A Conversation with Dan Lloyd, Program Director, Accelerate Long Island

Episode 11 of the Spark: The InnovateLI Podcast podcast, hosted by InnovateLI, titled "A Conversation with Dan Lloyd, Program Director, Accelerate Long Island" was published on December 8, 2025 and runs 38 minutes.

December 8, 2025 ·38m · Spark: The InnovateLI Podcast

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Summary

Long Island has the cutting-edge laboratories, the world-class talent, the technological know-how, the proud manufacturing history – everything it needs to be a hub of 21st Century R&D and venture investment. But with cornerstone institutions all over its wide-spread map – Nassau Suffolk, North Shore, South Shore – it sometimes lacks the cohesion of a New York City or a Silicon Valley. Enter ambitious nonprofit business booster Accelerate Long Island, now 15 years into its mission to unify all this next-level R&D into a well-oiled nexus for both entrepreneurs and investors.In today’s episode, Accelerate Long Island Program Director Dan Lloyd – the “civic entrepreneur” who also founded the successful community-oriented nonprofit Minority Millennials – discusses the challenges of melding Long Island’s far-flung innovation landscape into a single entity (plus the joys of family and, arguably, New Jersey’s most famous sandwich).

Episode Description

But with cornerstone institutions all over its wide-spread map – Nassau Suffolk, North Shore, South Shore – it sometimes lacks the cohesion of a New York City or a Silicon Valley.

Enter ambitious nonprofit business booster Accelerate Long Island, now 15 years into its mission to unify all this next-level R&D into a well-oiled nexus for both entrepreneurs and investors.

In today’s episode, Accelerate Long Island Program Director Dan Lloyd – the “civic entrepreneur” who also founded the successful community-oriented nonprofit Minority Millennials – discusses the challenges of melding Long Island’s far-flung innovation landscape into a single entity (plus the joys of family and, arguably, New Jersey’s most famous sandwich).