America’s fastest-growing tech conference.

NEW ORLEANS, April 30 - May 3, 2018

Alexis Ohanian, co-founder, Reddit

The giants of the web assemble.

25,000+

450

650

400+

69%

Attendees

Speakers

Journalists

Investors

Senior management

The coolest tech conference on the planet.

Our history: Unprecedented growth creating an unparalleled marketplaceIn four years, Collision has become “America’s fastest growing conference”. We brought together 1,500 attendees for our first edition in 2014 – 20,000 from 119 countries came in 2017.

“No technology conference has ever grown so large so fast.”

Collision, following the lead of its sister event Web Summit in Europe, has become one of America’s “most important technology marketplaces”, a crossroads for the world’s largest buyers and sellers of technology, alongside many of the world’s most disruptive emerging technology companies.

CollisionDemographics*

Countries

United States

Mexico

Germany

Canada

United Kingdom

Job LevelCEO/founder 26%

VP 26%C-level 17%

Manager 20%Partner 18%

Industry

Enterprise software 25%Marketing tech 10%

Financial services 13%Retail/eCommerce 8%

IoT/Hardware 6% Healthcare 5%

Media 5%Nonprofit 2%

Security 2%Education 2%

Industry

Department

Executive 16%Marketing 15%

Sales 19%IT 18%

Engineering 10%Purchasing/procurement 5%

Department

*Only the top categories are included.

119+ Countries

Collision brings together the world’s fastest-growing startups and most influential companies alongside leading international investors and media.

What is ALPHA?ALPHA is our program for early-stage startups. It’s an arena for the world’s most exciting and fastest growing startups to come together with tech’s most influential investors, media and world-leading companies.

Our team spend tens of thousands of hours each year identifying the most promising entrepreneurs to join us at our events. We’re delighted that when people choose to join us, they often come back.

If you’re selected for ALPHA, you’ll get to exhibit on one conference day, three event tickets, an opportunity to access to one-on-one meetings with our attending investors and partners, startup workshops and roundtables, and introductions to our global network.

Here’s a taste of ALPHA at Collision.

The PR, traffic and exposure that our startup got from PITCH has been a huge boost to us and permanently put us on the map.Connectera, former winners of PITCH

One startup will prevail

PITCH is the startup competition at Collision that brings together the world’s leading early-stage startups for a live, on-stage pitching battle. It’s open to any pre-vetted ALPHA or BETA startup attending Collision that has received under $3 million in funding to date and has not had a discernible change in business model in the previous three years.

The top 66 startups that apply will be chosen to present in front of our distinguished judging panels and thousands of attendees. Following the group stages, 12 startups will advance to the semi-finals. Just three startups will make it to the final on Center Stage where they will fight it out for a chance to be crowned winner of PITCH at Collision 2018.

Investor Office Hours

What do you need to tell your next story, to get to that next level of success?Christine Herron, managing director, Intel Capital

15 minutes with tech’s top investors Investor Office Hours is a series of prescheduledmeetings between investors fromthe world’s most influential funds and the mostpromising startups at Collision. These meetingswill run throughout the three days and willhappen in a private area on the event floor.

Each Collision startup creates an online profile that allows our investors to select the startup they most want to meet during Collision. Last year, 400 startups were chosen to meet with some of the world’s leading investors during Office Hours.

Mentor Hours Mentor Hours is a seriest of 15-minute meetings between our high-level attendees and startups that aren’t raising funds. Last year more than 400 startups got access to top speakers, media and global partners to get one-on-one advice on starting, growing and scaling a successful business.

Mentor Hours has four distinct tracks: Lead, Engage, Build and Grow. Each track has a specific focus and mentor to ensure you discuss the issues most important to your startup.

Some success stories

We like to think of Collision as a meeting place for the companies of both today and tomorrow. We do all we can to put the right people in the same room at the same time. You never know what might happen – sometimes, amazing things.

Hired

Hired’s founders first met at our events, where they hit on the idea to found the company. The following year they raised their Series A, again at our events

Trello and Atlassian met at one of our events in 2015. In 2016 they met again and tabled a $425 million acquisition.

SmartThings won the top prize of $25,000 at one of our events in 2012. They raised VC from Greylock as a result and then sold to Samsung for $200 million.

Travis Kalanick attended one of our events in 2011, signed Uber’s Series B at the conference and met Goldman Sachs who also invested in that round.

Handy founder, Oisín Hanrahan, has grown the company to the leader in its space with help of $110 million raised from investors across our network.

Branch has attended our worldwide events since their Series A, along the way growing to a $60 million Series C.

Revolut were named the most popular startup at one of our events. There, they met Index who invested and later led a $66 million Series B.

Founder Divyank Turakhia has attended almost all of our events since 2010. He sold his seventh company for $900 million in 2016, without raising external capital.

OnePlus attended one of our events shortly after establishment. We helped them expand into Europe and the US – today they’ve sold tens of millions of handsets.

Trello & Atlassian

SmartThings

Uber

Handy

Branch

Revolut

Medianet

OnePlus

They’ve spoken

Julia HartzEventbrite

Peter ThielFounders Fund

BonoU2

Will.i.amiam+

Wesley ClarkNATO

Travis KalanickUber

Alexis OhanianReddit

Padmasree WarriorNextEV

Hayley BarnaFirst Round Capital

Linda BoffGE

Al GoreUS vice-president

Gerard BakerWall Street Journal

Media

Exploding with innovative ideas and products from the tech world’s best-of-the-best.

Everywhere you go it’s buzzing and it’s electric.

One of the best shows for up-and-coming startups.

Collision is not just the anti-CES but a stealth threat to SXSW’s long-term dominance.

The best technology conferences on the planet.

The event was packed with hundreds of tech startups eager to raise their profile.

Over 650 media from dozens of countries will be at Collision 2018. It’s not just editors from many of the world’s most influential publications, but market-shaping industry reporters from leading technology and trade publications and blogs.

The world’s leading companies attend

Contactstartups@collisionconf.com