Silicon Dragon CES 2024

6th Annual Event

Where VCs & Founders Meet at CES

Join Us in Las Vegas

featuring

Ask A VC

with

Nan Zhou, Director, Qualcomm Ventures

and

Jay Eum, Founding Managing Partner,

GFT Ventures (ex-Samsung Ventures)

Q&A Spotlight

Alvin Wang Graylin

Global VP, Corporate Development, HTC

Tech Pitches by Founders

Judges Feedback

Networking Reception

January 10, 5-7pm

CNBC series on Generative AI

by Special Contributor Rebecca A. Fannin

How A 75-year-old Indian-American tech entrepreneur is betting $1 billion of his own fortune on AI’s future

CNBC: December 8, 2023

From Microsoft to MIT MBA, the AI reeducation boot camp is coming for every worker and executive

CNBC: December 15, 2023

After closed door OpenAI drama, open source AI backed by Nvidia, Eric Schmidt, could emerge winner

CNBC: November 22, 2023

Featured Event Photos from Extra Busy Time

in San Francisco These Past Few Weeks

Photos:

* Asia Society After APEC program in San Francisco featured videos of speakers during the epic event (with VC Faruq Ahmad). Next Asia Society SF event January 18 on US-China relations.

* DCM Holiday Party (with VC David Chao)

* Japan-based medtech pioneer Allis won the Startup World Cup 2023 with a $1M investment grand prize. Entrepreneurs worldwide competed in the event held by Pegasus Tech Ventures (with VC orchestrator Anis Uzzaman)

Featured Video

As President Biden was meeting Chinese President Xi in Woodside during APEC 2023, I was nearby and among those interviewed about the future of US-China relations.

TV Clip of Interview during APEC 2023 About US-China Tech Tensions

Spotlighting One Among The Worthy 100

Congratulations to Chris Jacobs for making Worth Magazine's list of

top 100 changemakers in 2023.

Glad to shine a light on this former US congressman and his latest achievements in making Buffalo a better place for innovative startups.

Silicon Heartland made a book tour stop in Buffalo this past summer, and with Jacobs, led a program of regional startups and investors.

Join Us for Our Next

Ask A VC Shows

Online, coming January 17 and 25

On our Ask A VC show December 13, VC tech investor

Teddy Himler told how his firm Antler has invested in 1,000+ tech companies since 2018 across 30 cities globally. He joined Antler recently from SoftBank to run its new $285 million global growth fund.

Ask A VC Show

Features

Alireza Masrour of

Plug and Play Ventures

Join Us

January 17

From Plug and Play in Silicon Valley, this VC is known for his ability to hyperscale startups across AI, web3, fintech and other disruptive fields. Since 2008, Alireza has led more than 200 venture investments at PNP.

Ask A VC Show Features

Eddy Chan

of Intudo Ventures in Silicon Valley and

Jakarta

Join us!

January 25

Eddy is a founding partner of Indonesia's VC firm Intudo Ventures, which manages $300 million in capital. The firm invests in Indonesian homegrown companies led by returnee and local entrepreneurs. Its best-known deal is payments unicorn Xendit, the "Stripe of Southeast Asia."

See Who's Been on Our VC Show!

60+ VCs Globally

Tim Draper

Steve Case

Gary Rieschel

Finian Tan

John Chambers

Eric Feng

Bill Tai

and many more!

See video with VC Helen Wong in China and Southeast Asia