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The Fort Worth experience: Making a Movement
The 2022 SCN Fall Summit, organized by HSC Next and other community partners, will focus on Making a Movement. Over the course of 2.5 days, the Summit Host team will showcase some of Fort Worth's strengths, highlighting how these strengths can translate to a nationwide movement to combat the recent economic struggles in our country.
HSC Next has been at the heart of the movement to develop the entrepreneurial ecosystem into a powerhouse in the state of Texas. The city boasts an impressive string of biotech exits and a new Techstars accelerator focused on physical therapy, the first of its kind in the world. Summit content will focus on actionable steps to start small movements for increased entrepreneurial activity in communities around the country that will kickstart an entrepreneurial renaissance in the US.
The majority of the Summit will take place in the historic Fort Worth Stockyards, the birthplace of entrepreneurial activity in the city. The Stockyards features world-class amenities, delicious barbeque, and Tex Mex; the world's only daily longhorn cattle drive, and the world's largest honkytonk. Don't let all of this "cowboy culture" fool you. In Fort Worth, Y'all means ALL. Fort Worth's "cowboys" are as diverse as the city itself. The city is home to the National Cowgirl Museum & Hall of Fame, the Cowboys of Color Rodeo, the Juneteenth Museum - where Juneteenth was first established as a holiday, and Mariachi bands galore. The Fort Worth Hispanic Chamber of Commerce plays a huge role in the ecosystem as Spanish-speaking people make up more than 36% of the city's population. Fort Worth was recently ranked as the 14th largest city in the country for Hispanic entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship rates in the Asian American community are higher than the national average.
We are so excited to explore "Funkytown." Don't delay getting tickets, we are capping ticket sales at 130!
Learn more about Fort Worth and our Summit Host Committee here.
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About Fort Worth
Fort Worth is the 13th largest in the US and is one of the fastest-growing cities in the country. The city is known as one of the best places to live in Texas thanks to its strong job market, diverse culture, and southern hospitality. Mayor Mattie Parker is the youngest mayor of a major US city and Fort Worth is consistently well ranked among Texas cities for being a great place to live. Despite these assets, the city has an underdeveloped entrepreneurial ecosystem. Because of this, strong emphasis has been placed on increasing the connectedness of the startup scene with multiple efforts in process including hosting the largest Global Entrepreneurship Week in the country the last two years in a row.
The Historic Stockyards
* You can view and download a PDF map of the Stockyards in the document section.
Things to do in Fort Worth:
- In the Stockyards
- Things to do in other districts (requires transportation)
- Itinerary builder (based on interest)
- Public transportation options
Agenda
Making Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Building a Movement
The Fort Worth Summit theme is "Making a Movement." Summit content will focus on actionable steps to start small movements for increased entrepreneurial activity in communities around the country that will kickstart an entrepreneurial renaissance in the U.S. Throughout the summit, attendees will learn from community builders in multiple backgrounds who have led successful movements to create change.
Please note: the agenda is still being finalized and subject to change. Check back for updates and speakers.
Registration opens at 11:30am
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New Member Orientation at Stockyard Station
Tom ChapmanNew to SCN? This is the best way to kick off your summit experience, get plugged in, meet other members, and learn more about joining our amazing community.
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Summit Kickoff: Opening presentation
Cameron CushmanIt's Summit kickoff time! The Fort Worth team welcomes attendees, shares an overview of the agenda and shares more about the Summit theme: Making a movement.
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SCN Welcome/Opening remarks
Mark A. LawrenceSCN Welcome / Organization updates and news
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Welcome to Funkytown
Darlisa DiltzWe brought in one of our best and brightest ecosystem builders to welcome everyone to the Summit, the incomparable Darlisa Diltz. She will provide a brief overview of our local ecosystem and share about her work to bring 1MC to northeast Tarrant County and her leadership of Global Entrepreneurship Week North Texas.
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Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the Refugee and Asylum Seeker Community
Marco Johnson•Goran Krndija•Jenny Poon•Munatsi ManyandeAccording to the Kauffman Foundation, immigrants are twice as likely to start companies as U.S. born citizens. Their stories are as unique as the businesses they found. This session will highlight three of those paths: a refugee from a war-torn region turned entrepreneur, an asylum seeker who now serves other immigrant entrepreneurs, and an entrepreneur and ecosystem builder who grew up watching her parents navigate small business ownership as refugees.
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Roundup time with a Drover
Kristin JaworskiWhat is a drover? And what significance did they play in the cattle drives that shaped this city? We have a local trail boss and cow herding expert stopping by to tell us how the Stockyards shaped Fort Worth and became the center of commerce in our city.
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Ice Cream break
Get your first taste of Fort Worth from Melt Ice Creams AND meet your SCN Buddy! Each Summit attendee has been assigned a seasoned member of SCN who will act as their guide and get them plugged in.
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Watch the Steers - Cattle Drive on East Exchange
Corral for the Texas longhorn cattle herd which is driven twice a day through the historic district. You won’t want to miss out on this Texas tradition.
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Free Time & Networking
Walk over to one of the bars or other attractions to grab a beer, network, and take a break. The White Elephant Saloon is one of Fort Worth's most legendary drinking establishments but there are many in the area to check out!
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Dinner at Joe T. García’s
On July 4, 1935, Joe T. & Jessie Garcia opened Joe T. Garcia’s Mexican Restaurant in part of their home in Fort Worth, Texas. The original restaurant had a maximum capacity of sixteen. The Garcias served their famous enchiladas in the front room while they expanded their home during decades. Today, the restaurant encompasses most of a city block and serves up to 2,000 customers every weekend. It’s one of our favorite dining experiences when we visit Fort Worth.
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Optional: Billy Bob’s: World’s Largest Honkey-Tonk
Still up for more fun? You can visit one of Fort Worth’s biggest music scenes, Billy Bob’s. Known as the World’s Largest Honky-Tonk, two-step along with country classics or look at the preservation of country music’s biggest stars.
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
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Ecosystems Approach to Movement Building (ICU)
Paulo Gregory•Alfredo Matthew•Catherine ReadEvery SCN Summit has a workshop hosted by SCN's InterCultural Unity committee where we explore Diversity, Equity, and Belonging within the context of ecosystem building. Most entrepreneurs and small business owners lack access to the resources and supports necessary to start, stabilize and grow their enterprises, particularly in systemically marginalized communities. There are new models being developed and deployed to aim resources directly at the ground that utilize both policy and practice to connect and mobilize people and capital to build the power to bring economic development to communities that have been struggling to survive for generations.
This session will explore strategies to mobilize significant resources and collective human capital to create sustainable change. The session will also engage participants in applying these concrete tools and strategies in your own communities.
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Morning Breakouts
See tracks to choose one
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Lunch in the Stockyards
Find a cool spot to grab lunch on your own. Please note that if you are on the Innovation Ecosystem Tour, you will need to be back in time to get on the bus, which leaves promptly at 1:30pm.
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Ecosystem Tours - See tracks
The bus leaves promptly at 1:30PM!!!
Tour the Alliance Texas Mobility Innovation Zone (MIZ), a one-of-a-kind infrastructure offering mobility visionaries full access to an unparalleled ecosystem, resources, and partnerships essential to comprehensively scale and commercialize new technologies.
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Rodeo Snow Sno Cones at Stockyard Stations
Cool down after the ecosystem tour with an icy treat and networking.
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Dinner with Locals
Get a chance to mix and mingle in a more intimate setting. Summit attendees will gather in small groups to have dinner and conversations with a number of ecosystem builders in the community. Each dinner group will meet a "local" who will lead the conversation in a pre-chosen part of town. We invite you to bring a gift from your ecosystem as a thank you to our dinner hosts. Your gift should be something small that represents your ecosystem and is made locally. Coffee, beer, t-shirts, stickers...
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Roses and Thorns @ Second Rodeo - 122 E Exchange Ave #340
Roses & Thorns location: Second Rodeo - 122 E Exchange Ave #340
Roses & Thorns is a favorite among members and summit regulars. Grab a drink and share stories of both the successes and challenges of doing ecosystem work through facilitated, intimate discussions. This is your chance to go deep and share with other ecosystem builders who understand you in a safe, welcoming space.
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
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10 Years of Caffeinating Communities: The Impact of 1 Million Cups
Cameron Cushman•Darlisa Diltz•Nate Olson1 Million Cups (1MC) is a weekly educational program for entrepreneurs, started by the Kauffman Foundation, that now hosts meetups in over 100 US cities. 2022 marked the 10 year anniversary of this volunteer-led program that provides a safe space for entrepreneurs to test out their ideas, get feedback from their communities and find the missing pieces of their startup company, one cup of coffee at a time. Hear from two co-founders of 1MC about how it started, how it scaled and where its headed as well as insight from a local 1MC organizer who launched her chapter during the pandemic.
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Bringing Techstars to Fort Worth
Trey BowlesFort Worth recently launched the world’s first accelerator program focused on physical health, in a city that didn’t have a program like this anywhere else in their ecosystem. Founding SCN member Trey Bowles, who is now the Managing Director of the Techstars Physical Health Accelerator in Fort Worth, will describe the journey he’s been on to turn Fort Worth into the physical therapy innovation capital of the world.
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Make Your City CDFI Friendly
Christina BrooksThe City of Fort Worth is working with CDFI Friendly America to increase the supply of flexible, affordable, and patient financing in the city. Christina Brooks will explain how CDFIs (Community Development Financial Institutions) specialize in providing this type of flexible, affordable, and patient financing to support small business owners, affordable housing developers, nonprofits, consumers, and commercial real estate in historically underserved communities.
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SCN Challenges
Tom Chapman•Landon Ainge•Pava LaPereSeveral times throughout the year, SCN hosts deep learning and peer-led practice cohorts focused on complex issues related to inclusion, wellness, storytelling, ecosystem metrics, and policy. Challenges are designed for ecosystem builders to TAKE ACTION around specific areas of focus to accelerate impact and share resources. During this session you'll learn from three of our Challenge facilitators and find out more about upcoming challenge dates.
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Policy and Progress: What it really takes to move from idea to action
Grace Belangia•Melissa Roberts ChapmanProviding the right policy environment for entrepreneurs to maximize their chances of success is a crucial part of ecosystem building. This session will feature two experts that are shaping local and national policies to level the playing field for entrepreneurs and provide the best opportunities for increased levels of innovative and entrepreneurial activity at the national, state and local levels.
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Putting it in practice: Working Lunch
Tom Chapman“What Did We Learn” Group Discussion moderated by Tom Chapman
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Tuesday, October 18, 2022
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Mining Data in Your Ecosystem
Tom Chapman•Cameron CushmanMeasuring the progress of your ecosystem is important and knowing the relevant data points and sources is a key tool for you to advocate for your local startup community. But where do you find data like this? How do you access it? And how do you talk about that data in a relevant way? Two nationally-recognized data experts will share their expertise and teach you how to become a data expert in your own community.
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
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Telling the Stories of Your City
Jamey Ice•Rob UpchurchTuesday, October 18, 2022
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Knocking Down Barriers to Business with Institute for Justice
You shouldn’t need a law degree to start the small business of your dreams. But too often, entrepreneurs struggle with local regulatory burdens, finding themselves trapped by high fees, long wait times, and complex paperwork. This session will provide a practical roadmap of how you can initiate change in your local community so local governments make it cheaper, faster, and simpler for entrepreneurs to start a business.
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
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Tour 2: Topophilia: Exploring Arts & Sciences in Fort Worth
George Apodaca•Asa Aziz•Dhananjaya (DJ) PereraThe University of North Texas Health Science Center (HSC) is one the US’s premier academic medical centers featuring five schools and countless other assets and initiatives. Our tour of campus will include HSC’s cutting-edge Regional Simulation Center featuring augmented reality (AR) technology. You’ll learn more about what HSC does plus learn about two biotech companies operating on campus. Next, we’ll shift our focus to the arts. Did you know that Fort Worth’s Cultural District boasts one of the best collections of museums in the country? We’ll hear from a panel of local artist entrepreneurs then walk across the street to the Kimbell Art Museum whose permanent collection comprises about 350 works of art and is distinguished by an extraordinary level of artistic quality and importance.
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
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Tour 1: Mobility Innovation Zone: Presented by Hillwood, Google Wing & BNSF
The bus leaves promptly at 1:30PM!!!
Over forty years ago, Ross Perot, Jr., had a dream of building a cargo-only airport in north Fort Worth. Situated near major interstates and rail lines, Alliance, Texas, has now become the largest inland port in the country. This has attracted innovators from around the world to test out technologies that move freight faster, autonomously and that utilizes advanced multi-modal technologies. This tour will highlight the innovation and entrepreneurship that is changing the game in the Mobility Innovation Zone, from autonomous locomotives to drone delivery to the home – this tour will move you!
Ecosystems Approach to Movement Building (ICU)
Every SCN Summit has a workshop hosted by SCN's InterCultural Unity committee where we explore Diversity, Equity, and Belonging within the context of ecosystem building. Most entrepreneurs and small business owners lack access to the resources and supports necessary to start, stabilize and grow their enterprises, particularly in systemically marginalized communities. There are new models being developed and deployed to aim resources directly at the ground that utilize both policy and practice to connect and mobilize people and capital to build the power to bring economic development to communities that have been struggling to survive for generations. This session will explore strategies to mobilize significant resources and collective human capital to create sustainable change. The session will also engage participants in applying these concrete tools and strategies in your own communities.
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Paulo Gregory
Ecosystem Builder at Cohado, INCPaulo Gregory Harris serves as Chair of our Intercultural Unity (ICU) committee. He is the inventor of Cohado, a flexible design structure and tool to understand collaborative and sustainable design. Paulo is also the President of Cohado Consulting, a social enterprise dedicated to leveling the economic game through developing models and vehicles for economic ascension of economically starved communities, and the Director of Ignoma Foundation, whose mission is to develop sustainable solutions to poverty. He recently launched the Black Butterfly Network and Exchange in Baltimore.
Alfredo Matthew
Cofounder / Partner of ESO VenturesESO Ventures Inc. (ESO), is an entrepreneurial support organization providing the confidence, competence, and capital for any Black or Brown person to become an entrepreneur. We offer community, business incubation curriculum and services, and revolutionary financial products for early stage entrepreneurs. ESO’s vision is to make entrepreneurship accessible and worthwhile in every community.
Catherine Read
Director of Field & Campaign Strategy at Right to Start10 Years of Caffeinating Communities: The Impact of 1 Million Cups
1 Million Cups (1MC) is a weekly educational program for entrepreneurs, started by the Kauffman Foundation, that now hosts meetups in over 100 US cities. 2022 marked the 10 year anniversary of this volunteer-led program that provides a safe space for entrepreneurs to test out their ideas, get feedback from their communities and find the missing pieces of their startup company, one cup of coffee at a time. Hear from two co-founders of 1MC about how it started, how it scaled and where its headed as well as insight from a local 1MC organizer who launched her chapter during the pandemic.
Speakers
Cameron Cushman
Assistant Vice President, Innovation Ecosystems at University of North Texas Health Science Center - Fort Worth, TXCameron Cushman is a Fort Worth native who spent the last decade building entrepreneurial communities. He currently serves as the Assistant Vice President of Innovation Ecosystems at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, where he is working to connect the startup community. He began his career in the George W. Bush Administration in Washington, DC, and served there for six years before he moved to Kansas City where he worked at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. While at The Kauffman Foundation, he led several initiatives to help build entrepreneurial communities including the co-founding of 1 Million Cups, a weekly educational event for entrepreneurs that is now in over 150 cities and 30 countries. He has also worked in the private sector as the Vice President of Sales and Marketing at PhysAssist Scribes, a medical services company. He attended Texas A&M where he earned a degree in Political Science and now lives in Fort Worth with his wife and three sons.
Cameron has over a decade of experience building entrepreneurial communities. He began his career in the George W. Bush Administration in Washington, DC, before he moved to Kansas City and worked at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. While at The Kauffman Foundation, he led several initiatives to help build entrepreneurial communities including the co-founding of 1 Million Cups, a weekly educational event for entrepreneurs that is now in over 180 US cities and 30 countries. He also worked in the private sector as the Vice President of Sales and Marketing at PhysAssist Scribes, a medical services company.
Darlisa Diltz
Owner at The Center NTX NTEETCHardworking, Entrepreneurial, Energetic, Passionate, Ethical, and Creative are just a few words to describe me. I take pride in delivering effective strategies with regard to business development, strategic planning, and Entrepreneurial growth. I am dedicated to rendering effective outcomes and helping individuals reach their desired goals. I am seasoned in areas of leadership, stewardship, and guidance to all those of whose path I cross. Building solid relationships and impacting change is what I do best.
Nate Olson
VP of Growth at CremaNate co-founded the entrepreneurial program 1 Million Cups alongside Cameron Cushman at the Kauffman Foundation in 2012. 1 Million Cups grew to its height of +150 cities over the following decade caffeinating entrepreneurs and communities of all sizes across the nation. Over the last 8 years, Nate has served on the leadership team at Crema, a rapidly-growing custom software agency in Kansas City that works with enterprise leaders to build ambitious digital products. In the spirit of activating community spaces, Nate launched, grew, and eventually sold a coffee shop inside of the Nelson Atkins Art Museum with two friends. He proudly sports one failed business in the CPG space - Pancake, Pancake. And is happily married to his wife Ariel, who is leading the charge on their newest endeavor, a fresh cut flower farm.
Bringing Techstars to Fort Worth
Fort Worth recently launched the world’s first accelerator program focused on physical health, in a city that didn’t have a program like this anywhere else in their ecosystem. Founding SCN member Trey Bowles, who is now the Managing Director of the Techstars Physical Health Accelerator in Fort Worth, will describe the journey he’s been on to turn Fort Worth into the physical therapy innovation capital of the world.
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Trey Bowles
Managing Director of Techstars Physical Health Fort WorthMake Your City CDFI Friendly
The City of Fort Worth is working with CDFI Friendly America to increase the supply of flexible, affordable, and patient financing in the city. Christina Brooks will explain how CDFIs (Community Development Financial Institutions) specialize in providing this type of flexible, affordable, and patient financing to support small business owners, affordable housing developers, nonprofits, consumers, and commercial real estate in historically underserved communities.
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Christina Brooks
Diversity And Inclusion Director of City of Fort WorthChristina is a results-driven equity, diversity, access, and inclusion professional with twenty years of experience working with underrepresented populations. Over ten years of her experience is grounded in organizational equity and inclusion policy and process change. As the City of Fort Worth's first Chief Equity Officer and Director of Diversity and Inclusion Department, she is responsible for Business Equity – equitable participation and access in City contracting and procurement and capacity building of underrepresented business firms, Civil Rights Enforcement - of the City’s Non-Discrimination Ordinance for Fair Housing, Fair Employment, Public Accommodations, ADA and Title VI, and Municipal Equity – policy and process development for equity in municipal service delivery and workforce development as well as tracking and supporting the Fort Worth Race and Culture Initiative’s recommendations across criminal justice, economic development, education, governance, health, housing, and transportation.
Mining Data in Your Ecosystem
Measuring the progress of your ecosystem is important and knowing the relevant data points and sources is a key tool for you to advocate for your local startup community. But where do you find data like this? How do you access it? And how do you talk about that data in a relevant way? Two nationally-recognized data experts will share their expertise and teach you how to become a data expert in your own community.
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Tom Chapman
Founder of Chapman and CompanyTom Chapman is regarded as one of the leading entrepreneurial ecosystem leaders in the world. He has particular expertise in measuring and creating metrics for entrepreneurial ecosystems. His work has been referenced, cited, and quoted in numerous publications around the world, and he is an active speaker on entrepreneurial ecosystems and their importance. Beyond his work for Chapman and Company, Tom helped grow Beehive Industries (a Lincoln based government technology company), Nebraska Global (a Lincoln based funding organization), and is an alum of Enron and American Electric Power in the energy industry. Tom has both a J.D. and an M.B.A from the University of Nebraska and undergraduate liberal arts degrees from Creighton University.
Cameron Cushman
Assistant Vice President, Innovation Ecosystems at University of North Texas Health Science Center - Fort Worth, TXCameron Cushman is a Fort Worth native who spent the last decade building entrepreneurial communities. He currently serves as the Assistant Vice President of Innovation Ecosystems at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, where he is working to connect the startup community. He began his career in the George W. Bush Administration in Washington, DC, and served there for six years before he moved to Kansas City where he worked at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. While at The Kauffman Foundation, he led several initiatives to help build entrepreneurial communities including the co-founding of 1 Million Cups, a weekly educational event for entrepreneurs that is now in over 150 cities and 30 countries. He has also worked in the private sector as the Vice President of Sales and Marketing at PhysAssist Scribes, a medical services company. He attended Texas A&M where he earned a degree in Political Science and now lives in Fort Worth with his wife and three sons.
Cameron has over a decade of experience building entrepreneurial communities. He began his career in the George W. Bush Administration in Washington, DC, before he moved to Kansas City and worked at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. While at The Kauffman Foundation, he led several initiatives to help build entrepreneurial communities including the co-founding of 1 Million Cups, a weekly educational event for entrepreneurs that is now in over 180 US cities and 30 countries. He also worked in the private sector as the Vice President of Sales and Marketing at PhysAssist Scribes, a medical services company.
Telling the Stories of Your City
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Jamey Ice
Founder / CEO of 6th AveFort Worth native Jamey Ice is a serial entrepreneur, passionate about restoration and helping to make his city a more vibrant and fun place to live. He is the Co-Founder of 6th Ave Homes, a “one stop shop” real estate company for buying, selling, renovation, design, and investing. They were recently named Emerging Small Business of the Year and Overall Small Business of the Year by the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce. He also developed and co-owns The 4Eleven, a 20,000-square-foot mixed-use (retail, event space, and restaurant) warehouse on South Main.
In 2019, with his partners at 6th Ave Homes, Jamey established 6th Ave LLC, a family of businesses dedicated to challenging the status quo of how good business is done. The common tenet of these ventures is the idea of “business with soul.” They include 6th Ave Storytelling, 6th Ave Investments, 6th Ave Lending, and 6th Ave Consulting, one stop shops for branding and marketing, property investing, lending, and business consulting, respectively.
Rob Upchurch
Founder, CEO & Podcast Producer of RobMakesPods ProductionsSCN Challenges
Several times throughout the year, SCN hosts deep learning and peer-led practice cohorts focused on complex issues related to inclusion, wellness, storytelling, ecosystem metrics, and policy. Challenges are designed for ecosystem builders to TAKE ACTION around specific areas of focus to accelerate impact and share resources. During this session you'll learn from three of our Challenge facilitators and find out more about upcoming challenge dates.
Speakers
Tom Chapman
Founder of Chapman and CompanyTom Chapman is regarded as one of the leading entrepreneurial ecosystem leaders in the world. He has particular expertise in measuring and creating metrics for entrepreneurial ecosystems. His work has been referenced, cited, and quoted in numerous publications around the world, and he is an active speaker on entrepreneurial ecosystems and their importance. Beyond his work for Chapman and Company, Tom helped grow Beehive Industries (a Lincoln based government technology company), Nebraska Global (a Lincoln based funding organization), and is an alum of Enron and American Electric Power in the energy industry. Tom has both a J.D. and an M.B.A from the University of Nebraska and undergraduate liberal arts degrees from Creighton University.
Landon Ainge
Managing Director - Assure Syndicates of Assure
Pava LaPere
CEO of EcoMap Technologies, IncNew Member Orientation at Stockyard Station
New to SCN? This is the best way to kick off your summit experience, get plugged in, meet other members, and learn more about joining our amazing community.
Speakers
Tom Chapman
Founder of Chapman and CompanyTom Chapman is regarded as one of the leading entrepreneurial ecosystem leaders in the world. He has particular expertise in measuring and creating metrics for entrepreneurial ecosystems. His work has been referenced, cited, and quoted in numerous publications around the world, and he is an active speaker on entrepreneurial ecosystems and their importance. Beyond his work for Chapman and Company, Tom helped grow Beehive Industries (a Lincoln based government technology company), Nebraska Global (a Lincoln based funding organization), and is an alum of Enron and American Electric Power in the energy industry. Tom has both a J.D. and an M.B.A from the University of Nebraska and undergraduate liberal arts degrees from Creighton University.
Policy and Progress: What it really takes to move from idea to action
Providing the right policy environment for entrepreneurs to maximize their chances of success is a crucial part of ecosystem building. This session will feature two experts that are shaping local and national policies to level the playing field for entrepreneurs and provide the best opportunities for increased levels of innovative and entrepreneurial activity at the national, state and local levels.
Speakers
Grace Belangia
Co-Founder of Make Startups
Melissa Roberts Chapman
Associate Director, Entrepreneurship and Regional Innovation of Federation of American ScientistsPutting it in practice: Working Lunch
“What Did We Learn” Group Discussion moderated by Tom Chapman
Speakers
Tom Chapman
Founder of Chapman and CompanyTom Chapman is regarded as one of the leading entrepreneurial ecosystem leaders in the world. He has particular expertise in measuring and creating metrics for entrepreneurial ecosystems. His work has been referenced, cited, and quoted in numerous publications around the world, and he is an active speaker on entrepreneurial ecosystems and their importance. Beyond his work for Chapman and Company, Tom helped grow Beehive Industries (a Lincoln based government technology company), Nebraska Global (a Lincoln based funding organization), and is an alum of Enron and American Electric Power in the energy industry. Tom has both a J.D. and an M.B.A from the University of Nebraska and undergraduate liberal arts degrees from Creighton University.
Summit Kickoff: Opening presentation
It's Summit kickoff time! The Fort Worth team welcomes attendees, shares an overview of the agenda and shares more about the Summit theme: Making a movement.
Speakers
Cameron Cushman
Assistant Vice President, Innovation Ecosystems at University of North Texas Health Science Center - Fort Worth, TXCameron Cushman is a Fort Worth native who spent the last decade building entrepreneurial communities. He currently serves as the Assistant Vice President of Innovation Ecosystems at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, where he is working to connect the startup community. He began his career in the George W. Bush Administration in Washington, DC, and served there for six years before he moved to Kansas City where he worked at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. While at The Kauffman Foundation, he led several initiatives to help build entrepreneurial communities including the co-founding of 1 Million Cups, a weekly educational event for entrepreneurs that is now in over 150 cities and 30 countries. He has also worked in the private sector as the Vice President of Sales and Marketing at PhysAssist Scribes, a medical services company. He attended Texas A&M where he earned a degree in Political Science and now lives in Fort Worth with his wife and three sons.
Cameron has over a decade of experience building entrepreneurial communities. He began his career in the George W. Bush Administration in Washington, DC, before he moved to Kansas City and worked at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. While at The Kauffman Foundation, he led several initiatives to help build entrepreneurial communities including the co-founding of 1 Million Cups, a weekly educational event for entrepreneurs that is now in over 180 US cities and 30 countries. He also worked in the private sector as the Vice President of Sales and Marketing at PhysAssist Scribes, a medical services company.
SCN Welcome/Opening remarks
SCN Welcome / Organization updates and news
Speakers
Mark A. Lawrence
Founder/Managing Partner of InncuvateMark Lawrence is the founder and managing partner of Inncuvate, a full-stack entrepreneurship-led economic development enterprise that specializes in creating purpose-built programs and places that create an environment that merges ideation, invention, incubation, commercialization, and collaboration into local innovation centers that transforms the communities where they are located. Mark is an advisor, investor, and active part of management teams of a couple of the Mid-Atlantic region’s most promising high-growth startups. He is active on the boards of several entrepreneur support organizations and a mentor for several entrepreneur development organizations. He is also SCN's Board Treasurer and Chair of the Finance Committee.
Welcome to Funkytown
We brought in one of our best and brightest ecosystem builders to welcome everyone to the Summit, the incomparable Darlisa Diltz. She will provide a brief overview of our local ecosystem and share about her work to bring 1MC to northeast Tarrant County and her leadership of Global Entrepreneurship Week North Texas.
Speakers
Darlisa Diltz
Owner at The Center NTX NTEETCHardworking, Entrepreneurial, Energetic, Passionate, Ethical, and Creative are just a few words to describe me. I take pride in delivering effective strategies with regard to business development, strategic planning, and Entrepreneurial growth. I am dedicated to rendering effective outcomes and helping individuals reach their desired goals. I am seasoned in areas of leadership, stewardship, and guidance to all those of whose path I cross. Building solid relationships and impacting change is what I do best.
Tour 2: Topophilia: Exploring Arts & Sciences in Fort Worth
The University of North Texas Health Science Center (HSC) is one the US’s premier academic medical centers featuring five schools and countless other assets and initiatives. Our tour of campus will include HSC’s cutting-edge Regional Simulation Center featuring augmented reality (AR) technology. You’ll learn more about what HSC does plus learn about two biotech companies operating on campus. Next, we’ll shift our focus to the arts. Did you know that Fort Worth’s Cultural District boasts one of the best collections of museums in the country? We’ll hear from a panel of local artist entrepreneurs then walk across the street to the Kimbell Art Museum whose permanent collection comprises about 350 works of art and is distinguished by an extraordinary level of artistic quality and importance.
Speakers
George Apodaca
Founder of BLANC cowork + studio
Asa Aziz
Vibe Facilitator at ASA ACE/ Love is RealAsa Aziz aka DJ ASA ACE is an international DJ, influencer and sound healer.
ASA ACE curates events and provides services in the community that connects businesses and organizations with creatives in judgement free zones.
Our events and services encourage self discovery, self development and genuine connection. Our goal is to create a sustainable community where creativity is developed, nourished, and celebrated.
The Vision is for ASA ACE to become a consult and development platform for those seeking to live fully and joyfully through creativity.
ASA ACE is here to encourage creatives to keep creating and to provide safe spaces for connection and loving support.
Dhananjaya (DJ) Perera
Art Educator at Eagle Mountain Saginaw ISDDJ Perera is a practicing artist and an art educator where he currently teaches AP Drawing at Boswell High School, a 6 A campus located in Eagle Mountain Saginaw ISD. As an artist, DJ's works have been exhibited around DFW and is also included in TCU Library's permanent art collection where he also serves as a board member for the Friends of the TCU Library. Amongst his accolades, DJ was awarded by The Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society and was one of six-grand finalist winners for the The New Normal relief-fund grant launched by Sasha and Edward. P. Bass. After graduating with his MFA from Pratt Institute in 2012, DJ briefly served as a National Advisor at the United Nations in New York.
Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the Refugee and Asylum Seeker Community
According to the Kauffman Foundation, immigrants are twice as likely to start companies as U.S. born citizens. Their stories are as unique as the businesses they found. This session will highlight three of those paths: a refugee from a war-torn region turned entrepreneur, an asylum seeker who now serves other immigrant entrepreneurs, and an entrepreneur and ecosystem builder who grew up watching her parents navigate small business ownership as refugees.
Speakers
Marco Johnson
Associate Director, Innovation Ecosystems of UNTHSC / SparkyardMarco in an entrepreneurial ecosystem builder based in Fort Worth, TX where he runs the Sparkyard platform that connects entrepreneurs to the right resource at the right time to help them launch and grow their companies. Marco also has 20+ years experience in international development.
Goran Krndija
Head of Growth at MentorcamI grew up in Bosnia and migrated to Germany and then finally to the United States due to the war in my country. I started numerous companies while in the states only to have all of them fail. In 2016 I started an on-demand moving company called Gozova, we were able to raise 1.75M in funding and scaled the company to more than 20 cities and 4 states. We were acquired in January of 2022
Jenny Poon
Founder/CEO of HUUB by CO+HOOTSJenny Poon is the founder of Arizona's first Coworking and entrepreneur center CO+HOOTS. Today she leads HUUB a digital resource platform that helps economic developers deliver services at scale. For over a decade she's been helping build more equitable ecosystems for all.
Jenny serves as an advisor for numerous startups, Board Chair of CO+HOOTS Foundation (a 501c3 nonprofit) and as a mentor for several young entrepreneurs. Jenny was named Phoenix Business Journal’s 2016 Phoenix Businessperson of the Year. The first minority and the first woman to receive the honor.
Munatsi Manyande
Executive Director of DASH NetworkRoundup time with a Drover
What is a drover? And what significance did they play in the cattle drives that shaped this city? We have a local trail boss and cow herding expert stopping by to tell us how the Stockyards shaped Fort Worth and became the center of commerce in our city.
Speakers
Kristin Jaworski
Trail Boss (Director) of Fort Worth HerdKristin is a graduate of Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas, receiving her Bachelors of Business Administration in Marketing and Master of Science in Management and Leadership. She leads with a focus on public relations, promotion by operating an equine and livestock program in the 12th largest city in the nation. Kristin acquired the title Trail Boss in 2002 obtaining the responsibility for directing the day-to-day administration of the world's only twice daily Texas Longhorn Cattle Drive, the Fort Worth Herd, managed by Visit Fort Worth. With over 1.2 million visitors annually, the internationally recognized program involves all aspects of education, safety, facility operations, policies, procedures, budget, livestock management and media relations to better support tourism and increase visitation in Fort Worth.
Ms. Jaworski is the recipient of several awards and certifications. This includes representing the Certified Horsemanship Association as President Elect. As a Certified Horsemanship Instructor (English/Western Disciplines), Certified Equine Facility Manager and Certifier, Site Accreditation Visitor and member of several breed Associations, The Herd has also acquired Site Accreditation achieving program, facility, and equine standards under her leadership. She serves on several non-profit boards, special event planning committees in the Historic District and is a Leadership Fort Worth Class graduate.
Her passion for horses has led her to enjoy continuing education by training for Dressage and Show Jumping. She has also joined the show circuit with the National Miniature Donkey Association and American Donkey & Mule Society.
Speakers
Melissa Roberts Chapman
Associate Director, Entrepreneurship and Regional Innovation of Federation of American Scientists
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Cameron Cushman
Assistant Vice President, Innovation Ecosystems at University of North Texas Health Science Center - Fort Worth, TX
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Mark Lawrence is the founder and managing partner of Inncuvate, a full-stack entrepreneurship-led economic development enterprise that specializes in creating purpose-built programs and places that create an environment that merges ideation, invention, incubation, commercialization, and collaboration into local innovation centers that transforms the communities where they are located. Mark is an advisor, investor, and active part of management teams of a couple of the Mid-Atlantic region’s most promising high-growth startups. He is active on the boards of several entrepreneur support organizations and a mentor for several entrepreneur development organizations. He is also SCN's Board Treasurer and Chair of the Finance Committee.
Landon Ainge
Managing Director - Assure Syndicates of Assure
George
Apodaca
Founder of BLANC cowork + studio
Asa Aziz
Vibe Facilitator at ASA ACE/ Love is Real
Asa Aziz aka DJ ASA ACE is an international DJ, influencer and sound healer.
ASA ACE curates events and provides services in the community that connects businesses and organizations with creatives in judgement free zones.
Our events and services encourage self discovery, self development and genuine connection. Our goal is to create a sustainable community where creativity is developed, nourished, and celebrated.
The Vision is for ASA ACE to become a consult and development platform for those seeking to live fully and joyfully through creativity.
ASA ACE is here to encourage creatives to keep creating and to provide safe spaces for connection and loving support.
Grace
Belangia
Co-Founder of Make Startups
Trey Bowles
Managing Director of Techstars Physical Health Fort Worth
Christina
Brooks
Diversity And Inclusion Director of City of Fort Worth
Christina is a results-driven equity, diversity, access, and inclusion professional with twenty years of experience working with underrepresented populations. Over ten years of her experience is grounded in organizational equity and inclusion policy and process change. As the City of Fort Worth's first Chief Equity Officer and Director of Diversity and Inclusion Department, she is responsible for Business Equity – equitable participation and access in City contracting and procurement and capacity building of underrepresented business firms, Civil Rights Enforcement - of the City’s Non-Discrimination Ordinance for Fair Housing, Fair Employment, Public Accommodations, ADA and Title VI, and Municipal Equity – policy and process development for equity in municipal service delivery and workforce development as well as tracking and supporting the Fort Worth Race and Culture Initiative’s recommendations across criminal justice, economic development, education, governance, health, housing, and transportation.
Melissa Roberts
Chapman
Associate Director, Entrepreneurship and Regional Innovation of Federation of American Scientists
Tom Chapman
Founder of Chapman and Company
Tom Chapman is regarded as one of the leading entrepreneurial ecosystem leaders in the world. He has particular expertise in measuring and creating metrics for entrepreneurial ecosystems. His work has been referenced, cited, and quoted in numerous publications around the world, and he is an active speaker on entrepreneurial ecosystems and their importance. Beyond his work for Chapman and Company, Tom helped grow Beehive Industries (a Lincoln based government technology company), Nebraska Global (a Lincoln based funding organization), and is an alum of Enron and American Electric Power in the energy industry. Tom has both a J.D. and an M.B.A from the University of Nebraska and undergraduate liberal arts degrees from Creighton University.
Cameron
Cushman
Assistant Vice President, Innovation Ecosystems at University of North Texas Health Science Center - Fort Worth, TX
https://www.hscnext.com/Cameron Cushman is a Fort Worth native who spent the last decade building entrepreneurial communities. He currently serves as the Assistant Vice President of Innovation Ecosystems at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, where he is working to connect the startup community. He began his career in the George W. Bush Administration in Washington, DC, and served there for six years before he moved to Kansas City where he worked at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. While at The Kauffman Foundation, he led several initiatives to help build entrepreneurial communities including the co-founding of 1 Million Cups, a weekly educational event for entrepreneurs that is now in over 150 cities and 30 countries. He has also worked in the private sector as the Vice President of Sales and Marketing at PhysAssist Scribes, a medical services company. He attended Texas A&M where he earned a degree in Political Science and now lives in Fort Worth with his wife and three sons.
Cameron has over a decade of experience building entrepreneurial communities. He began his career in the George W. Bush Administration in Washington, DC, before he moved to Kansas City and worked at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. While at The Kauffman Foundation, he led several initiatives to help build entrepreneurial communities including the co-founding of 1 Million Cups, a weekly educational event for entrepreneurs that is now in over 180 US cities and 30 countries. He also worked in the private sector as the Vice President of Sales and Marketing at PhysAssist Scribes, a medical services company.
Hardworking, Entrepreneurial, Energetic, Passionate, Ethical, and Creative are just a few words to describe me. I take pride in delivering effective strategies with regard to business development, strategic planning, and Entrepreneurial growth. I am dedicated to rendering effective outcomes and helping individuals reach their desired goals. I am seasoned in areas of leadership, stewardship, and guidance to all those of whose path I cross. Building solid relationships and impacting change is what I do best.
Thomas
England
CEO of Memsel Inc.
Paulo Gregory Harris serves as Chair of our Intercultural Unity (ICU) committee. He is the inventor of Cohado, a flexible design structure and tool to understand collaborative and sustainable design. Paulo is also the President of Cohado Consulting, a social enterprise dedicated to leveling the economic game through developing models and vehicles for economic ascension of economically starved communities, and the Director of Ignoma Foundation, whose mission is to develop sustainable solutions to poverty. He recently launched the Black Butterfly Network and Exchange in Baltimore.
Jamey Ice
Founder / CEO of 6th Ave
Fort Worth native Jamey Ice is a serial entrepreneur, passionate about restoration and helping to make his city a more vibrant and fun place to live. He is the Co-Founder of 6th Ave Homes, a “one stop shop” real estate company for buying, selling, renovation, design, and investing. They were recently named Emerging Small Business of the Year and Overall Small Business of the Year by the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce. He also developed and co-owns The 4Eleven, a 20,000-square-foot mixed-use (retail, event space, and restaurant) warehouse on South Main.
In 2019, with his partners at 6th Ave Homes, Jamey established 6th Ave LLC, a family of businesses dedicated to challenging the status quo of how good business is done. The common tenet of these ventures is the idea of “business with soul.” They include 6th Ave Storytelling, 6th Ave Investments, 6th Ave Lending, and 6th Ave Consulting, one stop shops for branding and marketing, property investing, lending, and business consulting, respectively.
Kristin
Jaworski
Trail Boss (Director) of Fort Worth Herd
Kristin is a graduate of Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas, receiving her Bachelors of Business Administration in Marketing and Master of Science in Management and Leadership. She leads with a focus on public relations, promotion by operating an equine and livestock program in the 12th largest city in the nation. Kristin acquired the title Trail Boss in 2002 obtaining the responsibility for directing the day-to-day administration of the world's only twice daily Texas Longhorn Cattle Drive, the Fort Worth Herd, managed by Visit Fort Worth. With over 1.2 million visitors annually, the internationally recognized program involves all aspects of education, safety, facility operations, policies, procedures, budget, livestock management and media relations to better support tourism and increase visitation in Fort Worth.
Ms. Jaworski is the recipient of several awards and certifications. This includes representing the Certified Horsemanship Association as President Elect. As a Certified Horsemanship Instructor (English/Western Disciplines), Certified Equine Facility Manager and Certifier, Site Accreditation Visitor and member of several breed Associations, The Herd has also acquired Site Accreditation achieving program, facility, and equine standards under her leadership. She serves on several non-profit boards, special event planning committees in the Historic District and is a Leadership Fort Worth Class graduate.
Her passion for horses has led her to enjoy continuing education by training for Dressage and Show Jumping. She has also joined the show circuit with the National Miniature Donkey Association and American Donkey & Mule Society.
Marco
Johnson
Associate Director, Innovation Ecosystems of UNTHSC / Sparkyard
https://www.sparkyard.co/Marco in an entrepreneurial ecosystem builder based in Fort Worth, TX where he runs the Sparkyard platform that connects entrepreneurs to the right resource at the right time to help them launch and grow their companies. Marco also has 20+ years experience in international development.
I grew up in Bosnia and migrated to Germany and then finally to the United States due to the war in my country. I started numerous companies while in the states only to have all of them fail. In 2016 I started an on-demand moving company called Gozova, we were able to raise 1.75M in funding and scaled the company to more than 20 cities and 4 states. We were acquired in January of 2022
Pava LaPere
CEO of EcoMap Technologies, Inc
Munatsi
Manyande
Executive Director of DASH Network
ESO Ventures Inc. (ESO), is an entrepreneurial support organization providing the confidence, competence, and capital for any Black or Brown person to become an entrepreneur. We offer community, business incubation curriculum and services, and revolutionary financial products for early stage entrepreneurs. ESO’s vision is to make entrepreneurship accessible and worthwhile in every community.
Nate Olson
VP of Growth at Crema
Nate co-founded the entrepreneurial program 1 Million Cups alongside Cameron Cushman at the Kauffman Foundation in 2012. 1 Million Cups grew to its height of +150 cities over the following decade caffeinating entrepreneurs and communities of all sizes across the nation. Over the last 8 years, Nate has served on the leadership team at Crema, a rapidly-growing custom software agency in Kansas City that works with enterprise leaders to build ambitious digital products. In the spirit of activating community spaces, Nate launched, grew, and eventually sold a coffee shop inside of the Nelson Atkins Art Museum with two friends. He proudly sports one failed business in the CPG space - Pancake, Pancake. And is happily married to his wife Ariel, who is leading the charge on their newest endeavor, a fresh cut flower farm.
Dhananjaya (DJ)
Perera
Art Educator at Eagle Mountain Saginaw ISD
DJ Perera is a practicing artist and an art educator where he currently teaches AP Drawing at Boswell High School, a 6 A campus located in Eagle Mountain Saginaw ISD. As an artist, DJ's works have been exhibited around DFW and is also included in TCU Library's permanent art collection where he also serves as a board member for the Friends of the TCU Library. Amongst his accolades, DJ was awarded by The Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society and was one of six-grand finalist winners for the The New Normal relief-fund grant launched by Sasha and Edward. P. Bass. After graduating with his MFA from Pratt Institute in 2012, DJ briefly served as a National Advisor at the United Nations in New York.
Nerissa
Perkins
Manager of UAS Opearions at BNSF Railway
Jenny Poon
Founder/CEO of HUUB by CO+HOOTS
Jenny Poon is the founder of Arizona's first Coworking and entrepreneur center CO+HOOTS. Today she leads HUUB a digital resource platform that helps economic developers deliver services at scale. For over a decade she's been helping build more equitable ecosystems for all.
Jenny serves as an advisor for numerous startups, Board Chair of CO+HOOTS Foundation (a 501c3 nonprofit) and as a mentor for several young entrepreneurs. Jenny was named Phoenix Business Journal’s 2016 Phoenix Businessperson of the Year. The first minority and the first woman to receive the honor.
Catherine
Read
Director of Field & Campaign Strategy at Right to Start
Kendel
Rogers
Outreach Specialist at UNTHSC / Sparkyard
Currently, I am the outreach specialist at UNTHSC & Sparkyard. I plan events, plan marketing for the department, and produce a podcast: Innovate Fort Worth. I believe empathy, kindness, and willingness to learn are strong threads in my fabric as a team member, a collaborator, and a connector. I love finding new ways to connect to audiences I care about through communications or community events. It is essential to me that my strengths leave a positive impact on the world around me.
Rob Upchurch
Founder, CEO & Podcast Producer of RobMakesPods Productions
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Travel & Accommodations
Flying in?
DFW Airport is about 30 minutes from Fort Worth.
- Approximate cost for rideshare/ taxi from the airport: Roughly $65 (As low as $50 to as high as $110).
- Public transportation alternative: Texrail ($2.50 one way) to north station then Uber/Lyft for roughly $10-$15.
Dallas Love Field Airport is also an option and is about 45 minutes away.
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Rides & Rooms
Many of our members like to book hotels and Airbnbs together to save on costs. Additionally, we like to coordinate trips to and from the airport to help make sure we all get where we need to be. If you'd like to room with someone or catch a ride to/from the airport with others who may be flying in at the same time, look for our Rides & Rooms spreadsheet in your inbox.
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