As an innovator in venture finance, Sally connects ideas to capital. She is author of “Cash from the Crowd” and is a writer and speaker for Entrepreneur Magazine. She is addicted to helping business owners navigate the new capital opportunities provided by the updated securities regulations in the Jobs Act.

JESSICA SHIN is a Co-Founder at Apollonix, a communication and transactional platform transforming the dental prosthetics industry.

She leverages over 17 years in technology integration, policy, risk management and marketing to focus on growing the user base, establishing strategic partnerships, and integrating software solutions.

Jessica also mentors emerging entrepreneurs through CareerSource Broward's Startup Now program and worked in Federal nuclear, defense, and emergency management organizations.

Jessica is an MBA graduate of George Washington University and has a BS in Chemical Engineering from University of Maryland.

Arzu Tekir has been working with many city leaders and various organizations as a business strategist for almost two decades. She has eighteen years of work experience in strategic planning, business development, strategic partnership development. She also has raised funding in the millions of dollars for large-scale public and private sector projects.

After having led several for-profit and non-profit organizations, Arzu founded Urbanite Venture to help urbantech companies develop and implement urban solutions to transition cities into smarter, more livable and lovable places for all. Urbanite Venture is a growth consulting firm with expertise in smart cities, urban innovation and fundraising.

As the Executive Director for World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities in Turkey, Arzu and her team partnered with national government and sixteen cities in Turkey and two cities in Africa to improve the quality of lives and to create a positive impact on urban mobility and urban sprawl and urban efficiency. Previously to WRI, Arzu advised companies to develop innovative IT projects in Istanbul. She worked as European Union Projects Coordinator and External Relations Director for IT companies producing technology solutions for the cities, directed the financing of the projects and established strategic partnerships. As the new manager, she rebuilt a management consultancy company which had been inoperative for the previous three years when she started in 2003 and ran it for about two years.

Arzu has been featured in various media outlets including, The Guardian, National Geographic Energy Challenge Blog, Al Jazeera Magazine, Bloomberg HT TV, NTV-MSNBC, Monocle, and Forbes. As a sought-after speaker, she gives talks and moderates discussions on women entrepreneurship, urban innovations, smart and sustainable cities.