TEDx Palo Alto Salon presents
Renaissance 2.0: A Bold Revival of Curiosity, Creativity, and Human Ingenuity
Event Overview:
Get ready for an electrifying gathering at TEDx Palo Alto, where groundbreaking minds from AI, venture capital, public policy, and beyond converge to ignite the future. In a world evolving at lightning speed, our dynamic speakers will unleash bold ideas, powerful stories, and visionary perspectives designed to spark your imagination and move you to action.
We will engage luminaries from Silicon Valley leading employers to discuss the defining issues of our time!
With an intimate setting and deep focus on human connection, this is more than an event—it’s a launchpad for transformative ideas and a celebration of intelligence in all its brilliant forms. Let the inspiration begin!
Schedule:
February 22, 2026:
Time: Event begins at 2:00 PM
Agenda
Time - 2:00-4:30 PM
Doors open - 2:00 PM
Event - 2:30-3:30 PM
Reception - 3:30-4:30 PM
Ticket price:
General Admission coming soon
Student Admission coming soon (Discounted rate for students with valid ID)
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Speaker: Diaz Nesamoney
Diaz Nesamoney is founder and CEO of Jivox - a company delivering an Agentic Commerce Marketing platform - powering the next generation of Commerce Media Networks. He has had two prior successful ventures including one of the earliest software Unicorns - Informatica. He was co-founder, President and Chief Operating Officer at Informatica (NYSE:INFA), which he took from a startup to a publicly traded company in 1999. Informatica pioneered data integration software as a category and was the market leader with over $2 billion in revenue and was acquired by Salesforce for $8bn in 2025. Before founding Jivox, he founded Celequest and served as its CEO until early 2007, when the company was acquired by Cognos/IBM. Celequest introduced the market's first Business Intelligence appliance, a disruptive innovation that led to its acquisition.
In 2020, 2022 and 2023, Diaz was selected by The Software Report as one of the Top 50 SaaS CEOs. Diaz is a member of the Council of Global Advisors at the Yale University, School of Management and has been a board member for over 11 years, of the American India Foundation, a leading international development organization charged with the mission of accelerating social and economic change in India.
Diaz holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in India and is the holder of eight technology patents. Diaz is also the author of the first book on Personalized Digital Advertising.