Thursday December 3, 2020

9:00 - 9:05 AM

9:05 - 9:40 AM

Activating Innovation: How a Silicon Forest Original is Building a Culture of Futurists

How does a company that literally enabled the U.S. moon shot enable innovation today? How does a 75-year-start-up still foster customer-centric creative solutions to build the future of wireless, loT and smart cities? Tektronix President Tami Newcombe discusses how she and her 4,000 employees are imagining a new connected future that goes beyond autonomous vehicles and 5G to the yet-to-be-imagined technologies their customers will create.

9:40 - 9:45 AM

9:45 - 10:50 AM

PitchfestNW Day 2: Hear Launch/Seed/Growth Stage companies from around the world pitch to a curated panel of investors.

Presented by Oregon Venture Fund

10:50 - 10:55 AM

Sanjiv Khurana, General Manager of Connectivity Services Group Daimler Trucks and Buses Explores Transportation: A digital revolution

From telephone orders and paper tracking, to machine learning and predictive technology. Sanjiv Khurana, General Manager, Connectivity Services Group, Daimler Trucks & Buses shares with us how his team is shaping the future of transportation, with an accelerated focus on team, talent and diversity.

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Stephanie Lampkin,Founder and CEO of Blendoor and Nitin Rai, the founder and managing director of Elevate Capital talk about The $4 Trillion Gap and Expanding Opportunities for Black and Brown Entrepreneurs

12:00 - 12:05 PM

PitchfestNW Day 2: Hear Launch/Seed/Growth Stage companies from around the world pitch to a curated panel of investors.

Presented by Oregon Venture Fund