Steel Weekend 2024 Festivities Sept. 21-22

Where: Site of the old

Bethlehem Steel plant in PA

(it's not just US Steel that

is in the news!)

Program features music, steelworker videos and photos, lectures, art exhibit, walking tour of steel stacks, steel-making demos, and an iron pour

PLUS

Silicon Heartland Talk From Rust to Tech

Sept. 22, 5-6:30pm at 

National Museum of Industrial History 

(Smithsonian Affiliate)

602 East Second Street

Led by journalist and author Rebecca A. Fannin

with local insights by Vice Provost  Lisa Getzler, Lehigh University Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Bruce Haines, managing partner, Historic Hotel Bethlehem

Video Q&A with Don Cunningham, CEO, Lehigh Valley Economic Development

Video Clip with Steel Stacks Tour Guide

Silicon Heartland books will be available for author signing

Editor's note: The city of Bethlehem is well-known for its Rust Belt roots, but that's the past. Come discover its just- announced UNESCO heritage sites, cool shops and restaurants, historic mansions and inns, and new entrepreneurship

Next Gen AI VCs

Andrea Wang, General Catalyst

Jenny Xiao, Leonis Capital

Lu Zhan, Fusion Fund

with Rebecca Fannin, Silicon Global

Tech Law Partner, Sasha Rao,

Nixon Peabody

San Francisco

October 30, 8-10am

Breakfast Reception & Panel

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Inspiring talk by a new generation of female VC leaders in the Bay Area doing AI deals that break through and disrupt stereotypes. Hear what's trending in VC AI!

NOTEWORTHY

Can China Tech Find a Home in Silicon Valley?

Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are setting up firms across the Pacific, only to find that any investment with Chinese ties is a hard sell.

Most of the Chinese VCs interviewed for the article were anonymous sources.

Read NYT article



For an in-depth look at how China tech progressed, read Tech Titans of China.