Connect with a vibrant community of underrepresented founders, including women, Black, Latino, Veteran, LGBTQ+, Asian, and Indigenous entrepreneurs, at the region's largest summit. Enjoy pitch presentations from diverse-founder teams and explore demo tables showcasing innovative ventures. Stay for the mixer to network, meet founders, and engage with the community. Light snacks, beverages, and free, easy parking are provided.
Aug 6, 2025
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The Region’s Largest Gathering of Underrepresented Founders
The Summit is always an uncommon opportunity to meet inspiring entrepreneurs and investors in our local community, whether Female, Black, Latino, Veteran, LGBT, Asian, Indigenous, etc., who all together still represent a minority of venture capital investments in the USA. Help us, help them, to change the status quo by participating in this event.
Doors open at 5pm. Summits formally begin at 5:30pm. Diverse-founder startup pitch presentations usually begin around 8pm, and each startup team has their own demo tables in the mixer area. Guests are welcome to stay for the afterparty mixer, meet the founders personally, and meet all the other guests. Light snacks and beverages are served. Parking is always free and easy.
Callie Christensen is the Co-founder and Chief Brand Officer of Slumberkins, an educational children’s brand working to empower parents to teach positive social-emotional life skills to their children. As a mother and educator, Callie is on a mission to use her educational background to create an intentional children's product line. Slumberkins are easily implemented into everyday family routines to support social-emotional learning, providing digestible therapeutic techniques for parents to use, and normalize conversations about big feelings. Slumberkins is refreshing the plush toy industry and resonating with parents that find community on social media platforms and seek out modern, new, and intentional products to bring into their homes.
Agenda
5:00pm
Doors Open and Registration
5:30pm
Welcome & Introductions
5:45pm
Angie Parker to interview keynote speaker Callie Christensen, fireside chat style.
6:30pm
Break for snacks and beverages
6:45pm
Gender Panel with Dana Sather Robinson as moderator. Panelists TBA.
7:30pm
Race & Ethnicity Panel moderated by Jamar Montgomery.
Panelists TBA.
8:15pm
Break
8:30pm
Founder Pitches (5 minutes, with 3 minute audience Q&A)
9:20pm
Crowdvote for Best Pitch
9:30pm
Afterparty
