VIRTUAL EVENT SERIES
GeeksTap is a live virtual event at 10 AM CST every Wednesday.
Each week features a new speaker in venture capital, tech, finance, or entrepreneurship, followed by networking within our community of investors, founders, and players in tech.
GeeksTap was formerly DiffuseTap, and has been running for 4+ years with over 200 sessions.
Know someone with an interesting point of view, experience, or insight who should be in the GeeksTap spotlight? 
Agriculture’s Time Machine: How New Tractor Tech Is Shaping the Future of African Farming
DECEMBER 18, 2024
jehiel Oliver - CEO, hello tractor
How IoT, captive finance, and a novel agtech ecosystem is changing farming for the better.Resource poor farmers often face labor constraints that result in under cultivation, late planting, and lost income.
Hello Tractor facilitates convenient and affordable tractor services to these farmers while providing additional income by turning tractor's into Smart Tractors.
AI Uncovered: Transforming ID Verification, Angel Investing, and Behavioral Insights
January 8, 2025
Vassilis Papakonstantinou, Partner at Blue Dome Capital
All things AI - How it is changing the traditional identification process, how it can help angel investors navigate where to invest during the discovery process, and a broader look on why why we need AI for behavior learnings.
You can find all past virtual events on DiffuseTap
Uncovering the Cyber Security Risks in AI
chenxi wang - managing general partner, rain capital
DECEMBER 11, 2024
How AI is fundamentally changing the game of cyber security - funders and attackers.The risk of AI is tremendous for society.The transformative opportunities in the cyber security industry.
HOW WE’RE UN-F**ING SOCIAL MEDIA
ZOE KALAR - co-founder/CEO, WEARE8
DECEMBER 4, 2024
What’s wrong with social media - Humanity has been in an abusive relationship with social media for the last 15 years.How a different model can try and right some core issues in our culture, and how blockchain may play into this vision.
How is Decentralization Changing Science
erin magennis - co-founder, musematrix
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
What is Decentralized Science?
How is blockchain revolutionizing DeSci?
How to make cosmic returns in space tech
Ross Hamilton - coo, Scottish space network
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
What are the pockets of Space Tech?
What's hot and what's not?
The future of Industry in space.
What the US Can Learn from India's Fintech InfrastructurE
NEHA SINGH - Co-founder, tracxn
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
India’s fintech has grown over the years, but what did they do differently?
How UPI growth changed the face of fintech in India.
why the vc structure sucks
Michael Blakey, managing partner, cocoon capital
novemeber 6, 2024
Why is early stage investment space so spray and pray?
Are early stage VCs actually active investors or are we just pretending?
how to launch a vc firm
Asher Siddiqui - general partner, sukna ventures
October 30, 2024
How to be/spot a high performing GP?
What are the biggest obstacles that keep a VC from launching his fund?
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Our Geek Alumni Stephanie Shorter and Susanna Dokupil hosted a lovely Geeks reunion at the Powder Room in Austin, Texas!
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A huge thank you to our host, Andrew Chen, our co-hosts Chok Ooi and Mehak D., and our surprise special guest, former Presidential Candidate and Founder of the Forward Party, Andrew Yang!
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We had our first ever Chicago Meetup, hosted by Chief Geek Kenny Estes, Geek Alum Rob Topping, CFA, and our newest Geek Dennis Chookaszian, who welcomed the community to Double Clutch Brewing Company and took us on a tour of his incredible car collection!
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