Keynote
After working for biotechnology companies, she committed herself to grow the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Hong Kong and throughout Asia. She is now an advisor for Betatron, a startup accelerator based in Hong Kong investing in early-stage companies. She also works as a venture partner raising capital for biotech and healthcare companies in emerging markets.
Currently, she is launching a new nonprofit, Ethics in Entrepreneurship a social movement aimed at implementing ethics within the tech industry. EIE acts as the connective tissue between tools, resources, and experts to implement ethics into the core of their businesses.
Judges
- John Bates - Retired Professor, Life Trustee
- Diane Fraiman - Director of Voyager Capital
- Jim Huston - Managing Director of Portland Seed Fund
- Cliff Johnson – Chief Commercial Officer of Rented.com
- Mohan Nair - Senior VP & Chief Innoviation Officer at Cambia Health Solution
- Nita Shah - Founder and ED of Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon (MESO)
- Suzanne Stevens - Editor of the Portland Business Journal
Speakers
- J Cheema - Freelancer
- Erika Cheung - Founder of Ethics in Entrepreneruship
- Sara Conte - Entrepreneur, Management Consultant at SGC Ventures
- Meredith Goddard -Director of Enterprise Applications; Innovation Instructor at Lewis & Clark
- Carl Guess – Executive Presentation Coach at Elevator Speech
- Lori Hennessy - Membership Development Director, Waverly Country Club
- Chrys Hutchings - Associate Director, Bates Center
- Fred Jacobs - Chief Revenue Officer, Apex Fund Services
- James Keller - Sr. Director of UX, Firefox at Mozilla
- Charlie Lambropoulos Co-Founder of ScrumLaunch
- Robin Wang – Executive Director of Ascent Funding
Mentors
- Kanika Agrawal - Business Consultant at Hitachi
- Chris Bailey - Micro-Enterprise Developer
- Mitch Daugherty - Cofounder and Director of Built Oregon
- Amber Moore - Founder of Moore Communications
- Scott Owen - Innovation Marketing Manager of Bolt Threads
- Dana Plautz - Entrepreneur, co-President MrsP.com
- Mark Reed - Owner of MJP Management
- Matt Rhoades - Master/Professor Strategic Design and Innovation program DeTao School of Design
- Enrique Sánchez-Rivera - CEO of Augmented Island Studios
- Tawny Schlieski – President of Oregon Story Board, Founder of Shovels and Whiskey
Roaming Mentors
- Renee Allums - Founder & CEO of CultureTize
- David Harris - Executive at Harris Oil, banking and insurance
- Marcus Harvey - Founder of Portland Gear
- Amanda Hill Retired CMO/CCO (CMCO) of Harrods
- Brent Hutchings - CEO of North River Boats
- Shashi Jain - Innovation Manager at Intel
- Michelle Janke - Partner at Coraggio Group
- Hongda Jiang - M&A Finance Integration Lead - Intel Capital
- Bob Julier Retired Director of Business Research, The Dow Chemical Company
- Emma Mcilroy - CEO of Wildfang
- Ben McKinley Founder/CEO Cascade Web Development
- Skip Newberry - President and CEO of Technology Association of Oregon
- Kate Rood - Organizational Development and Culture Director of Beneficial State Foundation
- Eric Schindler Product Director, Global Apparel for Nike Running
- Jamie Schmidt - Founder of Schmidt’s Naturals and Supermaker, co-founder of Color
- Cara Snow - Chief Community Engagement Officer Technology Association of Oregon
- Steve Strauss - Senior USA TODAY columnist
- Serilda Summers-McGee Founder/Principal of Workplace Change, LLC
- Rick Turoczy - Founder - Silicon Florist, PIE, TechFest NW, Oregon Story Board
- Paul Vogel - Managing Director of Teneo
- Nicole Vollebregt - Adidas’ SVP of Global Purpose