Julia Hartz

CEO of the Year (Event Management & Ticketing) - San Francisco 2025

Julia Hartz is the Co-founder, CEO, and Executive Chair of Eventbrite. Under her leadership, Eventbrite has grown from an innovative idea to one of the world’s largest marketplaces for shared experiences, which powers more than five million events annually worldwide. Since its founding in 2006, the company has generated billions of dollars in gross ticket sales and processes over two million tickets per week to events and experiences across the globe. Julia has made sure that organizational culture and workplace performance remain an integral part of Eventbrite, which now employs over 700 people in nine countries. Eventbrite has secured a spot on Fortune’s 100 Best Workplaces for Women and separately for Millennials. It has also been voted one of the “Best Places to Work in the San Francisco Bay Area”. In the years since founding Eventbrite, Julia has been recognized as one of Fortune’s 2015 40 Under 40 business leaders, Inc.’s 35 under 35 in 2014, Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs in 2013, and has been featured for her leadership and impact in top publications worldwide. Julia began her career as a development executive at MTV and FX Networks before landing in Silicon Valley. Julia believes that real-life human experiences lead to individual happiness and strong global communities in today's digital age. This belief continues to fuel her passion while running Eventbrite today.