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Glendale, ca

SEP 12-14

Glendale Tech week 2023

Glendale Tech Week will bring together 700+ attendees, major universities of CA and the East Coast, top tier 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 incubators.

400+

attendees

50+

speakers

15

talks

Our Sponsors

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 Pitch your startup

Investor Panel

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Jett Fein

General Partner at Headline

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Daniil Stolyarov

Partner at Almaz Capital

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Artem Harutyunyan

Co-Founder & CTO at bardeen.ai

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Armen Vartanian

Founder at Oceanview Capital Partners

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Minas Apelian

VP Internal and External Venturing at Saint-Gobain

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Nareg DerManuelian

Head of Corporate Development at Nium

DemoDay

Here are some of our 2023 GTW Events

September 12

September 13

September 14

Events

watch our Glendale tech Week 2022 highlight video 

Our speakers come from

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Past SPEAKERS

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VAHE KUZOYAN

President & Co-Founder at ServiceTitan

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Kenji Funahashi 

Partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 

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Drew Kutcharian 

Co-Founder & CTO at DISQO 

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Ashot Arzumanyan

Partner at SmartGateVC

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Ara Agopian 

CEO & Founder at SolarInsure 

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Christine Soussa

Global Client Director at Equinix

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Andy Torosyan 

Partner at Holthouse Carlin & Van Trigt LLP (HCVT) 

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David Tonoyan 

President at dot818 

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Artyom Poghosyan

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

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Daren Mesrobian 

Partner and Head of Valuation Advisory Services at HCVT

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Mikayel Nazloyan

 Partner at PwC

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Harout Nazerian

Investor at Touchdown VC

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Gerald E. Loeb

Professor, Director Of The Medical Device Development Facility at USC

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Garegin Papoian

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

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Ruben Abagyan

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

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HARRY GLORIKIAN

General Partner at

Scientia Ventures

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Elizabeth Wu

Director, Early Innovation Partnering at Johnson & Johnson

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Lusine Abgaryan

Co-Founder & CEO at GrittGene Therapeutics

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Leo Petrossian

CEO at Nile AI

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Stacyann RusseLl

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

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Genevieve LeMarchal

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Michael Dal Bello

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 Siranush Babakhanova

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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

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Rafi Vartanian

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Tariq Arif

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Camilo Ansarah-Sobrinho

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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

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Sev G. Sislian

Executive Director, Global Head of Sourcing, Operations and R&D at Amgen

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Stephanie Hsieh

Executive Director of Los Angeles, Biocom California

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Hayk Mamajanyan 

Partner at Rimon Law 

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Jack Topdjian

Founder of Health Equity Angels, Venture Partner at SmartGateVC

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Eugene Malobrodsky

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Anthony Portantino

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Kyle Grimsrud

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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

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Ardy Kassakhian

Mayor of the City of Glendale

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Alexa Youssefian

Global Communications at TikTok

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Karen Khachikyan

Founder and CEO at Expper Technologies

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Andre Tutunjyan

Founder and CEO of Algolift (Acquired by Vungle)

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Zarik Megerdichian

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

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Anuj Varma

Principal at B Capital Group

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Manouk Akopyan

Reporter at Los Angeles Times, Director of Content at  Phonexa

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Bryan Gerber

Co-managing Director of Nucleate | PhD candidate

at CalTech

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David Mandel

Managing Partner at

Emerging Ventures

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Talar Malakian

Head of Go-To-Market at Metaplex Studios

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Gev Sogomonian

Founder and CEO

at AimHub

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Viken Douzdjian

Managing Partner at Argonautic Ventures

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Alek Kotolyan

COO at PLat AI and VP at dot818

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Elizabeth Shubov

AI Intellectual Property Law Attorney

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Kevin Ashley

Office of CTO, Program Manager at Microsoft

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Mariya Vasileva

Applied Scientist at Amazon

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Leo Natanian

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

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General Partner at Type One Ventures

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Arjun Metre

Senior Managing Director at Tennor Holding

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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

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