Web Summit Vancouver

About Event

At Web Summit, Ideon Technologies CEO and Co-Founder Gary Agnew and Playground Global General Partner Bruce Leak recently took to the stage.

They tackled the hard truths of industrial transformation, how deep-tech startups can scale in established industries, what it takes to fund them, and how customers are turning breakthrough tech into real business impact.

Watch the full replay of Gary and Bruce's fireside chat to learn more about how Ideon is working with the mining industry by combining quantum sensing, AI, and muon tomography to reveal critical minerals beneath the Earth's surface: https://lnkd.in/g_ufHvRb

Check out this exclusive interview with the two featured speakers as they stepped off the hashtag#WebSummit stage, to hear about the kind of companies and founders Playground invests in and why Ideon stood out: https://lnkd.in/gxXnmKUJ

Read the highlights to find out which reality TV show was Ideon's first customer, and what "that's fantastic" means to the team: https://lnkd.in/gm77AQGg

Speakers

Marissa Chanlatte de Ramirez

Investor, Playground

Benjamin Kim

Partner, Playground

Rahul Meka

Investor, Playground

Yuan Yu

Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure

Sree Ganesan

VP Product, d-Matrix

Mike Lafferty

CEO, Snowcap Compute

Chris Anderson

VP, xLight

Chris Eiben

CEO & Co-Founder, GigaCrop

Sella Brosh

CEO, NVision

Prof. Terry Rudolph

Chief Architect and Co-Founder, PsiQuantum

Sasha Ostojic

Venture Partner, Playground

Mark Wade

CEO and Founder, Ayar Labs

Anna Herr

Chief Science Officer and Co-Founder, Snowcap

Raphael Townshend

CEO and Founder, Atomic AI

Ahmed Zaeem

Chief of Staff, Atomic AI

Gary Agnew

CEO, Ideon Technologies

Nicholas Kelez

CEO and CTO, xLight

Dr. Laura Taylor-Kale, PhD

Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy, U.S. Department of Defense

Matthew Goldman

Partner, J2 Ventures

Jacqueline Tame

Operating Partner, Playground Global

Matthew MacGregor

Head of Strategic Growth at Anduril, Former F-35 Deputy PM

Ben Kim

Partner, Playground Global

Jory Bell

General Partner, Playground Global

Pat Gelsinger

General Partner, Playground Global

Rene Haas

CEO of ARM

Young Sohn

Founding Managing Partner at Walden Catalyst

Professor Jennifer Dionne

CZI Biohub, Investigator Deputy Director of Q-NEXT, and Co-Founder of Pumpkinseed

Michael Robinson

CTO, Quantum Leap Technologies

Mark Johnson

Founder & CEO, TechNext Solutions

Ashley Montanaro

CEO and Co-Founder, Phasecraft

Pete Shadbolt

Chief Scientific Officer and Co-Founder, PsiQuantum

Peter Barrett

General Partner, Playground Global

Bruce Leak

General Manager, Playground

Mark Johnson

Founder & CEO, TechNext Solutions

Michael Robinson

CTO, Quantum Leap Technologies

Bruce Leak

General Manager, Playground

Web Summit Vancouver

May
29
Tuesday, July 1
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