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Our mission: foster tech entrepreneurship globally | TiEcon 2021

This includes budding and successful entrepreneurs, enterprise executives, government delegations, technologists and Working professionals. Through multiple tracks and programs, the conference focuses on today's trending technologies and domains, while providing a great networking platform.

7800+ Attendees
200+ Speakers
1000+ Industry Leaders
15+ Countries

With events such as: Grand Keynotes, Startup Bootcamps, VC Connect, Mentor Connect, TiE 50 Awards, and more

About TiE Silicon Valley

TiE Silicon Valley is one of the world's largest ecosystems for technology professionals, entrepreneurs, tech influencers, domain experts, enterprise executives, venture capitalists, and educators. Our mission is to foster tech entrepreneurship globally. We help entrepreneurs through sharing expertise and connecting them with domain experts and influencers via myriad of programs, partnerships and collaborative initiatives.

Our expanded network currently operates out of 61 cities in 18 countries with a broad reach, impacting more than half a million techies. We currently are tracking more than 180,000 technology startups, directly engage with 11,000+ innovative tech startups globally and bring together more than 3000 influencers to support our initiatives. We are the only organization of its kind with a compelling 27 year history of promoting technology entrepreneurship.

TiEcon Leadership

AGK Karunakaran
President
TiE Silicon Valley
Anand Akela
Co-convener
Dipty Desai
Co-convener
Andy Tsao
Sponsorship Committee
Anita Manwani
Sponsorship Committee
Vish Mishra
Leadership
R Paul Singh
Leadership
Rajiv Patel
Leadership

TiEcon Chairs

Mini Suri
AI/ML Track Chair
Lalit Gajare
AI/ML Track Chair
Preethy Padman
Cloud & Security Track Chair
Sandhya Gorman
Cloud & Security Track Chair
Venk Shukla
CXO Forum Track Chair
Karl Mehta
Future of Work Track Chair
Gary A. Bolles
Future of Work Track Chair
Shannon Clark
Entreprenuership Track Chair
Sandeep Sardana
Entreprenuership Track Chair
Rajani R Shailender
Diversity and Inclusion Track Chair
B J Arun
Global Connect Track Chair
Vijay Menon
Global Connect Track Chair
Mateen Syed
Global Connect Track Chair
Sandeep Bhat
HealthTech Track Chair
Rahul Reddy
HealthTech Track Chair
Anu Jadageesh
Social Impact Entrepreneurship Track Chair
Jay Ruparel
Startup Bootcamp Program Chair
Naeem Zafar
Startup Bootcamp Program Chair
Ashish Aggarwal
VC Connect Program Chair
Prashant Shah
VC Connect Program Chair
Prakash Narayan
Mentor Connect Program Chair
Kumar Sripadam
TiE50 Awards Program Chair
Vipul Singhal
TiE50 Awards Program Chair
Kamal Anand
TiE50 Awards Program Advisor
Taarini Kaur Dang
TYE Track Chair
Aditya Bhatt
TYE Track Chair
Sid Ray
Overall Track Chair
David White
Overall Program Chair
Benu Agarwal
Marketing Chair
Vasudha Badri-Paul
Marketing Chair
Ajay Patwardhan
Expo Chair

TiE Silicon Valley Board of Directors

AGK Karunakaran
President
Anand Akela
Director
Andy Tsao
Director
Anita Manwani
Director
Dipty Desai
Director
Kamal Anand
Director
Mini Suri
Director
Radhika Iyengar
Director

TiE Silicon Valley Staff

Neha Mishra
Acting Executive Director
Vani Suresh
Manager – Finance and Charter Membership
Gennyvie Montiel
Manager Business Development
Vrushali Malpekar
Program Manager

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