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Redefining Success Beyond Growth-at-All-Cost Alyson Watson, Founder and CEO at Modern Health Mamoon Hamid, Venture Capitalist and Partner, Kleiner Perkins How to Build the Next Phase of the Internet for Consumers Amber Atherton, Partner at Patron Bringing the Outside In: Connecting Startups with Large Banks to Power the Future of Finance Arvind Purushotham, Head of Citi Ventures at Citi Ari Tuchman, Co-Founder and CEO – Quantifind Kartik Mani, Head of Citi Retail Services and Global Head of Consumer Connected Commerce – Citi The Age of Technical, Engineering Founders: How They Are Driving AI Innovation Christine Yen, CEO and Co-founder at Honeycomb Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy, Co-CEO and Co-founder at MinIO Prukalpa Sankar, Co-founder at Atlan Tom Carter, CEO and Co-founder at Ultraleap Growing a City’s Tech Ecosystem Through Immersive Accelerator Models and Diverse Portfolio Companies Colleen Heidinger, President at 43North How AI Is Supercharging Tools for Knowledge Workers Harpinder Singh, Partner at Innovation Endeavors Tanguy Chau, Co-Founder and CEO at Paxton AI Scott Dietzen, CEO at Augment Luke McGartland, Founder and CEO at Sequence Next-Gen Medicine: AI Simulation Generating New Data to Accelerate Drug Discovery Jack Hidary, CEO at SandboxAQ Navigating the Regulatory Maze: Pathways to Innovation and Access in Healthcare Jordan Nof, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Tusk Venture Partners Winning at Startup PR Without Paying for an Agency, with Ex-TechCrunch Editor Josh Constine Josh Constine, Venture Partner at SignalFire AI Outlook: Where VCs Are Placing Their Bets in AI Today — and Where We Go Next Kevin Dunlap, Managing Partner and Co-Founder at Calibrate Ventures Shoppertainment 2024: The Future of Consumer And Commerce Khanh Ngo, Monetization Strategy and Operations, APAC and MEA at TikTok Building Businesses That Endure: Keys to Long-Term Transformation Nmachi Jidenma, Partner at General Catalyst Scams and Solutions: Financial Security in the Digital Age Philip Martin, Chief Security Officer (CSO) at Coinbase The Future Is EMFI Philipp Reichardt, VP of Enterprise, North America at Airwallex Nik Milanović, Founder at This Week in Fintech Is There Such a Thing as ‘Startup Within a Big Company’? Prerit Uppal, Group Product Leader at Adobe Inc. Generative AI: Beyond the Hype — Building Real-World Applications Priyanka Vergadia, Head of Developer Relations North America at Google How to Stand Out Amongst the AI Wave: Strategies for Success in Enterprise Sales Rudina Seseri, Founder and Managing Partner at Glasswing Ventures Marc Boroditsky, Former President of Revenue at Cloudflare Enterprise GTM Is Broken — Here’s How to Fix It SC Moatti, Founding Managing Partner at Mighty Capital Ask Sophie LIVE: Your Startup Immigration Questions Answered! Sophie Alcorn, Founding Attorney and Author at Alcorn Immigration Law

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