Global Conference 2021

Name: Global Conference 2021
Start: 2021-02-23T18:00:00-08:00
End: 2021-02-25T12:00:00-08:00

Riyadh
Feb 23 - 25, 2021, 6:00 PM (PST)

About this event

A home for startups everywhere.

Now more accessible than ever before.

Nothing can replace human interaction, but the power of online allows us to bring the education, access, opportunities and inspiration of Startup Grind’s Global Conference to startups around the world. Our new virtual and choose-what-you-pay model makes this year’s event more accessible for startups globally than ever before. Join us and 15,000 others for conversation and collaboration around tech, startups, and the future of innovation.

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Speakers

Biz Stone

Twitter + Future Positive

Co-Founder

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Tamar Yehoshua

Slack

Chief Product Officer

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Henry Ward

Carta

CEO

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Lucy Liu

Airwallex

Co-founder + President

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Markus Villig

Bolt

Founder + CEO

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Stacey Abrams

Fair Fight Action

Board Chair

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Jeff Lawson

Twilio

Founder + CEO

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Benoit Dageville

Snowflake

Co-founder + President of Product

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Michelle Zatlyn

Cloudflare

Co-founder, President + COO

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Parker Conrad

Rippling

Co-Founder + CEO

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Biz Stone

Twitter + Future Positive

Biz is a co-founder of Twitter, Medium, and Jelly. A progenitor of social media, and early Google employee, Biz has long been developing large scale systems that serve the global conversation. As an investor, Biz has backed notable startups such as Square, Slack, and Beyond Meat. In 2017, Pinterest acquired Jelly. As of late he's spent much of his time mentoring and investing in startups in the health, future of work, and sustainability through his new fund, Future Positive. Biz has been recognized as one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People and is a Fellow at the University of Oxford.

Tamar Yehoshua

Slack

Tamar Yehoshua oversees product strategy and development, design, and research at Slack.Previously, Tamar was a Vice President at Google holding product and engineering leadership roles on Google’s most important products, including Search, Identity and Privacy. Prior to that, she was the Vice President of Advertising Technologies at Amazon’s A9.Tamar has a BA in Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MSc in Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Henry Ward

Carta

Henry Ward is the CEO and co-founder of Carta, a company that continues to revolutionize the way founders, investors, and employees manage equity and ownership. Since founding Carta in 2012, Carta has grown to manage hundreds of billions of dollars in equity. Companies including Robinhood, Tilray, and Union Square Ventures trust Carta to provide things like fund administration, 409A valuations, cap table management and scenario modeling. Carta has been included on the Forbes “World’s Best Cloud Companies”, Fast Company's Most Innovative list, and Inc.’s Fastest Growing Private Companies. Prior to Carta, Henry was founder and CEO of Secondsight, a portfolio optimization platform for retail investors. He also held leadership positions at software companies including Reddwerks Inc. and BetweenMarkets. Henry graduated from University of Michigan with a BGS in Mathematics and Computer Science and holds a MSC in Market Finance from EDHEC Business School.

Lucy Liu

Airwallex

Lucy Liu is President and Co-founder at Airwallex. She is responsible for the company’s branding and operations. Before establishing Airwallex in 2015 with her co-founders, Lucy was an investment consultant in CICC (China International Capital Corporation) and served as a board director of Hong Stone Investment Development Limited, a Hong Kong based investment company.

Lucy has won a series of awards for her outstanding entrepreneurial achievements including Forbes “Asia’s Top 25 Power Businesswomen” 2020, Ernst & Young ""Top 22 Entrepreneurial Winning Women in APAC” (2020), Fintech Australia Female Leader of the Year (2018) and Forbes “30 Young Entrepreneurs in Asia” (2017).

Markus Villig

Bolt

Bolt is the leading European mobility platform that’s focused on making urban travel more affordable, convenient and responsible. The company’s services range from ride-hailing to micromobility with e-scooters and electric bikes to food and package delivery.Markus teamed up with his brother Martin, ex-Skype, to build the first version of Bolt in 2013 when he was 19 years old. Markus has been featured as the youngest tech CEO in Forbes Europe 30 under 30 list and is the youngest founder of a billion-dollar company in Europe.

Stacey Abrams

Fair Fight Action

Stacey Abrams is the two-time New York Times bestselling author of Our Time is Now and Lead from the Outside, an entrepreneur, and political leader. A tax attorney by training, she served eleven years in the Georgia House of Representatives, seven as Minority Leader, and became the 2018 Democratic nominee for governor of Georgia. She has launched multiple organizations devoted to voting rights, training and hiring young people of color, and tackling social issues at the state, national, and international levels.

Jeff Lawson

Twilio

Jeff Lawson is the founder and CEO of Twilio. A serial entrepreneur and a software developer, Jeff co-founded Twilio in 2008 to bring communications into the world of software. He is also the author of Ask Your Developer, a new playbook for unleashing the full potential of software developers in any organization, showing management how to unleash this workforce to enable growth, solve a wide range of business problems and drive digital transformation. Prior to Twilio, Jeff was co-founder & CTO of NineStar, founding CTO of Stubhub.com, and one of the first product managers for Amazon Web Services.

Benoit Dageville

Snowflake

Benoit co-founded Snowflake and currently serves as President of the Product division. Benoit is a leading expert in parallel execution and self-tuning database systems. Prior to founding Snowflake, Benoit was with Oracle for over 10 years as a lead architect for parallel execution in Oracle RAC and a key architect in the SQL Manageability group. Prior to Oracle, Benoit worked at Bull Information Systems. He helped define the architecture and lead database performance efforts for Bull’s parallel systems. Benoit has a PhD in Computer Science with a focus in Parallel Database Systems and holds more than 80 patents.

Michelle Zatlyn

Cloudflare

Michelle Zatlyn is co-founder, President and COO of Cloudflare, the Internet security, performance, and reliability company on a mission to help build a better Internet. Cloudflare is a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: NET). Prior to co-founding Cloudflare, Michelle held positions at Google and Toshiba and launched two successful startups. Michelle sits on the World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders Foundation Board. Michelle has been named to Fortune’s 40 Under 40 list and was part of Marie Claire’s 7th Annual New Guard. She holds a B.S. degree, with distinction, from McGill University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where she was awarded the Dubilier Prize for Entrepreneurship.

Parker Conrad

Rippling

Parker Conrad believes that sometimes you’re the fire hydrant, sometimes you’re the dog. He speaks from experience -- he graduated from Harvard after flunking out, beat testicular cancer at 24, founded three companies, and left two of them. In 2013, he launched Zenefits, the first all-in-one HR platform that allowed businesses to sign up and manage payroll and benefits online. Today he leads Rippling, the only platform that unifies every employee system across departments to truly automate administrative work.

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Global sponsor

Novel Capital

Novel Capital provides non-dilutive growth capital to early-stage B2B tech startups. Leverage your predictable revenue for on-demand access of up to $5M in funding. Whether you need to round out or bridge equity rounds, accelerate sales & marketing, hire to support implementations, or smooth our seasonal/cyclical cashflow, Novel can help.

Global Conference 2021

Riyadh Feb 23 - 25, 2021, 6:00 PM (PST)

About this event

Speakers

Biz Stone

Tamar Yehoshua

Henry Ward

Lucy Liu

Markus Villig

Stacey Abrams

Jeff Lawson

Benoit Dageville

Michelle Zatlyn

Parker Conrad

Biz Stone

Twitter + Future Positive

Tamar Yehoshua

Slack

Henry Ward

Carta

Lucy Liu

Airwallex

Markus Villig

Bolt

Stacey Abrams

Fair Fight Action

Jeff Lawson

Twilio

Benoit Dageville

Snowflake

Michelle Zatlyn

Cloudflare

Parker Conrad

Rippling

Brought to you by

Daifallah Alluhaidan

Abdulaziz Alnowaisser

amjad alghamdi

Mosa Almosa

Jawaher Al-Mutairi

Mohammed Alghamdi

Global sponsor

Novel Capital

Partners

Riyadh
Feb 23 - 25, 2021, 6:00 PM (PST)