Dan Reus

The Pet Care Innovation Prize is a competition to support and connect innovative early stage companies with products and/or services for sale, powered by a global leader in pet care – Nestlé Purina PetCare.

I get what makes truly innovative people tick - what they need, what motivates them and what they aspire to accomplish. EQ STL has given me a forum to introduce you to some of the innovators I've met in just one city - St. Louis, Missouri in the USA - to get a sense of the potential I see in an ecosystem full of innovators. I don't just count these people as subjects to write about, I see them as friends on a journey.

The future is emerging more collaboratively, more disruptively, and with more participation than ever before. I'm writing a book on how to practice disruptive innovation - co-created, rapid, lean and ever-evolving. In addition to the innovation tools I've developed, the book features interviews with co-instigators - people actively creating a new and better future.

The Emerging Venture Leaders Summit brings together young talent in venture capital firms for networking, professional development, and introductions to thoughtleaders in hot industry verticals like FinTech, AgTech, HealthTech, CyberSecurity, and more.

Startup Weekend: HEALTHbio St. Louis is the region’s first Startup Weekend specifically focused on healthcare, life science, and related technologies and services. Some of the area’s top thinkers, creators and innovators — fueled by St. Louis’ thriving science and healthcare business ecosystem — will be attracted to HEALTHbio, made this one of the most exciting Startup Weekend experiences yet.

For the most disruptive innovators, the traditional conference experience is broken. MakePlayHack is an innovation summit bringing together inventors, researchers, intra-preneurs, entrepreneurs, investors, suppliers, advisors and thought-leaders for an intense burst of networking, idea-sharing, peer collaboration, pitching and recognition. Content for each event looks at opportunities in an entire emerging ecosystem - ag/food innovation from field to fork, networked and autonomous vehicles, the… Show more

For the most disruptive innovators, the traditional conference experience is broken. MakePlayHack is an innovation summit bringing together inventors, researchers, intra-preneurs, entrepreneurs, investors, suppliers, advisors and thought-leaders for an intense burst of networking, idea-sharing, peer collaboration, pitching and recognition. Content for each event looks at opportunities in an entire emerging ecosystem - ag/food innovation from field to fork, networked and autonomous vehicles, the bio-economy, and AR/VR/IoT based interaction. Show less

QS brings together people across a broad spectrum - from those tracking health, fitness, and diet, to others playing with the tech, research and data that are enabling progress.

We hope that whether you are a hard-core athlete, patient with a rare or chronic disease, health/tech entrepreneur, data nerd, or are just curious about the space that you will find a vibrant community of self-trackers from in and around St. Louis.

As a volunteer, I helped co-found the group and continue… Show more

QS brings together people across a broad spectrum - from those tracking health, fitness, and diet, to others playing with the tech, research and data that are enabling progress.

We hope that whether you are a hard-core athlete, patient with a rare or chronic disease, health/tech entrepreneur, data nerd, or are just curious about the space that you will find a vibrant community of self-trackers from in and around St. Louis.

As a volunteer, I helped co-found the group and continue as a co-organizer, helping plan events, recruit participants and speakers and do outreach to build the organization. Show less

What ails healthcare isn’t technology, good intentions or money – it’s had lots of all three. Metronome is a project to assemble the least technology needed to synchronize the most health stakeholders. Metronome will be developed publicly, with the needs of its users and the marketplace driving the entire process.

For two years, we explored citizen biotech, vertical farms, advanced manufacturing, gamification, wearables and healthcare, open data/open business models, crowdsourced content, business models for 3D printing, CivicTech, GIS, VR and distributed performance, FinTech, privacy and trust and the blockchain and a lot more.this monthly salon series. We brought innovators together around emerging ideas in effective, efficient and inspiring sessions I curated and facilitated using content marketing,… Show more

For two years, we explored citizen biotech, vertical farms, advanced manufacturing, gamification, wearables and healthcare, open data/open business models, crowdsourced content, business models for 3D printing, CivicTech, GIS, VR and distributed performance, FinTech, privacy and trust and the blockchain and a lot more.this monthly salon series. We brought innovators together around emerging ideas in effective, efficient and inspiring sessions I curated and facilitated using content marketing, targeting influencers via social media, lightning talks, networking with thought-leaders in emerging areas, and facilitated discussion. Sessions were hosted in one facility and livestreamed to members and other facilities. Show less