Base 3 features 3 national speakers on July 17

RXA Technology is hosting a night of entrepreneurship on July 17, welcoming three national speakers to Base 3. The night will begin with a Biz Brew networking mixer sponsored by Startup Sioux City.

The event will feature speakers Alex Altomare, Co Founder of BetaBlox, Founder of The Lean Lab, and Techstars Mentor; Scott Conley, Managing Partner of Flipstone Technology Partners; and Tina Beal, Owner, Creative Director & Client Relations at Social Bug. Their talks will focus on entrepreneurship, branding, creating a makerspace, female entrepreneurship, accelerators, and the benefits of being a mentor.

The night begins at 5 p.m. on the 8th floor of the Ho Chunk Centre, 600 4th St., and will kick off with the Biz Brew, an informal gathering aimed at promoting new and emerging businesses in Sioux City.

Tickets are free and available at http://www.rxatechnology.com/base3.

Base 3 is sponsored by the Security National Bank, SEDC, MyEntre.net, AdvanceIowa, Siouxland Chamber of Commerce/The Siouxland Initiative, Silicon Prairie News, U.S. Bank, Sioux City Ford Lincoln, Iowa Small Business Development Center, Western Iowa Tech Community College, Brownbox.com, Sunnybrook Flowershop and Greenhouse, StickerMule.com, Springboard Coworking, Startup Weekend Sioux City, Team Creative Fire and Startup Sioux City.

SPEAKER BIOS

Alex Altomare

Alex loves solving big problems and has launched several companies to address challenges in education, private equity, policy, healthcare, and tech. Most recently, he co-founded BetaBlox, a business accelerator which has invested in over 70 high growth startups. Today, Alex is an investor, Techstars mentor, and board member for several nonprofits including the Lean Lab – an education incubator dedicated to pioneering radical solutions to challenges urban core education.

Scott Conely

Scott Conley is a seasoned technology executive and strategist, contributing vision, leadership and drive to enterprises large and small worldwide. Scott’s mix
of technological and business talent has delivered higher performing teams, stronger delivery mechanics and millions in product yields. While Chief Strategy Officer for ThoughtWorks, Inc., his expertise was for nearly a decade injected into many of the Fortune 500’s primary lines of business, across an array of industries: financial services, high technology, telecommunications, software engineering and utilities.

Scott’s current work is focused on startup projects at Flipstone Technology and his not-for-profit hackerspace in Boynton Beach, Florida. Scott earned a BSBA
(CompSci) from the University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business and is a lifelong Florida Gator.

Tina Beal

Known for her enthusiasm and never-give-up attitude, Tina has passionately worked through the up’s and down’s of “finding the exciting career ” as well as functioning as an “open book” of entrepreneurship honesty.

Tina holds back no secrets on what has worked well and what has miserably failed. Tina shared, “If I am not honest about my flaws and mistakes, how could I share the lessons learned out of those trails? All I have done (good and bad) make me better, smarter and more efficient business owner (and service provider).”

Tina’s level of knowledge and inquisitive marketing nature has been years in the making. Marketing (all platforms) require a plethora of skills and experience (andsometimes a really big gut feeling); it also requires the desire to never stoplearning. Fortunately, skills and experience have been accumulating through previous places of employment, volunteer projects, and an overall healthy addiction to marketing.