Plug In South LA Presents

Urban Tech Connect

CONFERENCE 2024

Premier Tech Conference for Black & Brown Founders

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Founders and entrepreneurs require lot of support and insight, from idea creation to capital raising, and beyond.

At UTC 2024, you’ll gain insight on how the industry is evolving and the latest technologies being used by the industry’s best. Together, we will explore how each of us can and must go through our own metamorphosis to ensure we are able to adapt, compete, and succeed while riding the waves of the tech industry and its ongoing evolution.

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Intimate masterminds, keynotes, and panels on stage.

What is your niche? Is it Gaming? Sustainability? Consumer Web? Big Tech? Your next career goals depend on action and community. If you’re raising money and growing a startup, or seeking faster career growth through added skills and strategy, the Plug In community has your back at UTC. Our line up of professionals, VCs, mentors and mentees alike, forms an opportunity to turbo charge your METAMORPHOSIS through this meaningful conference. Sometimes the catalyst to your growth is, drum roll….simply showing up.

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BREAKOUT SESSIONS and Networking

It’s one thing to listen as part of an audience, but for real connection and serendipitous relationships to form, we created Breakout Sessions and expanded conference networking. This is where we go from learning to collaborating to finding perfect partnerships.

PANELS you care about

Curated keynotes and panels into specific career tracks for you. Student? Looking for a gig? Have a business? Need funding? Looking for talent? Looking to invest? We have speakers and agenda blocks catered to you.

2022 keynote speaker.

Kimberly Bryant

Founder, Black Girls Code & Founder/CEO, Ascend Ventures

Kimberly Bryant embodies what Plug In and Urban Tech Connect are all about: community, innovation, and entrepreneurship. A champion of change, Kimberly is nationally recognized as a thought leader in tech and its impact on communities. Through her work, she is changing the world one code at a time.

Kimberly is the founder of Black Girls CODE, an organization dedicated to “changing the face of technology” by introducing girls of color to the field of technology and computer science with a concentration on entrepreneurial concepts. Under Kimberly's leadership, Black Girls CODE grew from a local grassroots initiative serving only the Bay Area to an international organization with fifteen chapters across the U.S. and in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Kimberly's new endeavor — ASCEND Ventures and its flagship Black Innovation Lab (“The Lab”) builds upon her trailblazing work by helping marginalized founders build pathways to ownership with an incubator and investment firm (C3Ventures) that supports founders who are building sustainable companies in Web3, FemTech, Healthtech, and other emerging industries.

confirmed 2022 moderators + speakers.

Abraham Baca

Senior Manager,
Impact Fund,
LACI

Aileen Kim

Platform Analyst,
Slauson & Co.

Ashley Williams

Founder,
rizzarr

Bertrand Saint-Preux

Product Manager,
Snap Inc.

Bonnie Oliva-Porter

CEO & Founder,
MARGINS 

Chuka Ikokwu

Co-Founder & ceo,
Divercity

Crystal Adesanya

CEO,
Kiira Health

Daniel Turner-Lloveras

latino coalition
against covid-19

Debbie Rumbo

Founder,
OMNST Consulting &
Summer Associate at
Cap Table Coalition  

Eric T. Elder

Founder & Executive Producer,
Online Worlds Entertainment

Jakson Alvarez

Co-Founder, Co-CEO & CFO,
Evolectric

Jasper Brand

Principal,
Bitkraft

Jesse Draper

Founding Partner,
Halogen Ventures

Joe Blau

founder,
atomize

Kameale Terry

CEO,
ChargerHelp

Kimberley Nixon

Managing Partner,
Open Venture Capital

Kyle Hill

CEO,
Playa Ventures

Leila Lee

Director of Economic Policy,
LA Mayor's Office of Economic Development

Leonard Tatum

Founder,
tatum games

Lindsey Heisser

Global Philanthropy Program Manager,
Snap Inc.

Natalie King

Founder & CEO,
DunamisCharge

Paul Francis

CEO & Co-Founder,
Kigt

Ryan Johnson

founder & ceo,
cxmmunity

Serge Amouzou

founder,
finpro

Steven Moyo

founder & ceo,
Welfie

Taylor McPartland

ceo,
scalehealth

Tiya Gordon

co-founder & coo,
itselectric

Valeria Martinez

Investor,
VamosVentures

Zef Neemuchwala

Founder,
be a maker club

Zip Gould

Founder,
Gaia Green Earth

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