Insights for the fastest growing area of 2022
When & Where
Web3, Crypto, NFTs Unleashed
Track Agenda
- 05/07/2022 | 9:00 am – 9:25 am PDT
- 25 mins Hall ASpeakers
Randi has always believed that the world is better when technology and the arts come together. She left a successful career in Silicon Valley to star in Rock of Ages on Broadway. Since then, she has won three Tony awards and returned to her tech roots as an advisor/investor/ board member making her one of the only leaders in the Web3 space to have expertise and credibility in both groundbreaking technology and the creative arts.
She believes that the new breed of Web3 leaders are a new type of entrepreneur who is fearless in leading through both art and technology, and through her experience on the ground floor of Web2, as well as her expertise leading commercially successful artistic projects, she can’t wait to help grow the next crop of billion dollar brands that nurture both these worlds. Kirthiga Reddy brings over twenty years of experience leading technology-driven transformations to her role as President, Athena Technology II, the third in a series of all women-led SPACs bringing leading talent, access to capital and transaction experience to enable a market leader to access the equity capital markets. She is Founding Investment Partner of F7 seed fund. She serves on the Board of Directors for WeWork and Pear.
Previously, she was the first female Investing Partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers (SBIA), manager of the $100B+ SoftBank Vision Fund. At SBIA, Kirthiga focused on frontier, enterprise and health tech investments and managed a portfolio of $5B+. She served on the Board of Directors for Collective Health and Fungible. She also served on the Investment Committee for Emerge, global accelerator for brilliant companies led by underrepresented founders.
Prior to SBIA, she was Managing Director, Facebook India and South Asia for over six years, starting as their first employee in India. Her subsequent experiences at Facebook focused on emerging and high-growth markets including Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, South Africa and the Middle East. She has also served as Chair, Stanford Business School Management Board. Kirthiga holds an MBA from Stanford University, where she graduated with highest honors as an Arjay Miller Scholar, an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University and a B.E. in Computer Science from Marathwada University, India. She has been recognized as Fortune India’s “Most Powerful Women” and as Fast Company’s “Most Creative People in Business” among other recognitions.
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- 05/07/2022 | 9:25 am – 9:50 am PDT
- 25 mins Hall ASpeakers Sandeep Nailwal is a co-founder of Polygon, a leading Ethereum scaling and infrastructure platform. Sandeep started his career as a software engineer and, in 2015, launched ScopeWeaver, India's largest marketplace for professional services, where he designed blockchain-based decentralized application architecture. Prior to that, Sandeep led the technology department at Welspun, the largest textile company in Asia, and worked as a consultant at Deloitte. Sandeep co-founded Polygon with Jaynti Kanani and Anurag Arjun in 2017.
Sandeep holds an MBA from the National Institute of Industrial Engineering (Nitie), one of the top schools in India. He is based in Dubai with his 200+ people team distributed across India, Dubai, Asia, the USA, and Europe. His primary responsibilities include spearheading the branding, marketing, adoption, and operations at Polygon as well as partnering with key stakeholders to push forward the vision of Polygon. Tom is a senior executive in venture and finance. Throughout his career, Tom has built businesses, as an entrepreneur and as an executive in global firms. He has successfully led growth and turn-around businesses in international markets. Tom is a Partner at SoftBank Investment Advisors, working with outstanding entrepreneurs building extraordinary businesses. Previously, Tom was an executive at Deutsche Bank AG, where he led the Structured Finance business in US and Europe. From 2006 to 2010, Tom was based in Asia, where he created DB Principal Investments Asia, and led Distressed Trading in Asia. Prior to joining DB, Tom was a Principal at Insight Partners, the pre-eminent software investing firm in the world. He was also a co-founder of Oakdale Capital Management, a fundamental long/short equity investment firm.
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- 05/07/2022 | 9:50 am – 10:00 am PDT
- 10 mins Hall ASpeakers
Mercedes Bent is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Mercedes is an investor and operator who lives and breathes startups. She invests in consumer, fintech, edtech, LATAM, & multicultural regions and founders including Flink, Outschool, Stori, and more. In 2016, she was named a "40 Under 40 for Tech Diversity in Silicon Valley" and in 2021, WSJ named her one of "Women to Watch in VC". She has an MBA and a Masters in Education from Stanford University and an AB from Harvard University. She is an African-American of Bermudian, Grenadian, and Colombian heritage and in her free time she enjoys playing cards & off-roading in her Jeep.
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- 05/07/2022 | 10:00 am – 10:30 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall ASpeakers
Rashmi Gopinath is a General Partner at B Capital Group where she focuses on enterprise software investments in cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, devops, and artificial intelligence and machine learning. She brings over two decades of experience investing and operating in enterprise technologies. She led B Capital’s investments in companies such as DataRobot, FalconX, Clari, Phenom People, Synack, Innovaccer, Hypersonix, Yalo, Labelbox, Armory, Fabric, Pendo, OwnBackup, Perimeter81, Figment, TRM Labs, and Highspot.
Rashmi was previously a Managing Director at M12, Microsoft's venture fund, where she led investments globally in the enterprise space and sat on several Boards including Synack, Innovaccer, Contrast Security, UnravelData, Incorta, among others.
Prior to M12, Rashmi was an Investment Director with Intel Capital where she was involved in the firm’s investments in startups including MongoDB (Nasdaq: MDB), ForeScout (Nasdaq: FSCT), Maginatics (acq. by EMC), BlueData (acq. by HPE), among others. Rashmi held operating roles at high-growth startups such as BlueData (acq. by HPE) and Couchbase (Nasdaq: BASE) where she led global business development, product and marketing roles. She began her career in engineering and product roles at Oracle and GE Healthcare. She earned an M.B.A. from Northwestern University, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Mumbai in India. Shiva Rajaraman is currently VP of Product at OpenSea the world’s largest NFT marketplace. Previously he led Commerce at Meta (neé Facebook) helping direct-to-consumer brands reach new customers via new experiences such as live shopping, product drops, and creator-led curation. Prior, he was CTO at WeWork where he launched a new on-demand space offering and received a masterclass in the importance of governance. Earlier he was VP Product at Spotify, where he helped usher in an era of personalization, new product experimentation, and expansion into new formats including podcasts. He spent much of his early career at Google and YouTube, helping people discover entertainment, education, and inspiration created by anyone for everyone. He’s most passionate about helping underserved creators reach an underserved audience. Raghu is the Co-founder and CEO of FalconX, one of the fastest growing companies in the world. With consolidated, seamless workflows that make it easy to access cryptocurrency trading, credit, and clearing on a single platform, FalconX gives the world’s largest institutions an edge as they navigate digital assets. Recently named one of crypto’s top 25 CEOs, he led the company to double its customers, increase monthly trading volume by more than 12X, and increase net revenue by 46X in 2021. In less than 4 years, FalconX is valued at $3.75 billion after its most recent $210M Series C financing round. He's an engineer by background and passionate about building products that create value. Prior to FalconX, Raghu held product leadership roles at Google. He was on Sundar Pichai’s Chrome OS team and led efforts to scale Chromebooks to over $3 billion revenue for Google and its partners. He started his career at Motorola as an engineer in a team that pioneered high definition video transmission over IP stack, laying the technical foundation for many popular video streaming services such as Netflix and Youtube. Raghu holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, M.S. from University of Texas at Dallas specializing in Signal Processing & Machine Learning, and B.Tech. from Vellore Institute of Technology. He’s an active angel investor, board advisor to several Silicon Valley startups, and advisor to the Stanford Journal of Blockchain Law and Policy. Lorien is a wannabe polymath who was born in Malaysia while his dad was curing tropical diseases with the Peace Corps. Off to a cool start, he spent the next few years of his life in Hawaii, San Diego, India…before settling into the much more exciting, colorful and exceedingly polite land of Canada. In 1994, at the age of 24, when Lorien’s younger brother Matt asked him to run his bourgeoning internet company, Lorien did what any self-respecting lawyer of 6 months would do--he quit. He moved the company from their parent’s basement and over the next four years managed the growth of Interlog, one of Canada’s first commercial ISP’s, to over 150 employees, 65,000 customers and profitability. The company was then acquired by a large multinational telecommunications provider. Determined not to be one hit wonders. Lorien and Matt teamed up again and co-founded Bird on a Wire Networks - a managed web hosting and data-center provider which was one of the first of its kind in Canada. Within two years, the company was acquired by AT&T Canada. Their third start-up, pingg.com, based in New York City, was acquired by 1800-Flowers. Lorien has also been known to run divisions of Fortune 500 companies (Micron), spearhead the exponential U.S. growth of a UK based tech company (MessageLabs) as Global VP Business Development, serve on the advisory board of a number of start-ups and whip up a mean breakfast of Spanish eggs. Lorien has a LLB from Toronto’s Osgoode Hall Law School and is a member in good standing with the Ontario Bar. He splits time between NYC where he can be seen running along the west side highway listening to the latest DJ mix and Jackson Hole WY, where he owns a sporting good store and chases powder, obviously....
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- 05/07/2022 | 10:30 am – 10:55 pm PDT
- 12 Hours 25 mins Hall ASpeakers Justin Kan is an American web3 entrepreneur and investor. He is a cofounder of Fractal, a marketplace for gamers to discover, buy and sell durable game assets and NFTs. He’s also a General Partner at Goat Capital, a seed fund that backs entrepreneurs with over $100M in assets under management.
Previously, Justin was a cofounder of Twitch, the internet live video streaming platform. In 2006, Justin 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 internet 24/7. Over the next 8 years, through twists and turns, he and his cofounders turned the business into Twitch, ultimately selling to Amazon in 2014 for $970 million. Over the years, he has founded half a dozen companies which have raised over $500 million in venture capital and invested in some of the fastest growing startups around, including Reddit, Cruise Automation, Bird, Rippling, SendBird, Scale AI and many more. Nikki Farb is an active investor in and advisor to technology companies. She is currently a Venture Partner at Headline and invests in web3 companies.
Farb began her career as a teacher for the Broad Foundation - selected as 1 out of 10,000 applicants to pioneer a program in public high schools. After her program, Farb attended the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and studied finance, entrepreneurship and accounting. Upon graduation, Farb joined Goldman Sachs’ Investment Banking Division and advised technology companies of all stages across a range of strategic and financing transactions. In 2011, she was promoted to Head of Emerging Internet Companies - a new role established to ensure GS was identifying and selecting the most promising early stage technology companies including Pinterest, Instagram, Reddit and SnapChat. She was the first touch point for Goldman Sachs and established early, meeting in the garage, relationships with the CEOs of the companies that became icons of their decade. In addition to building relationships and executing deals, Farb was a senior investing team member on a $200M Goldman Sachs Venture Capital Fund. In 2013, Farb left Goldman Sachs to found Darby Smart, a user-generated video shopping platform. Darby Smart was an early leader in the creator economy. Darby Smart was acquired by Grove Collaborative (expected IPO in 2022). After serving as an executive at Grove (1,100 employees), Farb joined Headline, $2.5BN AUM, as a Venture Partner and began focusing on partnering with and investing in the best entrepreneurs in web3. She advises SoFi, and is an investor in Consensys (MetaMask), Fractal, AfterParty and Wander.
Farb has been involved in the web3 movement since 2013, having invested in BitCoin then, and is deeply passionate about the potential for this computing paradigm.
Farb has made regular appearances on Good Morning America and has been featured in the WSJ, Fortune, Forbes, CNN, Bloomberg and Fox.
In her free time, she hangs out with her twin boys, Kass and Cooper, and her husband Michael (a 3 time entrepreneur).
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- 05/07/2022 | 10:55 am – 11:25 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall ASpeakers Asha Jadeja is a Silicon Valley-based venture capitalist who has invested in over 200 technology startups in the Bay Area. As an entrepreneur herself, her investing philosophy is designed to ignite young entrepreneurs into becoming disruptive change makers. “Making a dent in poverty requires money. Without a strong focus on economic growth, developing countries like India will continue to be stuck in a cycle of poverty. The need of the hour is to let technology-driven growth enable India to break out of the cycle of poverty. It is critical that we identify and remove legacy obstacles to growth as fast as possible.” All of Asha’s venture and philanthropic initiatives in India have been designed to help the nation break free of this cycle of poverty. “Exponential growth is possible through technology-enabled entrepreneurship, lean government, world-class education, and women’s leadership.” Gender equality, inclusive growth, lean government, and national security are core interests of MITLI (Motwani Institute for Thought Leadership in Innovation) - an unprecedented bridge between the US and India. Asha created MITLI as an advocacy platform designed to drive policy changes in India. A firm believer in the power of grassroots socio-economic movements Asha created MakerFest in 2013. A powerful network of makers and innovators that pro-actively problem-solve for their own communities. Makerfest is now prolific in Africa, India, and more recently in Brazil. She created India’s first network of dozens of Fablabs designed to spark a just in a time manufacturing environment in India. With help from Prof Sugata Mitra, Asha also set up India’s first self-supported School in the Cloud in Ahmedabad. This has now grown to over 60 locally managed and sustained “schools in the cloud” within South Asia. Asha is a prolific thought leader rooted within the milieus of Stanford, UC Berkeley, Google, Hoover Institute, Council on Foreign Relations, and Brookings USA. She is a limited partner in over 20 Bay Area venture funds, Acumen Fund NY, and Kawasafi Fund, Africa. As a prolific collector of Indian art, Asha is currently engaged with Stanford University Cantor Art Museum in bringing top Indian artists into a global forefront. Avichal is a successful entrepreneur with executive experience at Google and Facebook, which acquired his previous company. As an angel investor, Avichal has invested in 15 unicorns and 5 decacorns including Airtable, Boom Supersonic, Color Genomics, Cruise, Deel, Figma, Newfront Insurance, Notion, Nova Credit, Pulley, and others. He co-founded Electric Capital in 2018 and has grown it to one of the largest crypto venture firms globally. Electric is an investor in many of the leading web3 protocols and companies such as Bitwise, Bitnomial, dYdX, Kraken, Magic Eden, NEAR, Terra, and Tokemak. https://www.linkedin.com/in/elenanadolinski/
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- 05/07/2022 | 11:25 am – 11:35 am PDT
- 10 mins Hall ASpeakers
William E. Quigley is a cryptocurrency and blockchain investor. He was the first institutional investor in PayPal and has over 25 years of experience as a technology-focused venture capitalist. Mr. Quigley has incubated and invested in more than 30 bitcoin, blockchain and cryptocurrency-related investments. Mr. Quigley co-developed the first crypto derivative used to trade pre-release Ethereum. He co-founded many other transformative crypto companies including Tether, the first fiat-backed stablecoin and world's most traded cryptocurrency and GoCoin, a pioneering crypto payments processor. He also co-founded WAX, a blockchain built for video game and NFT virtual item trading. In 2013, Mr. Quigley co-founded and co-managed Crypto Currency Partners, a blockchain equity investment fund with early notable investments in Coinbase, Kraken, Bitfury, Authy, ChangeTip and Circle.
Prior to his involvement in blockchain, Mr. Quigley was a venture capitalist. He co-founded Clearstone Venture Partners, a $700M early-stage focused venture capital firm where he concentrated on communications and consumer technology companies. Before Clearstone, Quigley was a Managing Director at idealab! Capital Partners ("ICP"), the world's first consumer Internet venture capital firm. ICP was affiliated with idealab, the most successful consumer Internet incubator of the 1990's. ICP was an early investor in some of the leading Web 1.0 era companies including Paypal, Netzero, MP3.com and Goto.com, the first company to rank search results based on a competitive bidding process.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Quigley spent seven years in business planning and new venture roles at The Walt Disney Company. His tenure at Disney included finance and operational roles at Euro Disney, the Disney Store retail chain and Disney Consumer Products. He also oversaw strategic planning and financial operations for Disney Licensing, the world's largest consumer products licensor. Before Disney, Mr. Quigley was a Senior Consultant with Arthur Andersen's Financial Services Group ("Andersen"). At Andersen, Mr. Quigley assisted banks and S&Ls in their asset securitization and risk segmentation efforts. He also advised Japanese banks on their US market entry strategies.
Mr. Quigley received his MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was appointed a Kauffman Fellow. He holds a B.S. in Accounting with honors from the University of Southern California.
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- 05/07/2022 | 11:35 am – 11:40 am PDT
- 05 mins Hall ASpeakers
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Track Chairs
Asha Jadeja is a Silicon Valley-based venture capitalist who has invested in over 200 technology startups in the Bay Area. As an entrepreneur herself, her investing philosophy is designed to ignite young entrepreneurs into becoming disruptive change makers. "Making a dent in poverty requires money. Without a strong focus on economic growth, developing countries like India will continue to be stuck in a cycle of poverty.
The need of the hour is to let technology-driven growth enable India to break out of the cycle of poverty. It is critical that we identify and remove legacy obstacles to growth as fast as possible."
All of Asha's venture and philanthropic initiatives in India have been designed to help the nation break free of this cycle of poverty. "Exponential growth is possible through technology-enabled entrepreneurship, lean government, world-class education, and women's leadership."
Gender equality, inclusive growth, lean government, and national security are core interests of MITLI (Motwani Institute for Thought Leadership in Innovation) - an unprecedented bridge between the US and India. Asha created MITLI as an advocacy platform designed to drive policy changes in India.
A firm believer in the power of grassroots socio-economic movements Asha created MakerFest in 2013. A powerful network of makers and innovators that pro-actively problem-solve for their own communities. Makerfest is now prolific in Africa, India, and more recently in Brazil. She created India's first network of dozens of Fablabs designed to spark a just in a time manufacturing environment in India.
With help from Prof Sugata Mitra, Asha also set up India's first self-supported School in the Cloud in Ahmedabad. This has now grown to over 60 locally managed and sustained "schools in the cloud" within South Asia.
Asha is a prolific thought leader rooted within the milieus of Stanford, UC Berkeley, Google, Hoover Institute, Council on Foreign Relations, and Brookings USA. She is a limited partner in over 20 Bay Area venture funds, Acumen Fund NY, and Kawasafi Fund, Africa.
As a prolific collector of Indian art, Asha is currently engaged with Stanford University Cantor Art Museum in bringing top Indian artists into a global forefront.
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All eyes on the business and human impact of AI
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Capital Markets
Conversations from IPO to Exits, a 360 degree view on investments
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Cloud & SaaS
Exciting new paradigms in cloud and security with a zero-trust position
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Exploring the revolutionary future of entrepreneurship
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Scaling global connectivity post digital transformation
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Reinventing healthcare in the age of the global pandemic
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Responding to Identity Theft, Fraud and Cybercrime
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Recent Supply Chain Challenges - is there a Way Out?
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Web 3, Crypto & NFTs
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