The Glendale Tech Week, now in its eighth 12 months, 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 contains a job truthful 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 house 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 12 months. Corporations collaborating this 12 months embody 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 convey innovators, startups, executives, angel buyers and enterprise capitalists collectively to be able to construct the tech trade 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 come back collectively for these occasions, panels and the casual networking provides them a novel alternative to fulfill potential buyers, companions and collaborators,” Vang stated. “It’s an actual differentiator of their general success.”
This 12 months’s occasion sequence begins on Sept. 12 with a job truthful hosted by the city-sponsored Verdugo Job Middle that can be attended by employers from Cisco Programs Inc., the California Institute of Expertise and CSG Worldwide, amongst others. Phonexa, a advertising and marketing automation platform, is internet hosting a “Ladies in Tech” panel the subsequent day for the second 12 months and is a most important sponsor of the occasion sequence. The Ladies in Tech panel will characteristic Phonexa’s chief advertising and marketing officer, Talar Malakian, together with audio system from Nike Inc.’s Nike Digital Studios, artificial-intelligence powered advertising and marketing service Influential and Adweek.
“We notice that to ensure that an rising occasion like Glendale Tech Week and startups alike who’re collaborating to achieve success, they should have acceptable assets and a powerful supporting basis,” Phonexa Chief Govt Lilit Davtyan stated. “We hope the Glendale tech scene and the group alike are impressed by the weeklong occasions and conversations to be able 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” style, will happen on Sept. 14 at Glendale Neighborhood School. Enterprise capitalists and buyers in attendance will embody companions from Almaz Capital, Headline and Glendale-based Oceanview Capital Companions Inc.
Panels from Hero Home will embody a couple of new subjects, resembling enterprise negotiation methods and the monetary implications of AI and machine studying. Vang stated that along with recurring occasions such because the Ladies in Tech panel and PitchFest, this 12 months’s Glendale Tech Week is including alternatives for youthful attendees to get entangled. These embody a “Little Engineers and Dad and mom” occasion happening on the primary day on the Armenian Society of Los Angeles and a chess event hosted by Dot818.
“Glendale and this area have the proper parts for achievement in a various variety of tech sectors and Glendale Tech Week helps us to rejoice and construct upon that success,” Vang stated.
