Vinny Tafuro (holding plaque) and other founders of the Gasparilla Interactive Festival receive a proclamation from the Hillsborough Board of County Commissioners declaring March 6, 2015 “Gasparilla Interactive Festival Day.”
Founders of the Gasparilla Interactive Festival were in attendance at the meeting of the Hillsborough Board of County Commissioners on February 18 as the board proclaimed March 6, 2015 “Gasparilla Interactive Festival Day” in honor of the inaugural events inclusion to Gasparilla Arts Month.
“GIF is extremely honored to receive this recognition today,” says Vinny Tafuro, the executive director of the Gasparilla Interactive Festival (GIF).
The proclamation is the most recent accolade for the Tampa interactive festival. GIF has been featured in local news outlets. Just this week, Tafuro was interviewed as part of Bay News 9’s “In Depth” segment and the Tampa edition of Creative Loafing focused on the festival in its Gasparilla Arts Month coverage.
(To watch the clip online, click here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X06R72hap0&feature=youtu.be)
From Hillsborough County, GIF received a $25,000 grant from the county’s Economic Development Innovation Initiative (EDi2). The festival is being promoted throughout the southeast with help from community partners and using donated advertising dollars.
“The community has continued to show us support and we hope to reward that support with a great festival for all attendees,” said Tafuro.
The inaugural Gasparilla Interactive Festival will be a one day speaker-series and expo on March 6, giving local entrepreneurs and professionals a front row seat as they hear national speakers talk about digital innovation and technology coupled with round table discussions about innovation’s regional impact.
The festival is the latest addition to the March “Gasparilla Arts Month” schedule. The Gasparilla Festival of the Arts runs February 28 through March 1 with GIF on March 6 and the Gasparilla Music Festival March 7 and March 8. The festival season ends with the Gasparilla International Film Festival taking place March 24 through March 29.
Confirmed speakers for GIF include Faris Yakob, founder of Genius Steals LLC; Joanna Lord, VP of marketing at Porch; Peter Shankman, founder at ShankMinds Business Masterminds; Savannah Peterson, global community manager at Shapeways and Al Pittampalli, author of “Read This Before Our Next Meeting.”
Topics will include innovative technology, digital advertising and entrepreneurship.
The festival’s opening party will be the #collabTB (Q1 Tech & Entrepreneur Peer Networking Event) at District 3 by Collaborative Technologies of Tampa Bay on Thursday, March 5. The festival’s wrap-up party will be held at the Channelside Bay Plaza featuring music from the Gasparilla Music Festival.
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About The Gasparilla Interactive Festival: The Gasparilla Interactive Festival (GIF) is Tampa Bay’s showcase for cutting-edge technologies, digital innovation, and entrepreneurial inspiration. The festival features compelling presentations and forums from the brightest minds in emerging technology, interactive media, and disruptive entrepreneurialism and includes exciting networking events hosted by industry leaders. The festival is organized by the Gasparilla Interactive Festival Inc., a Florida non-profit organization founded by leadership members of the American Advertising Federation and Ad 2 Tampa Bay chapters. The festival is a community event and is made possible through the collaboration of Tampa Bay’s public, private, non-profit, and academic institutions.
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