{"id":16684,"date":"2017-05-20T13:20:48","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T20:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/?p=16684"},"modified":"2017-05-20T13:21:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T20:21:07","slug":"tiecon-2017-a-silver-jubilee-celebration-that-was-all-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/tiecon-2017-a-silver-jubilee-celebration-that-was-all-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"TiEcon 2017: A Silver Jubilee Celebration that was All Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>TiEcon 2017 Attendees trying out VR (All Photos: Vansh A. Gupta\/Siliconeer)<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>@Siliconeer #Siliconeer @TiESV #TiESV #TiEcon @TiEcon \u2013 Over 6,500 entrepreneurs and technology professionals recently gathered at the Santa Clara Convention Center, in the heart of Silicon Valley to attend TiEcon 2017, writes <b>Vasudha Badri-Paul.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The conference is orchestrated by The Indus Entrepreneurs, a non-profit in Silicon Valley, with chapters spanning the globe. TiEcon is the largest technology focused entrepreneur conference in the world and a dream come true for budding technology entrepreneurs and seasoned professionals, alike. Where else would you find 200 speakers, all under one roof, talking and networking about the latest mind-boggling technology?<\/p>\n<p>TiEcon 2017 consisted of 15 tracks, namely, IoT, Autonomous Vehicles, AR\/VR, Govtech, Machine Learning, Software Defined Infrastructure, Drones, Security, Martech, Gaming, Entrepreneurship, Digital Health, Fintech and Blockchain.<\/p>\n<p>Added into this intriguing mix, was a track on entrepreneurs, talking about their journey, a \u201cSocial Impact\u201d track focusing on entrepreneurship that serves the world, \u201cWords of Wisdom\u201d for budding entrepreneurs, a session to inspire and award \u201cYouth\u201d entrepreneurs, and a competition to win the coveted TiE 50 award.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16687\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16687\" style=\"width: 4496px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a data-size=\"4496x3000\" href=\"http:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TiE-03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16687\" src=\"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TiE-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4496\" height=\"3000\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TiE-03.jpg 4496w, https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TiE-03-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TiE-03-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TiE-03-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TiE-03-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TiE-03-558x372.jpg 558w, https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TiE-03-863x576.jpg 863w, https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TiE-03-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TiE-03-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TiE-03-560x374.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4496px) 100vw, 4496px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16687\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees at TiEcon 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The keynote sessions ran to packed halls with luminaries including: Tim Draper, Managing Director of Draper Fisher Juvertson, Ravi Mhatre, Light Speed Venture Partners, AppDynamics CEO Jyoti Bansal, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, Chairman and CEO, NantWorks, and many more. The event ran full-throttle with talks on innovation, futuristic trends, sage advice for budding entrepreneurs, and extensive networking opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Key takeaways this year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Insights into current mind-boggling technology trends<\/li>\n<li>Networking opportunities with technology entrepreneurs, industry veterans, old pals<\/li>\n<li>How to be create a business that is mindful of #SocialImpact<\/li>\n<li>Informative sessions for youth involvement in entrepreneurship<\/li>\n<li>Speakers delivering motivational and thoughtful quotes to guide entrepreneurs<\/li>\n<li>Speed in decision making comes from cognitive diversity &#8211; Sandy\u00a0 Carter, VP @AWS<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s not about B2B or B2C. It\u2019s about B2H (human) &#8211; Chandar Pattabhiram, CMO @Marketo<\/li>\n<li>You have to do all the right things, give yourself a chance, try more things &amp; you have a chance to get lucky &#8211; Vinod Khosla @KhoslaVentures<\/li>\n<li>Trust and believe in yourself. You will have failures-get back up! &#8211; Jyoti Bansal CEO @AppDynamics<\/li>\n<li>Social Impact needs to be built into the DNA of a company from the start- Sarah Gordon, co-founder @SquareOrganics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16686\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16686\" style=\"width: 4496px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a data-size=\"4496x3000\" href=\"http:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TiE-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16686\" src=\"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TiE-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4496\" height=\"3000\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TiE-02.jpg 4496w, https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TiE-02-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TiE-02-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TiE-02-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TiE-02-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TiE-02-558x372.jpg 558w, https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TiE-02-863x576.jpg 863w, https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TiE-02-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TiE-02-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/TiE-02-560x374.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4496px) 100vw, 4496px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-r): Former TiE President, Vish Mishra, and Current TiE President, Ram Reddy, presenting the TiE Lifetime Achievement Award to Vinod Khosla, Founder of Khosla Ventures<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The best takeaway was the sheer thrill of a 2-day extravagant technology festival, with a chance to learn, mingle, and celebrate. In short, #TiEcon 2017 was all about fueling entrepreneurs to go for the gold.<\/p>\n<p><i>Read more<\/i><b><i> <\/i><\/b><i>in<\/i><b><i> Siliconeer\u2019s <\/i><\/b><i>detailed report on TiEcon in the upcoming June print edition.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@Siliconeer #Siliconeer @TiESV #TiESV #TiEcon @TiEcon \u2013 Over 6,500 entrepreneurs and technology professionals recently gathered at the Santa Clara Convention Center, in the heart of Silicon Valley to attend TiEcon 2017, writes Vasudha Badri-Paul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":16685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[359,358,3275,3276,50,106,56,147,137],"class_list":["post-16684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-tech","tag-tiecon","tag-tiesv","tag-ai","tag-entrepreneur","tag-india","tag-indian-american","tag-silicon-valley","tag-siliconeer","tag-tech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}