Two hundred and fifty start-ups from 60 countries will battling it out in front of a panel from The Wall Street Journal, to get into the coveted eight spots. Those who get into this spot, can get present their vision and game plan in front of the who’s who, of the Silicon Valley.
This is the second WSJDLive event in Laguna Beach, California, with an invitation-only audience hearing from the startups and an elite panel of judges picking an eventual winner. It is hosted by The Wall Street Journal.
There are six Indian start-ups who are running to grab those eight semi-final slots.
The attendees
Among those who will be attending WSJDLive this year, are Marc Benioff of Salesforce, Virginia Rometty of IBM, Bin Lin of Xiaomi, NSA Chief Admiral Michael Rogers, Tyra Banks of Fierce Capital, Kazuo Hirai of Sony, Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos, Stewart Butterfield of Slack, Robin Li of Baidu, Sergio Marchionne of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV, Richard Plepler of HBO and investor Yuri Milner of DST Global.
A key speaker at this year’s event with a strong India connection will be Vikas Jain, co-founder of mobile handset maker Micromax Informatics.
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