PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN PUT ON HOLD FOR LATER IN THE SUMMER. WE WILL NOT BE CANCELING THE EVENT.
We plan to announce the new date and time in the next week or so.
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Our event will feature a moderated panel of experienced corporate executives and leading B2B entrepreneurs.
We will focus the conversation around how to work with and sell to the world's biggest...
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PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN PUT ON HOLD FOR LATER IN THE SUMMER. WE WILL NOT BE CANCELING THE EVENT.
We plan to announce the new date and time in the next week or so.
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Our event will feature a moderated panel of experienced corporate executives and leading B2B entrepreneurs.
We will focus the conversation around how to work with and sell to the world's biggest brands and pose the questions:
What are the most significant challenges large brands face today?
What matters most in an early-stage company's pitch, and what can be a dealbreaker?
What are the steps and methods brands go through to evaluate new technologies?
What are some examples of objections overcome when partnering with or selling to an established brand?
How are the relationships between startups and large brands changing?
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Agenda:
6:00 - 7:00 PM Networking (drinks)
7:00 - 8:30 PM Panel including Q&A
8:30 - 9:00 PM Additional Networking
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Moderator:
David Pierce, CEO of Advection.NET
David is the CEO of Advection.net, a Video Delivery Network (VDN) specializing in  global online video streaming and video downloads. In the past, David served as the  CEO/President of Atari Inc, and has over 20 years of executive management  experience at major media companies such as Universal Pictures, MGM, Sony Pictures  and Sony Music Entertainment.
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Confirmed Panelists:
Alex Horovitz, Partner and COO, AppOrchard
Alex has over two decades of experience building and leading high functioning teams and developing enterprise applications. In 2006, Alex served as Co-Founder and CEO of Emergency Vault Data Solutions an online secure storage facility for vital documents which was acquired in 2008. Previously, Alex managed Appleâs Boston iServices leading service teams at Bank Boston, Fleet Bank, Aetna USHC, Merrill Lynch, Walt Disney, AIG, American Express, and Fidelity in addition to working as a software engineer at NeXT.
Alex is the co-author of Programming .NET 3.5 (O'Reilly, 2008). Alex and Kevin Kim are co-authors of an upcoming Apress Book on Advanced iOS programming
Tad Martin, Co-founder and CEO, Collective[i]
Tad is the co-founder and CEO of Collective[i], the first Business Intelligence solution for marketers that seamlessly connects with and analyzes all of their data via a cloud-based, Software-as-a-Service model.
Prior to founding Collective i, Mr. Martin headed operations at Overstock.com as the  company's COO / GMM. Mr. Martin joined Overstock as one of the company's early  employees. During his tenure with the company, Overstock grew from $70M in revenue  to over $800M and became a publicly traded company in the process (NASDAQ:  OSTK). Before Overstock, Mr. Martin worked for Gear.com (funded by Amazon.com), which he helped grow from an early stage startup to the largest sporting goods closeout e-commerce website before its sale to Overstock.com in 2000.
Amit Avner, Co-founder and CEO, Taykey
Amit is the co-founder and CEO of, Taykey is a Softbank- and Sequoia-backed start-up using patented real-time trend targeting technology to improve advertising performance and efficiency.
Amit started programming at the age of 10. During high school and college, he  worked as a software engineer for several different Israeli startups. After high school, Amit served in an elite military unit of the Israeli Defense Ministry, researching and developing innovative technologies. He is also the founder of  bWitty, and WittySearch,  an award winning search engine.
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