Oct. 3, 2018 | ETL with Maureen Fan
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Maureen Fan, co-founder and CEO at Baobab Studios, an Emmy-award winning virtual reality animation studio. Before Baobab Studios, Fan held several senior production and project management roles, including VP of Games at Zynga. With interests in film, gaming and the consumer web, she’s been named one of The Most... Read More
Oct. 10, 2018 | ETL with Manish Chandra
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Manish Chandra, founder and CEO at Poshmark, a social marketplace platform for buying and selling clothing items. Before Poshmark, Manish founded Kaboodle, also a social shopping company. He has experience as a software engineer at Intel and as a marketing executive at Versant, Versata and Sybase. Manish graduated from... Read More
Oct. 17, 2018 | ETL with Puneet Agarwal
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Puneet Agarwal, partner at True Ventures. Before True Ventures, Agarwal began his career as a product manager at a software startup later sold to IBM. After, he worked in tech investment banking and venture capital at the Mayfield Fund. Agarwal has several years of experience in product management and... Read More
Oct. 24, 2018 | ETL with Tina Seelig and guests
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Tina Seelig and alumni guests Steve Garrity and Juliet Rothenberg. Seelig is a professor of the practice within the Department of Management Science & Engineering (MS&E), faculty co-director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) and author. At Stanford, Seelig has taught courses on on creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship... Read More
Oct. 31, 2018 | ETL with Adam Pisoni
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Adam Pisoni, founder and CEO of Abl Schools, an educational resource management software. Before founding Abl Schools, he founded a web-design startup, Cnation, which led him to join Geni, a genealogy website. From ideas rooted in his time at Geni, Pisoni later co-founded Yammer, a social network for businesses... Read More
Nov. 7, 2018 | ETL with Emily Melton
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Emily Melton, partner at the venture capital firm DFJ. Melton began her career in entrepreneurship at DFJ, where she spent eight years building her skillset investing in companies like Meebo, Kudo and Flux. She worked at the Mayfield Fund for a just over a year, where she was involved... Read More
Nov. 14, 2018 | ETL with Brad Bao
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Brad Bao, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of LimeBike. Bao co-founded Lime after researching bike-sharing programs around the globe and seeing the potential impact that smarter, modern bike-sharing could have on urban mobility and sustainability. Prior to Lime, Brad co-founded Kinzon Capital, a $400M high-tech venture fund, where he acted... Read More
Nov. 28, 2018 | ETL with Dan Widmaier
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Dan Widmaier, co-founder and CEO at Bolt Threads, a biotech startup that produces biofabricated silk fibers based on proteins found in nature. With experience in both business development and science, Widmaier uses expertise in biology to lead Bolt Threads through tech development and financing. Widmaier graduated from UC San... Read More
Jan. 16, 2019 | ETL with Ryan Petersen
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Ryan Petersen, founder and CEO of Flexport. Flexport is modernizing the ancient and sprawling global trade industry through a unique blend of technology, logistics infrastructure and deep supply chain expertise. In 2018, Inc. named Flexport one the fastest growing companies in the United States. Last year, Petersen led Flexport... Read More
Jan. 30, 2019 | ETL with Elaine Wherry
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Elaine Wherry, co-founder of Meebo, an instant messaging and social networking service that was acquired by Google. Prior to Meebo, Wherry worked at Synaptics designing input devices and leading Human Factors research. Wherry graduated from Stanford with a degree in Symbolic Systems and a concentration in Human-Computer Interaction. The... Read More
Feb. 6, 2019 | ETL with Balaji Srinivasan
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Balaji Srinivasan, CTO of Coinbase, a secure platform for buying, selling and storing cryptocurrency like Bitcoin and Ethereum, which serves more than 20 million users. Prior to Coinbase, Srinivasan was CEO of Coinbase-acquired Earn.com, a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz as well as Co-Founder and CTO of Counsyl, where... Read More
Feb. 13, 2019 | ETL with Raj Kapoor and John Viera
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a special conversation on the future of automotive mobility with Raj Kapoor, Chief Strategy Officer at Lyft, and John Viera, a former Director at Ford, hosted by Pedram Mokrian, an Adjunct Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. Kapoor focuses on autonomous (self-driving) business opportunities and new business at Lyft.... Read More
Feb. 20, 2019 | ETL with Alice Zhang
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Alice Zhang, co-founder and CEO of Verge Genomics. Verge Genomics uses artificial intelligence and human genomics to transform drug discovery for multiple diseases beginning with ALS, Parkinson's Disease, and Alzheimer's Disease. Zhang has driven systems biology research at the National Cancer Institute, the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at... Read More
Feb. 27, 2019 | ETL with Navin Chaddha
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Navin Chaddha, Managing Director at the venture capital firm Mayfield Fund. Chaddha has been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and has been ranked ten times by Forbes on the Midas List of Top 100 Tech Investors. A former serial entrepreneur, Chaddha co-founded three companies,... Read More
Mar. 6, 2019 | ETL with Alberto Savoia
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Alberto Savoia, Innovation Agitator Emeritus at Google. An engineer, engineering executive and CTO, Savoia helped develop, manage and launch products such as Sun Microsystem's Workstations, SunLab's Java and Google’s AdWords. Savoia developed a rapid proto-typing technique called pretotyping that allows for product testing without actually building a product. Savoia... Read More
April 10, 2019 | ETL with Freada Kapor Klein
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Freada Kapor Klein, a founding partner at Kapor Capital and a pioneer in the field of organizational and cultural diversity. At Kapor Capital, Kapor... Read More
April 17, 2019 | ETL with Ritu Narayan
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Ritu Narayan, founder and CEO of Zūm, a rapidly growing ride and care company for children. Prior to founding Zūm, Narayan held senior product management roles at Oracle, Yahoo! and eBay, and also founded TechX, an organization that connected the Stanford community with founders, CEOs and technology thought leaders.... Read More
April 24, 2019 | ETL with Nicole Hu
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Nicole Hu, co-founder and chief technology officer of One Concern, which aims to help communities prepare for and mitigate natural disasters by harnessing the... Read More
May 1, 2019 | ETL with Payam Banazadeh
NVIDIA Auditorium, Stanford University (In-Person Speaker) 475 Via Ortega, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with Payam Banazadeh, the founder and CEO of Capella Space. Capella Space launched its first prototype satellite in December 2018 and aims to build a... Read More