​1:00 PM - PANEL | Growth Hacking in Consumer Tech
Brian Rothenberg is VP of Growth and GM at Eventbrite, where he has spent the last 5+ years scaling the business to millions of events per year and more than $10B in gross transaction volume since founding. Prior to Eventbrite, Brian helped to grow TaskRabbit’s business 3x as Co-Head of Marketing, he co-founded and was VP of Product & Growth for his own VC-backed marketplace startup SkillSlate (acquired by TaskRabbit), and started his career as a consumer and growth-focused Product Manager within Yahoo!’s marketplace business unit. 
Casey Winters is a full time advisor and consultant to top tech companies like Eventbrite, Lyft, Thumbtack, and Reddit. Casey recently was the growth advisor in residence at Greylock Partners, where he helped startups on their growth strategies and scaling challenges. Prior to Greylock, Casey led growth at Pinterest, helping kickstart international growth. Pinterest recently crossed over 200 million monthly active users. Yes, those annoying signup prompts are his fault.

Prior to Pinterest, Casey was the first marketer at Grubhub, helping the company grow from 30,000 users to over 3 million by leading acquisition and retention marketing. Casey is responsible for some of Grubhub's worst performing ads, but definitely not its best. Grubhub went public in April 2014 and is now valued at $9 billion. Prior to Grubhub, Casey worked in online marketing at Homefinder and Apartments.com. Casey has a BBA in Marketing from Loyola University Chicago and an MBA from Chicago Booth. He blogs, not as well as most, at caseyaccidental.com. 
Elena Verna, SVP of Growth at Malwarebytes, previously SVP of Growth and Analytics at SurveyMonkey, She leads growth product, marketing, analytics, and design teams, driving business acquisition, activation, conversion, engagement, and customer retention metrics. She has led teams across Performance and Brand Marketing, Growth Product (Content/Messaging systems, AB testing, and Billing), Analytics, Product Marketing, and Design. Elena has been a featured speaker at many Growth conferences - both in the U.S. and Internationally.  Originally from Russia, she immigrated to the United States in her youth, and graduated with a statistics degree from UC Berkeley
​2:00 PM - PANEL | Early Stage Investing in Artificial Intelligence​​
Kia Kokalitcheva ​(moderator) is a San Francisco-based reporter for Axios who covers tech, startups, Silicon Valley, and venture capital. Previously, Kia was a reporter at Fortune from 2015 to 2016, where she covered technology and Silicon Valley with a focus on the "on-demand economy." Prior to Fortune, she was a writer for Venture Beat. Kia graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in the Political Economy and wrote for the Daily Californian. 
Brandon Reeves is an investor at Lux Capital. His goal is to identify companies that are turning science fiction into science fact, especially in areas of autonomous systems, robotics, machine intelligence, and space.​​ Prior to joining Lux, he was on the investment team at Capricorn Investment Group in Palo Alto, California, where he focused on autonomy, mobility, space, and semiconductors.  Previously, he worked for Texas Instruments in Sunnyvale, California, where he was a Field Applications Engineer that supported Tesla Motors and their autopilot and sensing teams. Brandon carries a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Central Florida and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
James Hardiman has developed, applied, and invested in frontier technology and large-scale analytics for more than a decade.  His experience spans R&D in new materials and semiconductor processing to sales and marketing strategy for life science and healthcare companies.  At DCVC, he is interested in companies applying artificial intelligence to vertical problems, technologies that allow us to better understand biological systems, and automation.  James holds a BS in Engineering Physics from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Lisha Li is a principal at Amplify Partners. She invests in technical founders solving ambitious problems. From compute substrate to the creative process, medicine to manufacturing, she is excited to be investing at a time when machine intelligence and data-driven methods have such incredible potential for impact. Investments she has been involved with include Embodied Intelligence and Primer. Lisha completed her PhD at UC Berkeley focusing on deep learning and probability. While at Berkeley she also did statistical consulting, advising on methods and analysis for experimentation and interpretation, and interned as a data scientist at Pinterest and Stitch Fix. She was the lecturer of discrete mathematics, as well as the graduate instructor for probability and computer science theory. 
Caroline Duffy handles growth at the AIFund, where she focuses on identifying and evaluating game-changing investment opportunities in AI and advising portfolio companies as they launch and scale.

Launched in January of 2018, by Dr. Andrew Ng, the AIFund is a startup initiator. We build teams to pursue business ideas where AI can have a decisive impact. The typical stage at which we engage is before the company is incorporated, before a team is formed, and usually before there’s even a specific startup idea. We work with entrepreneurs to come up with the idea, validate the idea, and build the team to go after it. The AIFund’s first fund is $175 million, with investors including NEA, Sequoia, Greylock Partners, and the SoftBank Group.

Caroline previously worked at Pelion Venture Partners, focusing on early stage investment in SaaS businesses. Prior to business school at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Caroline worked in management consulting. Her clients were primarily Fortune 500 software, internet, and e-commerce companies.
​3:00 PM - FIRESIDE CHAT | Joey Zwillinger, Cofounder of Allbirds
Joey Zwillinger has long been passionate about making things from renewable resources, which led him to start Allbirds and begin tackling sustainability issues in the footwear industry. Prior to co-founding Allbirds, he spent six years at biotech firm Terravia (formerly Solazyme, Inc.) leading its renewable chemical business, developing and selling high performance algae-based chemicals into various industries such as CPG, personal care, and industrials. Previously, Joey worked in advisory and investment roles at Industry Ventures, Deloitte Consulting and Goldman Sachs. He sits on the Board of education nonprofit Stiles Hall, as well as the Advisory Board of Wharton's Baker Retail Center. He earned an MBA from Wharton with honors, and a BS in industrial engineering from UC Berkeley.