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September 11, 2018: Training & Tutorials
September 12–13, 2018: Keynotes & Sessions
New York, NY
Rama Sekhar

Rama Sekhar
Partner, Norwest Venture Partners

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Rama Sekhar is partner at Norwest Venture Partners, where he focuses on early- to late-stage venture investments in enterprise and infrastructure, including the cloud, big data, DevOps, cybersecurity, and networking. Rama’s current investments include Agari, Bitglass, and Qubole. Previously, Rama was an investor in Morta Security (acquired by Palo Alto Networks), Pertino Networks (acquired by Cradlepoint), and Exablox (acquired by StorageCraft). Before joining Norwest, Rama was with Comcast Ventures; a product manager at Cisco Systems, where he defined product strategy for the GSR 12000 Series and CRS-1 routers—$1B+ networking products in the carrier and data center markets; and a sales engineer at Cisco Systems, where he sold networking and security products to AT&T. Rama holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a double major in finance and entrepreneurial management and a BS in electrical and computer engineering, with high honors, from Rutgers University.

Sessions

4:35pm–5:15pm Wednesday, 09/12/2018
VC trends in machine learning and data science
Location: 1A 12/14
Sarah Catanzaro (Amplify Partners), Rama Sekhar (Norwest Venture Partners), Zavain Dar (Lux Capital), Jonathan Lehr (Work-Bench), Crystal Huang (NEA)
In this panel discussion, venture capital investors explain how startups can accelerate enterprise adoption of machine learning and explore the new tech trends that will give rise to the next transformation in the big data landscape. Read more.