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Meet Maëlle Gavet, Techstars CEO, for a special Startup Weekend South Florida virtual talk about Empathetic Tech.

March 26, 2021 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Join us for an insightful virtual event with Techstars CEO Maëlle Gavet. Maëlle will elaborate on Big Tech’s lack of empathy problem.

Maëlle’s talk will be followed by a Townhall style Q&A to field questions from the audience.

Her dynamic talk on empathetic tech will immediately precede Startup Weekend South Florida Online, an exciting hands-on experience that will enable you to build, validate and launch your tech startup idea over the course of a weekend. You can register here.

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to share and connect with a true trailblazer.

Maëlle Gavet is CEO of Techstars. She has been named one of Fortune’s 40 under 40, a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, one of the Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company and was on Time Magazine’s list of the 25 Top “Female Techpreuners.”

An entrepreneur at heart, Maëlle founded her first business at sixteen and went on to start two other companies. She has been a senior executive at numerous large tech companies around the world, including Ozon, the Priceline Group (OpenTable, Kayak, Booking.com) and Compass. She was also a Principal at the Boston Consulting Group for 6 years.

Author of the widely-acclaimed book Trampled by Unicorns: Big Tech’s Empathy Problem and How to Fix It (Wiley, 2020), she is currently based in New York City.