Leeds Explores: Boulder
Leeds Explores: Boulder is on Friday, October 21st, with company visits at 9am, 11am, 1pm, and 3pm. This is a unique event specifically geared towards business students. The day will include over 20 different company visits all throughout Boulder. This event is similar to a Career Trek in that students will learn about company cultures, but different because you choose the companies you are most interested in. Students are encouraged to sign up for 1 or more company visits throughout the day.
- Purchase a $10 refundable ticket. (Link below in the gold box)
- After purchasing the ticket, students will be given the link to register for up to four company visits.
Students who attend all of the visits that they registered for initially will be refunded their $10 fee. If a student does not show up for one or more of the visits that they registered for, their $10 registration fee will be forfeited. Please keep in mind that space is limited for each visit and may fill up quickly, so make sure to buy your ticket soon!
All students who attend at least one company visit are invited to an end-of-day networking reception at Shine Restaurant, located at 2027 13th St. The reception will be from 4:00-7:00pm with appetizers and a cash bar.
DETAILS:
- Casual attire encouraged.
- Research companies prior to attending.
- Students are responsible for their own transportation.
Please note that company sessions are listed as a 1-hour timeslot. There will be an extra half hour for questions after each session, which you have the choice to stay, or not to stay for.
Ticket sales will close Wednesday evening, October 18.
Company Site Visits:
Session Name: The Joy of Independent Work
Industry: Marketing Services
Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: 2088 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80302
Company Description: Atomic20 is a full service marketing agency assembling expert freelance teams to accomplish what seems impossible.
Session Name: Natural Food: Incorporating natural into traditional CPG business.
Industry: Food and Beverage
Time: 3:00-4:00pm
Location: 1600 Pearl Street Suite 300 Boulder, Colorado 80302
Company Description: Category leaders. Product innovators. Game changers. Trusted partners. Boulder Brands is one of the largest natural consumer packaged food companies in the United States with annual revenues of more than $500 million.
Session Name: When one thinks about travel, the mind wanders to vacations, exotic trips, and spending time with family. for Cain Travel, this represents a very small component of our service. Among the largest Corporate Travel Management Companies in the US, join us to learn about our exciting, dynamic and ever-evolving industry where we support, manage and enhance Company travel programs for customers across the country.
Industry: Travel/Leisure Services
Time: 9:00am - 10:00pm
Location: 2990 Center Green Court, Boulder, Colorado 80301
Company Description: For many Corporations, travel spend (costs incurred from employees traveling for business purposes) is their 3rd highest operating expense.. For the past 30 years, Cain Travel has successfully helped Companies manage, control and leverage their travel spend. Through a combination of proprietary development, market-leading technologies & unsurpassed expertise, Cain is a leading provider of Travel Management services in the United States. Today, Cain is the 42nd largest business Travel Management Company in the US with staff located across all 4 contiguous time zones, and we feature a full meetings and incentives planning division. We are bullish on the future of the industry, and are looking to add to our sales team to further grow our Company in the Western United States.
Session Name: A Boulder-based Financial Firm for Entrepreneurs. Crestone Capital, LLC is an independent, Boulder –based multi-family office that delivers unmatched wealth management services to an exclusive network of entrepreneurs, business owners and their families.
Industry: Financial Services
Time: 9:00am-10:00am
Location: 1048 Pearl St. #450 Boulder, CO 80302
Company Description: Crestone Capital Advisors LLC is an independently owned, entrepreneurial wealth management firm in Boulder, Colorado. Crestone is the successor to The Eric J. Kramer Company, which was founded in 1991. Crestone has 41 employees and a select nationwide group of 46 clients, who are primarily individuals, families and foundations. We serve our clients by providing institutional quality investment management and personalized wealth advisory services, including income tax, estate and philanthropic planning, financial planning and balance sheet/risk management. Our mission is to improve the lives and peace of mind of our clients by serving as their trusted advisor and central resource for all their wealth management needs.
Session Name: TBD
Industry: Media/Marketing
Time: 9:00am-10:00am
Location: 995 Regent Dr. Boulder, CO 80302 ROOM S233 (holding session here at Leeds)
Company Description: Egg delivers simple, bold truths. Our core strength is rooted in simplicity. As we explore the messiness of modern life, we create bold solutions that are profoundly simple to embrace because they’re rooted in fundamental human truths.
Session Name: Galvanize is a learning community for technology & entrepreneurship - come learn about how this Colorado based startup is training technical talent, educating and leveling up entrepreneurs and their businesses, and where it plans to go in the future to continue to corner the market on the education economy.
Industry: Entrepreneurship
Time: 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: 1023 Walnut St., Boulder, CO 80302
Company Description: Galvanize is a learning community for technology & entrepreneurship - come learn about how this Colorado based startup is training technical talent, educating and leveling up entrepreneurs and their businesses, and where it plans to go in the future to continue to corner the market on the education economy.
Session Name: The Greenhouse Approach to Brand
Industry: Media/Marketing
Time: 9:00am-10:00am
Location: 1881 9th St. #200 Boulder, CO 80302
Company Description:
Session Name: Want to step up to stand out? Come learn more about the importance of your personal brand – 10 thing you wish a recruiter told you.
Industry: Technology
Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: 1600 Pearl St. Suite 200, Boulder, CO 80302
Company Description: SolidFire is a cutting edge data-storage company that is revolutionizing the way the world uses the cloud. We live in the largest data centers in the world. When it comes to large-scale cloud storage deployments, SolidFire offers the most complete range of enterprise class features within an all-flash array. We are a leader in the exploding Cloud Storage marketplace. SolidFire strives to hire smart, talented, dedicated employees who are willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done. Located in beautiful downtown Boulder, CO, we offer our employees a fulfilling work/life balance in a casual, yet fast-paced work environment. We provide a full range of SolidFire paid benefits and a flexible, open PTO policy. SolidFire has a world-class team and represents one of the hottest opportunities in the technology sector today. Come join us in building the Next Generation Data Center!
Session Name: Adventures in Business - Do What You Love! Learn more about the aspects involved with owning a franchise, the importance of community involvement, and marketing a small business. You will also hear from a recent CU Grad on his path from college to career.
Industry: Food and Beverage
Time: 3:00pm-4:00pm
Location: 1650 28th St. Boulder, CO 80302
Company Description: Welcome to the PizzaRev-olution – a national movement that’s all about empowering you to “Craft Your Own!”
It’s a deliciously simple and satisfying concept: You call all the shots – You pick out your dough, sauce, cheese and toppings and our “pizza crafters” work with you to make your own pizza right before your eyes! Let’s break down the options:
Choose your Crust: Original or gluten-free dough? Each one pressed into a thin canvas from a plump, homemade dough ball.
Sauce it Up: Savory organic marinara, a creamy white alfredo, spicy-sweet BBQ or olive oil – or get crazy, mix ‘em up.
Top it Off: 30+ artisanal cheeses and fresh ingredients – keep it traditional with pepperoni and ground beef or get fancy with sweet fennel sausage, olives, and fresh-picked basil and arugula. Pick as many pizza toppings as you’d like – we don’t charge by the topping – when you’re done crafting you’ll have your own personal pizza masterpiece for one price!
Crispy Perfection in Less than 3 Minutes!
Session Name: Learn about what it's like to work at a marketing agency, the latest trends in digital marketing, and the qualitites and experience we look for when hiring new teammates.
Industry: Digital Marketing Services
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: 3340 Mitchell Ln. Boulder, CO 80301
Company Description: Room 214 is a team of people dedicated to being remarkable. Focused on digital marketing since 2004, companies hire us to take their social and digital to the next level: from awareness and leads, to sales and advocacy.
Session Name: The AdTech Industry and How sovrn Fits Into It
Industry: AdTech
Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: 1750 29th St. Suite 2036, Boulder, CO 80301
Company Description: We spend a great deal of our lives online. Whether it’s for information, commerce, or entertainment, each of us has come to depend on what we discover, consume and share online. Publishers – those who create and curate content – are the cornerstones of what we all cherish about the Internet. Yet these publishers practice their craft largely alone – without reference points or deep understandings about how they compare. sovrn shows publishers how their site is viewed and valued by advertisers. We offer insights and tools they need and deserve to understand their readers and to create content that works.
Session Name: Did you know that in 84% of marketers reported that they are using influencer marketing? The reason? Marketers no longer control the consumer journey. With social, we learned that forcing the same product message into channels doesn’t work. We tried to meet consumers at every conceivable point on their journey with stuff brands wanted to say with content marketing and it was costly and exhausting. What emerged was a new way to reach consumers, with messages about brand products they actually want to hear, coming from voices they already trust. That’s influencer marketing. Join TapInfluence - a pioneer in the influencer marketing industry- for an hour long Introduction to Influencer Marketing.
Industry: Computers
Time: 3:00pm-4:00pm
Location: 2100 Central Ave #200 Boulder, CO 80301
Company Description: Influencer Marketing
We already know that consumers own the buying journey and we as marketers are constantly playing catch up. If you want to stay relevant to today’s consumer, you have to play by their rules.
Enter influencer marketing, the newest and highest performing proven channel in the marketing mix.
Influencers are consumers with an audience that trusts what they have to say. They are the new powerful voices that drive purchase decisions.
Are you ready to work with these consumers to create meaningful content?
We make it simple, efficient, and profitable.
Session Name: Is entrepreneurship for you?
Industry: Information Technology & IT Services
Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm
Location: 2040 14th St. Boulder, CO 80302
Company Description: Dedicated to Making Managing a Team Easier
TeamSnap was founded as a secret society of underwater welders who decided to learn code. No, that's not true. But we were founded by social scientists, an improv comedian and an oil field engineer who had a vision for making group organization easier.
Session Name: A Day in the Life at Twitter
Industry: Technology
Time: 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: 1302 Walnut St., Boulder, CO 80302
Company Description: Our mission: To give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers. Students that attend this session with gain exposure to the different functions within an established tech/software company, and what a day in the life looks like (Product, Business Development, Marketing, Account Management, etc.) Skills that are in high demand for companies with an entrepreneurial work environment.
Session Name: Step into the world of Workday! A leading provider of enterprise cloud appliances, Workday delivers financial management and analytics applications designed for the wrold's largest organizations.
Industry: Technology
Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: 5710 Flatiron Pkwy, Suite A, Boulder, CO 80301
Company Description: Workday delivers Human Capital Management, Financial Management, Payroll, Time Tracking, Procurement, and Employee Expense Management applications to the world's largest organizations. Hundreds of companies, ranging from medium-sized to the Fortune 50, are gaining business value from Workday.
Session Name: Whats unique about Victors & Spoils
Industry: Media/Marketing
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location: 1904 Pearl St. Boulder, CO 80302
Company Description: We are creative. We are seasoned. We are products of some of the best agencies in the world. And we’re smart. Smart enough to know that we don’t know it all. Fortunately, there’s a little something called “the rest of the planet.” It’s made up of billions of bright and inspired individuals who know things we might not. So we tap into them. A lot. Pretty smart, eh?
Session Name: Learn about Zayo's Tranzact sales platform. It involves sales, developers, marketing, and web development among many other teams to ensure it is serving customers effortlessly.
Industry: Telecommunications
Time: 9:00am - 10:00pm
Location: 1805 29th St #2050, Boulder, CO 80301
Company Description: Unlimited, fast access to a world of information, business and entertainment. The world runs on bandwidth and, increasingly, it is Zayo’s global fiber network making it possible. Whether it’s the latest YouTube video, streaming broadcast, a quick tweet or social media check in, you may be using our network without even knowing it. At Zayo, we’re on the cutting edge of Bandwidth Infrastructure services.