Guy worked with Steve Jobs growing the most valuable company in the world. He co-founded the Venture Capital firm Garage Ventures with Bill Reichert (now on its 5th fund) and is the author of 15 books including bestsellers named by New York Times and Wall Street Journal

Entrepreneur-turned-educator Steve Blank is the Father of Modern Entrepreneurship. Credited with launching the Lean Startup movement, he changed how startups are built. Steve has been part of, or co-founded eight Silicon Valley startups. Steve`s last company was E.piphany, an enterprise software company. He teaches at Stanford, Columbia, Berkeley and NYU; and created the National.

He co-founded Treasure Data (acquired by ARM/Softbank) as Chairman and is among the first investors in Canva, Color Genomics, Safety Culture, Tweetdeck/Twitter, Wish.com and Zoom Video. He was Founding Chairman & CEO of iAsiaWorks and Founding Chairman of IPinfusion. He has served as Board Director of 8 publicly listed companies that grew from startups he funded at their formative stages.

Kelly is the Director of Content and Marketing Data Science (aka “Hollywood Data Science”) at Netflix, focused on using causal inference and machine learning to grow the Netflix member base and audiences for its titles worldwide. Kelly started at Netflix almost 7 years ago as a statistician working on the initial research around to best promote Netflix Originals within the Netflix service.

Angelo leads the investment arm for original and iconic Silicon Valley Tech company HP (formerly Hewlett-Packard). He is an experienced Investor, Board Member, and Advisor with a successful track record helping companies grow exponentially across multiple technology segments. Skilled in General Management, Business Development and Negotiations.

Innovating and iterating for millenial market. Justin heads up eBay Commerce Innovations, an innovation studio within eBay focused on building new platforms, products, and businesses that augment and enhance the shopping experience on- and off-eBay. One such project is catch.app which carried the mission of finding a way to help eBay address the millennial customer group

Making Open Banking Reality. A Top 10 Women in FinTech 2020, Anna Maj is a FinTech and Innovation Leader. Expert for the EU European Innovation Council. Senator at the World Business Angels Investment Forum. Recognized as Top 25 Women Leaders in Financial Technology 2019 and the Top 100 Women in FinTech globally. Having worked for both banks and fintech startups she connects the two worlds now.

Gideon mentors globally for Google Launchpad and is himself a serial entrepreneurs, with 3 going public on NASDAQ stock exchange and 4 others via successful mergers and acquisitionsi. He has been involved in building numerous companies, growth initiatives, funding from Venture funds and the public.

The Champion Mindset- Growing Strong & Learning on the Court and Boardroom. Zaza Pachulia is 2- time NBA champion, Angel Investor and now serves on the business team for the Golden State Warriors. He has made extensive contributions to Georgia in developing the country's basketball coaching and camps, such as: Zaza Pachulia Basketball Academy and Basketball Club Dinamo Tbilisi; investing in projects such as Archi, Snap Fitness, and partnering with Crosty shoes

Innovation & Tech in Traditional Businesses. The Nestle Story. Carolina helps scale adoption of new technologies across this 300,000 person organization. The challenge is to accelerate going from concepts to end-to-end digital products supporting Nestlé use cases. Strategy + Delivery + Customer focus + Team work. Among other things she heads acceleration of use cases for Artificial Intelligence within the company.

A flat world post-Covid: What does this mean for emerging economies. Sanjit has been active in Silicon Valley for almost two decades. He has been an Investor and Board Member of several companies, including True Fit(raised $100M), Reflektion(raised $42M), Helpshift(raised $39M) etc. He has been an Advisor to Richard Branson’s Extreme Tech Challenge and Google Launchpad. He also writes for Forbes, Tech Crunch and Venture Beat.

Deborah Magid represents IBM’s $25B software business in the company’s Venture Capital Group. Deborah is responsible for sharing insights about emerging markets, technologies, and business models with venture firms and entrepreneurs around the world. As a director of strategy in IBM Software Group, she also brings insight from the venture community to the development of IBM’s growth strategies.

Sheel is founding partner of the 500 startups FinTech Fund. His own startup experience includes 2 successful FinTech exits –a payments company(FeeFighters) and a high-stakes auction company(Innovative Auctions). He's invested into over 80 companies, mostly in the fintech space. Particularly interested in technology businesses that disrupt financial institutions or enable them to act more efficiently.

Tim has spent 10+ years creating startup partnerships and innovation programs for Fortune 500 companies and government. His most recent role was helping stand up Accenture's Ventures and Open Innovation group. He is an active angel investor, having backed 20+ startups and launched the Momentum Engine investing syndicate.

Zach is an in-demand speaker internationally, sharing deep insights on what makes startups succeed. He is an early stage technology investor and advisor. His notable investments include Cruise Automation (led the first billion dollar exit for Angel List, bought by GM for $1B+), Branch Metrics, SkySafe and a dozen other startups. He is an advisor to twenty companies including Hellosign, Swarm (bought by Integral Ad Sciences), Balanced Payments (Stripe) and many others. Mr. Coelius is also four-time entrepreneur.

Peter is the co-founder and CEO of Slido, an audience interaction platform that is aiming to transform the world of meetings and conferences. Slido has been used at over 1mln events including customers such as SXSW, World Economic Forum, Spotify and BBC. Last year, Slido has been ranked as the fourth fastest growing tech company in Central Europe by Deloitte Technology Fast 50.

Derek Andersen is the founder and CEO of Startup Grind, a global community that is powered by Google for Entrepreneurs designed to educate, mentor, and connect entrepreneurs. Founded in 2010 from humble beginnings with only 9 people attending his first event, 4 years later Start up Grind has grown to more than 200 cities, in 85 countries around the world.

Fang is currently a Director of Investments at Baidu Ventures, focusing on early stage AI & robotics related startups. Prior to this, she was a startup operator at two unicorn companies and a consultant in the emerging markets. She is a graduate of Harvard College. Her personal passion is in helping to connect the right people to each other at the right times to drive impact via conscious networking.

Ted was the Futurist at 20th Century Fox, where he worked on the evolving art, science and technology of advanced interactive visual storytelling. He was part of the creation team for the Martian VR and Wild VR experiences, Ted is one of the founders and creators of the G-Tech product line of advanced hard drive storage products.

Experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the international trade and development industry. Skilled in Business Process, Business Planning, International Business, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and Go-to-market Strategy. Strong business development professional with a BA focused in Political Science from Swarthmore College.

After 20+ years in software startups, Scott is creating innovation partnerships between great startups in ecommerce, logistics, and content and the incumbents across the world, to ensure the success of independent brands. Rafer is also co-founder and director at Mashery (acquired by Intel), MyblogLog (acquired by Yahoo), Nanigans, Newswhip, ShopPad, and Zemanta (acquired by Outbrain).

Stewart Rogers is a journalist, analyst, public speaker, author, startup founder, musician, and "digital nomad". Rogers has been named the seventh most influential person in marketing technology globally. As a seasoned speaker, moderator, interviewer, and emcee/host, he is delivered newsworthy talks at events including, Web Summit, Slush, Pioneers Festival, MobileBeat, CUBE Tech Fair, Capital Week and more.

Marvin is a free agent roaming the world, doing good, looking for great potential companies. He was a Partner at Micro Venture Capital Fund 500 Startups, running the SF-based accelerator program as well as investing in Seed stage startups. He Invests in Digital Media, Enterprise SaaS, Marketplace, Mobile, AdTech/MarketingTech, Digital Health, Internet of Things, and Fintech startups.

Bill Reichert has over 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur and operating executive. Since joining Garage in 1998, Bill has focused on early-stage information technology and materials science companies. He has been a board director or board observer at CaseStack, WhiteHat Security, ClearFuels Technology, Simply Hired, MiaSole, D.light Design, ThermoCeramix, & VisaNow, among others. Prior to Garage, Bill was a co-founder or senior executive in several venture-backed technology startups, including Trademark Software, The Learning Company, & Academic Systems.

Author of upcoming "Blockchain is the New Black" Amy is a visionary who speaks to the future of AR/VR and other technologies while working with corporations to adopt today's cutting edge technologies. She lives and breathes Virtual & Augmented Reality, particularly for enterprise, education & entertainment. From healthcare, education, retail, hospitality and entertainment to government and industrial use cases, her goal is to bridge the gap between the leading edge tech and clients ready to adopt solutions in the AR/VR stratosphere.

George Arison is a Georgian-born American businessman. He has raised $300 Million in funding for Shift, from investors such as Goldman Sachs. George was the first Georgian founder to take a company public. SFT is now listed on the NASDAQ. He has twice been named to Goldman Sachs’ 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs, and has worked at Google and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

Luke Kowalski currently serves as a vp in the corporate architecture group at Oracle reporting to one of Larry Ellison’s EVPs. Before Oracle, he worked for various startups in technical, design, and business roles, as well as for Netscape’s Server and Ecommerce divisions. He holds several patents and professional certifications. He is currently teaching a blockchain challenge lab at UC Berkeley’s Engineering School

Martins Sulte is Co-Founder and CEO of Mintos, an award-winning global marketplace for investing in loans. Prior to founding Mintos in 2014, Martins worked for six years in the investment banking industry at SEB, advising some of the largest M&A and Equity Capital Market deals in Northern Europe. Martins has a BSc degree from Stockholm School of Economics, he holds an MBA from INSEAD (France), and is a CFA® charter holder.

Tamaz leads Raisin, which was voted top Fintech in continental Europe in addition to many other awards and recognition. As CEO he focuses especially on partner bank acquisition, business development, legal and regional expansion efforts. Prior to building and scaling Raisin, Tamaz has spent 10 years with McKinsey & Company, the last 3 years as Principal leading also McKinsey Savings and Investment products Service Line for EMEA countries.

Paul is a 3 time entrepreneur turned global VC. Through the multiple funds he has helped create, he has participated as an investor or advisor in the seed/series A rounds of 200+ companies. This includes holdings in billion dollar companies like Uber, Unity & Zappos. He travels around the world to give lectures on startups and is an advisor to governments on their technology and entrepreneurship policy

Audrey Kania is Co-founder and former Executive Vice President of the World Poker Tour (WPT). Audrey was instrumental in changing the image of poker and bringing it to the forefront as a branded worldwide phenomenon. After taking the company public and forming WPT Enterprises, Inc., Audrey retired and embarked on the third sabbatical of her career while consulting and advising start-ups.

As one of the first 30 employees of Airbnb he led international expansion, opening 12 offices globally in 6 months. He similarly was VP for international expansion with Fiverr. He has taken leadership in other roles in the sharing economy, and is now collaborator, Consultant, Speaker, Investor, Actor, Advisor to Heart-First Leaders, Ceremony Creator, Comedian and Perfumemaker!

Named in Forbes 30 under 30 Oussama has helped fundraise more than $700M for startups and participated in M&A, IPOs & lots of structural crisis management across every startup stage. He's a member of Global Tech Panel. He's advised the French government & multiples European institutions about Entrepreneurship Policy, including by participating in the Defense G20 on cybersecurity and new global threats.

Jessie is a positive-use unmanned aerial systems and airspace expert. Most recently she served as Head of Deployment at Airbus’ innovation unit in Silicon Valley. Jessie also served as a technologist at the Peace Innovation Lab at Stanford University and is currently designing an Artificial Intelligence Software Safety Class with University of Southern California. She is an expert in scaling emerging technologies

Keith is the Head of International for Plaid, the technology company powering the fintech ecosystem. Keith joined Plaid from Google, where he scaled hardware efforts with Pixel phones and Google Home speakers, and helped run business strategy for some of the company's new technology bets, including Google Pay and virtual reality. Prior to Google, Keith began his career as a management consultant at Bain & Company.

Mr. Graylin is the China President at HTC leading all aspects of HTC's business in the region and the company’s XR Suite Business globally. He is also currently Vice-Chairman of the Industry of Virtual Reality Alliance (IVRA.com) with 300+ company members, President of the $18B Virtual Reality Venture Capital Alliance (VRVCA.com) and oversees the Vive X VR Accelerators (VIVEX.co) in Beijing, Shenzhen and Tel Aviv.

Steve Adelman works with early stage companies on accelerating revenue and value growth and with Global 500 companies on innovation. He has been active in the startup world for over two decades, including President of GTS in Cupertino, CA (acquired by Cisco); managing corporate VC at Reuters, Novell, and Palm, Inc.; and as one of the founding members of the Wharton Alumni Angels of Silicon Valley.

Jesus is an entrepreneur with an in-depth understanding of the business model and global operations, with 27 years of management experience focusing on ICT strategies start-ups and global development. He has established nine companies, received 6M$ in invvestments and 85M$ in company exits. In addition, he supports International Organisations in their programs on Innovation, ICT and private sector development.

Margot is CEO and Co-Founder of Hostfully. She has spent her career working on community-driven products that help businesses and entrepreneurs get closer to their customers. Prior to Hostfully, Margot worked at Apple, leading marketing initiatives for the first iPhone Developer Program before taking the reins at ServiceSource (NASDAQ: SREV) as VP of Marketing and Strategy. In her free time, Margot is an avid traveler, having visted Yunnan (China), Vinales (Cuba) and Paris. Margot holds an MBA from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and a BA in economics from Vassar College. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and three young children.

Dusan was awarded Business Angel of the Year in Europe in 2013 by EBAN (European Business Angel Network) after having three positive exits within a week. Was announced among FINTECH ASIA 100 Leaders In Asian Fintech in 2016. Has a solid track record with 15 out of 21 investments fully or partly exited. Now investing in 4 main areas: Technology Infrastructure, Financial Services, AI, Entertainment.

CEO of Stripo, Email Design Platform, and eSputnik, Marketing Automation Platform, Dmitry has a 25 years experience in entrepreneurship. Started as outsourcing 20 years ago, but always wanted to create something big with a small team. His first company was built for a local market and became niche leader. The second company, meant for global reach, is used by more than 300k people around the World

I'm a PR marketer driven by data analytics, always thinking out of the box and pushing the digital boundaries. A California native that's changing the world with data technology.

Phong Dao is CEO & Co-founder of iVE.ONE, a platform and infrastructure for digital assets based on blockchain technology that is modernizing the capital markets. Before he built iVE.ONE, he founded two companies and worked as senior IT- & business manager in startups and corporates. iVE.ONE is a Frankfurt based FinTech and is already expanding into the Asian market with an office in Hong Kong delivering its vision - better digital assets for everyone.

David Emerson has a 25+ year career working with emerging high-growth technology companies in the SF Bay Area in a variety of capacities – including as senior management, board member, advisor and investor. As an active investor, he is a principal in Greendale Ventures, a member of the Harvard Business School Angels and Berkeley Angel Network selection committees and advises high net worth individuals.

Ken Singer is a serial entrepreneur, technology executive, university lecturer and investor/advisor to numerous startups. Ken is the co-creator of the Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship pedagogy and is the inventor of the game-based Challenge Lab course. Ken is the Academic Chair of the European Innovation Academy and also the co-founder of the Applied Innovation Institute.

Andrew Pietra is a Los Angeles-based hospitality tech entrepreneur. In 2015, he founded Qorum, partnering with Uber and global alcohol brands to provide bar & restaurant guests with free, brand-sponsored Uber rides. In March 2020, amid the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Qorum became Outpay, the only completely free contactless mobile payments platform for full-service restaurants & bars.

Sebastian is an investment manager with OSRAM Ventures, investing in aspiring founders in Deep Tech with a focus on optical solutions, photonics, sensors and AI/ edge computing. He is passionate about new technologies and loves to share his broad industry and functional experience with start-ups. Prior, Sebastian used to work as a management consultant for Kearney, advising clients in Automotive and High-Tech industries.

Paul Dunn is a Senior Fellow in one of the World’s Leading Think Tanks and consults to and mentors leading-edge businesses around the world. His training programs are used by an estimated 226,000 companies around the world and he continues to push the boundaries. As a co-founder of the B1G1: Business for Good, the Global Giving Initiative that’s already enabled businesses to create over 215 Million giving impacts globally.

Pavle currently works at Amazon, which aims to be Earth's most customer centric company, where he uses machine learning and AI enabled solutions to analyze customer behavior and deliver a world class service to over 300 million people worldwide.

Gela was Chief Tax Auditor and Group Leader of the Georgian Tax Administration's international tax division from 2010--2017. He represented Georgia as a member of Working Party 6 during the OECD/G20 BEPS project negotiations. He has taught taxation at academies since 2015. Has also worked as a transfer pricing consultant with BDO in Vienna, Austria, and as a senior associate in the tax group of Comparex AG, in Leipzig, Germany.

Ryan is the co-founder of Event Farm. He has been an event producer and experiential technologist for 18+ years. He’s worked with some of the largest brands and agencies in the world including Nike, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Adobe, JP Morgan Chase, and dozens more to help execute thousands of event experiences. Most recently he’s been blazing new trails in the virtual events market and has helped to usher in new technologies

Andrew Thornhill is an American businessman and FinTech pioneer, working in Georgia since 2007. He set up Global Clear Merchant Processing in Romania and partnered with banks in Eastern Europe to pioneer an online payment gateway and accompanying merchant management system to handle this very new business. Since then, he has moved effortlessly through banks, processors, large merchants and even governments in his bid to provide the most complete, end-to-end financial service to the online industry possible — in Georgia alone, more than $ 1 Billion of payments have transited through the companies, systems and programs created by him. Andrew has invested in many different businesses in Georgia and also serves as a member of Ronny’s Pizza Advisory Board, is a co-founder of the Cosmic Crypto Meetup and most recently was named ambassador to the Cardano Blockchain Foundation to Georgia.

Amrit Dhir leads operations and expansion for Google's global network of physical spaces for entrepreneurs (campus.co). He works with technology startups drawing from his experience in new business development for some of Alphabet's most innovative products and technologies: projects in Google Research, the Cultural Institute (e.g. Google Art Project), and Google Life Sciences.

Christine is the CEO and Founding Partner of 500 Startups. Since the firm’s inception in 2010, she grew 500 Startups to over $500M committed capital, 2,300+ portfolio investments, 100+ team members, 25 accelerator batches, and a vibrant community of founders spanning more than 75 countries around the world. Christine spent her entire professional career building and investing in Silicon Valley. From 2003 to 2010, Christine held product marketing and operating roles at Google, focusing primarily on monetization and developer products. She was part of the original technical support team that helped launch Google AdSense, an advertising program for website publishers which now accounts for a significant part of Google’s revenue. During her tenure at Google, Christine also drove developer and syndication marketing at YouTube post-Google acquisition. Christine also oversaw marketing for YouTube’s APIs and developer tools, and she collaborated with numerous developers and early-stage startups integrating YouTube into their products. Christine holds a B.A. in Cognitive Science, with a concentration in Cognitive Psychology, from the University of California at Berkeley. While at Berkeley, she was accepted into the prestigious Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program for Psychology. She was also a National Merit Scholar.

Luke got into startups and innovation by successfully validating a number of not-so-great startup ideas using landing pages and paid advertising. As he validated that there was unmet demand for a book on this topic, he wrote it. That book, Launch Tomorrow, went on to become a #1 bestseller when launched. Since then, he has been working for years as an innovation consultant with startups and larger companies to help them launch new products faster and more successfully. His clients and readers have experienced repeated success with their products including gathering validation to achieve funding goals, significantly streamlining operations while scaling, and exits of various sizes up to 9 figures.

Experienced Project Director with a demonstrated history of working in the government administration industry. Skilled in Negotiation, European Studies, International Relations, Market Research, and English. Strong operations professional graduated from Georgetown University.

Chelsea Rustrum is sharing economy author, facilitator, and consultant with deep practical knowledge and hands on understanding of how the collaborative economy has come to fruition, grown, and continues to change business and disrupt industries. She’s the author of It’s a Shareable Life, the founder of a social and educational series in the Silicon Valley, dubbed The Sharers, has advised dozens of marketplaces, and speaks to corporate audiences such as PwC and J&J, helping organizations understand the changing nature of business. Chelsea has participated in various conferences and summits speaking on the growth and development of the collaborative economy including TEDx, Expo Italy, Grow Co. and has also contributed to articles in Inc. Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Wired, Forbes, and The Economist.

Mikheil's experience is centered around three areas: Applied and Computational Mathematics, Software Engineering, and Electrical Engineering. He has published more than 100 scientific papers. Mikheil was teaching the following university courses: Numerical Analysis, Calculus, Computational Mathematics, Scientific Programming, C++ & Java.

Ms Hansen, a Swedish national, joined the EBRD in 2006 and was initially responsible for the Bank’s municipal infrastructure activities in Central Asia, the Caucasus, Belarus and Moldova until 2016 while based in Tbilisi. During this period, she developed and implemented municipal infrastructure projects in over 100 cities in solid waste management, water supply, wastewater management, public transport, district heating and smart city investments. In 2016, Ms Hansen moved to Cairo as Deputy Head for Egypt, where she oversaw a significant expansion of the Bank’s activities in investment and policy engagement Before joining the EBRD, Ms Hansen worked for 10 years at the Carl Bro consultancy company, covering infrastructure in the Commonwealth of Independent States, South East Asia and the Middle East. During this period, she was based in Copenhagen, Moscow and Bangkok. She holds an MSc in Development Finance from the School for Oriental and African Studies in London.