Webinar Description
The technology sector is driving generational transformation and digital disruption across all industries - primarily driven by record venture capital investments into growth companies and startups. What are the opportunities for large tech companies to innovate, stay competitive through the startup community?
Key takeaways
1 Overview CPE credit | Specialized Knowledge
We’ll discuss:
- A birds-eye view on the startup ecosystem
- Different strategies to fuel growth and innovation through the startup community
- Tactics to engage and partner with emerging companies
Meet the moderator

Paul H. Silverglate
Paul is Vice Chair and Deloitte’s US Technology Sector leader. He also leads the Risk and Financial Advisory practice for Technology, Media & Telecommunications. With more than 33 years of professional services experience, Paul serves as a lead client service partner for a select number of our most strategic global technology clients. He specializes in leadership development, crisis management, digital enterprise transformation, business continuity, change management, and identifying the best resources within our global organization to address the issues and professional service needs of our most complex clients. He is conversationally fluent in German and has gained direct international experience by working for two years in our Swiss practice. Prior to his current roles, he worked 10 years as a CPA in Deloitte’s Advisory & Assurance practice assisting both publicly held and privately-owned companies in their annual audits, initial public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, securitizations, and various other transactions.
Meet the speakers
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Shawn DuBravac | Lauren Chudzik | Nadav Zafrir |
President | Avrio Institute | Director of Corporate Development | Intuit | Managing Partner | Team8 |
Dr. Shawn DuBravac is author of the New York Times Best Seller Digital Destiny: How the New Age of Data Will Transform the Way We Work, Live, and Communicate (Regnery, 2015), which explores how... |
Lauren Chudzik is a director of corporate development at Intuit. She joined Intuit in 2018 and leads a corporate development team that is focused on accelerating Intuit’s strategic objectives through M&A... |
Nadav Zafrir is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Team8, a global venture group that builds and backs technology companies at the intersection of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, data, fintech, enterprise software... |
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