SVOD – Silicon Valley Open Doors

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Louis Schreier

Louis Schreier

Louis Schreier

Vice President, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories

Lou Schreier is the Vice President of Portfolio Development and Technology Innovation for Deutsche Telekom Laboratories in the Bay Area. Over his career, Lou has built global teams and has led the development and release of products and systems that support consumer analytics, network intelligence, security, and service delivery. Experienced in start-up, large corporate, and global enterprises, Lou is a veteran of businesses including HP, R&D organizations including SRI International and HP-Labs, as well as several startups. Lou currently runs the Deutsche Telekom’s Silicon Valley Innovation Center where the focus is on Emerging Ecosystems including Software Defined Networking, Browser Operating Systems and smartphone networks, and Communication as a Service applications. His team partners with startups and established companies and university researchers in the area.

Testimonials

The wonderful thing about entrepreneurs is that their passion for starting new companies transcends languages and geographic boundaries. I felt very comfortable at SVOD and recognized its participants as having the same type of DNA that made Silicon Valley what it is today.

Ron Conway

SV Angel

Great conference, interesting presentations and most important, relevant participants with concrete ideas and tremendous willingness to mentor and help startups.

Adi Bittan

Founder & CEO, OwnerListens & Stanford MBA

I am delighted to participate in and sponsor SVOD. It is particularly gratifying at this stage of my professional career to be able to support this unique organization and give back to the high-tech community. Looking back, I regret not having the benefits of SVOD network early on, when I really needed it! It is wonderful to see the new startups taking advantage of this very special forum.

Mike Sandler

CEO of Epiphan

A lot of energy, lot of very dedicated entrepreneurs here, very passionate, very committed to what they’re doing.

Mitchell (Mitch) Kapor

Partner, Kapor Capital

Thank you for the opportunity to present Driveway at SVOD. It gave us much needed exposure to the wide investor community. Combining the pitch preparation classes with the presentation content guidance, we came out strong and confident from the podium. During the conference we had a chance to speak to many investors and industry leaders resulting in a very valuable feedback.

Jake Diner

Driveway Software

The quality of entrepreneurs and the international flavor: it’s always fun to see where innovation is happening around the world. It was fun for us to see not only the quality of thought but also pace of execution and the teams here are becoming ready to play.

Byron Deeter

Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners ($4B under management)

The SVOD conference was a wonderful event. Networking is very important for start-ups. The challenge for them is often not money: it is mentoring and finding people who can give good advice from experience.

Esther Dyson

Founder, EDventure Holdings

I love coming to the Silicon Valley Open Doors! I discover entrepreneurs here every single year, and I think I’ve been to all of them.

Carol Sands

Founder, The Angels’ Forum