Presenter Profiles

 Empire State Brands is a vertically integrated grower, processor and packaging enterprise providing quality hops, malted barley, wheat, rye and other grains ingredients to the craft brewery, distillery and bakery industries. 

      CrowFly is the first online marketplace transforming the way structured settlements are bought and sold. We aim to creatively destruct and dramatically transform what can be an abusive industry that today transacts approximately $2 billion worth of business.

Capti Voice is helping to level the playing field for students of all abilities by enabling teachers to: 1) assess students' foundational reading skills, 2) use actionable recommendations to improve those skills, 3) use personalized tools to help develop those skills over any content, and 4) provide reading accommodations - all on the same platform.

 The number one challenge facing construction companies across the Nation is workforce shortages.  Our solution, aQuiRe©, is an app-based skill-sharing platform. 

     Bestest is an addictive free mobile app available on iOS and Android that lets users poll the public, and vote, in real time.  Polls can be used to crowdsource opinions from the general public, followers or a specific group, can be used to make group decisions, and can obtain live audience voting from on-site attendees or fans at home. 

 Every year, billions of dollars in produced raw materials are marked off as excess and later go unused; creating a variety of costly challenges for manufacturers. To reduce this burden, Material Exchange has developed a B2B marketplace solution that allows them to monetize excess raw inventory. 

 Grit Seed is a talent acquisition platform that focuses on giving every candidate who applies a set of job related tasks to assess their fit for the role.

 CloudInsyte's mission is to modernize the due-diligence process of selecting tech & cybersecurity vendors that match a company's needs and preferences.

JP Food Trucks works extensively with food truck operators to not only design a highly efficient food truck; it also provides state of the art air handling and comfort systems to reduce operating costs, lower labor costs and reduce transaction times, thus increasing profits.  

CoreHaptics offers the next generation of interfaces and game controllers for Entertainment, VR, Health Care, Education and Research. 

     OpenBottle is a marketplace application that allows restaurants to make every bottle of wine they have available for by-the-glass servings, with zero risk, and provides consumers the ability to experience these amazing wines at price points and varieties like never before.  

 EagleHawk provides a revolutionary preventative maintenance solution for commercial buildings with flat roofs.  

    LegWorks is a for-profit social enterprise revolutionizing access to high quality prosthetics for amputees around the world. We believe every amputee, no matter where they live, has the right to walk with confidence.

      Bitcrusher is innovating electric guitar technology with our platform product; the Bitcrusher. We are bringing the influence of technology in guitars to greater lengths to add value for guitar makers and produce boundless creative opportunities for the user.

 Fill Education has designed software that allows teachers to quickly create and administer brief, daily assessments that test whether or not each of their students has retained the skill and knowledge that was taught two days prior. 

 Vista View is a free software system that allows schools and facilities to effortlessly and securely stream footage of live events on the internet. For a small fee, customers can purchase live and downloaded event feeds, and 10-second clips for social media sharing.

 NOGGINTECHS is a predictive analytics company that utilizes BIG data, machine learning and process improvements to increase payment rates in the medical financial services market.  

 BetterBred LLC makes innovative online breeding software designed to support the sustainability of domestic breeds. 

 ShoptoCook provides solutions to independent grocers that enable customers to shop, save and search using online, mobile and in-store digital technology. 

 GRASPIE™ is the first mobile engagement and learning platform for the millennial workforce.

 RepHike helps companies to turn students' online networks into their referral and word-of-mouth marketing channel while giving them the ability to scale to thousands of campuses across the US.

 Yard & Board Games capture a large portion of the $745 Billion spent each year on leisure-time activities in the US.  Parents & Millennials desire to replace mobile device screen activity and console games with something else to reduce screen time.  AKE Games will quickly arm people of all ages with games that build on the latest fad activities. 

GapGrid, Inc. is building the automation the digital supply chain desperately needs.