Investing in disruptive innovations, technologies and entrepreneurs
On May 26th hosted by Fay Arjomandi, Founder and CEO at mimik Technology with Cathie Wood, legendary economist and visionary investor and founder, CEO and CIO of Ark Invest who is also a member of the Board of Directors and an investor at mimik. They will share their views on how emerging technologies including edge cloud computing are poised to bring about disruptive and rapid transformation across many industries. Cathie will also discuss her opinion on the need for democratization of venture investments to help influence the direction towards a more socially responsible and sustainable global ecosystem.
Fay and Cathie Wood will discuss:
- The key technological trends driving the rapid global transformation
- The business models for the next generation of physical-digital ecosystems
- The role of computing and edge cloud in sustainable global ecosystems
- Democratization of private investments models
Fay Arjomandi
Founder and CEO mimik
Fay Arjomandi is a serial entrepreneur and renowned leader in tech industry and has founded L3 Technology, Mobidia and mimik. She has filled many executive roles including CEO of Vodafone xone, the global venture incubation and Beta brand, chairman of Vodafone Americas foundation, board member of Vodafone Enterprise US and CEO at Nantmobile. Fay has been granted many patents and is the official member of Forbes Technology Council. She has been named “the edge women of the year” in 2020, and was named one of the most influential women business leaders in Silicon Valley in 2014. She has also received the distinguished Business in Vancouver’s 2006 “Top 40 Under 40″. Fay is the pioneer of the disruptive Hybrid Edge Cloud technology bridging the gap between the cloud and edge and empowering the vertical industries such as Fintech, HealthTech, EdTech and IoT.
Cathie Wood
Founder and CEO ARK
Board member mimik
Cathie registered ARK Investment Management LLC (“ARK”) as an investment adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in January 2014. With over 40 years of experience identifying and investing in innovation, Cathie founded ARK to focus solely on disruptive innovation while adding new dimensions to research. Through an open approach that cuts across sectors, market capitalizations, and geographies, Cathie believes that ARK can identify large-scale investment opportunities in the public markets resulting from technological innovations centered around DNA sequencing, robotics, artificial intelligence, energy storage, and blockchain technology. As Chief Investment.
