NEWS
Hurt Hub Innovation Week Was a Huge Success
Innovation Week 2021
What an incredible INNOVATION WEEK it was last week! We had over 450 people attend all our events from TechStars Startup Weekend, to our business and student showcases, Wednesday Workshops and our Community Block Party on Friday night. Many came for multiple nights as well! Our focus on facilitating access and exposure to innovation and entrepreneurship for ALL and “purposeful serendipity” reinvigorated our community. Rest assured that everyone was wearing masks inside and appreciated outdoor gathering with proper distancing.
A HUGE thank you to our sponsors:
- Boomerang Water
- Insomnia Cookies
- Krispy Kreme Doughnuts
- NC IDEA
- PitchBreakfast & Innovate Charlotte
- Summit Coffee
- TechStars Startup Weekend
- Town of Davidson
- Venture for America
THANK YOU to our Hurt Hub Leadership team, including our wonderful student Community Events Ambassadors, campus partners, mentors and judges, for putting in countless hours over the past few months to bring this week-long experiment to life! If you missed it, we’ll do it all again next year, but with some tweaks thanks to your feedback. We look forward to seeing all our new friends at upcoming events (see below) at the Hurt Hub!FREE for Davidson Students!
Hurt Hub Member Profile
Maria C. Kemp is Pastry Chef/Owner of Beyond Decadence, Inc. She spent over two decades working as an IT Consultant for Fortune 100 companies, but later transitioned to full-time pastry school student to attend the prestigious French Pastry School’s L’Art de la Patisserie program in Chicago. She brought Beyond Decadence to North Carolina as a pop-up bakery, but morphed into an online artisan bakery with nationwide shipping and private virtual baking experiences ideal for private events or corporate team-building. She has won several pitch competitions, awards from the City of Charlotte, $10,000 website redesign courtesy of Marcus Lemonis, and has been featured on TV, radio, podcasts, and a magazine cover. Chef Maria can be reached at [email protected] or (704) 777-6946.