Sentences with phrase «at a tech conference in»

Last November, at a tech conference in Silicon Valley, I met an entrepreneur named Austen Heinz.

He famously flubbed an appearance at a tech conference in 2010, prompting one editor to describe him as «literally dissolving in a lake of his own sweat.»

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«Tech companies are helping redo central Market Street — it used to be our Skid Row,» San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee told a packed room at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in September, drawing applause from the crowd.

«When Meituan first launched, they did try to learn from the Groupon model in the U.S,» he said at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech International conference in Guangzhou, China on Wednesday.

Uber said at the Web Summit tech conference in Lisbon that it signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA for the development of «unmanned traffic management.»

I spent much of the weekend reviewing China - based startup companies that are competing in an innovation contest that Fortune is hosting at our inaugural Brainstorm Tech International conference in Guangzhou, China, next month.

And yet at this week's AWS Re: Invent tech conference in Las Vegas, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger and Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri will share the stage with AWS CEO Andy Jassy.

«It's about how do you leverage the diversity you bring into your company for the benefit of your products, for your work force, for your culture,» she told Inc.'s Salvador Rodriguez onstage at the Change Catalyst's Tech Inclusion conference in October.

An attendee even created a somewhat uncomfortable moment at Fortune «s Brainstorm Tech conference in July when he confronted co-founder and chairman Reid Hoffmann about the service's design, or lack thereof.

At Collision, a three - day tech conference in New Orleans, the entrepreneur, who co-founded Reddit with his college roommate Steve Huffman in 2005, encouraged the crowd to aim high no matter the obstacles.

Women, already badly underrepresented in the tech industry, are rare on panels at professional conferences.

«A dollar of cash flow in a large tech company is fundamentally mispriced,» he told an audience at a Fortune conference in 2015.

I interviewed Ludwin Tuesday night in San Francisco at a well - attended walk - up dinner for July's Brainstorm Tech conference.

By February 2005, he had invested $ 170,000 and personally launched the company, now called Odeo, with a demonstration at TED, the invitation - only tech conference held in Monterey, California.

The timing couldn't have been better, at least for attendees of Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference this week in Aspen, for Jonathan Taplin's recent essay in The Wall Street Journal titled «Can the Tech Giants Be Stopped?»

At the massive Web Summit tech conference in Lisbon this year, I heard a version of that phrase a lot: «Bitcoin is an established store of value.»

Mark McQueen, president and CEO of venture firm Wellington Financial in Toronto, recalls asking Balsillie at a conference a few years ago about what RIM was doing to help grow the tech scene in the region.

Taking a detour from her usual celebrity haunts, Lopez made an unusual appearance Wednesday at a venture capital conference in San Francisco to talk about potential business deals with the tech industry.

At Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen in July, investors at private equity firms TPG Capital and General Atlantic — both large shareholders of Uber — said neither of them had marked down their holdings amid the company's turmoiAt Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen in July, investors at private equity firms TPG Capital and General Atlantic — both large shareholders of Uber — said neither of them had marked down their holdings amid the company's turmoiat private equity firms TPG Capital and General Atlantic — both large shareholders of Uber — said neither of them had marked down their holdings amid the company's turmoil.

Since stepping down as director of marketing for Facebook in 2011 she has founded her own media company, written a couple of books, produced a much - hyped but short - lived reality show, and spoken at several business and tech conferences.

EMC, as of last month, is part of the bigger Dell Technologies entity, and this news comes as the combined company is hosting its coming out party at the Dell EMC World tech conference in Austin, Texas.

Except last week, when Jourdan Urbach, the CTO of social video platform Ocho, confronted him on stage at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen.

That's one of the takeaways from a Tuesday session on China's healthcare market at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech International conference in Guangzhou, China.

In July 2014, at Fortune's annual Brainstorm Tech conference, Rent the Runway announced a new business: an unlimited accessories subscription.

At the massive Web Summit tech conference in Lisbon this year, I heard that a version of that phrase a lot: «Bitcoin is an established store of value.»

He had initiated discussions with investors in the same week he did back - t0 - back keynote speeches at two big tech conferences, in two different cities, one of them sponsored by his own company.

At Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference in July 2012, Johnson was calm and blithely confident, despite growing negative press and a stock price that had halved since the New York show.

Dell Technologies disclosed plans Azure Stack hardware in May, and will talk more about its entry at the Microsoft Ignite tech conference in Orlando on Wednesday but a spokesman said list price for Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack starts at $ 265,000, including implementation services.

«I was attending a lot of conferences, speaking on women in tech, and I noticed at these conferences that there were virtually no women, virtually no black people and definitely no black women,» she recalls.

Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings told CNBC last month at the United States Conference of Mayors that the broader Texas «red state» reputation is an issue, especially given the tech industry's focus on social tolerance, but he stressed that Dallas is «a blue city in a red state,» which has scored 100 on the LGBT Index for the past three years.

«I think Taylor is brilliant but I think that's sort of a flawed argument,» Carter said during an interview at an annual conference in San Francisco hosted by tech news site TechCrunch.

«I would say no,» he told Business Insider in early March at Mobile World Congress, a major tech industry conference in Barcelona.

Krzanich quickly cancelled the event, explaining later at Fortune «s Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen this month that he had never intended to hold a fundraiser but «a conversation about issues.»

He's no longer involved with the company he helped build, although he is still on the Apple payroll, yet he remains a figure of prominence in the tech world, speaking at conferences and offering insights on the state of the industry.

The tech entrepreneur appealed to a younger audience at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris.

Steckler was a great candidate for renting space at an executive suite or office business center — furnished buildings in which tenants share a common administrative staff, the use of conference rooms, and high - tech accoutrements (videoconferencing and high - speed Internet access).

That's him in the group shot at a Seattle tech conference in the front row with seven dollar signs on his chest.

As Peter Smith, the CEO of Blockchain, said at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference in July, «We're cautious about it in the short term.

Bradford spoke Monday at the multinational tech corporation's OpenWorld conference in San Francisco about what he called «megatrends.»

«At least they paid better than a Chinese restaurant in New Haven,» he recalled to laughter during an interview at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech International conference in Guangzhou, China on WednesdaAt least they paid better than a Chinese restaurant in New Haven,» he recalled to laughter during an interview at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech International conference in Guangzhou, China on Wednesdaat Fortune's Brainstorm Tech International conference in Guangzhou, China on Wednesday.

Hayes spoke about harnessing the power of design for business at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech International Conference in Guangzhou, China on Tuesday.

At this year's Brainstorm Tech conference, July 16 - 18 in Aspen, Colorado, we will be staging The Pitch, a contest designed to put a spotlight on the private sector's freshest and smartest solutions to the world's biggest social challenges.

«Frankly, we weren't sure [Airbnb's model] was going to work here,» said Airbnb co-founder and chief strategy officer Nathan Blecharczyk at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech International Conference in Guangzhou, China on Tuesday.

«I was at this tech and media CEO conference Goldman Sachs ran in Napa [Valley, California].

At Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, Colo. this summer, Abovitz said the public would get a glimpse of the actual technology «soon - ish.»

Instead, participants work solo at home, periodically meeting with mentors in county government conference rooms to work on commercializing their equipment, machines, software or other ag - tech inventions.

At a tech conference, she asked Murdoch if, after eating asparagus, he could smell it in his pee — also, it seems, a genetic trait.

A small group of weary and conference - hungover hackers, information security professionals and activists is gathering at the new San Francisco office of Yahoo, in the neighborhood of South of Market, or SoMa, a quickly gentrifying and hip neighborhood filled with tech startups.

During an interview at the Techcrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, Mayer was asked why tech companies had not simply decided to tell the public more about what the US surveillance industry was up to.

Speaking on Tuesday at a tech conference hosted by the Wall Street Journal in Laguna Beach, Calif., Kalanick said Uber's market share in China has climbed since the start of 2015 and now stands at about 30 percent to 35 percent.