5th Annual

Tampa, FL | Nov. 15, 2017

In Partnership with:

BEAT

#USFBEAT2017

A LETTER FROM USF CONNECT

OUR SPONSORS/ CATERING

EXHIBITORS

LUNCH KEYNOTE

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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MORNING KEYNOTE

PANEL SESSION 2

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Lobby Area

Food & beverages tablesExhibitor tablesChairs

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Oak View Room

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Exhibitor Tables

1. Registration2. USF Tampa Bay Technology Incubator and Student Innovation Incubator3. Florida High Tech Corridor4. Molekule5. Primack & Associates6. Phoinix Holdings7. Saliwanchik, Lloyd & Eisenschenk8. LeapCaller9. Hillsborough County10. Looshes Labs 11. ADP CONNECT & Stuby12. Tobor Robotics & No Monkey Business13. TipsyDogg & Kayla’s Kitchen14. Yummi Foods & Mo'Soul Productions LLC15. USF Academic Programs – MS in Entrepreneurship, Doctor of Business Administration, & Master’s Programs in Biotech/ Entrepreneurship16. Community & Partner Resources

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AGENDA

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Time Location Agenda8:00 – 9:15 AM Galleria Registration, Exhibit Table Viewing,

and Continental Breakfast9:15 – 9:30 AM Galleria Welcome Remarks

9:30 – 10:20 AM Galleria Keynote: Creating Inclusive High-Tech Incubators and Accelerators

Speaker: H. Puentes, Director of CONNECT ALL at CONNECT,

San Diego10:20 –10:35 AM Break

10:35 AM – 11:45 AM Oak View Panel Session #1: Tips and Tricks for Building Strong Teams

11:45 AM – 12:45 PM Galleria Innovation Expo, Networking, & Lunch

12:45 – 1:00 PM Galleria Keynote Speaker Intro1:00 – 2:00 PM Galleria Keynote: Future of the Consumer

Internet of Th ings Speaker: Jean-Pierre Abello, Senior

Director, Global Engineering, Nielsen

2:00 – 2:15 PM Break2:15 – 2:50 PM Oak View Final Th ree Pitch Competition:

University Student Companies2:50 – 3:00 PM Break3:00 – 3:45 PM Galleria Final Th ree Pitch Competition:

Bio/Tech Companies3:45 – 3:55 PM Break3:55 – 4:55 PM Galleria Panel Session #2: Seed Funding in

Tampa Bay4:55 PM Galleria Announcement of University Student

Company and Bio/Tech Company Pitch Winners

Welcome to the 5th Annual Building Entrepreneurship Around TampaBay (B.E.A.T.) event, hosted by USF CONNECT in partnership with BioFlor-ida. It is our pleasure to welcome you to the USF Research Park and the USF CONNECT facility.

USF CONNECT is the business and economic development initiative of the University of South Florida (USF) that provides support for technology start-ups and serves as the point of entry for companies looking to do busi-ness with USF. Our organization houses both the Tampa Bay Technology Incubator (TBTI) as well as the Student Innovation Incubator (SII). Today, we recognize and showcase the many achievements of local entrepre-neurs in the various communities and ecosystems throughout Tampa Bay. During the next few hours, you will hear the insights and achievements of successful entrepreneurs, innovators, experienced service providers, and investors. You will be able to network with other professionals and share your personal experiences amongst likeminded individuals.

As with all events of this nature, we greatly appreciate our partner, BioFlor-ida, and sponsors. Please thank those individuals who are here represent-ing their companies and organizations. Th is event would not be the success that it is without their generous support. Th roughout the day, we encourage you to take pictures and participate in the event by promoting it using the hashtag #USFBEAT2017 and posting on social media.

On behalf of the event committee and the USF CONNECT team, thank you for joining us. We are confi dent that the insights presented today will be invaluable to both yourself and those you represent!

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INNOVATION EXPO EXHIBITORSLOCATION: GALLERIA

USF Student Innovation Incubator Companies: Mo’Soul Productions LLC, ADP Connect, Stuby, Yummi Foods, No Monkey Business Branding,

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Currently, H. serves as Director of CONNECT ALL at CONNECT, the oldest business accelerator in San Diego focusing on early stage tech and life science startups. At CONNECT ALL, he leads and organizes government, business, community, and innovation leaders to help bring entrepreneurial resources to traditionally undeserved communities of San Diego. CONNECT ALL was recently selected by the City of San Diego as the recipient of a 2.5M grant to build an incubator focused on getting LMI communities more engaged with the innovation economy.

Previously, H. headed marketing at Grantoo (now Fuel) where his team designed, budgeted, and implemented campaigns to increase user acquisition and retention to drive traction in preparation for a $3.5M Series A round that would eventually close.

H. is experienced as a management consultant for a venture capital and a private equity fund in London, and as regional director at a large non-profi t member organization in the US and Canada. H. holds a master’s degree from Th e London School of Economics and bachelor’s degree from George Mason University.

Keynote:Creating Inclusive High-Tech

Incubators & Accelerators

Director of Outreach at CONNECT, San Diego

H. Puentes

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Mo KastiMo Kasti, a leader in organizational transformation, is the CEO and founder of CTI. With more than 25 years of experience with industries undergoing disruption, Mo has worked with hundreds of leaders and businesses to help their organizations become high-performing. An award-winning and highly sought-aft er speaker, Mo is an expert in coaching and mentoring physicians, leaders and start-up companies.

Tips & Tricks for Building A Strong Team

Steve Kelley, a Regional Sales Consultant with TriNet, has been active in the USF Connect mentor program for 2 years. His experience from growing and selling his own business, his current capacity in HR, and his willingness to share his network connections has assisted many within the program.

Steve Kelly

Curt Creely, a partner and corporate lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP, focuses his practice on counseling companies, investors, investment banking fi rms, and entrepreneurs in connection with public and private securities off erings, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic transactions, securities law compliance and reporting, corporate governance matters, loan transactions, and company formation. He is a member of the fi rm’s Transactional & Securities and Private Equity & Venture Capital Practices. He is also a member of the fi rm’s Life Sciences and Technology Industry Teams.

Curt Creely

Jacqueline Darna is the CEO and medical inventor of the NoMo Nausea Band, the fi rst and only natural way to stop nausea, vomiting, and headaches instantly for adults, kids, and pets. Outgoing winner of Shark Tank’s Kevin Harrington’s Th e Big Pitch and USF alumnus, Jacqueline has been featured on ABC, NBC, Th e Today Show, Daytime, and multiple radio stations nationwide for her innovative product.

Jacqueline Darna

Moderator: Glenn Ladwig

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Keynote:Future of the Consumer

JP Abello currently leads Global Engineering Innovation and Partnerships for the Inter-net of Th ings (IoT) at Nielsen.

Before joining Nielsen, JP spent over two decades building innovative products used by millions of consumers worldwide, including Yahoo Connected TV which won an Engineering Emmy Award in 2011, and the CableLabs OCAP application platform deployed in millions of cable set-top boxes in the US.

JP currently represents Nielsen in various industry standards aff ecting the consumer industry. He is a member of the W3C Advisory Committee, which drives the future of the web, focusing on user tracking and advertising. He co-chairs the Privacy & Security Task Force in the IoT Consortium, which brings together key thought leaders from the Consumer IoT industry. He is also a member of ATSC (Advanced Television Systems) and IAB (Internet Advertising).

JP sits on the Advisory Boards of IoT World and AI World, which are the two leading international conferences in these transformative new industries. And he was recently featured in Forbes Magazine as one of “40 Internet of Th ings Leaders” by an Accenture/Leadtail report.

JP serves as a judge in the International CES Innovation Awards (Cybersecurity, Home Appliances, Embedded Technologies and Media Players categories) and the CES Asia Innovation Awards (Smart Home category). He is also a member of the TV Academy where he serves as a judge in the Emmy Awards (Interactive Media Peer Group).

JP is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, including CES, IoT World, Parks Connections, Smart Home Summit, IoT Security Summit, IoT Evolution Expo, AI World, IoT Security Summit, AI Summit, IoT Evolution Expo, Strata, Apps World, TiECon, Tampa Bay Startup Week etc. He has published several articles on IoT and AI, including an IoT featured section in the Nielsen Journal of Measurement.

JP holds an MS in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California (USC), and an MS in Aerospace Engineering from École Nationale Supérieure de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace (France).

Senior Director, GlobalEngineering, Nielsen

Jean-Pierre Abello

Internet of Things

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Ben PatzMr. Patz is a Founding Partner and Managing Director at the FAN Fund, an early stage investment fund focused on technology startups in the state of Florida. Prior to starting the FAN Fund, Mr. Patz was the founder and CEO of Coleman Technologies and later Chief Operating Offi cer for Presidio Networked Solutions, a multi-billion-dollar Information Technology solutions provider. Mr. Patz has been principal investigator on SBIR grants relating to the application of Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks to control systems.

Marc Blumenthal has spent more than 30 years leading companies and sales organizations in business-to-business technology solutions. Marc is a serial entrepreneur and visionary leader in the technology industry, as well as an active investor and mentor in early-stage companies. He acquired Intelladon in 2000 and successfully sold the company to Tribridge in 2013. Marc is an investor-member with Florida Funders and serves on the company’s Board of Managers.

Marc Blumenthal

Kunal is a self-made global entrepreneur, an ardent champion of startups, and a philanthropist. Kunal is the founder and President of Practiceforces, a Healthcare Integration Consulting company based out of Clearwater, Florida. He has over fi ft een years of experience in U.S. healthcare practice administration and revenue cycle management. Kunal is on a mission to help other aspiring entrepreneurs through the TiE Tampa Bay Angel Fund with startup capital and mentoring. Kunal also travels the world meeting people and creating opportunities.

Kunal Jain

Seed Funding in Tampa Bay

Moderator: Valerie Landrio McDevitt

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