Bridging Entrepreneurship: Connecting Campus & Community is the capstone event of 517 Entrepreneurship & Innovation Week. Featuring a moderated panel of local entrepreneurs at different points in their entrepreneurial journeys and representing food, material tech, and augmented reality industries, as well as a keynote from Jillian Lorenz, Venture Partner at Exit Quotient Ventures and co-founder of nationally acclaimed fitness franchise The Barre Code, this event will explore and celebrate the entrepreneurial spirit of the Lansing Region and the many resources available on campus and in the community to launch your ideas into action.

Speaker & Panelist Bios

Keynote Speaker

• Jillian Lorenz -- Venture Partner at Exit Quotient Ventures (EQV), Co-Founder of The Barre Code and, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Burgess Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Panelists

• James Curran -- Founder of Great Lakes Reality Labs

• Yuktha Pulavarthi -- Founder of Macaronza

• Douglas Salazar -- Co-founder of Mowr Technologies

• Marcus Leslie -- Owner of Mr. Leslie's Cheesecakes