Utah Tech Week
Networking: Corndogs & Cornhole
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Event details
Jan29
Wednesday, January 29
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM America/Denver
Pelion Venture Partners14761 Future Way Suite 500, Draper, UT 84020, USA
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Pelion Venture Partners14761 Future Way Suite 500, Draper, UT 84020, USA
Hosts
Point of Mountain
Networking / Social
CEOs
E-Commerce
Engineers / Devs
Executives & Leadership
Founders
Investors
Managers
Private Equity
Sales & GTM
Product Leaders
Startups
Afternoon
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Christina Qi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Databento. Databento launched 1.5 years ago, has $40M in funding, and is the data API backbone of over 8,000 companies today. She formerly founded Domeyard LP, a hedge fund focused on HFT that traded up to $7.1 billion USD per day. Failing to earn a job offer after a Wall Street internship, Christina started Domeyard from her dorm room with $1000 in savings, in 2012. Her fund was a tiny minnow amongst the tigers of the hedge fund world, but after Michael Lewis’s Flash Boys came out in 2014 and HFT firms hid from the spotlight, Domeyard accidentally found itself in the center of the ring. Over the next decade, her company’s story was featured on the front page of Forbes and Nikkei, and quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, CNN, NBC, and the Financial Times as a result of the controversy and fascination with HFT. By a series of accidents, Christina became a voice in her industry, contributing to the World Economic Forum’s research on AI in finance and teaching Domeyard’s case study at Harvard Business School. She is grateful to be able to open up about her mistakes, and to help people turn failures into opportunities.
Christina is a member of the MIT Corporation Development Committee, a standing committee of the MIT Corporation (the board of trustees). She was Co-Chair of the Board of Invest in Girls, bringing financial literacy education to underserved populations across the US. Christina also sits on the Board of Directors of The Financial Executives Alliance (FEA) Hedge Fund Group, drove entrepreneurship efforts at the MIT Sloan Boston Alumni Association, and served on the U.S. Non-Profit Boards Committee of 100 Women in Finance. Although "X Under X" lists are a gimmick, she’ll admit that Forbes 30 Under 30 made a positive impact on her life by giving her a community - friends who dragged her out of bed during the lowest days of her life. Christina earned a Bachelor of Science in Management Science from MIT in 2013 and earned her CAIA designation in 2015.
During his career, David Politis has helped transform such breakthrough ideas as spider-venom-based drugs, MP3 player technologies, and electric bicycles into multi-billion-dollar products, services, and industries.
As a seasoned marketing/communications professional, David has served employers and clients alike with strategic business, marketing, messaging, communications, and public relations counsel and implementation campaigns each designed to drive bottom line results and increased valuations, including firms such as Apple, GTE, SANYO, and Schwinn, among others.
David has also helped clients drive hundreds of millions of dollars in new sales opportunities, while also winning hundreds of client awards, ranging from TIME’s Best Inventions of the Year to Popular Science’s Product of the Future Award.
Previously, he was also the Publisher and Vice President, Content for Silicon Slopes, the 501(c)(3) nonprofit focused on supporting and promoting the technology, startup and business communities of Utah. Additionally, David was Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer for MULTIVOICE where he led renaming, rebranding and marketing / corporate communications efforts for the firm. He was also CMO for Xi3 Corporation, an emerging startup he helped grow from 4 to 100 employees within three years.
David’s first book — 66 RULES for Publicity Success: Boost Your Company’s Value for Pennies on the Dollar — was published in 2016. Through Utah Money Watch, (an online media property he founded and operates), he currently publishes regular news reports and analyses on the financial and monetary doings of Utah-focused businesses, organizations, entrepreneurs, and investors. David received his Bachelor’s degree in Mass Communications from Brigham Young University, and in his spare time, he likes fishing, playing volleyball, reading science fiction, preparing for his next tropical destination getaway, and spending time with his family.
Well networked Sales Professional with 30,000 LinkedIN connections. Building business and social capital is a passion for me. EMAIL - rob.ricciardelli@escalon.services
Escalon Services -
We exist to help business owners get back some of their time and give them peace of mind. We do this by being an outsource for financial and HR operational efficiencies and compliance.
I manage customer accounts while building a reciprocal referral network of lawyers, bankers, funders, HR advisors, CPA's, Broker's, and other startup ecosystem partners.
• Start-Up, SMB, and Nonprofit Specialist for all business needs! Why hire when you can outsource for expertise and over 60% savings!
• Host quarterly Meet a VC event, startup panels, and partner with Incubators and Accelerators to provide office hours, lunch & learns, and mentorship opportunities to founders
• Provide financial guidance, evaluate startup financial needs (Seed to Series C), and facilitate CFO consulting, senior accounting, valuations, taxes, and financial modeling services for customers
MY EXPERIENCE
More than 25 years of solution, value, and collaborative based sales leadership to Fortune 1000 companies. I achieve success through high level trust, collaboration, innovation, service, and integrity. As a progressive change agent, I help clients achieve success by thoroughly understanding their concepts, values and decision making process.
I believe that business leaders must often take qualified risks as they invest in the market ahead. They must be willing to explore and disrupt existing solutions.
FAMILY: Married to Joyce, sons Anthony and Aaron, granddaughter Aleksandra and grandson Gino.
SOME OF WHAT I DO: Homeward Pet Adoption: Executive Board, DEI Activism, Writing, speaking, coaching, and consulting. Inspiring others to live authentically, with vision, and while living from their passion.
I have graduated from BYU with my Master's in Math and with my undergrad in Applied Math. My skills set includes Computer Science, Math, and Statistics. I have done Research in Data Analytics, and have had my project "Optimizing the Search to Find the Best Pizza in Provo" featured on the FOX 13 news. I was also a graduate teaching assistant for an Intro to Proofs and a graduate linear numerical analysis class. I have had 18 months as a full-time volunteer representative where I listened to and counseled others experiencing discrimination, poverty, addiction, and marital or familial issues. I am also an aspiring eco-minimalist by being a more environmentally mindful consumer and forming lifestyle habits that help the environment.
UX/UI/Product Designer | Problem Solver | IA Advocate | Creating Delight
I create frictionless user experiences through effective research and innovative design!
I have a strong background in branding and UX design, as well as visual design, production design, and digital asset management. I love finding creative solutions to problems, and creating order out of chaos. I take pride in my ability to visually communicate my ideas on a whiteboard, and collaborate with teams to create eye catching designs, and user friendly layouts.
We make the world a better place for those that want to work in a better place. For over 16 years, Salt Studio has served the Salt Lake community as a high end interior design studio, complementing architecture and design firms with expertise in commercial interiors, walls, millwork, casework, space planning, and furniture.
As the tech industry returns to the office, we recognize the growing demand for dynamic, inviting, and collaborative spaces that foster creativity and connection.
I don’t just help companies catch up, I help them leap ahead.
As the founder of Cameo Labs, I work with high-growth leaders who are tired of quick fixes and want real transformation. From EdTech to SaaS, I help organizations ditch outdated playbooks, align their teams around a vision, and deliver products their customers actually want.
Let’s rethink innovation, so you can stop fighting yesterday’s battles and start leading tomorrow’s market.
Co-founder | CEO - Fluid Financial Technologies
As a seasoned technologist and adrenaline junky, I've spent 25+ years building scalable systems, architecting data pipelines, and driving innovation with AI/ML, AWS, and blockchain. When I'm not coding or managing high-performing teams, you can find me traveling with my amazing wife and three kids. My passion for tech and thrill-seeking drives me to push boundaries and tackle complex challenges.
Utah Tech Week is a smorgasbord of experiences and events hosted by startups, VC firms, community organizations — anyone who supports the startup community.
The “why” behind Utah Tech Week is to cultivate “happy collisions” in the Utah tech community; the kind that lead to friendships, partnerships, and deals.There’s no cost to attend or sponsor, the only requirement is a desire to help build Utah’s tech scene.
Venture Partner, Angel investor, CTO @Tee Box, CEO/Co-Founder at Stealth sportstech startup. 30 years across tech industry with focus on global expansion, GTM and Startups. Spent 10 years across AI and XR - Microsoft, Unity, Magic Leap. Also led global sales for AI Robotics co in SLC. Mentor/advisor at UofU (Doman / MBC) and USU Entrepreneurship Board.
I am currently the Head of Stakeholder Outreach at the Office of AI Policy, which I love. My backgroud was in diplomacy at the State Department in DC then on Wall Street at Goldman Sachs and at the World Trade Center Utah in SLC doing international trade missions for UT companies to help them expand internationally.