As director of the hit film "Rio" and the internationally popular Ice Age movie franchise, Carlos Saldanha's films have grossed close to a billion dollars worldwide. With a background in computer science and a natural artistic sensibility, he found New York City the perfect locale to merge these skills and become an animator. Carlos Saldanha has assisted in creating Blue... read full bio
Carme Artigas is a prominent contributor to the strategic recommendations on artificial intelligence as the Co-Chair of the AI Advisory Board of the United Nations Office of the Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology. She helps put Europe at the forefront of the global startup ecosystem as an advisory board member of the Europe Startup Nations Alliance. Artigas is a well-known Spanish... read full bio
Carol is an executive, AI roboticist, and engineering entrepreneur. She advises, invests in, and/or serves on the board of numerous businesses in the fields of diversity, AI, and healthcare. Known affectionately as the "Mother of Robots," she has been recognized as one of the "Top 50 Women in Tech" by Forbes, the "World's 50 Most Renowned Women in Robotics" by... read full bio
Dr. Carole Baldwin is a well-respected authority on marine biology, especially tropical-marine and deep-sea fishes. She was also the star of the Smithsonian 3-D IMAX film, Galapagos, for which she was a scientific advisor and on-air talent. Baldwin has published over four-dozen scientific articles, and her work includes the discovery of new species of fishes in Belize, Tobago, Cook Islands,... read full bio
The creator and editor of Platformer, a journal exploring the meeting point of technology and democracy, is Casey Newton. Newton was The Verge's longstanding Silicon Valley editor until he founded Platformer. He was a nominee for the National Magazine Award for reporting while at The Verge for his research on the lives of American content moderators for Facebook and Google,... read full bio
The CEO and founder of a covert AI startup is Cassie Kozyrkov. In addition, she is the CEO of Data Scientific, a prestigious firm that assists CEOs and international leaders in making the best choices possible. She is credited with creating the discipline of decision intelligence at Google, where she was the company's first Chief Decision Scientist and advised executives... read full bio
Dr. Catherine Ball is a voice in the genealogy world. As the Chief Scientific Officer for AncestryDNA, Dr. Ball has established the companys approach to genetic genealogy. Dr. Ball holds a Bachelors of Science in Biology and a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from UCLA. Dr. Ball later studied in the Departments of Genetics and Biochemistry at Stanford University School of... read full bio
Chad Hurley is an American politician and co-founder and former CEO of YouTube and MixBit. Prior to working on YouTube and MixBit, Hurley worked for PayPal where he designed the logo. During his high school years Hurley became interested in computers and electronic media and was a member of the Technology Student Association. He went on to graduate with a... read full bio
Chamath Palihapitiya is a distinguished Silicon Valley venture capitalist, with early investments in Palantir, Pure Storage, Playdom (acquired by The Walt Disney Company), and Bumptop (acquired by Google). He established The Social+Capital Partnership (now Social Capital), a renowned firm distinguished for its strategic focus on technology in healthcare, financial services and education, and on software as a service. The fund... read full bio
Cheemin Bo-Linn is the CEO and President of Peritus Partners, Inc., a business consulting firm with a reputation for guiding clients to market dominance and rising valuation. She is a member of the Women in Technology International Advisory Board and now holds the positions of Board Director and Chair of the Audit Committee for Violin Memory, a NetLine Corporation company.... read full bio
Chema Alonso is a cybersecurity expert. He is currently the Chairman at ElevenPaths, a Telefonica Cyber Security Unit. This program focuses on creating innovative security products. Priot to his work with ElevenPaths, Alonso ran Informatica 64, a computer security and training company. Alonso often presents his experience and skills at conferences such as BlackHat. This technology expert holds a doctorate... read full bio
Chris Urmson is an engineering who is best known for his work pioneering self-driving car technology. He has previously worked with Alphabet, and is CEO of their start-up company Aurora Innovation. Urmson graduated from the University of Manitoba with a BEng in Computer Engineering. He then went on to earn his Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University. Upon graduting,... read full bio
Chairman and CEO of Good Technology, Christy Wyatt has over fifteen years of executive management and leadership experience in the high-tech and enterprise industry. She has worked with some of the biggest business and tech brands, including Citi, Motorola, and Apple. ... read full bio
Chuck Martin is a leading Internet of Things and mobile expert as well as a highly sought after Keynote Speaker covering a variety of IoT, mobile and Internet of Things topics. He is also a New York Times business best-selling book author of numerous books, including The Smartphone Handbook, The Digital Estate, Net Future, and Mobile Influence. Martin’s latest book,... read full bio
The first woman to pilot and command an American spacecraft, astronaut Eileen Collins has led an inspiring life of adventure, leadership, and achievement. A female trailblazer, Collins was named an astronaut by NASA in 1990. She quickly went on to become the first female pilot on a space shuttle with the Discovery flight in 1995, and the first female commander... read full bio
Cortney Harding is a highly sought-after specialist in assisting companies in utilizing virtual reality, spatial computing, and artificial intelligence. She has developed conversational AI-powered avatars for Amazon, Delta, and McDonald's, as well as virtual reality training scenarios for Lowe's, Walmart, PWC, Target, and other companies on subjects like racial bias, mental health, workplace exclusion, child abuse, and Black maternal mortality.... read full bio
Your go-to resource for our digital future is Crystal Washington. Crystal, a certified futurist and technology strategist, has a special talent for distilling the intricacies of social media, applications, the web, and tech trends into understandable, actionable insights. However, Crystal's proficiency extends beyond her aptitude for deciphering technical terms. For Fortune 500 behemoths like Google, Microsoft, and GE, she is a... read full bio
Cynthia Breazeal is a brilliant pioneer in the world of robotics; she is the creator of Jibo, a personal assistant robot, said to be the first ever family robot. Cynthia also works as an associate professor of media arts and sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for which she directs the Personal Robots group at the MIT Media Laboratory.... read full bio
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO) at NetApp is Cynthia Stoddard. Providing a long-term technological vision that supports and is in line with the organization's strategies, goals, business plans, operational needs, and overall efficiencies is the CIO's responsibility. In order to facilitate the implementation of global business solutions and infrastructure that support the company's expansion, she gives leadership... read full bio
Norwegian engineer Dag Kittlaus is the Co-founder & CEO of Siri (acquired by Apple) and Co-founder & CEO of Viv (acquired by Samsung). When Apple acquired Siri, Dag became the Director of iPhone Apps at Apple, leading the Siri and speech recognition teams. Two years later, he co-founded his next AI company, Viv. With Viv, his goal was to make... read full bio
