The Crowd Funding Landscape: Platforms, Entrepreneurs, and Investors

What does it take to back the next great venture, or see your innovative ideas get funded? Join the Milken Institute Center for Financial Markets (@MI_CFM) as we hear from visionaries from South Florida, Washington DC, and around the world about the landscape of crowd investing and the thriving entrepreneurship that is being built on top of crowd funding platforms.

Be part of our second Commerce Factory with a series of great panels designed to put top investors and entrepreneurs in the crowd funding space right in front of you.

Our moderator for this evening will be Daniel Gorfine (http://twitter.com/dgorfine) of the Milken Institute (http://www.milkeninstitute.org/). Daniel was recently ranked #9 on VentureBeat's list of top crowdfunding thought leaders (http://venturebeat.com/2014/01/22/top-30-crowdfunding-thought-leaders/), and has brought us two panels of top industry leaders and entrepreneurs to discuss the crowd funding landscape.

Panel 1: Crowfunding Landscape

• Joanna Schwartz (https://twitter.com/JoannaSchwartz), CEO of Early Shares (http://www.earlyshares.com/)

• Sally Outlaw (https://twitter.com/peerbackers), Founder, Peerbackers (http://peerbackers.com/)

• Brandon Jenkins (https://twitter.com/btj111), Co-Founder, Fundrise (https://fundrise.com/)

• Juan Pablo Capello (https://twitter.com/CappelloJp), Founder, Idea.me (http://idea.me/)

Panel 2: Crowd Entrepreneurs & Investors

• Orna Shulman (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/orna-shulman/8/a32/1a), investor on OurCrowd (https://www.ourcrowd.com/)

• Andrew Sturner (https://twitter.com/orangeisle), Chairman and CEO, Boatsetter.com (http://boatsetter.com/)

• Jordan Magid (http://u-doodle.org/about/#team), Co-Founder, U-Doodle (http://u-doodle.org/)

• James Rosenberg (http://www.crunchbase.com/person/james-rosenberg), Founder, Kleo (http://www.mykleo.com/)

Agenda

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6:00 PM: Doors Open - Food & Drink Served

6:30 PM: Opening Remarks and Announcements

6:35 PM: Panel 1 - Crowd Investing Landscape

7:25 PM: Refreshment Break

7:35 PM: Panel 2 - Crowd Funding Entrepreneurs and Investors

8:25 PM: Closing remarks and lights out

More Free Stuff!

We will be giving away a number of free giveaways on site:

• T-Shirts: We'll be giving away custom Commerce Factory T-Shirts until we run out.

• 8-Bit Sunglasses and SWAG: Cool SWAG will be available for everyone coming by.

• Stickers: Commerce Factory stickers will also be available!

Food and Drinks

We'll have more great local food available for all attendees. Vegetarian options available as well.

We will have an assortment of beer (for those 21+) and non-alcoholic drinks available. Don't worry, it's not bud light.