Agenda // Main Stage
OPENING Monday 20th DAY 01 Tuesday 21st DAY 02 Wednesday 22nd
9:00 AM Welcome Learning: The Most Important Derek Andersen, Skill For Any Entrepreneur Founder + CEO Startup Grind Daphne Koller, Co-founder, Coursera 9:15 AM Marian Gazdik, Intelligent Growth: Finding & Director, Startup Testing Your Marketing Grind Europe Channels 9:25 AM Hiten Shah, Co-founder, KISSmetrics Hooked: How to Build Habit- Forming Products Nir Eyal, Author, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
9:45 AM E ective Impact Business Startup Pitches Leila Janah, Founder + CEO, Sama
9:55 AM Startup Pitches
10:00 AM Invent the Future You Want 10:10 AM Unconventional Success: Vinod Khosla, Bootstrapping a Unicorn Outside Founder, Khosla of Silicon Valley Ventures Ryan Smith, Founder + CEO, Qualtrics; T.D. Lowe, Todd Pedersen, CEO, Vivint Smart Home Startup Grind Ryan Sweeney, Partner, Accel
10:30 AM Morning Break Morning Break
11:00 AM Launching Zoom: How to Break Work Sucks into a Monopoly (but it shouldn’t) Eric Yuan, Founder + CEO, Zoom Chris O'Neill, CEO, Evernote Jim Scheinman, Founding Managing Partner, Maven Ventures
11:15 AM State of the Art of Artificial Intelligence: What is Real Today, 11:20 AM Will be Tomorrow and Should be Scale and Profit: Can Startups in the Future "Have It All"? Fei-Fei Li, Chief Scientist of AI/ML, Ryan Holmes, CEO, Hootsuite Google Cloud Hannah Kuchler, San Francisco Mike Abbott, General Partner, KPCB Correspondent, Financial Times
11:35 AM Built for Speed: Evolving from Startup to Blitzscaling 11:40 AM The Content Trap: Why Well- Jack Groetzinger, Founder, SeatGreek Meaning Strategies Fail in A John Locke, Partner, Accel Digital World 11:55 AM Bharat Anand, Professor, Harvard Business School Startup Pitches
12:00 PM Speed Pitching & Feedback Bing Gordon, General Partner, Chief Product O cer, KPCB; formerly EA
Format References: Keynote Quickfire Pitches Fireside Chat Break Agenda // Main Stage
OPENING Monday 20th DAY 01 Tuesday 21st DAY 02 Wednesday 22nd
12:10 PM Speed Pitching & Feedback Bing Gordon, General Partner, Chief Disrupting Sports Consumption Product O cer, KPCB; formerly EA Jason Robins, Co-Founder + CEO, DraftKings Kurt Wagner, Senior Editor, Recode
12:30 PM Lunch Lunch
1:00 PM Registration Open (1:00 PM - 6:00 PM) 1:45 PM Starting (Up) With Heart Playing the Odds to Rock the Silicon Valley Game
Hamdi Ulukaya, Phil Libin, Founder + CEO, Managing Chobani Director, Steve Clemons, General Catalyst; Editor-at-Large, Co-founder, The Atlantic Evernote
2:00 PM Startup Pitches
2:05 PM Startup Pitches
2:15 PM World at Play: How to Build a Global Gaming Giant
Holly Liu, Founder, 2:20 PM Kabam Beyond $1 Billion: How A Startup Michael Gasiorek, Can Create Lasting Value Editor in Chief, Kenneth Lin, Founder + CEO, Credit Startup Grind Karma 2:35 PM John Rampton, Senior Contributor, Entrepreneur The Next Workforce: Recruiting & Engaging Millennials with Technology 2:40 PM Fintech Is Here To Stay Garrett Lord, Co-founder + CEO, Vladimir Tenev, Co-Founder + Handshake Co-CEO, Robinhood Megan Quinn, General Partner, Laura Shin, Contributor, Forbes Spark Capital
3:00 PM Building for Builders: Coding Mission Driven: Put Purpose the World's New Business First at Your Startup Infrastructure
Justin Rosenstein Co-founder, Asana Patrick Collison, Co-founder + CEO, Stripe 3:15 PM Derek Andersen, Less is More: The Future is Founder + CEO, Short Form Entertainment Startup Grind Alex Chung, Co-founder + CEO, Giphy M.G. Siegler, General Partner, Google Ventures
Format References: Keynote Quickfire Pitches Fireside Chat Break Agenda // Main Stage
OPENING Monday 20th DAY 01 Tuesday 21st DAY 02 Wednesday 22nd
3:30 PM Afternoon Break
3:45 PM Charting a Global Course through User Driven Growth 4:00 PM How to Build a Company That Matters Noam Bardin, Shernaz Daver, CMO, Udacity; Founder + CEO, Executive Advisor, GV Waze Derek Andersen, 4:10 PM Founder + CEO, Startup Pitches Startup Grind
4:15 PM WhatsApp: Our Road to 1B Users Jan Koum, Co-Founder + 4:25 PM The Business of CEO, WhatsApp Dating Alex Fishman, Sean Rad, Founder, Founder + CEO, Tinder Bugsee
4:45 PM Closing Remarks
4:50 PM The Startup Enterprise: New Era Derek Andersen, Founder + CEO, of Innovation Startup Grind Safra Catz, CEO, Oracle Reggie Bradford, Senior Vice President of Product Development, Oracle
5:00 PM Opening Night Kicko Conference Ends 5:15 PM + Networking Drinks Culture and Revolution Ben Horowitz, Co-Founding Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
5:45 PM Closing Remarks
6:00 PM Welcome Remarks Evening Events Derek Andersen, Founder + CEO, Startup Grind (6:00 PM - 8:00 PM) 6:15 PM 1-1 with Dave McClure Redwood City Pub Crawl Dave McClure, Founder, 500 Startups
6:45 PM 1-1 with Michael Seibel Michael Seibel, CEO, Y Combinator
7:15 PM 1-1 with Mark Pincus Mark Pincus, Founder + Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors, Zynga
7:45 PM Derek Andersen, Event Closeout
Format References: Keynote Quickfire Pitches Fireside Chat Break Agenda // Breakout Stages
DAY 01 | TUESDAY 21
FOUNDERS STAGE VC / Q+A STAGE WORKSHOP STAGE
San Mateo County History Museum Fox Forum Movie Theater
10:00 AM Q+A with Hiten Shah Limited seating available, Limited seating available, Hiten Shah, Co-founder, KISSmetrics sessions will begin sessions will begin promptly at 10:30 AM. promptly at 10:30 AM.
10:30 AM No Investor, No Problem: How to Succeed at Fundraising How To Make +$100,000 From Bootstrapping in a $16 Billion from Seed to Scale a Facebook Group - With No Industry Je Richards, Managing Partner, Budget JT Marino + Daehee Park, GGV Ventures Vincent Dignan, Founder, Magnific Co-founders, Tuft & Needle
11:00 AM The Inflection Point in Q+A with Y Combinator How to Build an Early Adopter Consumer Genomics Justin Kan, Partner, Y Combinator Community Robin Thurston, CEO, Helix; David Spinks, Founder + CEO, CMX Noah Knauf, General Partner, KPCB
11:30 AM How to Hire & Manage What Makes a Great VC Pitch From Startup to 10: What I Wish a World-Class Remote Team Rebecca Kaden, Partner, Maveron I knew from Day One Mark Bosma, VP of Sales, Toptal Adam Singolda, Founder + CEO, Ted Blosser, Co-Founder, Workramp Taboola Murray Newlands, Contributor, Entrepreneur
12:00 PM The Do’s and Dont's of High Speed Exit: 0 to $1B in Atoms, Meet Bits: How Investor-CEO Dynamics less than 3 years Technology is Changing Real Doron Reuveni, Co-Founder + CEO, Jim Scheinman, Founding Managing World Interactions Applause; Partner, Maven Ventures Alexei Agratchev, Co-founder + CEO, Olga Lozovskaya, Technology RetailNext; Investor, Goldman Sachs Quinn Li, Vice President & Global Head, Qualcomm Ventures
12:30 PM Diversity in Tech: Our Tomorrow Today: How to Think Startup Court Generation’s Civil Rights Exponentially Movement (12:30 AM - 1:30 PM) Pascal Finette, Vice President Laura Weidman Powers, Co-founder Startup Solutions & Entrepreneurship Watch this year's Startup + CEO, Code2040; Chair, Singularity University Program batch pitch for the Megan Rose Dickey, Reporter, chance to earn a spot in 500 TechCrunch Startups
1:00 PM Tech is the New Black Automated Devops and Delivery Mike Brown, Founder + CEO, Win-Win; for the Product Win: How to Kemar Newell, Founder + CEO, FLIP Structure Your Team's Work Toward Product, not Plumbing Ike DeLorenzo, Director of Product Management, Heroku Agenda // Breakout Stages
DAY 01 | TUESDAY 21
FOUNDERS STAGE VC / Q+A STAGE WORKSHOP STAGE
San Mateo County History Museum Fox Forum Movie Theater
1:30 PM The Benefits of Growing a Q+A with Bing Gordon Build Smart for Mobile: Using Startup Outside of the Valley Bing Gordon, General Partner, App Data for Product Design Reggie Bradford, Senior Vice Chief Product O cer, KPCB Nancy Hua, Co-founder + CEO, President of Product Development, Apptimize Oracle
2:00 PM Beyond the Ivy: Harvard Lessons from the Front Lines From SEO to Virality: Proven Business School Reimagines in Digital Health Strategies for Growing your Digital Learning Christine Lemke, President, Evidation Business on Mobile Patrick Mullane, Executive Director, Health; Mada Seghete, Co-founder, HBX Bill Evans, Managing Director, Rock Branch Metrics Health
2:30 PM The Business of Food Founder Mental Health: Staying Successful Launch & Growth and Beverage Calm & Clear in the Startup World Hacking Shortcuts: Robyn Sue Fisher, Founder, Smitten; Khalid Halim, Coach + Founding The Developer Perspective Marc Manara, Co-founder, FarmHill; Partner, Reboot; Ben Huh, Founder RJ Jain, Founder + CEO, Price.com; Jacob Jaber, Co-founder + CEO, + CEO, Cheezburger; Dawoon Kang, Co-founder, Co ee Philz Co ee; Joel Riddell, Talk Show YC Research, Y Combinator Meets Bagel, Inc.; Karolis Balciunas, Host + Executive Producer, Dining VC & Startups Business Around with Joel Riddell Development, Google Play
3:00 PM Directing without Dictating: Shark Bait: What Growth Equity DATA SCIENCE TRACK
How to Build a Company for Investors are Looking for in presented by the Long Term Early Stage Companies Why, When and How to Hire a Joshua Reeves, Founder + CEO, Vincent Letteri, Director, Private Data Scientist for Your Company Gusto; Equity & TMT Growth, KKR Brian Park, Director, Startup Grind Josh Wills, Head of Data Science, Washington D.C. Slack
3:30 PM How to Bridge the Startup/ Q+A with Vladimir Tenev DATA SCIENCE TRACK Enterprise Divide Vladimir Tenev, Co-Founder + Leveling Up Data Science Skills Toby Olshanetsky, Co-founder + Co-CEO, Robinhood & DS at Your Company CEO, prooV; Katie Kent, Data Science Product Manager, John Boitnott, Reporter, Galvanize; Otis Anderson, Director of Data Entrepreneur.com Science and Analytics, Clover Health; Alexy Khrabrov, Chief Scientist, ai.vision; Brian Spiering, Data Science Professor, GalvanizeU-New Haven
4:00 PM Tapping the Dev Community Overcoming Red Tape DATA SCIENCE TRACK to Turbocharge Your Growth Nima Ghamsari, Co-Founder + CEO, Maximizing Your Product Value Brad Brooks, Chief of Marketing, Blend; With the Right Kind of Data Product and Engineering, DocuSign Alex Rampell, General Partner, Science Andreessen Horowitz Eli Bressert, Manager of Data Engineering and Analytics, Netflix
4:30 PM 100 Random Hacks to Scale a Mission-Driven Startup: DATA SCIENCE TRACK Startup in 6 Months (Tell All on Maximizing Positive Social Behind the Data at Airbnb How to Get Global Press Mentions, Impact as an Entrepreneur Elena Grewal, Interim Leader of Customer Traction and Top Prizes) Benjamin Todd, Co-Founder + CEO, Data Science, Airbnb Christine Sou rant, Founder, 80,000 Hours Vendedy; Forbes 30 under 30 5:00 PM Agenda // Breakout Stages
DAY 02 | WEDNESDAY 22
FOUNDERS STAGE VC / Q+A STAGE WORKSHOP STAGE
San Mateo County History Museum Fox Forum Movie Theater
The Future of Voice and Q+A with Nir Eyal COMEBACK TRACK 10:00 AM Conversational AI Nir Eyal, Author, Hooked: How to If You’re Going to Fail, Fail Smart Keyvan Mohajer, Founder + CEO, Build Habit-Forming Products Howard Love, Author, The Startup Soundhound; J Curve Jeniece Pettitt, Producer, CNBC
10:30 AM What’s a Digital Product Agency? Immigration, Innovation, & You COMEBACK TRACK S. Owais Ahmad, Co-Founder + Laura Gomez, Founder + CEO, Don't Call It a Comeback - President, West Agile Labs; Atipica Call It Honesty Corey Anand, Senior Product Manager, Jessica Mah, Co-founder + CEO, West Agile Labs inDinero Joe Famalette, Co-founder + CEO, LiveRaise
11:00 AM Creating a Scalable Marketplace Q+A with Vinod Khosla COMEBACK TRACK Through Social Commerce Vinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Don't Fear the Scammer: How Manish Chandra, Founder + CEO, Ventures to Overcome Startup Fraud Poshmark Penny Kim, VP of Marketing, Shilpi Sharma, Co-founder + CEO, ParkHub Kvantum Michael Coren, Technology + Business Reporter, Quartz 11:30 AM How to Turn Your Community The 5 Keys to Hitting Escape Into a Business and Not Screw Velocity COMEBACK TRACK it Up Ann Miura-Ko, Co-founder, Floodgate Work Sucks Less When You Joel Flory, Co-founder + CEO, Think Trunk to Tail VSCO; Cory Weinberg, Reporter, Chris O'Neill, CEO, Evernote The Information
12:00 PM Use Humor to Grow Your Q+A with Mike Abbott Value Added Leadership: How Audience Mike Abbott, General Partner, KPCB to Make an Immediate and Sarah Cooper, Writer + Creator, Lasting Impact on your Teams The Cooper Review Mike Coscetta, Head of Global Sales, Square
12:30 PM Corporate Speak: When to No One Reads Your Company Startup Court Consider a Corporate Accelerator Blog: How to Beat "Peak Content” (12:30 AM - 1:30 PM) Bipin Sahni, EVP + Head of R&D, & Get ROI Wells Fargo Innovation Group Susan Su, Head of Marketing, Watch this year's Startup Reforge Program batch pitch for the John Boitnott, Reporter, chance to earn a spot in 500 Entrepreneur.com Startups
1:00 PM Integrating Equality into Your How to Grow Your Social Growth Following Elodie Dupuy, Principal, Iconiq Everette Taylor, VP of Marketing, Skurt; Justin Wu, Founder, Growth.ly; John Rampton, Senior Contributor, Entrepreneur Agenda // Breakout Stages
DAY 02 | WEDNESDAY 22
FOUNDERS STAGE VC / Q+A STAGE WORKSHOP STAGE
San Mateo County History Museum Fox Forum Movie Theater
1:30 PM Inclusive Leadership: Building How to Raise VC Like a Pro Building a Hardware Startup: Diverse Organizations from Clate Mask, Co-Founder + CEO, From Zero to IPO Day One Infusionsoft Cyril Ebersweiler, Founder, Hax Nicole Sanchez, VP of Social Impact, GitHub; Sonja Gittens-Ottley, Diversity + Inclusion Lead, Asana; Michele Perras, Head of Strategy and Market Development, Pivotal
2:00 PM Three Things Every Entrepreneur Incubating Greatness: What's a How AI Will Shape the Future Should Know (and Do) to Ensure Startup Studio, Anyway? of Work a Successful M&A Peter Pham, Co-founder, Science Dennis Mortensen, Founder + CEO, Paul Levine, President, Trulia x.ai Brett Wilson, Co-founder + CEO, Caroline O'Donovan, Senior TubeMogul Technology Reporter, BuzzFeed News
2:30 PM Trailblazing Into a New Industry Q+A with Phil Libin DATA SCIENCE TRACK Marcelo Camberos, Co-founder + Phil Libin, Managing Director, presented by CEO, Ipsy General Catalyst; Co-founder, AI App Engineering: The Unicorn's Paul Martino, General Partner, Evernote Guide to Transforming the Bullpen Capital Enterprise Kanishk Priyadarshi, AI Innovation Executive, IBM Watson
3:00 PM Cheat Codes: How to Lessons Learned: Traits Every DATA SCIENCE TRACK Streamline Your Success Successful Founder Should The Business Case for Data Brian Wong, Co-founder + CEO, Have Science in Government Kiip Eurie Kim, Partner, Forerunner Ian Kalin, Chief DS, US Deptartment Steven Bertoni, Senior Editor, Ventures of Commerce Forbes
3:30 PM How I Built a $2 Billion Q+A with Asana DATA SCIENCE TRACK Company by Thinking Small Justin Rosenstein, Co-founder, Benefits of Bringing Data Je Rodman, Co-Founder + Chief Asana Thinking to Your Product Early Evangelist, Polycom Hulya Emir-Farinas, Head of Data Science Team in Americas, Pivotal
4:00 PM