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Qwoted is a free expert network: we help reporters connect with experts & we help those same experts build relationships with top reporters.

Event Date Thu May 5 PDT - Sat May 7 PDT (over 2 years ago)
In your timezone (EST): Thu May 5 3:00am - Sat May 7 3:00am
Location Virtual
Region Americas
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Human imagination! Can't contain it. Can't constrain it.

The U.S. has reached record-shattering entrepreneurial milestones in 2021.
• U.S VCs invested $330B in 15000+ deals, twice of 2020 figures
• $1T in PE investments, 80% went to smaller companies
• $775B in exits via IPO across 350+ deals, twice of 2020
• $1T in exits via 4600 M&A as digital transformation has become a must-have for companies across all industries, leading to a rise in startup acquisitions.

These dizzying trends are here to stay and more records are expected to be broken in 2022.

The hottest sectors to benefit are financial services, retail, healthcare, industrial and climate, powered by artificial intelligence, cloud, mobile, and security technologies.

Experience Imagination Unleashed!

The world's largest technology conference designed by Silicon Valley leaders for entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and investors.

Spark your creativity by hearing from iconic speakers, thought leaders, and industry experts. Meet with fellow entrepreneurs, break your own records and discover what makes you!

2022 Tracks
• Tracks
• AI & Machine Learning
• Capital Markets
• Cloud & SaaS
• Crypto & NFT
• Entrepreneurship
• Global Connect
• Healthcare
• Media & Entertainment
• Security & Fraud
• Social Impact
• Supply Chain
• Sustainability
• TiE Youth

Speakers

2022 Speakers

GRAND KEYNOTE:

Dr. Albert Bourla
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Pfizer

Cristiano Amon
President and Chief Executive Officer, Qualcomm Incorporated

Dr. Bratin Saha
Vice President of Machine Learning Services, Amazon AI

Armon Dadgar
Co-founder and CTO, HashiCorp

Arianna Huffington
Founder and CEO, Thrive

Vivek Ranadive
Chairman, CEO and Governor, Sacramento Kings

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Founder, Art of Living

Navin Chaddha
Managing Director, Mayfield Fund

Rich Karlgaard
Forbes Magazine, Publisher

BV Jagadeesh
Managing Partner, KAAJ Ventures

Diane Brady
Asst Managing Editor, Forbes

TRACK KEYNOTES:

George Kurian
CEO, NetApp

Deven Parekh
Managing Director, Insight Partners

Rana El Kaliouby
CEO, Affectiva

Daniel Kraft
Physician-Scientist and Innovator, XPRIZE, Singularity University

Alisdair Faulkner
Founder and CEO, Darwinium

Kevin Gosschalk
CEO and Founder, Arkose Labs

The Honorable Dr. Ali Nouri
Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy

Nandan Nilekani
Co-Founder and Chairman, Infosys Technologies Limited

Lior Ron
Co-founder and Head, Uber Freight

Abhijit Bose
India Head, WhatsApp

Neeraj Chopra
Olympic Gold Medalist, Inspire Institute of Sport

Prat Vemana
Chief Digital Officer, Kaiser Permanente

Dr. Jennifer Holmgren
CEO, LanzaTech

Induprakas Keri
SVP HCI and Chief Product Security Officer, Nutanix

Dr Kathryn Ann Moler, Ph.D.
Transition dean of Stanford’s new school focused on climate and sustainability, Stanford University

Harmit Singh
EVP and CFO, Levis Strauss and Co

Chrisman Frank
President, Synthesis (Company inspired by Elon Musk)

George Abraham
Chief of Strategy, Stellar iDea Labs

Gururaj Deshpande
President and Chairman, Sparta Group LLC

Shu Nyatta
Managing Partner, SoftBank

Dr. Jaleh Daie
Founder/Chair, AgFood Tech

Girish Mathrubootham
CEO and Founder, Freshworks

Priya Rajan
Managing Director, Silicon Valley Bank

Michael Guimarin
Synthesis Marketing | Angel Investor, Synthesis (Company inspired by Elon Musk)

Shayamal Vallabjee
Mindset & Performance Coach, Self-Employed

Jackie Jung
Vice President, Global Operations, Western Digitial

Manu Pillai
Innovate, CarbonBridge

Bruno Villetelle
Head of Data and Digital, Novartis

Michael Moe
Founder and CEO, Global Silicon Valley

SPEAKERS:

Randi Zuckerberg
CEO, Zuckerberg Media

Don Callahan
Chairman, Time

Praniti Lakhwara
CIO, Zscaler

Ken Elefant
Partner and Co-Founder, Sorenson Ventures

Wendy M. Pfeiffer
CIO, Nutanix

Lee Ayers
Sr. Director, Sutter Health

Meerah Rajavel
CIO, Palo Alto Networks

Rohit Ghai
President and CEO, RSA Security

Ben Goertzel
CEO, Singularity

Rashmi Gopinath
General Partner, B Capital Group

Beerud Sheth
CEO, Gupshup

Sriram Thiagarajan
EVP and CTO, Ancestry

Kirthiga Reddy
President, Athena SPACs

Isabelle Freidheim
Founder and Chairman of The Board, Athena SPAC

Sumant Mandal
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, March Capital

Chris Waugh
Chief Innovation Officer, Sutter Health

Sandeep Nailwal
Co-Founder, Polygon

Ameya Talwalkar
Co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Cequence Security

Milind Nagnur
CTO, Early Warning

Justin Kan
Co-Founder, Fractal

Shiva Rajaraman
VP of Product, OpenSea

Reed Taussig
CEO, Outseer LLC

Naeem Zafar
Lecturer & Faculty Member, University of California Berkeley

Navrina Singh
CEO, Credo

Piyush Sharrma
Co-Founder and CEO, Accurics, a Tenable Company

Jon Norris
Managing Director, Silicon Valley Bank Life Sciences, Silicon Valley Bank

Dan Welch
SVP, Services Outseer

Kazuya Hirota
Vice President, NTT Data Corporation

Priya Abani
CEO, AliveCor

Dr. Radhakrishnan Pillai
Educator and Author, Chanakya International Institute of Leadership studies

Kenji Motohashi
Cloud Evangelist, NTT Data Corporation

Hiroshi Furukawa
Head of Innovation Center, NTT Data Corporation

Harveer Singh
Chief Data Architect, Western U

Ben Narasin
Founder, Tenacity Venture Capital

Hilarie Koplow-McAdams
Venture Partner, NEA

Umesh Sachdev
CEO, Uniphore

Vivek Mehra
Partner Emeritus, August Capital

Kulwant Sandhu
Vice President, Outset Medical

Randolph Barr
Chief Information Security Officer, InterVenn Biosciences

Bindiya Vakil
CEO, Resilinc

Rajesh Swaminathan
Partner, Khosla Ventures

David Anderson
General Managing Partner, Supply Chain Ventures, LLC

Karthik Suri
CTO and CPO at Invitae, Invitae

Dr. Richard Dasher
Director of the US-Asia Technology Management Center, Stanford University

Dwight French
Healthcare Lead, West, RedHat

Shahram Seyedin-Noor
Founder and General Partner, Civilization Ventures

Raghu Yarlagadda
Co-Founder and CEO, FalconX

Lorien Gabel
Co-founder, Figment

Brad Surak
Chief Product Officer, Turntide Technologies

Abhinav Shashank
Founder and CEO, Innovaccer

Jocelyn Kinsey
Partner, DFJ Growth

Naveen Bisht
Founder and CEO, Akitra Inc.

Daljit Doogal
Partner, Foley and Lardner LLP

Nadir Shaikh
Partner, Qatalyst Partners

Liv Marte Nordhaug
Co-Lead, Digital Public Goods Alliance

Brad Neuberg
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Planet

Nicole Farb
Investor, Technology Companies

Zenia Tata
Former Chief Impact Officer of Xprize, Consultant

John Shieber
Chief Editor and a Venture Partner, FootPrint Coalition

Shreyas Nangalia
Director of Product Management, LinkedIn

Greg Lavender
CTO, Intel

Lisa Davis
SVP & CIO, Blue Shield of California

Jackie Jung
VP, Global Ops Strategy and COE, Western Digital

Reena Gupta
Founder, Mom Relaunch Foundation

Donna Wilczek
SVP, Product Strategy, Coupa

Jeep Kline
President and Board Member, AHEAD Medicine

Lu Zhang
Founder & Managing Partner, Fusion Fund

Dev Sethi
Head of Sports, Instagram, Instagram

Shamini Dhana
Founder and CEO of Dhana Inc., Dhana Inc.

Hrish Lotlikar
Co-founder and CEO, SuperWorld

Henri Verdier
Ambassador for Digital Affairs, Government of France

Ben Goertzel
CEO & Founder, SingularityNET Foundation

Anu Shultes
CEO, Ahead Financials and LendUp

Ed Macko
Global Vice President and General Manager, Healthcare and Life Sciences (HCLS) industry

Ganesh Padmanabhan
Founder, Autonomize AIm

Dayton Misfeldt
Partner, Decheng Capital

Sriram Subramanian
Research Director, IDC AI and Automation Software Research Group

Scott Zoldi
Chief Analytics Officer, FICO

Kathy Baxter
Principal Architect, Salesforce

Kay Firth Butterfield
Head of Artificial Intelligence, World Economic Forum

Siddharth Shetty
Fellow, iSPIRT Foundation

Hiroshi Honjo
Head of Cybersecurity and Governance, NTT Data Corporation

Yvonne Lutsch
Investment Principal, Robert Bosch Venture Capital

Varun Jain
General Partner, SE Ventures

Vibhor Rastogi
Global Director, Citi Ventures

Adam O Donnell
VC, Zendesk

Jayesh Parikh
Managing Partner, Good Startup

Anita Rehman
Partner, Global Silicon Valley

Shravan Goli
Chief Product Officer, Coursera

Sponsors & Partners

2022 Sponsors and Partners

STRATEGIC SPONSOR:
• Dell Technologies

GRAND SPONSORS:
• Pfizer
• HashiCorp

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• Nutanix
• Mayfield

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Arkose Labs
• Darwinium
• Ancestry
• WhatsApp
• Red Hat
• NTT Data
• Uniphore
• Uber Fright
• Motwani Jadeja
• Innovaccer
• Foley

ANNUAL SPONSORS:
• Zendesk
• Chugh
• Eisner Amper
• Avendus
• Stevents Law Group
• Silicon Valley Bank
• Russell Reynolds Associate

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Invest HK
• Shastha Foods
• Outseer | RSA Company
• Alive Cor
• Wilson Dow
• SecurID
• Beyond Cubes

PARTNERS:
• Milestone
• 8ty6
• IndicaNews
• India Community Center
• StrategyR
• Bolly
• Capital Net
• Spera Solutions