Engineering Summit 2023
Thu Nov 16, 2023 9
3.30 pm – 7.30 pm
Computer History Museum
1401 N. Shoreline Blvd.
Mountain View, CA 94043
3.30 - 4.00: Registration and networking
4.00 - 4.10: Opening remarks by Ashmeet Sidana
4.10 - 4.20: Lightning round
Shankar Somasundaram, CEO Asmily
Diane Yu, CEO TidalWave
4.30 - 5.00: Challenges and opportunities in AI Safety
Yaron Singer, Robust Intelligence
5.00 - 5.20: Lightning round
Prakash Chandran, CEO Xano
Alon Girmonsky, CEO, KubeHQ
Engineering Summit 2022
Wednesday November 9, 2022
3.30 pm – 8.00 pm
Wharton San Francisco
6th Floor, 2 Harrison Street,
San Francisco, California
3.30 pm – 4.00 pm Registration & Networking
4.00 pm – 4.10 pm Opening Remarks by Ashmeet Sidana
4.10 pm – 4.45 pm Application Modernization in the Enterprise
Moti Rafalin, CEO, vFunction
Santosh Dubey, Global Segment Leader, AWS
Ravi Venkatesan, COO, Cantaloupe
4.45 pm – 5.15 pm Lightning round presentations:
Navin Thadani, CEO Evinced
Palak Dalal, CEO IrisAgent
Ryan and Briant, CEO Vizibly
5.15pm – 5.50 pm Innovate or Stagnate: Technology Transformation in Corporate Finance
Rohit Gupta, CEO Auditoria
Patrick Hoynes, Global Controller, Workday
Bharath Srinivas, CTO, Accenture Finance
5.50 pm – 6.00 pm Closing Remarks by Ashmeet Sidana
6.00pm – 8.00 pm Reception
Engineering Summit 2021
Cancelled due to Covid restrictions
Engineering Summit 2020
[cancelled due to COVID-19]
Engineering Summit 2019
Wednesday October 30, 2019
3.30 pm – 7.00 pm
Wharton San Francisco
6th Floor,
2 Harrison Street,
San Francisco, California
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 3.30 – 4.00 | Registration & Networking |
| 4.05 – 4.45 | Opening Keynote: Jen Easterly, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley
Jen Easterly is a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley and Global Head of the Firm’s Cybersecurity Fusion Center, charged with assessing, detecting, and responding to cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and incidents that incur risk to the Firm. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Jen served on the National Security Council as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism, where she led the development and coordination of U.S. counterterrorism and hostage policy. Prior to that, she was the Deputy for Counterterrorism at the National Security Agency. |
| 4.45 – 5.15 | Company presentations: Anshu Agarwal, CEO, Nimbella Yaron Singer, CEO, Robust Intelligence Moti Rafalin, CEO, vFunction |
| 5.15 – 6.00 | Closing Keynote: Diane Bryant, a fire-side chat on the end of Moore’s law
Diane serves as Board Director for Broadcom and United Technologies Corp. Previously, COO Google Cloud and Group President Intel Data Center group. Strategic advisor, investor, and board director to VC-backed, early-stage technology companies (Axiado, Curie, Ownzones) and providing strategic support and advice to private equity firms. Consistent track record of driving operating performance and increasing shareholder value across leadership roles within industry-leading Fortune 50 (Google, Intel) companies. Successfully led global businesses, ranging from $2B to $19B in revenue, and advising early stage <$100M in revenue companies in strategy and plans to scale. |
| 6.00 – 7.00 | Reception |
Engineering Summit 2018
Wednesday October 17, 2018
3.30 pm – 7.00 pm
Wharton San Francisco
6th Floor,
2 Harrison Street,
San Francisco, California
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 3.30 – 4.00 | Registration & Networking |
| 4.05 – 4.45 | Opening Keynote: Brian Stevens, VP & CTO, Google Cloud a conversation with Aaref Hilaly, Sequoia Capital Brian Stevens is responsible for guiding product strategy for Google Cloud and leading the Office of the CTO, a unit created in 2015 to engage with Google Cloud’s largest customers in their journey to adopt cloud. Brian joined Google from Red Hat in 2014, where he was CTO and EVP of Worldwide Engineering. Brian joined Red Hat in 2001, and led its shift to the enterprise across Linux, virtualization, storage, middleware, and cloud. Brian began his career at Digital Equipment Corporation, where he was a developer on the first commercial release of the X Windows System. |
| 4.45 – 5.15 | Company presentations: Jon Herlocker, CEO, Tignis Asim Razzaq, CEO, Yotascale Ravi Raj, CEO, Passage AI |
| 5.15 – 6.00 | Closing Keynote: Dheeraj Pandey, CEO, Nutanix a conversation with Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital Dheeraj Pandey is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Nutanix. Dheeraj brings over 12 years of experience working at high growth enterprise technology companies. Prior to founding Nutanix, Dheeraj was VP of Engineering at Aster Data where he built the engineering team from ground up, overseeing the development of multiple releases of the product. Prior to Aster Data, Dheeraj was at Oracle where he managed development of storage engine for Oracle Database and Oracle Exadata. |
| 6.00 – 7.00 | Reception |
Engineering Summit 2017
Wednesday October 25, 2017
3.30 pm – 7.00 pm
Wharton San Francisco
6th Floor,
2 Harrison Street,
San Francisco, California
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 3.30 – 4.00 | Registration & Networking |
| 4.05 – 4.50 | Opening Keynote: Arati Prabhakar, former Director, DARPA How Engineering Changes the World Arati Prabhakar was the Director of DARPA from 2012-17 and is now a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. Before that, she was a partner at U.S. Venture Partners. In 1993, President Bill Clinton appointed her director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where she led the 3,000-person organization. |
| 4.50 – 5.15 | Company presentations: Anjan Venkatramani, CEO, Prismo Systems Saket Saurabh, CEO, Nexla Kevin Fisher, CEO, Sail Internet |
| 5.15 – 6.00 | Closing Keynote: Adrian Cockcroft, VP Cloud Architecture Strategy, AWS Enabling the Next Generation of Innovation As technologies mature, they move from being novel capabilities to commodities. There’s an opportunity for startups to catch new waves of capabilities, and to build completely new products that previously weren’t feasible. AWS has been taking on “undifferentiated heavy lifting” for many years, but also has some groundbreaking new capabilities in hardware platforms, IoT, serverless and artificial intelligence technologies. In this talk we’ll focus on these new areas, and discuss examples of startup companies building new kinds of businesses on AWS. |
| 6.00 – 7.00 | Reception |
Engineering Summit 2016
Wednesday October 12, 2016
4.00 pm – 7.00 pm
Wharton San Francisco
6th Floor,
2 Harrison Street,
San Francisco, California
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 3.30 – 4.00 | Registration & Networking |
| 4.05 – 4.50 | Opening Keynote: Arati Prabhakar, former Director, DARPA How Engineering Changes the World Arati Prabhakar was the Director of DARPA from 2012-17 and is now a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. Before that, she was a partner at U.S. Venture Partners. In 1993, President Bill Clinton appointed her director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where she led the 3,000-person organization. |
| 4.50 – 5.15 | Company presentations: Anjan Venkatramani, CEO, Prismo Systems Saket Saurabh, CEO, Nexla Kevin Fisher, CEO, Sail Internet |
| 5.15 – 6.00 | Closing Keynote: Adrian Cockcroft, VP Cloud Architecture Strategy, AWS Enabling the Next Generation of Innovation As technologies mature, they move from being novel capabilities to commodities. There’s an opportunity for startups to catch new waves of capabilities, and to build completely new products that previously weren’t feasible. AWS has been taking on “undifferentiated heavy lifting” for many years, but also has some groundbreaking new capabilities in hardware platforms, IoT, serverless and artificial intelligence technologies. In this talk we’ll focus on these new areas, and discuss examples of startup companies building new kinds of businesses on AWS. |
| 6.00 – 7.00 | Reception |
Engineering Summit 2015
Wednesday October 14, 2015
3.30 pm – 8.30 pm
Wharton San Francisco
6th Floor,
2 Harrison Street,
San Francisco, California
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 3.30 – 4.00 | Registration & Networking |
| 4.00 – 4.40 pm | Keynote: Web-Scale infrastructure Neil Hunt, Chief Product Officer and VP Engineering, Netflix |
| 4.40 – 5.20 pm | Panel: Infrastructure for Big Data Moderated by: Jocelyn Goldfein, Angel investor, ex-Facebook, ex-VMware Featuring: Eli Collins, CTO, Cloudera Sameet Agarwal, Head of Data Infrastructure, Facebook Matt Ocko, Founder, Data Collective |
| 5.30 – 5.45 pm | Company presentations: Menlo Security, Amir Ben-Efraim, CEO Palerra, Rohit Gupta, CEO SignalFX, Karthik Rau, CEO |
| 5.45 – 6.05 pm | Threading the needle: Navigating to a successful exit Doug Knopper, Co-Founder & Co-CEO Freewheel (Comcast) |
| 6.05 – 6.35 pm | Fireside Chat Biri Singh, CTO, Cisco a conversation with Lip-Bu Tan, CEO, Cadence and Chairman, Walden |
| 6.35 – 6.38 pm | Closing remarks, Ashmeet Sidana |
| 6.35 – 8.30 pm | Reception |