Nexus Horizons Conference

​Nexus Horizons is SoCal’s largest intercollegiate entrepreneurship conference.

​Now in its second year, Horizons serves as the flagship event of Nexus SoCal Startup Week, convening 300+ of Southern California’s top student founders from UCLA, USC, UCSD, UCI, Caltech, LMU, Chapman, UCSB, and beyond.

​This year, our focus is Consumer and Deeptech.

​Speakers:

• ​Mike Jones ($6b+ exits, liquid death, dollar shave club).

• ​Quaid Walker ($1b+ luxury watch marketplace)

• ​James Hicks (fastest growing candy brand)

• ​Harry Golden ($100m+/yr on TikTok shop)

• ​Delian Asparouhov ($300m+ raised to design drugs in space)

• ​Matt Kozlov (companies worth over $15b+)

​This conference is powered up Fetch.AI and Base44.

​Fetch.ai is a decentralized AI platform that enables the creation, deployment, and monetization of autonomous agents for automating complex tasks and economic activities.

​Base44 is an AI-powered, no-code platform designed to build functional web applications in minutes using natural language prompts.

​Schedule:

• ​10:00 AM: Check-ins & Arrival

• ​10:30 AM: Opening Remarks

• ​11:00 AM: Opening Fireside: Quaid Walker

• ​12:00 PM: Consumer Keynote: Mike Jones

• ​12:45 PM: Consumer Fireside: James Hicks and Harry Golden

• ​1:30 PM: Lunch break

• ​2:00 PM: Deeptech Fireside: Delian Asparouhov and Matt Kozlov

• ​2:45 PM: Base 44 Showcase Kickoff

• ​3:00 PM: Builder Showcase

• ​4:00 PM: Showcase Judging

• ​4:30 PM: Open Networking

​280 capacity.