SPEAKERS

Welcome Remarks – Conference Overview

10:00AM – 10:15AM

Session 1:

State of the Exit from IPOs to direct listings to SPACs

10:15AM – 11:00AM

From IPO to sponsor-led exits. How will startups look to exit, will the volume and performance patterns of IPOs and SPACs continue? And how are late stage investors looking at the market for exits in 2022?

Moderator:
Paul Palmieri – General Partner, Grit Capital Partners
Panelists:
David Brown – Senior Managing Director, Capital Markets EY
Stuart Ellman – General Partner, RRE Ventures
Dayna Grayson – Co-Founder & General Partner, Construct Capital
Deric Emry – Senior Managing Director, Private Equity, StepStone Capital

Session 2:

Betting on the future of fan engagement

11:00AM – 11:30AM

2021 was a banner year for innovation driving new and deeper fan engagement across all of the major sports leagues. Hear the strategies of Simplebet, Bally’s, and more, on how they’re engaging consumers with new and exciting betting markets.

Moderator:
Wayne Kimmel – MP, SeventySix Capital
Panelists:
Chris Bevilacqua – CEO & CoFounder, Simplebet
Lee Fenton – CEO Bally’s
Melissa Blau – Founder & Director, iGaming Capital
Tony Vartanian – Chief Growth & Revenue Officer, Jackpocket

Session 3:

FIRESIDE CHAT – Redefining the ESG Opportunity with Data

11:30AM – 12:00PM

Speakers:
Mike Flannery – General Partner, Grit Capital Partners
Cristina Dolan – CEO, Inside Chains, Author, Transparency in ESG: The Circular Economy

Lunch Presentation:

Investing in Private Companies, Where is the Opportunity

12:00PM – 12:45PM

PrivCo shares real-time insights and editorial content, only for attendees, on the private company market, the category’s changing persona, and emerging approaches to identify investment opportunities

Speaker:
Jon Chu – Chief Product Officer, PrivCo

Session 4:

Investing in the future of INVESTING – The WealthTech investment surge

12:45PM – 1:15PM

Amid the record amount of venture funding within FinTech over the past two years, the category of WealthTech has emerged as a focus for new private companies and large institutions alike. Join our esteemed panel of experts as they review the progress of this exciting market.

Moderator:
Jennifer Byrne – Venture Partner, Grit Capital Partners
Panelists:
Stephan Lambert – Global Co-Head of Strategy, Wealth Management, GoldmanSachs
Kim Rosenblum – Chief Marketing Officer, Betterment
April Rudin – Founder and CEO, The Rudin Group
Julia Huang – Founding Partner, Company Capital

Session 5:

Adtech 3.0

1:15PM – 1:45PM

The pandemic sped up investments in new technology triggering a wave of Adtech exits. At the same time, tech companies dropped third-party cookies, regulators cracked down on privacy issues and consumers became more aware of the importance of their data. Will the great adtech pivot continue in 2022 and what are the trends for private investment?

Moderator:
Mike Perlis – Vice Chairman, Forbes Media
Panelists:
Dan Rosenberg – Founder & CEO, Octane11
Rosie O’Meara – Chief Revenue Officer, GroundTruth
Harry Kargman – Founder & CEO, Kargo

Session 6:

The NFT Explosion: From Art comes a new arbitrage

1:45PM – 2:15PM

NFTs (Non-fungible tokens) are shaking up the media asset and entertainment world. But, the applications of NFT’s are vast. Who benefits by a tokenization of everything? How is infrastructure evolving to enable and expose?

Moderator:
Nihal Mehta – Co-Founder & GP, Eniac Ventures
Panelists:
Joel Lunenfeld – Chief Strategy Officer, KREATR
Dot Bustelo – CEO, Loupe
Glenn Rachlin – Sales & Partnerships, Alchemy

BREAK:

2:15PM – 2:30PM

Session 7:

FIRESIDE CHAT – Arming the ecommerce rebels: Empowering retailers to become the next generation of ecommerce

2:30PM – 3:00PM

An in-depth conversation with Joe Doran, Chief Product Officer at Epsilon.

Speakers:
Joe Doran – Chief Product Officer, Epsilon
Kathleen Booth – SVP Marketing, Tradeswell

Session 8:

Cities of the Future

3:00PM – 3:45PM

For the next generation of investors and founders, the world looks completely different now. From telecom to transportation to innovation, find out how investments in a mix of new technologies and ecosystems with the evolution of cities in mind, can lead to double and triple bottom lines in the metropolis of the future.

Moderator:
Tom Wheeler – Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution / Former FCC Chairman
Panelists:
Suzy Deering – Chief Marketing Officer, Ford Motor Company
Roderick Randall – Chairman, MagLev Aero
Mike Mulica – CEO, Alef Edge
Jamie McDonald – CEO, Upsurge
Jeff Cherry – Managing Partner, Conscious Venture Partners

Conference Wrap Up

3:45PM – 4:00PM

Networking Reception

4:00PM – 5:00PM