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PRSA Silicon Valley Media Predicts is the must-attend of the year for anyone with a stake in communications and media in the region. Back in-person for the first time since 2019, this year’s event is our 15th annual gathering. Network with peers and members of the press, catch up with friends old and new, and hear from highly regarded journalists as they take a look back at 2022 and a look ahead to what trends, issues, and 2023.
Agenda
5:30 p.m. – Doors open
6:00 p.m. – Networking
6:45 p.m. – Dinner
7:30 p.m. – Panel
9:00 p.m. – Event ends
Event
Speakers
Martine Paris, Bloomberg
U.S. Consumer Reporter
Sara Bloomberg, SF Business Times
Reporter, Startups & Innovation
Jon Swartz, Dow Jones
Senior Reporter, Technology
Biz Carson, Protocal
Senior Reporter
Scott Budman, NBC Bay Area
Reporter, Startups & Innovation
Moderator
Shernaz Daver, Khosla Ventures
Operating Partner & CMO
Event
Speakers
Event
Speakers
Martine Paris, Bloomberg
U.S. Consumer Reporter
Jon Swartz, Dow Jones
Senior Reporter, Technology
Biz Carson, Protocal
Senior Reporter
Sara Bloomberg,
SF Business Times
Reporter, Startups & Innovation
Scott Budman,
NBC Bay Area
Reporter, Startups & Innovation
Moderator
Shernaz Daver,
Khosla Ventures
Operating Partner & CMO
Martine Paris is a trending news reporter, where she reports on what’s trending across consumer, retail, food, fashion, luxury, lifestyle, entertainment, sports and tech for Bloomberg News, with appearances across Bloomberg TV, Radio and QuickTake, and bylines in Businessweek. Her articles have appeared in leading publications around the world, including Fortune, Fast Company, Forbes, Insider, TechCrunch and TIME. LinkedIn | Twitter
Jon Swartz is a senior reporter based in San Francisco covering technology and Silicon Valley for Dow Jones. Previously, Swartz was USA Today’s San Francisco bureau chief. He has also written for Forbes, The (London) Independent, London Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and New Orleans Times-Picayune. He has won numerous journalism awards and is a two-time finalist for the Loebs, the Pulitzers of business reporting. Additionally, he frequently appears as a panelist on Fox Business and NBC Bay Area’s Press:Here program. He has been nominated four times for the Pulitzer Prize. Swartz is co-author of “Zero Day Threat: The Shocking Truth of How Banks and Credit Bureaus Help Cyber Crooks Steal Your Money and Identity” and sole author of “Young Wealth.”
Biz Carson is a San Francisco-based reporter at Protocol, covering Silicon Valley with a focus on startups and venture capital. Previously, she reported for Forbes and was co-editor of Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startups list. Before that, she worked for Business Insider, Gigaom, and Wired and started her career as a newspaper designer for Gannett. LinkedIn | Twitter
Sara Bloomberg (she/her) covers innovation, tech, startups and entrepreneurship across the Bay Area. She has lived in San Francisco since 2009, worked for Japan’s Asahi Shimbun daily newspaper as an English language research assistant, and has previously written and photographed stories for the San Francisco Public Press, 48 Hills, KQED, the SF Bay Guardian and SF Weekly. She studied politics and language studies at UC Santa Cruz. LinkedIn | Twitter
Scott Budman is an Emmy Award-winning reporter who reports on business and technology for NBC Bay Area during evening newscasts. Born and raised in Oakland, Scott has been with NBC Bay Area since 1995. He began his broadcasting career in radio as a business reporter for KMNY radio in Anaheim. He then spent some time as a general assignment reporter and business anchor/producer at the Orange County News Channel. Before joining NBC Bay Area, Scott was a reporter and weekend anchor at KEYT in Santa Barbara. Scott has won many awards including a national Iris Award. You can often hear him on Bay Area radio waves updating listeners on the latest business and tech news on NPR and Alice radio. He is a regular blogger for Forbes and other online publications. Twitter
Shernaz Daver is the operating partner and CMO of Khosla Ventures. For the prior ten years, she served as executive advisor to GV (Google Ventures). She recently worked with 10x Genomics, which she advised through their IPO resulting in one of the top five performing IPOs for 2019. She also currently serves as an advisor to Kitty Hawk. She has worked with a range of innovative companies including Netflix, Walmart, Motorola, Baidu, Khan Academy, Zynga, Electronic Arts, Groupon, Kosmix, Savvis (Century Link), Polyvore (Yahoo), Voyage (Cruise) and Guardant Health. Shernaz was previously CMO of Udacity and Inktomi, and started her career at Sun Microsystems. She is a frequent speaker at events including the Milken conference, StartupGrind and the women’s PBWC conference.
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