Aug 22, 2019: Brazil in the 21st Century, edition #8

Meet the people who are shaping the tech industry in America & Brazil

PETER NORVIG

Director of Research
Google

Previously Peter was head of Google’s core search algorithms group, and of NASA Ames’s  Computational Sciences Division, making him NASA’s senior computer scientist. He received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Award in 2001. He is co-author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, the leading textbook in the field, and co-teacher of an AI class that signed up 160,000 students, helping to kick off the current round of massive open online classes.

SAURABH GUPTA

Managing Partner
DST Global

Saurabh is currently an observer on the Boards of Brex, Dada, Rappi, Swiggy, and Udaan and led DST’s investment in Airbnb.
The VC firm DST focuses on late stage technology investments globally. DST has invested in leading global technology companies including Facebook, Twitter, Alibaba, Didi, Whatsapp, Snapchat, Airbnb and Spotify. In Latin America, DST invested in Nubank and Rappi.

HANS TUNG

Managing Partner
GGV Capital

Hans  led GGV’s investment in Musical.ly (acquired by Toutiao) and serves on the boards of Wish, Poshmark, GrubMarket, Lively and Yellow, among others.
He has invested in mobile social communication companies sucha as Slack, Lime, Bustle, Peloton, and is actively involved in GGV portfolio companies Airbnb, Flipboard, DraftKings and Yodo1

MICHELE LEVY

Co-Founder, Costa Brazil
& Founder, Ilhabela Holdings

Ilhabela Holdings is the company behind the successful growth of the Melissa Shoes brand in the US, up from relative obscurity into the leading brand in its category in the United States. Michele is also leading Costa Brazil, a sustainable beauty line founded by Brazilian Francisco Costa, former Calvin Klein Creative Director.

ANDRE MACIEL

Head of Brazil & M.I. Partner
SoftBank Latin America Fund

Andre was previously a co-founder of 30 Knots, a LatAm growth dedicated Private Equity. Prior to it, he was a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan, head of Brazil Investment Banking Advisory and responsible for the coverage of technology, telecom and media industries for Latin America. Andre has been involved in over 200 M&A and Capital Markets transactions, having helped issuers and shareholders raise over $101bn in equity markets.

JULIE RUVOLO

Director of Venture Capital
LAVCA

Julie manages venture investor relationships in Latin America and globally. In this role, she oversees venture/tech-related programs, facilitates LAVCA’s early stage investor meetings, and oversees LAVCA’s tech content. Julie is also a founding member of the Latin America Tech Growth Coalition, which unifies top tech companies with a common goal of advancing high growth startups in the LatAm region.

FABRICIO BLOISI

Founder & CEO
Movile

Fabricio Bloisi turned Movile from a startup in a garage in Brazil into a global player in mobile marketplaces with more than 350 million mobile customers worldwide. He majored in Computer Science at University of Campinas and concluded a MBA at Getulio Vargas Foundation . He has also concluded the Executive Program for Growing Companies at Stanford

RALF GERMER

Co-Founder & Co-CEO
PagBrasil

Ralf is Co-Founder and Co-CEO at PagBrasil. His fields of expertise are business management, international business development, marketing and online sales, as well as payment processing. Prior to PagBrasil, he was Vice President of Product Marketing Europe at Actebis and later founded 4M Iberoamérica.

EDSON RIGONATTI

Founding Partner
Astella Investimentos

Edson has been engaged in the Brazilian entrepreneurial scene for over 10 years. Prior to founding VC firm Astella, Edson was a Partner at Cicerone Capital, VP of Sales at Lucent Technologies, and COO with Lojas Veper. He serves as a director on several Boards and is an active Endeavor Mentor. Edson holds an MBA from Columbia Business School.

PAULO SHARGORODSKY

VP of Strategic Accounts & Growth
EBANX

Paulo manages key enterprise accounts and develops opportunities with strategic merchants and payment partners in Latin America. Prior to joining EBANX, Paulo led financial services and payments at Walmart for 10 years, specializing in international business, partnerships, consumer payments products, mobile and brick & mortar stores.

VERONICA ALLENDE SERRA

Founding Partner
Pacific Investments & Innova Capital Fund

Veronica has exited numerous investments in the past years such as Virid (sold to Experian), data company Zipcode (TransUnion), Snapchat (IPO), Editas Medicine (Nasdaq: EDIT). Some of her current investments are Accera, Movile, Vitta, Bloomlife, Yogome, Jampp, and Brex. In 2015, she was elected one of the top 25 businesswomen in LatAm by LatinTrade Magazine.

EKATERINA SKOROBOGATOVA

VP Growth
TheVentureCity

Ekaterina joined Facebook in 2010 to run growth in Russia. She also ran growth at WhatsApp Inc. after the company got acquired by Facebook. Now at TheVentureCity, early stage venture fund and accelerator founded by another Facebook alumni, she is investing in and accelerating early stage startups in Europe and in Latin America.

ALEXANDRE VILLELA

Managing Director
Qualcomm Ventures

Alex is leading deals in LatAm and Digital Enterprise, Networking, Datacenter, 5G related deals in the U.S. Before that, he worked for Intel Capital and led several equity investments in Latin America, in a variety of sectors (Cloud Services, Healthcare IT, Big Data Analytics, FinTech)

STEVE POLSKY

Founder & CEO
Juvo

Steve founded Juvo with the mission to establish financial identities for the billions of people worldwide who are creditworthy yet financially excluded. Juvo currently provides services in 27 countries across Latin America, Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe. In 2018 Steve was recognized as a Tech Pioneer by the WEF.

EKECHI NWOKAH

Founder & CEO
Mines

Dr. Nwokah leads Mines, a Credit-as-a-Service platform that enables institutions in emerging markets to offer digital credit products to their customers. He was a visiting professor at Purdue University before leaving academia to join SGI and NASA, where he built supercomputers for space shuttle design including COLUMBIA.

CHRIS TSAKALAKIS

CEO
Vivino

Chris leads Vivino, the world’s largest online wine marketplace and most downloaded wine app. Prior to joining Vivino, Chris was the President of StubHub, the world’s largest online ticket marketplace. During his 8-year tenure, the StubHub team grew ticket sales from $400M to $3.2B

RAPHAEL DE CUNTO

Partner
Pinheiro Neto Advogados

Raphael is partner in the Palo Alto and São Paulo offices of Pinheiro Neto Advogados, Brazil’s leading law firm. He has more than 20 years of experience counseling clients in the tech industry negotiating M&A and financing transactions.

MANOEL LEMOS

Managing Partner
Redpoint e.ventures

Before joining the Redpoint eventure’s partnership, Manoel was the Chief Digital Officer of Abril Media, the second largest media conglomerate in Brazil. He is also the founder/chief-maker of Fazedores.com, the first portal dedicated to the Brazilian Maker Movement community.

JOSÉ BERENGUER

Country Officer for Brazil
JP Morgan

José joined J.P. Morgan in April 2013 to lead the largest business location in Latin America for J.P. Morgan, employing more than 1,000 people. Previously he worked in Gavea, Santander and other banks. Currently Jose also serves as Board member of the Brazilian Banking Federation (FEBRABAN);  the Brazilian Futures and Stock Exchange (B3).

BRUNO FAVIERO

Co-Founder & COO
Synapse Technology

Using AI to automate security checkpoints at airports, Synapse works with the likes of TSA, the US Air Force, Osaka Airport in Japan, and other airports around the world. Bruno is also an active angel investor and a founding partner at pre-seed fund Graduate Fund. Previously he was managing partner at Dorm Room Fund Boston.

ERIC SANTOS

Co-Founder & CEO
Resultados Digitais

Eric is also the company creator of RD Station, the leading marketing automation platform in emerging markets, with over 13,000 customers. The company has now over 700 employees and has raised over R$ 100 million in funding from top tier VCs in Brazil and the US. RD has also been awarded for 4 years in a row the best company to work for in its state, Santa Catarina, and top 10 in tech in Brazil, alongside Google and others.

ANDERSON THEES

Managing Director & Co-founder
Redpoint e.ventures

VICENTE SILVEIRA

Chairman of the Board
BayBrazil

DANIELA JORGE

Global VP, Design & Research
Paypal

FRED ASLAN

Founder & CEO
Adavium Medical

AVANISH SAHAI

Global VP, ISV & Tech. Alliances
ServiceNow

ANDY TSAO

Managing Director
Silicon Valley Bank

STEPHEN CIESINSKI

President
SRI International

MARGARISE CORREA

Founder & CEO
BayBrazil

RON CZERNY

Founder & CEO
PlayPhone

HARALD BATISTA

Co-Founder
Ilumina Tech

BIBIANA LEITE

Head of Content Partnerships
Youtube

8:30AM 

Breakfast & Registration
Coffee, tea, pastries will be served

9AM

Welcome & Introductions 

BayBrazil Board Members &
Margarise Correa, Founder & CEO

9:10AM

The current state of entrepreneurship in Brazil

Speakers: 

Edson Rigonatti, Founding Partner, Astella Investimentos

Ekaterina Skorobogatova, VP Growth, TheVentureCity

Manoel Lemos, Partner, Redpoint eventures, Cubo Itaú

Paulo Shargorodsky, VP Strategic Accounts, eBanx

Moderator: 

Julie Ruvolo, Director of Venture Capital, LAVCA

10AM

Unicorns made in Brazil

Speaker: 

Fabricio Bloisi, Founder & CEO, Movile

 Fireside chat with Veronica Serra, Founding Partner, Innova Capital

Coffee Break

11:10PM

Destination Brazil

Panel featuring CEOs of Silicon Valley-based companies entering the Brazilian market.

Speakers: 

Chris Tsakalakis, CEO, Vivino

Ekechi Nwokah, CEO, MINES

 Steve Polsky, Founder & CEO, Juvo

 Moderator: 

Raphael de Cunto, Partner, Pinheiro Neto Advogados

Lunch Break – complimentary lunch will be served.

13:20PM

AI & the Future of Education

Speaker: 

Peter Norvig, computer scientist, Director of Research at Google

 Moderator:

Vicente Silveira, BayBrazil Chairman of the Board

2:10PM

New deals & new money into Latin American tech startups

Discussion on record investments by VCs and corporations

Speakers: 

Alexandre Villela, Managing Director, Qualcomm Ventures

Saurabh Gupta, Managing Director, DST Global

Moderator: 

Anderson Thees, Managing Partner, Redpoint eventures

2:50PM

Finance goes digital in Brazil: the transformation in banking and payments

Speaker: 

Ralf Germer, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, PagBrasil

Moderator: 

Avanish Sahai, Global VP, ServiceNow

Coffee Break

3:50PM

Brazilians founders

Panel featuring startups leaders building and expanding companies abroad

Speakers:

Bruno Faviero, Co-Founder & COO, Synapse Technology

Michele Levy, Co-Founder & CEO, Ilhabela Holdings & Costa Brazil

Eric Santos, Co-Founder & CEO, Resultados Digitais,

Moderator: 

Fred Aslan, MD, President and CBO, Vividion Therapeutics

4:30PM

 From Shanghai to Sao Paulo: Will Brazil’s digital economy develop more like China’s?

Speaker: 

Hans Tung, Managing Partner, GGV Capital

Moderator:

Andy Tsao, Managing Director, Silicon Valley Bank

5:15PM

The innovation economy across Latin America

Speaker: 

André Maciel, Head of Brazil & Managing Investment Partner, SoftBank Latin America Fund

Moderator: 

Jose Berenguer, Country Officer for Brazil, JP Morgan

Cocktail Reception

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2016 EDITION #5, AT GOOGLE

2015 EDITION # 4, AT SRI INTERNATIONAL

2014 EDITION # 3, AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY

2013 EDITION # 2, AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY

2012 EDITION #1, AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Conference 2019 in the news:

ZDNet US, Aug 2019 BayBrazil and Silicon Valley’s changing role in driving global innovation

Forbes Brasil, Aug 2019 Líderes brasileiros reforçam conexão com Vale do Silício

Epoca Negocios, Evento promove encontro entre empresas e investidores do Brazil e do Vale