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Yuri Cataldo is an award-winning entrepreneur, keynote speaker, best-selling author, and emerging tech strategist who combines the mindsets of an artist and a technologist.
Named one of the 40 under 40 business leaders in Indiana, Yuri brings years of experience in the arts, design, entrepreneurship, marketing, innovation, and publicity to his advising of founders and startups.
He a classically trained set/costume designer (Juilliard/Yale/IU) turned entrepreneur with credits on Broadway, Dance, Film, and Opera, the founder of IndigoH2O, the only multiple award-winning bottled alkaline water in the world and the 2015 best tasting water in the world, the co-author of the internationally best selling book about Bitcoin/ Blockchain: Be Left Behind - Discover Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Before Your Grandmother beats you to it, and a mentor at Yale Tsai City, MassChallenge, Fintech4Good, and Tech Stars.
The startups he founded have been featured at the Oscars, Golden Globes, the Emmy's, the MTV VMA's, and in 260+ magazines and articles. (Forbes, CNN, PBS, Indy Star, Boston Globe) and the startups he advices are on track to do even more.
He is also a frequent speaker on Blockchain, PR/Media Relations, Creative Entrepreneurship, and Corporate Innovation at universities, conferences, corporate events, and with high-ranking government officials from all over the world.
Currently, he is the co-founder/GP of Athenian VC and leads the fund investment strategy within construction, robotics, AI, manufacturing, and
blockchain.
-M. Shipek - Autodesk Research
Wentworth Innovation + Entrepreneurship
- MassChallenge Israel
-Dr. Lee F. Orchard, (Chair, Department of Theatre, Valparaiso University)
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Upcoming
Chainreaction - Boston
2021 (March & April)
Speaker: Bitcoin 101 and 102
Government of Switzerland
2021
Speaker: The Future of Innovation
The Juilliard School
2021 (Fall)
How To Use Your Creative Background in the Business World
Crypto Current Conference
2021
Speaker: TBD
Malta Ai AND Blockchain Summit
2021
Speaker: TBD (AI)
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
PAST (since 2015)
Suffolk University
2021 (March)
Lecture: AI, Blockchain, and the Future of Fintech
Bryant University
2021 (Feb)
Speaker: Entrepreneurship and Funding Your Project (VC, Bootstrapping, ICO's/Crowdfunding
Draper University
2021 (Feb)
Speaker: Marketing and Entrepreneurship
World Boston
2021 (Jan)
Speaker: Open Innovation
Science & Technology Diplomatic Circle - NYC
2021 (Jan)
Speaker: Open Innovation
Babson University/CES Boston
2020 (Dec)
Speaker: Open Innovation
Science & Technology Diplomatic Circle Boston.
2020 (Nov)
Speaker: Open Innovation and the future of work
Draper University
2020 (Oct)
Speaker: Business Strategy
Suffolk University
2020 (October)
Speaker: The Future of AI in Finance
Draper University
2020 (July)
Speaker: Marketing 101
Accelerate Yale
2020 (June)
Panelist - Transformative Technologies: How COVID-19 Forced Change in Technologies Old and New
AIBC Summit - ASIA DIGITAL
2020 (June)
Panel Speaker: Emerging Technolgy: Asia vs the US
Masschallenge - isreal
2020 (June)
Featured Speaker: PR/Marketing
Autodesk
2020 (May)
Speaker: Personal Branding
Yale University
2020 (Feb)
Entrepreneurship event - Build It and They Will Come.
Panelist - Finance
Innovation Leadership Panel
2020 (February)
Panelists speaking on corporate innovation to executives from Mitsubishi.
SEA Conference
2020 (Feb)
Featured Speaker
Tufts - Innovative Social Enterprises
2020 (Feb)
Guest Lecturer - Social Enterprises
Malta Ai AND Blockchain Summit
2019 (Nov)
Making widespread adoption a reality. How start-ups should design their business model to attract users and investors.
longy school of music
2019 (Oct)
Startup Coach
MIT
2019 (Oct)
Speaker: Future of Work
Accelerate, Wentworth Innovation + Entrepreneurship Center
2019 (Sept)
Featured Luminary Speaker
MassChallenge
2019
Judge and Mentor
135 Startup Battle, Boston
2019
Judge
Syracuse University - School of architecture
2019 (April)
Master Class lecture: Materiality: From Frocks to Fabrication
Syracuse University - School of architecture
2019 (April)
Speaker: Inside-out Innovation - The Future of the Design, Building, and Construction Industries
Tufts - Innovative Social Enterprises
2019 (March)
Speaker: Social enterprises and why startups fail.
MassChallenge
2018
Judge
PRSA Boston Social Media Summit
2018 (May)
Speaker: Cryptocurrency Marketing Strategies
Longy school of music
2018 (March)
Startup Judge
tufts - Innovative Social Enterprises
2018 (Feb)
Speaker and Substitute Professor
Bryant University
2018 (Feb)
Guest Lecturer - PR/Marketing strategies for launching an award-winning product
THINK TANK:
Future of our Cities: Converging Generations
2018 (Feb)
Participant
yale - Entrepreneurship initiative
2017 (Nov)
Speaker: How artist can connect the dots between art and entrepreneurship
Venture Café
2016 (April)
Lead Panel of 5 women on a discussion of Artistic Innovation and the struggles they face in the workplace.
SEA Conference
2015, 2016 (Feb)
panelist and speaker on the following subjects:
-Speaker – Shift Happens: What do you do when your plans fall apart
- Panelist: How to find and work with clients
-Panelist: Faculty Best Practices
-Round Table leader: How to make money in Independent Film
-Panelist: 1st steps in starting an artist business
-One-on-one mentoring leader
http://www.selfemploymentinthearts.com/
Art Entrepreneurship Educators Conference
2015 (Sept)
Speaker: How to use fear setting as a way to boost the productivity of your students.
Princeton Univesity
2015 (April)
Speaker: Creative Entrepreneurship and How to Build an Incubator with Design Thinking
Stanford University
2015
Speaker: Creative Entrepreneurship
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