Restaurant Management is Data Management

More restaurants are using tech to reduce cost, drive sales and increase productivity than ever before.

It's time to meet up again and talk about the evolution of restaurant technology!

“Every company is a technology company, no matter what product or service it provides. The companies that embrace this fact are the ones that shape our world.”
-Stephenie Stone CIO (M+W Group)

Join the Bay Area's leading Restaurant Technologists as we gather to discuss how the tech community is fulfilling the needs of an ever-changing food service industry. Let's talk about the tech business of the restaurant business.

Restaurant Management is Data Management

Our Presenters

Brian Frank
Founder, FTW Ventures

Brian Frank is a serial entrepreneur turned investor who serves as General Partner at Food for Thought Worldwide (FTW) Ventures, an early-stage venture fund investing in breakthrough hardware, software and biotech solutions for the massive, worldwide Food System.

Brian has spent the past 20 years defining product strategy in the leading Web, Mobile and Social technology companies. He's been a Product Manager at major corporations such as Palm, Adobe & Twitter and has led teams at innovative startups such as bCandid (acquired by Software.com), Posterous (acquired by Twitter) and Timeful (acquired by Google).

He has also invested in high-growth startups including Square Roots, Spoiler Alert, Nomiku, Proper Foods & Geltor. Brian also serves as an advisor to Teforia, Philz Coffee and Dishcraft Robotics and acts as a mentor for companies at places such as Lemnos Labs, indie.bio, HAX, Food-X and Highway1.

Brian is going to give us his insight on the future of the foodservice industry and the adversity early stage startups can expect to confront as a result of entering this challenging market.

Merril Gilbert
Hospitality and startup industry expert.

She leverages her 25 years of experience across the entire value chain to help food and beverage companies develop and launch innovative new products and grow categories. Merril’s clients are both start-up and established businesses in the restaurant, hotel, and specialty F and B manufacturing industries. She brings together all the pieces required to get a product on the shelf, a restaurant up and running, or business plan in front of investors.

If your product is focused toward the hospitality industry, you want to hear what she has to say!

Sinan Payaslioglu
Business Developer for IoT-Ignite! (https://www.iot-ignite.com/)

IoT-Ignite optimizes QSR operations. With the sensors they deploy inside restaurants, they provide customer queue management, real-time inventory management, and smart waste tracking solutions. Bringing together the data from different stages of service and providing analytics in real-time empowers managers to optimize their operation and reduce costs.

Sinan will share with us how IoT-Ignite faces the challenges of onboarding new users and how to attract major QSR chains to their platform.

I plan on learning a lot.

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Our friends at Spaces SF will be our hosts at their beautiful and brand spanking new spot @ Mission and 3rd.
Spaces offers flexibility, a high level of comfort and the opportunity to expand as your company grows. They've got everything; dedicated desks, offices, conference rooms and a cozy coffee corner.

Plus a great staff!

There will be networking, knowledge and noshing!

***If you're interested in being a Presenter, Contributor or Sponsor let me know.

It's gonna be hella awesome!

Did I use that right? Hella?
I'm from New Jersey, we say “friggin''.

Cheers!