Ignite UC San Diego

Congrats to Monal and his EVT team, alums of entrepreneur programs The Basement UC San Diego IGE UC San Diego Office of Innovation and Commercialization .

Educational Vision Technologies Scales Up with Seed Round After winning just about every entrepreneur and startup pitch challenge on UC San Diego’s campus, raising $100,000 in a friends and family investment round, being accepted into the local Connect Springboard incubator program and securing paid pilot programs with two universities, Educational Visio...

Thank you for presenting, speaking, pitching, battling, organizing, sponsoring, volunteering, and participating in Ignite at UC San Diego. Stay tuned for highlights from this year’s conference and next year’s save the date. We hope you are feeling and to take your next steps pursuing your or idea.

Agenda > IGNITE @ UC San Diego

AI in Healthcare continues. What uses of artificial intelligence in healthcare does FDA regulate? Come to West Ballroom and listen to Attorney Bradley Merrill Thompson of answer this exact question.

announces the beginning of the Startup Roadshow: AI in Healthcare

Come to West Ballroom for a series of six panel sessions discussing AI in Healthcare.

The Recruitment Fair is in the East Ballroom, today. Come to ignite for career opportunities in and .

Ignite 2019 : How to Measure Early & Often: Make Data Driven Decisions

Learn how to measure everything about your product as early as possible so that you are making data-driven decisions later. Put 'sensors' all over your startup.

Panel Members:

Neal Bloom, , Fresh Brewed Tech. , organizer & . Passionate about building a strong San Diego business community, especially in tech-enabled businesses. He helped San Diego Startup Week build itself into a non-profit that helps launch & enrich themselves and their employees. He currently sits as chairman of Startup San Diego, is on the board of San Diego Venture Group, and runs the popular local blog Fresh Brewed Tech.

Gregg Anderson, CEO, 41 Orange Marketing, a growth agency. Started his entrepreneurial career at the Small Business Development Center where he ran a program. He then started a marketing consulting business. He was accepted into SDSU's Zip Launchpad & launched a version of LinkedIn for students. The company pivoted to become a lead generation agency. Since then, the company has grown 134% YoY% for the past 3 years & is private equity-backed.

Ignite 2019: Starting with Your Exit in Mind

Jeff (J.D.) Davids, . Helping entrepreneurs raise money, scale rapidly and complete successful exit events. Served on the management teams of 8 backed , 3 of which completed successful and 3 were acquired by . Closed over $1 Billion in including raising money from , , and completing IPOs and from the buy side and the sell side.

Jeff helps transform entrepreneurs from merely product inventors into successful dealmakers who make a positive impact on their customers & communities. His passion is to dramatically improve outcomes in the Innovation Ecosystem

Ignite at UC San Diego 2019: Scaling Your Startup - Using Product Management tools to innovate and scale

Devang Thakkar, Chief Product Innovator, Product Management Training & Coaching. Devang Thakkar is a Executive, Trainer / / / , with expertise in building and launching on a for and alike. His experience is in / / / products across many verticals including , F&A, and , , and .

He is a Fellow of (International Software Product Management Association), Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Connect Springboard in San Diego, a co-chair for Special Interest Groups (SIG), an Executive Committee member of , Board Member, and a frequent and organizer of select events and .

Ignite at UC San Diego 2019 - Becoming a Fierce Startup Founder: Bias Training for Startups

Want to become a fierce startup founder from working from the inside out? Want to get some for optimal ? Gain insight from the 3 founding partners of adastra.ventures, real on what makes a shine.

Panel Members:
Silvia Mah PhD, MBA , Co-Founding Partner, AdAstra.Ventures; Executive Director of Hera Labs; Founding member of Hera Angels & Investment
Committee member of Next Wave Impact. Dr. Mah’s currently serves as the Student Programs Diversity Director at The Basement, University of California, San Diego & Fund Manager for the San Diego Angel Conference.

Allison Long Pettine, Founding Partner, Ad Astra Ventures. She actively in developing across all multiple to build successful & companies.

Vidya Dinamani, Founding Partner, adastra.ventures, she helps change the way they see themselves & the world in order to successfully fund, grow, and companies. Specializing in business & and , development & .