VetsinTech Presents:
The Invasion in Silicon Valley
Education – Employment – Entrepreneurship
March 8th-9th, 2019
Galvanize, 44 Tehama Street
San Francisco, CA
We invite veterans from around the country into the heart of San Francisco for a weekend of panel discussions, workshops, and networking with leaders from Silicon Valley’s most innovative companies
Speakers
Steve Blank
Lean Startup Creator and Professor
Stanford & Berkeley
Carol Eggert
SVP, Military and Veteran Affairs
Comcast NBCUniversal
Michael Brown
Director
Defense Innovation Unit
Ned Desmond
COO
TechCrunch
Nicola Corzine
Executive Director
Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center
Trier Bryant
Diversity and Inclusion Leader
TLB Consulting
Craig Newmark
Founder of Craigslist
Craig Newmark Philanthropies
*appearing via video message
Zoe Dunning
Consulting Portfolio Director
FutureState
Harris Morris
Sr. Director of Veterans Initiatives
ADP
Beau Laskey
Managing Partner
SVB Capital
Jessica Agnew
Talent Partner
HP
George Ploss
Sr. Manager, Veteran Recruiting
Oracle
X Eyee
Sr. Technical Manager
Microsoft
Dr. Gery Gutnick
Product and AI
Facebook
Andrew McClure
Partner
ForgePoint Capital
Dr. Mark Cannice
Department Chair, Innovation
University of San Francisco
Jake Price
Relationship Manager
Linkedin
Corey Marshall
Director
Splunk4Good
Adrienne Sherk
VetForce Sr. Manager
Salesforce
Leif Rosenquist
Enterprise Account Executive
InfoSec Institute
Sumit Agarwal
Co-founder
Shape Security
Ikram Mansori
Founder & CEO
Curah
Donald Coolidge
Co-founder & CEO
Elemental Path
Chris Galy
Chief People Officer
Couchbase
Sebastian Beck
Diversity & Inclusion
PayPal
Thomas Anderson
Counsel
VLP Law Group
Gerry Borja
Diversity & Inclusion
Oracle
Katherine Webster
Founder & CEO
VetsinTech
Randy Crader
Public Affairs
DraftKings
Ben Stein
Director of Digital Marketing
BMC
Mike McNerney
Cyber Threat Intelligence
Arbor Networks
Dan Leiter
Diversity & Inclusion
TEKsystems
Mansoor Bahramand
Lead Software Engineering Instructor
Galvanize
Craig Hansen
General Partner
NextWorld Capital
Kelly Perdew
Managing General Partner
Moonshots Capital
Andrew Patton
Strategy & Growth Lead
Wing
Sean Sheppard
Founder
GrowthX
Monique Mosley
Organizational Strategy
Twitter
Garrett Smith
Founder
Reveal
Alex Bowling
Sr. Technical Executive Sourcer
Cloudera
Michael Isom
Sr. Program Manager
Adobe
Amy Carle
Product Operations Manager
Google
Tracks and Sessions
The Invasion features three distinct tracks, offering critical content to Veterans who are looking for an onramp into great careers in technology:
Tech Education
Uncover opportunities to learn the in-demand new skills of Data Science, Cybersecurity, CRM, Web Development, and beyond.
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- Cybersecurity: Why vets are best suited to work in the future of defense
- Vet Training: Opportunities in Data Science and Web Development
- Social Impact: Why for-profit business is the key to veteran success
- CRM: Becoming a Salesforce Administrator
- Women VetsinTech: Empowering our Sisters
Tech Employment
Work with leaders in corporate hiring and culture through professional development workshops on LinkedIn profiles, elevator pitch, and networking.
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- Secrets from the Inside: Hear from leaders in technology HR
- Best Foot Forward: Telling your story through your Linkedin Profile
- Tell Me Who You Are: Translating your military skills to nail your elevator pitch
- Success Stories: How to get your foot in the door
- Emerging Technologies: Tech in 5+ Years
Tech Entrepreneurship
Learn the critical steps to start and grow your business with content on securing VC financing, design thinking, business law, and lean methodologies.
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- Am I on the Right Track? Finding Product Market Fit
- Product Management: A Veteran Perspective
- Startup Lessons: Do as I Say, Not as I Did
- VetCap: Choosing the Right Source of Funding for your startup
- Getting Set For Success: Business Law Basics
Sponsor
Interested in partnering with VetsinTech?
Your generous support of VetsinTech will help ensure our first national conference- The Invasion in Silicon Valley – is the first of many. By participating in this event as a Partner, you’ll get exposure and access at a high-profile event drawing hundreds of veterans, technology leaders, influential supporters, and media attention.
Whatever level of assistance you choose to give, we sincerely thank you for supporting ViT, the veterans we help, and companies, organizations, and communities we impact.
Who is Attending?
Attendees:
The Invasion merges two worlds of military and technology.
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Veterans from around the country, in various levels of transition out of their military careers, will convene to receive opportunities for education, employment, and entrepreneurship in the tech industry.
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Technology Leaders, Investors, HR & Recruiters, Engineers, and others representing a wide variety of industries with a high-tech focus and communities, will deliver content and lead workshops covering topics for our veterans
This cross-section of military and technology worlds is what makes VetsinTech unique, and makes its first conference – The Invasion in Silicon Valley – a first of it’s kind event that creates opportunities for our military heroes from around the country to gain access to 2 days of opportunities in technology education, employment, and entrepreneurship.
For more information about the conference, please contact Michael Seiler at mseiler@vetsintech.co.