Speaker Schedule

Day 1 - Tuesday, December 3

10:00 am PST

FEATURED SPEAKER
Karen Kerrigan, 
President & CEO of Small Business Entrepreneurship Merchant Council, lobbied the White House and Congress in support of the JOBS Act

1:00 pm PST

U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist

U.S. Representative David Schweikert (R-AZ) successful real estate professional

Ben Miller, Co-Founder of FundRise, a platform allowing non-accrediteds to invest alongside mega-developers

Paul Niederer, CEO of Australian Small Scale Offering Board, a hybrid Title II & Title III model

Day 2 - Wednesday, December 4

10:00 am PST

KEYNOTE
Jay Abraham, 
Founder & CEO of The Abraham Group, preeminence and growth mentor

1:00 pm PST

Nav Athwal, Co-Founder & CEO of RealtyShares, angel investor real estate platform

Joseph Barroni, Co-Founder & CEO of High Risk Experts, merchant service provider for platform operators

Amy Cortese, NY Times Contributor, Author of Locavesting

John Harthorne, Founder & CEO MassChallenge Accelerator

Korstiaan Zandvliet, Managing Director of Symbid, Netherlands Non-Accredited Investing Platform

Day 3 - Thursday, December 5

1:00 pm PST

Dani Beit-Or, CEO of Simply Do It, Real Estate Syndicator

David Levine,  Director Proficio Bank

Arik Marmorstein, Co-Founder & CEO, Mimoona Israeli Funding Platform

Marla Tabaka, Contributor to Inc. Magazine

Rep. Thomas Murry, State Representative, author of North Carolina Intra-state CrowdFunding Bill

Day 4 - Friday, December 6

1:00 pm PST

Daniel Gorfine, Legal Counsel for the Milken Institute

Sara Hanford, CEO of Strasburg Savings Bank

Jenny Kassan, CEO of Cutting Edge Capital, Direct Public Offering Specialist

Bruce Lipnick, Founder Crowd Alliance, Hedge Fund Investor

Landon Ray, Founder & CEO of Ontraport, Automated Marketing System

Day 5 - Saturday, December 7

1:00 pm PST

Andrew Bellak, Co-Founder, President & CEO of StakeHolder Capital

Douglas Ellenoff, Partner at PRWest Vacation Rentals

Caroline Lamaud, Co-Founder of Anaxago French Equity platform

Brian Meece, CEO of RocketHub, leading rewards platform

Lena Requist, COO of Ontraport, business automation systems

Day 6 - Sunday, December 8

1:00 pm PST

Mark Levine, Lawyer, Syndicator, and University of Denver Professor

C.E. (Tee) Rowe, President & CEO of the America’s Small Business Development Centers

Roger Royse, Startup specialist, owner PaymentSphere Serices

Bishop Rodney Sampson, Founder of Kingonomics, The Church As An Epicenter of CrowdFunding

Art Stevens, General Manager of MicroPlace broker dealer (an E-Bay company)

Day 7 - Monday, December 9

1:00 pm PST

Jouko Ahvenainen, Co-Founder of UK GrowVC

Alisa Gravitz, President & CEO of Green America, rebuilding the economy through green companies 

Shahab Kaviani, Co-Founder & CEO of CoFoundersLab, a matching site for potential founders

John Perkins, Chairman, First Wyoming Capital, former president of NASAA and state commissioner, direct public offering mentor

Paul Spinrad, ex-Wired Editor, the father of CrowdFunding Chief Story Officer at Investian

Day 8 - Tuesday, December 10

1:00 pm PST

Jilliene Helman, Founder & CEO of RealtyMogul, accredited real estate platform

Hazel Henderson, Founder of Ethical Markets Media, economic advisor to three adminsitrations

Charles Luzar, Director of CrowdFunding Insider

Gadi Mazor, General Partner & CTO of OurCrowd, Israeli angel investor technology platform

Devin Thorpe, Contributor to Forbes.com

Day 9 - Wednesday, December 11

1:00 pm PST

Jonathan Frutkin, CEO of Cricca Funding which turns customers into loyal owners, entrepreneur, attorney

Megan Johnson & Jeff Bekaires, Co-Founders of SparkMarket, Georgia CrowdFunding platform using intra-state exemption

Jeff Lynn, Co-Founder and CEO of UK Seedrs

Terry Mollner, Co-Founder, Director of Calvert Foundation, Director of Ben & Jerrys

Humphrey Polanen, Managing Director of I-BankersDirect, accredited angel platform


Day 10 - Thursday, December 12

1:00 pm PST

Richard Bliss, Senior VP of Global Marketing for Social Tech Media

Timothy Draper, Founder & Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson Fund

Peter Einstein, Founder of CrowdFunding4All a discovery site for funders

Timothy Freundlich, President & CEO of Impact Assets, Founder The Hub Social Incubator, SoCal Conferences

Sherwood Neiss, Co-founder & Principal of CrowdFund Capital Advisors, lobbied to get the CrowdFunding bill proposed in the House

Day 11 - Friday, December 13

1:00 pm PST

Barry James, Founder & CEO of Angel Revolutions, UK CrowdFunding Advocate, producer of Deep Impact Conference

Howard Leonhardt, Founder & Chairman of CA Stock Xchange

Marlon Paz, Partner at Locke Lord, former official at Securities And Exchange Commission

John Perkins, Chairman, First Wyoming Capital, former president of NASAA and state commissioner, direct public offering mentor

Stuart Rudick, Founding Partner of Mindful Investors Fund

David Weild IV, Chairman & CEO of Weild & Co., former Vice-Chairman of NASDAQ

Day 12 - Saturday, December 14

1:00 pm PST

David Drake, Founder & Chairman of LDJ Capital and Soho Loft

Joe Polish, Founder & President of Piranha Marketing, leading business growth advisor

Wil Schroter, Founder & CEO of Fundable

Woody Tasch, Founder Slow Money, Co-Founder Investors Circle

Gene Trowbridge, Partner Trowbridge & Taylor syndicators, attorneys

Randy Williams, Founder & CEO of Keiretsu Forum angel chapters in 30 cities on four continents 

Day 13 - Sunday, December 15

1:00 pm PST

Jason Best, Co-founder & Principal of CrowdFund Capital Advisors, lobbied the House for the original CrowdFunding bill

Michael Crosson, online marketing expert, Publisher of SocialMediopolis.com

Adam Lee, Co-Founder & CEO of Bohemian Guitars, first non-accredited crowdfunding deal completed in the U.S. under intra-state Georgia State exemption

Elton Rivas, Co-Founder & Board President of One Spark, 120,000 person CrowdFunding festival in Jacksonville, FL with $4 million raised in two weeks

Sustainability Panel

  • David Levine – Moderator, Co-Founder & CEO of American Sustainable Business Council
  • Frank Knapp, Co-Founder, President & CEO of the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce
  • Jenny Kassan, CEO of Cutting Edge Capital
  • Michael Shuman, Founding Board Member of BALLE

David Weild IV, Chairman and CEO of Weild & Co., former vice-chairman NASDAQ

Day 14 - Monday, December 16

1:00 pm PST

U.S. Congressman Patrick McHenry (R-NC), original author of the first House version which became the Title II of the JOBS Act 

Douglas Atkin, Portfolio Manager at Guggenheim Partners

Jonny Price, Senior Director of KIVA-Zip

Joy Schoffler, Principal of Leverage PR

Grand Finale Panel – Moderated by Jay Abraham; with 8 special guests: “After Funding, Maximize For Exponential Growth”