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$25

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$255 AFTER OCT 25th

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$125 - $175

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About

Accelerate Your Entrepreneurship

TiECON Southwest 2018 is TiE Southern California’s signature annual entrepreneurship conference bringing together 1000+ entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and business professionals for a great combination of substantive conversation, education and peer networking.

Make High-Level Connections

TiECON Southwest brings together highly successful and aspiring business women and men entrepreneurs as well as investors and mentors  from varying industries such as Technology, Hospitality, Finance, Real Estate, Automotive, Entertainment, Healthcare, AR/VR, Media and Information Technology.

The agenda features several keynote/plenary discussions and a number of  break-out panels, with plenty of time for networking and mentorship.

Learn The Latest Technologies

Come listen to Leaders on Automation on Technology Megatrends; on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning; on Connected Health;  on the Rise of Women Entrepreneurs; and on Technology in Entertainment and Hospitality Industry. But that’s not all:

 

  • Attend Breakout Panels
  • Listen to the company Pitches from TieSoCal Labs
  • Enjoy the popular Mentor-Mentee Power Lunch
  • Network with high profile VCs
  • Promote your startup business
  • Get inspired and engaged with newfound connections
  • Test Ride the latest Tesla Model S or Model X

EARLY BIRD SPECIAL BEFORE OCT 25

All tickets purchased or received are non-refundable and  non-transferable.  Each ticket is for the person whose name corresponds with the ticket.  Each ticket may not be traded in for cash value.

TIESOCAL LABS

TiE SoCal Labs is a virtual incubator which helps aspiring entrepreneurs with the entire lifecycle of their company – from cradle to successful exit: ideation process, making a realistic business plan, finding co-founders, building proof-of-concept, creating MVP, finding beta customers, commercializing the products, creating go-to-market strategy, expanding sales and distribution channels, and above all, exploring various fund-raising options. TiE SoCal Labs helps put key people, processes and systems in place to make startup founders & entrepreneurs successful! We also help with initial seed funding if the selected TiE Socal Labs company Qualifies for initial seed round. Contact TiE SoCal Angels for more information

Fast Pitch in front of Investors!

We are taking selective applications from new startups who want to gain visibility, get feedback from local angel investors, venture capitalists & executives, and grab the grand prize of the Best Startup Idea at TiEcon Southwest. Pre-Qualification sessions for TiECon are being conducted in late Sept, early and mid October. Please send your applications to Anshuman Sinha (executive.director@socal.tie.org) with the subject line (Fast Pitch session for TiECon application)

Do you have what it takes to be that most talked, most interesting, most popular Startup?

Wait no more. Now’s your chance to Fast Pitch! (applications close Oct 10)

Product Showcase

Entrepreneurs will get a chance to display and demo their Products (Software and Hardware) and Services to the TiECON Southwest 2018 attendees. We have 8 spots for submitting your applications and know more about the showcase.

This showcase will put you front and center of all the action at a fraction of the cost. Please hurry up and write to Anand Mahale at amahale@gmail.com before all the spots get taken.

Speakers

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keynote Beerud Sheth Co-founder & CEO Gupshup
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keynote Erik Huberman Founder and CEO at Hawke Media
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keynote Erin Gavin Actress. Owner of EGA, EGP & AFF. Keynote speaker for the World Women Summit
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keynote Navneet Chugh Managing Partner The Chugh Firm
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guest Nitin Rai Chairman of TiE Global
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guest Parag Havaldar Oscar Academy Award -2017 for Technical Achievement, R&D lead at Blizzard
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keynote Rakesh Mathur Co-Founder, and CEO at Whiterabbit.ai
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guest Smita G. Bagla TiE SoCal President 2018 – 2019, CEO at Aligned Strategies
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keynote Vanessa Yang Seed/Series A investment at Plug and Play LA; Cross Border startups for Asia Market
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keynote Shankar Ram Director at Jupiter Therapeutics, Inc.
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keynote Rajan Raghuram CEO and Co-Founder at The Fabric
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keynote Brian Mac Mahon Head Honcho at Expert DOJO
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keynote Mangesh mahajan Partner at Watermark Venture Capital
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keynote Debarag Banerjee Vice President and Head of Data Science
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keynote Sunil Hadap CG, CV, AI - Researcher, Practitioner
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keynote Rajat Bindilesh Research Physical Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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keynote Vijay Ganti Product & ML/AI Executive
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keynote Prashant Kukde Speech A.I :: Founder & CEO
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keynote Swamy Narayanaswamy Experienced software technologist, entrepreneur
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guest Kausik Rajgopal Senior Partner, McKinsey Silicon Valley
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keynote Sanjay Srivastava Vice President, Marketing and Business Development
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keynote Joe Boystak Managing Partner, Health2047 Capital Partners and CEO, Brightwaters Capital
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keynote Alex Suh Venturepreneur & Underwater Photographer
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keynote Robert Greenberg Executive Chairman at The Alfred Mann Foundation
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guest Quan Nguyen Patent Attorney
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keynote Gunjan bagla India Business Consultant, India Market Research, Global R&D Advisor
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keynote Ajit Mishra Medical Device R&D, Operations, Quality Executive
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keynote Michael Maylahn Founder & President @ Stasis
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keynote Stanton Rowe CEO of NXT Biomedical
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keynote Prashant Buyyala Prashant Buyyala
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keynote Nikhil Jain CEO & Founder, Oben Inc
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keynote Shiraz Akmal CEO & Co-Founder at SPACES
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keynote Ken Silverman Head North America -Sannam S4 Consulting, Pvt. Ltd. & U.S. Business Centers
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keynote Medha Jaishankar Creative Director at JetSynthesys
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keynote Paul Puri Psychiatrist, TV Writer, CMO.
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keynote Ravi Kapoor Director/Writer/Actor
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guest Ravindra Kondagunta Managing Partner, Traction Labs
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keynote Ravi Sawhney Founder and CEO at RKS Design, Founder LoanGifting, Founder D&A Guitar Gear
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keynote Rahul Sonnad CEO and Co-Founder at Tesloop
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keynote Rajit Gadh Prof, UCLA; Director
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17th FROM 7:30 AM - 5:30 PM

EARLY NETWORKING

Time : 07:30 To 9:00 AM

WELCOME PANEL 

Time : 09:00 To 9:30 AM

Key Note – Catch the Wave – VR Gaming

Time: 09:30 To 10:00 AM

Key Note – Startup to Billion Dollar Exit

Time: 10:00 To 10:30 AM

PITCH TO INVESTORS

Time: 4:00 To 4:45 PM

Erik Huberman Keynote

Time: 04:45 To 5:15 PM

2019 TIE OUTLOOK

Time: 05:15 To 5:45 PM

EXTRA NETWORKING

Time: 5:45 to 7:30 PM

10:45 - 11:30
ROOM 103 - A
Introduction to Tie Angels Investment Strategies  Track keynote 1: Investor Point of view Track Keynote 2: Entrepreneur Success Story
11:30 - 12:15
ROOM 103 - A
7-Minute Pitch Sessions (1)
12:15 - 13:00
Lunch & Sponsored Roundtables
13:00 - 13:30
ROOM 103 - A
7-Minute Pitch Sessions (2)
13:30 - 14:00
Exhibits | Sponsored Breakouts | Gamified Networking Break
14:00 - 14:30
ROOM 103 - A
Entertainment Pitches
10:45 - 11:30
ROOM 103 - B
AI & Cybersecurity
11:30 - 12:15
ROOM 103 - B
AI/ML/Big Data Apps
12:15 - 13:00
Lunch & Sponsored Roundtables
13:00 - 14:00
Exhibits | Sponsored Breakouts | Gamified Networking Break
13:00 - 13:30
ROOM 103 - B
FinTech / Blockchain
14:00 - 14:30
ROOM 103 - B
Diversity & Sustainability
10:45 - 11:30
ROOM 103 - C
Trends in MedTech & IOT
11:30 - 12:15
ROOM 103 - C
Big Data | EMR | ML Apps
12:15 - 13:00
Lunch & Sponsored Roundtables
13:00 - 13:30
ROOM 103 - C
Entrepreneurship Opportunities in Healthcare
13:30 - 14:00
Exhibits | Sponsored Breakouts | Gamified Networking Break
14:00 - 14:30
ROOM 103 - C
Kickstart Angel Investing Do’s & Don’t’s (45)
10:45 - 11:30
ROOM 104 - A
Catering to Millennials
11:30 - 12:15
ROOM 104 - A
Creating New Experiences
12:15 - 13:00
Lunch & Sponsored Roundtables
13:30 - 14:00
Exhibits | Sponsored Breakouts | Gamified Networking Break
14:00 - 14:30
ROOM 104 - A
Design Thinking – a mini workshop
10:45 - 11:30
ROOM 104 - B
Trends in VR & Gaming
11:30 - 12:15
ROOM 104 - B
Break into Hollywood
12:15 - 13:00
Lunch & Sponsored Roundtables
13:00 - 13:30
Show Making & Brand Building
13:30 - 14:00
Exhibits | Sponsored Breakouts | Gamified Networking Break
10:45 - 11:30
ROOM 104 - C
Product Design & Trends for Smart Factory
11:30 - 12:15
ROOM 104 - C
Enablers of the smart Factory – 3D Printing & Robotics
12:15 - 13:00
Lunch & Sponsored Roundtables
13:00 - 13:30
ROOM 104 - C
Connected Cars & Other Trends
13:30 - 14:00
Exhibits | Sponsored Breakouts | Gamified Networking Break
14:30 - 16:00
ROOM 103 - A
Avenues for funding, Seed Funding, Banking, Incubation, etc.
14:30 - 16:00
ROOM 103 - B
Women Influencers: Track Keynote: 1. The New boss is a girl, 2. Roundtable Discussion: Harnessing Your Power
14:30 - 16:00
ROOM 103 - C
US-India Workshop
14:30 - 16:00
ROOM 104 - A
Generate More Foot Traffic with Freemium Marketing Tech
14:30 - 16:00
ROOM 104 - B
Media & Entertainment
14:30 - 16:00
ROOM 104 - C
Practical Lessons for Entrepreneurs: Q&A with Successful Entrepreneurs
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