The 5th F50 Global Capital Summit® (GCS) Spring 2020 on June 16-17, with the theme Elevating HealthTech Innovation opens for speaker nomination.
F50 Summit is one of the Bay Area’s flagship events for the startup venture ecosystem and has attracted many leaders in the startup venture system in the past. GCS Spring 2020 will be co-hosted by the F50 Elevate Accelerator, and the Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Community. GCS finds and connects the next generation of world-changing tech innovators with strategic partners to power their long-term impact. F50 especially focuses on creating partnerships that will help to improve human lives within the Healthtech, Agtech, sustainability areas.
F50 Summit Spring 2020 will include 60+ speaking sessions, 500 attendees from world-leading corporations, a large one-day investor summit, and many closed-door entrepreneur roundtable discussions ,and executive briefing designed for corporate executives. We expect leaders from all over the world to attend the event.
Features (Activities?) of the summit:
- Keynote and thought leader presentation & insightful panels
- Global Capital Insight Ranking Report
- F50 Global Awards
- Executive Briefing
- Speaker & VIP Reception
- Roundtable discussions
- F50 Elevate Connect Lounge (Demo Tables)
- Intensive Bootcamps (by Bootup Ventures)
Topics including:
- Investment
- Investment trends in Healthtech
- Early stage opportunities for Angels and seed investors (?)
- Global impact by Venture Investing?)
- Altruism and Capitalism?
- Convergence of Technology in Health
- The Smarter Medical Devices
- Innovative Medicines
- Future of Surgeries
- Future Virus outbreak prevention and responding
- Aging and longevity
- Food tech and innovation
- DeepTech for Health
- Corporate Innovation
- Sustainability cross-border
Many industry leaders will host and participate in the closed-door roundtable discussions. We are looking for leaders in the startup venture ecosystem who could bring great insight to our audience at this event.
More information can be found online. Here is the speaker registration / nomination form.
Benefits of Speaking at GCS
The GCS presentations and sessions will be featured in the following ways:
- Each session will be video-recorded and uploaded to F50’s YouTube channel
- Selected sessions will be transcribed and posted on SVE.io
- Interviews and articles will be distributed by 200+ media contacts
- F50’s social media channels and newsletters (LinkedIn, Twitter, Meetup etc. with over 50K subscribers) and F50’s private network of corporates, VCs, and angels
- SVE.io and other associated entrepreneur and developer communities, with over 100,000 subscribers
- F50’s global media partner network, with over 1M impressions worldwide
Past F50 Speakers:
Investors (VC, Corporate Ventures, PE)
Aaref Hilaly, Partner, Sequoia Capital
Adam Goldberg, Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners
Amit Shah, Partner at Artiman Ventures
Benjamin Ling, General Partner, Khosla Ventures
Blake Masters, Principal, Thiel Capital
Camille Samuels, Partner, Venrock
Christopher Schaepe, Co-founder, Lightspeed Ventures
Dave Munichiello, General Partner, Google Ventures
David Cao, Managing Partner, F50 Ventures & F50 Elevate
David Chao, Co-Founder & General Partner, DCM Ventures
David Zilberman, Managing Director, Comcast Ventures
Ethan Kurzweil, Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners
Grant Allen, Managing Director, ABB Technology Ventures
Guy Kawasaki, Co-Founder, Garage Technology Ventures
Hans Tung, Partner, GGV Capital
Hilary Gosher, Managing Director, Insight Venture Partners
Ibrahim Ajami, Head of Venture Capital, Mubadala Capital
Jacques Benkoski, Partner, U.S. Venture Partners
Jagdeep Singh Bachher, Chief Investment Officer, University California, Office of President
James Hardiman, Partner, Data Collective
Kiyosaki Kumazawa, Hitachi
Leslie Bottorff, Managing Director, GE Ventures, Healthcare
Lu Zhang, Fusion Capital
Mark Siegel, Managing Director, Menlo Ventures
Paul Holland, General Partner, Foundation Capital
Peter Hebert, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Lux Capital
Phil Sanderson, Managing Director, IDG Ventures
Ramneek Gupta, Managing Director & Co-head, Global Venture Investing at Citi Ventures
Rishi Garg, Partner, Mayfield
Robert Mittendorf, Partner, Norwest Venture Partners
Roy Bahat, Head of Bloomberg Beta
Saeed Amidi, Founder, Plug & Play
Scott Frederick, Partner, NEA
Shawn Carolan, Partner, Menlo Ventures
Steve Mitzenmacher, VP Corporate Development, NetApp
Tatyana Mamut, Amazon, SalesForce, Sapphire Ventures
Tim Draper, Founder, Draper Associates
Vanessa Larco, Partner, NEA
Vijay Pande, General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
Media
Blaise Zerega, Editor in Chief, VentureBeat
Gene Teare, Head of Content, Crunchbase
Josh Constine, Editor-at-Large, TechCrunch
Kate O’Keeffe, Reporter, Wall Street Journal
Rebecca Fannin, Forbes Contributor, Founder, Silicon Dragon
Tom Giles, Executive Editor, Global Technology, Bloomberg
Influencers (Professors, leaders)
Baron Davis, Angel Investor, Former NBA Star
Caroline Winnett, Executive Director, Berkeley Skydeck
Daniel Burnett, Professor at UCSF, Founder / CEO Theranova
Daniel Kraft, Chair of Medicine, Singularity Exponential
Duncan Logan, Founder & CEO, Rocketspace
Franklin Urteaga, Former Whitehouse Advisor
Jeremy Hillman, Head of Global Communications & Strategy, The World Bank
Keith Krach, Chairman, DocuSign
Myron Scholes, Professor, Stanford GSB, Economic Nobel Prize Winner
Ron Zaidman, MBA, MTCM, President & CEO, Five Branches University
Roy Geva Glasberg, Founder & Global Manager, Google Global Accelerator
Stafford Matthews, Partner, Dentons
Steve Stevanovich, Board of Governors, U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory
Uli K. Chettipally, MD., MPH Physician Kaiser Permanente
Vitaly Vanshelboim, COO, UNOPS
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About the Global Capital Summit (GCS)
The Global Capital Summit® (GCS) is organized by F50, Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs. GCS finds and connects the next generation of world-changing tech innovations with partnerships to power their long-term impact. The summit will feature 20+ extraordinary products and innovations, and over 700 attendees from world-leading corporations and the global investment ecosystem. The attendees are corporate executives, Angel investors, VCs, and a group of high-potential local founders.
