Apr 15 2015
TechFire Ignite Summit on May 28, 2015

2015 TechFire Ignite Summit on May 28.

Last year, TechFire’s seven events featured nationally prominent speakers from the likes of Kleiner Perkins, Greylock, SV Angel, First Round Capital, Dollar Shave Club, DogVacay, and more, and brought together 1700+ registrants, including many key players in LA tech.

2015 will be even better. We’re thrilled to announce the first round of speakers for our next TechFire Ignite Summit, on May 28, 2015, in Santa Monica: from Facebook’s former global head of communications, to a prominent founder who sold his latest company to AOL four days after launch (then bought it back!), to a leading bitcoin investor and the founder of an enterprise SAAS success story, our speakers (below) are not-to-be-missed.

 

To celebrate, we’ve released a batch of heavily discounted tickets; get yours here before they sell out.  Prices go up Thursday night, or sooner when this batch sells out.

 

FIRST SET OF SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED:

TONY CONRAD, Co-Founder & CEO of about.me & Partner at True Ventures. Tony has sold two companies to AOL, most recently about.me, which he sold four days after launch — and better yet, bought back later for a fraction of the price. At True Ventures, he has led investments in Blue Bottle Coffee, FitBit, WordPress.com, andMakerBot. You could have paid $2995 for a ticket to TechCrunch Disrupt SF to hear him speak there — or for a fraction of that, you can hear him speak at TechFire Ignite!

 

  • Former Facebook executive BRANDEE BARKER, who helped grow Facebook into a global phenomenon, and more recently has advised clients like Sheryl Sandberg on her Lean In campaign, and companies like Uber, Dropbox, Airbnb, and Spotify. (Read her New York Times profile here.) She’s spoken at SXSW and DLD — and soon TechFire, too! Don’t miss her advice from her years at Facebook and advising Silicon Valley’s top founders.

 

  • Bitcoin investor DAN MOREHEAD, Founder & CEO of Pantera Capital, a ~$150MM bitcoin investment fund, and bitcoin venture fund. He previously also raised $1.3BN for Pantera as a macro hedge fund. Pantera’s investors include Benchmark, Fortress Investment Group and Ribbit Capital.

 

  • THERESE TUCKER, Founder, CEO & Chairman of BlackLine, the private-equity backed enterprise financial SAAS company that serves blue-chip customers like Hyatt, United Airlines, MasterCard, and NBCUniversal. Tucker has built BlackLine into an L.A. success story, headquartered here, and with offices from Paris to Sydney.

And more stellar speakers to be announced! (View past speakers.)

TICKETS ARE ON SALE!

Go here to grab a discounted super early bird ticket before they sell out.

Make plans to join us to hear a stellar roster of speakers from Silicon Valley & L.A., and to connect with press, investors, founders, and other tech & business leaders. Check out past attendees.

SPONSORSHIPS

We are privileged to have partnered with some great sponsors (listed below) — if you would also be interested in marketing your company to a who’s who of LA tech leaders & influencers, email us for more information.

 

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