Agenda:

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Registration & Networking

Guests arrive and check-in.

Enjoy light refreshments and casual networking with fellow attendees, VCs, founders, and industry leaders.

6:00 PM - 6:40 PM | Panel Discussion: "The VC View in the Valley - Past, Present, Future"

Panelists: Top-tier venture capitalists discussing the rise of innovation in Silicon Valley, the evolution of venture funding, the role of AI, and ongoing industry trends.

• Mahak Sharma joins us from Google, where she leads product partnerships efforts for Google's AI products - Gemini and Search Generative Experiences. She has spent 8 yrs at Google incubating & scaling businesses on Search & ads, working with Google's most strategic partners, building first of kind product solutions with them. Her prior experience was as a Product & BD leader across Twitter and InMobi. She is an active angel investor, DEI champion within Google and an advisor to startups. 

• Janelle Teng is a Vice President in the San Francisco office of Bessemer Venture Partners where she focuses primarily on early-stage investments in AI/ML apps, data infrastructure, developer platforms, and defense tech. She specializes in applied AI and is passionate about supporting highly technical teams in the earliest stages. Currently, Janelle serves as a board director or observer for Claroty, Coactive, Databook, Netlify, Render, and Virtru

  Janelle developed many of Bessemer’s AI infrastructure and defense tech frameworks. Additionally, she is a co-author of Bessemer’s annual State of the Cloud Report and Bessemer Growth’s Scaling to $100MM Series.

• Ryan Chandra leads Data & AI investments at Accenture Ventures, Accenture's corporate venture capital arm, which is focused on making strategic investments into emerging technology companies that drive actionable impact for the Global 2000

• Srishti Jain Kawatra is a former founder turned investor at 500 Global. She founded a food-tech startup in India that was later acquired by Zomato (Doordash of India). She recently completed her MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. At 500 Global, Srishti invests in early-stage companies in using AI to disrupt enterprise and consumer businesses. Srishti is passionate about empowering women founders in the startup ecosystem.

Topics include key milestones, challenges faced, and how the future of funding and innovation looks in the tech capital of the world.

6:40 PM - 7:00 PM | Audience Q&A

Open the floor for questions from the audience. Get direct insights and advice from the VC panel on current opportunities, market challenges, and future trends.

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM | Networking & Drinks

Continue the conversation with fellow attendees and panelists over drinks.

Build connections with investors, startups, and other key players in the ecosystem in an informal setting.

8:00 PM | Event End