Tech Wildcatters is a mentorship-driven seed fund and startup accelerator. Our 12-week “boot camp” runs every spring and fall. Our April 2010 class graduates on July 29th and will be presenting their companies in a series of 10-minute “pitches”.   Our goal is to both encourage the next generation of entrepreneurs and promote the North Texas area as one of the 21st Century regions that will attract innovators.  The corporate community will join with  venture capitalists and angel investors at this event to show support, encourage and give feedback to these emerging startups.

All attendees will receive a free copy of the book written by our keynote speaker, Charlie Feld, Blind Spot: A Leaders Guide to IT-Enabled Business Transformation.


Date:            Thursday, July 29th 2010
Location:      The Magnolia - 3699 McKinney Avenue, Dallas TX
Program:
  1:00 pm      Welcome and Introduction to Tech Wildcatters
  1:30 pm      Keynote: “Applied Innovation: The Key to Maintaining Dominance in The Global Economy”
  2:15 pm      Break
  2:30 pm      Presentations
                  CollegeJobConnect – better undergraduate recruitment
                  Image Vision Labs – cleaning up the cloud
                  Concepta Systems – virtual document management
                  Mobestream Media – mobile loyalty program management
                  Brand Protection Agency - retail price transparency for brands
  4:30 pm     Networking Happy Hour at Lemon Bar (next door to Magnolia)

Keynote Speaker – Charlie Feld
As founder and CEO of The Feld Group—based in Dallas, Texas—Feld built a team of information technology executives that enabled dramatic results in Fortune 500 companies through the transformation of their own IT organizations. The Feld Group was acquired by EDS in 2004, which was  purchased by Hewlett-Packard in 2008. Feld retired in 2008 as a senior EVP and member of EDS’ Executive Committee.  The Feld Group was re-launched as a Leadership Development firm in 2009.

Feld held the title CIO at Frito Lay, First Data Resources, Delta Airlines and Burlington Northern. He has been featured in InformationWeek, placed among CIO Magazine's “5 Top CIOs,” and profiled by The New York Times, Fast Company and The Economist. Fast Company named him one of eight turn-around experts in “Masters of Disaster”. In 1997, Feld was named “One of the 12 Most Influential IT Executives of the Past Decade” by CIO magazine and ComputerWorld named him as one of “25 IT People to Watch in 1998.” His articles on IT leadership topics have appeared regularly in Computerworld Executive Suite, Harvard Business Review and CIO Magazine.