Global Conference

Feb 13, 2018, 4:00 PM – Feb 15, 2018, 2:00 AM

Startup Grind's Global Conference is the event for startups everywhere. Over 7,000 entrepreneurs will meet in Silicon Valley for 2 days of sessions led by top CEOs and influencers, dynamic networking events, meetings with investors, access to invaluable resources, and more. Pre-registration will take place on Feb 12. Main conference will take place on Feb 13-14.

About this event

Startup Grind's Global Conference will bring together over 7,000 founders and thought leaders from all around the world for conversations around trends in tech, software, education, building and scaling a company, venture capital, and more. Innovators, educators, and investors will share lessons learned on the road to building great companies. 

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Speakers

  • Reid Hoffman

    LinkedIn, Greylock Partners

    Co-founder, Partner

  • Walt Mossberg

    Recode

    Co-founder

  • Cal Henderson

    Slack

    Co-Founder and CTO

  • Adi Tatarko

    Houzz

    Co-founder + CEO

  • Steve Huffman

    Reddit

    CEO

  • Gillian Tans

    Booking.com

    CEO

  • Jeff Jordan

    Andreessen Horowitz

    Partner

  • Kyle Vogt

    Cruise Automation

    Founder + CEO

  • James Park

    Fitbit

    Co-founder + Chairman

  • Emily Chang

    Bloomberg Technology; BROTOPIA

    Host, Author

  • Guy Kawasaki

    Canva

    Chief Evangelist

  • Jess Lee

    Sequoia Capital

    Partner

  • Max Levchin

    Affirm, PayPal

    Co-founder + CEO

  • Anna Patterson

    Gradient Ventures

    Founder + Managing Partner

  • Dr. Andrew Ng

    deeplearning.ai, Stanford, Coursera

    Founder + CEO, Professor

  • Katherine Power

    Clique

    Co-founder + CEO

  • Baiju Bhatt

    Robinhood

    Co-founder + Co-CEO

  • Ann Miura-Ko

    Floodgate

    Co-founding Partner

  • Vinny Lingham

    Civic, Dragons Den & Shark Tank

    Co-founder & Investor

  • Bradley Horowitz

    Google

    Vice President, Product Management

  • Mary Grove

    Google for Entrepreneurs

  • Rich Pierson

    Headspace

    Co-founder + CEO

  • Marc Tarpenning

    Tesla

    Co-founder

  • Jyoti Bansal

    Unusual Ventures, AppDynamics

    Founder

  • Joe Kraus

    GV

    General Partner

  • Leah Busque

    FUEL Capital, TaskRabbit

    General Partner; Founder

  • Balaji Srinivasan

    Earn.com, Andreessen Horowitz

    CEO, Board Partner

  • Dan Pink

    Drive

    NYT Bestselling Author, TED Speaker

  • Catherine Hoke

    Defy Ventures

    Founder + CEO

  • Jeff Clavier

    Uncork Capital

    Managing Partner

  • Reggie Bradford

    Oracle

    SVP, Startup Ecosystem + Accelerator

  • Wade Foster

    Zapier

    Co-founder + CEO

  • Dan Price

    Gravity Payments

    Founder + CEO

  • Connie Chan

    Andreessen Horowitz

    Partner

  • Derek Andersen

    Startup Grind

    Founder + CEO

  • Mikkel Svane

    Zendesk

    Founder + CEO

  • Tara Reed

    Apps Without Code

    CEO

  • Jeremy Liew

    Lightspeed Venture Partners

    Partner

  • Kamran Elahian

    Global Innovation Catalyst, LLC

    Founder + Chairman

  • Julia Grace

    Slack

    Head of Infrastructure Engineering

  • Justin Kao

    Helix

    Co-founder

  • Eurie Kim

    Forerunner Ventures

    Partner

  • Mike Jones

    Science, Inc.

    Co-founder + CEO

  • Jeff Schumacher

    BCG Digital Ventures

    Founder + CEO

  • Alex Chriss

    Intuit QuickBooks

    General Manager

  • Mihir Desai

    Harvard Business School

    Professor

  • Valery Komissarova

    Grishin Robotics

    Principal

  • Alex Barnett

    Intuit

    Director, Developer + Partner Platform

  • Ashley Tisdale

    Blondie Girl Productions

    Actress, Founder

  • Stephanie Horbaczewski

    StyleHaul

    CEO

  • Nabeel Hyatt

    Spark Capital

    General Partner

  • Andre Haddad

    Turo

    CEO

  • Nate Weiner

    Pocket

    Founder + CEO

  • Ashley Carroll

    Social Capital

    Partner

  • Niko Bonatsos

    General Catalyst

    Managing Director

  • Ryan Popple

    Proterra

    President + CEO

  • Samir Kaul

    Khosla Ventures

    Founding General Partner

  • Jeff Richards

    GGV Capital

    Managing Partner

  • Mariam Naficy

    Minted

    Founder + CEO

  • Brook Porter

    KPCB, G2VP

    Partner

  • Dr. Rao Mulpuri

    View Dynamic Glass

    CEO

  • Nicole Quinn

    Lightspeed Venture Partners

    Partner

  • Jeremy Gardner

    Ausum Ventures, Blockchain Education Network (BEN)

    Founder

  • Omar Tawakol

    Voicera

    CEO

  • Stacey Bishop

    Scale Venture Partners

    Partner

  • Paul Hsiao

    Canvas Ventures

    Partner

  • David Erickson

    FreeConferenceCall.com

    Founder + CEO

  • Jonathan Hammond

    Unilever Foundry

    Global Marketing Director + Head

  • Monique Woodard

    500 Startups

  • Pete Flint

    NFX; Trulia

    Managing Partner; Founder

  • François Chopard

    Starburst Accelerator

    Founder + CEO

  • Aniyia Williams

    Tinsel

  • Linda Avey

    23andMe

    Co-founder

  • Josh Elman

    Greylock Partners

    Partner

  • Linda Xie

    Scalar Capital

    Co-founder + Managing Director

  • Jerry Chen

    Greylock Partners

    Partner

  • David Brown

    Techstars

    Founder + co-CEO

  • Amit Kumar

    Accel

    Partner

  • Jennifer Fitzgerald

    PolicyGenius

    Co-founder + CEO

  • Mark Bosma

    Toptal

    VP of Sales

  • Ryan Williams

    Cadre

    Co-founder + CEO

  • Shan-Lyn Ma

    Zola

    Co-founder + CEO

  • Neil Sequeira

    Defy

    Founder & Partner

  • Anu Hariharan

    Y Combinator

    Managing Director, YC Continuity

  • Parker Barrile

    Norwest Venture Partners

    Partner

  • Laura Wright Teclemariam

    Electronic Arts

    Senior Product Manager

  • Alex Rosen

    Ridge Ventures

    Managing Director

  • Oren Zeev

    Zeev Ventures

    Founder

  • Connie Loizos

    TechCrunch; StrictlyVC

    Silicon Valley Editor; Founder

  • David Barrett

    Expensify

    Founder & CEO

  • Steve Vassallo

    Foundation Capital

    General Partner

  • Edith Yeung

    500 Mobile Collective, 500 Startups (China)

    Partner

  • Michal Lev-Ram

    Fortune

  • Dr. Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä

    Aalto University School of Business

    Academic

  • George Babu

    Kindred

    Co-founder + Chief Product Officer

  • Matin Movassate

    Heap

    Co-founder + CEO

  • Dr. Stefan Heck

    Nauto

    Co-founder + CEO

  • Shankar Chandran

    Samsung Catalyst

    Managing Director

  • Mandela SH DIxon

    Founder Gym

    Founder + CEO

  • Jason Williamson

    Oracle for Startups

    Vice President

  • Marty Reaume

    Twilio

    Chief People Officer

  • Ryan Leslie

    SuperPhone

    Founder

  • Isaac Saldana

    SendGrid

    Co-founder

  • Patrick Mullane

    HBX

    Executive Director

  • Faizan Buzdar

    Box

    Sr. Director of Platform Product Management

  • Christine Souffrant Ntim

    Forbes 30 Under 30, Vendedy

  • Jay Srinivasan

    Spoke

    Co-founder + CEO

  • Frederik Groce

    Storm Ventures

    Associate

  • Josh Fechter

    BAMF Media

    Founder + CEO

  • Deirde Moran

    IDA Ireland

    VP of Emerging Technologies

  • Ian Brock

    Beyond The Cookie

    Co-founder

  • Tracy Wang

    ZZ Ventures

    Managing Director

  • Balaji Gopinath

    SAP.iO

    Global VP

  • Tomas Gorny

    Nextiva

    CEO

  • Kathleen Chaykowski

    Forbes

    Reporter

  • Jon Lee

    ProsperWorks

    Founder

  • John Foreman

    MailChimp

    VP of Product Management

  • Alexandra Watkins

    Eat My Words

    Founder

  • Tadhg Bourke

    Netflix

    Director Global Employee Services

  • Llew Claasen

    The Bitcoin Foundation, Newtown Partners

    Executive Director, Managing Partner

  • Phin Mpofu

    Startup Grind

    Community Evangelist, EMEA

  • Sheila Warren

    World Economic Forum

    Head of Blockchain + Distributed Ledger Technology

  • Nick Huzar, Founder

    OfferUp

    Co-founder + CEO

  • Gené Teare

    Crunchbase

    Head of Content

  • Federico Lara

    FedEx Cross Border

    Chief Technologist

  • Jordan Van Horn

    Segment

    Head of Europe

  • Shawn Bose

    Indeed Prime

    GM

  • Ceci Stallsmith

    Slack

    Platform & Partner Manager

  • Rahul Sood

    Unikrn

    CEO

  • Sylvana Rochet

    The Insightful Executive

    Founder

  • Jonan Scheffler

    Heroku

    Developer

  • Heidi Yu

    Boostinsider

    Founder + CEO

  • Guillaume de Smedt

    Bevy

    Product Manager

  • Henry Kaestner

    Bandwidth.com

    Co-founder

  • Amanda Gutterman

    ConsenSys

    Chief Marketing Officer

  • John Rampton

    Due, Entrepreneur

    Founder; Contributor

  • Renee Wang

    CastBox

    Founder + CEO

  • Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit

    MarsBased

    CEO & Founder

  • Karl Sun

    Lucidchart

    Co-founder

  • Ellen Huet

    Reporter

    Bloomberg News

  • Karolis Balciunas

    Google Play

  • Zachery Coelius

    Coelius Capital

    Investor

  • Andreas Fichter

    SAP Innovation Center

    Blockchain Business Developer

  • John Boitnott

    Entrepreneur

  • Matt Simon

    WIRED

    Writer

  • Inna Semenyuk

    SnapchatDaily.com

    Founder

  • Michael Gasiorek

    Truth Cartel

    CEO

  • Dan Myers

    42Phi Ventures

    Partner

  • Oleg Koujikov

    Maxfield Capital

    Partner

  • Jennifer Azapian

    Mighty Capital

    Partner

  • J. Ryan Williams

    SalesCollider

    Founder

  • Katie McCann

    Mighty Capital

    Partner

Facilitators

  • Jan Koum

    WhatsApp

  • Patrick Collison

    Stripe

  • Marc Andreessen

    Andreessen Horowitz

  • Megan Smith

    Google[x]

  • Michael Seibel

    Y Combinator

    CEO + Partner

  • Brit Morin

    Brit + Co

  • Stewart Butterfield

    Slack

  • Anne Wojcicki

    23andMe

    Co-founder/CEO

  • Noam Bardin

    Waze

  • Aaron Levie

    Box

    Co-founder + CEO

  • Matt Rogers

    Nest

  • Clayton Christensen

    Innovators Dilemma; HBS

Organizers

  • Derek Andersen

    Startup Grind

    Chapter Organizer

  • Startup Grind

    Silicon Valley

    The world’s largest startup community

  • Karlie Valine

    Startup Grind

    CMO

Presenting

Google logo

Google

Intuit Quickbooks logo

Intuit Quickbooks

Oracle logo

Oracle

Silicon Valley Bank logo

Silicon Valley Bank

Gold

Booking.com logo

Booking.com

Indeed Prime logo

Indeed Prime

Silver

FedEx Cross Border logo

FedEx Cross Border

BCG Digital Ventures logo

BCG Digital Ventures

Comcast LIFT Labs logo

Comcast LIFT Labs

Nextiva logo

Nextiva

Heroku logo

Heroku

Accel logo

Accel

Unilever Foundry logo

Unilever Foundry

Verisign logo

Verisign

Toptal logo

Toptal

Bronze

ANSYS logo

ANSYS

Harvard Business School logo

Harvard Business School

Zendesk logo

Zendesk

West Agile Labs logo

West Agile Labs

IDA Ireland logo

IDA Ireland

SAP.iO logo

SAP.iO

Samsung Catslyst logo

Samsung Catslyst

Zoho logo

Zoho

HKTDC logo

HKTDC

SGInnovate logo

SGInnovate

Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) logo

Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO)

Norwest Venture Partners logo

Norwest Venture Partners

Santa Clara University, Leavey School of Business logo

Santa Clara University, Leavey School of Business

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