TieCon 2021 | 6 May 2021 | Virtual

An Immersive Technology Entrepreneurship Event

The upside of the current pandemic crisis is massive innovation. TiEcon 2021 seizes the opportunity to showcase the transformative technologies emerging from the crisis. We have been engaging with digital technologies that keep us connected and productive in a unsafe world. As we approach a post-COVID world, these very technologies will elevate us into a new way of doing old things, or the new normal.

Building on the twenty-seven years of legacy of TiEcon, we have designed TiEcon 2021 to provide you with the knowledge to transform your mindset. Come to TiEcon to learn from the world's best minds on trending technology as well as the a road to entrepreneurship with our end-to-end entrepreneurship programs for hands-on knowledge for your startup journey--from startup bootcamp, mentorship, VC connections, to a pitch competition.

Emerge yourself in the diverse track through keynote sessions, panels, and fireside chats, not only to elevate your learning experience but to bring added value to those you wish to engage. We will see you at TiEcon 2021.

2021 Speakers

GRAND KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Ratan Tata
Chairman, Tata Trusts

Kanwal Rekhi
MD, Inventus Capital Partners

Navin Chaddha
Managing Partner, Mayfield Fund

Alex Konrad
Senior Editor, Forbes

Dr. Geeta Gupta-Fisker
Co-Founder & Chief Financial Officer, Fisker Inc.

Jillian Manus
Managing Partner, Structure Capital

Adena Friedman
President and CEO, Nasdaq

Don Callahan
Executive Chairman, TIME

Daniel O'Day
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Gilead Sciences, Inc.

Nikesh Arora
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, Palo Alto Networks

Ankur Shah
Vice President of Products, Palo Alto Networks

Neelima Rustagi
Sr. Director of Product Management, Palo Alto Networks

Daniel Dines
Co-Founder and CEO, UiPath

Abhi Arun
Managing Partner, Alkeon Capital

Reed Hastings
Founder and co-CEO, Netflix

Gagan Hasteer
Vice President of Content Engineering, Netflix

Monika Shergill
Vice President, Content, Netflix India

Razat Gaurav
CEO, LLamasoft (a Coupa Company)

Nehal Raj
Partner, TPG Capital

TRACK KEYNOTES:

Marc Berson
Senior Vice President and CIO, Gilead Sciences Inc

Francis deSouza
President & CEO, Illumina

Pallaw Sharma
Chief Data Science Officer, Johnson & Johnson

Viresh Rustagi
SVP Product, Peloton

Dominic Price
Work Futurist, Atlassian

Jay Vijayan
Founder and CEO, Tekion

Sudhir Srinivasan
Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer & Sr. Vice President of Engineering, Storage Division, ISG, Dell Technologies

Sandeep Johri
Chief Executive Officer, Tricentis

Jason Zander
Executive Vice President, Microsoft Azure

Sandeep Mathrani
CEO, WeWork

Om Nalamasu
Senior VP, CTO, Applied Materials

Asha Jadeja
Founder, Motwani Jadeja Foundation

Dr. Ritesh Malik
Founder, Innov8 Coworking

Surya (Sury) Kant
Chairman, TCS, North America

Tae Yoo
Sr. Vice President, Cisco

SPEAKERS:

Sarah Krevans
President and CEO, Sutter Health

Elizabeth Vilardo, M.D.
President and CEO Sutter Health Bay Area Medical Foundations, Sutter Health

Chris Waugh
Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer, Sutter Health

Amit Zavery
Vice President and Head of Platform, Google Cloud

Prakash Sripathy
Vice President, Engineering, Cisco

Dan Gordon
Director, Technical Evangelism, Traceable AI

Priya Rajan
Market Lead for India and UAE, Silicon Valley Bank

Navneet Chugh
Managing Partner and Founder, Chugh LLP

Naeem Zafar
Co-Founder and CEO, Telesense

Satya Mallick
CEO, OpenCV.org, OpenCV.org

Anima Anandkumar
Bren Professor at Caltech and Director of ML Research at NVIDIA, NVIDIA & Caltech

Tom Lawry
National Director of AI for Health & Life Sciences, Microsoft

Steve Nouri
Head of data science and AI at ACS, Forbes Technology Council

Shailesh Gavankar
Executive Director and Head of Artificial Intelligence Practice & Strategy, Morgan Stanley

Edith Harbaugh
CEO, LaunchDarkly

Sam Nagar
VP Corporate Strategy, Siemens

Manjula Talreja
Chief Customer Officer, PagerDuty

Gaurav Bhasin
Managing Director, Allied Advisers

John Pennett
Partner-in-Charge of the Life Sciences and Technology Group., Eisner Amper

Betsy Bluestone
Commercial Discovery Leader, P&G Ventures

Scott McKinley
Global Lead, Professional Services, CLoudU, Amazon Web Services

Rohit Chennamaneni
Co-Founder, Darwinbox

Kirthiga Reddy
Investing Partner, Softbank Investment Advisors

Dr. Stacey Boyle
VP of Solution Consulting, EdCast

Dr. Anant Agarwal
Founder and CEO, EdX

Shankar Iyer
Senior Vice President and General Manager, End-User Computing, VMWare

David ibnAle
Founder and Managing Partner, Advance Venture Partners

Alicia Sontag
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Prelude Growth Partners

Deepa Prasad
Managing Director, WestRiver Group

Garheng Kong
Founder and Managing Partner, HealthQuest Capital

Christine Kenna
Partner, IGNIA

Kenneth Juster
25th United States Ambassador to the Republic of India, USA

Andy Tsao
Managing Director, Silicon Valley Bank

Gullapalli Rao
Founder & Chair, L V Prasad Eye Institute

Robert Hersov
Founder & Chair, Invest Africa

Steve Schlenker
Co-Founder, Managing Partner, DN Capital

Anand Kamannavar
Global Head, Applied Materials' Venture Capital Fund

Edith Yeung
General Partner, Race Capital

Abraham Sofaer
George P. Shultz Distinguished Scholar and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution

Bill Miller
CIO, NetApp

Jacob Sorensen
CIO, Bank of the West

Ram Nagappan
CIO, BNY Mellon | Pershing

Pranab Sinha
CIO, Genesys

Jeff Nadler
CIO, Teladoc Health

Chandar Pattabhiram
Chief Marketing Officer, Coupa

Keyur Desai
Chief Digital Officer, TD Ameritrade

Inderpal Bhandari
Global Chief Data Officer, IBM

Pallaw Sharma
Chief Data Science Officer, Johnson & Johnson

Ashok Chennuru
Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Anthem

Dr. Amita Joshi
Vice President, Clinical Pharmacology, Genentech

Tina Shah Paikeday
Global Head of DE&I Advisory Services, Russell Reynolds Associates

Vipin Gopal
Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Eli Lilly and Company

Anthony Scriffignano
SVP, Chief Data Scientist, Dun & Bradstreet

Mohan Giridharadas
Founder and CEO, LeanTaaS

Ravi Radhakrishnan
CIO, Commercial Banking and Corporate & Investment Banking, Wells Fargo

Gary Oliver
CEO, Excelerate

Jean English
Chief Marketing Officer, Palo Alto Networks

Sandy Carter
AWS Vice President of WWPS Partners and Programs, Amazon Web Services

R "Ray" Wang
Founder and Principal Analyst, Constellation Research, Inc.

Rich Karlgaard
Publisher, Forbes Magazine

Blessing Mene
Co-Founder & COO, Vetsark Limited

Meg Bear
SVP of Engineering and Operations, SAP SuccessFactors

Harshjit Sethi
Principal, Sequoia India

Adrian Ludwig
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Atlassian

Vijay Saraswat
Managing Director and Global head of Artificial Intelligence R & D, Goldman Sachs

David Haglund
Superintendent of Schools, Pleasanton Unified School District

Tarun Wadhwa
Nonresident Fellow, Atlantic Council GeoTech Center

Jessy Wang
Director of Activator Growth, SheEO™

Ryan Craig
Managing Director, Achieve Partners

Reena Gupta
Founder and CEO, Mom Relaunch

Amiti Uttarwar
Bitcoin Protocol Engineer, OKCoin & BitMEX

Prahalad Thota
SVP, Head of Enterprise Analytics and Data Science, Wells Fargo

Frida Polli
CEO, Pymetrics

Matt Carter
CEO, Aryaka

Parin Dalal
Vice President, Advanced AI at Varian Medical Systems, Varian Medical Systems

Sanjeev Agrawal
President and Chief Operating Officer, LeanTaaS

Nat Natarajan
EVP, Products and Engineering, Ring Central

Arpeeta Oberai
CEO, Beauteani

Ben Parr
President and Co-Founder, Octane AI

Karandeep Anand
VP of Business Products, Facebook

Monique Edmondson
Executive Director IT Digital Marketing, Industry & Community Speaker, Diversity Advocate, Talent Development, Cisco

Archie Deskus
Senior Vice President and chief information officer (CIO), Intel Corporation

Jyothi Gorti
Vice President and CIO, Maxim Integrated

Denise Evans
Vice President, Diverse Partner Development, IBM Corporation

Raj Koneru
Founder and CEO, Kore.ai

Jyoti Chopra
Senior Vice President and Chief People, Inclusion and Sustainability Officer, MGM Resorts International

Madan Padaki
Founder and CEO, 1Bridge

Mickey Austin
CEO, PeopleShores

Wes Wasson
CEO, Dream Start Labs

Eric Savage
CEO, Unitus Capital

Arvind Agarwal
Partner, C4D Partners

Sundar Kamath
Sr. Vice President, Sanmina/ Co-chair Ideal Village conference, Sanmina

Dr. David Nace
Chief Medical Officer, Innovaccer

Dwight French
Healthcare Lead, West, Red Hat

2021 Sponsors

STRATEGIC SPONSOR:
• Dell Technologies

GRAND SPONSORS:
• Ui Path
• Gilead
• Atlassian
• TPG

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Peloton
• Applied Materials
• J&J
• Tricentis
• Microsoft

ANNUAL SPONSORS:
• EisnerAmper
• Chugh
• MGM Resorts International
• Silicon Valley Bank
• Russell Reynolds
• Monta Vista Capital

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Allied Advisers
• Wilson Dow
• Illumina
• S2tech
• Draper Associates
• Goldman Sachs
• 11 Sight
• IBM
• InvestHK
• Cisco
• Traceable
• Xero
• Genentech
• Siemens
• Beauteani
• RedHat