An Out-Of-This-World Experience

An Unconference is a unique learning and collaboration environment, where its success is completely dependent on the participation of its attendees. So where in the world do you find a keynote speaker who can measure up? We looked outside of this word (literally) to Space Entrepreneur and CEO of Katasi, Scott Tibbitts. Curious about his keynote message? Here’s a sneak preview:

This is the story of creating a space company from scratch. This crazy entrepreneurial story started with an invention made of hardware store parts, which NASA said they could use on their spacecraft. That led to a crazy journey of becoming the world’s leading supplier of mechanisms for spacecraft, and also let to perils with becoming a "rockstar" space company – their growth almost killed them. By itself, it’s a very good story with plenty of take-aways – taking chances, following intuition, challenges of growth, dealing with success, the highs and lows of becoming an iconic company in an industry.

Scott will also discuss:

- The challenges entrepreneurs face as a company grows, how your genes wire you for entrepreneurial success, but the same genes create blind spots that can cause a company to fail;
- "Escaping the entrepreneurs prison" where Scott talks honestly about the demons he had to wrestle with as they grew;
- Recognizing the importance of intuitive "Nudges";
- In entrepreneurship where you’re taking a road less travelled, that you have a choice of A or B. And how the one that seems crazy, is the one that leads to great things. 

Trust us, this is a keynote session you don’t want to miss. If you haven’t purchased your ICT Unconference tickets yet, hurry! They are selling fast.

Have an idea for a session topic? Submit it here!

We love our amazing sponsors, including: Wichita State University Center for Entrepreneurship, Wichita Technology Corporation and Allen, Gibbs & Houlik, L.C. CPAs and Advisors.

Win a Ticket to ICT Unconference!

By now, you’ve heard all about the ICT Unconference and we’ve given you lots of great reasons to attend. The Unconference is the first event of its kind in Wichita, and you’ve probably noticed that this isn’t your typical conference.  As a matter of fact, we are turning to you, the Wichita entrepreneur community, to ask for ideas and topics to cover as sessions during the Unconference on April 22.  That’s right – you submit an idea through the idea scale platform and it may become an entire session topic during ICT!

We have received some very interesting submissions so far:

Building the Wichita Community by growing the youth
How Do I Build a Team for My New Business
Hiring vs. Contracting
I'm Ready to Launch - Where Do I Find the Funding?
How to tell your startup story effectively
How do we get more people from out of town to try the Midwest? 

We are still looking for more great ideas from you!

Submit your idea to ICT Unconference now through April 11, and you will be entered to win a ticket to ICT (up to a $139.00 value!).  So what are you waiting for?  Submit your topic idea to ICT Unconference and enter for you chance to join us at the event on April 22.

SUBMIT HERE!

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