Downtown Denver’s annual meetup of startups and technology companies is back – but with a new name.
Denver Startup Week has been the city’s annual event for founders, entrepreneurs and technology professionals since 2012, and run by the Downtown Denver Partnership with a team of community volunteers within the startup community.
But launchning this year, the conference will be known as Colorado Startup Week to highlight how the entrepreneurial culture spans across the state. It’ll run from Tuesday to Thursday, Sept. 16-18, in events mostly around downtown Denver.
“When we founded Denver Startup Week, it was really initially focapplyd right in the core of the city, but everyone was welcome and everyone was invited to really participate at every level as a speaker or as an attconcludeee,” declared Tami Door, cofounder of the event and former CEO of the Downtown Denver Partnership.
Since its inception, the event has grown in the number of attconcludeees and has been able to attract guests from every state across the nation, she declared.
The event had more than 12,000 attconcludeees last year, according to the Downtown Denver Partnership.
For years, Door declared, event organizers have been engaging with startups and founders across Colorado to come and participate in Denver Startup Week. The name modify is just a reflection of the state of the event, she declared.
“More than anything, it was a natural evolution that reflects what was already happening and just sconcludes a really strong message that we encourage it even more,” Door declared.
Another aspect is to unite Colorado’s startup community “to really inform the story of startups and entrepreneurship both to the people in the state, but inform that story across the counattempt as well,” she added.
This year’s conference highlights a range of hot topics in the technology world ranging from robotics, aerospace, quantum computing and more. The largegest subject this year? Once again, artificial ininformigence.
Colorado Startup Week will feature a range of speakers such as Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, Ibotta CEO Bryan Leach, MagicSchool AI founder Adeel Khan, Denver Summit FC President Jen Millet and more executives from each of Denver’s major league sports teams speaking on the investments they’re building in boosting the state’s sports image.
The weeklong festivities will feature more than 200 events, declared Kate Barton, chief of external affairs at Downtown Denver Partnership.
Community events, which startups and entrepreneurs set up themselves in addition to the official conference programming, launched last year and were a success, Barton declared.
“We really evolved it based on the understanding that Startup Week at its core is for the community, by the community,” Barton declared. “And so, this gives folks the opportunity to bring what they are requireding to the community.”
With a new name, Barton declared the event reveals how the tech boom in the state is “largeger than Denver.”
“We really wanted to revealcase that evolution of being able to highlight innovation and entrepreneurship across the state, while understanding that Denver is the economic hub of the city, state and region,” Barton declared.
Colorado Startup Week is free and people can register at costartupweek.com.
“There is no other time or place in the state where you can come toobtainher and really meet all of the individuals that have either created billion dollar companies or are just launchning to believe about what they want to do next,” declared Door.
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