Happy Attendees @ LDV Vision Summit 2014

Panel: Trends in Original Video Programming. Moderator: Rebecca Paoletti, CakeWorks. Panelists: Betsy Morgan, The Blaze, Megan Cunningham, Magnet Media, Erick Schonfeld, TouchCast, J.R. McCabe, Time Inc. [L-R]  @Dan Taylor/Heisenberg Media

We organized the LDV Vision Summit for all of you and we greatly appreciate your positive feedback:

“Thank you for all your tremendous work organizing yesterday. It’s bold to bring everyone together from deep machine learning to publishers as brands - but it worked so well! I learnt a lot and met some great people, so thank you so much for including me! Sophie Lebrecht, Neon Labs, Co-Founder & CEO  

“Like any VC, I go to a lot of tech industry events and I’ve gotta say…I have rarely if ever been to a first time event that came out of the gates as strong as this one. Hats off, and I look forward to next year!” Brad Svrluga, High Peaks Venture Partners

“Really impressive and most important - amazing founders presenting.” Adam Singolda, Taboola, Founder & CEO  

“You brought a lot of great thinkers in the space together. I enjoyed it!” Megan Cunningham, Magnet Media, Founder & CEO

“It was a very informative and useful summit for me to attend.”Tom Kennedy, Kennedy Multimedia

"Great event. Loved the format with a good mix of startups, investors, researchers and students. Will definitely join next year." Jan Erik Solem, Mapillary, Co-Founder & CEO

"A jaw-dropping event! Innovators, visionary thinkers and game-changing startups all in one room discussing the past, present and future of the visual web. A very well planned summit from A to Z!” Oz Etzioni, Clinch CEO & Co-Founder

“What a difference a day makes!  Ten hours,  thirty-plus speakers and ideas beyond count.  The LDV Summit sowed seeds in my mind that will be sprouting for months to come: so many concepts, technological innovations and business structures to be developed.  Congratulations and thanks are due to LDV and all the participants, this was a necessary and helpful intervention in the discussion of new media.” Stephen Mayes

“Congratulations on a superb event. I met loads of interesting dynamic and successful people. And what a large crowd. Well done on such an excellent summit.”  Barry Shrier, Founder & CEO LIQUITY

“That day was a tour de force.” Amol Sarva, Co- Founder & CEO Knotable

“It was a pleasure judging at the summit, really innovative companies.” Erik Nordlander Google Ventures

“thanks so much for putting on such a great event, and for having me up to speak. really enjoyed the whole thing - well done!!” Eric Berry, Co-Founder & CEO TripleLift

“thank you very much for the event, as I said yesterday I really enjoyed, and was pleasantly surprised with international crowd and diversity of speakers.” Kate Fedashko Founder & CEO Teller

"I was very impressed by the Summit organizers ability to gather all the important people in computer vision around this summit. Also, very excited to see the first event ever to mix academic researchers, entrepreneurs and VCs interested in the field. Can’t wait for LDV vision summit 2015!" Alexandre Winter, Placemeter Founder & CEO

"Visual technology porn with it’s top stars on one stage : a dream come true.” Paul Melcher, Kaptur Creator & Writer

“I just wanted to send over an email and say thanks for the great organization and emcing of the summit this week! You did a fantastic job and I had no idea that New York was so vibrant with computer vision startups and the like. I got many very valuable new contacts…” Martin Kallstrom, Narrative, CEO & Co-Founder

“I really enjoyed the summit—-I learned a lot from the discussions and I met a lot of computer vision people, whom I think I may start another company with someday. I just wanted to thank you again for giving me the opportunity to attend. Hope to see you again next year. Jacob Sniff, CoverSplash, Co-Founder, Sr. Engineer  

“I had a fantastic experience doing the challenge and coming to the summit, and it was wonderful to meet you and Serge and so many other amazing people.” Serena Yeung, Ph.D. Stanford University and winner of our Entrepreneurial Computer Vision Challenge

“It was a spectacular job and my cofounder and I enjoyed the summit very much.” David Luan, Dextro Co-Founder  

“What an amazing event you put on yesterday. You and your team did a stellar job in putting on a well orchestrated program, engaging speakers, great venue, I could go on and on. Fantastic Evan! Donna Romer, Samsung NYC Accelerator

“thanks for putting on a great summit! I learned some good stuff, caught up with people I hadn’t seen in a while, and met some interesting new folks.” Jamie Hamilton, Categorical Technology, CEO  

“You do not disappoint. It was truly an honor to participate in what I’m sure will be just a first of a long run of annual LDV summits.” Barbara Tien, Ponga, Co-Founder & CEO

“Just wanted to drop a quick word of congrats for yesterday’s event. I was able to attend up until about 4pm and the content was top notch. Met a bunch of outstanding people too. Really enjoyed it! Hope you’re doing well - thanks for putting it on. Very valuable gathering.” Andrew Fingerman, Photoshelter, CEO

“Thank you very much for including me in the summit. I had a great time and enjoyed meeting the people.” Jeff Madoff, Madoff Productions, CEO

“As comedians, we weren’t quite sure what to expect at the LDV Summit. But seeing as we do much of our work on YouTube and in the digital space, it was really cool to learn about how future technologies will change the ways in which we develop and create content.” Ethan Fixell, The Dave and Ethan Show,  Comedian