Kate Matsudaira is a technology, computer science, and leadership speaker. Her expertise is creating and running large-scale web applications/ websites. She has spent a good chunk of her career forming and overseeing high performance teams that develop remarkable technology as solutions to important problems. Kate has worked with some of the worlds leading companies, including Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, and Amazon.com.... read full bio
VP of Cloud Architecture at AWS, Adrian Cockcroft is one of the top technology speakers in the industry. Adrian has been a leader in the creation of a cloud ecosystem as Cloud Architect at Netflix and Technology Fellow at Battery Ventures. While at Netflix, Adrian made significant contributions to the companys high profile transition to a cloud native architecture, and... read full bio
Silicon Valley tech CEO Lew Cirne is currently the long-standing Founder of New Relic, a software analytics company. Known as the Coding CEO, Cirne was an innovator of application performance management (APM) software technology as the founder and CEO of Wily Technology. As a forerunner in the development of APM, Cirne holds nineteen patents in this field. Cirne was a... read full bio
Vijay Sankaran is the Chief Information Officer at TD Ameritrade, and one of the most in-demand technology speakers. He has spoken at events like TiE Con, the worlds largest conference for entrepreneurs, with over 4600 attendees from more than 22 countries, and named by Worth Magazine among the 10 Best Conferences for Ideas and Entrepreneurship alongside TED and the World... read full bio
Mikkel Svane, the CEO of Zendesk, has been named among the top tech speakers in the world. He founded Zendesk with Morten Primdahl and Alexander Aghassipour with the goal of providing an enhanced customer service experience for everyone and developing software that people love to use. Now, he leads Zendesks global operations and business strategy with those same goals in... read full bio
Gentry Underwood, co-founder and CEO of Mailbox, turned the company into a $100 million acquisition within just thirty days of its launch. A designer and entrepreneur, Gentry has a passion for developing simple products that help people work together. At Mailbox, now a part of Dropbox, he continues to enhance the mobile inbox that puts email in its place. Prior... read full bio
Jeffrey Lu is an entrepreneur who invests in Internet, software and services companies. Currently, Jeff is the Vice President at Battery Ventures, which invests in tech companies worldwide. Previously, he was the CEO and co-founder of Daily Aisle, an Opentable-like service for wedding venues. The company was funded by prestigious seed investors in Silicon Valley. Before that, Jeff led Brokers... read full bio
Joshua Reeves is the co-founder and CEO of Gusto, an innovative employee services start-up. With a passion for utilizing software to solve complex problems, Joshua created ZenPayroll to provide companies with modern, enjoyable payroll. Before founding ZenPayroll, Joshua was the co-founder and CEO of unwrap, which created the Buzzeo social application development platform. After unwrap was acquired by Context Optional,... read full bio
Swedish entrepreneur Peter Arvai is currently CEO and co-founder of Prezi, a cloud-based presentation software company whose investors include TED Conference. An elite tech speaker, Peter most prestigious keynotes have been at Plugg, TEDx, SXSW, UC Berkeley, NEXT Berlin, Web Summit, DLD Conference, Stanford E-Week, and The Economist Information Forum. Peter also founded omvard.se in Sweden, and was a developer... read full bio
Jay Bregman is the Founder & CEO of Verifly, an on-demand drone insurance app for both recreational and commercial flights in just two taps. Verifly is funded by Slow Ventures, in addition to numerous other top investors. Jay was previously Founder & CEO of Hailo, a user-friendly taxi-hailing app, which recently sold a majority stake to Daimler. Jay has been... read full bio
Formerly the CEO of Oculus VR, a Facebook-owned virtual reality company, Brendan Iribe transitioned into a role leading the companys PC VR group, returning to his roots and passion for engineering and product development. Brendan began his career as a game programmer, working on the user interface of Civilization IV. Subsequently, he co-founded Scaleform, a user interface technology provider for... read full bio
Patrick Collison is an Irish entrepreneur, who co-founded Stripe, The Paypal of the Mobile Era", with his younger brother, John. The brothers are now worth at least $1.1 billion each after Stripe raised $150 million, funded by the likes of Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and Sequoia Capital. Patrick attended MIT for some time, before establishing the software company Shuppa, with... read full bio
Keith Teare is a renowned British tech entrepreneur, who has founded or co-founded numerous IT companies in the past few decades. Currently, he is Founder and Executive Chairman at Accelerated Digital Ventures Ltd, a UK-based global investment company, with focus on startups. Previously, Keith founded the Palo Alto incubator, Archimedes Labs. Archimedes was the original incubator for TechCrunch, and has... read full bio
Sam Shank is an entrepreneur, investor, and the CEO of Hotel Tonight, a mobile travel app for iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone and Android that assists users in finding discounted last-minute hotel accommodations. Since its launch, the app has been downloaded over fifteen million times. HotelTonight recently announced that it is profitable, and planning for an IPO. Previously, Shank founded DealBase.com,... 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
Jon Oringer is the founder and CEO of Shutterstock, the worlds biggest stock photography provider. When Shutterstock went public, Jon was recognized as New Yorks first tech billionaire. Becoming one of the most prominent figures in the technology business, he has been included on Business Insiders annual Silicon Alley 100, an elite list of businessmen and technologists in Manhattan, named... read full bio
Ashwin Navin is the CEO and co-founder of SambaTV, a content recommendation software for SmartTV apps. Built directly into smart televisions, the engine provides interactive television through personalization. Previously, as president and co-founder of BitTorrent, Inc., Navin was the face of the company, responsible for marketing the companys products and bringing it into the mainstream. Networking with movie industry executives... read full bio
Bing Gordon is a leading expert in gaming technology, with his most notable contributions to the industry including his position as the former Chief Creative Officer at Electronic Arts (EA), and as an investor/ director at the video game developer Zynga. Now, Bing is the Chief Product Officer at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, where he leads an innovative and... read full bio
Ben Rooney is the former Co-Editor in Chief of Informilo, and Technology Editor at The Wall Street Journal Europe. While with The Wall Street Journal, he wrote for both print and digital editions of the newspaper, and pioneered a new section providing news, commentary and analysis on technology business activity in Europe, as well as start-ups, digital entrepreneurship, and gadget... read full bio
Jeff Clavier is the Founder and Managing partner of SoftTech VC, one of the most prominent seed venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, with over 190 investments. An early angel investor in Web 2.0, Jeff and his team have funded successful startups including Mint (Intuit), Kongregate (GameStop), Brightroll (Yahoo), LiveRamp (Acxiom), Milo (eBay), Wildfire (Google), Blacher Report (Turner), Gnip (Twitter),... read full bio
