Techweek New York 2016: Full Schedule

8:00am PDT

Summit Doors Open

Light breakfast will be served!

Thursday October 13, 2016 8:00am - 8:30am PDT
Metropolitan Pavilion 125 W 18th St, New York, NY 10011

8:30am PDT

Reading Shopper Reactions in Retail – With Robots

With the advent of online shopping, brick-and-mortar retailers are focused on delivering a shopping experience that is memorable, personalized and fun. Steve Carlin, GM and VP of SoftBank Robotics America will discuss Pepper, the humanoid robot, to illustrate the next step in advancing the customer experience. Built specifically to interact with humans in business and retail settings, Pepper can greet and inform customers as well as make emotional connections with them. Pepper opens the door to a new model of real-time customer engagement, personalized to their needs, requests and help them uncover or experience something new.

Speakers

Steve Carlin

GM and VP, SoftBank Robotics America

General Manager for North and South America. Responsible for all development, sales and marketing of a line of personal, humanoid robots. Own full P&L. Built from scratch and lead a team of 40 to deliver business in the region. Identified and built business processes for startup business... Read More →

Thursday October 13, 2016 8:30am - 9:00am PDT
Metropolitan Pavilion 125 W 18th St, New York, NY 10011

Executive

9:00am PDT

A Conversation with Indeed

Chris Hyams, president of the world's largest job search engine, will be speaking with Forbes Chief of Reporters, Kathryn Dill, about how the world's largest job search engine uses big data to guide decision-making as well provide insights on the labor market. They will also discuss the tech hiring gap, as well as how Indeed has kept a start-up mentality while growing to over 3,000 employees operating in 22 offices worldwide.

Moderators

Kathryn Dill

Staff Reporter, Forbes Magazine

Speakers

Chris Hyams

President, Indeed

Thursday October 13, 2016 9:00am - 9:30am PDT
Metropolitan Pavilion 125 W 18th St, New York, NY 10011

Executive

9:01am PDT

Entrepreneur Expo

Flock
Ashford Univeristy
Brandywine
Vimeo
Tanvas
Vonage
Hungary
Upperline Code
ShiftGig
TVP Industries
Livelike VR
Pride Global
Constant Contact
FindMine
Gust

Thursday October 13, 2016 9:01am - 4:00pm PDT
Metropolitan Pavilion 125 W 18th St, New York, NY 10011

Explorer+Entrepreneur+Executive

9:02am PDT

Techweek New York Launch Public Demos

Thursday October 13, 2016 9:02am - 3:00pm PDT
Metropolitan Pavilion 125 W 18th St, New York, NY 10011

Explorer+Entrepreneur+Executive

9:35am PDT

A Conversation with CommonBond and Betterment

Moderators

Tom Ryan

Associate, Anthemis Group

15+ years of experience identifying and executing ideas at the intersection of finance and innovation. A relentless operator, believer in efficiency and transparency, passionate supporter of entrepreneurs.

Speakers

Eli Broverman

President & Co-Founder, Betterment

Operator, lawyer, entrepreneur.Specialties: Online financial services operations and investment management law.

David Klein

CEO & Co-founder, CommonBond

David Klein is CEO and Co-Founder of CommonBond, a leading marketplace lender that to date has focused on funding and refinancing student loans. Prior to CommonBond, David worked in consumer finance at American Express, as Director of Strategic Planning and Business Development, where... Read More →

Thursday October 13, 2016 9:35am - 10:20am PDT
Metropolitan Pavilion 125 W 18th St, New York, NY 10011

Executive

10:25am PDT

Venture Capitalist Panel

Moderators

Rèza Chowdhury

CEO and Founder, AlleyWatch

Reza Chowdhury is the CEO and Founder of AlleyWatch, the largest organization focused on the NYC tech and entrepreneurial ecosystem. He is also the Founder of New York Startup Lab, a software development firm with a specific focus on early stage companies. Previously, Reza was involved... Read More →

Speakers

John Frankel

Partner, ff Venture Capital

I am the founding partner of ff Venture Capital ("ffVC") and have been a seed and early-stage investor since late 1999. I focus on advising and growing technology and technology-enabled companies across emerging industries, including smart locks, cloud-based security, machine learning... Read More →

Jonathan Lehr

Managing Director, Work-Bench

'm co-founder and Managing Director of Work-Bench where I invest in enterprise technology startups. Our current portfolio includes CoreOS, x.ai, Cockroach Labs, Backtrace, VTS, Socure, Tamr, Dialpad (fka Switch Communications), Metric Insights, Oration, vArmour, Context Relevant... Read More →

Avi Savar

CEO, Dreamit

Avi Savar began his career in the agent-training program at ICM in Los Angeles. Soon after, Avi transitioned to the creative side of entertainment -- as an independent producer, he created highly stylized programming for companies such as USA Networks, Fox, Columbia Tri-Star, and... Read More →

Thursday October 13, 2016 10:25am - 11:10am PDT
Metropolitan Pavilion 125 W 18th St, New York, NY 10011

Executive

11:15am PDT

Inspiration, Vision, and Roots

Our country's broken immigration system often keeps the best and brightest from establishing themselves, their families, their companies and their careers here in the United States. Hear from the panelists about the challenges and opportunities that immigration poses to the tech industry - as well as what you can do to advocate for solutions.

Moderators

Dara Adams

Northeast Regional Director, FWD.us

Dara is the Northeast Regional Director of FWD.us, an immigration advocacy organization founded by tech and business leaders to mobilize the community around the issue of commonsense immigration reform. In this role Dara determines FWD.us’ strategy for New York, Boston and the surrounding... Read More →

Speakers

Yin Lin

Co-Founder, SheWorx

Yin Lin is the co-founder of SheWorx, a collective of ambitious female entrepreneurs and changemakers redefining a new wave of leadership. In her last venture, she co-founded a design and development agency that worked with early stage clients who went on to raise over $27M in funding... Read More →

Cris Mercado

Cris is an undocumented entrepreneur who has helped hundreds of students ascend to top colleges and earn +$1 million in scholarships & grants, most recently through his startup, GrantAnswers. He was also a Founding Board Member of The Knowledge House, an award-winning technology... Read More →

Mark O'Neill

CTO, JackThreads

Mark O'Neill is the CTO of JackThreads, the leading menswear e-tailer dedicated to constantly improving its web and mobile experience. Prior to Jackthreads, Mark spent eight years as Thrillist Media Group's CTO building systems to handle ecommerce and custom content totaling... Read More →

Thursday October 13, 2016 11:15am - 11:50am PDT
Metropolitan Pavilion 125 W 18th St, New York, NY 10011

Executive

11:55am PDT

Entrepreneurship Panel

Speakers

Anneke Jong

Chief Operations Officer, Reserve

As Chief Operating Officer, Anneke leads the business side of Reserve. She joined the company from the Google Creative Lab where she led teams building the future of tech. A startup veteran, she is an experienced entrepreneur and storyteller who speaks and writes on topics related... Read More →

Alex Niemczewski

CEO, BallotReady

Adrian Soghoian

Co-founder, Trigger Finance

Thursday October 13, 2016 11:55am - 12:25pm PDT
Metropolitan Pavilion 125 W 18th St, New York, NY 10011

Executive

12:30pm PDT

#BeEpic: How Leaders Are Doing Well By Doing Good

The session will shine a spotlight on individuals – from tech entrepreneurs to CEOs – who have successfully combined their careers with their drive to make a difference. Key themes would include: tech, CSR, the millennial generation and philanthropy. Alexandre Mars is a serial entrepreneur, philanthropist and CEO/Founder of Epic Foundation, a global nonprofit startup that’s bridging the gap between individual and corporate donors and NGOs and social enterprises working with children and youth.

Moderators

Alexandre Mars

Epic Foundation, Founder & CEO

Alexandre is a serial entrepreneur and engaged philanthropist who started his first venture at 17. Over the past 15 years, he successfully launched and sold several companies in Europe and the United States across sectors spanning business and technology. In 1996, he founded A2X... Read More →

Speakers

Alex Chung

Founder & CEO, Giphy

Alex Chung is currently the founder and CEO of Giphy, the people who bring you all the GIFs. Before founding Giphy he was a Hacker in Residence at Betaworks and directed media technology for companies such as MTV, Viacom, Comcast, managed research for Paul Alles R&D lab, and started... Read More →

Chieh Huang

Co-Founder & CEO, Boxed

Chieh Huang is the CEO and a Co-founder of Boxed Wholesale. Boxed is the wholesale experience for those without the time, means or patience for a brick-and-mortar warehouse club trip. The company currently delivers to anywhere in the Continental USA, and has raised $150 million... Read More →

Jeff Raider

Co-Founder & CEO, Harry's Inc

Jeff is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Harry’s Inc., a company that manufactures and sells razor blades and grooming products to brands and consumers allover the world. Harry’s Inc. is headquartered in both New York City and Eisfeld, Germany. Its New York offices are home to Harry’s... Read More →

Thursday October 13, 2016 12:30pm - 1:00pm PDT
Metropolitan Pavilion 125 W 18th St, New York, NY 10011

Executive

1:01pm PDT

Techweek New York Hiring Fair

Come chat with some of New York's top companies, all looking for talented individuals to come join their teams!

VTST
Brand Studio
New York Times
The Madison Square Garden Companies
Movable Ink
Clarifai
Crowdtap
Devpost
The Farm SoHo
Techstars
Wade & Wendy
Managed by Q
Switch
Byte Academy
Workville
Fluent LLC

Submit your resume here http://techweek.com/hiring-fair/

Feel free to bring hard copies of your resume as well!

Thursday October 13, 2016 1:01pm - 4:00pm PDT
Metropolitan Pavilion 125 W 18th St, New York, NY 10011

Explorer+Entrepreneur+Executive

1:05pm PDT

Emotion AI: The Next Frontier of Artificial Intelligence

Affectiva, an MIT Media Lab spin-off, is the pioneer in Emotion AI, the next frontier of artificial intelligence. Affectiva’s mission is to bring emotional intelligence to the digital world with our emotion recognition technology that senses and analyzes facial expressions and emotion. Our patented software is built on an emotion AI science platform that uses computer vision, deep learning and the world’s largest emotion data repository of more than 4.5 million faces analyzed from 75 countries, amounting to more than 50 billion emotion data points. Affectiva’s SDKs and APIs enable developers to add emotion-sensing and analytics to their own mobile apps, games, devices, applications and digital experiences. Affectiva is also used by more than 1,400 brands to gather insight and analytics in consumer emotional engagement.

Speakers

Gabi Zijderveld

Thursday October 13, 2016 1:05pm - 1:35pm PDT
Metropolitan Pavilion 125 W 18th St, New York, NY 10011

Executive

1:40pm PDT

A Conversation with Donald Katz of Audible

Moderators

Richard Sarnoff

Managing Director, Private Equity, KKR

Richard Sarnoff (New York) is a Managing Director and Co-Head of the Technology, Media, & Telecommunications industry team for KKR’s Private Equity platform in the Americas. Prior to this position, Mr. Sarnoff served as a Senior Adviser to KKR, working closely with both investment... Read More →

Speakers

Donald Katz

CEO, Audible Inc.

Donald Katz, CEO of Audible Inc., will share his entrepreneurial story from journalist to founder of a premier media company and the category leader in spoken-word entertainment. Audible is the largest provider of premium digital spoken audio information and entertainment on the... Read More →

Thursday October 13, 2016 1:40pm - 2:10pm PDT
Metropolitan Pavilion 125 W 18th St, New York, NY 10011

Executive

2:15pm PDT

Brands in the Smart City: Building Personalized, Contextualized and Connected Consumer Engagements

Is your brand ready to ride the Smart City wave?

Chris Caen, publisher of ReadWrite, the leading news platform for all things IoT, will lead a panel discussion about how brands can leverage IoT tech and Smart City initiatives to create uniquely creative experiences for consumers.

Moderators

Christopher Caen

ReadWrite

I have worked for over a decade with companies to drive marketing initiatives that increase revenue, build market share, and create community. I have grown from account management to branding stategy, leading all facets of marketing from establishing strategy, to conducting market... Read More →

Speakers

Ron Espinosa

VP Sales, North America, Connecthings

Tom Goodwin

EVP, Head of Innovation, Zenith Media

Scott Marden

CMO, CAPTIVATE

Scott Marden, Captivate’s CMO, is a seasoned marketing, strategy and media executive. For 20 years he has specialized in driving revenue for media sales groups by consultatively using research, data, creative and content services. Since joining Captivate in 2009, Marden has helped... Read More →

Jeremy Parsons

Director, Digital Commerce Business Consulting, Cognizant

Jeremy Parsons has 16+ years of experience in the design, implementation, and support of enterprise applications, with specialties in process management, mobile, digital commerce and customer experience.

Scott Rotman

Cofounder, SYNC.city and LVL1

Thursday October 13, 2016 2:15pm - 2:45pm PDT
Metropolitan Pavilion 125 W 18th St, New York, NY 10011

Executive

2:45pm PDT

Barcelona: What It Takes to Build a Truly Smart City

How did Spain’s second-largest city become a Smart City?

Join Laetitia Gazel Anthoine, founder and CEO of Connecthings, and, Josep Ferrer, founder of Barcelona’s Smart City movement and former deputy CIO of the Barcelona City Council, at a fireside chat about what it took to transform Barcelona into one of the smartest cities in the world and what civic and tech leaders can do for their own cities' transformations.

Speakers

Laetitia Gazel Anthoine

Founder and CEO, Connecthings

Laetitia is the founder and CEO at ConnecthingsConnecthings is the European leader in NFC tag, QR codes and iBeacon management systems. Connecthings is a global physical beacon hub platform that connects smartphones to their environment through beacons deployed on public furniture... Read More →

Josep-Ramon Ferrer

Former Smart City Director & Deputy CIO (Barcelona City Council)

Thursday October 13, 2016 2:45pm - 3:15pm PDT
Metropolitan Pavilion 125 W 18th St, New York, NY 10011

Executive

3:20pm PDT

Smart Cities: A Burgeoning Micro Economy of Innovation

A conversation with the innovators who are creating and implementing the connected technologies that will change the way we live, work and play in cities across the country.

Moderators

Christopher Caen

ReadWrite

Speakers

Laetitia Gazel Anthoine

Founder and CEO, Connecthings

Sascha Haselmayer

Founder & CEO, CITYMART

Social entrepreneur, trained as an Architect at the Architectural Association in London and is an expert in the field of social and urban innovation in cities. Haselmayer is CEO of Citymart, working to improve the lives of millions of citizens by helping 50+ global cities (such as... Read More →

David Levin

Regional Sales Manager, East, Midokura

Scott Rotman

Cofounder, SYNC.city and LVL1

Thursday October 13, 2016 3:20pm - 3:50pm PDT
Metropolitan Pavilion 125 W 18th St, New York, NY 10011

Executive

4:00pm PDT

Techweek New York Launch Finals

Thursday October 13, 2016 4:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Metropolitan Pavilion 125 W 18th St, New York, NY 10011

Explorer+Entrepreneur+Executive