Ecosystem Building with Richard Glaser, Calvin Eaton and Thea Vinereanu

May 30, 2019, 10:00 PM – May 31, 2019, 12:00 AM

Come meet 3 successful community builders, Richard Glaser, Calvin Eaton and Thea Vinereanu! Learn more about their experiences developing communities for RocGrowth, 540W Main Communiversity and Techstars Startup Weekend.

In-person event

About this event

Join us at Black Button Distillery and hear from local community builders about their experiences in building the startup ecosystem in Rochester.


Richard Glaser has led the creation and development of RocGrowth which is a 1,700 member community supporting Rochester's entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystem.

Calvin Eaton aka theglutenfreechef (www.theglutenfreechefblog.com) is a digital content creator, social entrepreneur, and educator whose area of expertise includes antiracism, diversity, inclusion, K-12 curriculum writing and teaching, gluten free plant based living, and higher education. In 2016 he founded 540WMain Communiversity a grassroots non-profit community based university. (www.540westmain.org) with a commitment to enrich the Susan B. Anthony Preservation district as well as connect greater Rochester to the neighborhood through historic preservation, sustainability, workforce development, and antiracism education.

Thea Vinereau led the organization and facilitation of several Techstar Startup Weekends in Buffalo.


Thanks to Black Button for offering a FREE tasting and tour to all Startup Grind community members at the event.

Agenda

6:00pm - Registration

6:30pm - Fireside Chat with Richard, Calvin and Thea

7:00pm - Tour and Tasting

Check out what happened

Speakers

  • Richard Glaser

    RocGrowth

    Founder

  • Calvin Eaton

    540 W Main Communiversity

    Founder & Executive Director

  • Thea Vinereanu

    Techstars Startup Weekend

    Lead

When

When

May 30 – 31, 2019
10:00 PM – 12:00 AM UTC

Agenda

Registration
Panel Discussion
Tour and Tasting

Hosts

  • Velizar Demirev

  • Michael Thaney

    Constellation Brands

    Innovation Partnerships

Organizers

  • Michael Thaney

    Startup Grind

    Director

  • Joshua Batres

    CivicPulse

    Community Outreach Lead

  • Dustin Doucette

    Upstate Venture Connect

    Director of Operations

  • Carolyn Spencer

    CoPivot

    Founder Relations

  • Ananth Prajval Tallavajhula

    SchoolQuizz

    Community Manager

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Dell Technologies

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