regional energy infrastructure after Superstorm Sandy. The team was awarded the Citizens Budget Commission Prize for Public Service Innovation for developing new approaches to reducing air pollution in NYC through the Clean Heat program. \nSergej previously served as a Chair of the NYC Energy Efficiency Corporation. Sergej has served as Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. He was previously Director for the Global Power Group at IHS CERA and Doctoral Fellow at RAND Corporation. \nSergej holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and B.A. in History from Stanford University\, an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from University of California\, Berkeley\, and a Ph.D. in Policy Analysis from the RAND Graduate School. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\nPanel: Pioneering Innovations in AI\, Robotics\, and Advanced Manufacturing\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Alice Liu\n Panelist\n Partner\, ID8 Innovation\n View Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alice Liu\n Panelist\n Partner\, ID8 Innovation\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dr. Alice Liu is a partner at ID8 Innovation\, an innovation strategy consultancy. She has a diverse background spanning technology\, innovation\, and entrepreneurship across academia\, corporations\, and start-ups. At Stanley Black and Decker\, she led the venture studio where tangible innovation was created through the launch of new ventures. At University of Southern California (USC)\, she helped lead Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship at USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering. Under her leadership the school launched its first deep technology incubator\, the Viterbi Startup Garage\, where she created an ecosystem for venture acceleration and training to rapidly launch technology companies. She was named an Amazon Alexa Innovation Fellow in 2018. Prior to this\, Alice was Director of Business Development and Strategy at Applied Minds\, a multidisciplinary innovation company that designs\, builds\, and creates new technologies and companies in partnership with leading corporations and entrepreneurs. Alice started her career in management strategy consulting at Bain and Company and Boston Consulting Group. \nAlice holds a B.S. in Biology and Ph.D. in Computational Neural Systems from Caltech\, where she also taught data science and machine learning and served on the Board of Directors of the Caltech Y and the Caltech Alumni Association. \n  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ed Mehr\n Panelist\n Co-Founder and CEO\, Machina Labs\n View Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ed Mehr\n Panelist\n Co-Founder and CEO\, Machina Labs\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Edward Mehr is an entrepreneur and engineer with the background in smart manufacturing and artificial intelligence. He is the cofounder and CEO of Machina Labs\, a company that is developing next generation of manufacturing plants through use of robotics and artificial intelligence. Previously at Relativity Space\, He led a team\, in charge of developing the world’s largest metal 3D printer. Relativity Space is working to become the first company to print a rocket on Mars. Before Relativity Space\, he was CTO and founding member of Averon. Averon develops fully automated internet authentication solutions that don’t require any human intervention. His work has been featured\, on the main stage of TED\, TechCrunch Disrupt\, and Cable Lab’s invocation showcase. Early in his career\, he worked as an engineer in companies such as SpaceX\, Google\, and Microsoft. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Peter Lee\n Panelist\n General Partner\, Embark Ventures\n View Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Peter Lee\n Panelist\n General Partner\, Embark Ventures\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Peter Lee is the Founding Managing Partner at Embark Ventures\, a seed stage deep-tech venture capital fund based in Los Angeles. At Embark\, Peter primarily focuses on robotics and autonomy sectors having made over a dozen robotics investments in the space. Prior to entering venture capital\, he was the VP of Product at a venture backed startup. Peter was a manager with McKinsey and also worked as a product manager at Microsoft. Peter earned his BS and MS at MIT in Mechanical Engineering with a focus on robotics and product development and has an MBA from Harvard Business School. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Krisztina "Z" Holly\n Panel Moderator\n Operating Partner\, Good Growth Capital\n View Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Krisztina "Z" Holly\n Panel Moderator\n Operating Partner\, Good Growth Capital\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n For the last two decades\, Krisztina Holly—aka “Z”—has been scouting\, cultivating\, and investing in innovators at the frontier. She is currently a venture partner at Good Growth Capital\, investing in early-stage complex science and technology ventures. An MIT-trained engineer and serial tech entrepreneur\, Z is probably best known as the curator of the first-ever TEDx event and the former vice provost for innovation at the University of Southern California. She built pioneering innovation centers at MIT and USC and started her career as a founder and key team member at tech companies in Boston and Silicon Valley. Since then\, she has advised hundreds of leaders across the private sector\, academia\, and government\, including entrepreneurs who have raised over $1B in capital. An instrument-rated private pilot and avid backcountry skier\, Z has B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering and is based in Los Angeles. URL:https://alliancesocal.org/event/deep-tech-symposium/ LOCATION:The BR-DGE in El Segundo\, 2100 E Grand Ave #100\, El Segundo\, California\, 90245\, United States CATEGORIES:Alliance Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://alliancesocal.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Deep-Tech-Symp-Luma-banner-5.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240521T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240521T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T154445 CREATED:20231206T232520Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240625T233937Z UID:4122-1716296400-1716321600@alliancesocal.org SUMMARY:First Look SoCal Innovation Showcase 2024 DESCRIPTION:Tuesday May 21 @ Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles (map) \n\n\n\nTHANK YOU FOR ATTENDING FIRST LOOK SOCAL 2024\n\n\n\nCheck out the Photo Gallery and Videos for Keynote and Startup Pitches \n\n\n\n\nPhoto & Video Gallery\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe First Look SoCal Innovation Showcase is an annual celebration of the best early-stage teams commercializing deep tech and life science breakthroughs from the top research institutions in Southern California. This is the premiere gathering that celebrates research-based spinouts and connects them with top-tier investors and successful serial entrepreneurs with expertise to help them leap from the lab to market.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe day’s program will feature a pair of keynote presentations followed by a full program of 24 quick-pitch presentations with investor-led Q&A. Stay for the networking reception to (re)connect with the community. \n\n\n\nLimited seats available for a special pre-event founder workshop on Protecting and Commercializing Intellectual Property. More details below.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nLook Forward To…\n\n\n\nConnect with investors\, peers\, and mentors\n\n\n\nUnparalleled opportunities to connect with investors\, mentors and other support resources crucial for early stage startups. Past years attracted over 300 attendees including over 130 investors such as Lux Capital\, Alexandria Venture Investments\, Kairos\, Wavemaker 360\, NXT Biomedical\, NEA\, Elevation Ventures\, FullCycle\, Aligned Climate Capital\, Mitsubishi Ventures and many more.  \n\n\n\nKeynotes\n\n\n\nThe opening keynote from Keith Strier\, VP of Worldwide AI Initiatives at NVIDIA who will discuss the implications and opportunities of ubiquitous computing (AI) followed by a keynote from Mike Miller\, Director of Product at AWS (Amazon) who will show you how they built a generative AI app-building playground in ‘startup mode’ inside of a massive company like AWS. \n\n\n\nStartup quick-pitch presentations\n\n\n\nTwo concurrent tracks (Life Science and Technology) where each track features 12 startups doing 3-minute quick pitch presentations followed by 9 minutes of moderated Q&A led by a panel of investors\, corporates and subject matter experts. See full lineup below. \n\n\n\nThe largest showcase of university-based deep tech and life science startups\n\n\n\nThis is SoCal’s premiere gathering of the best startups emerging from the region’s top research institutions so it attracts the region’s community in a rare concentrated program that celebrates the entrepreneur’s journey from lab to market. \n\n\n\nWorkshop for startup founders (limited seats available)\n\n\n\nLearn from subject matter experts in IP law and licensing best practices for protecting and monetizing intellectual property as well as early stage startup commercialization of deep tech and life science innovations. \n\n\n\nNetworking Reception\n\n\n\nStay for drinks and small bites as we celebrate and connect with attendees and speakers. \n\n\n\nFree Parking\n\n\n\nParking is available in the Skirball’s North Parking garage\, located underground at the north end of the Skirball’s main driveway\, approximately 150 yards north of our Main Entrance. Parking is also available in the East Parking garage\, located across Sepulveda Blvd. \n\n\n\n\n\nLead Sponsor \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\nTrack Sponsors \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\nTransportation Sponsor \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\nAgenda\n\n\n\n1:00p: Pick up Name Badge + Networking \n\n\n\n1:30p: Opening remarks and Keynotes: Keith Strier\, Vice President of Worldwide AI Initiatives at NVIDIA and Mike Miller\, Director of Product at Amazon Web Services \n\n\n\n2:45p: Startup Pitch Presentations \n\n\n\n\n\nLIFE SCIENCE TRACKTECHNOLOGY TRACKSession 1 (2:45 – 3:50p)Medtech Session 1Computing & SoftwareBreak (3:50 – 4:10p)BREAKBREAKSession 2 (4:10 – 5:15p)Medtech Session 2Energy & MaterialsBreak (5:15 – 5:35p)BREAKBREAKSession 3 (5:35-6:40p)TherapeuticsHealth Tech\n\n\n\n\n\n6:40 – 8:00p: Networking Reception \n\n\n\nWhy You Should Attend:  \n\n\n\n\nGet a first look at emerging technology with high potential for market disruption and impact\n\n\n\nDiscover companies seeking early stage funding to commercialize big ideas with massive potential\n\n\n\nSee 24 emerging startups quick pitches w/Q&A led by specialized investors with deep domain expertise\n\n\n\nUnparalleled in-person networking opportunities\n\n\n\n\nRegistration \n\n\n\n\nAttendee Registration\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeakers and Startups\n\n\n\nKEYNOTE SPEAKERS\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Keith Strier\n Vice President\, Worldwide AI Initiatives\n NVIDIA\n View Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Keith Strier\n Vice President\, Worldwide AI Initiatives\n NVIDIA\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Keith Strier is vice president of worldwide AI initiatives at NVIDIA\, with responsibility for NVIDIA’s strategic and commercial engagements with foreign governments. He also leads the company’s AI Nations Initiative\, facilitating public-private partnerships that help governments build sovereign AI capabilities to drive economic growth. Strier has 30 years of global leadership experience\, previously serving as the first global AI leader for EY and the first global chief digital officer for Deloitte. He has also been appointed to multiple AI policy advisory roles across the world\, serving on the U.S. National AI Advisory Committee (NAIAC) to help coordinate the AI strategy for the President; as Founding Chair\, AI Compute and Climate Expert Group\, OECD\, leading development of the first blueprint for building domestic compute capacity; and as the only non-Australian on Australia’s National AI Centre Think Tank. Strier holds a bachelor’s degree in labor and industrial relations from Cornell University and a J.D. from the New York University School of Law. He also served 10 years as a visiting lecturer at Harvard Medical School’s Center for BioInformatics. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mike Miller\n Director of Product\, AWS \n Amazon\n View Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mike Miller\n Director of Product\, AWS \n Amazon\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mike Miller is a Director of Product Management at AWS\, leading multiple initiatives across AWS focusing on Generative AI. In November of 2023\, his team launched PartyRock\, an Amazon Bedrock Playground\, a fun\, intuitive\, and hands-on generative AI app-building playground – no coding skills required. Mike previously led the AWS AI & ML Thought Leadership team\, who brought AWS DeepLens\, AWS DeepRacer\, and AWS DeepComposer to developers worldwide\, helping aspiring machine learning developers get hands-on with the latest technologies. In 2020 Mike’s team launched AWS Panorama\, a service that allows organizations to bring computer vision (CV) to on-premises cameras to make predictions locally with high accuracy and low latency. Mike has been with Amazon for over eleven years\, previously leading product management for Fire TV at Lab126 before joining Amazon Web Services. Mike has over 30 years of technology experience from startups to large corporations\, including leadership roles at Google\, OnLive\, Motive\, and Trilogy\, spanning Silicon Valley and Austin\, TX. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPRESENTING STARTUPS\n\n\n\nLife Science Track \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTechnology Track \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSelection Committee\n\n\n\nThank you to the following members of the ecosystem who lent their subject matter expertise to evaluate the Life Science applicants. Criteria used were 1) novelty/quality of the solution/invention 2) size of commercial opportunity and/or overall potential and 3) do they fit the First Look SoCal mission of showcasing breakthrough innovations emerging from SoCal institutions. The final 12 startups were ultimately chosen by Alliance for SoCal Innovation staff using the feedback provided by the Selection Committee. \n\n\n\nAllen Keel\, Senior Director\, Innovation at Edwards LifesciencesBeth Andrews\, Chief Digital Health Officer at Dell TechnologiesChris Bostick\, Partner at OCVChris Lew\, Principal at Rock Health AdvisoryDave Whelan\, Managing Director at Bespoke StrategyDavid H. Crean\, Managing Partner at Coast BioVentures LLCDebbie Lin\, Venture Partner at T.Rx CapJay Goss\, General Partner at Wavemaker Three-Sixty HealthKathryn Zavala\, Chief Operating Officer at MedTech Innovator \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Meet the "Judges"\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Representatives of industry (VCs\, corporate leaders) with domain expertise in frontier tech and life science innovation. \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n Brian Wayne\n\n \n Managing Partner & Co-Founder\n CurvePoint Capital\n \n \n\n \n Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n Stephanie Gonzales\n\n \n Strategic Innovation and Care Solutions Director\n Kaiser Permanente\n \n \n\n \n Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n Tari Suprapto\n\n \n Director\, Search and Evaluation (West)\n Novo Nordisk\n \n \n\n \n Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n Kate Avaline Edwards\n\n \n Early Stage VC/Startup Business Development\n AWS\, Amazon\n \n \n\n \n Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n Duncan Huston-Paterson\n\n \n Director of Business Development\n Amgen\n \n \n\n \n Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n Beth Andrews\n\n \n Chief Digital Health Officer\, Life Sciences and Healthcare\n Dell Technologies\n \n \n\n \n Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n Aiden Aceves\n\n \n Vice President\, Investments\n Insight Partners\n \n \n\n \n Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n Tad Funahashi\, MD\n\n \n Chief Innovation and Transformation Officer\n Kaiser Permanente of Southern California\n \n \n\n \n Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n Allen Keel\n\n \n Senior Director of Strategic Innovation\, Advanced Technology \n Edwards Lifesciences\n \n \n\n \n Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n Tulsi Patel\n\n \n Head of LA Office\n FedTech\n \n \n\n \n Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n Zafer Sahinoglu\n\n \n VP Innovation\, GM – Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center\n MELIC – Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center \n \n \n\n \n Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n Kathyrn Zavala\n\n \n COO and Managing Director\, Biotools Innovator\n MedTech Innovator\n \n \n\n \n Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n Farahnaz Forozan\n\n \n President / CEO\n Forozan OncoGen Consulting\n \n \n\n \n Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n Eric Lee\n\n \n Senior Vice President\n Aligned Climate Capital\n \n \n\n \n Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n Katie Vasquez\n\n \n Investor\n Calibrate Ventures\n \n \n\n \n Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n Roberto Medrano\n\n \n CEO\n Beach View Capital\n \n \n\n \n Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n David Crean\n\n \n Managing Partner\n Cardiff Advisory\, LLC\n \n \n\n \n Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n Les Karpas\n\n \n Inception Partner Manager\, Robotics\, Automotive & Manufacturing\n NVIDIA\n \n \n\n \n Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n Ken Hayes\n\n \n Executive Director\n Cleantech Open\n \n \n\n \n Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n Howard Ko\n\n \n Partner\n Morpheus Ventures\n \n \n\n \n Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n Ahmed Mirza\n\n \n Investor\n Techstars\n \n \n\n \n Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n Erik Gonzalez-Leon\n\n \n Analyst\n Propel Bio Partners\n \n \n\n \n Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n Lucy Abgaryan\n\n \n Founder\n GrittGene Therapeutics\n \n \n\n \n Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n Steven Chin\n\n \n Regional Director of Neonatology\n Children’s Hospital Los Angeles\n \n \n\n \n Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n Leanna Levine\n\n \n President & CEO\n ALine\, Inc.\n \n \n\n \n Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n Iván Markman\n\n \n Startup Advisor\, Angel Investor\n Former CBO at Yahoo!\n \n \n\n \n Bio \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n Dave Whelan\n\n \n Managing Director\n Bespoke Business Strategy Inc.\n \n \n\n \n Bio \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Brian Wayne\n\n \n Managing Partner & Co-Founder\n CurvePoint Capital\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Brian is the Managing Partner & Co-Founder of CurvePoint Capital\, a growth stage climate tech investment firm. CurvePoint focuses on investing in broadscale decarbonization themes through technology companies across areas of the built environment\, distributed energy resources and advanced materials. \n\nPrior to founding CurvePoint\, Brian was the co-founder of the Aegon Climate Capital strategy at Aegon Asset Management\, with a thesis of investing in companies solving the world’s most pressing issues related to the environment and society. Brian joined Aegon in 2017 to lead the design\, development\, and commercialization of numerous global investment businesses\, with a specific emphasis on sustainability and impact-related solutions and was the co-chair of Aegon’s US Social Responsibility Committee. \n\nPrior to Aegon\, Brian spent a decade at Congress Asset Management investing in private equity and venture capital and was head of product strategy\, deploying in excess of $1 billion across innovative ventures. \n\nBrian also is the co-founder of The Water Genome. A 501(c)3 non-profit impact studio that focuses on identifying and catalyzing water technologies to solve health and climate resilience issues.\n\nHe is a member of The Milken Institute’s Young Leaders Circle\, an expert advisor at AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles\, and a startup mentor to the gener8tor sustainability program.\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Stephanie Gonzales\n\n \n Strategic Innovation and Care Solutions Director\n Kaiser Permanente\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Stephanie is the Strategic Innovation and Care Solutions Director for the Kaiser Permanente Care Transformation Office. Her team of physician leaders\, designers\, and consultants explore new possibilities and create care systems\, leveraging technologies\, clinical expertise\, and human-centered design. The team is tasked with transforming healthcare delivery through virtual care\, analytics\, and artificial intelligence advancements. Stephanie is responsible for collaborating with multiple leaders to set the strategic roadmap\, oversee operational execution\, bring innovation to scale\, and transform healthcare ideas into real-world solutions.\n\nPrior to this role\, Stephanie served as the founding Administrator for the Regional Virtual Medical Center Clinical Operations team and has over 15 years of operational experience in ambulatory and acute care settings. During her tenure with Kaiser Permanente\, she has successfully created high-performing teams and executed new and innovative ideas.\n\nStephanie earned her MPH from UCLA \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Tari Suprapto\n\n \n Director\, Search and Evaluation (West)\n Novo Nordisk\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n About Tari Suprapto\n \n Tari Suprapto\, Ph.D.\, RTTP is a seasoned technology commercialization professional in the life sciences. She is currently the Director for Search & Evaluation for Western US and Canada for Novo Nordisk\, and previously was part of the External Innovation team at Elanco. Tari spent over 15 years commercializing innovations from world-class research institutions such as the Salk Institute\, The Rockefeller University\, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.  Tari has extensive experience in licensing\, building and managing strategic alliances\, and a strong scientific background in a variety of therapeutic areas evidenced by her Ph.D. in cell biology from The Rockefeller University and an Honors B.A. from Swarthmore College.  Tari is also a member of BIOCOM’s Capital Development Committee and serves on the Board of the Association for University Technology Managers\, the San Diego Innovation Council\, and official advisor to Founders Corner Venture Capital in San Diego. \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Kate Avaline Edwards\n\n \n Early Stage VC/Startup Business Development\n AWS\, Amazon\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Kate was the first employee at Amp\, an internal live audio startup funded within Amazon Music. Kate helped grow the Amp team from 2 to 300 employees and managed 4 customer-facing teams as the Head of Creator Services. Amp\, which was greenlit by Jeff Bezos in 2020\, was a consumer app that enabled music-lovers to host their own live radio shows featuring licensed music and their own commentary. Think Twitch\, but for music aficionados rather than gamers.\n\nKate was previously the co-founder and COO of Heartbeat a B2B marketing software and B2C creator app that was the technology backbone behind tens of thousands of sponsored content posts on Instagram\, TikTok\, and beyond. Heartbeat went through the Techstars Los Angeles Accelerator program in Summer 2017\, raised $5M in venture funding\, and worked with over 400 DTC clients\, as well as Disney\, P&G\, Bose\, and Dunkin.\n\nAs COO of Heartbeat\, Kate led business operations\, OKR implementation\, product monetization\, and directly built and managed Sales\, Operations\, and Customer Success teams. She ran the full P&L including financial projections\, sales forecasting\, cash management\, and pricing\, and provided operational oversight across Product\, Marketing\, and Engineering teams. Kate is now part of AWS Startup Business Development\, a team of former startup founders\, investors\, and executives with one main goal: help startups succeed. She has been the Entrepreneur-in-Residence for Techstars LA and Techstars Iowa\, was rated a Techstars Top 1% mentor\, and runs a slack group focused on supporting women founders. She lives in LA with her son\, Wolf\, and her partner\, who she unsurprisingly also met at a startup. \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Duncan Huston-Paterson\n\n \n Director of Business Development\n Amgen\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n About Duncan Huston-Paterson\n \n Duncan Huston-Paterson is a member of the Technology Business Development group. Duncan focuses on scouting and deal-making to access innovative technologies and platforms that enable the next generation of therapeutics at Amgen. Prior to joining Amgen in 2020\, Duncan spent 4 years at Integral Molecular where he led a team that developed\, launched\, and commercialized a novel target discovery platform\, resulting in multiple partnerships with large Pharma. Duncan grew up in South Africa and completed his early scientific training at University of Pretoria\, before going on to receive his DPhil at Oxford University in the UK\, where he studied the biochemical determinants of bird flu transmission to humans.\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Beth Andrews\n\n \n Chief Digital Health Officer\, Life Sciences and Healthcare\n Dell Technologies\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n About Beth Andrews\n \n Allen currently serves as the Senior Director of Innovation for Edwards Lifesciences’ Advanced Technology Incubator. In his role\, he brings marketing\, engineering\, and clinical functions together to discover and build the next wave of groundbreaking products for the future of Edwards\, leading a team to build and implement the strategy for needs-driven innovation. The incubator is deeply dedicated to solving complex challenges in order to transform cardiovascular treatment and significantly improve patients’ lives around the world. Prior to Edwards\, Allen spent time in product management and R&D roles in various medtech industries ranging from digital health (Verily / Google Life Sciences) to cardiac rhythm management (St. Jude Medical)\, as well as a stint in management consulting with PwC’s medtech strategy & operations practice. In terms of educational background\, he holds an MBA from UC-Berkeley (Haas School of Business) and MS/BS in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Aiden Aceves\n\n \n Vice President\, Investments\n Insight Partners\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Aiden Aceves is a Vice President on the investments team at Insight. He joined the firm in 2021 to focus on investments in therapeutics and enabling technologies. Aiden was previously an associate at Vida Ventures\, where he worked in the firm’s LA office making investments in innovative cell and gene therapy companies. Prior to becoming an investor\, Aiden worked on founding and operating biotechnology companies in San Diego California\, where he is based. \n\nAiden traces his academic lineage to Caltech\, where he earned his doctorate in the lab of Dr. Steven Mayo\, a leader in the space of computational protein engineering. Aiden received his B.S. in synthetic chemistry from the University of California\, Riverside. \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Tad Funahashi\, MD\n\n \n Chief Innovation and Transformation Officer\n Kaiser Permanente of Southern California\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Tad Funahashi\, MD is the Chief Innovation Officer for Kaiser Permanente Southern California. In this role\, he leads a team of physicians\, consultants\, designers\, data scientists\, and engineers​ who work together with teams and leaders across Kaiser Permanente ​to envision and build the healthcare delivery system of the future at the Kaiser Permanente Innovations Studio. Dr. Funahashi and the Innovation Studio take a people-first approach to healthcare to enhance the member experience by improving care across the continuum\, leveraging big data to provide personalized and improved quality of care\, and exploring merging opportunities that have transformative potential.\n\nDr. Funahashi maintains a busy clinical and teaching practice in orthopedic surgery and is a Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at University of California Irvine College of Medicine. Dr. Funahashi also founded and chairs the Kaiser Permanente National Implant Registries that currently tracks the safety and outcomes of over 3.2 million implants ranging from orthopedics and cardiology to vascular surgery. He has given hundreds of presentations across the country and internationally and has authored more than 60 papers in publications such as the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery\, American Journal of Sports Medicine\, Journal of Pediatric Orthopedics\, and Journal of Bone and Mineral Research. Dr. Funahashi is a diplomat of the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery\, and an active fellow of the American Orthopedic Association\, American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons\, American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine\, Arthroscopy Association of North America\, and a member of the Orange County Medical Association. He served as the Chief of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery in Kaiser Permanente Orange County from 1994 to 2012\, the Regional Chief of Orthopedic Surgery from 2004 to 2012\, Chaired the National Chiefs of Orthopedic Surgery from 2004 to 2012\, and an Assistant Area Medical Director from 1998 to 2012. He earned his medical degree and completed his orthopedic residency at UCLA School of Medicine. \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Allen Keel\n\n \n Senior Director of Strategic Innovation\, Advanced Technology \n Edwards Lifesciences\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Allen currently serves as the Senior Director of Innovation for Edwards Lifesciences’ Advanced Technology Incubator. In his role\, he brings marketing\, engineering\, and clinical functions together to discover and build the next wave of groundbreaking products for the future of Edwards\, leading a team to build and implement the strategy for needs-driven innovation. The incubator is deeply dedicated to solving complex challenges in order to transform cardiovascular treatment and significantly improve patients’ lives around the world. Prior to Edwards\, Allen spent time in product management and R&D roles in various medtech industries ranging from digital health (Verily / Google Life Sciences) to cardiac rhythm management (St. Jude Medical)\, as well as a stint in management consulting with PwC’s medtech strategy & operations practice. In terms of educational background\, he holds an MBA from UC-Berkeley (Haas School of Business) and MS/BS in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Tulsi Patel\n\n \n Head of LA Office\n FedTech\n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n\nTulsi heads the Los Angeles Office of FedTech\, one of the world’s most successful innovation catalysts and entrepreneurial ecosystem builders. There she oversees multi-million dollar programming for the US Navy\, Northrop Grumman\, and other stakeholders.\n\nPreviously\, she served as the Director of Innovation and Partnerships for VentureFuel. There she ran accelerator programs for Fortune 500 companies and led executive briefings focused on blue ocean opportunities and startup partnerships. Prior to VentureFuel\, she was a Senior Associate at Plug and Play Ventures where she led investments and built multiple greatly successful innovation and accelerator programs. During her tenue\, Tulsi worked with 100+ significant global brands\, including PepsiCo\, Arcelor Mittal\, Swiss Post\, Tetra Pak\, BASF\, Ajinomoto\, Georgia Pacific\, Coca-Cola\, Sherwin Williams\, and Dominion Energy. As a result\, Tulsi has cultivated a nuanced skillset and extensive network of technology and innovation subject matter experts\, including top tier investors\, Fortune 500 companies\, and emerging startups. \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Zafer Sahinoglu\n\n \n VP Innovation\, GM – Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center\n MELIC – Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Dr. Zafer Sahinoglu is currently the General Manager of Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center (MELIC Ventures)\, which was launched in April 2020 as the innovation and investment arm of Mitsubishi Electric in North America. He is also serving as VP Innovation at Mitsubishi Electric US (MEUS). In MEUS\, he has developed and launched SaaS businesses and new products in the fields of energy management\, infrastructure monitoring\, touchless interfaces\, connected vehicles. He has led and managed product design and agile product development\, built new business models\, developed technology strategies\, and bundled these steps into customized processes with continuous innovation.\n\nZafer was a senior principal research scientist in MERL between 2001 and 2016. In his MERL years\, he was an inventor on more than 80 patents\, co-authored more than 100 international journal and conference papers\, made more than 50 key contributions to international standards including ZigBee\, IEEE 802.15.4a UWB PHY and MAC\, IEEE 802.15.4e MAC\, and MPEG 21. His technical expertise includes deep learning\, stochastic signal processing\, space-time adaptive processing\, ultra-wideband and OFDMA wireless communications\, and indoor localization and tracking\, biomedical signal processing\, and Li-ion battery modeling. He has written two books on wireless communication and localization systems published by Cambridge University Press. \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Kathyrn Zavala\n\n \n COO and Managing Director\, Biotools Innovator\n MedTech Innovator\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Kathryn Zavala\, PhD\, is Chief Operating Officer of MedTech Innovator\, the largest accelerator of medical devices in the world. In 2016\, she helped spin the nonprofit entity out of the venture capital firm where it was founded and has been instrumental in expanding the organization. To date\, MedTech Innovator has supported 612 alumni that have gone on to raise over $7.8 billion in follow-on equity funding and achieved 45 exits. In 2021\, Kathryn launched and now serves as Managing Director of BioTools Innovator\, a new program powered by MedTech Innovator to support life science tools.\nKathryn previously held positions at the UCLA Technology Development Group\, where she assisted with the commercialization of university technologies\, and at Campbell Alliance (now Syneos Health)\, where she developed launch strategies for biopharma clients. Kathryn received a Bachelor’s degree in Molecular and Cell Biology and Rhetoric from UC Berkeley and a PhD in Molecular\, Cell\, and Developmental Biology from UCLA. \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Farahnaz Forozan\n\n \n President / CEO\n Forozan OncoGen Consulting\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Farahnaz Forozan is a Clinical Ph.D.\, with 20+ years of global experience in the life sciences industry & proven track record having contributed to the development\, approval\, & post-marketing launch of more than 15 marketed products & more than 30 global programs in various stages of clinical development. She is the Founder & President of Vash ImmOnc\, LLC; a global\, virtual consulting firm that provides strategic\, regulatory\, & technical support to clients across the healthcare sector\, inducing biotech\, pharma\, VCs\, investment firms\, family offices\, global consulting companies\, platform companies\, diagnostic ompanies\, KOLs\, accelerator programs\, incubators\, early-stage startups\, research academic centers\, hospitals\, & laboratories\, encompassing the therapeutics\, diagnostics\, & med device sectors\, globally including Australia and Asia).\n\nShe offers a spectrum of expertise & experiences pertaining to pharma\, biotech\, diagnostics\, med device\, clinical development\, clinical trials & CRO/Central lab industries with specialized expertise in drug discovery/drug development\, evaluation and development of complex R&D/preclinical as well as clinical programs\, laboratory build outs\, implementing precision medicine\, developing global regulatory expertise in oncology\, & immuno-Oncology\, neurology\, autoimmune disorders\, and microbiome.\n\nThrough extended industry network & collaborations\, she provide expertise & develop partnerships & form consortiums\, with pharma\, biotech\, KOLs\, research academic centers\, device & diagnostic companies\, CROs\, tech transfer offices\, to not only develop innovative scientific programs but also co-develop & launch diagnostics\, device\, & therapeutic drugs by translating fundamental biology into impactful therapies\, de-risking new ideas by bringing them into a developmental pipeline\, fast tracking the evaluation with efficiency\, ensure the most promising drug targets are rapidly identified & validated\,\nand advance first-in-class therapies towards therapeutic & commercial success\, AND ultimately bring more groundbreaking therapies to patients.\n\nFarahnaz earned her Ph.D. through a joint program between the George Washington University & National Institutes of Health\, National Human Genome Research Institute and obtained her clinical licensure in Los Angles after completing her postdoc at UCLA\, while serving as Faculty at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Eric Lee\n\n \n Senior Vice President\n Aligned Climate Capital\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Eric Lee is a Senior Vice President with Aligned Climate Capital\, an asset manager that invests exclusively in the companies and real assets that are decarbonizing the global economy and its infrastructure. In this role\, Eric leads Aligned’s Environmental\, Social\, and Governance (ESG) analysis of climate infrastructure and venture capital investment opportunities. Previously\, Eric was an investment professional at TriLinc Global\, a global impact investing fund manager based in Los Angeles\, CA. At TriLinc\, Eric led the firm’s ESG & Impact efforts across all portfolios and served as a member of TriLinc’s Credit Committee and Sustainability & Impact Committee. Prior to TriLinc\, Mr. Lee worked at Sustainable Insight Capital Management\, an ESG public equities fund based in New York\, NY. Mr. Lee holds a B.S. from Cornell University and a M.S. in Sustainability Management with a concentration in Sustainable Finance from Columbia University. \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Katie Vasquez\n\n \n Investor\n Calibrate Ventures\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Before joining Calibrate\, Katie was an investor at MTech Capital\, investing in early- to growth-stage companies in the fintech and insurtech industries in the US and Europe. She has also worked as a strategy consultant at EY-Parthenon advising leading private equity firms and corporate executives in the software and technology sectors. Fascinated by the universe’s biggest questions\, Katie was an astrophysics major in college and conducted research on superfluid dark matter in dwarf galaxies.\n\nOutside of work\, Katie can often be found on the ski slopes or at a yoga class. She is also on the board of the LA Chapter of Synergist Network\, a network of women in investing. Katie received a BS in astrophysics with honors from Brown University.\n\nBest\, \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Roberto Medrano\n\n \n CEO\n Beach View Capital\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n CEO Beach View\, previous GM of HP Software\, CEO Polivec\, President Finjan\, EVP Akana\, Executive Sun Microsystems\, ICO Advisor\, Board Member. Executive with 5 public companies\, 3 of them were private when he joined; 14 companies have been acquired when he was in a board position. Executive in the information technology field of cybersecurity\, Artificial Intelligence\, Blockchain\, IoT\, governance\, compliance\, software\, cloud\, SOA/API management and enterprise architecture. ICO and board advisor for several Blockchain\, AI and cloud companies. \n\nHe is has been an ICO advisor to more than 10 ICOs. Latest projects: www.Etheal.com \, VaultBank.io\, CapLinked.com\, www.transitnet.io\, www.BlockSafe.network\, www.bonafi.io\, www.ipwe.com\, www.blockchainbtm.com\, and others. He is also in the board of advisors to the following cloud AI companies: www.ContractSafe.com \, www.DeepCurrent.com\, www.durolabs.co. In addition\, he is an advisor to http://www.actoneventures.com/ VC firm\, https://www.manhattanstreetcapital.com/about-us\, and http://nex3.com/. He has been on the board of directors or board of advisors for more than 20 companies and organizations among others: Arcot (Acquired by CA)\, Aventail (aquired by SonicWall\, acquired by Dell)\, Encentuate (Acquired by IBM)\, Netscaler (Acquired by Citrix)\, Bigfix (Acquired by IBM)\, AirZip (Acquired by Willow Tech)\, Confluent Software (acquired by Oblix/Oracle)\, PivX (IPO 2004)\, Polivec\, Clearpath Networks\, Sand Hill IT Security (reverse IPO with EdgeWave)\, JackBe (acquired by SoftwareAG)\, NAFINSA\, Bancomext\, Technet. He has an MBA from UCLA\, MSEE from MIT and BSEE from USC. \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n David Crean\n\n \n Managing Partner\n Cardiff Advisory\, LLC\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n David H. Crean was a managing partner with Cardiff Advisory\, LLC where he led the firm’s strategic and financial advisory service practice focusing on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and partnering transactions with life science and healthcare companies. For the past five years\, he was Managing Director for Objective Capital Partners\, LLC driving Objective’s practice in the same domains\, and currently serves in a Senior Advisory capacity with his former firm. Dr. Crean has in excess of 25 years of life sciences R&D\, corporate development and executive leadership experience in the healthcare and biopharmaceutical industries. Dr. Crean holds FINRA Series 79 and Series 63 licenses and is a Registered Investment Banking Representative of BA Securities LLC\, Member FINRA SIPC.\n\nIn parallel to his investment banking leadership\, Dr. Crean currently serves in leading roles on the Boards of Directors for Histogen\, Inc. (Nasdaq: HSTO) as Board Chairman and Chair of Audit\, and the California Life Sciences Association (CLSA) as Chairman of Development and a member of the Executive Committee. He serves as a strategic business advisor for several life science companies in the U.S.\, is a limited partner with a leading life sciences venture fund\, Mesa Verde Venture Partners\, and a member of Corporate Directors Forum. Dr. Crean is also a contributing author for PharmaBoardroom.com and Forbes.com through his work with Forbes Los Angeles Business Council. \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Les Karpas\n\n \n Inception Partner Manager\, Robotics\, Automotive & Manufacturing\n NVIDIA\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Leslie Oliver Karpas has a deep product centric background in computer vision\, SaaS\, digital manufacturing\, and robotics. A strategist\, evangelist\, and technologist with expertise in driving innovative solutions from inception to market; he’s collaborated with such entities as Stanley Black & Decker (DeWalt / Craftsman)\, Intellectual Ventures\, Singularity University\, Herman Miller\, iRobot\, Cirque du Soleil\, and the artist Anish Kapoor. He is passionate about innovative user-oriented design through the interplay between digital and physical environments be it computer vision AI at the edge\, mixed reality\, spatial computing\, advanced manufacturing\, or scan-to-fit 3D printing; and has been lead inventor on 5 issued patents around said technologies. \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Ken Hayes\n\n \n Executive Director\n Cleantech Open\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Ken Hayes helps start-ups grow\, get funded and build value. He joined Cleantech Open in 2017 as Executive Director with US National and Global responsibilities for this established environmental-tech startup accelerator\, working with 100 companies per year assisting them gain funding and establish corporate partnerships. Concurrently\, he is Co-founder and Venture Partner of Canyon Creek Capital’s Fund II\, a VC fund focused on SoCal tech companies from Seed to Series A\, with 40+ investments since 2014\, including early investments in companies such as Miso Robotics\, Relativity Space\, FIGS and Jukin Media. He is also a Director Emeritus of the Pasadena Angels\, one of the Top 10 angel groups in the US\, where he continues to focus on deal sourcing\, mentoring entrepreneurs\, and performing due diligence. Finally\, Ken is a “recovering entrepreneur” who has built and sold several companies in Europe and the USA\, in the ed-tech and ad-tech sectors. He earned an MBA at INSEAD\, France\, and a BA Economics at Pomona College. \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Howard Ko\n\n \n Partner\n Morpheus Ventures\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Howard is a Partner with Morpheus Ventures\, a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles that focuses on early stage technology investments. He currently serves as a Board Director of Ingenious.Build\, RIZE\, and Tagnos as well as a Board Observer at Morpheus Space\, Rugged Robotics\, RIOS and RapidDeploy. Howard was previously with Mission Ventures\, a leading Southern California early stage venture capital firm. While at Mission he focused on investments in software\, wireless technologies and semiconductors. Prior to Mission\, he was with Salomon Smith Barney in their Technology Investment Banking Group where he was involved in over $3 billion of public and private financings and M&A. Howard has served as co-chair of the San Diego Telecom Council Wireless Infrastructure Group. He was a member of the Board of Reviewers for the San Diego based Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technology\, an organization funded by the Department of Defense. Howard holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from UCLA and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Ahmed Mirza\n\n \n Investor\n Techstars\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Ahmed is an early stage Investor at Techstars\, where he helps run the Los Angeles\, Healthcare\, and Space programs. At Techstars\, Ahmed invests in 48 companies a year across six sectors: B2B SaaS\, Retail / E-Commerce\, Health & Wellness\, Deep-Tech\, Prop-Tech\, and Climate / Sustainability. Most recently\, Ahmed was selected to Business Insider’s Rising Stars list of Venture Capital. Ahmed also serves as a Faculty Lecturer at the Anderson School of Management at UCLA.\n\nPreviously\, Ahmed incubated ideas at Wavemaker Labs\, Share Ventures\, and Pilot44 by helping the teams bring various concepts to market. There\, he partnered with internal corporate venture groups at Fortune 100 companies to launch new products and build businesses. \n\nHe’s also spent part of his career as an entrepreneur launching multiple ventures — from retail businesses to digital software products. His expertise in early-stage company building has helped him go 0-to-1 seven times in a span of 3 years. Prior to his entrepreneurial endeavors\, Ahmed was an investment banker transacting technology mergers and acquisitions\, joint ventures\, and partnerships.\n\nIn his spare time\, you can find him cycling the sunny streets of Los Angeles\, playing basketball (go Knicks!)\, and building elaborate Lego sets.\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Erik Gonzalez-Leon\n\n \n Analyst\n Propel Bio Partners\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Dr. Gonzalez-Leon earned his PhD in biomedical engineering from the University of California\, Irvine. There\, his research focused on increasing the functional properties of self-assembled articular cartilage and knee meniscus tissue toward their implantation in a large-animal model. Dr. Gonzalez-Leon was also a Research Transfer Group Fellow at Beall Applied Innovation where he evaluated engineering & scientific inventions from UC Irvine through technical assessment\, patentability assessment\, market research\, and prior art searches \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Lucy Abgaryan\n\n \n Founder\n GrittGene Therapeutics\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Dr. Lucy Abgaryan is a scientist\, and entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in drug development. She obtained her doctoral degree in Biophysics and conducted postdoctoral research in the field of Experimental Medicine at The Scripps Research institute. Her team’s research resulted in an FDA-approved drug\, Ozanimod at a Scripps spin-off\, Receptos. Subsequently\, two more compounds laid the basis for Blackthorn biotherapeutics (now part of Neumora Therapeutics\, Inc)\, drug candidates for Phase 1 and 2 clinical trials. This prompted her to continue her education at UCSD in pursuit of an MBA in Innovation and entrepreneurship. For the last 5 years\, she has been involved in the formation of several startup companies (Biotech\, digital-tech\, Bioprinting\, etc.) in the US\, Armenia\, and Israel where she performs business strategy developments\, operations\, market entries\, as well as regulations advisory. She founded/co-founded 4 science-based organizations including Proone Labs and GrittGene Therapeutics where she is also the CEO. Dr. Abgaryan is an adviser and/or board member for several tech/biotech companies\, investment institutions & educational organizations. \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Steven Chin\n\n \n Regional Director of Neonatology\n Children’s Hospital Los Angeles\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n About Steven Chin\n \n Steven W. Chin\, MD\, MMSc is the Regional Director of Neonatology for the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and the Section Head of Quality and Performance Improvement for the Division of Neonatology. He is an Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. Dr Chin completed his residency training in pediatrics at Rush University Medical Center and his Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine fellowship training at the Harvard Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Program. He completed a research fellowship in Clinical and Translation Science and advanced training in Quality Improvement and Clinical Informatics at Harvard Medical School.\n\nDr. Chin holds numerous leadership roles at the regional and national level including serving on the Board of the Providence St. Joseph Health (PSJH) Women and Children’s Executive Leadership Council and the California Perinatal Advisory Committee – Leadership Advocacy and Consultation (PAC-LAC). Dr Chin also serves as the Director of Virtual Pediatric Systems – NICU \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Leanna Levine\n\n \n President & CEO\n ALine\, Inc.\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Dr. Levine\, founder of ALine\, Inc.\, is an entrepreneur\, technologist\, and inventor. She has a unique blend of technical expertise in bioanalytical science and manufacturing process development. Dr. Levine’s success in new technology development has been at the intersection of physics and biology. She conceived and developed ALine’s proprietary fluid circuit technology. \n\nWhile at Monsanto\, her lab led the industry in the development of a fluorescence polarization instrument and a patented assay to screen novel therapeutics for HSV. In collaboration with Pui Kwok at the Washington University medical school\, a novel fluorescence polarization SNP assay was developed\, patented and sold commercially. 1998 she joined Spectrum Laboratories as Director of Hollow Fiber Manufacture and Product Development. In 2000 she was the chair of the Gordon Conference on Bioanalytical Sensors. Dr. Levine has served as conference chair for the Selectbio conferences in Microfluidics and Organ-on-Chip for the last several years. Dr. Levine is a reviewer for the NIH SBIR program.\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Iván Markman\n\n \n Startup Advisor\, Angel Investor\n Former CBO at Yahoo!\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Iván is currently an investor\, advisor and board member with a focus on Business to Business\, Data and AI-driven SaaS businesses in Climate\, Marketing\, and Education technology spaces.\n\nHe was previously a Strategic Advisor at Yahoo\, following four years as Chief Business Officer where he led the businesses representing most of its global revenue and importantly\, turned it around and successfully exited it to Apollo Global for $5 billion.\n\nImmediately before Yahoo\, Iván was a special advisor to the CEO & Board of Directors of comscore\, where he led a significant turnaround rekindling innovation\, operational scale and growth. Previously\, Iván was GM of Neustar’s Marketing Services business\, after its $450M acquisition of MarketShare where he was COO and early management team member. At MarketShare he grew the business and built the technology globally\, increasing its valuation 15x leading to two exits. Prior to that\, Iván held various senior strategic and operational roles in his first run at Yahoo after joining it via its acquisition of Overture. He started his career in Argentina working in various talent\, sales & marketing roles at Procter & Gamble.\n\nHe serves on the Board of Directors of the Alliance for SoCal Innovation\, a non-profit organization that supports the growth and development of Southern California’s innovation ecosystem\, as well as the Board of the Center for Impact at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.\n\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Dave Whelan\n\n \n Managing Director\n Bespoke Business Strategy Inc.\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n David Whelan is the Managing Director of Bespoke Business Strategy Inc. and offers strategy and operations consulting\, including interim executive leadership roles\, for a variety of organizations\, many at the intersection of technology\, health\, and wellness. Most engagements include significant project management (of internal and external resources)\, budgeting\, oversight of detailed financial modeling\, and development of business and marketing strategies.\n\nHe is the former CEO at BioscienceLA\, a regional accelerator with all stakeholders as constituents\, participants\, and beneficiaries. We support a diverse economy\, including biotech and biopharma\, medical devices\, digital health\, bioinformatics\, healthcare IT\, MedTech\, synthetic biology\, and adjacent industries. \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\nParticipating Academic and Research Institutions URL:https://alliancesocal.org/event/first-look-socal-innovation-showcase-2024/ LOCATION:Skirball Cultural Center\, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90049\, United States CATEGORIES:Alliance Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://alliancesocal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/FLSIS_EventPage_Banner-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240521T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240521T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T154445 CREATED:20240625T230143Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240626T185742Z UID:5705-1716278400-1716310800@alliancesocal.org SUMMARY:First Look SoCal Innovation Showcase 2024 Videos and Photo Gallery DESCRIPTION:Thank you for attending the First Look SoCal Innovation Showcase 2024!\n\n\n\nCheck out the photo gallery and videos of the Keynote by Mike Miller from Amazon AWS as well as all the startup quick pitches in the Life Science and Technology tracks. \n\n\n\nThe original main event page has all of the agenda\, speaker information\, links to startups and more. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhoto Gallery\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAll Event Photos\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVideo Gallery\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKeynote by Mike Miller\, VP Product at Amazon AWS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStartup Pitches: Life Science Track\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nZeptomed\n\n\n\n\n\nMetaba\n\n\n\n\n\nCranioView\n\n\n\n\n\nReBlood Rx\n\n\n\n\n\nLargo Therapeutics\n\n\n\n\n\nOsteoleap Innovations\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEarlyDx\n\n\n\n\n\nNanoMood\n\n\n\n\n\nNeoCare Innovations\n\n\n\n\n\nOsem Fluidics\n\n\n\n\n\nJAL Therapeutics\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/O5Aa1_Anaqk\nOmios Biologics\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStartup Pitches: Technology Track\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAccelno\n\n\n\n\n\nDrop Labs\n\n\n\n\n\nEntropyc Energy\n\n\n\n\n\nPraio\n\n\n\n\n\nGemstone\n\n\n\n\n\nSyntaxa\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChangeAerial\n\n\n\n\n\nMealMate\n\n\n\n\n\nSQUID3 Space\n\n\n\n\n\nWhisper Energy\n\n\n\n\n\nHorizen Technologies\n\n\n\n\n\nUnderdose URL:https://alliancesocal.org/event/first-look-socal-innovation-showcase-2024-videos-and-photo-gallery/ LOCATION:Skirball Cultural Center\, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90049\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance for SoCal Innovation":MAILTO:info@alliancesocal.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240123T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240123T114500 DTSTAMP:20260403T154446 CREATED:20240109T221336Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240125T165827Z UID:4848-1706004000-1706010300@alliancesocal.org SUMMARY:Research Innovation Spotlight on Small Molecule Oncology 1.23.2024 DESCRIPTION:This is an exclusive invite-only opportunity for selected industry professionals (corporate representatives and venture investors) to attend our virtual Research Innovation Spotlight on Small Molecule Oncology featuring engaging presentations followed by moderated audience Q&A from four leading researchers based in Southern California. \n\n\n\n​You will learn about current research from principle investigators who are working on breakthroughs that would benefit from relationships with industry and/or additional investment in the research. This is a unique opportunity to see early advances before they are commercialized. \n\n\n\n​Presenting Researchers \n\n\n\nDr. Matthew Rettig\, M.D.; Medical Director\, Prostate Cancer Program of the Institute of Urologic Oncology at UCLA (profile). \n\n\n\n​Research presenting: analogs of JN103 that have similar in vitro performance as JN103 with improved PK\, which we have already partially demonstrated to be the case with one of our analogs (JN185). \n\n\n\n​—– \n\n\n\n​Dr. Wendong Huang\, Ph.D.; Professor\, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope; Adjunct Professor of USC Keck Medical School; Professor\, Department of Diabetes Complications & Metabolism at City of Hope (profile). \n\n\n\n​Research presenting: a promising clinical strategy to treat lymphoma and other Myc-positive tumors with development of a potent berbamine derivative compound which selectively targets CamkII kinase. \n\n\n\n​—– \n\n\n\n​Dr. Mohan Kaadige\, Ph.D.; Research Associate Professor\, Applied Cancer Research and Drug Discovery Translational Genomics Research Institute\, part of City of Hope (profile). \n\n\n\n​Research presenting: findings from our preclinical investigation of TGN-1062\, a dual CDK7 and FLT3 inhibitor which shows potent anti-AML activity and synergizes with Venetoclax \n\n\n\n​—– \n\n\n\n​Dr. Jean Shih\, Ph.D.; Boyd & Elsie Welin Professor\, Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences at USC (profile). \n\n\n\n​Research presenting: NMI\, a near-infrared MAO-A inhibitor\, is a potent dual-action theranostic molecule enabling non-invasive diagnosis and treatment of brain\, prostate\, and colon cancers\, with added utility for tumor margin visualization during surgery. \n\n\n\n​—– \n\n\n\n​Event Moderator: Chris LeMasters\, CEO at XinThera\, a Gilead Company (profile) \n\n\n\n​XinThera\, Inc.\, a privately held biotechnology company focused on small molecule discovery and development of oncology and immunology therapeutics. \n\n\n\nProgram Format​• Virtual live presentations of 4 research projects \n\n\n\n​• Each project lead gets up to 10 minutes to present their research followed by moderated attendee Q&A for the remainder of their time (a total of 20 minutes per presenter). \n\n\n\n​Agenda \n\n\n\n​10:00 AM Welcome & Attendee Introductions10:15 AM Presentations and moderated Q&A11:45 AM Program Concludes \n\n\n\nFull video recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTimestamps: 00:00 Intros 00:21:25 Dr. Retting 00:41:40 Dr. Huang 00:59:25 Dr. Kaadige 01:21:24 Dr. Shih \n\n\n\n​Why You Should Attend​• Better understand compelling innovations emerging from SoCal’s finest research institutions \n\n\n\n​• See multiple solutions and technologies from a variety of geographies in one virtual session \n\n\n\n​• Interact directly with the primary investigators to discuss potential future applications and build valuable relationships \n\n\n\n​For our Life Sciences spotlight series\, the Alliance has partnered with BioscienceLA who bring an abundance of subject matter and industry experience. In addition\, we are grateful to Foresite Capital for underwriting the series and providing additional expertise and guidance. \n\n\n\n​Previous Spotlights and more program information can be found the Research Innovation Spotlight Series homepage. URL:https://alliancesocal.org/event/research-innovation-spotlight-on-small-molecule-oncology-1-23-2024/ LOCATION:Virtual via Zoom CATEGORIES:Alliance Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://alliancesocal.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/RISS-Tile-with-sponsor.png ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance for SoCal Innovation":MAILTO:info@alliancesocal.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231117T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231117T103000 DTSTAMP:20260403T154446 CREATED:20231025T232756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231025T232757Z UID:3787-1700211600-1700217000@alliancesocal.org SUMMARY:LA CxOs - Leadership - How to think about it and How it Grows & Impacts your company. DESCRIPTION:Leadership – How to think about it and How it Grows & Impacts your company\nJoin us for an engaging and interactive event that delves into the world of leadership and its profound impact on your company’s growth. Learn how to think about leadership in a whole new light and discover the strategies that can help your business thrive. This event is limited to qualified CEOs & CFOs\, confirmed RSVP required. No service providers admitted. URL:https://alliancesocal.org/event/la-cxos-leadership-how-to-think-about-it-and-how-it-grows-impacts-your-company/ CATEGORIES:Community Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://alliancesocal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/CEO-CFO.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231025T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231025T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T154446 CREATED:20231104T031832Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231104T031833Z UID:3796-1698258600-1698265800@alliancesocal.org SUMMARY:Whisky Tasting DESCRIPTION:The Alliance’s final Leadership Engagement and Discussion (LEAD) event of 2023. At a stunning modern home in LaCanada\, we will enjoy a tasting of a variety of Japanese whiskeys. The Alliance is dedicated to fostering collaboration and driving innovation in Southern California. This evening’s event will provide a relaxed environment to connect with your peers\, exchange ideas\, and forge valuable partnerships. . . and of course drink some good whisky! \n\n\n\nWhisky Expert: \n\n\n\nRenowned whisky expert Narbe Zohrabi\, led the tasting. Narbe has been a Whisky Enthusiast/Collector for 17 Years. During this time he’s been fortunate to try over 10\,000+ whiskies and share his experience doing reviews on his YouTube channel called Malt Reviews. He is also the Private Client Manager for Moet Hennessy. URL:https://alliancesocal.org/event/whisky-tasting/ CATEGORIES:Alliance Events ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance for SoCal Innovation":MAILTO:info@alliancesocal.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231025T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231025T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T154446 CREATED:20231025T234832Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231025T234833Z UID:3756-1698258600-1698264000@alliancesocal.org SUMMARY:$50K Student Founder Startup Competition DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of networking and to watch B2B student founders from USC\, UCLA\, Berkeley\, and Stanford compete for $50K investment! \nThe event will take place at the ASU California Center . You can see the details and RSVP at the link below. We’re expecting 150+ talented early-stage founders\, investors\, and operators\, and there will be plenty of time to network over free food + drinks after the pitches! \nRSVP: https://lu.ma/ORCAHonorsFund50kLAComp URL:https://alliancesocal.org/event/50k-student-founder-startup-competition/ LOCATION:ASU California Center\, 1111 S Broadway Suite 100\, Los Angeles\, CA 90015\, Los Angeles\, 90015 CATEGORIES:Community Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://alliancesocal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/LA-Comp-Banner.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The ORCA Network":MAILTO:charlie@theorcanetwork.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231023T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231023T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T154446 CREATED:20231026T191400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231026T191401Z UID:3807-1698073200-1698076800@alliancesocal.org SUMMARY:AMA with Cerracap Ventures and SNØCAP Ventures DESCRIPTION:​The Alliance Series\, Ask Me Anything\, continues with the opportunity to ask Abhi Mukherjee (Operating Partner at CerraCap Ventures) and Shrina Kurani (Managing Partner @ SNØCAP)\, questions about funding your startup. \n\n\n\n​This event series is for founders looking to level up their fundraising game and gain insights from investors and experts who can help SoCal founders prepare for fundraising. \n\n\n\n​This month\, ask your questions about raising capital to CerraCap Ventures which focuses on early-stage technology investments in Healthcare\, Cyber Security and Planet Tech; and to SNØCAP which focuses on early-stage\, profit-oriented platforms that directly and indirectly solve the climate crisis. URL:https://alliancesocal.org/event/ama-with-cerracap-ventures-and-snocap-ventures/ CATEGORIES:Alliance Events ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance for SoCal Innovation":MAILTO:info@alliancesocal.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231020T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231022T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T154446 CREATED:20231025T234900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231025T234902Z UID:3499-1697824800-1698004800@alliancesocal.org SUMMARY:Startup Weekend Conejo Valley DESCRIPTION:Learn how to build a startup\, find customers\, and pitch for cash prizes within 54 thrilling hours. \nTechstars Startup Weekend is an exciting and immersive foray into the world of startups. Over an action-packed three days (Friday-Sunday)\, you’ll make significant strides toward creating a business\, in addition to connecting with the right people and resources and meeting the very best mentors\, investors\, and potential co-founders…and maybe even start that business! \nFree for students\, use code: STUDENTSWCV \nHow Does it Work? \nParticipants come together on Friday\, Oct. 20\, at 6 p.m. to form teams and select a startup idea to work on. Eat food\, play startup games\, and network. \nWork into the night and return on Saturday for workshops on starting a business\, talking to customers\, creating a pitch deck\, and more. You’ll also learn how to create a functioning prototype…no coding skills required! There are also mentor sessions to get feedback and ask questions from people in our community…and more food! \nSunday starts with more team time\, pitch practice\, and then in the evening\, the teams present their startup ideas to a panel of judges for cash prizes! \nIf you’re curious to learn more\, you can register as an observer and join us on Friday evening for dinner and kickoff games and hear the startup ideas pitched. Maybe you’ll even join a team! URL:https://alliancesocal.org/event/startup-weekend-conejo-valley/ LOCATION:Hub 101\, 31416 Agoura Rd #105\, Westlake Village\, CA\, 91361\, United States CATEGORIES:Community Events,Ventura County ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://alliancesocal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IMG_9429-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231018T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231018T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T154446 CREATED:20230208T221259Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231025T235027Z UID:2600-1697650200-1697659200@alliancesocal.org SUMMARY:MedTech Minds© Mastermind | OCTOBER 2023 DESCRIPTION:Are you ready to meet and network with the leading innovators and professionals in the life sciences industry? Do you have a medical device\, biotech\, or healthcare company or startup that you’re looking to grow? Are you seeking expert guidance on how to navigate your career in medtech or biotech? \nMedTech Minds is the must-attend event for professionals and entrepreneurs in the medical device\, biotech\, and healthcare industry. Hosted by MIX\, this mastermind event will connect you with some of the leading innovators\, thought leaders\, and game changers in the life sciences sector. You’ll participate in high-powered peer-to-peer mentoring\, brainstorming\, and Q&A sessions\, and get valuable insights on how to succeed in the medtech or biotech industry. \nAs a member of this mastermind group\, you’ll benefit from the diverse strengths\, wisdom\, and experience of your peers\, and be able to collaborate\, support\, and advise each other as you work towards success. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to grow both personally and professionally. Sign up for MedTech Minds today! \n—– \nABOUT MASTERMIND EVENTS \nA Mastermind is a small group of peers who share similar interests and goals and meet on a regular basis. The purpose of their meetings is to discuss an issue or problem members are facing\, find answers\, and help each other succeed. \nThe group functions as your Board of Directors. Different strengths\, wisdom\, and experience of the members allows you to brainstorm\, support\, and advise each other. As part of this alliance\, everyone becomes smarter and empowered by the synergy created. \n“This process\, called masterminding\, is one of the most powerful tools for success presented in this book (The Success Principles). I don’t know anybody who has become super successful who has not employed the principle of masterminding.” ˜ The Success Principles– Jack Canfield \nMembers who submit questions have a chance to be in the “hot seat”. The hot seat participant brings up an issue and explains what help they need. The other members ask questions\, delve deeper into a problem\, brainstorm ideas and offer a solution. \n-—- \nADDITIONAL EVENT DETAILS \nThis is a unique\, interactive event – and as an added bonus\, if you submit a question about the industry\, your startup\, or your career when you purchase your ticket\, and your question is chosen as one of the 6 featured at the event\, you’ll receive a full refund for your ticket and free admission! \nThis is an indoor event. Please plan to bring a mask if required by mandate due to COVID. Tickets are limited and only 30 attendees will be allowed. \n—– \nSCHEDULE \n5:15-5:45 – Meet and Mingle \n5:45-6:30 – Introduction \n6:30-7:00 – 1st Round of Mastermind \n7:00-7:10 – Break and Mingle \n7:10-7:35 – 2nd Round of Mastermind` \n7:35-7:50 – Brag box or Startup Rapid Pitch \n7:50-8:00 – Closing and mingling \n———– \nTICKETS \nEARLY BIRD PRICING: $20 \nGENERAL ADMISSION PRICING: $30 admission (cards and cash accepted at the door) \n———– \nEVENT POWERED BY \nUniversity Lab Partners \nUniversity Lab Partners is an independent\, non-profit program of Beall Family Foundation. An open innovation platform enables bioscience & MedTech companies to access unique research capabilities and a network of technical\, business\, and talent resources at an economical cost. \nFirst Republic Bank \nFirst Republic is at the forefront of serving healthcare and biotech professionals and their businesses. As you dedicate time to your business\, you need a banking partner who can offer clear\, balanced\, and unbiased advice to help you make important financials decisions that affect your future. Its part of their commitment to providing the medical and biotech communities with extraordinary personal service- now and in the future. \nSyprosoft \nFounded in 2002\, Syprosoft Engineering provides consulting services to the medical devices industry. Our clients range from Fortune 500 size firms to entrepreneurs and innovators sometimes with single-digit number of employees. Clients are based literally around the world\, and our experience includes diagnostic\, therapeutic and surgical devices\, touching nearly every part of the human body. Services cover product development\, regulatory clearance/compliance\, and manufacturing launch \nMedLance \nMedLance is here to revolutionize the way MedTech professionals connect and work together. As a company founded by MedTech experts\, they understand the struggles of finding high-quality\, on-demand resources and the importance of having the relevant information you need to build your dream team. That’s why MedLance is more than just a generic work marketplace – it’s a specialized and powerful tool designed specifically for the MedTech industry. We help product developers and freelancers fill critical talent and knowledge gaps so that the right people can find the right job\, faster and for less. URL:https://alliancesocal.org/event/medtech-minds-mastermind-october-2023/ LOCATION:University Lab Partners\, 5270 California Ave Suite 300\, Irvine\, 92617 CATEGORIES:Community Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://alliancesocal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/10.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Medical Innovation Exchange":MAILTO:info@medinnovationexchange.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231018T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231018T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T154446 CREATED:20231026T210656Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231030T221713Z UID:3812-1697619600-1697641200@alliancesocal.org SUMMARY:The 5th Annual SoCal Ecosystem Leadership Forum DESCRIPTION:Our annual regional planning workshop is focused on uniting and catalyzing the leadership of Southern California’s diverse and compelling innovation nodes which define the SoCal innovation network. To accomplish this\, we will convene a diverse cross section of leaders from across the region for a professionally facilitated one-day intensive workshop to learn\, share best practices\, connect with key partners and generate a coordinated strategy to tackle shared challenges and opportunities. This event is invite-only and free of charge\, thanks to our sponsors Hines\, Verizon\, Sunstone Management\, and Annenberg Tech | The Annenberg Foundation. \n\n\n\n​This year’s forum is focused on making SoCal more competitive — nationally and within California — in attracting investment through public and private funding sources. The primary audience for the discussions will be representatives from SoCal ecosystem-focused organizations such as economic development agencies\, accelerators\, regional and industry-specific startup support organizations\, as well as local\, state\, and federal government agencies who fund economic development. \n\n\n\n​Forum Goals:\n\n\n\n\n​Connect the key people and organizations working to drive economic development and prosperity within SoCal’s innovation ecosystem\n\n\n\n\n\n​Identify trends and available opportunities to fund economic development initiatives so that ecosystem stakeholders can best prepare and align resources to capitalize on the appropriate funding sources for their communities\n\n\n\n​Instigate and support deeper relationships between SoCal’s innovation ecosystem leaders to ensure improved coordination of effort and collaboration within the region\n\n\n\n\n​Agenda:\n\n\n\n​9:00 AM: Informal networking \n\n\n\n​Come early for coffee and refreshments while you (re)connect with colleagues. \n\n\n\n​​10:00 AM: Welcome \n\n\n\n​Kicking off the day with comments from Alliance staff and welcome from Doug Holte\, CEO at EXP by Hines\, our host and venue sponsor. \n\n\n\n​10:15: Introductions: Who’s in the room? \n\n\n\n​​Each attendee will share a quick (10 second) summary of your organization and the role you play in the ecosystem. Roles could include: Investor\, Government\, Ecosystem Support Org\, Corporate\, Academic Institution\, Service Provider (e.g. Banking\, Legal\, Accounting). \n\n\n\n​Led by our emcee and program facilitator\, Juan Ceva \n\n\n\n​10:30a: Conversation Round 1. Funding Economic Development. Sponsored by Verizon \n\n\n\n​What economic development priorities are getting funding\, and how can the SoCal ecosystem best prepare? Panel discussion with regional funders featuring representatives from government agencies and philanthropic foundations where we will learn about upcoming funding opportunities\, debrief about past experiences\, and gain insights into the evolving trends for funding economic development programs.  \n\n\n\n​Speakers: Wilfred Marshall (US Economic Development Administration)\, Deepak Bahl (USC Center for Economic Development)\, Chris Earl (CA GO BIZ)\, Shaun Randolph (LA N Sync / California Community Foundation)\, Stephanie Holloway (LA County). Moderator: Stacy Cumberbatch (Blended Impact Labs) \n\n\n\n​​11:25a: Break + Networking \n\n\n\n​​11:45a: Conversation Round 2. Launching Public / Private Partnerships (PPPs) That Work. Sponsored by Sunstone Management \n\n\n\n​A group discussion led by experts who have launched numerous successful PPPs and are eager to share insights from their past collaborations and best practices to enable you to achieve impact that is aligned with your mission.  \n\n\n\n​Speakers: John Keisler\, CEO of Sunstone Management and Jesus Roman\, VP State and Local Government Affairs at Verizon Communications. \n\n\n\n​​12:15p: Lunch Break at Hangar 24. Sponsored by Hines \n\n\n\n​​1:00p: Workshop: How can the SoCal innovation ecosystem be more effective at bringing investment to the region that funds high impact economic development programs? Sponsored by Annenberg Tech | Annenberg Foundation \n\n\n\n​​​An interactive group discussion on how the region’s key stakeholder groups can effectively coordinate efforts and resources to go after potentially transformative funding opportunities collaboratively. We’ll identify the key initiatives (e.g. grants\, PPPs)\, essential organizations to include in those initiatives\, and how we can proactively utilize (or forge) alliances and effective partnerships to best accomplish our regional funding goals. \n\n\n\n​​2:30p: Wrap Up Discussion: summarizing the day and forging a plan for next steps and action. \n\n\n\n​3:00p: Program concludes URL:https://alliancesocal.org/event/the-5th-annual-socal-ecosystem-leadership-forum/ CATEGORIES:Alliance Events ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance for SoCal Innovation":MAILTO:info@alliancesocal.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231010T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231010T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T154446 CREATED:20231026T192710Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231026T192711Z UID:3799-1696957200-1696964400@alliancesocal.org SUMMARY:SVP Founder Event - Santa Barbara DESCRIPTION:Are you looking for guidance on raising capital for your venture? We invite you to our upcoming in-person Founder’s event in Santa Barbara\, “Fundraising in Today’s Startup Market.” \n\n\n\n​Join us for this exclusive event to hear from how Santa Barbara-based founder\, Woody Sears at Autio\, raised his latest funding round. \n\n\n\n​The event will also include investors Julie Henley McNamara (Entrada Ventures)\, Mike Tucker (ScOp Venture Capital)\, Ken Funahashi (Wilson Sonsini) who will share their perspective on the early stage venture market on a panel moderated by Mark diTargaini (Pacific Western Bank). \n\n\n\n​It’s the perfect opportunity to gain valuable insights with like-minded entrepreneurs in the Santa Barbara startup community. Appetizers and drinks will be served due to the generous support of Countsy. \n\n\n\nRead Erics Blog: Mastering the Art of Fundraising: Insights from Experts in Santa Barbara’s Startup Ecosystem here URL:https://alliancesocal.org/event/svp-founder-event-santa-barbara/ LOCATION:SB Biergarten\, 11 Anacapa St\, Santa Barbara\, California\, 93101 CATEGORIES:Alliance Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://alliancesocal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/e008ff77-36ef-4b68-a211-8bd26f536657.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230926T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230926T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T154446 CREATED:20231026T193124Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231031T191358Z UID:3805-1695744000-1695747600@alliancesocal.org SUMMARY:AMA with Healthcare Investors: Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health and OCV Partners DESCRIPTION:An AMA webinar focusing on founders building businesses in Healthcare (Healthtech\, Healthcare SaaS\, Digital Health\, MedTech\, and Therapeutics) and featuring leading healthcare investors Jay Goss at Wavemaker Three-Sixty and Chris Bostick at OCV Partners. URL:https://alliancesocal.org/event/ama-with-healthcare-investors-wavemaker-three-sixty-health-and-ocv-partners/ CATEGORIES:Alliance Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://alliancesocal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/AMA-with-Wavemaker-360-and-OCV-Partners-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance for SoCal Innovation":MAILTO:info@alliancesocal.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230926T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230927T235959 DTSTAMP:20260403T154446 CREATED:20230124T170326Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230124T170358Z UID:2512-1695686400-1695859199@alliancesocal.org SUMMARY:MOVE America DESCRIPTION:Where disruptive technology and innovation drive much needed change – the #1 tech\, mobility and start-ups show in America! \n#MOVEAmerica2023 is THE meeting place for the world’s transport tech and mobility giants. MOVE America has become a critical meeting place for buyers & sellers across the mobility value chain. In 2022 over 3\,000 mobility professionals attended the event\, with 5\,000 expected to attend in 2023. URL:https://alliancesocal.org/event/move-america/ CATEGORIES:Community Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://alliancesocal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/MOVE-america-logo-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230925T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230925T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T154446 CREATED:20231025T235108Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231025T235116Z UID:3601-1695664800-1695670200@alliancesocal.org SUMMARY:Women in Business: Paths To Executive Careers DESCRIPTION:Hub101’s Women in Business Event Series is a quarterly series that aims to empower collective growth through shared experiences\, inspiring stories\, and invaluable insights. \nWe are excited to welcome Karina Castagna\, SVP OptimizeRx\, Janna Jagoe\, Senior Director\, Market Access\, Abbott\, and Helen McBride\, Operating Partner\, BOLD Capital Partners\, as our speakers! We will be announcing more event details shortly\, but you can still RSVP in the meantime\, as you won’t want to miss it! \nAll are welcome! \nAgenda \n6:00 Arrivals and networking\n6:10 Welcome\n6:15 Moderated panel\n7:00 Q&A and Networking to close URL:https://alliancesocal.org/event/women-in-business-paths-to-executive-careers/ LOCATION:Hub 101\, 31416 Agoura Rd #105\, Westlake Village\, CA\, 91361\, United States CATEGORIES:Community Events,Ventura County ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://alliancesocal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Women-in-Tech-Event-Hub101_Zubi-9.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230920T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230920T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T154446 CREATED:20231104T032535Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231104T032536Z UID:3795-1695229200-1695236400@alliancesocal.org SUMMARY:Keeping California Golden DESCRIPTION:The Alliance for SoCal Innovation has arranged for Marina Salinas to moderate a discussion between Steve Westly and Dee Dee Myers on “Keeping California Golden.” We will be discussing several key issues that are impeding business growth in California\, including high taxes\, high cost of living\, regulatory burdens\, and infrastructure challenges. The discussion will explore these issues and identify potential solutions\, especially in the context of other emerging dynamic economies that pose a growing challenge to California’s economic leadership. \n\n\n\nEvent Sponsor URL:https://alliancesocal.org/event/keeping-california-golden/ LOCATION:Virtual via Zoom CATEGORIES:Alliance Events ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance for SoCal Innovation":MAILTO:info@alliancesocal.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230915T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230915T184500 DTSTAMP:20260403T154446 CREATED:20231108T212203Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231108T212204Z UID:3974-1694799000-1694803500@alliancesocal.org SUMMARY:Population Health Discussion & Cocktails DESCRIPTION:This timely topic is sure to elicit a lively conversation and therefore we’ve arranged for cocktails and small bites afterwards to provide a relaxed networking opportunity before heading out for the remainder of our evening. URL:https://alliancesocal.org/event/population-health-discussion-cocktails/ CATEGORIES:Alliance Events ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance for SoCal Innovation":MAILTO:info@alliancesocal.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230912T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230912T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T154446 CREATED:20230831T184434Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231108T211912Z UID:3531-1694539800-1694547000@alliancesocal.org SUMMARY:Fundraising in Today’s Startup Market DESCRIPTION:​Are you looking for guidance on raising capital for your venture? We invite you to our upcoming in-person Founder’s event in Culver City\, “Fundraising in Today’s Startup Market. \n\n\n\n​Join us for this exclusive event to get your questions answered by an expert panel of VCs from Zhenni Liu (MaC Ventures); Jeff Bocan (Okapi Venture Capital); and Petra Griffith (Wedbush Ventures). It’s the perfect opportunity to gain valuable insights with like-minded entrepreneurs in the SoCal Startup community. Light appetizers and drinks will be served. \n\n\n\nEvent Sponsor URL:https://alliancesocal.org/event/fundraising-in-todays-startup-market/ LOCATION:BioscienceLA\, 4130 Overland Ave\, Culver City\, California\, 90230\, United States CATEGORIES:Alliance Events ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance for SoCal Innovation":MAILTO:info@alliancesocal.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230816T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230816T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T154446 CREATED:20230208T221234Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230208T221235Z UID:2598-1692207000-1692216000@alliancesocal.org SUMMARY:MedTech Minds© Mastermind | AUGUST 2023 DESCRIPTION:Are you ready to meet and network with the leading innovators and professionals in the life sciences industry? Do you have a medical device\, biotech\, or healthcare company or startup that you’re looking to grow? Are you seeking expert guidance on how to navigate your career in medtech or biotech? \nMedTech Minds is the must-attend event for professionals and entrepreneurs in the medical device\, biotech\, and healthcare industry. Hosted by MIX\, this mastermind event will connect you with some of the leading innovators\, thought leaders\, and game changers in the life sciences sector. You’ll participate in high-powered peer-to-peer mentoring\, brainstorming\, and Q&A sessions\, and get valuable insights on how to succeed in the medtech or biotech industry. \nAs a member of this mastermind group\, you’ll benefit from the diverse strengths\, wisdom\, and experience of your peers\, and be able to collaborate\, support\, and advise each other as you work towards success. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to grow both personally and professionally. Sign up for MedTech Minds today! \n—– \nABOUT MASTERMIND EVENTS \nA Mastermind is a small group of peers who share similar interests and goals and meet on a regular basis. The purpose of their meetings is to discuss an issue or problem members are facing\, find answers\, and help each other succeed. \nThe group functions as your Board of Directors. Different strengths\, wisdom\, and experience of the members allows you to brainstorm\, support\, and advise each other. As part of this alliance\, everyone becomes smarter and empowered by the synergy created. \n“This process\, called masterminding\, is one of the most powerful tools for success presented in this book (The Success Principles). I don’t know anybody who has become super successful who has not employed the principle of masterminding.” ˜ The Success Principles– Jack Canfield \nMembers who submit questions have a chance to be in the “hot seat”. The hot seat participant brings up an issue and explains what help they need. The other members ask questions\, delve deeper into a problem\, brainstorm ideas and offer a solution. \n-—- \nADDITIONAL EVENT DETAILS \nThis is a unique\, interactive event – and as an added bonus\, if you submit a question about the industry\, your startup\, or your career when you purchase your ticket\, and your question is chosen as one of the 6 featured at the event\, you’ll receive a full refund for your ticket and free admission! \nThis is an indoor event. Please plan to bring a mask if required by mandate due to COVID. Tickets are limited and only 30 attendees will be allowed. \n—– \nSCHEDULE \n5:15-5:45 – Meet and Mingle \n5:45-6:30 – Introduction \n6:30-7:00 – 1st Round of Mastermind \n7:00-7:10 – Break and Mingle \n7:10-7:35 – 2nd Round of Mastermind` \n7:35-7:50 – Brag box or Startup Rapid Pitch \n7:50-8:00 – Closing and mingling \n———– \nTICKETS \nEARLY BIRD PRICING: $20 \nGENERAL ADMISSION PRICING: $30 admission (cards and cash accepted at the door) \n———– \nEVENT POWERED BY \nUniversity Lab Partners \nUniversity Lab Partners is an independent\, non-profit program of Beall Family Foundation. An open innovation platform enables bioscience & MedTech companies to access unique research capabilities and a network of technical\, business\, and talent resources at an economical cost. \nFirst Republic Bank \nFirst Republic is at the forefront of serving healthcare and biotech professionals and their businesses. As you dedicate time to your business\, you need a banking partner who can offer clear\, balanced\, and unbiased advice to help you make important financials decisions that affect your future. Its part of their commitment to providing the medical and biotech communities with extraordinary personal service- now and in the future. \nSyprosoft \nFounded in 2002\, Syprosoft Engineering provides consulting services to the medical devices industry. Our clients range from Fortune 500 size firms to entrepreneurs and innovators sometimes with single-digit number of employees. Clients are based literally around the world\, and our experience includes diagnostic\, therapeutic and surgical devices\, touching nearly every part of the human body. Services cover product development\, regulatory clearance/compliance\, and manufacturing launch \nMedLance \nMedLance is here to revolutionize the way MedTech professionals connect and work together. As a company founded by MedTech experts\, they understand the struggles of finding high-quality\, on-demand resources and the importance of having the relevant information you need to build your dream team. That’s why MedLance is more than just a generic work marketplace – it’s a specialized and powerful tool designed specifically for the MedTech industry. We help product developers and freelancers fill critical talent and knowledge gaps so that the right people can find the right job\, faster and for less. URL:https://alliancesocal.org/event/medtech-minds-mastermind-august-2023/ LOCATION:University Lab Partners\, 5270 California Ave Suite 300\, Irvine\, 92617 CATEGORIES:Community Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://alliancesocal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/9.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Medical Innovation Exchange":MAILTO:info@medinnovationexchange.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230816T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230816T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T154446 CREATED:20230710T223419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230713T173242Z UID:3306-1692201600-1692205200@alliancesocal.org SUMMARY:AMA with Leading Innovation Law Firm: Wilson Sonsini DESCRIPTION:The Alliance Series\, Fundraising in Today’s Market\, continues with an “Ask Me Anything” conversation. \n\n\n\nThis event series is for founders looking to level up their fundraising game and gain insights from investors and experts who can help SoCal founders prepare for fundraising. \n\n\n\nThis month\, ask your questions about raising capital to leading innovation law attorney\, Kenji (Ken) Funahashi\, at Wilson Sonsini. Ken has deep experience and insights gained decades of advising entrepreneurs\, corporations\, strategic investors\, angel investors\, venture capital funds\, and private equity funds engaged in business operations in California and throughout the world. URL:https://alliancesocal.org/event/ama-with-leading-innovation-law-firm-wilson-sonsini/ LOCATION:Virtual via Zoom CATEGORIES:Alliance Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://alliancesocal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/AMA-with-WSGR-3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230810T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230810T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T154446 CREATED:20230703T221652Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230703T221653Z UID:3224-1691672400-1691694000@alliancesocal.org SUMMARY:ENP-UCI 3rd Annual Growth & Scale Summit - Corporate Innovation DESCRIPTION:Held at UCI Beall Applied Innovation \nTopics Include: \nRe-evaluating your value proposition for market relevancy & resiliency – creating a Roadmap for 2023 and beyond\nOvercoming “Leap Bias” – hurdling challenges at each stage of growth\nDeveloping an inclusive culture and team focused on a core purpose\nLeveraging and integrating technology/processes that scale with you \nCurrent Speakers: \nJoshua Kreitzer\, Founder & CEO of Channel Bakers\nWing Lam Owner\, Wahoo’s Fish Taco\nMichelle Beauchamp\, Leadership & DEI Consultant\, The Champ Group\nFeyzi Fatehi\, CEO\, Corent Technology\, Inc\nJohn Marler\, Director of Global ESG\, Ingram Micro\nDelilah Panio\, Vice President\, U.S. Capital Formation\, Toronto Stock Exchange / TSX Venture Exchange\nCedric Harris\, Chief Research Officer (CRO)\, EverythingBlockchain\, Inc\nSandeep Pandya \, CEO at Everguard.ai\nErrol Arkilic\, Chief Innovation Officer UCI\, Executive Director UCI Beall Applied Innovation (BAI)\nDr. Anita Polite Wilson\, C-Suite Trusted Advisor\nScott Kitcher\, President & CEO at Sustain SoCal\nPankaj Patel\, Founder and CEO\, Nile Global\nSam King\, CEO\, King’s Seafood\nBill Edwards\, CEO\, Edwards Global Services\, Inc.\nAlicia Whitney\, CEO\, Prjkt Hospitality & Concessions Group\nHenry DeVries\, CEO\, INDIE Books International\, Forbes.com Columnist\nMarvin Sepe\, SVP\, CTC Global\nHelena Ferrari\, GPHR\, PHR\, Managing HR Consultant\, The HRRx\nJoel Manfredo\, Chief Information & Innovation Digital Officer\, MPI URL:https://alliancesocal.org/event/enp-uci-3rd-annual-growth-scale-summit-corporate-innovation/ LOCATION:The Cove at UCI\, California Avenue # 100\, Irvine\, CA CATEGORIES:Community Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://alliancesocal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/August-10-header.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230718T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230718T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T154446 CREATED:20230727T185645Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231108T211716Z UID:3427-1689696000-1689706800@alliancesocal.org SUMMARY:San Diego Day Cruise DESCRIPTION:A very special version of our Leadership Engagement and Discussion (LEAD) series of events. We will be embarking on a San Diego Bay cruise aboard the magnificent 62 foot catamaran “Chim Chim.” While enjoying views of the beautiful downtown of San Diego\, the Midway\, and the Coronado bridge\, you will have the chance to engage in meaningful conversations and explore potential collaborations that can shape the future of innovation in our region. URL:https://alliancesocal.org/event/san-diego-day-cruise/ CATEGORIES:Alliance Events ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance for SoCal Innovation":MAILTO:info@alliancesocal.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230717T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230717T134500 DTSTAMP:20260403T154446 CREATED:20230727T181049Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230727T181050Z UID:3424-1689591600-1689601500@alliancesocal.org SUMMARY:Caltech Campus Tour & Roundtable DESCRIPTION:Agenda12:15Andy intro by sharing a conversation had w/ Gary Michelson after First Look.12:20Gary set up luncheon conversation before the group orders lunch12:30Order lunch12:40Alex grounds Gary’s thesis with research1:00Lunch arrives1:10Open up to what other people are doing URL:https://alliancesocal.org/event/caltech-campus-tour-roundtable/ LOCATION:The Athenaeum\, 551 S Hill Ave\, Pasadena\, California\, 91106 CATEGORIES:Alliance Events ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance for SoCal Innovation":MAILTO:info@alliancesocal.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230621T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230621T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T154446 CREATED:20230208T221205Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230208T221206Z UID:2595-1687368600-1687377600@alliancesocal.org SUMMARY:MedTech Minds© Mastermind | JUNE 2023 DESCRIPTION:Are you ready to meet and network with the leading innovators and professionals in the life sciences industry? Do you have a medical device\, biotech\, or healthcare company or startup that you’re looking to grow? Are you seeking expert guidance on how to navigate your career in medtech or biotech? \nMedTech Minds is the must-attend event for professionals and entrepreneurs in the medical device\, biotech\, and healthcare industry. Hosted by MIX\, this mastermind event will connect you with some of the leading innovators\, thought leaders\, and game changers in the life sciences sector. You’ll participate in high-powered peer-to-peer mentoring\, brainstorming\, and Q&A sessions\, and get valuable insights on how to succeed in the medtech or biotech industry. \nAs a member of this mastermind group\, you’ll benefit from the diverse strengths\, wisdom\, and experience of your peers\, and be able to collaborate\, support\, and advise each other as you work towards success. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to grow both personally and professionally. Sign up for MedTech Minds today! \n—– \nABOUT MASTERMIND EVENTS \nA Mastermind is a small group of peers who share similar interests and goals and meet on a regular basis. The purpose of their meetings is to discuss an issue or problem members are facing\, find answers\, and help each other succeed. \nThe group functions as your Board of Directors. Different strengths\, wisdom\, and experience of the members allows you to brainstorm\, support\, and advise each other. As part of this alliance\, everyone becomes smarter and empowered by the synergy created. \n“This process\, called masterminding\, is one of the most powerful tools for success presented in this book (The Success Principles). I don’t know anybody who has become super successful who has not employed the principle of masterminding.” ˜ The Success Principles– Jack Canfield \nMembers who submit questions have a chance to be in the “hot seat”. The hot seat participant brings up an issue and explains what help they need. The other members ask questions\, delve deeper into a problem\, brainstorm ideas and offer a solution. \n-—- \nADDITIONAL EVENT DETAILS \nThis is a unique\, interactive event – and as an added bonus\, if you submit a question about the industry\, your startup\, or your career when you purchase your ticket\, and your question is chosen as one of the 6 featured at the event\, you’ll receive a full refund for your ticket and free admission! \nThis is an indoor event. Please plan to bring a mask if required by mandate due to COVID. Tickets are limited and only 30 attendees will be allowed. \n—– \nSCHEDULE \n5:15-5:45 – Meet and Mingle \n5:45-6:30 – Introduction \n6:30-7:00 – 1st Round of Mastermind \n7:00-7:10 – Break and Mingle \n7:10-7:35 – 2nd Round of Mastermind` \n7:35-7:50 – Brag box or Startup Rapid Pitch \n7:50-8:00 – Closing and mingling \n———– \nTICKETS \nEARLY BIRD PRICING: $20 \nGENERAL ADMISSION PRICING: $30 admission (cards and cash accepted at the door) \n———– \nEVENT POWERED BY \nUniversity Lab Partners \nUniversity Lab Partners is an independent\, non-profit program of Beall Family Foundation. An open innovation platform enables bioscience & MedTech companies to access unique research capabilities and a network of technical\, business\, and talent resources at an economical cost. \nFirst Republic Bank \nFirst Republic is at the forefront of serving healthcare and biotech professionals and their businesses. As you dedicate time to your business\, you need a banking partner who can offer clear\, balanced\, and unbiased advice to help you make important financials decisions that affect your future. Its part of their commitment to providing the medical and biotech communities with extraordinary personal service- now and in the future. \nSyprosoft \nFounded in 2002\, Syprosoft Engineering provides consulting services to the medical devices industry. Our clients range from Fortune 500 size firms to entrepreneurs and innovators sometimes with single-digit number of employees. Clients are based literally around the world\, and our experience includes diagnostic\, therapeutic and surgical devices\, touching nearly every part of the human body. Services cover product development\, regulatory clearance/compliance\, and manufacturing launch \nMedLance \nMedLance is here to revolutionize the way MedTech professionals connect and work together. As a company founded by MedTech experts\, they understand the struggles of finding high-quality\, on-demand resources and the importance of having the relevant information you need to build your dream team. That’s why MedLance is more than just a generic work marketplace – it’s a specialized and powerful tool designed specifically for the MedTech industry. We help product developers and freelancers fill critical talent and knowledge gaps so that the right people can find the right job\, faster and for less. URL:https://alliancesocal.org/event/medtech-minds-mastermind-june-2023/ LOCATION:University Lab Partners\, 5270 California Ave Suite 300\, Irvine\, 92617 CATEGORIES:Community Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://alliancesocal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/8.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Medical Innovation Exchange":MAILTO:info@medinnovationexchange.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230621T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230621T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T154446 CREATED:20230726T174356Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231108T210428Z UID:3420-1687359600-1687374000@alliancesocal.org SUMMARY:Cybersecurity & Fraud Prevention Roundtable Discussion DESCRIPTION:A roundtable discussion and networking happy hour at Clocktower Technology Ventures in Santa Monica.This event is an invitation-only\, intimate gathering of SoCal leaders and is the first of a three-part discussion series engaging and leveraging the collective wisdom of SoCal’s most innovative and forward-looking leaders sponsored by City National Bank. Erick Herring will moderate the discussion on the shared challenges across industries that are particularly sensitive to cyber security and fraud after Kimberley Wong and Peter Loo share their perspectives. URL:https://alliancesocal.org/event/defeating-the-cyber-threat/ LOCATION:Clocktower Ventures\, 225 Santa Monica Blvd\, Floor 10\, Santa Monica\, 90401 CATEGORIES:Alliance Events ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance for SoCal Innovation":MAILTO:info@alliancesocal.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230614T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230614T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T154446 CREATED:20230322T170057Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230803T212324Z UID:2768-1686749400-1686772800@alliancesocal.org SUMMARY:First Look SoCal 2023 DESCRIPTION:The First Look SoCal Innovation Showcase is an annual conference celebrating the best very early-stage startups commercializing deep tech and life science breakthroughs from SoCal’s top research institutions.  \n\n\n\nThe primary goal is to connect founders with investors\, mentors\, and executives with invaluable subject matter expertise to provide credible guidance and pre-seed/seed stage funding crucial to making the often-perilous journey from lab to market. \n\n\n\nThank you to everyone who participated and attended this year!! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead the recap blog about why this was the best First Look SoCal yet. \n\n\n\nICYMI\, check out the full recordings for both fabulous keynotes and all of the startup pitches below. \n\n\n\nBrowse the complete Photo Gallery for pics of the day; a few samples are below.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe event registration website has all of the agenda details including speaker bios and information. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Videos\n\n\n\n\n\nWelcome and Opening Keynote: How JPL Engineers Developed an FDA-Approved Ventilator In 37 Days\n\n\n\n\n\nKeynote: How Convergence Unlocks Innovation featuring USC’s Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience\n\n\n\nStartup Fast Pitch Presentations (3 mins) + Judge Q&A (9 mins)\n\n\n\nVideos posted in order of appearance. Some startups requested we not post the videos of their pitch. \n\n\n\n\n\nLife Science Track\n\n\n\nSession 1: Medtech/Diagnostics \n\n\n\n\n\niNanoBio\n\n\n\n\n\nNininger Medical\n\n\n\n\n\nOlmeda Biosciences\n\n\n\n\n\nHemorai\n\n\n\nSession 2: Therapeutics Part 1 \n\n\n\n\n\nMyoGene Bio\n\n\n\n\n\nArmida Labs\n\n\n\n\n\nKaramedica\n\n\n\n\n\nGut-Brain Axis Therapeutics\n\n\n\nSession 3: Therapeutics Part 2 \n\n\n\n\n\nAngel City Bio\n\n\n\n\n\nPurposeBio\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nCDR3 Therpeutics\n\n\n\n\n\nTechnology Track\n\n\n\nSession 1: Cleantech/Sustainability \n\n\n\n\n\nSpecies Tracks\n\n\n\n\n\nC-Quester\n\n\n\n\n\nPhlytech\n\n\n\n\n\nA-New Bio\n\n\n\nSession 2: Devices/Hardware \n\n\n\n\n\nPolar\n\n\n\n\n\nActive Membranes\n\n\n\n\n\nDensec\n\n\n\n\n\nRhoman Aerospace Corporation\n\n\n\nSession 3: Computing/Software \n\n\n\n\n\nTeraSpatial\n\n\n\n\n\nPrometheus Credit\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSponsors\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\nHere’s what some of the startup presenters had to say about their experience in 2022 \n\n\n\n“Great place to network and meet other entrepreneurs/investors in tech” \n\n\n\n“I like the judging panel asking questions. And great attendance” \n\n\n\n“The number of people and companies was just right. Resist the temptation to make it larger. Invaluable opportunity to connect with people directly during breaks\, etc.” \n\n\n\n“It was a great opportunity to get more pitch practice and meet investors” \n\n\n\nEVENT AND PRESENTATION FORMAT \n\n\n\nEach startup presented a 3-minute quick pitch followed by 9 minutes of Q&A led by a panel of leading investors and subject matter experts. Celebrate and connect with investors at the cocktail reception. \n\n\n\nSELECTION CRITERIA \n\n\n\nTeams were selected based on factors such as potential for disruption\, novelty of the innovation/discovery\, size of the commercial opportunity\, and/or overall potential for impact. URL:https://alliancesocal.org/event/first-look-socal-2023/ LOCATION:Skirball Cultural Center\, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90049\, United States CATEGORIES:Alliance Events ORGANIZER;CN="Alliance for SoCal Innovation":MAILTO:info@alliancesocal.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230531T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230531T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T154446 CREATED:20230530T173828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230530T173828Z UID:3125-1685548800-1685552400@alliancesocal.org SUMMARY:Fundraising in Today's Market | AMA DESCRIPTION:The Alliance Series\, Fundraising in Today’s Market\, continues with an “Ask Me Anything” conversation. \n\n\n\n​​This event is for founders looking to level up their fundraising game and hear from local investors actively investing in SoCal companies.  \n\n\n\n​​This month\, you can ask any questions you have about fundraising with two active Los Angeles investors: Raphael Leopold with Nomadic Ventures and Jeff Diamond with Fika Ventures \n\n\n\n​Take advantage of the opportunity to network and gain valuable insights! URL:https://alliancesocal.org/event/fundraising-in-todays-market-ama/ LOCATION:Virtual via Zoom CATEGORIES:Alliance Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://alliancesocal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/AMA-with-LA-Investors-3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230520T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230520T113000 DTSTAMP:20260403T154446 CREATED:20230515T171128Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230515T172132Z UID:3051-1684573200-1684582200@alliancesocal.org SUMMARY:Commercial Space from LEO to Lunar DESCRIPTION:The Southern California Aerospace / Defense business base is booming as Commercial Space or “New Space” companies bring innovation to rockets\, “miniature” satellites\, unmanned air vehicles\, and defense electronics.  The industry is booming in both development and manufacturing.  In parallel today’s vibrant technologies have expanded the tools for entrepreneurs and innovation.  Our speakers will look at these changes\, and the opportunities they are creating for entrepreneurship at all sizes.  This program is designed to provide researchers and entrepreneurs with insights for navigating among the Government and Prime Contractor gatekeepers in commercial efforts.  Join us to hear expert speakers from U.S. Space Force\, industry insiders and entrepreneurial startups.  After the panel discussion there will be audience Q&A along with plenty of networking. URL:https://alliancesocal.org/event/commercial-space-from-leo-to-lunar/ LOCATION:Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics\, 1216 E California Blvd\, Pasadena\, California\, 91106 CATEGORIES:Community Events END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR