{"id":2404085,"date":"2026-05-06T03:02:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T03:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2404085"},"modified":"2026-05-06T03:02:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T03:02:18","slug":"oh-io-delaying-october-2026-tech-entertainment-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/oh-io-delaying-october-2026-tech-entertainment-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"OH.io delaying October 2026 tech, entertainment festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"videoWrap\" class=\"spacer-large videoWrap\" style=\"position:relative\"><media-video video-id=\"89880697007\" title=\"Top headlines of the week, May 1 2026\" poster=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/04\/14\/NCOD\/89613481007-downtown-skyline-04.JPG?crop=3547,1994,x26,y0\" util-module-path=\"elements\/media\" placement=\"snow-video-story-priority\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"uwVideoPlaceholder\" slot=\"placeholder\" style=\"z-index:19;width:100%;padding-bottom:56.25%;position:relative\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"vidplaybtn\" style=\"display:-moz-box;display:-ms-flexbox;display:-webkit-flex;display:flex;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,.4);border:2px solid #fff;border-radius:80px;cursor:pointer;height:80px;width:80px;position:absolute;top:50%;left:50%;transform:translate(-50%,-50%);z-index:10\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div slot=\"videoDetails\" id=\"videoDetails\" class=\"videoDetails\" style=\"padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:8px\">\n<div id=\"videoDetailsContainer\" class=\"videoDetailsContainer\" hidden=\"\">\n<p>Top headlines of the week, May 1 2026<\/p>\n<p>Here are some stories you may have missed this week in central Ohio.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/media-video><\/div>\n<p>A high-profile Ohio tech startup aiming to bring AI companies to Columbus will postpone their entertainment and tech festival in the wake of layoffs and a pending lawsuit accusing the company&#8217;s founder of firing former executives to avoid sharing in future profits.<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"600\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\" momentum=\"\"\/>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/oh.io\/\">OH.io Ventures Inc.<\/a>, an artificial intelligence startup that officially launched in February, is now looking toward 2027 at the earliest to host its entertainment and tech festival. The company drew attention with its announcement to attract at least 100 AI startups to the Columbus region over the next five years. They also announced they would be holding their tech and entertainment festival in October 2026 to attract national and global attention to Columbus that would bring together founders, investors, and industry leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Husted, son of U.S. Sen. Jon Husted and OH.io interim managing director, told The Dispatch May 5 that the goal is still to turn Columbus into the country&#8217;s leading AI hub, but current company leadership needs to &#8220;regroup internally&#8221; and reevaluate their priorities before continuing with the festival.<\/p>\n<partner-inline util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" class=\"spacer-large\" placement=\"native-article_link\" sizes=\"[[300, 250], [3, 3]]\" min-height=\"250\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\"\/>\n<p>&#8220;Our main objective is to source great [AI] companies to Ohio,&#8221; Husted said. The company is considering hosting the event sometime in 2027, but Husted said they had not hammered out a particular timeline.<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" fluid=\"\" bottom=\"\" lazy=\"\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"390\" outstream=\"\"\/>\n<p>The delay in the tech festival <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/story\/news\/courts\/2026\/04\/29\/oh-io-tech-ai-venture-founder-ratmir-timashev-sued-by-former-executives\/89837641007\/\">comes after three former employees filed a lawsuit against the nascent startup<\/a> on April 14 in Franklin County Common Pleas Court, accusing the company&#8217;s billionaire founder, Ratmir Timashev, of luring them from lucrative jobs to draw publicity and then firing them to avoid sharing in future profits. OH.io has filed a motion to have the lawsuit dismissed with prejudice.<\/p>\n<p>The company also laid off a total of 10 people in mid-April, representing around a quarter of its staff, according to Melanie Sloan, a spokesperson for the company.<\/p>\n<p><cta-atoms-container-inline util-module-path=\"elements\/cta\" class=\"spacer-large\"\/><\/p>\n<p><em>Reporter Shahid Meighan can be reached at\u00a0smeighan@dispatch.com, at ShahidMeighan on X, and at\u00a0shahidthereporter.dispatch.com\u00a0on Bluesky.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<lit-timestamp class=\"column ten-column no-gutter spacer-small\" slot=\"timestamp\" publishdate=\"2026-05-06 00:35:53.28434142 +0000 UTC\" updatedate=\"2026-05-06 00:35:53.28434142 +0000 UTC\"\/><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.dispatch.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top headlines of the week, May 1 2026 Here are some stories you may have missed this week in central Ohio. 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