Speakers


  • Matt Hunckler Matt Hunckler

    Topic: Keynote

    Bio: Matt Hunckler (@hunckler) is a committed business adventurist with a knack for online marketing, branding, and starting up. Matt has experience with building and monetizing web-based businesses—leveraging email marketing, SEO, PPC, social media, and PR to increase site traffic and sales. He is the Director of Marketing for Slingshot SEO, a specialized agency that helps deserving brands achieve exponential business success through search. Matt also leads Verge, a community for entrepreneurs, software developers, and startup investors. The group has over 1,200 members and has helped over 30 Indiana-based companies grow and share their stories with the world.


  • Frank Gruber Frank Gruber

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    Bio: Frank Gruber (@FrankGruber) is the founder, CEO and Executive Editor of Tech Cocktail. He is an entrepreneur and new media journalist focused on sharing his tech product expertise and analysis on emerging technologies. Previously he built products for millions of users while at AOL and Tribune Company.


  • John Wechsler John Wechsler

    Topic: Key aspects of technology entrepreneurship

    Bio: John is a Partner at DeveloperTown (www.developertown.com), an Indianapolis-based venture development firm. He works with high-potential ventures on business strategy issues, early customer development, sales, marketing, business development and fundraising. John is also CEO of Musical DNA Education (www.musicaldna.com) - a software company that will forever change the way the world learns to play music. John earned a marketing degree from Indiana University and started his career at IBM where he achieved membership in the Golden Circle - recognizing the top 1.5% of the IBM sales force. Since 1999 John has been a founding-level and/or C-level executive in high-tech firms including beenz.com (digital currency), Wishoo (branded lead generation at live events), Vontoo (permission-based voice messaging), Formstack (online forms & data collection) & Formspring, a social network he co-founded that has grown to become a top 1,000 website in 21 countries with over 26 million registered users.


  • Patrick Nycz Patrick Nycz

    Topic: Marketing in digital age/How to speak to investors

    Bio: Patrick Nycz (@pnycz) is a principal owner of IDC with a unique 25-year branding and strategic marketing background that includes brand positioning and an integrated approach to strategic marketing communications designed to increase market share and break into new segments.


  • Ed Finkler Ed Finkler

    Topic: Implementing technologies. Mobile integration.

    Bio: I’ve been a web developer for about 15 years now. Primarily I work in PHP, but most of my career I’ve been a one-man web team, so I have dabbled in everything from DB administration to backend dev to design. In the past few years I’ve gotten heavily into desktop and mobile application with JavaScript. Four years ago I started a successful open source microblogging project called Spaz, for desktop and mobile. My day job is making awesome stuff at FictiveKin, primarily on Gimme Bar.