TOWN HALL: Disrupting The Recession
Colorado's entrepreneurial response to the financial crisis, election, energy and sustainability.
As the Chinese proverb suggests, we do live in interesting times. The world, and the United States in particular, is faced with a unique moment in history. Wall Street's credit crisis has triggered a profound global economic re-ordering. Climate change and peak oil are no longer future threats; they are today's reality.
While today's economic climate has the timid on the sidelines, Colorado's collaborative entrepreneurial community will rise to the challenge. Contrarian investors and intrepid entrepreneurs with the courage to make intelligent bets will build new fortunes.
The Angel Capital Summit will end with a Town Hall meeting, where a cross-disciplinary panel of Colorado innovators will discuss the strategies and benefits related to investing in local entrepreneurial growth sectors during down markets, and continue building our future.
Issues to include:
- What local growth sectors will thrive during this economic shift?
- How and why should we increase the capital invested in clean, healthy and sustainable business in Colorado?
- How many jobs can we create in the next 5 years?
- Who should invest money or career in the cleantech industry?
Which cleantech investments will start to pay off first? - What changes in investment will happen in the Colorado biotech cluster?
- How do we leverage Colorado's unique entrepreneurial climate as an asset nationally and globally?
- How will the president-elect incentivize investment in our key sectors?
- How is the state supporting innovation in biotech, IT & cleantech?
- How are we building the entrepreneurial support community in key market sectors, including: early-stage funders, next cycle of VC funds, incubators, university tech transfer groups, and network groups to support this growth?
- How can collaboration accelerate growth and create new forms of wealth?
Panelists:
- Mark Forsyth, CEO, Rocky Mountain Innovation Initiative
- Christine Gulbranson, Director, Kauffman Foundation and CEO of four organizations
- Christine Hamilton-Pennell, Founder and President, Growing Local Economies
- Seth Levine, Managing Partner, Foundry Group
- John Metzger, Founder and CEO, Metzger & Associates
- Steve Murchie, Executive Director, Keiretsu Forum
- TH Williams, Investment Officer, Wachovia
A lively networking cocktail hour will follow.
Don't miss this once-in-a-lifetime event.
