Innovation Expo Brings Together Entrepreneurs

South Dakota Mines welcomes the annual Innovation Expo on campus Tuesday, Oct. 17 in the Beck Ballroom in the Surbeck Center. Registration and networking begin at 12:30 p.m. with event starting at 1:15 p.m.

The Innovation Expo is a conference dedicated to connecting entrepreneurs, innovators, angel investors, venture capitalists and many others who are involved in developing startup companies. The event will consist of speakers, breakout sessions and networking opportunities for our startup community in South Dakota and surrounding region.

This event is hosted by the South Dakota Enterprise Institute. South Dakota Mines is a proud sponsor of this event. For more information and to purchase tickets, click here.

The speaker schedule is as follows:

1:20 p.m. Nick Kingsbury of Phase Technologies, LLC.

1:45 p.m. Paul Thorstenson of Ketel Thorstenson

2:10 p.m. Matt Paulson of Marketbeat

3:10 p.m. Deb Clark of eval.com

3:40 p.m. Investor Panel featuring Matt Paulson, Goose Goostree of Breakthrough 307 and Jim Quinn of Black Hills Regional Angel Fund

4:10 p.m. Wildfire Labs Panel featuring Mike Vetter of Wildfire Labs, Cathy Jordan of Hiya Cleaners, Mycroft Liu of Vivatlantis, Jarod Tiefenthaler of Signed Up Sports, Brennan Holloway of Journeyman and Tyler Olson of Journeyman

The event is emceed by Permjot Valia of Nava Develop, Inc.

To learn more, please sdinnovationexpo.com/rapid-city.