An exciting first for the city of Dallas, Dallas Startup Week heads to Downtown to spur up a week-long celebration in advancing the spirit of entrepreneurship. Powered by Chase, the inaugural conference will run from March 2 through March 6 – gathering small business owners, entrepreneurs, and business professionals in an innovative and educational conference setting. Hosted annually in numerous cities such as Phoenix, Austin, and Seattle, Startup Week celebrates the many unique and flourishing opportunities housed within the city limits, through unique topical sessions led by the community’s leading entrepreneurs. Speaker panels for Startup Week will be led by Dallas’ top entrepreneurs who have excelled in the areas of Food, Fashion, Health, Finances, Social Entrepreneurship, Commercial Real Estate, and more. Serving as a platform to ignite momentum for start-up innovations and new businesses, this first-ever gathering is already filling quickly and gathering much buzz around town. From “How Investors Think” to “Creative Business Models”, Startup Week is the perfect segway for entrepreneurial dreams to push towards reality, as successful business owners dish important tricks and tips on how to activate passion into purpose. A week-long scheduling of fashion panels will also spark the conversation at Dallas Startup Week. Everything spanning from fashion technology to photography how-to’s to getting designs to market, will be up for discussion at this exciting conference. The expert panel list for the fashion break-outs include Dallas fashion designer and winner of Belk's 2013 Designer Showcase Lucy Dang, DFW Style Daily Editor and area stylist Leah Frazier, menswear designer Edo Popken, local publicist and Founder of The Power Group Amy Power, celebrated fashion event producer and Founder of RSC Show Productions Rhonda Sargent Chambers, Chief Operating Officer of Need and Aftershock London U.S.'s Managing Partner Imran Shiekh, and many more!  

  Throughout the conference, passions will ignite, dreams of businesses will be restored, and innovative ways of thinking will be charged. Tack this along with a multitude of networking, hosted in an atmosphere bubbling with Dallas’ top business professionals, and this will be one conference your calendar will need to clear to attend. For more information on Dallas StartUp Week and to register, please visit Dallas.startupweek.co or our Events Calendar. The cost for attendance is free.