The Glendale Tech Week, now in its eighth yr, kicks off on Sept. 12. The three-day occasion serves as a platform for tech firms and startups to showcase their concepts and merchandise throughout a sequence of panel discussions and displays.
The occasion is an initiative led by the Metropolis of Glendale’s Financial Growth Division and encompasses a job honest and pitch competitors. Native tech accelerator and startup hub Hero Home, which is owned by enterprise capital agency SmartGateVC and partially funded by the town, is a partnering sponsor of Glendale Tech Week.
Glendale is dwelling to 1,500 tech firms, metropolis officers stated, which make use of greater than 20,000 individuals. Greater than 800 native and regional attendees attended Glendale Tech Week final yr. Corporations collaborating this yr embrace Glendale-based enterprises Britive Inc., Dot818 LLC and Phonexa.
Soua Vang, Glendale’s deputy director of Financial Growth, stated the occasion’s purpose is to deliver innovators, startups, executives, angel buyers and enterprise capitalists collectively with a purpose to construct the tech business in Glendale and within the higher Los Angeles space.
“We hear from so most of the firms and people who take part every year that the chance to return collectively for these occasions, panels and the casual networking provides them a novel alternative to satisfy potential buyers, companions and collaborators,” Vang stated. “It’s an actual differentiator of their general success.”
This yr’s occasion sequence begins on Sept. 12 with a job honest hosted by the city-sponsored Verdugo Job Heart that can be attended by employers from Cisco Programs Inc., the California Institute of Expertise and CSG Worldwide, amongst others. Phonexa, a advertising automation platform, is internet hosting a “Girls in Tech” panel the following day for the second yr and is a fundamental sponsor of the occasion sequence. The Girls in Tech panel will function Phonexa’s chief advertising officer, Talar Malakian, together with audio system from Nike Inc.’s Nike Digital Studios, artificial-intelligence powered advertising service Influential and Adweek.
“We understand that to ensure that an rising occasion like Glendale Tech Week and startups alike who’re collaborating to achieve success, they should have applicable sources and a powerful supporting basis,” Phonexa Chief Government Lilit Davtyan stated. “We hope the Glendale tech scene and the neighborhood alike are impressed by the weeklong occasions and conversations with a purpose to proceed on their quest of tech innovation.”
Artyom Poghosyan, founder and chief govt of cloud safety platform Britive, will function keynote speaker on the “Demo Day & PitchFest” occasion. PitchFest, which permits early-stage startups to pitch their companies to potential buyers in a “Shark Tank” vogue, will happen on Sept. 14 at Glendale Neighborhood School. Enterprise capitalists and buyers in attendance will embrace companions from Almaz Capital, Headline and Glendale-based Oceanview Capital Companions Inc.
Panels from Hero Home will embrace just a few new matters, resembling enterprise negotiation strategies and the monetary implications of AI and machine studying. Vang stated that along with recurring occasions such because the Girls in Tech panel and PitchFest, this yr’s Glendale Tech Week is including alternatives for youthful attendees to get entangled. These embrace a “Little Engineers and Mother and father” occasion going down on the primary day on the Armenian Society of Los Angeles and a chess match hosted by Dot818.
“Glendale and this area have the appropriate components for achievement in a various variety of tech sectors and Glendale Tech Week helps us to have fun and construct upon that success,” Vang stated.
Originally posted 2023-09-11 07:01:01.