Chris McCann is the CEO and Co-Founder of StartupDigest, the fastest growing media company for startup and technology events and conferences worldwide. StartupDigest publishes a weekly email newsletter of the best events now in 45 cities around the world (SF Bay Area, NYC, Paris, London, Shanghai, etc) and 3 Universities (Stanford, NYU, and Columbia) with 56,000 subscribers.

Chris McCann is an entrepreneur, writer, and general activist in the international entrepreneurial community. He is a Mentor & Board of Advisor for SSE Labs (Stanford Venture Fund), led social media strategy for TEDx Silicon Valley, organized Geeks on a Plane Tokyo 2009, led the entrepreneurial programs at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and started Innovation Quest's incubator an Cal Poly alumni initiative.

As a sought-after speaker in US, Asia, and the Middle East, McCann is recognized worldwide for radically new ways about thinking about startup events as an entry point to a life of entrepreneurship and realizing the full potential of the human spirit.

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