Marc Randolph
Netflix Co-Founder
Marc Randolph
Netflix Co-Founder
Keynote Speaker | 8:30 am – 9:15 am
Marc Randolph is a veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur, advisor, investor and keynote speaker. Marc was co-founder of the online movie and television streaming service Netflix, serving as their founding CEO, the executive producer of their web site, and as a member of their board of directors until his retirement in 2004.
Marc’s career as an entrepreneur spans more than four decades. He’s been a founder of more than half a dozen successful start-ups, a mentor to hundreds of entrepreneurs, and an investor in numerous successful (and an even larger number of unsuccessful) tech ventures.
Recently, Randolph co-founded an analytics software company, Looker Data Sciences, and currently serves as an advisor to numerous other startups, serving as a mentor, CEO coach, and/or board member.
He is a frequent speaker at industry events, works extensively with young entrepreneur programs, and is a trustee of the non-profit National Outdoor Leadership School.
Ajay Agrawal
Peter Munk Professor of Entrepreneurship
Rotman School of Management
Ajay Agrawal
Peter Munk Professor of Entrepreneurship
Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Ajay Agrawal is the Peter Munk Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He is the founder of the university’s Creative Destruction Lab, which is one of the fastest-growing venture labs in the world. Report on Business Magazine named Ajay to its Power 50 list of the most influential Canadians to watch, calling him “a key contributor to Toronto’s emergence as a world-class technology ecosystem.” His first book, Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence, will arrive in May 2018 from Harvard Press.