Resiliency and sustainability in the face of animal disease, energy storage, personal health and crop management will bring four young companies to the stage Tuesday, May 21, during a Wisconsin Tech Council luncheon in Madison.
Join us mid-day at the Sheraton Hotel on Madison’s John Nolen Drive to hear short pitches and reactions from a panel of experts. Registration and networking begin at 11:30 a.m., lunch at noon and the presentation at 12:30 p.m. The cost is $10 for students and returning veterans, $25 for individual members, $35 for non-members and included for Tech Council corporate members.
Four startups will each make a three-minute pitch to a panel of investors and awardees of planning grants from the National Science Foundation.
- Acepsis, a Lodi-based firm that is focusing on development of chlorine dioxide-based technologies for agricultural hygiene applications;
- Agrobotic.io, an Appleton firm that uses soil sensors that use AI to quantify soil nutrients with more precision, thus controlling yield, cutting expenses and reducing emissions;
- Flux XII, a Madison-based firm that is using organic flow battery chemistries to develop better grid-energy storage solutions;
- Food FiXR, a Milwaukee company that aims to revolutionize health by helping people better connect with “food as medicine” in their lives.
Reaction panelists are Jeff Ebel, president of Midwest Wealth Ventures; Karen Frost, vice president of economic development and innovation for The Water Council; and Adhira Sunkara, director of strategy and innovative ventures of WiSys. Tech Council President Tom Still will moderate.
The Wisconsin Technology Council is the independent, non-profit science and technology adviser to the governor and Legislature, with events, publications and outreach that contribute to Wisconsin’s tech-based economy. To join, go to www.wisconsintechnologycouncil.com or call 608-442-7557. This luncheon is sponsored by the Dane County Regional Airport.