Demo Day - WIELD Texas & Product Prodigy Institute

300 West Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard,Austin TX 78701

04 May, 2022

Description

Demo Day is back! WIELD Texas and Product Prodigy Institute will be presenting their ventures and prototypes. It is our pleasure to invite you to this year's Demo Day! Five teams from Product Prodigy Institute and WIELD Texas will display their entrepreneurial achievements of the past semester. Come see the great work our students have done in learning how to launch a business and witness how we’re co-creating the next generation of diverse founders. If you would like to donate to support this institute, please do so using this link: https://give.utexas.edu/ Any amount is greatly appreciated and will be used to support the future students of this program! Thank you for your support. Special guests include Isokoy and McDermott and Ezinne Udezue. Featured Master of Ceremony: Isokoy McDermott Isokoy will be hosting this semester's Demo Day. He is an inspirational leader in the Austin community and longtime supporter of the Office of Inclusive Innovation and Entreprenuership. He hosts an award-winning podcast titled "Leaders Inspire Leaders," and runs a premier professional services company providing consulting services and solutions in strategy, technology, & operations. Featured Speaker: Ezinne Udezue Ezinne Udezue leads product for Procore Technologies platform, a SaaS solution that powers collaboration in the Construction space. She has a varied career in product management across multiple industries: entertainment, eCommerce, content platforms and telecommunications. She’s worked on solutions for consumers, large enterprises and everything in-between via Product Mind a Product Consulting company she started and her career. She has successfully led innovation and zero-to-one efforts at T-Mobile, Time Inc and Bazaarvoice. Her passion is working with startups to find and go beyond Product Market fit and she does that via Kernel Fund where she is a founding Partner and as a mentor with Div-Inc, 3 Day Startup and TechStars #givefirst . She also enjoys coaching and teaching students in entrepreneurship workshops like the Lean LaunchPad at Columbia University; working with Bob Dorf and Steve Blank to evolve and execute a week long Lean Startup Curriculum.