Hear From Venture Capital, Marketing, & Operational Experts

Tuesday, August 25th
2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
📍 Sky Lounge

Save Your Spot Sponsorship

We're bringing together a panel of venture capital, marketing, and operational experts to pull back the curtain on the entire funding lifecycle.

Whether you are preparing to approach investors or looking to manage your growth effectively once the capital hits your account, this session offers the practical roadmap you need.

Featured Speakers

  • Joyce Durst – Panel Moderator

    Chief Executive Officer
    Growth Acceleration Partners

    Joyce Durst is the CEO and Co-Founder of Growth Acceleration Partners, a consulting and technology services company headquartered in Austin, TX, with offices in Costa Rica and Colombia.

    Bootstrapped since 2007, GAP provides custom software, data engineering, and modernization solutions for growing U.S. companies. As an engineer by trade and a leader by nature, Joyce has leveraged more than 30 years of experience in the software and technology industries. Her business model, built on strategic and long-term client partnerships, has resulted in over a decade of profitable growth. In 2023, Ernst & Young recognized Joyce as an Entrepreneur Of The Year®.

  • Peter Franklin

    Chief Technology Officer
    Leapwave

    Peter Franklin is an entrepreneur, technology executive, and investor who has dedicated his career to building companies around emerging technologies. His career spans enterprise software, artificial intelligence, clean energy, mobile technology, and high-growth startups, serving as a founder, CEO, CTO, advisor, and investor.

    Peter is Co-Founder of Optiwatt, an energy technology company helping consumers better manage home energy use and electric vehicle charging; serves as Chief Technology Officer at Leapwave, leading the company's technology strategy and product development; and is Co-Founder of BistroCat, creator of the world's first automated wet cat food feeder.

  • Heidi Hubbeling Leach

    Executive Director, Startup Banking
    J.P. Morgan

    Heidi Leach is Texas Market Executive for Startup Banking in J.P. Morgan's Commercial Bank. In her role at JPMC, she provides strategic advice, resources and customized banking services to early stage startups from seed through Series A.

    Prior to joining JPMorgan Chase, Heidi was immersed in the tech ecosystem in Los Angeles, CA as the Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of the Preccelerator Program at Stubbs Alderton & Markiles. The Preccelerator is an accelerator for early stage startups that provided capital, co-working space, legal services, a curated perks package, a robust mentorship program and customized curriculum to help founders grow their companies from idea to funded startup.

  • Kathleen Lucente

    Chief Executive Officer
    Red Fan Communications

    In 2008, Kathleen built Red Fan around one belief: the right communications partner is already inside the business when the moment arrives. At Red Fan Communications, her team amplifies expertise.

    Red Fan Communications works with B2B tech companies at the moments that determine what the business is worth. M&A. IPO. PE transactions. The brand infrastructure that makes those moments go right instead of wrong. That is the Positioned to Win Method™.

    Their goal is simple. Empower CMOs and CCOs to own the narrative, internally and externally, around brand authority.

Presented by
Economic Growth Series Sponsors
Pivotal Partners
Foundation Partners
Corporate Partners
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