The Arizona startup community is not messing around with its first-ever Arizona Tech Week. With over 250 events on the calendar, there will be something for everyone. This blog post single place to share links to register for the events PADT is involved with, and explain more about #AZTechWeek:
Event’s PADT Is Involved In
Advice for Advisors
Monday, 4/6/2026 | 7:30 am – 9:00 am | PADT’s Tempe Offices
Kick off Arizona Tech Week with this informative seminar, discussion, and networking breakfast featuring longtime ecosystem advisors/mentors Michelle Howard (CEI), Noreen Scheu (XLR8 PBC), and Eric Miller (ACA). The session is for those who are or want to be mentors or advisors to tech startups in Arizona, not consultants or fractional executives. We will share how to partner with startups to deliver value-added advice and connections, avoid the most common causes of mentoring failure, and explore different mentoring and advising options. It is also a chance for you to meet others who are active mentors in the ecosystem.
Arizona HardTech: It’s Different
Tuesday, 4/7/2026 | 8 am – 12 pm | CEI’s Phoenix Campus
CEI and PADT are teaming up for a morning of serious talk about the unique challenges hard tech startups face in funding, getting to launch, and dealing with the hard, cold realities of bringing a physical product to market. This four-hour event is focused on startup founders and their key team members, although anyone interested in the hardtech journey to success is invited. We will start and finish with networking, and have three distinct but synergistic sessions:
– Getting to Funding and Launch Faster with Simulation (PADT)
– Funding Realities and Options for Hardware Startups (CEI + PADT)
– Advice for the Hardware Founder’s Journey (CEI)
This talk is industry agnostic, and people interested in any vertical, including medtech, aerospace/defense, sustainability, energy, electronics, and more will find the information interesting, useful, and actionable. We will have time for Q&A and open discussions, as well as a chance to meet other people interested in hard tech.
Data Centric Approach to Radical Innovation
Wednesday, 4/8/2026 | 3 pm | Canyon Venture Lecture Hall, GCU
Data is easier to access than ever. Come learn about new perspectives on leveraging data to uncover radical solutions to some of the world’s most compelling challenges.
Rethinking Engines
Thursday, 4/9/2026 | 12 pm – 3 pm | TBD
Data is easier to access than ever. Come learn about new perspectives on leveraging data to uncover radical solutions to some of the world’s most compelling challenges.
Data is easier to access than ever. Come learn about new perspectives on leveraging data to uncover radical solutions to some of the world’s most compelling challenges.
About Arizona Tech Week
Arizona Tech Week is a statewide decentralized gathering of the Arizona startup ecosystem, and hundreds of people from outside of the state who want to learn more. It brings together the best and brightest from around the world to share future-forward perspectives on tech, entrepreneurship, breakthroughs, and more.
Each event is the responsibility of the host, and the Arizona Commerce Authority is coordinating the calendar and promoting everything.
Learn more about AZTechWeek on the landing page.
And you can view the 250+ events around the state on the Calendar Page
PADT’s team will be out and about and we hope to run into you at various events.
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