https://vlab.org/events/young-entrepr...

Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Stanford Faculty Club - Stanford University
439 Lagunita Drive, Stanford, CA 9430

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===Moderator:
Jeremiah Owyang, Industry Analyst and Founding Partner, Kaleido Insights - An acknowledged thought leader and widely read publisher, Jeremiah Owyang has appeared in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, and Fast Company. Through Catalyst Companies and Kaleido Insights, he also publishes numerous research reports, playbook, and frameworks to help businesses navigate change, improve customer experiences and identify trends before they happen.

===Panelists:
Andrew Scheuermann, CEO and Co-Founder, Arch Systems
Andrew is the CEO and Cofounder of Arch Systems, an impact-driven venture backed startup that retrofits legacy machines to empower Industry 4.0. Before Arch, he helped build StartX, one of the top startup accelerators in the world. Andrew was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2016 and holds a PhD in semiconductor electronics from Stanford.

Roxanne Guo, Co-Founder, Candle
Roxanne is a Canadian entrepreneur, a co-founder and CEO of Candle, a cancer treatment platform for community oncologists. Previous to startups, she worked as a program manager at several Silicon Valley companies, including at Apple on the iPhone and Siri programs, and at Google. She studied electrical and computer engineering at the University of Waterloo.

Riley Ennis, COO and Co-Founder, Freenome
Riley is the COO and Co-Founder of Freenome, an AI genomics company that’s creating simple blood tests for early cancer detection and treatment response prediction. He is a BioGENEius 2017 Hall of Fame Awardee and a recipient of Forbes 30 Under 30. He is also a Peter Thiel Fellow who created a cancer vaccine with his previous company Immudicon (his high school company), where he drove partnerships with over 14 pharma companies such as Novartis and Celgene.

Marina Mogilko, Co-Founder, LinguaTrip
Marina is a Russian entrepreneur, co-founder and CCO of LinguaTrip. She is a YouTuber and influencer with over 2M followers and a Forbes contributor. Marina was named one of the 16 women founders making moves in tech according to the Tech.co edition.

===VLAB Event Team
Event Chair: Ksenia Zvyagintseva
Event Co-Chair: David Hamm
Team Members: Natalia Erokhina, Sara Fernandez, William Lee, Wen-Pai Lu, Tosh Velaga

===Overview
The opportunity to change the world may be greater today than any other time in history, and young entrepreneurs are leading the charge. This passion to make the world a better place is driving a new generation of entrepreneurs, disrupting industries and established norms along the way. These entrepreneurs are not afraid of breaking rules and frequently adopt an unconventional approach to realize their goals.

More and more young people are choosing to embrace the challenge of entrepreneurship instead of becoming a cog in the wheel of a big corporation. A powerful combination of boundless curiosity, technological prowess, and the desire to create a better future is empowering these entrepreneurs to chase their dreams, often in the face of insurmountable odds. Any business — even one with designs on changing the world — will need to overcome numerous challenges and hurdles on the road to success.

How can entrepreneurs build a path from idea to profitability?
What are the trade-offs between dreams and reality, if any?
What are the new technologies and markets that inspire young entrepreneurs?