Launch Week Pitch Competition and Featured Speaker Dallas Haselhorst
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Launch Week Pitch Competition and Featured Speaker Dallas Haselhorst, 2024 SBA Kansas Small Business Person of the Year
The Launch Week 2026 Pitch Competition will spotlight promising Kansas entrepreneurs as they take the stage to pitch their businesses, sharpen their stories, connect with the entrepreneurial ecosystem, and compete before a live audience and panel of judges.
While the judges tally their scores, we’ll hear from featured speaker Dallas Haselhorst, the 2024 SBA Kansas Small Business Person of the Year and 2025 Hays Chamber Entrepreneur of the Year. An information security engineer, researcher, and serial entrepreneur with more than 25 years of IT and cybersecurity experience, Dallas has built, sold, and launched multiple ventures, including TreeTop Security. He also co-organizes BSidesKC and founded STEM Harvest, creating opportunities for the next generation of technology and business leaders.
What if your worst professional setback turned out to be your greatest opportunity? Dallas will share how navigating mass layoffs became the catalyst for entrepreneurship, business ownership, and community impact—and how one unexpected turn can open the door to building something bigger.
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