Innovation strategist & app entrepreneur Amanda Spann - empowering entrepreneurs worldwide.
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Amanda Spann is an experienced innovation strategist and app entrepreneur who has been recognized as one of the top women in tech by Business Insider.
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Amanda Spann is an innovation strategist and app entrepreneur with a background in brand development who has a professional focus on helping individuals and institutions, both domestically and abroad, design, launch and grow new products, incubation programs and entrepreneurship ecosystems. Over her career she has coached, consulted and created content for over 30,000 entrepreneurs.
She currently splits her time between coaching aspiring entrepreneurs at The App Accelerator, a program to help non-technical entrepreneurs build their first mobile app and being the Head of Community for Tech Beach, the leading technology ecosystem for the Caribbean Diaspora.
Prior to her current roles, Amanda co-founded Tiphub, an impact driven innovation community for entrepreneurs in Africa and the African Diaspora and the hosts of Diaspora Demo Day, once the largest US-based pitch competition for African led startups. She also served as CMO of Blerdology, a tech social enterprise to support and engage the black tech community and the first organization to host hackathons targeting African-Americans. The company helped to spark interest innovation and assisted minority entrepreneurs build their apps or web-based ventures for little to no cost.
Amanda and her work have been featured in Wired, TechCrunch, Fast Company, NPR, Black Enterprise, HLN, Business Insider, Inc, and VentureBeat. The Florida State and Georgetown grad has been honored as one of Business Insider’s 30 Most Important Women in Tech Under 30, Walker’s Legacy 2016 Power50, Rolling Out’s 25 Women You Should Know and as one of BET’s Blacks on the Brink of Greatness, as well as one of the 5 future leaders in technology by Black Enterprise Magazine.
See keynotes with Amanda SpannWhen it comes to building tech-enabled solutions, it takes both programming and non-technological skills to produce a comprehensive, cohesive product. Yet communicating with your opposite-brained colleagues can often feel like a hurdle to project success. In this talk, Amanda leverages her experience in corporate communication and instructional design to provide success strategies for speaking, collaborating and connecting in terms your teammates can understand.
Your ideas have value, even if you don’t believe you have the expertise to execute them yourself. As a tech founder who’s built a portfolio of apps without writing a line of code, Amanda knows a thing or two about overcoming technical limitations to achieve success. In this talk Amanda will outline the tools, resources and know-how you’ll need to acquire when starting up as a non-technical founder and provide you with insights on how best compliment the skills and expertise of your technical partners
In the world of entrepreneurship getting early investment can often mean the difference between thriving and surviving.
But pitching your startup idea or product to investors can be an extremely nerve-wracking process. Increase your chances at fundraising success by composing a clear, concise and compelling pitch deck and presentation.
Pitch Perfect takes you on a deep dive into how to create a pitch deck for investors, with special attention to the pitch deck and presentation structure to ensure you address all the critical components necessary to capture an investor’s attention.
The workshop and tutorial will walk you through:
Amanda has participated in multiple events that I've hosted on behalf of my company, General Assembly. She is highly skilled at public speaking, and the insights and advice she shares with audience members is invaluable. She makes a visible impact on those that have the privilege of hearing her speak.
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