At The Forcing Function Breakfast Series, we gather founders and executives together for healthy breakfast and intimate conversation at our favorite NYC restaurants.
During breakfast, there will be an interactive keynote with a venture capitalist or successful startup founder. You’ll have inspiring conversations with fellow entrepreneurs and walk away with insights on how to take your business to the next level.
We always keep these events small so that attendees have the opportunity to introduce themselves, chat with the keynote speaker, and connect with other entrepreneurs.
Tickets are $40 in advance or $50 at the door. If paying at the door, cash only, please. Breakfast is included with the ticket price.
Jeff Stewart is a serial entrepreneur, inventor and investor with deep experience scaling technology-enabled international businesses and a blockchain enthusiast. He is the Founder and Chairman of Singapore based FinTech pioneer, Lenddo, the world’s first online service that empowers the emerging class to use their digital footprint to build their creditworthiness and access financial services.
Mr. Stewart is also the Founder and former CEO of Mimeo.com, a state-of-the-art, Internet-based document production service included in the 2004 and 2005 Inc. 500 lists of the fastest growing companies.
In 2014, Lenddo was recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer, and Jeff was recognized as the William F. Glaser Rensselaer Entrepreneur of the Year.
Bonnie Halper is a former SHOWTIME celebrity reporter, turned founding Editor-in-Chief at AlleyWatch, who is now a startup consultant and runs StartupOneStop, a newsletter covering technology that is a first read of entrepreneurs and investors around the globe.
A long-time tech industry insider and connector, she once took Peter Thiel’s famous gripe that we were promised flying cars and instead we got 140 characters, and wrote “140 Characters Who Helped Shape the Tech World” – and she happens to have met or knows many of them personally. She is currently working on the SOSapp, the first app for the startup technology community.
Chris Sparks is the founder of The Forcing Function, a company which is empowering the next generation of entrepreneurship by transforming the way we think about work. Chris was once ranked in the top 20 online poker players in the world. Now, he trains executives and investors to deploy the same techniques he used to gain a competitive edge so that they too can reach the highest limits. His clients consistently perform at their peak, accelerate their business growth, and build lives with greater freedom and purpose.
After years of deconstructing and distilling the success of top performers, Chris open-sourced that knowledge in a free workbook, Experiment Without Limits. He is currently hosting workshops and retreats around NYC and working on a second book, Inflection Point, his guide to sparking a radical shift in life trajectory, set for release in 2020.
Amanda Espiritu is the Director of Events and Partnerships for The Forcing Function. She works with various startups, artists, entrepreneurs, and non-profits as a marketing/social media consultant and event producer, and serves as a key partner in growing global communities.
Amanda is one of the founding members of the non-profit and global artist collective Stageless Arts, regularly douses people in confetti for The Confetti Project, and MC's concerts for Sofar Sounds NY. Her most recent project Creative Surrender Studios serves as a space that pushes people to get out of whatever creative rut they might be in, have deep talks, and finish their passion projects.