Table for Ten 2026

May 14-15, 2026 | Habitat Los Angeles
3401 S La Cienega Blvd,
Los Angeles, CA 90016

TABLE FOR TEN 2026 SCHEDULE

THURSDAY 5/14

6PM - VIP & Executive Dinner

* For VIP ticket holders only

FRIDAY 5/15

9AM - VIP Registration Open*

9:30AM - VIP Breakfast*

9:45 AM - Austin Beutner VIP Welcome Address*

Austin Beutner is a civic entrepreneur, philanthropist, and former Superintendent of Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest in the nation. He previously served as Publisher and CEO of the Los Angeles Times and as First Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles, where he oversaw 12 city departments. As the founder of Vision To Learn, he has helped over 2 million children receive the glasses they need to succeed. A longtime champion of equity in education, he led LAUSD’s $7 billion COVID recovery plan and now chairs the National Literacy Coalition. Austin’s leadership spans public, private, and nonprofit sectors—always with a focus on meaningful, systemic impact.

Austin Beutner
Democrat for LA Mayor

10:00AM - VIP Roundtable* & General Admission Registration Opens

10:30AM - Official Welcome Address

10:45AM - Keynote

Tracy Young is the cofounder of TigerEye, an AI platform built to help data-driven business leaders make faster, clearer decisions. Previously, she co-founded and served as CEO of PlanGrid, the leader in construction productivity software that Autodesk acquired for $875 million in 2018. During this time, Tracy led the company through years of massive growth, from inception to product-market fit, and from $0 to $100 million in ARR. In 2018 Tracy was recognized by Forbes’ Top 50 Women in Tech and named a Top 50 SaaS CEO by the SaaS Report. She has previously spoken at TEDWomen 2020, Techonomy, Salesforce’s Dreamforce and SaaStr. Tracy was previously a visiting partner at Y Combinator (W20, W21).

Tracy Young
Tiger Eye

11AM - Roundtable

12PM - Lunch

1PM - Pitch Session

This interactive pitch session is designed to help women refine how they present their work, their ideas, or their firm. Each participant will have a few minutes to share, followed by constructive, real-time feedback from expert coaches. The audience is encouraged to observe, reflect, and learn. It’s a space for growth, confidence-building, and the kind of iterative practice that turns good communicators into great leaders.

Weixin Lin
Evergreen Forest Capital

Peter Becronis
Inception

Haian Trinh
Medtronic

2PM - Owning the Room: Executive Presence

In a business environment increasingly defined by volatility, resilience, and talent scarcity, executive presence is no longer just a soft skill—it’s a strategic asset. This panel explores how cultivating presence, decisiveness, and credibility helps women not only lead, but future-proof the companies they steer.

We’ll discuss how female leadership improves risk mitigation, stakeholder trust, and innovation—especially during slow-growth cycles. Panelists will share how to:

Command authority without sacrificing authenticity.
Build executive teams that reflect the markets.
Use presence as a multiplier for organizational confidence, retention, and brand strength.
Consistently add value to every meeting—by elevating the conversation, driving clarity, and moving decisions forward.

This session reframes presence not as performance—but as the foundation for long-term business resilience.

Jacqueline Reed
Moderator / Coffman Engineers

Diana Tran
Tesla

Holly West
LA28

Claire Wasserman
Moderator / Author

Heidi Creighton
City of Santa Monica

Allison Gander
UCLA

Kacey Keys
Moderator / Praxis Development Group

Valentine Nsofor
Silva Virtus Partners

Jen Fox
California Forever

Jennifer Sinclair Hankerson
DoorDash

Mani Ardalan Farhadi
Stanford

Sara Neff
Microsoft

Jaimie Turner
Turner

3PM - Ambition & Parenthood: The Realities of "Having It All"

Pursuing an ambitious career while raising children is often painted as a balancing act—but behind the glossy images are real questions of sacrifice, sanity, balance, and financial trade-offs. This candid panel brings together leaders from diverse industries who are navigating parenthood while steering demanding careers.

Together, we’ll explore:

Defining “having it all”—and how personal definitions shift across life stages and careers.
The real costs—financial, emotional, and logistical—of pursuing professional ambition while parenting.
Strategies for sanity and sustainability when time and energy are in short supply.
Shaping the workplace of the future—policies, cultures, and mindsets that make ambition and parenthood compatible.

Whether you’re an executive, entrepreneur, or emerging leader, this conversation will strip away platitudes and share the honest truths, trade-offs, and small wins that make the journey possible.

Tom Deane
Project Mark

Nina Grondin
Curioso

4PM - Access to Capital: Vision to Investment

From seed funding to large-scale project finance, access to capital is one of the most decisive factors in turning ideas into impact. Yet the landscape of funding sources—venture capital, traditional banking, development financing, and corporate or private investment—can be complex, competitive, and at times opaque.

This panel brings together leaders from multiple sectors to share insights on how capital is raised, evaluated, and deployed across industries. Together, we’ll explore:

The key factors that drive funding decisions across different capital sources
How to prepare a compelling case for investment—whether for a start-up, a major development, or strategic growth
The evolving role of risk assessment and return expectations in today’s economy
The future of capital markets and what it means for innovators, builders, and leaders

Whether you’re an entrepreneur, developer, or executive seeking to scale your vision, this conversation will help you understand the capital landscape from multiple vantage points—and how to chart your own path through it.