Category: Events

SKY Psychology Brand Design Workshop: The Passion Pitch

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Thursday, February 2nd
6:00PM – 7:30PM
La Kretz Innovation Campus
Register

Whether your goal is to win new investors or new customers, the challenge is the same: how do you convey your value and your vision in a moment, and how do you get your audience to become champions and advocates of your business in that same small window of time? In today’s noisy world you have a matter of seconds to grab attention and keep it.

Join us for an interactive workshop to learn the keys and principles of building brands and presentations that communicate potently. From this session, attendees will walk away with insights that can be applied immediately to the companies they lead, and in new opportunities on the horizon.

This event is for
• company leadership
• brand managers
• designers
• marketers
• content creators

From Seed to Plate: How to Attract Investment in the Agriculture, Food & Water Technology Space

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Wednesday, January 25th
La Kretz Innovation Campus
Register for “From Seed to Plate” (5:30PM-7:00PM)
Register for LACI Agriculture & Food Science Cluster Meeting (4:00PM-5:30PM)

We’re hosting a special event directly following the LACI Agriculture & Food Science Cluster Meeting. This event will focus on the investment landscape of the agriculture, food, and water technology space. This intimate speed-networking event will match mentors in the space with a broad range of entrepreneurs, ranging from urban farmers to students and agriculture technology innovator. The mentors will come from a broad set of backgrounds, ranging from Agriculture Tech, Food Technology, Finance, Venture Capital, and Water Technology.

Each mentor will be matched with two to three entrepreneurs, who will spend 10-15 minutes with each group, answering questions about navigating financing and growth within the space. We hope to have enough mentors and applicants so that each entrepreneur will be able to meet with 3-4 mentors.

Please email Aayushi Jain if you’re interested in participating as a mentor at the event.

#AIShowbiz Conference

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Thursday, January 12th
9:00AM – 9:00PM
La Kretz Innovation Campus
Register (There’s a Wowza Media Live Stream option too.)

The world’s first conference dedicated to the intersection of AI and entertainment is coming to LA! Created by Mentor InSight, Inc. in partnership with Lionbridge and LACI, this day long celebration will feature an entrepreneurial pitch fest and innovation fair, and trailblazer talks from top funders, firms and founders, including executives from Intel Capital, IBM and Virtuosity.

Littler Tech Industry Breakfast

Thursday, January 5th
Registration & Breakfast: 9:00AM – 9:30AM
Program: 9:30AM – 11:00AM
La Kretz Innovation Campus

Attorneys from Littler’s X-celerator Team will offer a lively look at new developments in labor and employment law. They’ll review the effects, positive and negative of the election, recent litigation, legislative, agency trends as well as explore a wide range of cutting edge labor/employment topics impacting California’s tech ecosystem.

For more info and to register, click here.

We hope you can join us for what will be a very educational and interesting program!

Community Choice Energy (CCE) Program: Public Workshop

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Wednesday, December 7th
9:00AM – 12:00PM
La Kretz Innovation Campus

Join us for a public workshop on the status of proposed cities and county Community Choice Energy (CCE) program for the Los Angeles region. CCE presents a great opportunity for local control on low-cost clean, green energy in our communities and they look forward to hearing your ideas as they discuss next steps in this effort. More information on CCE can be found here. Please RSVP in advance to CCA[at]isd.lacounty.gov.

The Final We Are Enough Salon in Los Angeles

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Monday, December 5th
6:30PM – 9:30PM
La Kretz Innovation Campus

The Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator’s Women in Cleantech is hosting the final We Are Enough Salon in Los Angeles at the La Kretz Innovation Campus. Sponsor Adena Smith (First VP, Investments, Wells Fargo Advisors) and special guest Sara Qazi (VP, Sports & Entertainment, Morgan Stanley) will speak on how and why to grow your financial future by investing in women-led businesses. Click here to read speaker bios and RSVP.

Effectively Telling Your Story: A Networking Workshop

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Wednesday, November 30
6:00PM – 8:00PM
La Kretz Innovation Campus

Join us at the LKIC as speakers Lindsey Heisser (Avisare) and Amber Nelson (Lingo Consulting) kick off the Women in Cleantech Initiative workshop series with an interactive panel and discussion. Learn from industry professionals how to promote your personal brand as well as effective networking strategies unique to women. After our panel, you will have the opportunity to practice crafting your story and to connect with fellow leaders in the cleantech community. All genders are welcome. Light refreshments will be served. Register for free now!

Smart Prototyping: Turning Your Idea Into a Real Product

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Thursday, December 1

3:30PM – 6:30PM
La Kretz Innovation Campus

With the opening of the Advanced Prototyping Center at the La Kretz Innovation Campus, we invite you to learn from three experts how to take your product idea through proof of concept, and prepare it for full scale manufacturing.

FREE tickets, schedule and speaker bios are available here.

Innovate x Water

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Tuesday, November 15
8:00AM – 2:00PM
LA Cleantech Incubator (LACI)

Exploring how water plays into the civic fabric of the greater Southern California region.

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PANEL 1
How Clean Tech is Reinventing the Water World
PANEL 2
What’s Working: Is Our Messaging Shifting Public Awareness and Behavior
PANEL 3
All Hands on Deck! Collaborative Approaches to Water Sustainability and Resiliency

Click here to register: https://www.corola.org/innovatexwater/

Happy Hour for Women Entrepreneurs & Investors

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Monday, October 24
6:30PM – 8:30PM
LA Cleantech Incubator (LACI)

 

Please join LACI and SheEO for an evening of networking and an introduction to two new initiatives for women entrepreneurs and investors in LA!

LACI’s Women in Cleantech Initiative is focused on increasing women’s participation (eventually expanding to other underrepresented populations) in the cleantech sector as entrepreneurs, advisors, employees, leaders, and investors by supporting gender diversity at an individual and institutional level.

SheEO’s #radicalgenerosity is an innovative new economic model to finance and support women entrepreneurs. Radical Generosity 2016 calls upon 1000 radically generous women in LA to contribute $1000 each to create a $1M fund that will be loaned to 10 local women-led businesses. The deadline to become an Activator and to apply for the funding is November 30th!

6:30 Registration & Networking

7:15 Program:
– Amanda Sabicer, VP of Development, LACI
– Delilah Panio, LA Lead, Radical Generosity 2016
– Featured Female Founder: Lauren Gropper, Founder & CEO, Repurpose®

7:45 Tour of LACI

8:00 Networking