🔥 Founder Hot Seat: LIVE at Evergreen Podcasts | Cleveland Tech Week

Join us at Evergreen Podcasts for a special in-person edition of OSN’s Founder Hot Seat during Cleveland Tech Week, featuring emerging founders from the Case Western Reserve University accelerator. This session is specially cohosted by Manny Hall.
Founder Hot Seat is built around a simple idea: get founders unblocked and unlock what comes next.

During three live podcast recordings, host Jamie Van Doren of Neverending will sit down with an emerging founder and a small group of seasoned founders and operators. Each founder brings a real challenge they’re facing right now—whether it’s go-to-market, fundraising, pricing, product, finding early customers, or figuring out what comes next—and works through it live with the group.

### In the Hot Seat

🩸 Zoe Sekyonda | OxyHeme
Developing technology that can scan a single blood sample for oxygen levels nearly 300× faster, helping preserve blood supplies and get critical information to patients sooner.
🌍 Mouhamad Mamane | Namu AI
Building real-time AI translation without transcription, designed to better serve languages historically underrepresented by translation technology.
🔥 Emily Song | Luminent
Building a personalized learning platform that helps students identify comprehension gaps before they’re tested, using their actual coursework, curriculum, and syllabus to generate tailored questions and coach them through what they haven’t mastered yet.

These founders recently took the stage at CWRU Demo Day. Founder Hot Seat is about what happens after the pitch—surrounding promising founders with candid feedback, experience, connections, and opportunities that can help them keep moving.

### And Evergreen Is Debuting Something New

Founder-led content is having a moment. Founders are increasingly becoming the voice of their companies, using podcasts and original content to build credibility, tell their stories, reach customers, and create community around what they're building.
During Cleveland Tech Week, Evergreen Podcasts will debut its new Founder Package, designed to make it easier for founders to turn their expertise, story, and ideas into professional podcast content.
Founder Hot Seat will bring that idea to life with three conversations recorded live from Evergreen's studios.

### What to Expect

🎙️ Three live Founder Hot Seat podcast recordings
🧠 Seasoned founders offering practical feedback
🤝 Networking, founder asks, introductions + connections
🎧 Behind-the-scenes tour of Evergreen Podcasts
🚀 Debut of Evergreen's new Founder Package
🥂 Light food and drinks provided
There are no judges and no polished pitch decks required. It’s part live podcast, part founder workshop, and part networking experience, bringing veteran and emerging entrepreneurs together for candid conversation and practical learning.
Come watch the conversations unfold, meet the founders and Founder Vets, explore Evergreen's studios, and leave with ideas and connections you can put to work in your own company.

Thursday, October 1 | 1:30–4:00 PM
Evergreen Podcasts | Cleveland