March 4

Madrid + Granada : Cybersecurity Startups, Exits, Hackers, VC & Spain's Tech Ecosystem

Julio Casal - 4iQ | AlienVault (Madrid & Silicon Valley)

Santiago Bassett - Wazuh (Granada & Silicon Valley)

Session #7 drills down into the Madrid startup and tech ecosystem, as well as the growing Madrid-Granada connection and emerging Granada tech hub in southern Spain. Our speakers are two of Spain's leading cybersecurity software startup founders and technology experts, and demonstrate Spain's substantial depth in cybersecurity software for enterprises. Julio founded AlienVault in 2007 and secured venture financing from Adara Ventures, Intel Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, among other VC funds. AlienVault's exit to ATT in 2018 represents one of the biggest growth stories and successes in Spanish startup history. His new cybersecurity startup 4iQ builds on and extends the Madrid-Granada talent infrastructure developed by the AlienVault team. Santiago is a former member of Julio's AlienVault team who has gone on to become a prominent tech founder in Granada, and a leader in the Spanish open source community as CEO of Wazuh. We are honored to present Julio, who has played a foundational and historic role in growing Madrid's and Spain's tech talent base, university computer science community, founder culture and ecosystem foundations during the past 30+ years.

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March 11

Europe's Software Industry :: Growth Paths to Global Parity :: A Mini-Summit @ Stanford

Co-Chair: Prof. Dr. Manfred Broy - Zentrum Digitalisierung Bayern | TU Munich (Munich)

Andy Bechtolsheim - Arista Networks | Sun Microsystems

Toomas Hendrik Ilves - President (Emeritus) of Estonia (Silicon Valley)

Helen Arnold - SAP Data Network (San Francisco)

Xavier Wartelle - French Tech Hub (San Francisco)

Kwame Yamgnane - Ecole 42 USA (Silicon Valley)

Jyri Engeström - YesVC (San Francisco)

Richard Socher - Salesforce (San Francisco)

Henri Deshays - NewFund (Silicon Valley | Paris)

Frederic Hanika - Software AG (Silicon Valley)

Sergii Gorpynich - Star (SV | Ukraine | Poland)

Alfonso de la Nuez - UserZoom (SV | Barcelona)

Lasse Andresen - ForgeRock (SV | Norway)

Chair: Dr. Burton Lee - Stanford Engineering

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Time: 4:30 - 7:30pm | Limited Seating

Our Final Session 2019 addresses one of Europe's most critical and strategic challenges for the 21st Century - how to grow a domestic software industry that can compete globally with the USA and China. Our panel of distinguished speakers - founders, investors, scientists and policy-makers - will address the current state of Continental Europe's software sector in selected countries and regions, and then move to a wide-ranging discussion and debate about the path forward for Europe in software and data.

This special extended session will touch on Europe's track record and initiatives in artificial intelligence (AI), Industry4.0, IoT, embedded systems, cybersecurity, and high performance computing (HPC), along with personal and industrial data management practices and policies, but will move beyond this fragmented framework to a broader strategic consideration of the complete software industry. We shall pay particular attention to diverging corporate valuations, multipliers and job creation benefits associated with consumer software, enterprise software, gaming, social media and data platform business models. The economic cost and benefits of certain data protection and copyright regulations now being implemented in Europe - and their potential for retarding and shrinking demand for new software products and services - will also figure prominently in this unique Mini-Summit on Growing Europe's Software Industry.

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Schedule 2019 - Year Ten

Ukraine & Russia - 2015

European Tech Media

Poland & Austria - 2015

UK & Croatia - 2014

Angry Birds & Prezi - 2013

European Market Entry