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Glendale Tech week 2023
Glendale Tech Week will bring together 700+ attendees, major universities of CA and East Cost, top tire investors and entrepreneurs to talk about AI venture building
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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 incubator,
watch our Glendale tech Week 2022 highlight video
SPEAKERS
GTW: BioVenturing from Lab to Industry

Elizabeth Wu
Director, Early Innovation Partnering at Johnson & Johnson

Mikayel Nazloyan
Partner at PwC

John Nackel
Partner at Wavemaker 360 Health

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

HARRY GLORIKIAN
General Partner at
Scientia Ventures

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

Leo Petrossian
CEO at Nile AI

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

Ashot Arzumanyan
Partner at SmartGateVC

Lusine Abgaryan
Co-Founder & CEO at GrittGene Therapeutics

Genevieve LeMarchal
Head of Healthcare Ventures Expert Dojo, Managing Partner at Suncoast Ventures

Michael Dal Bello
Founder of Curewell Capital

Siranush Babakhanova
Stanford Biophysics PhD Candidate

Llewellyn Cox
CEO at Lab Launch, General Partner at MarsBio

Rafi Vartanian
Director of Commercial Strategy & Effectiveness at Customerinsights.ai

Tariq Arif
Business Development Officer at UCLA Technology Development Group

Camilo Ansarah-Sobrinho
Associate Director, Business Development and Industry Relations at USC MESH Academy

Meghedi Babakhanian
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
GTW: Building and Growing an AI/Cloud Company

VAHE KUZOYAN
President & Co-Founder at ServiceTitan

Christine Soussa
Global Client Director at Equinix

Armen Vartanian
Founder at Oceanview Capital Partners

Eugene Malobrodsky
Partner at One Way Ventures

Anthony Portantino
Member of the California State Senate

Ardy Kassakhian
Mayor of the City of Glendale

Hayk Mamajanyan
Principal at HVM Law Firm

Kyle Grimsrud
SoCal Pod Manager, Google for Startups

Arbi Tamrazian
Director of Data Science and Machine Learning at FOX Sports

Alexa Youssefian
Global Communications at TikTok

Karen Khachikyan
Founder and CEO at Expper Technologies

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

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

Anuj Varma
Principal at B Capital Group

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

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

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

Alek Kotolyan
COO at PLat AI and VP at dot818

Stacyann RusseLl
Director of NSF I-Corps Hub West Region

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

Harout Nazerian
Investor at Touchdown VC

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