This Midwest entrepreneurship conference is for the crazy ones.

The limited space in the Powder Keg will be packed with an explosive combination of entrepreneurial energy and creative talent for two and a half days this October 17-19. The conference will host keynote presenters like Exact Target founder Scott Dorsey, Startup America CEO Scott Case, and Professional Magician David Blaine.

A full-scale startup pitch competition will be hosted at Lucas Oils Stadium (venue of this year’s Super Bowl), and each evening will feature world-renown music acts in some of the Midwest’s hottest venues.

This inaugural conference will draw hundreds of high-caliber entrepreneurs and investors to downtown Indianapolis for a perspective-shifting entrepreneurial experience.

Tickets are selling fast and hotels won’t be available for long. Use code “GETTECHPOINT” and get $50 off the Early-Bird conference price before October 5th.

POWDER KEG Startup Bowl Pitch Competition

This October, 10 startups from across the country will compete for a $15,000 startup-growth prize package for the first-ever “Startup Bowl” at Lucas Oil Stadium (Where the Super Bowl was held this year).

Part of the inaugural Powder Keg conference, which will draw 500 ambitious founders and creative technologists from across the country to Indianapolis from October 17-19, the “Startup Bowl” will pit founders against each other in a quick-pitch competition judged by accomplished entrepreneurs, including Startup America CEO Scott Case, Fortify.vc founder Jonathon Perrelli and partners of Elevate Ventures.

A few of the startups set to compete in the “Startup Bowl” include car rental startup FlightCar, which allows vehicle owners who have parked their cars at the airport to rent them out to other travelers (think Airbnb, but for airport car rentals), drag-and-drop app creator App Press, and Indy-based CoatChex (which recently turned down a $200,000 investment from Mark Cuban on Friday’s season four premiere of ABC’s “Shark Tank”).

Get $50 off your conference pass as a TechPoint member by using the code: “GETTECHPOINT”
Tickets are selling fast and hotels won’t be available for long, so register now.

Name: Matt Hunckler
Company: VERGE Startups and POWDER KEG
E-mail: matt@matthunckler.com
City: Indianapolis
State: Indiana