[Event] Champions For Change: Not Your Average Speakers
Our own Creative in Residence Nathan Schwagler moderated the Champions for Change event where several locals in the Tampa Bay area got together to talk change! The event immediately followed Gazelle Lab’s first Demo Day where one of our own students Jeff Baird pitched his mobile application Kngroo earlier this week. Read more about Kngroo and the other USFSP student ventures.
Champions For Change: Not Your Average Speakers
Credit : 83 Degrees Media
By the time audience members settled into their seats at freeFall Theatre in St. Petersburg Nov. 17 for 83 Degrees Media‘s second “Not Your Average Speakers” event, the sun was beginning to set on a day marking change in the Tampa Bay region’s new economy. Many had driven over from Mahaffey Theater, where innovation reigned at startup incubator Gazelle Lab’s first Demo Day.
The creative competition among six startup companies there – AutoIQ, Kngroo, Dropost.it, Leads Direct, Red Hawk Interactive and Teburu – sparked the interest of about 350 investors and other observers eager to see what’s next for employing technology to improve lives.
On stage at freeFall, Moderator Nathan Schwagler, creative-in-residence at USF-St. Pete, set the mood for transitioning the audience from the creative juices flowing at Gazelle Lab to a discussion by four “Champions For Change” with a quote from ancient Greek Philosopher Heraclitus: “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”
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