Ascent 2019 - Manhattan | Ascent Conference | 7 October 2019 | Sheraton Times Square Hotel, 811 7th Avenue, W 53rd St, New York, 10019, USA

Ascent is a 2-day conference focused on bringing together senior leaders in the East Coast tech community to learn, collaborate, and build the relationships needed to spearhead meaningful change. We’ve curated an experience that the industry needs, focused on education and networking that will help accelerate innovation. Ascent 2019 will be the intersection of four conferences under one roof...

• Startup Grad School
Your 2 Day MBA
All the most important parts of entrepreneurship: In-depth best practices on finances & accounting, legal, recruiting, raising capital, sales, and much more.

• VC & Investing
Ascent is the largest gathering of VC & Angels on the East Coast. We've carved out an entire track devoted to networking with fellow investors & LPs, in addition to an investor-only lounge, party, and stage focused on topics related to investment strategy.

• Growth & Marketing
All marketers and founders will be swimming to the front row at the Growth Stage to learn from the world’s brightest minds in marketing, sales, and overall business growth practices.

• SaaSummit
SaaS companies were our largest demographic at Ascent 2018. So we’re bringing a full track devoted to SaaS-based content, from tactics to land your first 10 enterprise customers, to discussions on the biggest emerging opportunities in software services.

2019 Speakers

Andy Yang
CEO, Indiegogo

Deirdre Bigley
CMO, Bloomberg

Carl Tsukahara
CMO, Optimizely

Alex Solomon
CTO & Co-founder, Pagerduty

Jenn Ogden-reese
CMO, Seatgeek

Jager Mcconnell
CEO, Crunchbase

Jascha Kaykas-wolff
CMO, Mozilla

Falon Fatemi
Founder & CEO, Node.io

Christina Bechhold Russ
Director, Ventures, Samsung Next

Henry Blodget
Co-founder & CEO, Business Insider

Jeff Titterton
CMO, Zendesk

Katie Bullard
President & Chief Growth Officer, Discoverorg

Trei Brundrett
COO, Vox Media

David Siegel
CEO, Meetup

Peter Boyce
VC, General Catalyst

Laura Chau
Partner, Canaan Partners

Marlon Nichols
Founder & Managing Partner, Cross Culture Ventures

Julie Hansen
CEO US, Babbel

Mark Rostick
Sr. Managing Director, Intel Capital

Christi Olson
Head of Evangelism for Search, Microsoft

Susan Liu
Principal, Scale Venture Partners

Jean Marie Richardson
President & CEO, Ifolio

Michael Tannenbaum
CBO, Brex

Amy Sorrells
Director, Global Communications, Oracle for Startups

Jenny Fielding
Founder & General Partner, The Fund

Sunil Sharma
Managing Director, Techstars

Kris Beck
CEO, Proformex

Harris Beber
CMO, Vimeo

Alyson Shontell
Editor-in-chief, Business Insider

Chris Schultz
Founder & CEO, Launch Pad

Anne Driscoll
President & COO, Launch Pad

Alex Mashinsky
Founder & CEO, Celsius

Jackey Wang
Venture Partner, 500 Startups

Paul Hsiao
General Partner, Canvas Ventures

Chinedu Enekwe
Founding Partner, Affiniti Ventures

Elizabeth Cain
Partner, Openview Venture Partners

Jordan Nof
Managing Partner, Tusk Ventures

Alex Lieberman
Founder & CEO, Morning Brew

Julie Lein
Managing Partner, Urban Innovation Fund

Tejpaul Bhatia
Startup Program Lead Ny, Google Cloud

Chip Meakem
Co-founder & Managing Partner, Tribeca Venture Partners

Grad Conn
CXMO, Sprinklr

Joanne Lin
Principal, Newark Venture Partners

Elizabeth Edwards
Founder & General Partner, H Venture Partners

Maren Kate
Managing Partner, Avra Talent

Maureen Stanick Boyce
Managing Partner, Good Growth Capital

Lylan Masterman
General Partner, White Star Capital

Banafsheh Fathieh
Principal, Investment Lead, Naspers Ventures

Paul Asel
Managing Partner, NGP Capital

Martin Jones
Sr. Marketing Manager, COX Communications

Jeremy Kagan
Managing Director, Eugene Lang Center for Entrepreneurship at Columbia Business School

Alex Lazarow
Investment Director, Cathay Innovation

Morgan Molnar
Sr. Manager, Product Marketing, Surveymonkey

Daniel Sztutwojner
Co-founder & CCO, Beekeeper

Sutian Dong
Co-founder, Global Women in Vc

Marcus Wagner
Founder & CEO, Accttwo

Darren Chait
Co-founder & COO, Hugo

Erika Jolly Brookes
CMO, Springbot

Neal Conlon
SVP of Business Development, Appguard

Sanjit Singh Dang, Phd
Chairman & Co-founder, U First Capital

Jennifer Keiser Neundorfer
Co-founder & Partner, Jane Vc

Gary Amaral
VP of Marketing, Chargify

Avantika Daing
Head of Venture Investments, Plum Alley

Crystal Huang
Principal, NEA

Matt Hoffman
Partner, Head of Talent, M13

Caitlin Strandberg
Principal, Lerer Hippeau

Rob Pegoraro
Journalist, Yahoo Tech

Martine Paris
Freelance Tech Reporter, Fast Company

Jordan French
Founder & Executive Editor, Grit Daily

Michael Dermer
Author & Founder, The Lonely Entrepreneur

Ian Bester
General Manager, Brainstation

Karl Kispert
Managing Director, Mgo Technology Group

Joshua Bloom
Global Head of Sim & Partner, Simon Kucher & Partners

Zavain Dar
Partner, Lux Capital

John L. Sotomayor
Patent Attorney, Sotoip

Rebecca Szkutak
Reporter, Venture Capital Journal

2019 Sponsors

• Oracle
• Net Suite
• Data Robot
• Acct Two
• Appguard
• BrainStation
• BREX
• Citrin Cooperman
• Chargify
• Stanford Online
• Columbia Business School
• H
• iFolio
• MGO
• Scale Factor
• Simon Kucher
• Soto IP
• Sterling