Global Venture Capitalist, Tech Media Entreprenuer, CEO
Chris Schroeder: Biography at a Glance
- Christopher M. Schroeder is a tech media entrepreneur, global venture capitalist, and CEO focused on Silicon Valley and international consumers, fin-tech, media companies, and advocating/mentoring global entrepreneurship.
- He co-founded Next Billion Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in entrepreneurs serving the next billion digital consumers and small businesses across global emerging markets, including Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and East Africa.
- Previously, he co-founded and sold HealthCentral.com, and was CEO of washingtonpost.com.
- He has written for The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Fortune, among others, and authored the best selling book, Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East.
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Biography
Christopher M. Schroeder is a tech media entrepreneur, global venture capitalist, and CEO focused on Silicon Valley and international consumers, fin-tech, media companies, and advocating/mentoring global entrepreneurship. He co-founded Next Billion Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in entrepreneurs serving the next billion digital consumers and small businesses across global emerging markets, including Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and East Africa. Previously, he co-founded and sold HealthCentral.com, and was CEO of washingtonpost.com. He has written for The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Fortune, among others, and authored the best selling book, Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East.
At his speaking engagements, Christopher is an experienced speaker and moderator. Relying on his years of insight and experience in the tech and investment industries, Christopher offers wisdom and an insider's view into entrepreneurship, innovation, and global economies.
In addition to his extensive work, Christopher can often be seen on CNN, CNBC, BBC, and has spoken at events ranging from Aspen Ideas, The World Bank, and IMF, The White House Global Summit on Entrepreneurship, and many of the leading global tech conferences.
An industry influencer and thought leader, Christopher is one of LinkedIn’s first 50 Influencers with over 800,000 followers there. Schroeder also served on the staff of Secretary of State James Baker.
Topics
The Great Acceleration: How Covid, Big Data and 5g Made a Decade of Technological Advances Happen in Months
Digital transformation was always a hot topic before 2020; however, COVID-19 has dramatically hastened its pace and made the urgency to deploy digital solutions necessary instead of a luxury. As a result, we’ve seen some significant innovations and an increased focus on Big Data and 5G. In this session, join tech media entrepreneur and global venture capitalist Chris Schroeder in analyzing exactly how COVID-19 has expedited digital transformation and shifted business values, why that is a welcome change, and what comes next in “The Great Acceleration.”
Three Billion New Customers: How Access to Technology Everywhere Has Unleashed Billions of New Consumers and How to Meet Them on Their Terms
Astounding as they are, the most incredible technology revolutions today are not AI or Genomics. The greatest technology revolution is the global access to technology. With vast numbers of new customers with smart devices entering the global economy in a matter of years, significant new companies and competitors are rising from China to India and unexpected places from Indonesia to São Paulo.
This much is clear: America once assumed global tech dominance, but today there are a plethora of options. With his years of knowledge and experience as a tech media entrepreneur and global venture capitalist, Chris Schroeder urges American businesses to fight complacency. We can no longer show up and expect to be top dog. In this session, learn the new playbook and what it takes to meet the next five billion customers on their terms.
The New Globalization: Making American Business and Investing Relevant in the Rise of Competition Everywhere
The greatest revolution in technology today is not the tech itself, but the near-universal access to it. Since the Second World War, to “make it” in the global economy has effectively meant to make technology in, or sell products to, the United States.
For the first time, and as talent is unleashed everywhere, innovation and globally competitive enterprises are being built anywhere. China is certainly ‘Exhibit A’ of a rising market that now stands toe to toe with America, and not by copying our innovation overall, but leading their own that is increasingly embraced and adopted globally. But there are many “mini Chinas” rising from Jakarta to Saigon, to Cairo, to Nairobi, to Tallinn, to São Paulo.
We are in the midst of new globalism if we wish to believe it or not. Nowhere does this global shift appear in our strategic and political debate in America today; many companies and investors miss that, in effect, three billion new customers have appeared near overnight. And they miss that for the first time if they do go abroad, they will meet competition that can beat them in innovation, costs, and relevance to these new consumers. What is the new playbook?