Bonus Episode | NWA Tech Summit Live, Featuring Andres Lazarte, Aaron Ivy, Amir Hoss, Liam La Fargue & Eugene Park

SummaryThe NWA Tech Summit is the Heartland’s premier technology conference and serves to enhance, prepare, and diversify the local Northwest Arkansas economy. In its ninth year, the NWA Tech Summit came back with 1,700 registered attendees when it returned in-person to downtown Bentonville. The NWA Tech Summit is an event hosted by the Greater Bentonville Area Chamber of Commerce, and it is supported by the Walton Family Foundation, Northwest Arkansas Council, Walmart, J. B. Hunt, Tyson Foods, Salesforce, and the University of Arkansas Blockchain Center of Excellence.
Show Notes(0:54) Introduction to Andres Lazarte(5:43) Introduction to Aaron Ivy(15:52) Introduction to Amir Hoss(25:25) Introduction to Liam La Fargue(38:15) Introduction to Eugene Park(47:03) Closing Thoughts
LinksJames BellBentonville Economic DevelopmentNorthwest Arkansas Technology SummitAndres LazarteHarry Lazarte, MDBasis HealthAaron IvyCatalyzeH2OAmir HossEAIGLELiam La FargueMycelium NetworksEugene ParkKitestring Technical ServicesNorthwest Arkansas Square 2 Square Bike RideOnyx Coffee LabPlug And Play Tech Center Northwest Arkansas21c Museum Hotel - Bentonville8th Street MarketBike Rack Brewing Co.Bentonville BrewingOsage ParkBuddy PegsColer Mountain Bike PreserveAirship Coffee at Coler
Quotes“You get the best of both worlds. You have all the innovators and you have all the resources from Walmart and all the other companies. That culture made it a no-brainer to build [Basis Health] here…There’s a lot of other places in the world I could probably be, but Bentonville is the only place where I can walk down the street and go fishing in the morning and meet billion dollars of investment money in the afternoon.” - Andres Lazarte, (3:52)
“I’ll lead in with talking about how incredible Northwest Arkansas is. It’s really all become one community with different sub-sectors and cultures within that. Rogers, Bella Vista, Bentonville and Fayetteville are all very different from each other but are very much one big economic powerhouse.” - Aaron Ivy, (11:52)
“What I’ve been seeing is that a lot of executives and enterprises we have relationships with