TEXAS VENTURE GALA & FORUM AGENDA,
April 12 & 13

FRIDAY, APRIL 12TH:

6-9pm Welcome Reception, Fairmont 5th Floor: Featuring Venture Wine Tasting, Presented by In Good Taste Wines

TEXAS VENTURE FORUM
Fairmont 5th Floor, Manchester CD

SATURDAY, APRIL 13TH:

730 Forum Opens
8am Welcome Message
815 Breakfast Keynote “Texas & Texas-Sized Innovation”: The Office of the Governor Greg Abbott, Executive Director, Adriana Cruz; Texas Economic Development Corporation President & CEO Aaron Demerson; Texas Chamber of Commerce / Texas Association of Business, President & CEO, Glenn Hamer

9am

MODERATOR: Tiger21 Austin Lead, Michele Skelding

Moneta Ventures Partner, Brent Kelton
Silverton Partners Partner, Roger Chen
SputnikATX VC Managing Partner & CEO, Oksana Malysheva (bio)
S3 Ventures, Vice President, Joe Curry
RevereVC, Chris Shen
Chapter One CFO, Doug Dyer
MDSV Capital Founding Partner, Michael Downing

930

MODERATOR: Band of Angels/Aurora Equity, Jaleh Daie, Ph.D.
Central Texas Angel Network, Katie Russell
Alamo Angels, Juan Sebastian Garza
Houston Angel Network, Mitra Miller (bio)
Dream Big Ventures/Angeles Investors Texas Lead, Staci LaToison (bio)
MODERATOR: MediaTech Ventures, Paul OBrian

Founder Institute, Martin Martinez
International Accelerator, Angelos Angelou
Gener8tor, Muriel Foster
Austin Technology Incubator, Becky Taylor

10am

Texas State Representative, Donna Howard (bio)
National Security Innovation Council, Drew Scheberle
Moderator: BOKA Capital, Rich Julien
8090 Industries, Rayyan Islam
America’s Venture Fund, Jordan Blashek
Army Applications Lab for Army Futures Command, Tony Williams

1030

MODERATOR: Builders + Backers, Marisa Vickers

FoundersArena/Arlington (FinTech & WealthTech), Hamza Qadir
Brownsville CIC & eBridge Center, Nathan Burkhart
Round Rock Chamber (Deep Tech), Adriana Nunez
Pearland Innovation Hub (CPG, Under-Represented), Brandy Guidry (bio)
Moderator: Wealth Visionaries Collective, Arooj Sheikh
Family Office & High Net Worth Conferences, by DC Finance, Denny Chared (bio)

11am

MODERATOR: SONIC Drive In/SlimGenetix, Clara Kaluderovic (bio)

Goose Capital, David Gow
MODERATOR: Fundingstack, Nathan Beckord
iFly VC, Han Shen
Coyote Ventures, Jessica Karr
Climate Tech VC, Shiri Freund Koren

1130

MODERATOR: Plug and Play, Ehab Gabr

Lockheed Martin Ventures, Elizabeth Onsanya
Halliburton Labs, Scott Gale
Goose Capital, David Gow
MODERATOR: Texas Family Office, Marc Sharpe (bio)

Sonic Drive In 3rd Generation and SlimGenex, Clara Kalderovic (bio)
Wealth Visionaries Collective, Arooj Sheikh
1913 Ventures, Billy Grandy

Noon Fireside Keynote [Manchester CD] Texas Innovation & Universities:
Texas Higher Education Commissioner Harrison Keller,
& Research Bridge Partners’ Director of Investments, Jim Graham, Presented by the Texas Alternatives Foundation

1pm

Carta, Holli Pandol (bio)
Carta, Anthony Cimino (bio)
MODERATOR: RevereVC, Chris Shen
Pomifer Capital, Juan Diego Briceno (bio)
Earl Grey Capital, Amit Vasudev

130

MODERATOR: Sputnik ATX VC, Sarah Romanko (bio)

Moneta Ventures, Carter Bourassa
SomosVC/TechBloc, Ileana Gonzales
Roble Ventures, David Hernandez
Full Frame GP, Bader Alam (bio)
RevTech Ventures, Lindsay Lightman
Eisner Amper, Trae Nickelson
Eisner Amper, Ryan Keating

2pm

FriscoEDC, Jeremiah Anderson
Plug and Play, David Steele
MODERATOR: Sydecar, Jeremy Sell (bio)

IA Global Ventures, Nikos Iatropoulos (bio)
Bandera Capital, Gabriel Reyna
Angel Ventures, Elisa Sepulveda
MGV Capital, Mariano Gonzalez (bio)

230

MODERATOR: She Raises Capital, Vidhi Data (bio)

Dynabrand Ventures, Carla McDonald
LiveOak Venture Partners, Paola Retes
MODERATOR: Akerman, Marc Adesso

Growth Warrior Capital, Promise Phelon
Ionic Partners, Audrey Pang
CFGI, Leonardo Anselmi
Pathwire, Will Conway

TEXAS VENTURE GALA
THE TEXAS GOLD RUSH

6pm VIP (featuring violinist Ms. Katie Simone Williams)

7pm Gala Opening

8pm Awards & Firesides

Fireside Chat: Texas State Representative Giovanni Capriglione & Texas State Chamber of Commerce, President & CEO Glenn Hamer

Fireside Chat: Cart.com’s Chief Innovation Officer, Mike Svatek & Softeq Ventures Founding Managing Partner & “Forging the Future” Podcast Host, Chris Howard

830 Keynote

Fireside Chat: The Honorable Daniel S. Goldin, Longest-Tenured NASA Administrator & Cold Canyon Founder, with America’s Frontier Fund Cofounder, President & COO, Jordan Blashek