Learn how to run a successful product strategy discovery at your company. An effective discovery process leads to bold solutions to your product challenges, effective testing and validation of assumptions, identifying risks, and working in agile fashion. By the end of the workshop, you will have a better understanding of how to build out your product or feature set in a way that promotes efficiency, creativity, and flexibility.

• Julia Macalaster '12
  Chief Operating Officer, Def Method

How to identify and target investors and venture firms; how to build a pitch deck; how best to connect with the investor community, and the process to raise seed capital.  

• Laura Melahn '07
  Partner, GV
• Cack Wilhelm '06
  Partner, Accomplice VC

Hollywood insiders will provide an overview of how the entertainment industry works, discuss new and emerging technologies and business models, and work with attendees on their entrepreneurial dreams. (Note: this workshop ends at 1:00pm.)

• Loic Bailly
  Owner, 2451 LLC 
• Ted Gagliano '82
  President, Feature Post-Production, Twentieth Century Fox
• Bill Wescott '85
  CEO, BrainOxygen
• Ben Wolstenholme
  Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Madefire

Discussions will focus on building a strong startup culture, mindset, and brand; attracting, recruiting and retaining key employees; and tapping outside resources and internal stakeholders to build effective teams.  

• Ian Thomson '09
  Executive Recruiter, Odgers Berndtson
• Ed Zschau, Jr. '86
  Director, Parker Remick; Former Partner, Inductus Associates

Honor Yourself, Take Time to Yourself, Meditate Yourself, Understand Yourself, Nurture Yourself, and You Will Have More of Yourself to Give.

• Jaclyn Long '98
  Founder and Director, Mindful Child & Family Therapy, Inc.; Founder and Director, Mind Body Moms