Brad Feld, a managing director at Boulder-based Foundry Group, a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage software and Internet companies, will be the featured speaker at the Business Leaders Lunch at the Bixpo business exposition, to be held Wednesday, Sept. 26, at the Embassy Suites conference center, 4705 Clydesdale Parkway, Loveland.

Feld is also the co-founder of TechStars, a mentor-driven accelerator, and author of several books and blogs.

He has been an early-stage investor and entrepreneur since 1987. Feld serves on the board of directors of a number of companies including BigDoor, Cheezburger, Fitbit, FullContact and Gnip.

In addition to his investing efforts, Feld has been active with several nonprofit organizations and is chairman of the National Center for Women and Information Technology, co-chairman of Startup Colorado, and on the boards of Startup Weekend and the Application Developers Alliance.

A graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an avid art collector, Feld is a nationally recognized speaker on venture-capital investing and entrepreneurship and writes the widely read blogs Feld Thoughts and Ask the VC.

Feld's presentation at Bixpo is sponsored by Kaiser Permanente.

Bixpo, hosted by the Northern Colorado Business Report, the Boulder County Business Report and the Wyoming Business Report, now is in its eighth year.

The expo's lineup of events, speakers, workshops and exhibitor displays covers a diverse range of business topics, services and products.

The first event of the day is the Northern Colorado Regional Issues Summit, hosted by the chambers of commerce for Fort Collins, Loveland and Greeley, as well as the Northern Colorado Economic Development Corp. and Upstate Colorado Economic Development. This ticketed breakfast event will start at 7:30 a.m.

For information about tickets to the Business Leaders Lunch, contact De Dahlgren at ddahlgren@ncbr.com or 970-232-3132. To be a Bixpo sponsor or an exhibitor, contact Sales Director Sandy Powell at spowell@ncbr.com or 970-232-3144.