Sloss Tech

The heat is on! Meet the 16 founders competing for $135,000 in prizes at the Sloss.Tech/Ideas Pitch Competition, powered by the Regions Foundation, a nonprofit backed primarily by Regions Bank.

🔥 Josh Waddell — Visalaw.AI
🔥 Aiko Pickering — monthly
🔥 Jack Kloeber — MicroMGx
🔥 Jessi Roesch — Downland
🔥 Laura Epstein — Pulse Charter Connect
🔥 Marcus Wade — Genesis 1 Technologies
🔥 Oscar R. Garcia — Need2Say
🔥 Afreen Allam — SiNON Nano Sciences
🔥 Derek Saltzman — Soarce, Inc.
🔥 Bryan Davis — BeneDoc
🔥 Dr. Stevens Bonhomme — FeedCoyote
🔥 Akhil Suresh Nair — Xena Intelligence
🔥 Paul Thomas — Numadx
🔥 David Hojah — Parrots Medical
🔥 Brian Henderson — ecobrew
🔥 Kenneth Dale Speetjens — Shipshape AgWorks

These founders are bringing their best to the Lyric Theatre on June 24 — and we'll be watching to see who walks away with the $100K Best in Show Grand Prize.
Grab your tickets at sloss.tech and see it go down live.

The heat is on! Meet the 16 founders competing for $135,000 in prizes at the Sloss.Tech/Ideas Pitch Competition, powered by the Regions Foundation, a nonprofit backed primarily by Regions Bank.

🔥 Josh Waddell — VisaLaw AI
🔥 Aiko Pickering — monthly
🔥 Jack Kloeber — MicroMGx
🔥 Jessi Roesch — Downland
🔥 Laura Epstein — Pulse Charter Connect
🔥 Marcus Wade — Genesis 1 Technologies
🔥 Oscar R. Garcia — Need2Say
🔥 Afreen Allam — SiNON Nano Sciences
🔥 Derek Saltzman — Soarce, Inc.
🔥 Bryan Davis — BeneDoc
🔥 Dr. Stevens Bonhomme — FeedCoyote
🔥 Akhil Suresh Nair — Xena Intelligence
🔥 Paul Thomas — Numadx
🔥 David Hojah — Parrots Medical
🔥 Brian Henderson — ecobrew
🔥 Kenneth Dale Speetjens — Shipshape AgWorks

These founders are bringing their best to the Lyric Theatre on June 24 — and we’ll be watching to see who walks away with the $100K Best in Show Grand Prize.

Grab your tickets at sloss.tech and see it go down live.

The Sloss Tech breakout sessions are where the real conversations happen. 🔥

At two iconic Birmingham venues — Sidewalk Cinema and Innovation Depot — speakers are getting into the full spectrum of what it takes to build, lead, and grow in tech.

A few sessions on the lineup:
💡 Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: Leading, Building, and Belonging in Tech
💡 Not in Silicon Valley — And That's the Advantage: The Network Powering Startup Growth
💡 Code Isn't Neutral: Why Culture Must Shape Tech
💡 The Quantum Shift: Is Your Business Ready for the Next Big Disruption?

Plus SO much more. 👀

This is where founders, operators, and builders go deep. June 24-26 in Downtown Birmingham.

Tickets at sloss.tech 🎟️

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Sponsorship spots for Sloss Tech 2026 are filling up. ⚡️

1,400+ founders, developers, funders, and industry leaders will be in Downtown Birmingham June 24-26 — and your brand can be part of it.

If you've been thinking about it, now's the time to move.
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That look when your pitch lands. 🤩

This is what the Southeast’s premier pitch competition is all about — founders stepping on stage, making their case, and walking away with something they didn't have before. Whether that's a check, a connection, or just the confidence that comes from owning the room.

Sloss.Tech/Ideas is powered by the Regions Foundation, a nonprofit backed primarily by Regions Bank. This year's competition goes down June 24 at the Lyric Theatre in Birmingham. We can't wait to see who's next!

The judges are in. ⚡️

Sloss.Tech/Ideas— the Southeast's premier pitch competition — is powered by the Regions Foundation, a nonprofit backed primarily by Regions Bank. 16 finalists take the stage June 24th at the Lyric Theatre in Birmingham, and here's who's doing the deciding:

🏆 Marta Mendes-Miguel, Executive Director, Regions Foundation
🏆 Allyson Eman, CEO, Venture Atlanta
🏆 Kwamena Aidoo, Co-Founder + Managing Partner, Corridor Ventures
🏆 Sháka Rasheed, General Partner, Open Opportunity Fund

$135,000 in prizes. One stage. Let's go. 🔥

Founders, the clock is ticking! ⏰

Applications for the Sloss.Tech on Tap X Startup Showcase, in partnership with Innovation Depot, close this Friday, May 29 — and spots are going fast.

Selected startups will have the opportunity to showcase their companies in front of investors, partners, and regional collaborators at one of Birmingham's biggest tech events of the year.

If you haven't applied yet, now is the time. Head to the link before the deadline hits. sloss.tech

That feeling when Sloss Tech is less than ONE MONTH away! 😎 🗓️

Don't have tickets yet? Grab yours now at sloss.tech.

Sloss.Tech/Dev is back! ⚡

Two days at the McWane Science Center, presented by Motion Industries. Real code, real lessons, and real talk from the builders and engineers shaping the future of software.

A few of this year's sessions include:

🔧 Developers Are Becoming Product Managers: What AI Actually Changes
🔧 Building Multi-Tenant Architectures on Kubernetes
🔧 Designing in the Age of AI: What Actually Matters (and What Doesn't)
🔧 The Mentorship Multiplier: Sponsorship, Advocacy, and the Relationships That Accelerate Careers
..and more.

Whether you're shipping production systems, leading a team, or sharpening your craft — Sloss.Tech/Dev is built for the people behind the build. Hosted in partnership with BASE Birmingham.

Get your tickets at sloss.tech 🎟️