Featured Speakers

Five stages with inspirational speakers, leaders of the industries, and top success stories from the South

Renaud Visage

Eventbrite

Renaud Visage is the Co-founder and CTO of leading self-service ticketing platform for events around the world Eventbrite. Eventbrite enables people all over the world to plan, promote, and sell out any live experience. Launched in 2006 and based in San Francisco, Eventbrite has raised $200M in venture capital. It employs more than 400 people on four continents, and is available in 14 countries and 7 languages. When Renaud is not writing code, he’s probably taking pictures somewhere around the world.

https://twitter.com/renaudvisage

https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaudvisage

Phil Wickham

Kauffman Fellows

Phil is President and CEO of Kauffman Fellows. The mission of the organization is to develop the next generation of leaders in venture capital. Overseeing all aspects of Kauffman Fellows, Phil continues to push the program’s international expansion. He also has a special passion for venture capital’s opportunities globally in helping to meet societal needs. Phil also serves as the Managing Director of Sozo Ventures, which is a $140m cross-border venture fund that brings cutting edge technologies from Silicon Valley to Asia, backed by some of the region’s largest corporate groups.

https://twitter.com/philwickham2

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/phil-wickham/4/9b0/550

Melih Ödemiş

Yemeksepeti

Melih is one of the pioneer internet entrepreneurs in Turkey. Founder of Yemeksepeti.com; online food delivery servicing 50k orders per day. Yemeksepeti sold to Delivery Hero in March 2015 for $600m producing Turkey’s largest internet exit to date. Melih has been selected as an Endeavor Entrepreneur in 2007. He also is an active angel investor in internet and technology companies. He is one of the co-founders of Galata Business Angels, which is one of the first business angel networks in Turkey.

https://twitter.com/melihodemis

https://www.linkedin.com/in/melihodemis

Yanki Margalit

Aladdin Knowledge Systems

Yanki Margalit is an Israeli entrepreneur, Founder of Aladdin Knowledge Systems, a digital rights management and Internet security company which was acquired by Safenet in 2009. He is currently Chairman of SpaceIL, a non-profit space technology organization competing for the Google Lunar X Prize. He is also a partner in Innodo, a seed investment fund.

https://twitter.com/yankimargalit

https://il.linkedin.com/pub/yanki-margalit/61/642/63a

Renaud Visage

Eventbrite

Renaud Visage is the Co-founder and CTO of leading self-service ticketing platform for events around the world Eventbrite. Eventbrite enables people all over the world to plan, promote, and sell out any live experience. Launched in 2006 and based in San Francisco, Eventbrite has raised $200M in venture capital. It employs more than 400 people on four continents, and is available in 14 countries and 7 languages. When Renaud is not writing code, he’s probably taking pictures somewhere around the world.

https://twitter.com/renaudvisage

https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaudvisage

Phil Wickham

Kauffman Fellows

Phil is President and CEO of Kauffman Fellows. The mission of the organization is to develop the next generation of leaders in venture capital. Overseeing all aspects of Kauffman Fellows, Phil continues to push the program’s international expansion. He also has a special passion for venture capital’s opportunities globally in helping to meet societal needs. Phil also serves as the Managing Director of Sozo Ventures, which is a $140m cross-border venture fund that brings cutting edge technologies from Silicon Valley to Asia, backed by some of the region’s largest corporate groups.

https://twitter.com/philwickham2

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/phil-wickham/4/9b0/550

Melih Ödemiş

Yemeksepeti

Melih is one of the pioneer internet entrepreneurs in Turkey. Founder of Yemeksepeti.com; online food delivery servicing 50k orders per day. Yemeksepeti sold to Delivery Hero in March 2015 for $600m producing Turkey’s largest internet exit to date. Melih has been selected as an Endeavor Entrepreneur in 2007. He also is an active angel investor in internet and technology companies. He is one of the co-founders of Galata Business Angels, which is one of the first business angel networks in Turkey.

https://twitter.com/melihodemis

https://www.linkedin.com/in/melihodemis

Yanki Margalit

Aladdin Knowledge Systems

Yanki Margalit is an Israeli entrepreneur, Founder of Aladdin Knowledge Systems, a digital rights management and Internet security company which was acquired by Safenet in 2009. He is currently Chairman of SpaceIL, a non-profit space technology organization competing for the Google Lunar X Prize. He is also a partner in Innodo, a seed investment fund.

https://twitter.com/yankimargalit

https://il.linkedin.com/pub/yanki-margalit/61/642/63a