Our Sponsors

Our sponsorships have made a commitment towards our mission to educate, inspire, entertain and challenge
our attendees. Our sponsors appreciate the opportunity to be affiliated with this Experience and are committed to
our mission.

Administaff, Inc. (NYSE: ASF) is the nation's leading professional employer organization (PEO), serving as a full-service human resources department for small and medium-sized businesses throughout the United States. The mission of Administaff is to help the best small to medium-sized businesses succeed, making life better for clients, employees, their families and shareholders. Administaff delivers its personnel management services by entering into a co-employment relationship with a client company and the client company’s existing employees, including the business owner. Under this arrangement, Administaff assumes or shares many of the responsibilities of being an employer. In addition, Administaff provides the client company and their worksite employees with a wide array of value-added benefits and services not typically available at small businesses.
Mercedes-Benz of Sugar Land is the fastest-growing Mercedes dealer in the nation. Why? Because we concentrate on what is important to "You" - SIMPLY, "First. Class. Service". Here you will find over 250 new and pre-owned automobiles and a caliber of service that is absolutely unequalled by anyone else in the industry.
Humana Inc. is one of the nation's largest publicly traded health benefits companies, with approximately 11.3 million medical members including more than 183,000 in the Houston area. Humana offers a diversified portfolio of health insurance products and services to employer groups, government-sponsored plans, and individuals. As a leader in consumer engagement, Humana provides guidance leading to lower costs and better health plan experiences.
KUHF Houston Public Radio is a fully professional radio service affiliated with National Public Radio (NPR) and certified by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The station broadcasts on 88.7 FM, two online streaming channels and three channels of HD Digital. KUHF is supported financially by its listener-members, and by gifts from the greater Houston community, through the Association for Community Broadcasting.
Spearheading EVERY and any aspect of your publication - that's our specialty! From magazines and shopping guides, to glossy coffee table books. We're experienced publishers who don't scoff at tight deadlines or unusual concepts. Each project is held to the highest standard of quality while it's guided by our skilled team through every step in the publishing process. Whether your project is monthly, quarterly, annually, or simply a one-time project, consider New Leaf Publishing, your turn-key publishing expert.
Trio Electric (formerly Pollock Electric NASDQ: IESC) is a privately-held, full-service electrical contracting firm focusing on commercial, manufacturing, multi-family and industrial projects. The management team has several hundred years of combined experience in all aspects of construction including ground-up, renovation and tenant build-out projects. Trio Electric has in-house professional engineering that can design-build or design-assist as well as a 24-hour emergency service department that provides lighting and preventative maintenance services.
Trio Energy provides turn-key energy solutions by applying Energy IntelligenceTM. We will identify, design and install projects that will lower your operating expenses while benefiting the environment. Our services and solutions cover a broad range of project both ahead of and behind the utility meter such as lighting retrofits, window film installation, LEED feasibility and Energy Star audits, power quality analysis, infrared scanning and various other energy-savings projects that will reduce your utility bills and carbon footprint.
Pennebaker/Fifth Ring is an integrated corporate communications company with offices in Houston, Aberdeen and Dubai. We're strategy-driven, success-focused and full of ideas that can help clients send a message, generate momentum and create brand value.
Sullivan Group, the official meeting management company of The UP Experience is Houston's leading meeting planner and producer, offering you the benefits of 20 years in professionally certified meeting production, creating powerful corporate meetings and effective business engagements of all types.
Pierpont Communications is an integrated communications firm offering marketing, public relations, public affairs and investor relations services to a diverse roster of clients. From our offices in Houston, Austin, Dallas and San Antonio, we provide counsel on the right mix of communications tools to achieve your business goals. We know how to influence the way people think.
Bridgeway is more than a legal software company. The company is based on a vision of real solutions for real customers. Bridgeway's products are not made only from lines of code. They are born of ideas from years of customer relations and technical expertise. Put more simply, Bridgeway is about solutions and relationships.
The story of H-E-B began 100 years ago in a tiny family shop in Kerrville. Today H-E-B serves families all over Texas and Mexico with over 300 stores and 56,000 employees. H-E-B's commitment to excellence has made it one of the nations largest independently owned food retailers. Yet H-E-B's success has not changed its commitment to giving the customer exceptional service, low prices and friendly shopping.
With a 45-year history of leadership in the Houston area markets, Silver Eagle Distributors, L.P. is the largest Anheuser-Busch distributor in the nation. Silver Eagle adopted its new name in 1989 during a rapid rise to become a leading wholesaler in the beer industry. Under the leadership of majority owners Bobbie and John Nau, and minority owner Robert Boblitt, Silver Eagle remains focused on delivering outstanding customer service and an extensive portfolio of quality brands.
Throughout our history, we have worked to build long-term relationships with our customers. Over the years, many businesses began life as Whitney customers. They have flourished, and many third and fourth generation family managed businesses still bank at the Whitney. Many families also have banked at the Whitney for generations. Through good times and bad, we will provide the combination of personalized service and contemporary products that is so important to our customers.
The Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship is Rice University's flagship initiative devoted to the support of technology commercialization, entrepreneurship education, and the launch of technology companies. Since inception, the Rice Alliance has assisted in the launch of more than 230 start-ups which have raised more than $500 million in early-stage capital. In January 2009, the Rice Alliance was recognized by the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship as having the most Outstanding Specialty Entrepreneurship Program. In 2007, the Rice Alliance was recognized as the leading university entrepreneurship center in the United States for the creation of successful new enterprises by the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers.
The Center for Houston's Future advances the Houston region as one of the top ten global communities in which to live and work. The Center for Houston's Future engages the community to think long-term and act strategically for the future economic, physical, social and cultural well-being of the region through research, facilitation and collaboration.
Now in its 30th year, Mastery of Learning® continues to position clients where the leading edge of neurological research intersects with business, innovation, and personal accomplishment. With proven "power tools" for accelerated learning, trend-spotting, and creativity incubation for individuals and organizations, the Mastery of Learning® system is the one seminar you’ll use every day for the rest of your life.
The ingenious movement sequences of the Feldenkrais Method® improve action, imagination, and personal awareness. An experience for body and mind, gentle, minimal movements "re-program" and "defragment" your nervous system to replace patterns of pain, stress, and inefficiency with more functional and comfortable ones. Many experience improved posture, coordination, range of motion, balance, and surprising systemic change. The Feldenkrais® Center of Houston provides group classes, private lessons, and in-depth workshops at venues throughout the city.
Divas World Productions was founded in 2006 during the first successful season of the Song Salon Series. Since the initial launch, the company has become a non-profit organization serving this community with a variety of concerts and other artistic endeavors. This season marks the second year we have expanded our concert series to include public performances. Our mission at Divas is to create an intense artistic experience for performers and audiences. We seek to create the intimacy which make it possible for the audience and performers to mutually inspire one another.
Houston Technology Center provides in-depth business guidance, access to capital, introduction to service providers and entrepreneurial education to client companies representing the following key sectors: Energy, Life Sciences, Nanotechnology, NASA-originating technologies and Technology.
Market knowledge, professional experience, and well established business relationships make Wulfe & Co. one of Houston's most respected commercial real estate firms. We offer our clients commercial & retail real estate services including Project Leasing, Tenant Representation, Property Management, Development Services, Consulting, and Investment and Property Sales and Acquisitions.
From sashimi to souffle, Tony's is Houston's most innovative restaurant with over 1,000 wines to choose from. As new as tomorrow, Tony's Richmond Avenue location was designed from the ground up to provide Houston's ultimate dining experience.
Brody & Associates offers Custom Business Development & Growth Projects, Strategic Planning Meetings, Keynote Speeches and Workshops, CEO & Executive Coaching.
Nationally renowned for its author events and locally cherished for its careful, intelligent book selection, Brazos now offers online ordering, as well as a new Brazos Kids' Room for all ages. Located near Rice University, the store maintains an extensive inventory of literary fiction, non-fiction, biography, history, poetry, literary criticism, philosophy, and travel. In addition, the store offers one of the finest selections of architecture and art books in the region.
Since 1995, Sara Brook and her Dessert Gallery crew have been serving up some of Houston's favorite sweet treats. From lunch to dinner, with dessert first (of course), Dessert Gallery puts smiles on people's faces at one of the convenient locations or somewhere across the country.
BuildClean is a Houston-based 501(c) not-for-profit organization founded in 2007. The organization funds research and educates consumers, businesses and organizations about safe, healthy and green materials. In addition to coordinating and funding research, BuildClean serves as a resource, offering information on some of the most common indoor health hazards, green and healthy home building and product certification programs and groups working every day around the world to provide assurance and guidance to the consumer about the products used in the home.
The Houston Wellness Association (HWA) is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to advance the health and well-being of our community and the economic vitality of our wellness sector with the vision to transform Houston into a widely-modeled, innovative city of healthy living.
BioHouston, Inc., a non-profit, tax-exempt [§501(c)(3)] corporation, was founded by Houston-region academic/research institutions. We are leading a broad effort to establish the Houston region as a vigorous global competitor in life science and biotechnology commercialization.
Houston-based Champion Energy Services ranks in the top five nonutility-affiliated retail electric providers in the United States and among the top 20 retail electricity companies in the nation. The company serves commercial, industrial, and residential customers in Texas and Illinois, with plans to enter five additional deregulated markets.
Crane Worldwide is a single-source provider of global transportation and logistic services. These core competencies allow us to align our wide range of service options with our customers' supply chains in order to streamline their processes and maximize efficiencies. Using our knowledge of the industry and expertise in the global marketplace, we can adapt our service offerings to provide vertical market integration and supply chain collaboration to achieve market leadership for our clients.
Since 1980, Precision Task Group, Inc. (PTG) has provided clients with cost-effective solutions for the management and processing of information. With offices in Houston, Texas and Washington D.C., PTG offers a broad range of technology services to numerous Fortune 500 companies, higher education organizations, state/local, and federal agencies.
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