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TECHFIRE, LONG KNOWN AS A LEADING ORGANIZER OF TECH CONFERENCES & EVENTS, ALSO ADVISES CITIES ON ATTRACTING HIGH-GROWTH STARTUPS. ➤ ➤ RECENT HIGHLIGHTS: BURBANK, CA

Warner Bros. Chief Digital Officer & Executive Vice President Thomas Gewecke spoke at Burbank Tech Talks in July 2017, TechFire’s ninth event since 2015 as a tech economic development consultant for the City of Burbank. With Gewecke’s having oversight of strategy & digital for a $12 billion global giant, there was much to discuss!

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NETWORKING IS A BIG PART TECHFIRE’S MARKETING SAVVY ENABLES US TO ATTRACT LARGE CROWDS OF ENTREPRENEURS, OF OUR EVENTS AS WELL. FROM FAR & WIDE, AS SEEN AT THIS & OTHER (ABOVE RIGHT) BURBANK TECH TALKS. AWARD-WINNING STRATEGIES RECOGNIZED BY THE CALIFORNIA ASSN. FOR LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

THE CITY OF BURBANK, A TECHFIRE CLIENT, WON AN AWARD FOR BURBANK TECH TALKS (WHICH TECHFIRE PLANS & HOSTS).

“The city of Burbank has won three awards for economic development efforts last year in a statewide competition. The city’s business and economic development division won three awards of merit in three categories…from the California Association for Local Economic Development. …

Burbank Tech Talks [which TechFire plans & hosts as a consultant to the City] won the programs award. The four-part speaker series that launched in September was aimed at entrepreneurs, and created a networking environment that promoted and grew startup industries engaged in technology, media, biotech and clean technology. Burbank Tech Talks grew out of the Burbank Tech Summit in November 2015 with more than 180 businesses.”

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TECHFIRE’S CONSULTING PRACTICE LEVERAGES OUR MOMENTUM FROM OUR OWN SERIES OF EVENTS, SPONSORED SINCE 2014 BY COMPANIES SUCH AS EY, DELOITTE, CBRE AND WILSON SONSINI. PICTURED HERE: MORE THAN 425 PEOPLE REGISTERED FOR TECHFIRE’S DEC. 2016 EVENT AT GOOGLE LA WITH ERIC FENG. ERIC HEADS CONSUMER TECH INVESTING FOR KLEINER PERKINS, SILICON VALLEY’S MOST STORIED VENTURE CAPITAL FIRM, AND PREVIOUSLY WAS THE CTO OF HULU, AND AN ADVISOR TO AL GORE.

RECORD BREAKING ATTENDANCE: DECEMBER’S EVENT, WITH 425+ RSVPS, SET A NEW TECHFIRE RECORD FOR A FIRESIDE CHAT. AND GOOGLE TOLD US OUR TURNOUT SET A RECORD FOR GOOGLE LA’S BIGGEST TECH

OUTREACH EVENT OF THE YEAR. GOOGLE LA (FRANK GEHRY, ARCHITECT) CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: TECHFIRE’S SPEAKERS ALSO SPEAK AT TED, SXSW, TROY CARTER AT SXSW; BRANDEE BARKER AT DLD; TONY CONRAD AT WEB SUMMIT; TECHCRUNCH DISRUPT, WEB SUMMIT, & DLD. TECHCRUNCH DISRUPT NY 2015 SPEAKER & CRUNCHIES TITANS OF TECH AWARD WINNER SAM SHANK; BRAN FERREN AT TED QUICK OVERVIEW

• 4400+ registrants across our events

•Techmeme’s list of nationally- & internationally- significant tech events featured TechFire alongside SXSW, CES, TechCrunch Disrupt, DLD, The Code Conference, etc.

• top speakers including VCs from Kleiner Perkins, SV Angel, Greylock, CRV, & Lightspeed, CEOs that went on to billion-dollar exits (Dollar Shave Club, BlackLine) and CEOs of high-profile startups (HotelTonight, about.me, Factual, and more).

• 24+ Events including our own conferences & fireside chats, and events for consulting clients such as the City of Burbank’s economic development team

• 2 Major Reports Published: LA Tech Agenda (economic development), & Guide to LA Tech http://techfire.co • david@techfire.co ABOUT US 310.359.8955 • Los Angeles

TECHFIRE IS A LEADING PRODUCER OF TECH CONFERENCES & EVENTS, AND A AS SEEN IN: CONSULTING FIRM SERVING GOVERNMENTS ON ATTRACTING TECH COMPANIES. TechFire’s consulting practice leverages momentum and expertise from TechFire’s own tech conferences and fireside chats featuring titans of tech, recognized in TechMeme’s editorial list of nationally and internationally significant tech conferences alongside events like SXSW, TechCrunch Disrupt, SXSW, The Code Conference, and Web Summit. Partnering with Fortune 500 companies and other industry leading firms who sponsor our events — such as EY, Deloitte, CBRE, and Wilson Sonsini, and with our consulting clients, TechFire has attracted 4400+ registrants across more than 24 conferences & events.

TechFire’s Founder & CEO is David C. Murphy, a veteran of tech startups, events, and social entrepreneurial ventures. EVENTS HOSTED BY Before founding TechFire, David previously founded & ran Angelenos Against Gridlock, funded by Elon Musk and Geocities billionaire David Bohnett and event sponsors such as Google, Uber, Lyft, and The Broad Foundation, where David’s work led to ubiquitous news coverage by the likes of the New York Times, the front page of the Los Angeles Times, Good Morning America, Bloomberg, Business Insider and more. David got an early start in the tech world, in high school as co-founder of Hotline Communications, whose chat software the Toronto Star called “a major force in the online world” at the time. More recently, the World Economic Forum recently tapped David to participate in working groups on the future of the internet at WEF and on cybersecurity at the UN. Learn more at techfire.co. AND MORE

FEATURING SPEAKERS FROM LEADING VC FIRMS & COMPANIES SUCH AS: SPONSORS & CLIENTS

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TECHFIRE IS TRUSTED BY FORTUNE 500 AND INDUSTRY-LEADING COMPANIES, AND GOVERNMENTS.

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“GREAT EVENT.… BIGGEST ONE FOR THE TECH OUTREACH GROUP THIS WHOLE YEAR.” — Mark Thomas, Product Manager, Google (hosted TechFire’s Dec. 2016 event)

“TRULY IMPRESSED… EXCELLENT JOB” — Blake Mirkin, Executive Vice President, CBRE (sponsor) CBRE, the world’s biggest commercial real estate services firm, and a member of the Fortune 500, sponsored five TechFire events and advertised in our Guide to LA Tech.

“THANKS FOR MAKING THE EVENT A BIG SUCCESS! Great work attracting high-caliber speakers from Silicon Valley and SoCal, and drawing in a big crowd from across the region.” — Mark Scott, City Manager, City of Burbank (hired TechFire as a consultant to the City) The City hired TechFire as a consultant to organize & host the 2015 Burbank Tech Summit, then brought us back again in 2016 for four events.

“LOVED THE ENERGY IN THE ROOM!” — Eric Feng, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers (speaker) Eric, the former CTO of Hulu and Flipboard and Chief of Staff to Al Gore, joined us for a fireside chat hosted by Google, and sponsored and moderated by Wilson Sonsini, attracting 425+ RSVPs. SCOPE OF SERVICES

• Full Service Conference & Event Planning: our consulting practice is backed by our experience consulting for governments and industry giants alike, and organizing our own conferences & events that have been featured in Techmeme’s list of nationally & internationally significant tech events. We offer a full range of services tailored to your needs, including the following & more: • Economic Development Strategy: just as we advised the City of Burbank on strategy, and published the L.A. Tech Agenda report praised by the L.A. Mayor’s Office, we will leverage our expertise from TechFire and from policy experience with a leading business advocacy and economic development nonprofit to help suggest a savvy approach in terms of strategy. • Event Planning: we will leverage our expertise to plan a great event — or we’re happy to implement your pre-existing plans.

• Recruiting Speakers: TechFire has had exceptional success attracting high-profile speakers, of the caliber who speak at the world’s longstanding leading tech conferences, and we’re happy to leverage our extensive relationships with past speakers, plus PR staff at leading tech companies, VC firms, and outside PR agencies, to recruit speakers for your event. • Marketing to Attendees: TechFire has attracted 4000+ registrants to past events. Whether it’s leveraging our list, or recruiting 22 partnering organizations to send invites to their lists (as we did for one recent event), we know how to turn out a crowd • Logistics: from researching venues and vendors and making plans, to overseeing events the day of, plus taking RSVPs, designing & hosting the event website, graphic design for handouts & posters, and more. • Hosting & Moderating: from emceeing events, to hosting fireside chats ourselves with speakers like a partner from Kleiner Perkins and the head of the Disney Accelerator, TechFire CEO David Murphy’s moderating experience goes all the way back to college, where he hosted 50+ dinner lectures with everyone from a former National Security Advisor to the Poet Laureate. Of course, we’re happy to hand over the moderator microphone to you, to showcase your expertise if you prefer!

• We can help with your existing event plans, or help design custom event plans such as topical talks or fireside chats, or larger tech summits with multiple speakers, panelists, and/or fireside chats (morning, half day, or full day)

• In addition to events, we also produce custom reports and white papers (see more info later in this deck); and are also available for strategy consulting; public policy, public affairs, and advocacy consulting, and more. CORE COMPETENCIES

• Applying Regional, National & International Best Practices. From TechFire’s L.A. Tech Agenda Report recommending lessons from San Francisco & New York, to our hands-on experience with best practices from London to Burbank, we help cities shape a savvy tech economic development strategy.

• Implementation: Developing Thriving Startup Communities. TechFire not only advises on best practices — we implement them, hosting local events to help build startup communities on-the-ground. After all, the best way to ensure that white papers don’t gather dust is to implement the recommendations! PAST SPEAKERS

SAM ERIC JOSH BETH TROY BRAD MICHAEL KARA JEREMY SHANK FENG ELMAN SEIDENBERG CARTER FELD DUBIN NORTMAN LIEW CO-FOUNDER PARTNER PARTNER CHAIRMAN/CEO CO-FOUNDER CO-FOUNDER/ PARTNER PARTNER & CEO PARTNER GREYLOCK KLEINER ATOM FACTORY TECHSTARS CEO UPFRONT LIGHTSPEED HOTELTONIGHT KLEINER PARTNERS PERKINS & SMASHD LABS MANAGING DIR. DOLLAR SHAVE VENTURES VENTURE PERKINS FOUNDRY GROUP CLUB PARTNERS

THOMAS HOWARD WILL THERESE BRAN DAVID GREG TONY PAIGE GEWECKE MORGAN HSU TUCKER FERREN LEE BETTINELLI CONRAD CRAIG CEO & FOUNDER, MANAGING CHIEF DIGITAL PARTNER MANAGING FOUNDER, CEO CO-FOUNDER/CHIEF MANAGING PARTNER UPFRONT ABOUT.ME PARTNER OFFICER & EVP FIRST ROUND PARTNER & CHAIRMAN CREATIVE OFFICER PARTNER PARTNER, ARENA VENTURES WARNER BROS. CAPITAL MUCKER CAPITAL BLACKLINE APPLIED MINDS SV ANGEL TRUE VENTURES VENTURES

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PAST SPEAKERS (CONTINUED)

FRANCIS TX MICHAEL MARK LAURENT JUAN ANNIE ANDREW DAVID POLLARA ZHUO CARNEY TERBEEK GRILL BRUCE KADAVY MORBITZER SIEMER PARTNER ASSOCIATE PARTNER FOUNDING GENERAL MANAGING VENTURE VENTURE LEAD VP, CORPORATE FIKA UPFRONT GREYCROFT PARTNER PARTNER, PARTNER MANAGER LUMA LAUNCH DEVELOPMENT VENTURES VENTURES VENTURES DOWNEY CHARLES RIVER WAVEMAKER LUMA LAUNCH VENTURES VENTURES (CRV) GODADDY PARTNERS

IN MEMORIUM

DAVE GOLDBERG CEO, SURVEYMONKEY AARON ARTEEN TODD RACHAEL R. BRANDON BRANDEE DAN DAVE GOLDBERG TRAGICALLY PASSED AWAY IN MAY 2015. HE HAD BEEN HIRSCHHORN KING BARKER SCHEDULED TO SPEAK AT TECHFIRE ARABSHAHI GITLIN SOKOL MOREHEAD IGNITE; WE DEDICATED THE EVENT IN CO-FOUNDER & MANAGING CO-FOUNDER CO-FOUNDER / FOUNDER & CEO HIS MEMORY, & SPEAKERS SHARED VICE PRESIDENT CORPORATE REFLECTIONS ON LESSONS WE CAN ELLEPHANT PARTNER CEO FIKA VENTURES PARTNER DEVELOPMENT PANTERA LEARN FROM HIS EXAMPLE. DOGVACAY SAFIRE PARTNERS MEDIA THE PRAMANA CAPITAL TRIBUNE MEDIA COLLECTIVE

AND MANY MORE ATTENDING COMPANIES

HIGHLIGHTS OF COMPANIES REPRESENTED AMONG OUR 4400+ REGISTRANTS: IN-HOUSE EVENTS

TechFire’s consulting business is backed by our expertise producing our own popular conferences & fireside chats:

• TechFire Ignite Summit (two events) • Year 1 (in Santa Monica, attracting 400+ registrants): • featuring keynotes/fireside chats with speakers such as a partner from Kleiner Perkins, the Co-Founder/CEO of Dollar Shave Club, an M&A panel with corp. dev. executives, and more. • Presenting Sponsor: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

• Year 2 (at UCLA Anderson School of Management’s Korn Hall) • featured in Techmeme Events’ list of nationally & internationally significant tech events alongside Recode’s Code Conference, WSJ DLive, South by Southwest (SXSW), TechCrunch Disrupt, etc. . • featuring speakers from Silicon Valley & L.A. such as Tony Conrad (About.me & True Ventures) and many more • 400+ registrants (standing-room-only!) • Sponsors: EY, Wilson Sonsini, BlackLine, CBRE

• 19 Fireside Chats Events / Panels (from 2014—2017) featuring high-profile speakers • Sponsors: Deloitte, CBRE, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (WSGR), j2 Global (NASDAQ: JCOM), etc. • Speakers: Troy Carter (Atom Factory), Brad Feld (Techstars), Eric Feng (Kleiner Perkins), Josh Elman (Greylock), etc. • Hosted by Google, Microsoft, WeWork and at rented event venues previous used for PandoMonthly events.

• If you’d like to explore sponsoring one of our own TechFire events instead of hiring us for a new event, please email us for details. CONSULTING CLIENTS FAIRFAX COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY

FAIRFAX IN LOS ANGLES (2017)

The Fairfax County [Virginia] Economic Development Authority (FCEDA) is the largest non-state economic development authority in the nation. FCEDA selected TechFire as a consultant to organize and host an upcoming marketing event in Los Angeles to promote Fairfax to tech entrepreneurs in California.

Images courtesy of Fairfax County Economic Development Authority CONSULTING CLIENTS CITY OF BURBANK

BURBANK TECH SUMMIT (2015) The City of Burbank hired TechFire to recruit speakers & attendees for a “A Big Success … Great work successful 2015 Burbank Tech Summit. The event sold-out (250+) more than a week in advance, and featured speakers from The Walt Disney Co & Techstars’ – Burbank City Manager Mark Scott” Disney Accelerator, Charles River Ventures, a panel, and a moderator from NPR / (see testimonials slide for full quote) Marketplace. In 2016 Burbank had us build on the momentum (see next slide).

NPR’S BEN BERGMAN & CRV VC ANNIE KADAVY.

TECHSTARS’ CODY SIMMS, WHO RUNS THE DISNEY ACCELERATOR

LEADING A PANEL DISCUSSION WITH Event Program (Handout) TECH & REAL EASTATE CEOS. CONSULTING WORK CITY OF BURBANK (2ND & 3RD CONTRACTS)

BURBANK TECH TALKS (2016 & 2017) Based on the success of our 2015 consulting work, the City of Burbank’s Community Development Department expanded and renewed TechFire’s consulting contract, retaining us in 2016 and again in 2017 to organize a series of twelve events. These Burbank Tech Talks directly implemented the request by a speaker at last year’s Burbank Tech Summit for a series of networking events to help foster the tech community. Each monthly event features networking, lunch, and a speaker sharing advice on topics like raising venture capital, or marketing your company. TechFire planned event topics, invited speakers, turned out a crowd, and moderated the discussions at each event. Burbank Tech Talks won an award from the California Association for Local Economic Development.

CONSULTING CLIENTS WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI

JOINT WILSON SONSINI – WHARTON | SAN FRANCISCO EVENT & MORE EXPERIENCE

TechFire’s event consulting practice is backed by our founder’s expertise with 75+ events throughout his career. Highlights (besides TechFire) include:

• spearheading & hosting a CEO Summit at the City Club that was praised in a dedicated editorial by the editor of the LA Business Journal • organizing major business forecast conferences & other annual events for one of L.A.’s most powerful business groups (the Valley Industry & Commerce Wilson Sonsini, the leading law firm serving the tech sector, Association), featuring top elected officials paid TechFire to help with a joint Wilson Sonsini – & business leaders Wharton | San Francisco event on the Digital Revolution • organizing events hosted by The Walt in Retail Marketing, featuring Wharton marketing Disney Co. • Universal Studios (lot) • professor Patti Williams and Jim Stuart, Founder & Worthe Real Estate Group • etc. Chairman of PIRCH, a retail chain named to the 2015 • securing sponsorships from Elon Musk • Forbes list of America’s Most Promising Companies. Google • Uber • Lyft • The Broad Foundation • Metro (LACMTA, also an event consulting client)

• hosting, organizing, and/or helping with events with speakers including Warren Buffet • Bill Clinton • George W. Bush • Hillary Clinton • Magic Johnson • Newt Gingrich • Ed Begley, Jr. • Anthony Lake • etc.

• hosting events covered by the a wide range of media, including the New York Times. INTERESTED SPEAKERS

The following are some of the exceptional VCs & CEOs who have already confirmed interest in speaking, pending scheduling availability. We’d work with you on the right mix of speakers for our events.

• David Hornick (August Capital), also Tech Curator for TED Conferences and producer of the Lobby Conference • Chris DeWolfe, (Jam City Gaming (formerly SGN), former CEO of MySpace, which he helped create • Jon Callaghan (True Ventures) — 2015-2016 Chairman of the National Venture Capital Association • Ted Leonsis (Revolution): billionaire tech investor and owner of the NBA, NHL & WNBA teams in the nation’s capital. • Fred Wilson (Union Square Ventures) — lives in LA part of the year so something in the spring could work • Jeff Clavier (SoftTech VC) — offered to come in Nov. but only available on a date that didn’t work for WSGR • Rob Hayes (First Round Capital) • Shabih Rizvi (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers) • Ethan Kurzweil (Bessemer Venture Partners) — investor in Twitch, Periscope, Dropcam, Twilio, PagerDuty, Sendgrid; etc. • Eric Manlunas (Wavemaker Partners) • Saar Gur (Charles River Ventures) • Jesse Jacobs (The Chernin Group), head of the investment/holding group of fmr. News Corp Pres. Peter Chernin.

This is just a sampling — we have relationships with a wide range of VCs and CEOs & staff that we can draw on for invitations.

AND MORE ATTENDEE PROFILE

PAST EVENT PROFILE: • TechFire’s two past conferences in Santa Monica have each attracted more than 400 registrants. • In fact, TechFire Ignite (May 2015 in Santa Monica), was standing-room- only. It featured the following attendee breakdown:

61% Total Senior-Level Executives 61% (CEOs + Other C-Level + Founder + VP + Director)

For details on attendees’ companies, see the Attending Companies slide. EVENT PHOTOS

GOOGLE HOSTED TECHFIRE’S FIRESIDE CHAT WITH FACTUAL’S GIL ELBAZ — WHOSE PRIOR COMPANY WAS GOOGLE’S FIRST BIG ACQUISITION.

DOLLAR SHAVE CLUB CO-FOUNDER & CEO MICHAEL DUBIN KLEINER PERKINS CAUFIELD BYERS PARTNER BETH SEIDENBERG, SHARES THE STORY BEHIND THE VIRAL VIDEO THAT STARTED IT INTERVIEWED BY TECHFIRE FOUNDER DAVID MURPHY, AT OUR ALL. NOW, UNILEVER ACQUIRED THEM FOR $1 BILLION. EVENT AT UCLA ANDERSON SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT. THE TED TALK FOR APPLIED MINDS’ BRAN FERREN (AT LEFT), HAS MORE THAN 1 MILLION VIEWS — SO IT WAS NO WONDER NETWORKING AT TECHFIRE’S FIRST OF TWO FIRESIDE CHATS AT THAT TECHFIRE’S EVENT WITH HIM AND MUCKERLAB’S ERIK GOOGLE LA IN 2016. RANNALA (AT RIGHT), LEFT ATTENDEES ABUZZ.

A CROWD LINES UP TO TALK TO ROB KORNEGAY OF SPONSOR WILSON SONSINI (R) AFTER HE MODERATED A FIRESIDE CHAT. NUMEROUS ATTENDEES HAVE TOLD US THEY HIRED WSGR AFTER ATTENDEES ENJOY GOURMET CATERING AT OUR EVENT WITH SEEING THE FIRM’S EXPERTISE IN ACTION AT OUR EVENTS. GREYCROFT’S MARK TERBEEK. CRAFT BEER WAS ON TAP. TOO. SNAPCHAT’S FIRST INVESTOR, JEREMY LIEW (LIGHTSPEED VENTURE PARTNERS), WITH LOS ANGELES TIMES TECH REPORTER A STANDING-ROOM ONLY CROWD PARESH DAVE (L) AND FIRESIDE CHAT MODERATOR PATRICK ATTENDED THE EVENT WITH JEREMY LIEW. ANDING (R) OF WILSON SONSINI (SPONSOR).

NPR & MARKETPLACE CONTRIBUTOR & KPCC SENIOR ECONOMY TECHSTARS MANAGING DIRECTOR CODY SIMMS, WHO RUNS THE REPORTER BEN BERGMAN INTERVIEWS ANNIE KADAVY, GENERAL DISNEY ACCELERATOR IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE WALT DISNEY PARTNER AT CHARLES RIVER VENTURES (CRV). COMPANY, SPEAKS AT OUR BURBANK TECH SUMMIT. ROB KORNEGAY, PARTNER AT WILSON SONSINI (SPONSOR) INTERVIEWS TRUE VENTURES PARTNER & ABOUT.ME CEO/ TECHFIRE’S 2015 CONFERENCE IN SANTA MONICA ATTRACTED A FOUNDER TONY CONRAD. STANDING ROOM-ONLY CROWD.

ROB KORNEGAY, PARTNER AT WILSON SONSINI (SPONSOR) NETWORKING AT TECHFIRE’S MOST RECENT CONFERENCE IN INTERVIEWS AARON HIRSCHHORN, CO-FOUNDER & CEO OF SANTA MONICA. DOGVACAY. FACEBOOK’S FORMER HEAD OF GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS & SUPER-ANGEL TURNED VC PAIGE CRAIG (OF ARENA VENTURES, POLICY BRANDEE BARKER, INTERVIEWED BY FORMER GATES PICTURED AT CENTER), TALKS BACKSTAGE WITH ROB KORNEGAY FOUNDATION HEAD OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS TREVOR NEILSON, (L) AND VIK LAKHWARA (R) OF WILSON SONSINI. PRESIDENT OF GLOBAL PHILANTHROPY GROUP.

WILSON SONSINI PARTNER ROB KORNEGAY PRESENTS AT AT DOLLAR SHAVE CLUB CO-FOUNDER & CEO MICHAEL DUBIN AND TECHFIRE IGNITE SUMMIT 2014, HELD AT UCLA ANDERSON DOGVACAY CO-FOUNDER & CEO AARON HIRSCHHORN HANG OUT SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT’S BIGGEST VENUE, KORN AT TECHFIRE IGNITE, WHERE EACH SPOKE. CONVOCATION HALL. PRAISE FOR OUR L.A. TECH AGENDA REPORT AS SEEN IN: Our economic development report on strengthening the local tech economy, the L.A. Tech Agenda, was sponsored by firms like Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Design Samples Rosati, Cresa, & Aon, drew coverage in Re/code, Built in LA, SoCalTech, & LA Biz, and praise from L.A. Mayor Garcetti’s office and others:

“The report is great.” –Michelle Garakian, Tech Industry Liaison, Office of LA Mayor Eric Garcetti

“Thank you. Your report is quite helpful…I appreciate you and the team having created it.” – Peter Marx, Chief Innovation Technology Officer, Office of LA Mayor Eric Garcetti

“Great report and resource.” —Michael H Kelly, Executive Director, The Los Angeles Coalition for the Economy & Jobs [the business group chaired by City National Bank’s Russell Goldsmith) WHO WE ARE

David C. Murphy, Founder & CEO, TechFire

• David founded TechFire, working with Fortune 500 & industry–leading companies and governments as sponsors and consulting clients, including the tech sector’s leading law firm (Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati), the world’s biggest commercial real estate services firm (CBRE), half of the Big Four accounting firms (EY & Deloitte), public and private tech companies (J2 Global, BlackLine), the City of Burbank, the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority, and more.

• Before founding TechFire, David founded and ran a group funded by major donations from Elon Musk and tech billionaire David Bohnett, and event sponsors like Google, Uber, Lyft, and The Broad Foundation.

• David’s work has led to coverage in the New York Times, Re/code, the front pages of the Los Angeles Times and the the Los Angeles Business Journal, Good Morning America, Bloomberg, Business Insider, NBC, ABC, CBS, NPR, Wired, Mashable, Techmeme, etc.

• David’s experience spans tech startups, events, and public affairs. David co-founded chat software company Hotline Communications, which the Toronto Star called “a major force in the online world” at its peak. Apple, GM, and millions of users around the world used Hotline. David’s experience also includes working for one of LA’s most powerful business groups (the Valley Industry & Commerce Association), doing public affairs, government affairs, and conference planning, organizing annual business forecast conferences, and events on Universal Studios lot and at Walt Disney Co. featuring top government and business leaders.

• David graduated from Claremont McKenna College, where he hosted 50+ dinner lectures with speakers such as former National Security Advisory Anthony Lake and Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. During and before college, David spent summers working in Europe for the US Agency for International Development; traveling in China and meeting with business, government, and cultural leaders on an Avery / Durfee Foundation China Fellowship; conducting research for one of the most powerful committees in Congress; and working for Space Adventures, the space tourism company famous for flights to the International Space Station.

• Recently, David was tasked by the World Economic Forum to participate in their pre-Davos working groups on the future of the internet, and on cybersecurity at the U.N. chaired by the President of Estonia.

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