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| | | EVENT SPOTLIGHT |  | | Sep 19: AI - Building Products That Understand
With Clare Gollnick (CTO, Terbium Labs), Cecelia Shao (Product Lead, Comet.ml), Chris Butler (Dir. AI, Philosophie), Tremis Skeete (Technical Product Mgr, nexTier Innovations). |
|  | | Sep 20: Brunchwork w/ Crunchbase
With Gene Teare (Head of Content, Crunchbase). |
|  | | Sep 27: How to Use Competitive Analysis & Strategy
With Joao Fiadeiro (Product Mgr, YouTube). |
| | | Sep 29: Brunchwork w/ Stitch Fix
With Donna Boyer (VP Product, Stitch Fix) & Dara Treseder (CMO, GE Business Innovations). |
|  | | Oct 18: Startup Grind w/ NFX
With Pete Flint (Managing Partner, NFX & Founder, Trulia). |
|  | | Nov 12: Empire Fintech Week
Confluence of conferences, roundtables, demo days, meetups & networking events to to build partnerships, & spur innovation in fintech. |
| | | Nov 13: Empire Fintech Conference
With Kenneth Lin (Founder/CEO, Credit Karma) & Adrienne Harris (Chief Biz Dev Officer & General Counsel, States Title). |
| | | CLASS SPOTLIGHT | | | | COMPANIES HIRING SPOTLIGHT |  | Airbnb is a trusted community marketplace to discover & book unique accommodations. | |  | Twitch is the world's leading video platform & community for gamers. | |  | Wikimedia Foundation is nonprofit org dedicated to free, multilingual, educational content. | |
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| | | | WEEK OF SEP 17 | | Thursday, Sep 20 |
| Sep 20
9:00am | | $699 | | IEEE Infrastructure Conference
Terra Gallery
With Jennifer Fraser (Dir. Infrastructure Engg, Twitter), Raymond Blaine (Dir. Cyber Research Center, US Military Academy), Raffi Krikorian (CTO, Democratic National Committee), Danny Lange (VP AI, Unity), Benjamin Sloss (VP Engg, Google), Nitzan Blouin (Dir. Engg, WeWork), Tian-Ying Chang (Sr Enggr, Pinterest), Berk Demir (Production Enggr, Facebook). |
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| Sep 20
9:00am | | $100 | | Silicon Valley Hardware Symposium
Computer History Museum
With Juan Aparicio (Head of Research, Siemens Corp), Brian Frank (Investor, Dishcraft Robotics), Rosanna Myers (CEO, Carbon Robotics), Andra Keay (Silicon Valley Robotics), Seth Winterroth (Eclipse Ventures), Carol Reiley (President, Drive.ai). |
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| Sep 20
10:00am | | $150 | | Plug & Play Insurtech - Property & Casualty
Venue
With Eugene Lee (VP Data & Analytics, Guidewire), Chris Downer (Principal, XL Innovate) + demos by Dinesafe, HazardHub, Capella Space, CastCircle, The Detection Group & Rozie AI. |
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| Sep 20
11:30am | | $200 | | |
| Sep 20
11:30am | | $65 | | Angel Information Luncheon
Perkins Coie
With Chris Yeh (VP Mktg, PBworks), Marcia Dawood (MD, BlueTree Allied Angels & Golden Seeds), Adrian Rich (Partner, Perkins Coie). |
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| Sep 20
5:00pm | | $199 | | The Churchills 2018
Hyatt Regency Santa Clara
With Jonathan Becher (President, San Jose Sharks). |
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| Sep 20
5:00pm | | $15 | | |
| Sep 20
5:00pm | | Free
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| Sep 20
5:00pm | | $10 | | |
| Sep 20
5:30pm | | $60 | | |
| Sep 20
5:30pm | | Free
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| Sep 20
5:30pm | | Free
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| Sep 20
5:30pm | | $40 | | |
| Sep 20
5:30pm | | Free
| | Metis Career Day SF
Metis
Brought to you by Kaplan, Metis focuses primarily on python, machine learning, data visualization, deep learning, big data & stats. |
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| Sep 20
6:00pm | | $20 | | |
| Sep 20
6:00pm | | Free
| | Fintech Central SF
Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center
With Jackie Reses (Head, Square Capital) & Michael Gilroy (Principal, Canaan) |
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| Sep 20
6:00pm | | Free
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| Sep 20
6:00pm | | $25 | | Volvo Girl Geek X Dinner
Volvo HQ
With Tasneem Manjra (Head of Network Development, Volvo Tech Fund), Sohini RoyChowdhury (Sr Research Lead, Volvo), Heather Bruno (Sr Mgr Biz Dev, Volvo), Sharon Lai (Intellectual Property Counsel, Volvo). |
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| Sep 20
6:00pm | | Free
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| Sep 20
6:00pm | | Free
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| Sep 20
6:00pm | | Free
| | AI For Space & Subsea Robotics
Pillsbury Winthrop
With Jon Goff (Founder, Altius Space Machines), Don Pickering (CEO, BluHaptics), Nicolaus Radford (Co-Founder/CTO, Houston Mechatronics), Eric Allard (Founder, All Effects). |
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| Sep 20
6:30pm | | Free
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| Sep 20
6:30pm | | $40 | | |
| Sep 20
6:30pm | | $25 | | A Guide To Innovation
Commonwealth Club
With Beth Comstock (ex-Vice Chair, General Electric) & Gina Bianchini (Founder/CEO, Mighty Networks). |
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| Sep 20
6:30pm | | Free
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| Sep 20
6:30pm | | Free
| | How To Foster Open Culture In The Workplace
General Assembly
With Lucy Cerchlanova (Strategic Partnerships, Slido), Simon Liang (Internal Comms, PagerDuty), Hannah Lawrence (Internal Comms, Zendesk), Julia Robinson (Head of People Comms, Atlassian). |
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| Sep 20
6:30pm | | Free
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| Sep 20
6:30pm | | Free
| | Mobile Growth
Atlassian
With Kapeesh Saraf (Dir. Product, Coursera), Julia Goodwin (Product Mktg, Chegg), Ji-Ea Yi (CRM Innovation Mgr, StubHub), Abhi Guglani (Dir. Product, Visa). |
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| Sep 20
6:30pm | | Free
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| Sep 20
7:00pm | | Free
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| Sep 20
7:00pm | | $20 | | | | | | Friday, Sep 21 |
| Sep 21
8:00am | | $365 | | Women In HR Leadership Conference
Golden Gate University
With Anees Hasnain (Global Program Mgr, Google Cloud Customer Engg), Rebecca Weaver (Founder, HRuprise), Anna McGrath (Partner Culture & Transformation, Godfrey Dadich). |
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| Sep 21
9:30am | | $195 | | The Intentional Play Summit
Computer History Museum
With Aleissia Laidacker (Dir., Magic Leap), Tracy Fullerton (Dir., USC Game Innovation Lab), Bret Victor (Founder, Dynamicland), Mimi Ito (Dir., Connected Learning Lab @ UC Irvine), Aaron Cammarata (S/w Enggr, Google), Adam Bellow (Founder, Breakout EDU), Clorama Dorvilias (Founder, Debias VR), Colin Campbell (Reporter, Polygon), Dan White (CEO, Filament Games). |
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| Sep 21
12:30pm | | Free
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| Sep 21
6:00pm | | $75 | | |
| Sep 21
6:00pm | | Free
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| Sep 21
6:30pm | | $350 | | | | | | Saturday, Sep 22 |
| Sep 22
10:00am | | $20 | | |
| | | WEEK OF SEP 24 | | Monday, Sep 24 |
| Sep 24+
6:00pm | | $198 | | |
| Sep 24
6:00pm | | Free
| | | | | | Tuesday, Sep 25 |
| Sep 25
7:00am | | | | Dreamforce 2018
Moscone Convention Center
With Marc Benioff (CEO, Salesforce), Al Gore (Chairman, Generation Investment Mgmt), Geisha Williams (CEO, PG&E), Jane Moran (CIO, Unilever), Andre Iguodala (Golden State Warriors), Arne Sorenson (CEO, Marriott), Emily Chang (Bloomberg Tech Anchor), Adrian Grenier (Actor & Filmmaker), James Manyika (Dir., McKinsey). |
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| Sep 25
4:00pm | | Free
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| Sep 25
5:00pm | | Free
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| Sep 25
5:30pm | | $20 | | The Current Landscape Of Genetic Testing
Perkins Coie
With Jill Hagenkord (Chief Medical Officer, Color Genomics), Lisa Alderson (Founder/CEO, Genome Medical), Lena Cheng (VP Mktg, Freenome), Dena Goldberg (Genetic Counselor, UCSF). |
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| Sep 25
6:00pm | | $8 | | |
| Sep 25
6:00pm | | $30 | | |
| Sep 25
6:00pm | | Free
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| Sep 25
6:00pm | | $10 | | Investment & Latest Innovations In AR/ VR
Sheppard Mullin
With Praveen Gupta (VP Corporate Investment & Development, HTC), Teppei Tsutsui (CEO, GFR Fund), Tipatat Chennavasin (General Partner, Venture Reality Fund), Bill Ahmann (Partner, Sheppard Mullin). |
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| Sep 25
6:00pm | | $25 | | Branch Girl Geek X Dinner
Branch
With Mada Seghete (Founder & Head of Mktg, Branch), Cathleen Hartge (Head of Legal, Branch), Zeesha Currimboy (Dir. Product Engg, Branch), Deepikaa Subramanium (Sr S/wEnggr, Branch), Ann Massoud (Strategic Partner Growth, Branch). |
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| Sep 25
6:00pm | | Free
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| Sep 25
6:00pm | | Free
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| Sep 25
6:00pm | | $30 | | BeautyTechSF
DocuSign
With beauty & fashion founders & investors. |
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| Sep 25
6:30pm | | $30 | | |
| Sep 25
6:30pm | | Free
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| Sep 25
6:30pm | | Free
| | | | | | Wednesday, Sep 26 |
| Sep 26
8:00am | | | | Oculus Connect 5
McEnery Convention Center
With Christopher McKelvy (Head of Esports, Oculus), Volga Aksoy (S/w Enggr, Oculus), John Bartkiw (Engg Mgr, Oculus), Mike Daly (Lead Designer, Insomniac Games), Ichha Arora (Producer, Oculus), Samantha Gorman (Founder, Tender Claws), Lucy Chen (Product, Oculus). |
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| Sep 26
8:30am | | $50 | | |
| Sep 26
9:00am | | $2500 | | The Chairman Mom Flee
Venue
With Sallie Krawcheck (Founder/CEO, Ellevest), Shannon Downey (Official Instigator, Badass HERstory), Michele Dauber (Prof., Stanford Law), Vanessa De Luca (Editor-In-Chief, Essence Magazine). |
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| Sep 26
4:00pm | | Free
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| Sep 26+
5:00pm | | Free
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| Sep 26
5:30pm | | Free
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| Sep 26
5:45pm | | $25 | | UXNight - Conversation Design
LinkedIn
With Cathy Pearl (Head of Conversational Design Outreach, Google), Chris Liu (Product Designer & R&D, Mercedes Benz), Mariya Yao (CTO & Product Officer, Metamaven). |
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| Sep 26
6:00pm | | $10 | | |
| Sep 26
6:00pm | | $40 | | |
| Sep 26
6:00pm | | Free
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| Sep 26
6:00pm | | Free
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| Sep 26
6:00pm | | Free
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| Sep 26
6:30pm | | Free
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| Sep 26
6:30pm | | $10 | | |
| Sep 26
6:30pm | | $289 | | |
| Sep 26
7:00pm | | $25 | | |
| Sep 26
7:00pm | | $60 | | | | | | Thursday, Sep 27 |
| Sep 27
6:30pm | | Free
| | | | | | Saturday, Sep 29 |
| Sep 29
11:30am | | $40 | | Brunchwork w/ Stitch Fix
Galvanize
With Donna Boyer (VP Product, Stitch Fix) & Dara Treseder (CMO, GE Business Innovations). |
| | | | Sunday, Sep 30 |
| Sep 30
8:00am | | $100 | | | | | | Tuesday, Oct 02 |
| Oct 02
8:00am | | $895 | | PreMoney SF
InterContinental Hotel SF
With Ann Miura-Ko (Floodgate VC), Hunter Walk (Homebrew), Garry Tan (Initialized Capital), David Lee (Refactor Capital), Peter Wagner (Wing), Semil Shah (Haystack), Christine Tsai (500 Startups), Renata Quintini (Lux Capital), Margo Doyle (S-Cubed Capital), Miriam Rivera (Ulu VC), Boris Wertz (Version One Ventures). |
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| Oct 02
6:30pm | | $25 | | Modern Elders & Millennials At Work
Marines Memorial Theater
With Chip Conley (Global Head of Hospitality & Strategy, Airbnb), Julie Hanna (Exec Chairwoman, Kiva), Brian Chesky (Founder/CEO, Airbnb). |
| | | | Friday, Oct 05 |
| Oct 05
8:00am | | Free
| | ETH San Francisco
Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
With Vitalik Buterin (Chief Scientist, Ethereum Foundation), Vlad Zamfir (Researcher, Ethereum Foundation), Fred Ehrsam (Paradigm), Linda Xie (Scalar Capital), Simon de la Rouviere (Storyteller, Consensys), Joey Krug (Founder, Augur), Kartik Talwar (SV Angel), Loi Luu (CEO, Kyber Network), Liam Horne (Founder, L4 & ETHGlobal), Virgil Griffith (Special Projects, Ethereum Foundation), Ethan Wilding (Founding Team, Ethereum Foundation. |
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| | | WEEK OF OCT 08 | | Monday, Oct 08 |
| Oct 08
8:30am | | $100 | | | | | | Wednesday, Oct 10 |
| Oct 10
6:30pm | | $40 | | | | | | Saturday, Oct 13 |
| Oct 13
8:30am | | $425 | | Igniter Annual Conference
Computer History Museum
With Ravi Belani (MD, Alchemist Accelerator), Nancy Duarte (Author, Slide:ology), Hank Barry (Chair, Emerging Companies & Venture Capital ECVC), David Joud (President, Dynamic Strategic Alignment), Lili Balfour (Founder, Atelier Advisors), Ben Kaplan (Founder/CEO, PR Hacker). |
| | | | Wednesday, Oct 17 |
| Oct 17
6:30pm | | $40 | | | | | | Thursday, Oct 18 |
| Oct 18
6:00pm | | $20 | | |
| Oct 18
6:30pm | | $20 | | Women In The Blockchain
Sheppard Mullin
With Karen Hsu (CRO, BlockCypher), Lily Liu (Founder, Earn.com), Shuonan Chen (IOVC/Agile VC), Vanishree Rao (Sr Cryptographer, Intertrust). |
| | | | Friday, Oct 19 |
| Oct 19+
5:00pm | | $75 | | | | | | Friday, Nov 02 |
| Nov 02+
9:00am | | $495 | | |
| | | WEEK OF NOV 12 | | Monday, Nov 12 |
| Nov 12
9:00am | | | | Empire Fintech Week
Venues
Confluence of conferences, roundtables, demo days, meetups & networking events to to build partnerships, forecast future trends & spur innovation in fintech. |
| | | | Tuesday, Nov 13 |
| Nov 13+
9:00am | | $195 | | Empire Fintech Conference
The Regency Ballroom
With Kenneth Lin (Founder/CEO, Credit Karma) & Adrienne Harris (Chief Biz Dev Officer & General Counsel, States Title). |
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