KICKOFF DETROIT WITH US IN STYLE

April 12th, 2016
6-8:30pm

Join us with Detroit’s entrepreneurs at the stunning Madison Building to kickoff the festival.

The program will be hosted by NewCo Executive Editor, Jimmy Guterman and will include a mix of 1:1 conversations and spotlights from selected host companies, followed by a networking cocktail reception.

We’ll start with a fireside chat featuring:

Paul Riser

Managing Director,
Technology-Based Entrepreneurship
TechTown Detroit

Then we’ll continue the discussion through selected Detroit host company spotlights featuring:

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Jill Ford, Head of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, City of Detroit

Olga Stella, Executive Director, Detroit Creative Corridor Center

Eric Yelsma, Founder, Detroit Denim

Gabe Jones & Joe McEachern, Co-Founders, Detroit Grease

Amy Peterson, Founder, Rebell Nell

Khali Sweeney, Founder and Program Director, Downtown Boxing Gym

Get your VIP Festival Pass or one of the NewCo Tour Passes to attend.

NewCo Detroit: April 13, 2016

Global Advisory Council

John Borthwick – CEO – Betaworks / Ron Conway – Founder & Managing Partner – Angel Investors / Dick Costolo / Brad Feld – Managing Director – Foundry Group / Jason Hirschhorn – CEO and Chief Curator – The ReDEF Group / Arianna Huffington – President and Editor-In-Chief – Huffington Post Media Group / Steve Papermaster – Chairman and CEO – Powershift Group / Matt Seiler – Global CEO – IPG Mediabrands / Morgan Spurlock – Filmmaker – Warrior Poets / Gary Vaynerchuk – CEO & Founder – VaynerMedia / Maynard Webb – Founder – Webb Investment Network / Jeff Weiner – CEO – LinkedIn / Rachel Whetstone – Sr. VP, Policy & Communications – Uber / Fred Wilson – Co-Founder – Union Square Ventures

NewCo Detroit Advisory Council

Jay Adelson – Chairman, Founder, Opsmatic; Formerly CEO, Digg / Devon Akmon – Director, Arab American National Museum / Toby Barlow – Detroit evangelist; business owner; NY Times writer; novelist (Sharp Teeth and Babayaga); Chief Creative Officer of Team Detroit (Ford’s Global agency) / Dick Costolo / Jeff DeGraff – Professor at University of Michigan Ross School of Business; author; TED speaker extraordinaire; head of Innovatrium / Kerry Doman – Founder & CEO, After5Detroit / Dave Egner – President & CEO of the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation / Mary Kubitskey – Chevrolet / Tom Lauzon – EVP/CIO, Meridian Health Plan / Neville Manohar – Digital Marketing Strategist, Analytics & Loyalty, Chrysler / Kirk Mayes – CEO, Forgotten Harvest / Sue Mosey – President, Midtown Detroit, Inc. / Mark Petroff – President/CEO, Marketing Associates / Jason Raznick – Lead, Benzinga / Richard Rogers – President, College for Creative Studies (CCS) / Rev. Larry Simmons – Interim Executive Director of Administration, Brightmoor Alliance; Pastor of Baber Memorial A.M.E Church / Ned Staebler – VP for Economic Development, Wayne State University / Susan Thompson – Director of Media, Social Media & CRM, Chyrsler Group, LLC / Marc Weiser – Founder and Managing Director, RPM Ventures