MELTINGPOT2020
Innovation Summit | Silicon Valley
Creative Disruption Through Academia - Industry Collaboration in Era 4.0
When
17 October, 2019
Starting at 2 pm
MeltingPot aims to be precisely that - A MeltingPot of ideas and conversations with thought leaders who are immersed in innovation and value creation. MeltingPot also stays closely connected with the culture and context to bring maximum value for the high-quality delegates as well as provide take-aways to thought leader - speakers. CXOs, entrepreneurs, researchers, young innovators comprise our community of meltingpotters in every geography across the globe.
In the inaugural edition of MP2020 in Silicon Valley, we wish to focus on a carefully curated theme of talent, performance and wealth creation. World 4.0 and her impact in areas such as talent, GTM and peak performance will be the focus in our panels of experts while our keynote speaker - leaders will share their prescience and foretell the future to us.
Andrew Ko, MD, AWS
Satya Narayanan R, Chairman, CL Educate & Founder, MeltingPot2020
Panelists:
Andrew Ko, MD, AWS
Arvind Nithrakashyap, Co-Founder & CTO, Rubrik
Leila Takayama, Associate Professor, University of California
Nanda Kumar Puthucode, Chief Investment Officer & Founding MD, Bunge Ventures
This panel of Industry and Academic experts will share their insights about trends in Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning, Data Management and Governance, Cloud / Edge Infrastructure and Ubiquitous Computing.
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They will also discuss near term disruptions versus long term trends to watch and how to prepare to deal with these changes.
Key topics of discussion will include -
1. Top technology trends to watch
2. How these trends will / could impact businesses and why should you care
3. What are some near term vs long term disruptions
4. How should businesses, students and academics deal with these changes
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Panelists:
Chitra Nayak, Board Member, Invitae
Sonal Puri, CEO, Webscale Networks
Jim Whitehead, Professor, Computational Media, University of California
Jayesh Govindarajan, VP Analytics & Data Science, Salesforce
Zero-to-Traction: Go-to-Market (GTM) The Right Way Across Industry, Academia and The Government
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Introducing and scaling a new product / service into the market comes with unique challenges, whether you are a an academician who seeks to turn academic research into a start-up venture, a tech entrepreneur or corporate executive seeking customer growth, or a public official looking to bring new businesses to your city or state. In this session, our expert panel will bring their own experiences and insights to you.
How do you:
1. Message, position, and differentiate your offering(s) to your target audience
2. Ensure product / market and company / category fit
3. Land your first set of referenceable customers
4. Rapidly gain referenceable customers
5. Build and scale a repeatable sales model
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Panelists:
Dr. Abhay Jere, Chief Innovation Officer, Innovation Cell, Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India
Ellick Chan, Head of University Relations & Research - Intel AI Academy, Intel Corporation
Alex Ermolaev, Director of AI, Change Healthcare
Attila Lengyel, Director of Strategy, Innovation & Adoption, Data Analytics at Western Digital
This panel of Industry and Academic experts will share their views on reskilling, upskilling, cross-skilling in a world of automation and AI / ML. Collaboration between industry and academia is key to dealing with the emerging skill gap in the US.
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Key topics of discussion will include -
1. What is upskilling, reskilling, and cross-skilling?
2. How should businesses and academic institutions prepare for this changing world
3. What are some trends causing this skills gap
4. Examples of successful collaboration models
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Performance by Archish Jazz Combo
This collective is a coming-together of some of the Bay Area's top youth musicians.
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Spanning 4 different high schools, the members have played at many large-scale events such as the Monterey Jazz Festival and San Jose Summer Jazz Fest. The group bridges the standards of the jazz era and the modernized grooves of today’s music in a cross-genre fusion unique to the California scene.
Members:
Archish Arun - Keyboards
Ethan Osier - Guitar
James Anderson - Drum kit
Ansel Austin - Bass
Sumi Govindaraju - Saxophone
Ryan Kang - Trumpet