Monday, June 12
7:00 – 9:00pm Welcome Cocktail & Registration
Tuesday, June 13
7:00 – 8:15 Breakfast & Registration
8:15 – 8:40 “Introduction”
8:40 – 9:20 Keynote: “Going to the Dark Side”
- Eric Benhamou, Founder & General Partner, Benhamou Global Ventures
9:20 – 10:00 Keynote: “Going from Investing to Running Companies”
- Ajay Shah, Founding Managing Partner, Silver Lake Sumeru
10:00 – 10:15 Coffee Break
10:15 – 11:00 Roundtable Session: “VC Funding in 2017: Too much money, too few deals?”
- Carey Lai, Co-Founder & General Partner, LUMA Capital Partners
- Hing Wong, Managing Director, Walden International
- Michael Mathiesen, Chairman, Evendo, 2M Invest
11:00 – 11:45 “Fireside Chat with Tim Guleri”
- Tim Guleri, Managing Director, Sierra Ventures
11:45- 12:30 Roundtable Session: “Trading Places”
- Alexander Krongard, Managing Director, Signal Hill
- Robert Freiman, Director, GCA
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 3:30 Presentations: Top 100 North America Finalists
3:30 – 4:00 Coffee Break
4:00 – 6:00 Presentations: Top 100 North America Finalists
7:00 – 9:00 Cocktail & Dinner Reception
Wednesday, June 14
7:00 – 8:15 Breakfast & Registration
8:15– 8:45 “Introduction”
8:45 – 9:45 Roundtable Session: “What did we learn from 25 years of venture capital?”
- Yves Sisteron, Managing Partner, Upfront Ventures
- Kyle Lui, Principal, DCM Ventures
9:45 – 10:20 Roundtable Session: “Corporate VC”
- Arjun Metre, Investment Director, Intel Capital
- Gaurav Tewari, Managing Director, Citi Ventures
10:20 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:05 Keynote: “Is the IPO still the ultimate dream?”
- Jeff Thomas, VP, Head of Western US Listings, Nasdaq
11:05 – 11:35 Keynote: “Growth Capital: The New IPO?”
- Scott Kirk, VP, Technology Crossover Ventures
11:35 – 12:30 Roundtable Session: “Building a Unicorn”
- Marc Carlson, VP Enterprise Vertical Markets, DocuSign
- Steve O’Hanlon, President & CEO, Numerix
- Jean Luc Robert, Chairman & CEO, Kyriba
- Kay Iversen, CEO, Market Logic Software
- Nahum Nelson, Co-Founder & CEO, Zadara Storage
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 3:30 Presentations: Top 100 North America Finalists
3:30 – 4:00 Coffee Break
4:00 – 6:00 Presentations: Top 100 North America Finalists
7:00 – 10:00 Red Herring 100 North America Award Ceremony & Dinner