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SUMMARY:NIC Kick Back: Conversations with Career Creatives
DESCRIPTION:Chill vibes and real talk with creatives about careers\, dreams\, and the hustle behind the scenes.\n\n\nNIC Kick Back: Conversations with Career Creatives\nJoin us for a fresh take on NIC’s Kick Back series. This edition brings together the best of both worlds: relaxed networking and inspiring conversation. \nConnect with fellow innovators\, entrepreneurs\, students\, and community members while hearing from three ‘Career Creatives’ who have built successful careers in creative industries. Our featured speakers will briefly share their professional journeys\, lessons learned\, and insights into turning creativity into opportunity \nSpeakers: Carrie Spencer\, Curator of Contemporary Art & Education\, Hermitage MuseumAlison Allred\, Senior Interior Designer\, WPAGabe Niles\, DJ and Producer \n5:30PM: Connect & Network6:00PM:Career Creatives: Stories\, Insights\, Q&A6:30PM: Continue the Conversation \nWhether you’re looking to expand your network\, explore creative career paths\, or simply be inspired\, this is an evening designed to spark meaningful connections and new ideas. \nFree drink tickets to the first 15 attendees. Event is free to attend. Food and drinks will be available for purchase.
URL:https://www.innovate757.org/event/nic-kick-back-conversations-with-career-creatives/
LOCATION:Sanctuary Taco Bar – Railroad District\, 218 West 25th Street\, Norfolk\, VA 23517\, Norfolk\, VA\, 23517\, US
CATEGORIES:Angel Investing,Business,Entrepreneurship,NIC
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SUMMARY:Norfolk Kick Back
DESCRIPTION:Kick Back with us on Thursday\, March 13\, from 5:30 – 7:30 PM at the Glass Light Hotel & Gallery!\n\n\nKick Back at the Glass Light Hotel & Gallery with the city’s top creatives and innovators. Peruse the beautifully curated glass art collection while enjoying music by students from the Governor’s School for the Arts. Free drink tickets for the first 25 attendees! \nThank you to our Annual Presenting Sponsor Towne Financial Services Group & Event Sponsor InnoVAte Hampton Roads. \nThis event is free and open to the public. \nThe Norfolk Kick Back is a monthly series providing unique opportunities and spontaneous collisions among emerging and established entrepreneurs\, creatives\, professionals and business leaders while highlighting the region’s unique dining and entertainment. \n\n\nAbout the Norfolk Innovation Corridor \nThe Norfolk Innovation Corridor (NIC) is a designated technology zone dedicated to attracting and retaining technology companies while serving as a magnet for a talented and diverse workforce by fostering a culture and community that encourages and supports opportunities to bring together entrepreneurs and facilitates spontaneous collisions. The NIC is an area paralleling the Elizabeth River Trail that stretches from Norfolk State University to Old Dominion University\, including the Eastern Virginia Medical School\, Sentara\, Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters\, Fort Norfolk\, Downtown Norfolk\, the Neon Arts District and the Harbor Park area.
URL:https://www.innovate757.org/event/norfolk-kick-back/
LOCATION:Glass Light Hotel & Gallery\, Autograph Collection\, 201 Granby Street\, Norfolk\, VA 23510\, Norfolk\, VA\, 23510\, US
CATEGORIES:Meetup,Networking,NIC,Venture Out
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SUMMARY:NIC Unfiltered: A Caffeinated Collaboration Series
DESCRIPTION:Join like-minded entrepreneurs for coffee and conversation with Chris Uiterwyk\, Founder & CEO of IPConfigure Inc.\, at Assembly.\n\n\nCome grab a complimentary coffee and listen to Chris Uiterwyk\, Founder & CEO of IPConfigure Inc.\, converse about building a business\, raising and receiving capital\, finding and signing customers and driving a culture of entrepreneurship. \nAbout Chris: Chris Uiterwyk is the founder and chief executive officer of IPConfigure\, Inc.\, a privately owned software development company he founded because he saw an opportunity to develop IT centric video surveillance applications. With more than 26 years of experience in the technology industry\, Mr. Uiterwyk lead IPConfigure from a bootstrapped startup to the multi-million dollar company it is today. Combining fiscal restraint with an eye for talent\, Mr. Uiterwyk has a reputation of winning by leveraging every resource at his disposal to position IPConfigure as a leading video management software company. \nMr. Uiterwyk grew up in Florida on a horse farm and served in the United States Navy as a helicopter Special Operations Crew Chief and Rescue Swimmer. Mr. Uiterwyk earned his bachelor’s degree from Old Dominion University\, and he currently resides in Virginia with his wife and three children. \nAbout NIC: The Norfolk Innovation Corridor is a thriving technology zone founded for the purpose of encouraging growth in entrepreneurship and innovation\, attracting new technology start-ups\, retaining a talented workforce\, developing a dense community of innovators and providing 21st century career opportunities for residents of Norfolk and our region. \nFill out a brief survey by clicking on the link below to receive some swag! \nUnfiltered Survey
URL:https://www.innovate757.org/event/nic-unfiltered-a-caffeinated-collaboration-series-5/
CATEGORIES:Business,Entrepreneurship,Just For Fun,Meetup,Networking,NIC
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SUMMARY:NIC Unfiltered: A Caffeinated Collaboration Series
DESCRIPTION:Join like-minded entrepreneurs for coffee and conversation with Jeff Conroy\, CEO & Co-Founder of Embody Inc.\, at Assembly.\n\n\nCome grab a complimentary coffee and listen to Jeff Conroy\, CEO & Co-Founder of  Embody Inc.\, converse about building a business\, raising and receiving capital\, finding and signing customers and driving a culture of entrepreneurship. \nAbout Jeff: Jeff Conroy is the CEO of Embody\, a Norfolk-based sports medicine company developing collagen-based surgical implants to treat tendon and ligament injuries.  Over the past 7 years\, Embody has been awarded more than $24 million in funding from DARPA and AFWERX while also raising more than $30 million from investors.  Embody has completed over 1\,100 patient surgeries and created more than 50 jobs.  Jeff has had a long career in the life sciences as both an entrepreneur and licensing executive. \nAbout NIC: The Norfolk Innovation Corridor is a thriving technology zone founded for the purpose of encouraging growth in entrepreneurship and innovation\, attracting new technology start-ups\, retaining a talented workforce\, developing a dense community of innovators and providing 21st century career opportunities for residents of Norfolk and our region. \nFill out a brief survey by clicking on the link below to receive some swag! \nUnfiltered Survey
URL:https://www.innovate757.org/event/nic-unfiltered-a-caffeinated-collaboration-series-4/
CATEGORIES:Business,Entrepreneurship,Home Based Business,Meetup,Networking,NIC
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SUMMARY:NIC Unfiltered: A Caffeinated Collaboration Series
DESCRIPTION:Join like-minded entrepreneurs for coffee and conversation with Tim Stromberg\, Principal of InfraSGA Inc.\, at Assembly.\n\n\nCome grab a complimentary coffee and listen to Tim Stromberg\, Principal of InfrSGA Inc.\,  converse about building a business\, hiring and retaining talent\, finding and signing customers and driving a culture of entrepreneurship. \nAbout Tim: Timothy J. Stromberg\, PLA\, CBLP\, ASLA is a principal at InfraSGA\, Inc.\, a Norfolk-based green infrastructure product development company. His entrepreneurial work focuses on the importance of design which integrates blue/green stormwater strategies\, mitigating the growing issues regarding the management of stormwater runoff and its impact on communities at large. The patent pending RAFT urban bio-retention system provides a scalable solution to stormwater management in our ever-changing modern built environment and is an award recipient of the 2019 RISE Coastal Community Resilience Challenge and the 2022 RISE Urban Coastal Community Resilience Challenge. As a founder of several successful niche businesses\, such as Stromberg\, Garrigan & Associates\, Inc\, (SGA)\, that are focused on responding to the rapidly growing need to cost-effectively solve our community’s most arduous environmental and economic challenges\, Timothy is constantly working at the cutting edge of technology\, design\, and resiliency as an award-winning landscape architect and green industry leader. His recent design work in Hampton Roads includes the Elizabeth River/Harbor Park Water Street Open Space\, the St. Paul’s Blue Greenway Park\, the Elizabeth River Project – Ryan Resilience Lab and Learning Park\, and the Chrysler Museum Perry Glass House climate adaptation site design. \nAbout NIC: The Norfolk Innovation Corridor is a thriving technology zone founded for the purpose of encouraging growth in entrepreneurship and innovation\, attracting new technology start-ups\, retaining a talented workforce\, developing a dense community of innovators and providing 21st century career opportunities for residents of Norfolk and our region. \nFill out a brief survey by clicking on the link below to receive some swag! \nhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/1SDSWAqGBwaOFXhAoaNFTYwYrt2VGPj0wY0xVs3duovY/edit
URL:https://www.innovate757.org/event/nic-unfiltered-a-caffeinated-collaboration-series-3/
CATEGORIES:Business,Entrepreneurship,Meetup,Networking,NIC
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SUMMARY:NIC Unfiltered: A Caffeinated Collaboration
DESCRIPTION:Join like-minded entrepreneurs for coffee and conversation with Ned Lily\, President & CEO of xTuple\, at Assembly.\n\n\nCome grab a complimentary coffee and listen to Ned Lily\, President & CEO of xTuple converse about building a business\, hiring and retaining talent\, finding and signing customers and driving a culture of entrepreneurship. \nAbout Ned: In October 2001\, Ned co-founded xTuple\, originally called OpenMFG\, with the aim of bringing the worlds of open platform software and enterprise resource planning (ERP) together to solve the unmet needs of small to mid-sized manufacturers.  xTuple was acquired by CAI Software in July 2022; CAI is majority-owned by Symphony Technology Group\, a private equity partner to market-leading companies in software\, data\, and analytics.  Ned continues as General Manager of the Manufacturing ERP group inside CAI today. \nIn 1999\, he was a co-founder of Great Bridge\, an early business built around the PostgreSQL database which is also the core technology for xTuple today. Great Bridge was incubated inside Landmark Communications\, a mid-sized media company where Ned directed corporate venture investments\, mergers and acquisitions and startup activity.  Prior to Landmark\, Ned worked for a regional technology group in Washington D.C. and had a brief first career in political media — television\, radio and a non-partisan news wire. He holds a B.A. from the University of Virginia and an M.A. from George Washington University. \nAbout NIC: The Norfolk Innovation Corridor is a thriving technology zone founded for the purpose of encouraging growth in entrepreneurship and innovation\, attracting new technology start-ups\, retaining a talented workforce\, developing a dense community of innovators and providing 21st century career opportunities for residents of Norfolk and our region. \nFill out a brief survey by clicking on the link below to receive some swag! \nhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/1SDSWAqGBwaOFXhAoaNFTYwYrt2VGPj0wY0xVs3duovY/edit
URL:https://www.innovate757.org/event/nic-unfiltered-a-caffeinated-collaboration-2/
CATEGORIES:Angel Investing,Business,Entrepreneurship,Meetup,Networking,NIC
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SUMMARY:NIC Unfiltered: A Caffeinated Collaboration
DESCRIPTION:Join like-minded entrepreneurs for coffee and conversation with Ulrich Thienel\, CEO of ReAlta Life Sciences\, at Assembly.\n\n\nCome grab a complimentary coffee and listen to Ulrich Thienel\, CEO of ReAlta Life Sciences\,  converse about building a business\, hiring and retaining talent\, finding and signing customers and driving a culture of entrepreneurship. \nAbout our speaker: Ulrich Thienel\, MD\, PhD is the Chief Executive Officer of ReAlta\, a clinical stage biotech company focused on rare diseases. ReAlta develop a new class of dual target complement and inflammation inhibitors for a variety of life-threatening medical conditions. Ulrich has over 20 years of experience building successful leadership teams in both large pharma\, including Johnson & Johnson\, BMS\, and Takeda and more recently as CMO in biotech at RRD International and Finch Therapeutics.  \nUlrich is a board member of the Greater Norfolk Corporation and the Norfolk Innovation Corridor \,  both non-profit organizations that support the growth of the local community. Together with his long term partner\, Ulrich recently formed Friends of Cinema Puerto Rico\, a non-profit organization that promotes the arts and culture of Latinx through cinema and educational programs. \nAbout the NIC: The Norfolk Innovation Corridor is a thriving technology zone founded for the purpose of encouraging growth in entrepreneurship and innovation\, attracting new technology start-ups\, retaining a talented workforce\, developing a dense community of innovators and providing 21st century career opportunities for residents of Norfolk and our region. \n \n\n\nFill out a brief survey by clicking on the link below to receive some swag!\nhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/1SDSWAqGBwaOFXhAoaNFTYwYrt2VGPj0wY0xVs3duovY/edit
URL:https://www.innovate757.org/event/nic-unfiltered-a-caffeinated-collaboration/
CATEGORIES:Business,Entrepreneurship,Meetup,Networking,NIC
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SUMMARY:NIC Unfiltered: A Caffeinated Collaboration Series
DESCRIPTION:Join like-minded entrepreneurs for coffee and conversation with AK Shultz Co-founder & CEO of SVT Robotics\, at Coalescence Coffee.\n\n\nCome grab a complimentary coffee and listen to AK Shultz\, Co-founder & CEO of SVT Robotics converse about building a business\, hiring and retaining talent\, finding and signing customers and driving a culture of entrepreneurship. \nAbout our speaker: As CEO of SVT Robotics\, A.K. Schultz leads the overall company vision and go-to-market strategies. A.K. has spent his career leading the design and implementation of high-profile automation projects across multiple industries and top Fortune 500 companies\, participating in the deployment of over $1 billion in automation. That experience gave him a unique understanding of the technical solutions customers need to advance their business\, and it provided the foundation to launch SVT Robotics in 2018.   \n A.K. grew up in Virginia and received an engineering degree from Massachusetts Maritime Academy. He is also a former US Army officer. Upon returning to Virginia\, A.K. continued his education with an MBA from William and Mary University.  \n About the NIC: The Norfolk Innovation Corridor is a thriving technology zone founded for the purpose of encouraging growth in entrepreneurship and innovation\, attracting new technology start-ups\, retaining a talented workforce\, developing a dense community of innovators and providing 21st century career opportunities for residents of Norfolk and our region. \n#innovation #entrepreneurship #norfolk #entrepreneurs #hamptonroadsinnovation
URL:https://www.innovate757.org/event/nic-unfiltered-a-caffeinated-collaboration-series-2/
LOCATION:Coalescence Coffee Company\, 226 West 24th Street\, Norfolk\, VA 23517\, Norfolk\, VA\, 23517\, US
CATEGORIES:Entrepreneurship,Meetup,Networking,NIC
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