Our second invite-only conference of founders, entrepreneurs, investors, academics, and business leaders will explore the challenges of bringing Tough Tech to market, and how the Tough Tech ecosystem can work together to accelerate commercial success of world-changing technologies.
Tough Tech Summit 2019 is a two-day event at Hotel Commonwealth in Boston. Day one, Build, will feature keynotes, networking time, interactive panels, and case study workshops. We’ll work together to help solve some of the core challenges faced by Tough Tech companies.
During day two, Invest, founders will showcase their company stories. It will be a day to connect and build relationships with other Tough Tech founders and investment professionals. The day will also feature case study workshops and open networking time.
What is Tough Tech?
Tough Tech is transformative technology that takes the long view, solving the world’s important challenges through the convergence of breakthrough science, engineering, and leadership.
The Tough Tech Summit is by invitation only.
Registration closes October 11, 2019.
9:00am – 10:15am
CEO & Managing Partner, The Engine
Founder & Partner, Khosla Ventures
10:30am – 12:00pm
General Partner, The Engine
Senior Lecturer in Business Administration, Harvard Business School
CTO, Solidia Technologies
Partner, Ajax Strategies
Co-Founder & CEO, Formlabs
Chief Product Officer, Formlabs
General Partner, The Engine
CEO, D-Wave
Chief Scientist, Lockheed Martin
1:00pm – 2:30pm
CEO & Managing Partner, The Engine
General Partner, GV
Chairman, Orchard Therapeutics
President & CEO, Vergent Bioscience
Experienced Global Tech CEO, Non Executive Director & Chair
Vice President of Venture Investments, Leaps by Bayer
CEO, Activate
Founder & Principal, Black Hills Partners
CEO & Founder, EtaGen
Former VP of Engineering, Desktop Metal
CTO & Co-Founder, Form Energy
Design Partner, New Enterprise Associates
Chief People Officer, HubSpot
Co-founder & CEO, Veo Robotics
President & CEO, Cedilla Therapeutics
President & CEO, BlueNalu
CEO, Malta
3:00pm – 4:30pm
Founder & CTO, Robust.AI
Founder, Head of Product & Engineering, Zipline
Commonwealth Fusion Systems & SpaceX
Co-Founder & Chief Innovation Officer, Indigo Ag
Managing Director, Lapidx Research
9:00am – 10:00am
CEO & Managing Partner, The Engine
COO, Auris Health
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Lux Capital
Managing Director, NaviMed Capital
10:30am – 12:00pm
Partner, Gunderson Dettmer
Partner, MRL Ventures
President & CEO, Entrada Therapeutics
CEO & Co-Founder, Form Energy
Clean-Tech Director, Eni Next
Head of Global Equity Capital Markets, Fidelity Investments
Founding Managing Director, Cross Creek
Managing Director and Head of Global Strategic Relationships, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
Managing Director, Solebury Trout
Managing Partner, Advent International Corporation
Investor, Breakthrough Energy Ventures
Venture Partner, The Engine
President & CEO, Massachusetts Life Sciences Center
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Policy, US Department of Defense
Associate Director for Technology-to-Market, ARPA-E
Director, National Security Innovation Capital DIU
Executive Managing Director and Science Lead, Breakthrough Energy Ventures
Office Director of the Biological Technologies Office, DARPA
1:00pm – 3:00pm
CEO & Co-Founder, Cambridge Crops
CEO & Co-Founder, Syzygy Plasmonics
CEO & Chairman, Boston Metal
CEO & Co-Founder, Via Separations
CEO & Co-Founder, Kytopen
CEO & Co-Founder, Form Energy
CEO & Co-Founder, Cambridge Electronics
CEO & Co-Founder, Commonwealth Fusion Systems
CEO & Co-Founder, Analytical Space
Co-Founder, Accion Systems
CEO & Co-Founder, Cellino
CEO & Co-Founder, Zapata Computing
CEO & Co-Founder, Vaxess Technologies
CEO, E25Bio
CEO & Co-Founder, HyperLight
CEO & Co-Founder, ISEE
3:30pm – 4:45pm
The Tough Tech Summit is by invitation only.
If you’re interested in attending, send us a note and we’ll get back to you.
Registration closes October 11, 2019.
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