Emily Adams is the COO of Tampa Bay Tech Week and Managing Partner of HyLo Inno, an innovation and investment firm focused on closing gaps in the Tampa Bay tech ecosystem. In addition to consulting on accelerators, funding, and community building, she leads protected skunkworks engagements for manufacturers and growth-stage companies through Gulf Works Lab. Her personal story explains her extraordinary success. At age seventeen, Emily escaped an Amish community that controlled everything about her life. She had only a sixth-grade education and a dream of being a "corporate woman." From there, she built a career spanning automotive manufacturing, cybersecurity, entrepreneurship, and now the innovation infrastructure of one of the fastest-growing cities in America. Emily shares what it took to save $1.5 million at Honda, what proof stacking is and why it works, and why the most underrated asset in any career pivot is the skills you already have. Jack Clabby and co-host Kayley Jerrell talk with Emily about building Tampa Bay Tech Week from scratch in four months with a team of six volunteers, what went right and wrong in year one, and why a centralized space where founders, operators, and investors can build something together had been missing from Tampa. She also explains human design, why she is a manifester, and what that means for the people around her. In the Lifestyle Polygraph, Emily talks about competing in powerlifting at the world level, what she does during downtime, why her favorite Tampa thing is cigar lounges, and why her leap of faith is far from her defining moment. Follow Emily on LinkedIn and learn more at gulfworkslab.com and tampabaytechweek.com Presented by @ThreatLocker Supported by @derscanner
Emily Adams is the COO of Tampa Bay Tech Week and Managing Partner of HyLo Inno, an innovation and investment firm focused on closing gaps in the Tampa Bay tech ecosystem. In addition to consulting on accelerators, funding, and community building, she leads protected skunkworks engagements for manufacturers and growth-stage companies through Gulf Works Lab.
Her personal story explains her extraordinary success. At age seventeen, Emily escaped an Amish community that controlled everything about her life. She had only a sixth-grade education and a dream of being a "corporate woman." From there, she built a career spanning automotive manufacturing, cybersecurity, entrepreneurship, and now the innovation infrastructure of one of the fastest-growing cities in America.
Emily shares what it took to save $1.5 million at Honda, what proof stacking is and why it works, and why the most underrated asset in any career pivot is the skills you already have.
Jack Clabby and co-host Kayley Jerrell talk with Emily about building Tampa Bay Tech Week from scratch in four months with a team of six volunteers, what went right and wrong in year one, and why a centralized space where founders, operators, and investors can build something together had been missing from Tampa. She also explains human design, why she is a manifester, and what that means for the people around her.
In the Lifestyle Polygraph, Emily talks about competing in powerlifting at the world level, what she does during downtime, why her favorite Tampa thing is cigar lounges, and why her leap of faith is far from her defining moment.
Follow Emily on LinkedIn and learn more at gulfworkslab.com and tampabaytechweek.com
Presented by ThreatLocker
Supported by Derscanner
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction to Cybersecurity and Resilience
02:34 Emily Adams: A Journey of Discovery and Innovation
11:14 Transitioning from Manufacturing to Cybersecurity
14:23 Tampa Bay Tech Week: A New Era in Tech Events
21:57 Navigating Success and Failure in Business
23:36 The Power of Transferable Skills
26:05 Lifestyle Polygraph: Insights into Emily's Mindset