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Fireside Chat: RescaleJoris Poort, Founder, RescaleWei Guo, Founding Partner, WeiFund (Moderator)Presentation: BoomJoshua Krall, Co-Founder & CEO, BoomFireside Chat: KnightscopeWilliam Santana Li, CEO, KnightscopeRebecca Fannin, Founder, Silicon Dragon (Moderator)XTI Aircraft TriFan 600 “It’s About Time”Robert LaBelle, Chief Executive Officer & Board Member, XTI AircraftPresentation: D-Wave Systems Inc.Dan Cohrs, CFOPresentation: FiskerHenrik Fisker, CEO, FiskerFireside chat: Fabric GenomicsMartin Reese, Ph. D., Founder, President & CEOMaria Malavenda, EIR, F50 (Moderator)Fireside chat: ParaDromicsMatt Angle, ParaDromics Founder and CEOLu Zhang, Fusion Capital (Moderator)Fireside Chat: EverstringVincent Yang, FounderWei Jiang, Partner of ZhenFund (Moderator)Fireside chat: ZiplineKeenan Wyrobek, Founder, Head of Product, ZiplinePaul Willard, General Partner, Subtraction Capital (Moderator)Presentation: AerofarmsGuy Blanchard, CFO, AerofarmsLife Extension for Food: The Path to Food Sustainability & A Natural Solution to Food WasteJames Rodgers, Science Director & CEO, Apeel SciencesVijay Pande, Partner, Andreesen Horowitz (Moderator)Fireside Chat: DocuSignKeith Krach, Chairman of the Board, DocuSignMurray Newlands, Forbes Contributor (Moderato)
Featured Companies
Rescale
offers a software platform and hardware infrastructure for companies to perform scientific and engineering simulation. Rescale's mission is to provide a highly powerful simulation platform that empowers the world's engineers and scientists to develop the most innovative products and perform groundbreaking research and development. Notable investors include Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, and Paul Graham.
D-Wave
designs and manufactures quantum computing and superconducting electronics. It offers D-Wave One system, a computing system that is designed for industrial problems encountered by Fortune 500 companies, government, and academia. The company also provides customer support, site preparation, site installation, training packages, and on-site engineer support services. D-Wave Systems Inc. was founded in 1999 and is based in Burnaby, Canada. The company has additional offices and R&D facilities in Palo Alto, California. Notable investors: Jeff Bezos, Fidelity, Goldman Sachs, DFJ.
Fabric Genomics
is a global computational genomics company offering end-to-end genomic data analysis, annotation, curation, classification, and reporting solutions to clinical labs, hospital labs, country sequencing programs, research institutions, and life science companies. Fabric Genomics’ analytic capabilities begin with raw data analysis and include the delivery of rapid, comprehensive insights for high throughput panels, exomes, and whole genomes. Their software can process FASTQ, BAM or VCF files, providing alignment, variant calling, guideline-driven variant classification, variant interpretation, and clinical reporting for hereditary diseases and oncology.
Paradromics
is developing next-generation brain-machine interfaces that will increase the data transmission rate between brains and computers 1,000 fold. This will enable better treatment options for neurodegenerative diseases and advanced neuroprosthetic limbs for those suffering from amputation or spinal cord injuries.
EverString
's predictive demand generation platform helps companies identify and engage with the best customer prospects using applied data science. The company was founded in 2012 and is backed by investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital and IDG Ventures.
Boom Technology
is making supersonic passenger travel into reality by making a supersonic airliner. Supersonic flight has existed for 70 years, but until now, it hasn’t been efficient enough for routine travel. Boom’s airliner enables fares 75% lower than Concorde, about the same price as today’s business class tickets. This advance in efficiency is made possible by a breakthrough aerodynamic design, state-of-the-art engines, and advanced composites.
Knightscope
is developing an autonomous technology platform that fuses robotics, predictive analytics and collaborative social engagement to predict and prevent crime. Deployment of the platform will empower public and private sectors to proactively build stronger, safer communities, ultimately saving money and lives.
XTI Aircraft Company
was founded to transform flight for the commercial marketplace, ultimately bringing a family of vertical takeoff planes to market. With its eXtended Technology and Innovation, the TriFan 600 is the world’s first vertical takeoff airplane. XTI is founded in a culture of customer-focused problem solving to meet the evolving needs of modern travelers and promises to change flight and personal freedom and mobility by air travel forever.
Fisker Inc.
is an American automaker based in California USA, revolutionizing the development of electric vehicles with game changing battery solutions. Developing unique, high-performance, electric vehicles with new game-changing battery technology, their mission is to bring to life the next generation of electric vehicles to meet the challenges of range and cost.
Zipline
builds products that improve access to healthcare and saves lives. Zipline created Zip, a small robot airplane designed for a high level of safety, using many of the same approaches as commercial airliners. It can carry vaccines, medicine, or blood.
AeroFarms
is on a mission to transform agriculture by building and operating environmentally responsible farms throughout the world to enable local production at scale and nourish our communities with safe, nutritious, and delicious food. AeroFarms is the commercial leader in indoor farming. They grow without sun or soil in a fully-controlled indoor environment. They have optimized their patented aeroponic growing system for faster harvest cycles, predictable results, superior food safety and less environmental impact.
Apeel Sciences
creates edible products from natural plant extracts that allow organic and conventional growers to reduce reliance on pesticides, increase produce quality, and provide superior shelf life. Apeel Sciences is committed to being a technological and environmental leader in the agricultural industry, enabling widespread, positive impacts through the development of high-performance pre- and post-harvest products and processes that conserve our precious natural resources and safeguard the Earth's delicate ecological balance.
DocuSign
operates a cloud-based electronic signature platform that helps small- and medium-sized businesses, enterprises, and individuals collect information, automate data workflows, and sign on various devices. The company’s platform automates manual and paper-based processes that allow users to manage various aspects of documented business transactions, including identity management, authentication, digital signature, forms and data collection, collaboration, and workflow automation and storage.
