Colorado Startup Week 2026

Another CSW has come and gone. This was my first year as a speaker. There were definitely some lessons learned. For instance, and this is the BIG ONE, make sure the address is correct! First, apologies to those registrants who signed up and went to the wrong location. 999 E 18th St, which apparently was a hospital, was not correct. 999 18th St. Tower 1 Suite 115 in the Denver Place building was correct. When I created the event via CSW’s planner it pre-populated with the hospital address. I wasn’t familiar enough with downtown Denver to notice the difference. Why would Denver do such a thing?

Second, after attendees informed me of the wrong address, I fixed it on the site, but an approval didn’t happen on time. Third, speakers were not given a list of registrants names and contact info. Otherwise, I would have immediately sent out a group message to notify registrants. Frankly, that was failure of CSW organizers. There really should be a way to connect and network with people interested in the speaker’s presentation pre- and post-event. I could only see the number of attendees.

I would have loved to have 25-30 people attend my event. That would have been 25-30 people who gained better cybersecurity knowledge that is accessible and shareable. I do, however, deeply appreciate the people who hoofed it over from the hospital and made it over to Denver Place to attend. I appreciated your patience and participation. I hope you learned something new and can bring that back to your businesses and share with staff.

In order to resolve this and still provide security awareness, I recorded my presentation and posted it to YouTube to make it up to you. I don’t want you to miss out on this critical knowledge that can help you protect your business, data, identity and IP. Check out the CSW 2026 video. Connect with me. Reach out to me with any questions. Feel free to attend our next VIRTUAL workshops in October and November, which are posted on my Workshops page.