Featured Guests
Shiva Kashalkar
Vice President, Product Management Industrial Metaverse, PTC
Shiva is the Vice President, Product Management leading PTC's Industrial Metaverse. She works as part of the coveted Office of the CTO and focuses on helping build and commercialize PTC's spatial and industrial metaverse offerings. PTC's Industrial Metaverse helps accelerate efficiency across engineering, manufacturing and field service operations by blending the digital and physical worlds.
Shiva joined PTC in 2019. Prior to her current role, Shiva was the Vice President of Solution Marketing leading PTC solutions focused on Industry 4.0 transformation. Shiva’s brings more than 17 years of experience in enterprise product strategy, management and marketing. Throughout her career she has driven initiatives and created systems that put customer needs and insights at the center of successful product management and marketing strategies.
Prior to joining PTC, she was an entrepreneur in she built the nation’s leading early education subscription startup and sold it in 2019.
Shiva is an authority on new venture creation, appearing in such publications as Forbes, Venture Fizz, Crowdability, Boston Herald etc. and she is a sought-after speaker. She mentors and advises several entrepreneurs and growth stage businesses.
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Jim Heppelmann
Chief Executive Officer, PTC

Steven Johnson
Bestselling Author & Host of PBS six-part series: How We Got To Now

Alex Honnold
Professional Climber & Environmentalist

Kelly Corrigan
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Jimmy Chin
Professional Climber, Skier, Photographer, and Director

Dierks Bentley
Country Star & Double Platinum Album Artist