Tomorrow morning St. Louis innovator Jim McKelvey, co-founder of mobile app Square, will be hosting the Seeds of Change panel discussion at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (975 North Warson, 314-587-1070).
McKelvey, an artist and entrepreneur featured in the March 2011 issue of SLM, is, among many roles, a glass artist and owner of the local Third Degree Glass Factory. In 2009, after he was unable to complete a sale at an art show because he couldn't accept a credit-card payment, he contacted friend and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, who collaborated with him to create Square, a mobile app that allows business owners to accept credit card payments on their mobile phones with a small card reader. Square is currently used by more than 1 million merchants and processes more than $5 billion in transactions per year.
Tomorrow's event, which is free and open to the public, will start off with a presentation by McKelvey from 8 a.m. to 9:15 a.m., followed by a Q&A with an audience and panel of other St. Louis innovators including Benjamin Akande, dean of Webster University’s George Herbert Walker School of Business and Technology; Spencer Maughan, vice president of Venrock, a venture capital firm focusing on investments at the intersections between clean technology, agriculture, and life sciences; and Judy Sindecuse, a visionary leader with a proven track record of starting companies and making them profitable.
To register for the event, click HERE or call 314-587-1070.
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