Amanda Spann
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.
Why you should book Amanda Spann for your next event
- Expertise in Innovation Strategy and Entrepreneurship: Amanda Spann has a wealth of knowledge and experience in helping individuals and institutions design, launch, and grow new products, incubation programs, and entrepreneurship ecosystems. Her expertise in these areas makes her an excellent choice as a speaker or panelist for events focused on innovation, entrepreneurship, and business development.
- Proven Track Record in Coaching and Consulting: With a career spanning several years, Amanda has coached, consulted, and created content for over 30,000 entrepreneurs. She has helped many individuals and businesses achieve their goals and grow their ventures, and her insights and guidance can be invaluable to others looking to do the same.
- Experience in Diversity and Inclusion: As the CMO of Blerdology, Amanda has been involved in efforts to support and engage the black tech community, and as the head of community for Tech Beach, she is working to build the leading technology ecosystem for the Caribbean Diaspora. Her experience and insights on diversity and inclusion in tech and entrepreneurship can make her a valuable speaker for events focused on these topics.
Amanda Spann is an innovation strategist, app entrepreneur, and coach with a strong background in brand development. She has helped over 30,000 entrepreneurs design, launch, and grow new products and entrepreneurship ecosystems both domestically and internationally.
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Keynotes
Keynote by Amanda Spann: Dev-ing it Down: A Guide To Effective Communication Between Technical & Non-Technical Clients and Counterparts
When 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.
Keynote by Amanda Spann: Concept to Creation: How to Overcome the Fear, Frustration and Technical Overwhelm of Building as a Non-Technical Founder
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
Keynote by Amanda Spann: Workshop: Pitch Perfect: An Overview of the Content, Context and Delivery Needed for an Effective Startup Pitch
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:
Presentation Cues - Get verbal and non-verbal tips to communicate with intent throughout your pitch
Storytelling Strategies - Learn tactics to create a connection between people and your product
Design Guidelines - Walk through the visual elements that have been proven to yield
Presentation Outline, Style & Structure - Strategically organize and choose the most fitting delivery style for your company
A Page by Page Pitch Deck Tutorial - Learn the key components to include in each portion of the pitch
Pitch Deck Examples & Presentations - See real-world examples of the pitches several success startups used to raise millions of dollars
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:
Presentation Cues - Get verbal and non-verbal tips to communicate with intent throughout your pitch
Storytelling Strategies - Learn tactics to create a connection between people and your product
Design Guidelines - Walk through the visual elements that have been proven to yield
Presentation Outline, Style & Structure - Strategically organize and choose the most fitting delivery style for your company
A Page by Page Pitch Deck Tutorial - Learn the key components to include in each portion of the pitch
Pitch Deck Examples & Presentations - See real-world examples of the pitches several success startups used to raise millions of dollars
Amanda Spann
Innovation strategist & app entrepreneur Amanda Spann - empowering entrepreneurs worldwide.
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.Â
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.
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.Â
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.
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