Innovation Rodeo 2023
Featuring Mike Michalowicz

Monday

Mike Mikalowicz will go through the 5 levels of the The Business Hierarchy of Needs from his book Fix This Next. 

Mike Michalowicz knows that every business has a hierarchy of needs, and if you can understand where you are in that hierarchy, you can identify what needs immediate attention. Simply fix that one thing next, and your business will naturally and effortlessly level up.

Tuesday

Marti Evans leads a panel of four entrepreneurs who will share what they fixed and how to establish predictable Sales in their organization to create Cash.

Next, the Innovation Challenge has in-Person and online participants form teams of up to four (4) to compete for $2,000. The prize will be awarded to the team selected as having done the best job applying the sales component from Mike’s Hierarchy of Needs content to a local early-stage company.

The day ends with a regional pitch competition that has the top two proceeding to the finals held at the end of the final day.

Wednesday 

James Pettigrew leads a panel of four entrepreneurs who will share how they focus the company efforts to grow Profits in order to create financial Stability to keep the organization healthy and secure a safe environment.

Next, the Innovation Challenge has in-Person and online participants form teams of up to four (4) to compete for $2,000. The prize will be awarded to the team selected as having done the best job applying the profit component from Mike’s Hierarchy of Needs content to a local early-stage company.

The day ends with a regional pitch competition that results in the top two proceeding to the finals, to be held at the end of the final day.

Thursday

Wilson Acton leads a panel of four entrepreneurs who will share how they Organize their companies to create Efficient organizations and what the needs are to ensure that companies can run -and grow- no matter who is on the team.

Next, the Innovation Challenge has in-Person and online participants form teams of up to four (4) to compete for $2,000.The prize will be awarded to the team selected as having done the best job in applying the profit component from Mike’s Hierarchy of Needs content to a local early-stage company.

The day ends with a regional pitch competition that results in the top two proceeding to the finals, to be held at the end of the final day.

Friday

In this Fireside chat Brianna Blaney, CEO & Co-Founder of Pocketed and serial entrepreneur will share her vision and what are her organizations doing to create an Impact and build a Legacy.

That session will be followed by a crowd favourite pitch competition where six high school students will compete for all the ticket proceeds from the event.

Once the crowd favourite pitch competition is over we’ll have the finals of the 150 Startups pitch competition where six first-time entrepreneurs from Alberta’s publicly funded post-secondary schools compete for $17,500 in cash and $36,000 US in scholarship to the Draper University.