In Good Companies is a monthly speaker series telling the stories of founding a mission-driven start-up.

We bring mission-driven founders to speak about the ups and downs of their experiences founding their companies to educate and inspire others to start meaningful ventures.

Free beer, wine, and snacks!

Agenda:

• 6:30pm – 7:15pm – Check-in, grab yourself drinks
• 7:15pm – 7:45pm – Speaker panel
• 7:45pm – 8:00pm – Q&A session
• 8:00pm – 9:00pm – Connect with like-minded founders, creatives, and technologists

Speakers

Ricky Stephens, Founder @ AgTech X

Ricky spent four years with Red Ventures, a leader in digital marketing & sales technology, where he helped to launch and scale RV’s first international office in Sao Paulo as Manager of Marketing Analytics. Upon moving back to New York in August of 2016, Ricky shifted gears to focus his attention on the intersection of food, technology, and sustainability, teaming up with urban agriculture guru Henry Gordon-Smith to launch AgTech X in early 2017.

Simonne Hurse, VP Marketing & PR Communications at Satis Group

I’ve eaten curry w the former CTO of the USA, had my first taste of VR w the Scobleizer himself, and chased Seth Godin down an elevator (he agreed to coffee, so it worked out). My friends call me Sim, and this is how I roll.

I’ve built/helped build a bunch of companies and initiatives (meural.com the latest), always in tech and always on the people side. All this experience is now powering my work in crypto and blockchain. Community/Marketing/leading + building teams is my sweet spot. My network is solid – I’m a good friend to have, and I treat people the way I would like to be treated 🙂

I’m part of/founding member of a number of crypto/blockchain groups, I speak at a bunch of events, and I’ve just joined the extraordinary team at Satis Group (satisgroup.io). I regularly plug interesting folk in to the crypto ecosystem, with the goal of helping smart and thoughtful people work together.

I really really care about getting more women involved in all this, and I co-run a group for women in tech here in NYC, with around 1900 members.

Sylvia Morse, Project Coordinator in CFL’s Cooperative Development Program

Sylvia Morse is the Project Coordinator in CFL’s Cooperative Development Program, where she is helping to implement initiatives to scale immigrant worker-owned cooperative businesses in New York City and nationally. Since September 2016, she has focused her time on the development of Up & Go, a web app for booking home services from worker cooperatives. Prior to joining CFL, Sylvia worked in housing policy and participatory planning. Sylvia is a lifelong New Yorker, and earned her Master’s Degree in Urban Planning from the City University of New York Hunter College.