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About Glendale Tech week
Glendale Tech Week is a tech and startup festival hosted in the City of Glendale during which tech players in Glendale come together to host meetups, talks and panels to network and share expertise.
As part of Glendale Tech Week Hero House by SmartGateVC hosts 3 day long lineup of events around AI venture building in collaboration with SoCal universities, venture funds, research labs and incubators.
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Investor Panel

Jett Fein
General Partner at Headline

Daniil Stolyarov
Partner at Almaz Capital

Artem Harutyunyan
Co-Founder & CTO at bardeen.ai

Armen Vartanian
Founder at Oceanview Capital Partners

Minas Apelian
VP Internal and External Venturing at Saint-Gobain

Nareg DerManuelian
Head of Corporate Development at Nium
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Past SPEAKERS

VAHE KUZOYAN
President & Co-Founder at ServiceTitan

Kenji Funahashi
Partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Drew Kutcharian
Co-Founder & CTO at DISQO

Ashot Arzumanyan
Partner at SmartGateVC

Ara Agopian
CEO & Founder at SolarInsure

Christine Soussa
Global Client Director at Equinix

Andy Torosyan
Partner at Holthouse Carlin & Van Trigt LLP (HCVT)

David Tonoyan
President at dot818

Artyom Poghosyan
Founder and CEO of Advancive Technology Solutions (Acquired by Optive) and Britive

Daren Mesrobian
Partner and Head of Valuation Advisory Services at HCVT

Mikayel Nazloyan
Partner at PwC

Harout Nazerian
Investor at Touchdown VC

Gerald E. Loeb
Professor, Director Of The Medical Device Development Facility at USC

Garegin Papoian
Monroe Martin Professor at the University of Maryland, Founder and CEO of Biosim

Ruben Abagyan
Professor at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at UCSD, Founder of Molsoft

HARRY GLORIKIAN
General Partner at
Scientia Ventures

Elizabeth Wu
Director, Early Innovation Partnering at Johnson & Johnson

Lusine Abgaryan
Co-Founder & CEO at GrittGene Therapeutics

Leo Petrossian
CEO at Nile AI

Stacyann RusseLl
Director of NSF I-Corps Hub West Region (USC)

Genevieve LeMarchal

Michael Dal Bello

Siranush Babakhanova

Llewellyn Cox
Head of Healthcare Ventures Expert Dojo, Managing Partner at Suncoast Ventures
Founder of Curewell Capital
Stanford Biophysics PhD Candidate
CEO at Lab Launch, General Partner at MarsBio

Rafi Vartanian

Tariq Arif

Camilo Ansarah-Sobrinho

Meghedi Babakhanian
Director of Commercial Strategy & Effectiveness at Customerinsights.ai
Business Development Officer at UCLA Technology Development Group
Associate Director, Business Development and Industry Relations at USC MESH Academy
Senior Research Engineer at Stanford University School of Medicine,
CEO at EPIENDOAF

Sev G. Sislian
Executive Director, Global Head of Sourcing, Operations and R&D at Amgen

Stephanie Hsieh
Executive Director of Los Angeles, Biocom California

Hayk Mamajanyan
Partner at Rimon Law

Jack Topdjian
Founder of Health Equity Angels, Venture Partner at SmartGateVC

Eugene Malobrodsky

Anthony Portantino

Kyle Grimsrud

Arbi Tamrazian
Partner at One Way Ventures
Member of the California State Senate
SoCal Pod Manager, Google for Startups
Director of Data Science and Machine Learning at FOX Sports

Ardy Kassakhian
Mayor of the City of Glendale

Alexa Youssefian
Global Communications at TikTok

Karen Khachikyan
Founder and CEO at Expper Technologies

Andre Tutunjyan
Founder and CEO of Algolift (Acquired by Vungle)

Zarik Megerdichian
Founder and CEO of 4Over (Acquired by private equity firm HGGC)

Anuj Varma
Principal at B Capital Group

Manouk Akopyan
Reporter at Los Angeles Times, Director of Content at Phonexa

Bryan Gerber
Co-managing Director of Nucleate | PhD candidate
at CalTech

David Mandel
Managing Partner at
Emerging Ventures

Talar Malakian
Head of Go-To-Market at Metaplex Studios

Gev Sogomonian
Founder and CEO
at AimHub

Viken Douzdjian
Managing Partner at Argonautic Ventures

Alek Kotolyan
COO at PLat AI and VP at dot818

Elizabeth Shubov
AI Intellectual Property Law Attorney

Kevin Ashley
Office of CTO, Program Manager at Microsoft

Mariya Vasileva
Applied Scientist at Amazon

Leo Natanian
Co-founder and CEO of Barr.io |Senior Engineering Manager at APARAVI

Abdo John Hajj
General Partner at Type One Ventures

Arjun Metre
Senior Managing Director at Tennor Holding

John Nackel
Founder and CEO of Three-Sixty Advisory Group, LLC Founder and General Partner of Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health
Partner at Wavemaker 360 Health
