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September 22-23, 2021
EEST 1pm-11pm | CEST 12pm-10pm | EDT 6am-4pm
Virtual | World Wide
2021 in Numbers
Unique Participants
Speakers
Countries
Satellite events
rating by the former Techsylvania attendees
Startups for Startup Avalanche
Our first 2021 speakers

Jon Oringer
USA
Founder and Executive Chairman

Started one of NY’s first tech unicorns & now leading top pre-seed fund in Miami, Pareto Holdings.

Luciana Lixandru
UK
Partner

Runs European investments at one of the premier VC funds in the world.

Sacha Dragic
Romania
Founder and Executive Chairman

Started Romania’s newest unicorn with funding from the biggest private equity fund in the world, Blackstone.

Stephen Wolfram
USA
Founder & CEO

Pioneer in the development and application of computational thinking

Alina Vandenberghe
USA
Co-Founder and CXO

Started SaaS scheduling platform on the way to unicorn status.

Prashanth Chandrasekar
USA
CEO

Leading the world’s largest platform for developers to share knowledge and solve coding challenges.

Kathryn Lueders
USA
Space Operations Mission Directorate

Leading NASA’s human spaceflight program

Sumbry
USA
Director of Engineering

Leading reliability engineering efforts at community marketplace for travel with a market cap of $100B.

Wayne Ting
USA
CEO

Leading one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies in 2021.

Cristina Scheau
USA
Director of Engineering

Leading engineering efforts to build the world’s most advanced self-driving vehicles.

Saul Klein
UK
Co-Founder

One of Skype’s original executives, co-founder of Seedcamp & investor in Europe’s biggest technology startups.

Randy Shoup
USA
VP Engineering and Chief Architect

Leading engineering at the best-known site for consumer-to-consumer sales in the world.

Ryan Donovan
Canada
CTO

Leading engineering at the platform for managing social media with more than 15 million users.

Aleksandra Babic
Croatia
Vice President B2B & Product Marketing, Europe

Leads regional B2B events, issuer, merchant, and partner marketing, as well as product marketing.

Job van der Voort
Netherlands
CEO and Co-Founder

Started $1 billion HR tech unicorn to offers international payroll, benefits services.

Christian von Hardenberg
Germany
CTO

Leading engineering at Europe’s top food-delivery company with a market cap of $39B.

Trang Nguyen
USA
Co-Founder

Started fund with $1B in AUM to invest in emerging venture funds and startup studios

Loic Houssier
USA
Vice President of Engineering

Leading the engineering team at the pioneers of e-signature technology with a market cap of $60B.

Matt Hamilton
UK
Director of Developer Relations

Leading developer efforts at cryptocurrency and digital payment networks for financial transactions.

Daniel Gross
USA
Founder

Started search engine for the millions of “Lost Einstein’s”.

QuHarrison Terry
USA
Growth Marketing

Author of The NFT Handbook.

Jevgeni Kabanov
Estonia
CPO & Head of New Verticals

Leading product to create Europe’s super app.

Dexter Ligot-Gordon
Philippines
CEO and Co-founder

Started the first company in the Philippines to go through Y Combinator.

Emi Gal
USA
CEO and Co-Founder

Disrupting the cancer screening industry using AI technology.
Our best speakers through time
Code

Mark Shuttleworth
Founder


Mark Porter
CTO


Paul Cutter
CIO


Andreas Ehn
First Employee & CTO


Koen Köppen
CTO


Harsh Sinha
CTO


Peter Halacsy
CTO & Co-Founder


Ajey Gore
Operating Partner Technology

Product

Tony Fadell
Founder of Nest
iPod inventor & iPhone co-inventor


Scott Belsky
CPO at Adobe & Founder


Sam Lessin
Co-Founder of Fin & Slow Ventures
Former VP of Product at Facebook


Di-Ann Eisnor
Director of Growth


Peter Vesterbacka
Co-Founder
Former Mighty Eagle at Angry Birds


Christopher Leacock aka Jillionaire
DJ and Music Producer


Ioana Cozmuta
Industry Innovation & Microgravity
Lead


Martin Wezowski
Chief Designer

F(o)unding

Mark Cuban
Shark Tank Host
Owner


Tom Mueller
Co-Founder & Former CTO
SpaceX

Daniel Dines
Co-Founder & CEO


Reshma Sohoni
Co-Founder & Managing Partner


Yossi Vardi
Angel Investor


Tim Draper
Founder


Ion Stoica
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman


Sonny Vu
Founder

The tech movement is going virtual
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Conference
September 22-23
Hand-picked. World-renowned. Leaders. Each year, we welcome some of the most prominent voices in the tech scene to share with us their insights they have gained through years of experience, through success and failure, on international markets or with disruptive technologies.
Technical Workshops
September 22-23
Real life use cases, hands-on experiments, demos and practical exercises—we bring you interactive workshops hosted by experts from leading companies. You’ll have the opportunity to learn from some of the brightest minds in the industry, choosing from cutting-edge topics of technology.
Satellite events
September 20-25
Techsylvania is not just an event; it’s a celebration in the name of innovation. We are expanding the perspectives of the event with adjacent events organized by our partners online.
Discover the Satellites.
Startup Alley
September 22-23
If you’re one of the bold startup founders who speak business, this one might be for you. This is an application-based program that aims at propelling early stage startups to present their products to potential business partners, talent and the media. Showcase your startup online, for thousands of #techsylvanians.





