The inaugural 5 Lakes Forum was held on Wednesday, May 14, 2019 at Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. in downtown Milwaukee. It was hosted by the Milwaukee Institute and Startup Wisconsin. Read more about the conference here.
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- Lisa Johnson of BioForward chatted with Kevin Boggs of Medical College of Wisconsin and Erik Iverson of WARF about the future of innovation in the Great Lakes region.
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- Carmen Wolf with Robert Hougard of Findorff.
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- Scott Repinski of Buddy Squirrel LLC and Henry Chi of Capital Innovators.
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- Aaron Redlich of Tixora and Bophet Inthivong.
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- Mark Bakken of HealthX Ventures and Mary Schmidt of Easy Learning Inc.
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- Troy Vosseller of gener8tor and Jonah Turner of Kohl’s.
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- Steven Catlin of ParqEx and Arik Johnson of AuroraWDC.
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- Eric Lien of ExperienceIt3D and Sue Mulligan of Agile Advisors.
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- Erin Clausen of IronTek, Nick O’Brien of YouAreHere, Cass Polzin of Accelity Marketing and Morgan Olson of Geneva Supply.
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- Aaron Nodolf and Melissa Turczyn of Michael Best & Friedrich LLP with Michael Ertmer of Veteran Labs Wisconsin Inc.
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- Maddie Ganther, Mike Cacioppo, Kayla Droessler and Brian Gagne of GenoPalate.
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- Andrew Schroeder of ReadyList and Jessica Boling of Silicon Pastures.
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- Jesil Pujara of Part Analytics, Jonathon Horne of Idea Fund of La Crosse and Taralinda Willis of Curate Solutions.
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- Ed Javier of Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. enjoys a snack.
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- Jackie Hermes of Accelity Marketing, Alex Lau of Intent and Pehr Anderson of Dynamic Glass Products LLC.
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- Ben Podraza of Kynektyd and Nicholas Hepner of JLL.
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- Mark Bakken of HealthX Ventures had a fireside chat with Mike Steppe of Brookfield Investment Partners.
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- Michael Major of MPP Group and founder of Cambridge Major Laboratories, joked about his experiences in entrepreneurship.
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- Craig Dickman of TitleTownTech spoke with Kathleen Gallagher of Milwaukee Institute.
