TechSwitch Sessions is again! On September 5, we’re taking over the ferociously aggressive area of enterprise software program, and thrilled to announce our packed agenda, overflowing with a number of the greatest names and most fun startups within the enterprise business. And you’re in luck, as a result of $249 early-bird tickets are nonetheless on sale — be sure you e book yours so you may take pleasure in all of the agenda has to supply.
Throughout the day, you may count on to listen to from business consultants and partake in discussions concerning the potential of latest applied sciences like quantum computing and AI, easy methods to cope with the onslaught of safety threats, investing in early-stage startups and many extra.
We’ll be joined by a number of the greatest names and the neatest and most prescient individuals within the business, together with Bill McDermott at SAP, Scott Farquhar at Atlassian, Julie Larson-Green at Qualtrics, Wendy Nather at Duo Security, Aaron Levie at Box and Andrew Ng at Landing AI.
Our agenda showcases a number of the powerhouses within the area, but in addition loads of smaller groups which are constructing and debunking elementary applied sciences within the business. We nonetheless have a number of tips up our sleeves and will likely be including some new names to the agenda over the subsequent month, so preserve your eyes open. In the meantime, try these agenda highlights:
AGENDA
Investing with an Eye to the FutureJason Green (Emergence Capital), Maha Ibrahim (Canaan Partners) and Rebecca Lynn (Canvas Ventures)9:35 AM – 10:00 AM
In an ever-changing technological panorama, it’s not straightforward for VCs to know what’s coming subsequent and easy methods to place their bets. Yet, it’s the job of traders to look across the nook and discover the subsequent huge factor, whether or not that’s in AI, serverless, blockchain, edge computing or different rising applied sciences. Our panel will have a look at the challenges of enterprise investing, what they search for in enterprise startups and the way they determine the place to place their cash.
Talking StoreScott Farquhar (Atlassian)10:00 AM – 10:20 AM
With instruments like Jira, Bitbucket and Confluence, few firms affect how builders work as a lot as Atlassian. The firm’s co-founder and co-CEO Scott Farquhar will be a part of us to speak about rising his firm, how it’s bringing its instruments to enterprises and what the way forward for software program improvement in and for the enterprise will appear to be.
Q&A with Investors 10:20 AM – 10:50 AM
Your probability to ask questions of a number of the best traders in enterprise.
Innovation Break: Deliver Innovation to the EnterpriseDJ Paoni (SAP), Sanjay Poonen (VMware) and Shruti Tournatory (Sapphire Ventures)10:20 AM – 10:40 AM
For startups, the attraction of enterprise shoppers is no surprise — signing even one or two prospects could make a complete enterprise, and it will probably take just some hundred to construct a $1 billion unicorn firm. But whereas company counterparts more and more look to the startup group for partnership alternatives, making the bounce to enterprise gross sales is much extra difficult than scaling up the technique startups already use to promote to SMBs or customers. Hear from leaders who’ve skilled successes and pitfalls by the method as they handle how startups can adapt their technique with the wants of the enterprise in thoughts. Sponsored by SAP.
Coming Soon!10:40 AM – 11:00 AM
Box’s Enterprise JourneyAaron Levie (Box)11:15 AM – 11:35 AM
Box began life as a client file-storage firm and remodeled early on right into a profitable enterprise SaaS firm, centered on content material administration within the cloud. Levie will speak about what it’s wish to journey your complete startup journey — and what the longer term holds for knowledge platforms.
Bringing the Cloud to the EnterpriseGeorge Brady (Capital One), Byron Deeter (Bessemer Venture Partners) and a speaker to be introduced11:35 AM – 12:00 PM
Cloud computing could now look like the default, however that’s removed from true for many enterprises, which frequently nonetheless have tons of legacy software program that runs in their very own knowledge facilities. What does it imply to be all-in on the cloud, which is what Capital One just lately completed. We’ll speak about how firms could make the transfer to the cloud simpler, what to not do and easy methods to develop a cloud technique with a watch to the longer term.
Keeping the Enterprise SecureMartin Casado (Andreessen Horowitz), Wendy Nather (Duo Security) and a speaker to be announced1:00 PM – 1:25 PM
Enterprises face a litany of threats from each inside and out of doors the firewall. Now greater than ever, firms — particularly startups — should put safety first. From stopping knowledge from leaking to retaining unhealthy actors out of your community, enterprises have it robust. How are you able to safe the enterprise with out slowing progress? We’ll talk about the function of a contemporary CSO and easy methods to transfer quick… with out breaking issues.
Keeping an Enterprise Behemoth on CourseBill McDermott (SAP)1:25 PM – 1:45 PM
With over $166 billion is market cap, Germany-based SAP is among the most beneficial tech firms on this planet in the present day. Bill McDermott took the management in 2014, turning into the primary American to carry this place. Since then, he has shortly grown the corporate, partially because of quite a lot of $1 billion-plus acquisitions. We’ll discuss to him about his strategy to those acquisitions, his technique for rising the corporate in a shortly altering market and the state of enterprise software program normally.
How Kubernetes Changed EverythingBrendan Burns (Microsoft), Tim Hockin (Google Cloud), Craig McLuckie (VMware) and Aparna Sinha (Google)1:45 PM – 2:15 PM
You can’t go to an enterprise convention and never speak about Kubernetes, the extremely fashionable open-source container orchestration challenge that was incubated at Google. For this panel, we introduced collectively three of the founding members of the Kubernetes crew and the present director of product administration for the challenge at Google to speak concerning the previous, current and way forward for the challenge and the way it has modified how enterprises take into consideration shifting to the cloud and creating software program.
Innovation Break: Data: Who Owns It(SAP)2:15 PM – 2:35 PM
Enterprises have traditionally competed by being closed entities, retaining a closed structure and innovating internally. When making use of this closed strategy to the most popular new commodity, knowledge, it merely doesn’t work anymore. But as enterprises, startups and public establishments open themselves up, how open is simply too open? Hear from leaders who discover knowledge possession and the questions that have to be answered earlier than the info floodgates are opened. Sponsored by SAP.
AI Stakes its Place within the EnterpriseBindu Reddy (Reality Engines), Jocelyn Goldfein (Zetta Venture Partners) and a speaker to be announced2:35 PM – 3:00 PM
AI is turning into desk stakes for enterprise software program as firms more and more construct AI into their instruments to assist course of knowledge sooner or make extra environment friendly use of assets. Our panel will discuss concerning the rising function of AI in enterprise for firms huge and small.
Q&A with Founders3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Your probability to ask questions of a number of the best startup minds in enterprise expertise.
The Trials and Tribulations of Experience AdministrationJulie Larson-Green (Qualtrics), Peter Reinhardt (Segment) and a speaker to be announced3:15 PM – 3:40 PM
As firms collect extra knowledge about their prospects, it ought to theoretically enhance the client expertise, purchase myriad challenges face firms as they attempt to pull collectively data from a wide range of distributors throughout disparate techniques, each within the cloud and on prem. How do you pull collectively a coherent image of your prospects, whereas respecting their privateness and overcoming the technical challenges? We’ll ask a crew of consultants to seek out out.
Innovation Break: Identifying Overhyped Technology TrendsJames Allworth (Cloudflare), George Mathew (Kespry) and Max Wessel (SAP)3:40 PM – 4:00 PM
For innovation-focused companies, deciding which expertise tendencies are value speedy funding, which tendencies are value retaining on the radar and that are merely buzzworthy generally is a difficult grey space to navigate and will in the end make or break the way forward for a enterprise. Hear from these innovation juggernauts as they supply their divergent views on in the present day’s hottest tendencies, together with Blockchain, 5G, AI, VR and extra. Sponsored by SAP.
Fireside ChatAndrew Ng (Landing AI)4:00 PM – 4:20 PM
Few technologists have been extra central to the event of AI within the enterprise than Andrew Ng . With Landing AI and the backing of many high enterprise companies, Ng has the inspiration to develop and launch the AI firms he thinks will likely be winners. We will speak about the place Ng expects to see AI’s greatest impacts throughout the enterprise.
The Quantum EnterpriseJim Clarke (Intel), Jay Gambetta (IBM) and Krysta Svore (Microsoft)4:20 PM – 4:45 PM
While we’re nonetheless a number of years away from having quantum computer systems that may fulfill the total promise of this expertise, many firms are already beginning to experiment with what’s obtainable in the present day. We’ll speak about what startups and enterprises ought to learn about quantum computing in the present day to arrange for tomorrow.
Overcoming the Data GlutBenoit Dageville (Snowflake), Ali Ghodsi (Databricks) and a speaker to be announced4:45 PM – 5:10 PM
There is actually no scarcity of information within the enterprise nowadays. The query is how do you course of it and put it in form to grasp it and make higher choices? Our panel will talk about the challenges of information administration and visualization in a shifting technological panorama the place the time period “big data” doesn’t start to do the rising quantity justice.
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