{"id":268066,"date":"2024-04-16T23:17:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T06:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/?p=268066"},"modified":"2024-04-19T18:46:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T01:46:53","slug":"insightful-dialogue-with-bay-areas-most-influential-zero-to-ek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/insightful-dialogue-with-bay-areas-most-influential-zero-to-ek\/","title":{"rendered":"PAST EVENT: Insightful Dialogue With Bay Area&#8217;s Most Influential &#8211; Zero To Ek"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<div><strong>This upcoming Thursday, April 18th<\/strong>, the American India Foundation Bay Area Young Professionals chapter (AIFBAYP) will be hosting Zero to Ek: Builders &amp; Investors &#8211; an exciting night of dialogue and networking with some of the Bay Area\u2019s most influential founders, investors, and leaders in tech.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<div>Whether you&#8217;re an aspiring entrepreneur seeking funding, a growth-oriented builder, or a young professional looking to expand your network, you don&#8217;t want to miss the largest South Asian Tech Conference in San Francisco!<\/div>\n<h3><strong>Meet the Panelists:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>KJ Dhaliwal<\/strong>, founder of Dil Mil, the preeminent South Asian dating app, and Lotus Health AI.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Rohan Shah<\/strong>, a Forbes 30 under 30 Founder &amp; investor in brands like TopGolf and BabyList.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Indrajit Khare<\/strong>, Head of Engineering at a fast-growth startup who scaled Google Photos from 0 to over a billion users.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Sudhir Tonse<\/strong>, an engineering leader at Doordash who was instrumental in Netflix&#8217;s transition from DVD rentals to streaming.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Niti Bhashambu<\/strong>, the Global Head of Product\/Growth for Uber, brings her expertise in driving innovation and expansion.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Sruthi Ramaswami,<\/strong>\u00a0a VC and early investor in Gitlab and Miro, who co-founded Neythri to empower South Asian women.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Jayni Shah,<\/strong> an angel investor, who was an early fintech leader at Venmo and PayPal.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Murali Joshi<\/strong>, a Partner at ICONIQ Capital, has invested in companies like DataDog, 1Password, and BlackLine, and previously co-founded Khan Academy.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Gautam Krishnamurthi<\/strong>, a VC at GreatPoint Ventures, specializes in enterprise software, fintech, and commerce infrastructure.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The conference will center around growing as a South Asian leader. It will consist of two parts: a panel discussion and networking. The panel discussion will center around three main themes:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>About You:<\/strong> Your story and personal experiences (biggest successes\/failures)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Advice:<\/strong> Professional and personal advice<\/li>\n<li><strong>Community:<\/strong> Being South Asian in business<\/li>\n<li><strong>Giving back:<\/strong> Causes that you care deeply about giving back to<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Prepare to be inspired by their insights, experiences, and vision for the future. This year, AIFBAYP is planning to use 100% of profits to reduce childhood &amp; maternal deaths through Project MANSI, which has already improved 792K lives.<\/div>\n<h3><strong>Here are some additional reasons to consider participating:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Inspire 200+ Young Professionals:<\/strong> Converse and give advice to some of the most talented young professionals in tech.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Give Back to India:<\/strong> Today, nearly 1 in every 5-child deaths and nearly a quarter of all maternal deaths worldwide occur in India. This year, we are planning to use event profits to reduce childhood and maternal deaths through Project MANSI, which has already improved 792K lives.<\/li>\n<li><strong> Grow Your Network:<\/strong> Network and meet other accomplished South Asian speakers across Tech. We will also have highly accomplished attendees working in a variety of roles &#8211; VCs, founders, Big Tech, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/zero-to-ek-builders-investors-tickets-864074870197?aff=LT\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get Your Tickets Now!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This upcoming Thursday, April 18th, the American India Foundation Bay Area Young Professionals chapter (AIFBAYP) will be hosting Zero to Ek: Builders &amp; Investors &#8211; an exciting night of dialogue and networking with some of the Bay Area\u2019s most influential founders, investors, and leaders in tech. Whether you&#8217;re an aspiring entrepreneur seeking funding, a growth-oriented&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/insightful-dialogue-with-bay-areas-most-influential-zero-to-ek\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":268067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57978,9,275,45351,20],"tags":[750,63432,63422,596,63433,63431,63423,12665,8768,22463,45359,63427,63425,63434,63430,7528,47720,63436,63428,63439,17810,63426,22932,63435,63437,2563,2240,53,63438,63424,2924,63429,63421],"class_list":["post-268066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-buzz","category-business-and-tech","category-community","category-gen-z","category-youth","tag-netflix","tag-1password","tag-aifbayp","tag-bay-area","tag-blackline","tag-datadog","tag-dil-mil","tag-doordash","tag-events","tag-founders","tag-gen-z","tag-gitlab","tag-google-photos","tag-greatpoint-ventures","tag-iconiq-capital","tag-investors","tag-khan-academy","tag-kj-dhaliwal","tag-miro","tag-murali-joshi","tag-networking","tag-neythri","tag-paypal","tag-project-mansi","tag-rohan-shah","tag-san-francisco","tag-sf-bay-area","tag-south-asian","tag-sruthi-ramaswami","tag-topgolf","tag-uber","tag-venmo","tag-young-professionals"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268066","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}