Inside/Outside Innovation Summit a Success
3 Jun 2018
“Silicon Valley does not have a monopoly on innovation.”
Bernard Moon’s message to those at the annual Inside / Outside Innovation Summit seemed to be a fitting theme for three days of collaboration, collision and connection May 29-31 at the Graduate Hotel in downtown Lincoln. Moon, co-founder and partner at SparkLabs Group, was one of many leaders in the realm of startup and corporate innovation to share their message at Inside/Outside this year as the summit moved smoothly into its second year.
After launching in 2017, Inside/Outside organizer Brian Ardinger felt 2018’s edition was able to build on a successful start a year ago and pave the way for future growth for the summit.
“We learned a lot of things from last year. The atmosphere this year made it much more collaborative and much more connected than it was in the past.”
“We’re always on day one, it’s always trying to figure out ‘what’s that next thing’? At the end of the day, we must bring value to the community or the community isn’t going to support it. If we continue to bring value and the community sees that, then we’ll continue to do it.”
With more than 30 startups represented at this year’s summit, the bar continues to be raised for attracting those with big ideas and the hopes of bigger and bigger audiences to share them with.
This year’s startup pitch contest saw Alyss Analytics take home the top prize, a $120,000 investment from sponsors Nelnet, Allo Communications, Assurity and Spreetail while SavR took home a $25,000 grant from the Lincoln Partnership for Economic Development.
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