A Virtual Summit for Startup Founders and VCs
Wednesday | March 3, 2021 9:00am - 10:30am PT
Magnetic IoT will be an engaging and live virtual summit with Cisco executives, Cisco Investments, startup founders and VCs sharing their unique insights about market trends and advice for scaling companies in the IoT market.
Christiaan Kuun, Relationship Manager, Enterprise Networking and Cloud, Cisco Investments & Corporate Development
Cisco leaders Vikas Butaney and Amit Chaturvedy discuss Cisco IoT BU’s digital transformation portfolio for industrial markets, emerging market themes that Vikas is excited about, and how his team partners with and enables the IoT innovation ecosystem. We will also open this up to discuss Cisco's IoT investment, M&A, and partnership strategy.
Vikas Butaney, VP and General Manager, IoT Business Group, Cisco
Amit Chaturvedy, Head of Enterprise Networking and Cloud, Cisco Investments & Corporate Development
Cisco leaders Chris Stori and Amit Chaturvedy discuss Cisco Meraki’s cloud-driven solutions for digital workplace, remote work and security & analytics. We will also open this up to discuss Cisco Meraki’s investment, M&A, and partnership strategy.
The best and brightest minds in the IoT industry with a proven track-record will share their advice and actionable strategies for succeeding as a founder and taking your startup to the next level. This panel includes live Q&A.
Head of Enterprise Networking and Cloud, Cisco Investments & Corporate Development
Amit Chaturvedy joined Cisco Investments in 2014 and leads the global investment practice for Enterprise Networking and Cloud. Prior to Cisco, Amit was at Summit Partners where he sourced and led investments in communications technology, financial services and consumer sectors in US, Europe and India. Previously, he was at Cummins Inc. where he designed software for diesel engines and led customer liaison activities for Daimler Chrysler Corporation. Amit also worked in the investment banking group at Citigroup, NY.
Co-founder and Managing Partner, McRock Capital
Vice President and General Manager, IoT Business Group, Cisco
Vikas partners closely with leading customers and integrators as they transform from product to digital business leveraging IoT technologies. Vikas has global responsibility for Product Strategy and roadmap for Cisco's IoT portfolio including Edge Compute with Kinetic, Control Center (an IoT Connection Management Platform), Industrial IoT Networking and Security. Vikas manages a global team of Product Managers, Technical Marketing and Business Development who have enabled 50,000 successful customer deployments.
General Partner, Bolt
After co-founding his first venture-backed company out of MIT at age 23, Axel has gone on to invest in more than 100 companies and serve on more than 35 public and private boards. As a Partner at Atlas Venture for 19 years, Axel helped raise and invest $2.7B across seven funds. Axel co-founded Bolt in 2012 and led investments across three funds. Axel holds Master's degrees from Technical University Berlin, INSEAD, and MIT.
CEO & Founder, Seeq
Steve Sliwa is the CEO and Co-Founder of Seeq, a software company with advanced analytics capabilities to the industrial process manufacturing sector. Prior to Seeq, he was CEO of Insitu, Inc. from 2002 through early 2011. During that time Insitu grew from 4 employees to 800+ employees and $450M in revenue. Prior to Insitu Sliwa had a varied career that included serving as research manager at NASA, founder of an educational software company, VP of Product Development for a public Silicon Valley engineering-software company, and President of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
CEO, Parsable
As CEO of Parsable, Lawrence drives the strategic vision and business direction of the company. A global citizen and cloud software veteran, Lawrence has led technology companies in over 10 countries in the last two decades, all focused on providing enterprise software solutions that drive transformational change for the world’s largest organizations.
“The last decade of IoT was just the first inning of connecting previously isolated assets and devices. Now is when the real game begins: extracting data, generating insights and automating OT processes. We are excited to partner with innovative companies to build the next generation of digital transformation solutions.”
Head of Enterprise Networking and Cloud, Cisco Investments & Corporate Development