July 15, 2020 | ETL with Jeff Seibert
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, July 15. Jeff Seibert is a serial entrepreneur and active angel investor. His current focus is Digits, which he co-founded in 2018 to build modern, intelligent, real-time finance tools for business owners. Seibert previously served as Twitter's Head of Consumer Product and led the... Read More
July 22, 2020 | ETL with Debbie Sterling
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, July 22. Debbie Sterling is the founder and CEO of GoldieBlox, an award-winning children’s multimedia company known for disrupting the “pink aisle” in toy stores around the world, and challenging gender stereotypes with a girl engineer character. In 2015, Sterling was inducted as a... Read More
July 29, 2020 | ETL with Amy Chang
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, July 29. Amy Chang is an executive vice president at Cisco. Following the acquisition of her startup Accompany by Cisco in 2018, she led Cisco's multi-billion dollar Collaboration business and its award-winning Webex portfolio, which includes Meetings, Teams, Devices, Calling, and Contact Center. Prior... Read More
August 5, 2020 | ETL with Kevin Weil
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, August 5. Kevin Weil is the VP of Product for Novi, a new digital wallet for Facebook’s Libra payment system. Previously, Weil was VP of Product at Instagram, overseeing consumer, growth, and monetization products. Before joining Instagram in 2016, he was SVP of Product... Read More
August 12, 2020 | ETL with Michael Tubbs
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, August 12. On November 8, 2016, Michael Tubbs was elected to serve as the mayor of the City of Stockton, California. Upon taking office in January 2017, Tubbs became both Stockton’s youngest mayor and the city’s first African-American mayor. Tubbs is also the youngest... Read More
August 19, 2020 | ETL with Ann Miura-Ko
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, August 19. Ann Miura-Ko is a co-founding partner at Floodgate, a seed-stage VC firm. A repeat member of the Forbes Midas List and the New York Times Top 20 Venture Capitalists Worldwide, she was one of the first investors in Lyft and Refinery29, and... Read More
August 26, 2020 | ETL with Adam Pisoni
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, August 26. Adam Pisoni co-founded Yammer in 2008, and oversaw product, analytics, and engineering as the SaaS company scaled to 500 employees and was acquired by Microsoft in 2012 for $1.2 billion. More recently, he has turned his attention to the US education system.... Read More
Sept. 23, 2020 | ETL with Shellye Archambeau
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, September 23. Shellye Archambeau is an experienced CEO and board director with a track record of building brands, organizations and high-performance teams. She currently serves on the boards of Verizon, Nordstrom, Roper Technologies, and Okta, and is also a strategic advisor to Capital Markets... Read More
Oct. 2, 2020 | ETL with Delane Parnell
* This week only, tune into the YouTube livestream at 4PM PDT on FRIDAY for the live speaker event. All other weeks, tune in Wednesdays at 4:30PM PDT. * Delane Parnell is the founder and CEO of PlayVS, which is building the infrastructure for high school esports. Prior to starting PlayVS, Parnell worked at IncWell... Read More
Oct. 7, 2020 | ETL with George Scangos
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, October 7. George Scangos, PhD, has served as Vir Biotechnology’s president and CEO and as a member of its board of directors since January 2017. He previously served as CEO and as a member of the board of directors of Biogen, a publicly traded... Read More
Oct. 14, 2020 | ETL with Sylvia Acevedo
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, October 14. An entrepreneur, investor, business leader, and rocket scientist, Sylvia Acevedo is the author of Path to the Stars: My Journey from Girl Scout to Rocket Scientist, which tells the story of her journey from the Las Cruces, New Mexico to NASA’s Jet... Read More
Oct. 21, 2020 | ETL with Eric Yuan and Santiago Subotovsky
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, October 21. Eric Yuan founded Zoom Video Communications in 2011. Prior to starting Zoom, he was Corporate Vice President of Engineering at Cisco, where he was responsible for Cisco's collaboration software development. As one of the founding engineers and Vice President of Engineering at... Read More
Oct. 28, 2020 | ETL with Jessica Norwood and Rodney Sampson
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, October 28. Jessica Norwood is the founder of RUNWAY, an organization that uses entrepreneurship to close the wealth gap in Black communities by providing pre-seed and friends-and-family capital to fund Black-owned companies. A financial activist and social entrepreneur, Norwood is a Center for Economic... Read More
Nov. 4, 2020 | ETL with Ravi Matre
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, November 4. Ravi Mhatre is a founding partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners and focuses primarily on software/cloud infrastructure, applications and Internet investments. He has over 23 years of venture capital experience and six years of operating experience. Before starting Lightspeed, he was an investor... Read More
Nov. 11, 2020 | ETL with Sarah Friar
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, November 11. In December 2018, Sarah Friar was named CEO of Nextdoor, the world’s largest private social network for neighborhoods. Prior to leading Nextdoor, she was CFO of Square and SVP of Finance & Strategy at Salesforce. She also held executive roles at Goldman... Read More
Jan. 20, 2021 | ETL with Alyssa Ravasio
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, January 20. Alyssa Ravasio is the founder and CEO of Hipcamp, a comprehensive resource for outdoor stays, from national parks to blueberry farms. Hipcamp partners with private landowners to unlock more ways for people to get outside. After creating her own Digital Democracy major... Read More
Jan. 27, 2021 | ETL with Tony Mugavero
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, January 27. Tony Mugavero is the co-founder and CEO of Rad (formerly known as Littlstar), a consumer streaming platform delivering live and on-demand Esports, music, comedy and sports from companies like NBCUniversal, WarnerMedia, Whistle, Showtime, New Form, Law & Crime and more. Rad’s unique... Read More
Feb. 3, 2021 | ETL with Stephanie Lampkin
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, February 3. Stephanie Lampkin, a TEDx speaker and former downhill ski racer, is the founder and CEO of Blendoor, which creates enterprise software that leverages augmented intelligence and people analytics to mitigate unconscious bias in hiring. Lampkin’s work has been featured in The Atlantic... Read More
Feb. 10, 2021 | ETL with Vlad Tenev
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, February 10. Vlad Tenev is the CEO and co-founder of Robinhood, a fast-growing brokerage platform giving millions of people access to investment opportunities and financial tools. In 2013, Tenev co-founded Robinhood with Baiju Bhatt to democratize investing. Before Robinhood, Tenev started two finance companies... Read More
Feb. 17, 2021 | ETL with David Rogier
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, February 17. David Rogier is the founder and CEO of MasterClass, the streaming platform where anyone can learn from the best. Growing up, Rogier loved learning but struggled in school. Determined to reinvent the traditional learning model, he created MasterClass in 2015. MasterClass has... Read More
Feb. 24, 2021 | ETL with Katrina Lake
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, February 24. Katrina Lake founded Stitch Fix in 2011 to help women everywhere discover and explore their style through a truly client-focused shopping experience. While attending Harvard Business School, Lake saw an opportunity to combine data science with human stylists to reinvent the retail... Read More
Mar. 3, 2021 | ETL with Aicha Evans
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, March 3. In January 2019, Aicha Evans was named CEO of Zoox. Prior to joining Zoox, Evans served as Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Intel Corporation, responsible for driving Intel’s long-term strategy to transform from a PC-centric company to a data-centric... Read More
Mar. 10, 2021 | ETL with Hemant Taneja
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, March 10. Hemant Taneja is a managing director at General Catalyst, and has been an early investor in market-leading companies like Digit, Grammarly, Gusto, Livongo, Mindstrong, Samsara, Snap, and Stripe. His 2018 book Unscaled articulates the need for accountability, transparency, and explainability in AI... Read More
Apr. 7, 2021 | ETL with Othman Laraki
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, April 7. Othman Laraki is the co-founder and CEO of Color, a distributed healthcare and clinical testing company. From population genomics programs to high-throughput COVID-19 testing, Color provides the technology and infrastructure to power large-scale health initiatives. Early in his career, Laraki spent several... Read More
Apr. 14, 2021 | ETL with Michelle Zatlyn
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, April 14. Michelle Zatlyn is the co-founder, president, and Chief Operating Officer of Cloudflare, an internet security, performance, and reliability company that is on a mission to help build a better internet. Prior to co-founding Cloudflare, Zatlyn held positions at Google and Toshiba and... Read More
Apr. 21, 2021 | ETL with Miriam Rivera
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, April 21. Miriam Rivera is the co-founder and Managing Director of Ulu Ventures, a seed stage venture fund focused on IT startups. Previously, she was a Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Google, where she joined as the company’s second attorney. Her work... Read More
Apr. 28, 2021 | ETL with Howie Liu
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, Apr. 28. Howie Liu is the CEO of Airtable. Inspired by his own experiences learning to code and inventing his first jobs by building customized business apps, he co-founded the company in 2013 to democratize software creation. Airtable’s mission is to enable anyone to... Read More
May 5, 2021 | ETL with Maëlle Gavet
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 11:30AM PT on Wednesday, May 5. Maëlle Gavet is the CEO of Techstars and the author of Trampled by Unicorns: Big Tech's Empathy Problem and How to Fix It (Wiley, 2020). She founded her first business at sixteen, went on to start two other companies, and has been... Read More
May 12, 2021 | ETL with Rudy Cline-Thomas and Andre Iguodala
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, May 12. Rudy Cline-Thomas is the founder and managing partner of Mastry, Inc., which brings together world-class athletes and technology companies to create top-tier platform-building opportunities. Mastry has invested in more than 50 companies, including Robinhood, Allbirds, Uber, PagerDuty, Zoom, Cloudflare, Jumia, and Thrive... Read More
May 19, 2021 | ETL with Jannick Malling
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, May 19. Jannick Malling is the co-founder and co-CEO of Public.com, an investing social network where members can own fractional shares of stocks and ETFs, follow popular creators, and share ideas within a community of investors. Prior to Public, Malling was co-founder and CEO... Read More
May 26, 2021 | ETL with Nicole Diaz
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, May 26. Nicole Diaz is the Global Head of Integrity & Compliance Legal for Snap Inc., where her responsibilities include promoting ethical business standards and adherence to the Code of Conduct, managing risk in key areas such as anti-bribery and trade law, and leading... Read More
Aug. 4, 2021 | ETL with Tom Eisenmann
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, August 4. Tom Eisenmann is the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School; Peter O. Crisp Chair of Harvard Innovation Labs; and faculty co-chair of the HBS Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, the Harvard MS/MBA Program, and the Harvard College... Read More
Aug. 25, 2021 | ETL with Jon Zieger
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, August 25. Jon Zieger is a co-founder and the executive director of Responsible Innovation Labs (RIL), a nonprofit working to create tools and standards to help innovative companies scale responsibly. Among other things, RIL aims to develop case studies, tools, and frameworks to improve platform... Read More
Sept. 8, 2021 | ETL with Ashley Flucas
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30PM PT on Wednesday, September 8. Ashley Flucas is the founder and general partner of Flucas Ventures. Based in West Palm Beach, Florida, the syndicate of around 2,000 angel investors has invested in more than 200 startups. Flucas also serves as a partner at Jupiter, a Florida-based real... Read More
Sept. 29, 2021 | ETL with Justin Kan
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:00PM PT on Wednesday, September 29. Justin Kan is an internet entrepreneur and investor best known as the cofounder of Twitch. In 2006, Kan launched the live video service Justin.tv, a company that started when he strapped a camera to his head and streamed his life to the... Read More
Oct. 6, 2021 | ETL with Lynda Kate Smith
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:00 PM PT on Wednesday, October 6. As the Chief Marketing Officer for companies that have included Twilio, Jive, Genpact, Nuance, and Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Lynda Kate Smith has owned go-to-market strategy and full marketing responsibilities across a diverse set of industries, particularly in the area of tech... Read More
Oct. 13, 2021 | ETL with James Reinhart
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:00 PM PT on Wednesday, October 13. James Reinhart is the co-founder and CEO of thredUP, one of the world's largest online resale platforms. thredUP designed a digital resale experience that aims to take the work and risk out of thrift in an effort to make used clothes... Read More
Oct. 20, 2021 | ETL with Reshma Saujani
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:00 PM PT on Wednesday, October 20. Reshma Saujani is the founder of Girls Who Code and the Marshall Plan for Moms, as well as the author of the forthcoming book Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work (and Why It's Different Than You Think). Saujani has... Read More
Oct. 27, 2021 | ETL with Jeff Epstein
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:00 PM PT on Wednesday, October 27. Jeff Epstein is an operating partner in Bessemer Venture Partners’ Silicon Valley office, where he leads Bessemer’s CFO Advisory Board and helps portfolio company CEOs and CFOs share best practices. He is the former executive vice president and chief financial officer... Read More
Nov. 3, 2021 | ETL with Daphne Koller
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:00PM PT on Wednesday, November 3. Daphne Koller is CEO and Founder of insitro, a machine learning-enabled drug discovery company. She is also co-founder of Engageli, a digital learning platform for higher education. Previously, she was the Rajeev Motwani Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where she... Read More
Nov. 10, 2021 | ETL with Juliet Anammah
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 12:00 NOON PT on Wednesday, November 10. Juliet Anammah is the Chairwoman of Jumia Nigeria and the Chief Sustainability Officer of Jumia Group, the largest e-commerce platform in Africa and the first African tech startup to be listed on the NYSE. Anammah oversees institutional relationships, corporate communications and... Read More
Nov. 17, 2021 | ETL with James Joaquin
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:00 PM PT on Wednesday, November 17. James Joaquin is the co-founder and managing director of Obvious Ventures, leading the team’s investments focused on plant-forward approaches to food (like Beyond Meat and Miyoko’s Creamery), “good for you” consumer goods (like Olly and Welly), and companies at the forefront... Read More
Jan. 12, 2022 | ETL with Sara Menker and Hans Tung
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:00 PM PT on Wednesday, January 12. Sara Menker is the founder and CEO of Gro Intelligence. Gro’s data, analytics, and forecasting models inform companies involved in the agricultural supply chain and organizations impacted by climate change. Menker has served on various advisory bodies, including the CFTC’s Climate-Related... Read More
Jan. 19, 2022 | ETL with Alexandr Wang
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:00 PM PT on Wednesday, January 19. Alexandr Wang is the founder and CEO of Scale AI. He founded Scale while at MIT at the age of 19 to help customers build long-term AI strategies. Prior to enrolling at MIT, Wang worked at Quora and Addepar, where he... Read More
Jan. 26, 2022 | ETL with Josh Giegel
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:00 PM PT on Wednesday, January 26. Josh Giegel is the co-founder of Virgin Hyperloop, a company dedicated to making hyperloop transportation a reality. Giegel founded the company in 2014, when hyperloop was an idea drawn on a whiteboard in a garage. A little over two years later,... Read More
Feb. 2, 2022 | ETL with Jessica McKellar
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:00 PM PT on Wednesday, February 2. Jessica McKellar is the founder and CTO of Pilot, an accounting firm powered by software that has raised more than $160 million in venture capital funding. She also founded Zulip, a group collaboration tool that was acquired by Dropbox in 2014,... Read More
Feb. 9, 2022 | ETL with Payal Kadakia
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:00 PM PT on Wednesday, February 9. Payal Kadakia is the founder of ClassPass, the health and wellness app that connects users to fitness classes and other health-positive experiences in 30 countries worldwide. Kadakia is also the founder and artistic director of The Sa Dance Company. She has... Read More
Feb. 16, 2022 | ETL with Chris Sacca
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:00 PM PT on Wednesday, February 16. Chris Sacca is the co-founder and managing partner of Lowercarbon Capital and an accomplished venture investor, company advisor, and entrepreneur, managing a portfolio of startups through his firm Lowercase Capital. Alongside his wife Crystal, Sacca built Lowercase around very early-stage investments... Read More
Feb. 23, 2022 | ETL with Paola Santana
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:00 PM PT on Wednesday, February 23. A lawyer, public policy expert, and tech entrepreneur, Paola Santana is the founder and CEO of GLASS, a software ecosystem using artificial intelligence to power high-performing governments. Her work includes engaging with The White House, the United States Congress, the FAA,... Read More
Mar. 2, 2022 | ETL with Russ Altman and Kim Branson
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:00 PM PT on Wednesday, March 2. Russ Altman is the Kenneth Fong Professor of Bioengineering, Genetics, Medicine, Biomedical Data Science and (by courtesy) Computer Science at Stanford University, and is a past chair of Stanford’s Bioengineering Department. His primary research interests are in the application of computing... Read More
Apr. 6, 2022 | ETL with Ranjay Gulati
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:00 PM PT on Wednesday, April 6. Ranjay Gulati is the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration and the former unit head of the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He is an expert on leadership in turbulent times, having studied and... Read More
Apr. 13, 2022 | ETL with Irma Olguin, Jr. and Morgan Simon
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:00 PM PT on Wednesday, April 13. In 2013, Irma Olguin, Jr. co-founded Bitwise Industries to create a diverse tech workforce in Fresno, California, and leverage a bottom-up approach as the economic driver to reinvigorate the city. In 2019, Bitwise Industries secured one of the largest series A... Read More
Apr. 20, 2022 | ETL with Patrick Schmitt and Jenny Xia Spradling
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:00 PM PT on Wednesday, April 20. Patrick Schmitt and Jenny Xia Spradling are the co-founders and co-CEOs of FreeWill, a social venture that has helped charitable organizations generate more than $3.7 billion in new planned gifts, stock gifts, and qualified charitable distributions. They were recently named two... Read More
April 27, 2022 | ETL with Jorge Rios
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:00 PM PT on Wednesday, April 27. Jorge Rios is the founder and CEO of Bridgefy. Bridgefy's technology helps millions of people use mobile apps without an Internet connection, through Bluetooth-based mesh networks for mobile. He began his career in the public sector, helping local teenagers develop, fund,... Read More
May 4, 2022 | ETL with Alfred Lin
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:00 PM PT on Wednesday, May 4. Alfred Lin is a partner at Sequoia Capital, where he focuses on consumer and enterprise investments and co-leads Sequoia’s early-stage investment business in the United States and Europe. He is a director of Airbnb (ABNB), Cobalt Robotics, Dia & Co., Dolls... Read More
May 11, 2022 | ETL with Kristen Fortney
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:00 PM PT on Wednesday, May 11. Kristen Fortney is the co-founder and CEO of BioAge, a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing a pipeline of treatments to extend healthy lifespan by targeting the molecular causes of aging. The company uses its discovery platform, which combines quantitative analysis of proprietary... Read More
May 18, 2022 | ETL with John Felts
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:00 PM PT on Wednesday, May 18. John Felts is co-founder and CEO of Cruz Foam. Cruz Foam produces bio-benign foam and eco-friendly EPS-alternative solutions that power key industry leaders to be the catalyst for a cleaner environment. Felts holds a BS in chemical engineering from UC Santa... Read More
May 25, 2022 | ETL with Josh Makower
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:00 PM PT on Wednesday, May 25. Josh Makower, MD is the Boston Scientific Applied Bioengineering Professor of Medicine and of Bioengineering at the Stanford University Schools of Medicine and Engineering, and is the director and co-founder of the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign. He also serves as... Read More
Oct 5, 2022 | ETL with Jenny Lay-Flurrie
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30 PM PT on Wednesday, Oct 5. Jenny Lay-Flurrie is chief accessibility officer at Microsoft, leading the company’s efforts to drive products, services and websites that empower people and organizations to achieve more. Her team is at the forefront of creating positive experiences that apply technology to make... Read More
Oct 12, 2022 | ETL with Meirav Oren
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesView the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30 PM PT on Wednesday, Oct 12. Meirav Oren is the CEO and co-founder of Versatile, which aims to turn construction into a fully controllable manufacturing process and make rapid, data-driven decisions that support jobsite productivity and safety. Under Oren’s leadership, Versatile became the first construction technology firm... Read More
October 19, 2022 | ETL with Tim Brown
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesView the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30 PM PT on Wednesday, Oct.19. Tim Brown is the creative vision behind Allbirds, the sustainability-focused shoe company he co-founded in 2015. His experience as a World Cup soccer player for New Zealand led him to think about things on a grand scale, whether that be crafting shoes... Read More
October 26, 2022 | ETL with Lisa Dyson
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesView the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30 PM PT on Wednesday, Oct 26. Dr. Lisa Dyson is the founder and CEO of Air Protein, a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer company that is reinventing how food is produced in order to sustainably feed the global population, which is estimated to reach 10 billion people... Read More
November 2, 2022 | ETL with Dr. Jerrica Kirkley, (Plume) and Kiki Freedman, (Hey Jane)
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30 PM PT on Wednesday, Nov 2. Dr. Jerrica Kirkley is the chief medical officer and co-founder of Plume, a virtual healthcare center of excellence dedicated to the transgender community that provides gender-affirming medical care at the convenience of a smartphone. Kirkley has cared for thousands of gender-diverse... Read More
November 9, 2022 | ETL with Charles Hudson
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30 PM PT on Wednesday, Nov.9. Charles Hudson is the founder and managing partner of Precursor Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm focused on investing in the first institutional round of investment for the most promising software and hardware companies. Under his leadership, Precursor Ventures has raised... Read More
November 16, 2022 | ETL with Trevor Martin, (Mammoth Biosciences) and Ursheet Parikh, (Mayfield)
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30 PM PT on Wednesday, Nov 16. Dr. Trevor Martin is the CEO and co-founder of Mammoth Biosciences, which addresses challenges across healthcare, agriculture, environmental monitoring, biodefense and more through discovery of novel CRISPR systems to power the next generation of CRISPR-based synthetic biology products. Mammoth’s areas of... Read More
November 30, 2022 | ETL with Dante Disparte
View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30 PM PT on Wednesday, Nov 30. Dante Disparte is chief strategy officer and head of global policy at Circle, a global financial technology firm at the center of digital currency innovation and open financial infrastructure. He is responsible for overseeing the company strategy, communications, policy and public... Read More
January 18, 2023 | ETL with Elise Densborn
YouTube Livestream (Virtual Speaker)View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30 PM PT on Wednesday, Jan 18. Elise Densborn is the co-CEO of Splendid Spoon, a direct-to-consumer meal delivery platform that offers ready-to-eat, plant-based meals. Densborn was first introduced to Splendid Spoon as a customer. After over a decade in the finance industry, she joined the Splendid Spoon... Read More
January 25, 2023 | ETL with Annie Hockey
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesView the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30 PM PT on Wednesday, Jan 25. Annie Hockey is the co-CEO of Column, a nationally chartered bank that publicly launched in 2022 for developers who are building modern financial products and services. After witnessing the bottleneck created by the legacy banking stack, Hockey and her co-founder set... Read More
February 1, 2023 | ETL with Dave Vasen
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesView the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30 PM PT on Wednesday, Feb 1. Dave Vasen is the founder and CEO of brightwheel, the leading subscription software platform for early education. With brightwheel, teachers save valuable time through custom-built tools for the classroom, while administrators can manage their business and parents get a real-time view... Read More
February 8, 2023 | ETL with Nikil Viswanathan
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesView the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30 PM PT on Wednesday, Feb 8. Nikil Viswanathan is the co-founder and CEO of Alchemy, the world's leading web3 developer platform. Alchemy is hailed as the fastest-growing company in history, going from public launch to a $10 billion valuation in just 16 months. With a team of... Read More
February 15, 2023 | ETL with Emmy Sobieski
YouTube Livestream (Virtual Speaker)View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30 PM PT on Wednesday, Feb 15. Emmy Sobieski, CFA, is the chief operating officer of Competitive Storytelling, Inc., which helps venture-backed founders from seed and beyond tell their story through methods such as the Founder Fundraising Program. Sobieski is also author of the book $100M Careers: The... Read More
February 22, 2023 | ETL with Austin Russell
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesView the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30 PM PT on Wednesday, Feb 22. Austin Russell is an engineer, business leader, and self-driving industry pioneer as the founder and CEO of Luminar, the global leader in automotive lidar hardware and software technology. Under Russell’s leadership, Luminar has developed the first lidar and software technology capable... Read More
March 1, 2023 | ETL with Connie Chan
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesView the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30 PM PT on Wednesday, Mar 1. Connie Chan is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a Silicon Valley-based technology venture capital firm with over $7 billion under management, where she focuses on investing in consumer technology. Chan joined the firm in 2011 as a deal partner on... Read More
March 8, 2023 | ETL with Karabo Morule
YouTube Livestream (Virtual Speaker)View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30 PM PT on Wednesday, Mar 8. Karabo Morule is the founder of Capital Art, which is an art fintech and the first art collection management service that is focused on collectors of modern and contemporary African art. Morule is also a non-executive director at TymeBank, South Africa’s... Read More
April 12, 2023 | ETL with Deb Liu
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesView the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30 PM PT on Wednesday, April 12. Deb Liu is the president and CEO of Ancestry. With over 19 years in the tech industry, she has been named one of Business Insider’s most powerful female engineers and one of PaymentsSource’s most influential women in payments. She was previously... Read More
April 19, 2023 | ETL with Ilya Sutskever
YouTube Livestream (Virtual Speaker)View the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30 PM PT on Wednesday, April 19. Ilya Sutskever is the co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI, which aims to build artificial general intelligence that benefits all of humanity. He leads research at OpenAI and is one of the architects behind the GPT models. Prior to OpenAI, Sutskever... Read More
April 26, 2023 | ETL with Frederic Kerrest
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesView the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30 PM PT on Wednesday, April 26. Frederic Kerrest is the executive vice chairman and co-founder of Okta (NASDAQ:OKTA). He is responsible for Okta's day-to-day operations, working with employees, partners, and customers to deliver on the company's vision of enabling any organization to use any technology. Kerrest is... Read More
May 3, 2023 | ETL with Ben Collier & James Kanoff
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesView the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30 PM PT on Wednesday, May 3. Ben Collier and James Kanoff are two co-founders of The Farmlink Project, a student-led movement that has provided over 100 million pounds of nutritious food to communities facing hunger in the United States. They started the project out of their college... Read More
May 10, 2023 | ETL with Julia Collins
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesView the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30 PM PT on Wednesday, May 10. Julia Collins is the founder and CEO of Planet FWD, which is empowering the next generation of sustainable consumer companies with its climate management platform. Planet FWD is focused on decarbonizing global supply chains with the belief that all organizations can... Read More
May 17, 2023 | ETL with Claire Hughes Johnson
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesView the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30 PM PT on Wednesday, May 17. Claire Hughes Johnson is a corporate officer and advisor for Stripe, a global technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. From 2014 to 2021, Claire served as Stripe’s Chief Operating Officer, responsible for scaling the company’s worldwide operations to... Read More
May 24, 2023 | ETL with Rahul Roy-Chowdhury
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesView the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30 PM PT on Wednesday, May 24. Rahul Roy-Chowdhury has been CEO of Grammarly since May 1. Prior to stepping in to the role, he served as Global Head of Product, where he oversaw everything that makes the company’s writing assistance software tick, managing the product, design, and... Read More
May 31, 2023 | ETL with Josh Wolfe
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesView the livestream on YouTube starting at 4:30 PM PT on Wednesday, May 31. Josh Wolfe co-founded Lux Capital to support scientists and entrepreneurs who pursue counter-conventional solutions to the most vexing puzzles of our time in order to lead us into a brighter future. The more ambitious the project, the better—like, say, creating matter... Read More
Oct 4, 2023 | ETL with Cody Coleman
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesCody Coleman is a co-founder of Coactive AI, an analytics platform for visual content, and serves as the CEO. Coactive leverages AI to make it easy for enterprises to search, filter, and analyze large amounts of image and video data by bringing structure to unstructured data. Coleman is also a founding member of MLCommons, a... Read More
Oct 11, 2023 | ETL with Garry Tan
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesGarry Tan is president and CEO of Y Combinator, which funds hundreds of companies per year via web-based application, creating more than $600 billion in market value so far. Before becoming CEO, he was a partner at Y Combinator from 2011 to 2015, where he built key parts of the YC experience for founders, including... Read More
Oct 18, 2023 | ETL with Andrew Ng
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesAndrew Ng is the managing general partner at AI Fund, a startup studio building new AI companies from the ground up; the founder of DeepLearning.AI; and an adjunct professor of computer science at Stanford University. As a pioneer both in machine learning and online education, Ng has changed countless lives through his work in AI... Read More
Oct 25, 2023 | ETL with Kathleen Eisenhardt
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesKathleen Eisenhardt is the S.W. Ascherman M.D. Professor of Strategy and Organization at Stanford’s School of Engineering. She is a member of STVP, the Stanford Engineering Entrepreneurship Center and the... Read More
Nov 1, 2023 | ETL with Andy Dunn
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (Virtual Speaker)Andy Dunn is an entrepreneur, author, and investor. Dunn co-founded the menswear e-commerce brand Bonobos in 2007 and served as the company’s CEO for its first 10 years, pioneering the... Read More
Nov 8, 2023 | ETL with Michelle Lee
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesMichelle Lee is the founder and CEO of Medra, which combines recent advances in robotics and computer vision to build lab automation technology. She has previously worked at NVIDIA, SpaceX,... Read More
Nov 15, 2023 | ETL with Sarah Lamaison
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesSarah Lamaison is the co-founder and CEO of Dioxycle, which is pioneering sustainable chemistry by building breakthrough technologies that convert industrial carbon emissions into everyday chemicals with unprecedented energy and... Read More
Nov 29, 2023 | ETL with Jessica Jackley
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJessica Jackley is an entrepreneur and investor best known as the founder of Kiva, the first microfinance crowdfunding platform, with $2 billion in loans since 2005. She is currently a... Read More
Jan 17, 2024 | ETL with Adrian Rodriguez
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesAdrian Rodriguez is the co-founder and CEO of Dreamlinks, a startup developing AI-powered building blocks that make creating virtual 3D worlds as fun as playing with LEGO bricks. Prior to... Read More
Jan 24, 2024 | ETL with Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us as Sutton and Rao teach people how to become “friction fixers.” Sutton and Rao say skilled friction fixers think and act like trustees of others’ time. They provide... Read More
Jan 31, 2024 | ETL with Andrew Adams
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesAndrew Adams is CEO and cofounder of Headway, a healthcare start-up dedicated to building a new mental healthcare system where everyone can access the quality care that’s right for them.... Read More
Feb 7, 2024 | ETL with Ernestine Fu
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesErnestine Fu is managing general partner of venture capital firm Brave Capital. Brave Capital originated from a network of veteran families, public service leaders, and philanthropists supporting the next generation... Read More
Feb 14, 2024 | ETL with Daniela Amodei
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesDaniela Amodei is president and co-founder of Anthropic, an AI safety and research company. Amodei manages the senior leadership team, leveraging her people and management experience to further the company's... Read More
Feb 21, 2024 | ETL with Shiza Shahid
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesShiza Shahid is the co-founder and co-CEO of Our Place, a mission-driven startup reimagining kitchenware for the modern, multiethnic, global kitchen. Deeply rooted in our culture, the brand celebrates gathering... Read More
Feb 28, 2024 | ETL with Clara Shih
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesClara Shih is CEO of Salesforce AI, the world’s most trusted enterprise AI for customer relationship management, designed to anticipate, initiate, and build powerful customer relationships. A digital pioneer, Shih... Read More
Mar 6, 2024 | ETL with Sophia Edelstein and Nathan Kondamuri
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesSophia Edelstein is the co-founder and co-CEO of Pair Eyewear. Since its inception, Pair Eyewear has put consumers at the center of the innovation process, ensuring that the brand is... Read More
April 10, 2024 | ETL with Sharon Prince
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesSharon Prince is the CEO and Founder of Grace Farms Foundation, a new kind of boundary-defying public space in New Canaan, Connecticut, that has become widely known as a global... Read More
April 17, 2024 | ETL with Qasar Younis
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesQasar Younis is the co-founder and CEO of Applied Intuition, which creates software solutions to help automakers, Tier 1 suppliers, and companies in the trucking, construction, and agriculture industries transition... Read More