I/O Pitch Night!
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GDGsf and StartupWeekend are teaming up for another I/O Pitch Night!
Register at this link: http://goo.gl/xt0T8N
Connect with Silicon Valley's community of entrepreneurs and Google Developers!
Pitch Night is your opportunity to meet people from the valley and around the world, pitch your ideas, collaborate, and take the first steps at making your idea viable.
The top teams pitch to a panel of judges for a chance to win some pretty sweet prizes. Plus, you might just find the right co-founders to continue working on this with you!
Please email us at iopitchnight@startupweekend.org with any questions.
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Tentative Agenda:
6:00-6:45 - Check in / mingling / snacks & beer/wine
6:45-7:00pm - Opening, Introductions and find your vertical.
7:00-7:40pm - Pitches round 1
7:40-8:00pm - Networking / Q&A
8:00-8:40pm - Pitches round 2
8:40-9:00pm - Networking / Q&A
9:00-9:30 - Top teams are selected to pitch to Judge Panel.
9:30pm-11pm - Pitching and Judges select a winner.
11pm - Wrap Up / Afterparty
PITCH REGISTRATION
This year, all pitch teams must submit their pitch in the ticketing process.
JUDGES:
Moderator
Mandela Schumacher-Hodge
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After Tioki, Mandela was appointed as Director of Startup Education (http://www.startupeducation.co/), the largest grassroots initiative dedicated to fostering education entrepreneurship around the world. In January 2014, Mandela was named to the 2014 Forbes “30 Under 30 in Education” list (http://www.forbes.com/pictures/lmh45klkg/mandela-schumacher-hodge-28/), a distinction that recognizes her influential accomplishments at the intersection of education, technology and entrepreneurship.
Judges
Angela Benton
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Megan Quinn
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Megan joined KPCB from Square, the company revolutionizing payments for buyers and sellers. As Square’s director of products she led strategy and development of the company’s products across merchant and consumer audiences.
Prior to that, Megan spent seven years at Google where she held various leadership positions in communications, business development and product management. She oversaw the development and marketing of some of the company’s most successful products, including Google Maps. Her team’s work continues to serve as the foundation for Google’s location-based consumer and advertising products.
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Harper Reed
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Trae Vassallo
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Trae led KPCB's investments in Aggregate Knowledge, Dropcam, Enlighted, OPOWER, and Recyclebank and was responsible for originating the firm's investments in Enphase and Silver Spring Networks. She also works closely with the management team of Nest.
Before joining KPCB, Trae was a co-founder of Good Technology, a KPCB portfolio company (acquired by Motorola) that provides end-to-end wireless e-mail services to the enterprise. Trae began her career at IDEO, where she developed ground breaking products for companies including Palm and Dell. Trae holds 13 patents across a broad array of technologies and disciplines.
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Parker Thompson
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I/O Pitch Night!