NewCo Bay Area Festival

Bay Area's most inspiring companies invite you inside their headquarters

Learn from founders and top executives who share their knowledge from the inside.

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NewCo takes you inside offices to learn from a wide spectrum of founders and thought leaders.

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Mark Quinn

District Director

US Small Business Administration

Scott Bryan

President

Imagine H2O

Ross Stackhouse

Vice President

Tidewater Capital & The Hall

Jeff Clavier

Founder and Managing Partner

Softtech VC

Jeff Bordona

Director of Education

San Jose Museum of Art

Ben Curren

CEO & Founder

Green Bits

Meet these innovative and mission driven companies to learn, connect, and get inspired.

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Since 2012, NewCo has reached over 50,000 people, through our events in over 25 cities. Reach out to us to discuss how your company or organization can connect directly with the NewCo ecosystem and connect with the new generation of business founders and leaders. Join us on our mission to change the way business gets done.

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Past Featured Sessions

A Brave, New World - Election 2016 & Beyond

Brigade CEO Matt Mahan will share key insights from the 2016 election, both from his standpoint as the chief executive of an early stage political tech startup, but also as a keen observer and active…

Matt Mahan

Brigade

Welcome to the Maker Movement! The Next Industrial Revolution

Have you ever wondered exactly what goes on in a MakerSpace? TechShop is magical, creative playground for artists, entrepreneurs, start-ups, tinkerers, engineers, designers, hardware proto-typers and more. In this session we'll show you the breadth…

Andrew Calvo

Techshop San Francisco

Creating a Workplace for Our Future

Office culture is important. It’s what brings people together, makes employees engaged, and retains talent. We take it seriously. In fact, last year, Plum devoted an entire workstream towards ensuring we were creating the best…

Tiffany McNeil

Plum Organics

NewCo Celebrates Global Innovation in 20 Cities around the World

Since 2012, NewCo festivals have welcomed over 40,000 attendees into the offices of 2,000 innovative organizations. Attending a NewCo festival is a remarkable experience! It’s like a passport into the true culture of businesses changing the face of cities as diverse as Istanbul, Mexico City, New York, Austin, San Francisco, Barcelona, and Shanghai. Our "inside out" model is simple: Pick your city. Get your ticket. Choose which companies you want to explore.

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Facebook Pivots to Privacy. Why?

(cross posted from Searchblog) I’ll never forget a meal I had with a senior executive at Facebook many years ago, back when I was just starting to question the motives of the burgeoning startup’s ambition. I asked whether the company would ever support publishers across the “rest of the web” – perhaps through an advertising…

The Internet Must Change. To Get There, Start With the Data.

This is an edited version of a series of talks I first gave in New York over the past week, outlining my work at Columbia. Many thanks to Reinvent, Pete Leyden, Cap Gemini, Columbia University, Cossette/Vision7, and the New York Times for hosting and helping me. Cross posted from Searchblog. Prelude. I have spent 30-plus…

Predictions for 2019: Data, Tech, Media, Climate, Markets and…Cannabis…

If predictions are like baseball, I’m bound to have a bad year in 2019, given how well things went the last time around. And given how my own interests, work life, and physical location have changed of late, I’m not entirely sure what might spring from this particular session at the keyboard. But as I’ve…

Bay Area's most inspiring companies invite you inside their headquarters