Get Set Summit

The Get Set Summit is a two-day, hands-on experience where Southeast Wisconsin entrepreneurs get established, get equipped, and get growing, with experts ready to do the work with you in the room. Walk in with an idea. Walk out registered.

Sunday, October 18th, 1:00 to 6:00 PM. Doors open 12:30.
Monday, October 19th, 4:00 to 7:00 PM.
New Omega Church, 5731 Northwestern Ave, Racine, WI.

Get it done on site

File your LLC and your Wisconsin state registration on the spot, and if the $130 state filing fee is the thing standing in your way, startup scholarships are there to cover it. You will also leave with a clear roadmap to your EIN, which cannot be filed until your state registration clears a few days later.

What you will sit in on

• Mental Health for Entrepreneurs with JoLanda Rogers, LPC, President of T.A.L.K. Community Services
• Betting on Yourself, a fireside chat with DeSario Turner, serial entrepreneur and Smoothie King franchisee. Before she left eighteen years at Harley-Davidson, there was a plan, and there were years of other ventures behind it.
• From Table to Transaction, a live vending demo with Dr. Shena Johnson of Mae'Rose Naturally Rooted Skincare. She builds a full vending table in the room and walks through her formula as she sets it up, including the prep before and the follow-through after. Your booth is speaking.
• Credit, Explained with Victor Frasher of Educators Credit Union
• Building Beyond the Business: What Does Your Business Need From You Now? with Dr. LaToya R. Thurmond, PhD, LMT Consulting
• Stop Being Okay With Okay: Build a Business That Can Actually Grow with Keith Clay-Terrell, PublicProof AI
• The Basics of Bookkeeping and Accounting with Cheryl J. Muldrew-McMurtry, McMurtry Financial Services
• Finances for Entrepreneurs with Thaime Gómez, Square Accounting
• 8 Weeks to Business with Dama Foster, MBA, Dama Foster Intl
• Before You Sign: Renting or Buying Your Brick and Mortar with Sabina Lopez, Realty ONE Group Boardwalk
• Becoming an Author, a table talk with JoLanda Rogers

More sessions are being added. Each host's day and time lives on the portal.

Also in the room

Small-group table talks where you sit across from working accountants, bankers, lenders, realtors and marketers and ask what you actually need to ask. A marketplace to shop and to sell in. Complimentary professional headshots. And workshops on funding and capital, grant writing, and business planning.

Your host: Shannon Sims

Emmy Award winning journalist and founder of Mic'd and Ready Media, with two decades in broadcast news including thirteen years as a reporter and anchor at TMJ4.

$35 general admission, covering both days, every station, the workshops, materials and food. Need-based scholarships are available.

Full agenda, session times and live updates: portal.staciathompson.com/summit

Presented with Chase, Associated Bank, Driven Marketing Solutions, the Racine County Economic Development Corporation, Educators Credit Union, Racine County and WWBIC, with T.A.L.K. Community Services as fiscal sponsor and New Omega Church as host venue. The Get Set Summit is an official Wisconsin Tech Month event. Hosted by Stacia Thompson Impact Collective.