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Three panelists on stools in front of the Tech and Venture in West Palm Beach screen at the Related Ross Experience CenterKarin Klein of Bloomberg Beta smiling on the panelJosh Kahn of ServiceNow on the panelKerry Berchtold of Citizens Private Bank speaking on stageNatasha Sachs of Vanderbilt University speaking in front of the Vanderbilt slide

Presented by

  • Citizens Private Bank

With support from

  • Related Ross
  • Vanderbilt University
  • ServiceNow
  • AWS

Hosted by

  • West Palm Beach Tech Happy Hour
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Palm Beach Tech Season Kickoff brings founders and investors to Related Ross

More than 100 people gathered in West Palm Beach on November 10 for a venture panel and a preview of upcoming technology events, including Palm Beach Tech Week in April 2027.

On Tuesday, November 10, more than 100 founders, investors, and local leaders filled the Related Ross Experience Center on South Rosemary Avenue for the Palm Beach Tech Season Kickoff, hosted by West Palm Beach Tech Happy Hour.

The kickoff marked the start of a series of tech events scheduled through April 2027. The same morning, Palm Beach Tech Week announced its first events and opened its official calendar.

Who spoke

A tech and venture panel opened the evening, with perspectives from venture capital, company formation, and enterprise software:

  • Karin Klein, founding partner at Bloomberg Beta
  • Josh Kahn, senior vice president and general manager of Core Business Workflows at ServiceNow
  • Abram Schottenstein, head of capital formation at Juxtapose, who moderated

Karin Klein is a founding partner of Bloomberg Beta, the venture firm backed by Bloomberg, where she leads investing on the East Coast. Before the firm launched in 2013, she ran strategy and new initiatives at Bloomberg L.P. She also sits on the board of Regency Centers.

Josh Kahn leads the ServiceNow products that use AI to run HR, finance, legal, facilities, and supply chain work on a single platform. Since joining ServiceNow in 2016, he has grown Creator Workflows into the company’s second workflow business to pass $1 billion.

Abram Schottenstein works on capital formation at Juxtapose and with the firm’s limited partners. Before Juxtapose, he raised capital for TPG’s flagship buyout strategy, and he began his career in the Private Fund Group at Credit Suisse.

Maura Daves, vice president at Related Ross, and Nicholas Mohnacky of bundleIQ then previewed Palm Beach Tech Week.

Lucie Allaire, Shad Goetsch, and Stephen Turchan followed with an update on West Palm Beach Tech Happy Hour and Sink or Swim, its poolside pitch night, which comes back on Tuesday, April 13, during Tech Week.

Toward the end of the evening, Natasha Sachs of Vanderbilt University spoke.

After the event, Karin Klein replied on X: “What a great community and evening — thanks again!”

What comes next

The kickoff previewed two moments on the calendar ahead:

  • March 2027: WSJ Invest Live
  • April 2027: Palm Beach Tech Week

Palm Beach Tech Week runs April 10 to 16, 2027, across Palm Beach County. Companies, funds, universities, and community groups can put an event on the official calendar. Anyone can subscribe to the week’s calendar, and new events appear in it as they are listed.

Thank you

Joe Russo, Stephen Turchan, Shad Goetsch, Joshua B. Siegel, and Lucie Allaire of West Palm Beach Tech Happy Hour organized the evening with Nicholas Mohnacky of bundleIQ and Abram Schottenstein of Juxtapose, and with help from Praetorian Growth Advisory. Thank you to Citizens Private Bank, the evening’s presenting sponsor, to Related Ross for opening the Experience Center, and to everyone who came.