Benjamin Ellis has worked with companies including Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks during their fastest periods of growth. He is a technologist and serial entrepreneur who has worked at the cutting edge of technology over three decades and is passionate about what technology can achieve, particularly at the intersection of people, data and software.

Bohumil studied Innovation and Operation Management in Copenhagen. He went on to work at West Virginia University Innovation center, where he was in charge of their marketing strategy. In March 2016, he returned to Slovakia, where he got an offer to join the team at Triad Advertising and take over their internal software Kontentino. After just 2 years, he and his team were able to get Kontentino into more than 800 agencies and brands around the world--Today, the software is used by famous brands, such as ASAHI beer and Volvo, as well as advertising agencies like BBDO, Ogilvy, or VML.

Bernadette Butler has 20 years experience in advertising working with some of the greatest brands of our time. With 2 ads on the world’s funniest reel, Bernadette is the CEO and co-founder of StoryTap, a DIY video platform for marketers to direct, own, and micro-influence authentic video stories at scale.

Will Bressman is the CEO of RIA in a Box and a former manager of business development at LX.TV, a digital media content provider acquired by NBC Universal in 2008, where he brokered distribution and content partnerships. Prior to LX.TV, Bressman worked on strategy and analytics projects at Good Morning America. Bressman holds an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and is a graduate of Harvard College magna cum laude with a degree in History.

Since 16 I earn money online, at 34 haven’t worked for anyone. In 2014 I moved to the south of Russia to open a co-working space by the sea. Later, it became a school of robotics for children. In 2016 I co-founded Standuply, one of the most popular Slack bots.

Osman Rashid, winner of the prestigious Ernst & Young California Entrepreneur of the Year (2009), was the co-founder and CEO of online textbook rental and student hub Chegg ($chgg), remaining involved in it until early 2010 after dramatically growing the company from its inception in 2005. Currently, he is the CEO of Convo Corp, an enterprise software company that focuses on In-Context collaboration that replaces email as the conversation tool at work.

SaaS Founder with a passion for Employee Engagement. Ex-Google Sales Manager focused to make feedback better for everyone. Living in Amsterdam, father of two daughters.

Co-founder of Demonware (Matchmaking service used in Call of Duty) that was acquired in 2007. Then founded Phorest on Evergreen principles - building company to last for generations. Over 70 of the 150 employees are ordinary share holders (not options). Phorest is now serving over 5,000 salons and is the leading salon software platform in Europe.

Nicolas de Rosen, CEO of iAdvize North America

Business Developer graduated in International Relations and Masters in Political Sciences, I’m a digital nomad, yogi and supporter of a plant-based life. Brazilian, 28 y/o, living in the Netherlands. The freedom of managing Switch.cm from home is unique, a gift from the founder and former owner of Switch.

I’m an ambitious tech entrepreneur passionate about building projects which can create a real impact in our days, on a global scale and I firmly believe that I am leading one of those projects... At the professional level and because of my current job, I like to define myself as a specialist in generalities that love to find synergies between the complementary areas of a startup and to be surrounded by people smarter than me.

Tom is founder and CEO of IDRONECT. He is 44 years old, entrepreneur and active airline pilot and has a Master in Aviation Science. With IDRONECT he wants to unlock the huge potential the drone industry has by making it easy to fly safe, legal and fun.

As founder and CEO of Benevity, the global leader in CSR and employee engagement software, Bryan helps Fortune 1000 clients reinvent corporate giving programs in a way that provides better social and business returns, while simultaneously tackling the biggest struggles in the social impact landscape.

Entrepeneur and founder of Servoy. Engineering background with experience in building great software companies.

Andy leads the company in its mission to deliver practical, powerful AI to consumer brands. A designer by training and lifelong software engineer, Andy is responsible for Faraday’s product strategy, data science organization, recruiting efforts, and corporate matters. Previously, Andy founded the celebrated sustainability startup Brighter Planet and worked in politics.

Mike Preuss is the CEO & Co-founder of Visible. He's from the Midwest and lives in Chicago. He attended Indiana University and also an alumni of the Orr Fellowship. He was previously the head of Business Development for Formspring based in San Francisco.

Ordermark simplifies online ordering to help restaurants increase profits and lower expenses. Through its technology platform and professional services, the company enables restaurants to easily add and manage multiple third-party online ordering services to maximize their online ordering potential. Customers include hundreds of restaurant brands and many of the world's top restaurant chains. Visit us at ordermark.com for more information

Kevin is a technology founder, recognized leader in the blockchain ecosystem, and currently the CEO of Etherparty and Vanbex Group. As an early entrant into cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, Kevin is a veteran of the industry, and has led the group of companies into becoming one of the largest blockchain solutions providers in Vancouver.

Andrew Patrick White is the Founder & CEO of FundApps, a RegTech company which provides compliance monitoring services to investment managers. FundApps currently services 3 of the world’s 10 largest hedge funds and monitors over 6 Trillion USD of assets every day. FundApps was founded in a spare bedroom above a pub and has never taken a penny of funding.

RJ Friedlander is an entrepreneur and investor based in Barcelona. He is the Founder & CEO of ReviewPro, the world leader in Guest Intelligence for the hotel industry. Focusing on hotel tech, the guest experience or entrepreneurship, RJ has spoken at more than 100 events worldwide, from prominent industry conferences to annual strategy meetings of renowned hotel brands. An enthusiastic and natural storyteller, his compelling presentations explore the latest trends and technical innovations impacting reputation and enabling savvy hoteliers to gain a competitive advantage.

Vasil is a growth marketing and startup event entrepreneur, who has produced over 500 in-person and virtual events, as well as built a 100K+ network of tech entrepreneurs and marketers. He’s the founder of Growth Marketing Conference, one of the leading growth marketing events in the industry, and he’s the CEO of startup professional network Startup Socials (as seen in Forbes). He’s worked with big brands like IBM, Adobe, Microsoft, and Delta Airlines, high growth startups such as Intercom, Autopilot, Instapage, Sendgrid, and many more.

Jeremy is the CEO and Co-Founder of Indicative. Indicative aims to put behavioral analytics in the hands of product managers, empowering them to map, analyze, and optimize the customer journey across every customer touchpoint. With up to a billion free events, Indicative removes the barriers from becoming data-driven, empowering anyone to perform sophisticated analysis. He was previously the CTO and Co-founder of MeetMoi a pioneering location-based dating service for mobile acquired by Match.com. He also Co-founded Xtify, served on its board as well as was its first CTO. Xtify provided secure, multi-channel mobile messaging platform suitable for enterprise-class marketers. Based on the technology he developed at Xtify he was awarded a patent for creating a Location-based services platform. Xtify was acquired by IBM in October of 2008.

Jeff Cope, Founder and CEO of InspectionXpert, has a passion for helping precision manufacturers transform inefficient, paper procedures into efficient, standardized, fully traceable and secure digital processes. Having made the transition from a manufacturing engineer to mechanical design engineer earlier in his career, Jeff was uniquely placed to quickly grasp the challenges facing precision manufacturers in their day-to-day operations. Jeff identified a glaring gap in the market for a quality inspection software which would help precision manufacturers eliminate paper in the manufacturing and quality inspection process. Teaching himself how to code, Jeff wrote the first InspectionXpert programme in 2004 which simplified quality checking processes and ensured a greater accountability over the QA chain. InspectionXpert was born, and today the company counts the likes of Pratt & Whitney, Kohler, Boeing, Airbus, NASA and Virgin Galactica as part of its 1,000 strong, global client base.

Michael Azzopardi is co-founder and CEO of employee development and eLearning company, Seb Azzo. Since being set up in 2013, Seb Azzo's software products helped develop upwards of 500,000 employees across 97 countries. Michael is currently focussing his attention on the company's latest product: Innform – a staff training tool for hospitality teams.

Ex-RAF pilot who entered the IT sector 25 years ago. Worked through the ranks to serve in senior executive roles in Compaq, HP and Sony across EMEA before founding his own SaaS company, expanding to the US and exiting in 2016. He has served on the boards of many other startups since 2005 and currently runs two ecommerce SaaS companies, a consultancy practice for startups and a Harley-Davidson dealership whilst holding the chairmanship of a mobile ticketing software startup.

Nathan Kamstra is the CIO of Urbanhire. He has more than 17 years of experience in health based IT and business delivery, proven track record of accomplishments ranging from hands on development to IT management. Strong experience in the global community providing world class solutions to health markets. Self-starter with a passion for quality service and excellent analytical, organizational, and creative skills. A detail-oriented and versatile professional with a strong grasp of IT finance and client management.

35 y.o. Married with 2 kids. Live in Dallas, Texas. I'm building SaaS B2B products since 2003. My first startup in this area grew from 1 to 110 employees and $0 to $2M/year in 4 years. My second from 2 co-founders to a team of 27 and $0 to $4.6M ARR in six years. My ares of expertise are: product, marketing, UI/UX, building teams, early stages of startups.

ThousandEyes empowers businesses to see, understand and improve connected experiences everywhere. The ThousandEyes cloud platform offers unmatched vantage points throughout the global Internet and provides immediate visibility into experience for every user and application over any network, so companies can deliver superior digital experiences, modernize their enterprise WAN and successfully migrate to the cloud. ThousandEyes is central to the global operations of the world's largest and fastest growing brands, including Comcast, eBay, HP, 100+ of the Global 2000, 60+ of the Fortune 500, five of the six top US banks and 20 of the 25 top SaaS companies. For more information, visit www.ThousandEyes.com or follow us on Twitter at @ThousandEyes.

Founder and CEO of SoMeCentral. 53 tech founder of SoMeCentral. SoMeCentral is the first SoMe tool of its kind, and we help companies to work closely together with employees for the purpose of boosting marketing, sales or employee branding.

Lifelong tech entrepreneur. Adrenaline adventurer who's deep technical knowledge and strategic business acumen helped in the acquisition of his previous SaaS business to Adobe in 2009. Expert in building high performing teams, technology and Marketplaces. Adam and his team loves to solve hard problems along side Enterprise and SMB clients alike.

I am passionate about building collaboration software that inspires and enables teams. We are building the best Board Meeting experience through our OnBoard product and the most versatile Employee Collaboration Experience through our Employee Portal solution called OnSemble. Our teams are uniquely focused towards customers success and meaningful innovation. We are based out of Lafayette(In), Indianapolis(In), London (UK) and Toronto(Canada). I live in Chicago.

Andre D. Etherly is the Founder of eMedicalFusion, LLC. He holds a Masters of Science, Information Systems Technology, from George Washington University. Seeing the unmet needs of Direct-pay medical practices, he founded eMedicalFusion to design and build solutions that enable Direct-pay practices to succeed and excel both clinically and financially.

The team is led by CEO & Founder, Tarik Khribech. Tarik is supported by Director, Consultant, Terri Friel and various mentors at 1871, Chicago's Premier Incubator. Tarik is a serial Entrepreneur, with expertise and passion that sits at the nexus of technology, innovation, lifestyle and social innovation. He built l’Or d’Afrique, a line of beauty products currently in 400 outlets and eCommerce. Tarik built the ChoreRelief platform.

Jay is the Founder and CEO of a B2B SaaS company called CloudSponge which sells an Address Book Widget and Contacts API that companies like Airbnb, Nextdoor, Yelp, GoFundMe and Stitch Fix use to grow their customer bases virally.

Ravi Sahu is a founder and CEO of Strayos. Before founding Strayos, he spent more than 12 years working globally with Fortune 500 companies like AT&T, Verizon and British Telecom in various roles, from product management to the building of teams for large digital transformation projects. His area of expertise is in Artificial intelligence and data analytics. He holds an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis and Computer Science engineering degree from India.

Andrew Filev is the founder and CEO of Wrike, a SaaS-based work management platform that helps teams achieve operational excellence. Founded in 2006, Wrike now serves more than 15,000 customers in 130 countries, and employees 600 people across 5 offices. The company has raised north of of $26 million from Bain Capital Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, DCM Ventures and TMT.

Nicolas Dessaigne is co-founder and CEO of Algolia, the leading Search & Discovery API for websites and mobile apps. Launched in 2012, Algolia is now used by over 5,800 companies around the world. Prior to Algolia, Nicolas spent over 12 years working on information retrieval at Exalead and Thales.

Olof Mathé is the CEO and a co-founder of Mixmax, a company that is “bringing the power of the Web to email” by creating richer email experiences with embeddable Slack-style commands to trigger polls, video, calendar invites, and more without leaving the message. Mixmax was founded in 2014 and received a $1.5 million seed investment round from a number of individual investors in April 2015.After finishing his engineering degree in France, Olof previously worked at Skype and McKinsey. He also helped grow Inkling Habitat, a cloud-based authoring environment for writers and publishers.

Carlo Cisco is a serial entrepreneur who has founded multiple successful companies and helped grow category-defining brands. Carlo is currently the Founder & CEO of SELECT, which has been heralded as "AMEX for the Next Generation" and "The Black Card for Millennials". Carlo is also a member of YEC and has been featured in 100+ stories across numerous media outlets including Entrepreneur, Forbes, and Huffington Post.

Allie Magyar, Hubb CEO, is a skilled entrepreneur and technology maven with over 15 years of experience driving successful technology enabled service companies. Allie has been named a 2017 Portland Business Journal’s 40 Under 40, a 2017 Top Woman Entrepreneur by Smart Meetings Magazine and, in 2018 was an EY Pacific NW Entrepreneur of the Year finalist.

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Full stack developer, co-founder of Digicoop, the company behind Kantree.

Master degree in Electronic Engineering in 1992, worked initially in the aerospace industry in Italy, England and the Netherlands. Founded his first company in 1995 (system integrator still active with 20+ employees), then a FHOSTER in 2008 (raised €1.2M from private investors and a VC fund), recently a company in the IoT industry.

Husband to Irene. Father to Abbey and Mike. Studied Statistics at Michigan. Play sports, especially golf and paddle tennis. Love to use data to analyze things. Professionally that means using data to help CPG companies make better decisions. Personally, that means a love for poker and wagering.

Sujoy is Cofounder and CEO at Airim. It was founded in April 2017. Airim is a virtual assistant that reduces the huge time and effort users spend in trying to find relevant information for them while exploring a website or a web app. Currently, it is used 2 million times a day in websites of businesses of all sizes across four continents.

I help companies to maximize their email channel ROI by providing the tools and knowledge to achieve just that. I play an active role in overseeing all product development, international marketing initiatives, and channel development. I believe people that I work with appreciate my creative & innovative thinking. I’m not all work, I love extreme water sports.