JUMP-START YOUR ASU GSV SUMMIT X WEEK WITH IMMERSION

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APRIL 7, 2019 | SAN DIEGO

Get next-level coaching for your education business from our highly sought-after experts. One day at Immersion will give you more meaningful time with the people you need to know than you could get from years of networking. Get in the fast lane to raise money, scale your business and sell to school districts and colleges.

Whether you need to meet VCs, get advice on scaling or learn the right steps for selling your company, our interactive clinics will put you in front of the people who can take your business to the next level. 

Come with a question. Leave with a plan for next steps. Move your education business forward at EdSurge Immersion.

Real 

face time 

with

world-class

edtech

experts.

4

Hours

of 

hands-on coaching.

Brett Kopf and Brian Grey

THE

REMIND

MASTERMINDS

Brett Kopf, Co-Founder, and Brian Grey, CEO and President, of Remind.com, will share what they have learned about growing and scaling a business. As Co-Founder, Kopf, raised $59M to scale Remind to over 27 million monthly active users. Grey joined Remind in 2016 after a successful career as the CEO of Bleacher Report and Co-Founder of The Assembly to help steer Remind into a new phase. The two will share the ins and outs of growth at different stages and what they’ve learned along the way.

Here's

what

we've

learned

along the way.

DISCUSSING

Deborah Quazzo

 THE 

PILLAR OF

LEADERSHIP

Deborah Quazzo, the Founder and Managing Partner of GSV Advisors, will join us to discuss what GSV has learned after a decade of supporting education companies. Quazzo has overseen both GSV Advisors, a broker-dealer providing advisory services to the education and business services sectors, as well as the annual ASU GSV Summit, an elite annual convening of leaders in education and technology now in its 10th year.

We're

celebrating

a decade

of edtech.

Here’s

what we’ve

learned.

DISCUSSING

World-Class Experts

KECIA

RAY

K20Connect

JOHN

ROGERS

The Rise Fund

JASON

PALMER

New Markets Venture Partners

KRISTEN

PLEMON

PR with Panache

Meet with our expert coaches

CLINIC

Your Questions, Answered.

Meet with our growing list of experts to get personalized support in the areas of your business you most need to grow.

MAIA

SHARPLEY

Learn Capital 

MARSHALL

ROSLYN

Goldman Sachs

AARON

WALKER

Camelback Ventures

TONY

WAN

EdSurge

MATT

GREENFIELD

Rethink Education

NELSON

GONZALEZ

Declara

ESTEBAN

SOSNIK

Reach Capital 

DAVID

STEVENSON

Amplify

SARI

FACTOR

Edgenuity

NAIHOBE

GONZALEZ

Mathematica

JOY

CHEN

TAL 

Education Group 

TOMMY

CHANG

Senior Advisor of Whiteboard Advisors, Former Boston PS Superintendent

SOPHIE

CHEN

JMDedu

BETSY

CORCORAN

EdSurge

MARK

MILLER

Good Harbor Partners

CHRIS

MCMURRAY

Evergreen Public Schools

JINAL

JHAVERI

SchoolMint 

MOLLY 

LEVITT

EdSurge

BRETT

KOPF

Remind 101

BRIAN

GREY

Remind 101

RAJEEV

ARORA

Nearpod

MORGAN

BATTLE

Tucker Capital

SCOTT

BROOKS

Agile Ed

TIM

BEEKMAN

Safari Montage

FUNDING

Meet with the top education VCs to share your ideas and get your questions answered. What do investors listen for? How do you find the investor that's right for you? How can you set yourself up for a successful funding round?

HIRING AND DIVERSITY

The right hiring strategy will set you up for success. Who are your first hires? What kind of hiring process should you have in place? Should you optimize for sales or marketing?

MARKETING

Reaching the education audience can be challenging. You’ll learn what the most successful marketers have learned about cracking into this market. How do you reach them? What is the buying cycle? What works and what is a waste of money?

SELLING TO DISTRICTS

The way educators make purchases is changing. How will your business start and scale the educator's sales process? What does the sales cycle look like? What business models are the most attractive? Who is the right person to contact?

SCALING: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

What is your end-game and how can you set yourself up to get there? Learn from companies who understand the process. What did they prioritize? How did they connect with potential buyers? What should you know about the process?

CHOICES

CLINIC

4 Hours of Hands-On Coaching

Become one of the exclusive sponsors

Become a sponsor and join EdSurge Immersion! Space is extremely limited. Contact us today if you want to get in front of the sharpest edtech entrepreneurs.

PLATINUM SPONSOR

GOLD SPONSOR

OUR DAY TOGETHER

AGENDA

The opportunity 

to hear from educators about what they need in order to buy from vendors was invaluable and the clinics were amazing! Please do more of these.

Super thanks for this event!

Matt

8:30 am   Morning Class with Agile Education Marketing

                 Know Your Market: Using Education Market

                  Intelligence to Reach Your Goals

10:00 am Gut Check | Welcome and Introductions

10:15 am  Fireside Chat | The Minds Behind Remind

11:15 am  Spotlight Talks

12:15 pm  Educator Perspectives at Lunch

1:00 pm  Clinic Sessions

4:45 pm Wrap Up and Gaslamp District Connections

This is all hands-on: an intimate set of clinics with people who have been there. During this time you will get small-group personalized support in the area of your business you need to grow the most. 

A candid discussion led by Tony Wan with the Remind Mastermind guys - Brett Kopf and Brian Grey.

Districts need partners to be able to move the needle but developing good partnerships is not as easy as it sounds. This panel will discuss the importance of district partnerships, the challenges and slippery slopes one can encounter when trying to establish a partnership, and the benefits of long term partnerships.

Get outside of the four walls of the hotel and explore the Gaslamp District with EdSurge.

SIGN UP FOR EDSURGE IMMERSION

*Register for Immersion and we’ll send you a link to get 50% off the $3195 full-price ASU GSV ticket. Offer valid on new sign-ups only.

Let Immersion be your launchpad for a transformational week at ASU GSV X

For its 10th year celebration, ASU GSV is stacking the deck with an amazing lineup of content and speakers. 

EdSurge Immersion attendees get 50% off the regular ticket price. That's a $1400 savings!

Here are just a few of the speakers you’ll hear at ASU GSV.

ANDRE AGASSI

JAMES CARVILLE

REED HASTINGS

JANE MCGONIGAL

HASAN MINHAJ

TODD ROSE

This will be the week you take your business to the next level.

A MUST-ATTEND

*Attending Immersion does not require you to attend ASU GSV

Don’t miss this combined opportunity for hands-on working sessions with experts at Immersion followed by world-class professional development at ASU GSV.*

DATE INFORMATION

Sunday, April 7, 2019 | 8:30 am - 4:45 pm

HOTEL

MANCHESTER GRAND HYATT SAN DIEGO

1 Market Place

San Diego, California, USA, 92101

ROOM RESERVATIONS

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SAN DIEGO  |  APRIL 7, 2019

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