Carlisle's duties will include developing new entrepreneurial programs and working with existing events such as Startup Weekend and 1 Million Cups. Roughly 80 percent of the chamber's membership is defined as a small business.

Arkansas entrepreneurs Jordan Carlisle and Max Farrell attended a Startup Weekend in Kansas City back in 2011 and left convinced that they needed to bring the event to their hometown. On April 5, they'll see their vision realized as Startup Weekend Little Rock takes over the Clinton School of Public Service.

"Jordan Carlisle's new gig with the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce wasn't much of a stretch. After all, he already was working with the Arkansas Venture Center out of space donated by the Chamber, and the new duties mirror his agenda as a local startup champion."

The 54-hour event, at which ideas are turned into potential tech-based startup ventures, is scheduled for Sept. 12-14 from the Charles Morgan Auditorium at Acxiom's River Market corporate headquarters.

"1 Million Cups Little Rock announced that Spencer Jones, Kim Lane, Eyona Mitchell, and Tim Freeman will lead the weekly program as community organizers. Outgoing organizers Jordan Carlisle, Mike Steely, Nicholas Norfolk, and Susie Cowan inducted the new organizers at a special 1 Million Cups event at the Venture Center earlier this month."

The entrepreneurial juggernaut Startup Weekend returns to central Arkansas this week. Startup Weekend Little Rock 2014 will start at 6:30 p.m. Friday at Acxiom's River Market District corporate headquarters and run through Sunday night."

Little Rock organizers behind House of Genius are serial entrepreneurs Bernie Baskin of Bespoke Media Group; Jordan Carlisle, formerly director of entrepreneurship at the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce; and John Slattery.

The Greater Bentonville Area Chamber of Commerce announced on Tuesday the addition of Jordan Carlisle as vice president of economic development and entrepreneurship.

"The Greater Bentonville Area Chamber of Commerce announced Tuesday (June 4) the hiring of Jordan Carlisle of Little Rock as its new vice president of economic development and entrepreneurship."

This episode of the Startup Junkies Podcasts contains four mini-episodes featuring mentors and participants of the 2019 Northwest Arkansas Startup Weekend. Hosts Jeff Amerine, Haley Allgood, and Chandler Abbott sit down with mentors Kent Watson of Metova, Jordan Carlisle of the Greater Bentonville Area Chamber of Commerce...

The sixth annual Northwest Arkansas Technology Summit will be an opportunity for those new to technology, young professionals learning about it or those working in the field to connect with and learn from leaders who are on the cutting edge of technology on a global scale, said Jordan Carlisle, vice president of economic development and entrepreneurship at the Greater Bentonville Area Chamber of Commerce.

Jordan Carlisle has resigned from the Greater Bentonville Area Chamber of Commerce and accepted a job as director of technology for the new healthcare organization ramping up in Bentonville, called Whole Health Institute (WHI).