The 2018 SVIEF | SVIEF | 29 September 2018 | Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara, CA 95054, USA

It is designed to be intense and informative with theme on " Converge & Exchange ". This is going to be an educational, captivating, and interactive event featuring 150+ high-profile speakers and 100+ tech exhibitors for the 10,000+ attendees to experience.

The conference covers exciting sessions including the AI+ Talk Summit, Global Next Car Summit, New Media Summit, SVIEF Star Startup Competition, Fintech Summit, Innovative Education Summit, Global Medical Innovation Summit, Silicon Valley Venture & Investment Summit, One-on-one investment deal-sourcing and exchange fair, Developers’ Summit and the SVIEF Tech Expo. The conference is expecting over 10,000 professional attendees and more than 150 high tech innovative ventures from North America and Asia Pacific regions to showcase their latest product and technology as well as to develop potential business partnership opportunities.

2018 Speakers

Judy Chu
Member of Congress, United States / Honorary Chairwoman, Svief

Shoucheng Zhang
Professor, Stanford University / Founding Chairman, Danhua Capital / Chairman, Svief

Raymond Yang
Co-founder & Managing Partner, Westsummit Capital / Chairman, Svief

Jun Wu
Founding Partner, Amino Capital / Chairman, Svief

Xiang Qian
Medical Director, International Medical Services at Stanford Health Care

Steve Mann
Chairman, Mannlab; “father of Wearable Computing”; Cofounder, Meta; Chairman, Svief

Yi Cui
Professor, Stanford University / Chairman, Svief

Tim Draper
Founder, Draper Associates / Founder, Dfj Capital / Founder, Draper Venture Network / Chairman, Svief

Kaifu Lee
Chairman and Ceo, Sinovation Ventures / President, Sinovation Ventures Artificial Intelligence Institute

Emi Yoshikawa
Director of Joint Venture Partnership, Ripple

Dovey Wan
Managing Director, Dhvc

Hong Li
Founding Partner and Executive Director, Culdf / Partner, Zhisland / Editor-in-chief, Chinese Entrepreneurship Series

Cynthia Dibartolo
Founder and Ceo, Tigress Financial Partners / Member, Finra, Sipc & Msrb

Eric Ly
Co-founder & Ceo, Hub / Co-founder, Linkedin

Sumit Gupta
Vp, Ai, Machine Learning and Hpc, Ibm

Paul Kim
Assistant Dean, Chief Technology Officer Stanford University Graduate School of Education

Lu Zhang
Founder and Managing Partner, Fusion Fund

Gary Bolles
Chair, Future of Work, Singularity University

Laura Deming
Venture Capitalist, Partner, Longevity Fund

Khizer Hayat
Cio, I-50

Mark Paylyukovskyy
Co-founder & Ceo, Piper Inc

Jason Geng
Founder and Ceo, Data Application Lab

Sheldon Xia
Ceo & Founder, Bitmart Exchange

Radhika Iyengar-emens
Founding Partner, Starchain

Ann Shin
Founding Partner of Ultrafund Capital, Ultrafund.vc

2018 Sponsors

HOST:
• SVTIC

ANNUAL:
• iFlyTek

HOST:
• China-US Leadership Development

VIP LOUNGE LUNCH SPONSOR:
• Singapore-Sichuan Hi-Tech Innovation Park

VOICE MEETING NOTE APP SPONSOR:
• Otter.ai

PARTNERS:
• SJSU Career Center
• CSIX Connect
• Bay123.com
• Sanyan Blockchain
• Fudan
• Svsian
• 18qu
• Kexie
• ASPA
• Boosto
• HKBA
• Ethe
• Bay Offer
• Lieyun
• Chitu
• Nova One
• Venture Tech
• IMS
• Ene Finance