It's New Orleans: Out To Lunch

Today we ve relocated our lunch table from our usual spot in the Garden District to downtown New Orleans. We re at Idea Village s annual Entrepreneur Week. Idea Village is an independent nonprofit organization with a mission to identify, support, and retain entrepreneurial talent in New Orleans. They describe Entrepreneur Week as an annual business festival, celebrating entrepreneurship, innovation, and advanced thinking. Summer Suleiman. Summer moved back to her native New Orleans after working at CNN as an international news producer. Idea Village was smart enough to snag her and today Summer is the creator and curator of an online blog called The Distillery a unique community meeting place for entrepreneurs with an interest in the unvarnished truth about business. Lowry Curley turned his Tulane Ph.D study of building a human cell into the ground breaking pharma testing technology, AxoSim. Stacy Cannon somehow miraculously turned a background in sociology into Grok and Banter, a tech based company that is a