Jacqueline Hughes

Founder, Austin Startup Week

Austin

Jacqueline loves creating extraordinary experiences, meaningful moments, and connecting people through events. She's specialized in logistics, organization, attendee experience and programming and has managed events ranging from 30 person intimate retreats to 7,500 attendee blowouts. She's the founder of Austin Startup Week, a five-day community-focused event, that she created and has co-produced since 2011. Most recently she's joined Kauffman Fellows as overseeing event management for their program modules and yearly Summit. Prior to joining Kauffman Fellows, she spent 5 years with Techstars overseeing global event operations where she helped build the event program and managed events and conferences worldwide including the US, Europe, South America, Asia, Middle East. When she's not working, she spends her time catching up on the latest Netflix shows, trying to find the best wine, and creating personal travel and adventure itineraries.