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Are you looking to enhance collaboration with VC or PE investors?

Following a successful event earlier this year, we are once again partnering with Zanda to bring you the opportunity to engage with PE and VC investors and discuss how to nurture collaborative innovation.

Our expert panel has been confirmed and we are excited to announce we will be joined by Sumeet Shah, Caitlin Herling and Ashley Vukovits, who all have a wealth of varied experience in investing in the finance, technology and start-up space. There will also be a Q&A session where you can engage with our esteemed panel.

The panel will be exploring:

  • The value that VC and PE firms and CFOs can bring when working in a successful partnership
  • The importance of positioning your finance function as a key priority in this collaboration
  • Overcoming challenges surrounding innovation and growth in tech
  • Building a successful business model to ensure a solid upward growth trajectory

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Tuesday
October 10, 2023
6:00 pm

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Betaworks • 29 Little West 12th Street New York, NY 10014

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Are you looking to enhance collaboration with VC or PE investors?

Following a successful event earlier this year, we are once again partnering with Zanda to bring you the opportunity to engage with PE and VC investors and discuss how to nurture collaborative innovation.

Our expert panel has been confirmed and we are excited to announce we will be joined by Sumeet Shah, Caitlin Herling and Ashley Vukovits, who all have a wealth of varied experience in investing in the finance, technology and start-up space. There will also be a Q&A session where you can engage with our esteemed panel.

The panel will be exploring:

  • The value that VC and PE firms and CFOs can bring when working in a successful partnership
  • The importance of positioning your finance function as a key priority in this collaboration
  • Overcoming challenges surrounding innovation and growth in tech
  • Building a successful business model to ensure a solid upward growth trajectory

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October 10, 2023
6:00 pm

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Betaworks • 29 Little West 12th Street New York, NY 10014
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Betaworks requires all visitors to show proof of full vaccination to enter. No exceptions. Two ways that you can show proof:
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Oct

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Investors and CFOs: Partnering for Growth Through Uncertainty with Vantage Point and Zanda

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Are you looking to enhance collaboration with VC or PE investors?

Following a successful event earlier this year, we are once again partnering with Zanda to bring you the opportunity to engage with PE and VC investors and discuss how to nurture collaborative innovation.

Our expert panel has been confirmed and we are excited to announce we will be joined by Sumeet Shah, Caitlin Herling and Ashley Vukovits, who all have a wealth of varied experience in investing in the finance, technology and start-up space. There will also be a Q&A session where you can engage with our esteemed panel.

The panel will be exploring:

  • The value that VC and PE firms and CFOs can bring when working in a successful partnership
  • The importance of positioning your finance function as a key priority in this collaboration
  • Overcoming challenges surrounding innovation and growth in tech
  • Building a successful business model to ensure a solid upward growth trajectory

when

Tuesday
October 10, 2023
6:00 pm

LoCATION

Betaworks • 29 Little West 12th Street New York, NY 10014

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Investors and CFOs: Partnering for Growth Through Uncertainty with Vantage Point and Zanda

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Are you looking to enhance collaboration with VC or PE investors?

Following a successful event earlier this year, we are once again partnering with Zanda to bring you the opportunity to engage with PE and VC investors and discuss how to nurture collaborative innovation.

Our expert panel has been confirmed and we are excited to announce we will be joined by Sumeet Shah, Caitlin Herling and Ashley Vukovits, who all have a wealth of varied experience in investing in the finance, technology and start-up space. There will also be a Q&A session where you can engage with our esteemed panel.

The panel will be exploring:

  • The value that VC and PE firms and CFOs can bring when working in a successful partnership
  • The importance of positioning your finance function as a key priority in this collaboration
  • Overcoming challenges surrounding innovation and growth in tech
  • Building a successful business model to ensure a solid upward growth trajectory

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WHEN

Tuesday, October 10, 2023
6:00 pm

WHERE

Betaworks
29 Little West 12th Street
New York, NY 10014

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Tools
For
Thinking

How New Technologies are Changing How We Create, Share, and Build Knowledge

When

October 10, 2023
6:00 pm

Where

Betaworks • 29 Little West 12th Street New York, NY 10014
or livestream
Proof of Full Vaccination Required

RENDER is Over, but Camp is just beginning

We had some great speakers and participants turn out for Render, and we all got to participate in very interesting conversations. You can find recordings of all of our sessions below. If you're working on a Tool for Thinking and want to participate in our upcoming accelerator program, you can learn more here.

Building Bicycles for the Mind

Are you looking to enhance collaboration with VC or PE investors?

Following a successful event earlier this year, we are once again partnering with Zanda to bring you the opportunity to engage with PE and VC investors and discuss how to nurture collaborative innovation.

Our expert panel has been confirmed and we are excited to announce we will be joined by Sumeet Shah, Caitlin Herling and Ashley Vukovits, who all have a wealth of varied experience in investing in the finance, technology and start-up space. There will also be a Q&A session where you can engage with our esteemed panel.

The panel will be exploring:

  • The value that VC and PE firms and CFOs can bring when working in a successful partnership
  • The importance of positioning your finance function as a key priority in this collaboration
  • Overcoming challenges surrounding innovation and growth in tech
  • Building a successful business model to ensure a solid upward growth trajectory

Speakers

Howard

Rheingold

Author
Tools for Thought
@hrheingold
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Schedule

11:30 AM
Doors Open
12:00 PM
Welcome
with MC
12:10 PM – 12:20 PM
How Do We Define Tools for Thinking and Why Do They Matter?
Join Jerry Michalski and John Borthwick as they talk about their interest in tools for thinking, and what excites them the most about the future of the category.
12:20 PM – 12:50 PM
Inflection Points for Tools for Thinking
What are the key inflection points that will supercharge Tools for Thinking in the near future? How will new technologies, user metaphors, and funding models change how people build these tools? John Borthwick will be discussing how the landscape is changing with the co-founders of Readwise, Daniel Doyon & Tristan Homsi.
12:50 PM – 1:00 PM
Q+A
1:00 PM – 1:15 PM
Demo: Protocol Design for Tools for Thinking
Gordon Brander will be presenting a brief demo on Subconscious and the Noosphere, products he and his team are working on to allow Tools for Thinking to become interoperable and better connected.
1:15 PM – 2:00 PM
Lunch and Networking
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
The History and Future of Software as Tools for Thinking
Some of the earliest examples of software explored by pioneers like Doug Engelbart, JCR Licklider, Alan Turing, and others were at their core technologies that help magnify, inspect, and spread our ideas. Jerry Michalski will be sitting down (virtually) with Howard Rheingold, author of Tools for Thought, to explore the history and future of "mind-amplifying technology".
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM
Q+A
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Tools for Thinking Product Demos
We’ll hear from builders and thinkers deep in the space and get to take a look at what they’re working on. We’ll be checking out Plexus, Re:Collect, Jerry’s Brain, Subconscious and more. 
4:15 PM – 4:45 PM
Leveraging AI and ML in Building New Tools for Thinking
Alice Albrecht and Linus Lee will be sitting down with Chris Pedregal to discuss their work in leveraging AI and Machine Learning for creating new kinds of tools for thinking.
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM
Q+A
5:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Idea Dimensionality and Representing Semantic Meaning
How do ideas - and the human brains that make and hold them - interact?  Get prepared for meta! Esther Dyson and Jerry Michalski, will discuss the idea of how people work together to shape, compare, intertwine and ultimately produce multi-faceted ideas and multi-dimensional idea spaces.  As David Waltz (Thinking Machines) once said, “Words are not in themselves carriers of meaning, but merely pointers to shared understanding.” Watch and lob questions as the two of them try to build and share the idea of how better ideas can be developed through collaboration.
5:30 PM – 5:45 PM
Q+A
5:45 PM – 7:00 PM
Closing and Happy Hour

Proof of Full Vaccination Required

Betaworks requires all visitors to show proof of full vaccination to enter. No exceptions. Two ways that you can show proof:
  • Official vaccine card with at least 2 weeks having passed since the date of the last required dose (1 dose for J&J/AstraZeneca, 2 for Pfizer/Moderna)
  • An active digital pass such as the NY State Excelsior Pass or the CLEAR app
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