SAN FRANCISCO FIELD STUDY SITE VISITS
Gore Innovation Center
Explore Gore's 11,000-square-foot space where ideation and prototyping all begin. During your visit, you will get to demo a wide range of products, see the lab and hear from the Chief Technical Officer on how the company is continuing to grow.
RocketSpace
Join Innovation Leader at RocketSpace's Silicon Valley tech campus - famously known as the early home to Uber, Zappos and LeapMotion among 20+ other unicorns. You will hear candid insights on emerging technologies that are disrupting industries as we know them and what Fortune 1000 organizations need to do to immediately to avoid disruption.
Target Open House
Target Open House is a first-of-its-kind connected home lab that showcases what’s possible today for guests and invites them to have hands-on interaction with new products and services.
Open House is Target’s learning lab and smart home store, designed to invoke curiosity and exploration about connected products and innovative technology. Open House has helped Target and its partners quickly get products into consumers’ hands and learn more about how connected home products and services can come to life in a retail environment. It is also a place for Target to invite the connected home, innovation, retail and other communities to exchange ideas, share work and spur dialogue through events
Levi's Stadium
Levi's Stadium is one of the premier sports and entertainment venues in the world. Home of the 49ers & 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship. Join us for a tour inside the stadium, and discover how the San Francisco 49ers use data analytics to enhance the fan experience. We'll speak with executives from the 49ers during a fireside chat about the 68,500-seat stadium's mobile app, in-seat food delivery, state-of-the-art solar power elements, and the first rooftop farm in the NFL.
Bolt
Bolt is a venture capital firm investing at the intersection of hardware and software. Often writing founders their first check, Bolt focuses on pre-seed, pre-product companies. Portfolio companies build a foundation for success by leveraging Bolt’s engineering team, prototyping environment, and experience building multi-billion dollar companies. Bolt has offices in San Francisco and Boston. tj
AppDynamics
AppDynamics is an IT performance monitoring company that was acquired by Cisco in 2017. We'll hear from Linda Tong, VP of Innovation Labs and Product Experience at AppDynamics and former VP of Product and Innovation at the NFL alongside Amy Benzinger, Senior Innovation Manager at Cisco's CHILL program to talk about integrating startups into larger companies and the CHILL approach to getting groups of companies to collaborate on new ideas. You'll also get a sneak peek of some of the innovation projects Cisco will bring to the next Lab from David Ward, CTAO at Cisco.
Andreessen Horowitz
Join Innovation Leader at Andreessen Horowitz to gain valuable insight into their investment thesis, how Venture Capital works, and learn how two of their fastest growing startups, Udacity and Slack, are up leveling workforce talent and changing the way organizations communicate