Press Release SVOD Technology Conference 2016

Mountain View, CA, April 19, 2016 (Newswire.com) - svod.org

SVOD 2016 is a leading boutique technology investment conference that takes place on May 25-26 in Mountain View, CA. It brings together more than 1.5K attendees, including over 600 startup founders, 50+ gurus of the tech industry, 300+ top angels and VCs, 800+ experts, and much more.

This year SVOD is hosting several unique speakers, including ex-chief of Google IoT technology who will present his new stealth-mode startup that is bound to bring a major disruption to the IoT market.

Ivan Maryasin, PR Manager

SVOD has always been unique in its ability to connect startup community with investors. The 2016 Conference is expected to have 1 investor per 2 entrepreneurs ratio. SVOD 2016 also hosts the biggest pitch competition in its history – more than 35 early stage startups will present their innovative ideas to 300+ angels and VCs. In the Conference’s 12 years history more than 300 startups presented on SVOD stage and received over $700M of investments.

This year SVOD is hosting several unique speakers, including ex-chief of Google IoT technology who will present his new stealth-mode startup that is bound to bring a major disruption to the IoT market. Ilya Strebulaev of Stanford GSB will present the results of his unique research rebuffing many myths about unicorns, the tech bubble and its projected burst in Silicon Valley. Jager McConnell of Crunchbase will talk about the general focus pivot from growth to profitability. Whit Diffie, The Father of Computer Cryptography and the 2015 "Nobel Prize" of Computer Science winner, will shine the light on the computer technology future and share some of the latest AI trends. 

SVOD also hosts several panels with international thought leaders. Some of SVOD 2016 speakers are:

○      Jager McConnell (CEO, CrunchBase)

○      Noam Bardin (Chief Wazer, Google)

○      Hannah Kuchler (Financial Times)

○      Whitfield Diffie (2015 A.M. Turing Award)

○      Nir Zuk (Founder, Palo Alto Networks)

○      Emily Becher (Global Head, Samsung Accelerator)

○      Steve Miranda (EVP, SaaS Applications Development, Oracle)

○      Ilya Strebulaev (Stanford University)

○      Alexander Galitsky (Founding Partner, Almaz Capital)

○      Sami Inkinen (Co-Founder, Trulia) and more

Some of SVOD past speakers include: Phil Libin (Evernote), Alfred Lin (Sequoia, Zappos), Steve Jurvetson (DFJ), Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures, PayPal, LinkedIn, Square), Byron Deeter (Bessemer), Tim Draper, Esther Dyson, Matt Cohler (LinkedIn, Benchmark), Steve Blank, Guy Kawasaki, John Morgridge (Chairman, Cisco), George Zachary (Charles River Ventures, Twitter), Bill Tai, Ron Conway (SV Angels, Google), Charles Giancarlo (SilverLake, Skype), Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures), and many other amazing people.

 

SVOD format: SVOD’s warm international atmosphere and boutique format make it easy to meet speakers, industry experts and other attendees, especially because all the special guests are accessible before and after the panels. The Conference halls’ layout makes the attendees not only mingle, but “crush” into each other and get the best networking opportunities.  The conference is designed for tech and startup community to easily make necessary connections, find new customers, partners and investors.

SVOD 2016 sponsors include Microsoft, Google, HP Enterprise, Akin Gump, Almaz Capital, Epiphan Video, Mirantis, RingCentral, Luxoft, Siguler Guft, Silicon Valley Bank, T-mobile Deutsche Telekom, Greenberg, Whitcombe & Takeuchi, and more.

Contact:

Ivan Maryasin

Marketing & PR Manager @ SVOD 2016

imaryasin@svod.org

Source: SVOD (svod.org)