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Technology:
CEO/Co-founder of WaveAI Inc.
Dr. Maya Ackerman, PhD., is a Computer Engineering Professor at Santa Clara University, author, and the CEO/Co-founder of WaveAI Inc., where she and her team created ALYSIA, an Artificial Intelligence that makes songwriting accessible to everyone.
Creator, Wait But Why
From the top 5 most-watched TED talk of all time, to HubSpot’s Inbound16 conference, Tim Urban is redefining the live speaking experience for the digital era.
Founder & CEO, Nest Labs
Tony Fadell is an active investor and entrepreneur with over 300 patents under his wing and a 25-year history of founding companies and designing products that profoundly improve people’s lives.
Government Adviser On Institutional Innovation
Formerly the Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States and Director of the White House Open Government Initiative, Noveck directs the Governance Lab. She is also a professor at NYU and MIT.
Editorial Director of Protocol
Emily Dreyfuss is the Editorial Director of Protocol, a new tech news publication from the publisher of Politico. Dreyfuss was named a member of The Neiman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard.
Digital Age Expert & Author
Rachel Botsman is the leading thinker and author on trust in the modern world. By distilling complex ideas into clear and compelling content, she gives us the tools to understand trust – what it means, how it works and why it’s so important.
Senior Hardware Engineer at Google
As a child, McLurkin was constantly building with any materials he could access. Today, he continues this tradition using Mother Nature as a model researching & developing algorithms to program autonomous robots.
Founder & Managing Director of digitalundivided
Over the past ten years, Kathryn Finney has made her mark as a tech entrepreneur, social media visionary, investor, and writer. In entertaining and on-point talks, Finney empowers women to be fearless innovators.