Stacey Abrams is the two-time New York Times bestselling author of Our Time is Now and Lead from the Outside, an entrepreneur, and political leader.

Biz is a co-founder of Twitter, Medium, and Jelly. Biz has been recognized as one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People and is a Fellow at the University of Oxford.

Jeff Lawson is the founder and CEO of Twilio. A serial entrepreneur and a software developer, Jeff co-founded Twilio in 2008.

Michelle Zatlyn is co-founder, President and COO of Cloudflare, the Internet security, performance, and reliability company on a mission to help build a better Internet.

Henry Ward is the CEO and co-founder of Carta, a company that continues to revolutionize the way founders, investors, and employees manage equity and ownership.

Lucy Liu is President and Co-founder at Airwallex. She is responsible for the company’s branding and operations.

Parker Conrad launched Zenefits in 2013, the first all-in-one HR platform that allowed businesses to sign up and manage payroll and benefits online.

Markus Villig is the founder and CEO of Bolt, the leading European mobility platform that’s focused on making urban travel more affordable, convenient and responsible.

Harry Stebbings is the Founder of The Twenty Minute VC, the world’s largest media asset in Venture Capital with over 16m downloads per month, partnerships with Mattermark and ProductHunt and guests from over 2,500 leading VC’s including Sequoia, Founders Fund, Y Combinator, Benchmark, Accel and Index.

Eren Bali is the CEO and co-founder of Carbon Health. He leads the Carbon team towards his vision to democratize healthcare and make quality care accessible for everyone.

Sriram Krishnan is an experienced product leader and investor. He has lead core product at Twitter and previously revenue products at Snap and Facebook. He writes at sriramk.com.

Hernan Kazah is a Managing Partner and cofounder of Kaszek Ventures, the largest early stage venture capital firm in Latin America, having raised over $1B in five different funds.

Alda brings over a decade of investing and legal experience to Initialized Capital. Prior to Initialized, she was a managing partner at 137 Ventures where she led investments in Planet Labs, Wish, Coupang, CourseHero, and Work Market.

George Arison is the Co-founder and Co-CEO of Shift, an online marketplace innovating the car sales industry. Previously, he co-founded Taxi Magic (now known as Curb), the first on-demand mobile transportation booking technology, and worked at Google and BCG.

Recognized as a leadership and development innovator, Alexi is the co-founder and CEO of BetterUp, the first leadership development platform to connect coaching to sustainable behavior change.

Claire Diaz-Ortiz is an author and startup investor who was an early employee at Twitter. Named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company, she has written nine books that have been translated into 10 languages.

Jean-Denis Greze oversees Plaid’s global engineering and design teams and sets the technical vision of the company. Prior to joining Plaid, Jean-Denis was Director of Engineering at Dropbox.

Rebecca Kaden is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. She began her career as a journalist and prior to USV was a General Partner at Maveron, a consumer-focused early stage fund.

Paul Bassat is a co-founder and investor at Square Peg. Square Peg is a venture capital fund with a purpose to empower the exceptional.

Prior to Inspired Capital, Alexa founded LearnVest in 2008 with the goal of helping people make progress on their money. After raising nearly $75 million in venture capital, LearnVest was acquired by Northwestern Mutual in May 2015 in one of the biggest fintech acquisitions of the decade.

Byron Deeter is a leading investor in SaaS and Cloud. He co-authors Bessemer’s iconic 10 Laws of Cloud Computing and the annual State of the Cloud Report.

Prior to founding Bloom Energy, Dr. Sridhar was Director of the Space Technologies Laboratory at the University of Arizona, where he created technology to convert Martian atmospheric gases to oxygen for propulsion and life support.

Tien Tzuo is the world’s foremost authority on the “The Subscription Economy.” He is CEO of Zuora (NYSE: ZUO), the leading subscription management platform company, which he founded after 11 years at Salesforce, having served as the company’s chief marketing officer and chief strategy officer.

David Cohen is the Founder and Managing Partner at Techstars, the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed. David has been an entrepreneur and investor for his entire life.

Aviad Pinkovezky is the Head of Product at Hippo Insurance, where he joined the company in 2016 as employee number one. Prior to Hippo, Aviad served as Senior Product Manager at LinkedIn, spearheading the growth of its Company Page ecosystem by nearly 300%.

Sonja Gittens Ottley is Head, Diversity & Inclusion at Asana, where she’s responsible for crafting the company’s strategies for recruiting employees from underrepresented groups and creating an inclusive environment that allows them to thrive.

Job is the CEO and co-founder of Remote, the company making global employment accessible for businesses of all sizes.

Elizabeth has a 20-year background in building and running teams at world-leading media companies. As CEO and publisher of MIT Technology Review Elizabeth facilitated a massive transformation from a niche print magazine to a global, multi-platform media brand.

Mr. Graylin is the China President at HTC, leading all aspects of HTC’s business in the region (Vive/VR, phone, content platform, partnerships and investments) and the company’s SW business globally.

Gary is the founder and CEO of FounderTribes, an innovative learning platform that empowers you to raise capital and upskill your business.

Tech titan Michele Romanow is a serial entrepreneur who started five companies before her 33rd birthday. A “Dragon” on CBC’s hit show Dragons’ Den, Romanow is the Co-founder and President of Clearbanc.

High Tech Entrepreneur with 3 Unicorn IPOs, Kamran is Founder and Chairman, Global Innovation Catalyst, LLC and advises various governments on the needed transition from fossil-based economies to sustainable innovation economies.

Russ Heddleston is the CEO and co-founder of DocSend, which he started in 2013 with Tony Cassanego and Dave Koslow.

Shishir Mehrotra is the cofounder and CEO of Coda, a new doc for teams that combines documents, spreadsheets, and applications into a single canvas.

Sujeet Kumar is a co-founder of udaan. He founded udaan in 2016 with Vaibhav Gupta and Amod Malviya, who were both former senior executives at Flipkart.

Maya Horgan Famodu is Founder & MD at Ingressive Capital, a $10 Million VC Fund I and $50 Million Fund II targeting early stage startups across Sub-Saharan Africa’s key tech markets.

Amandine is currently Head of Business Operations at Paystack, an online payments company based in Lagos, Nigeria, which helps merchants to collect payments from their customers.

Liana Douillet Guzmán is the Chief Marketing Officer at Skillshare. As CMO, Liana helps to set Skillshare’s long-term strategy and drives its growth and retention through brand, acquisition, communications, partnerships and sales.

Brian Brackeen is a General Partner at Lightship Capital, the $50 million dollar Cincinnati-based VC firm dedicated to backing underrepresented entrepreneurs in the Midwest.

Stephen McIntyre, is Founding Partner at Frontline Ventures where he leads Frontline X, an $80M growth-stage fund for US B2B companies eyeing Europe expansion, specialising in backing Series B+ SaaS firms on the road to IPO-path.

Áine Kerr is a serial risk taker and trailblazer with more than 10 years’ experience in the specialist cross-over space between journalism and technology.

Anis Uzzaman, Ph.D. is the General Partner, and Founder of Pegasus Tech Ventures. He serves as the CEO of the company, overlooking overall management and operations.

After having her first child in 2015, founder Allison Robinson identified how universally challenging it can be for American mothers to juggle the demands of motherhood with a full-time career.

Albrey is a former founder and software engineer. Albrey is passionate about understanding how technology companies can affect systems of oppression.

Under her leadership since she launched the agency in 2014, Obviously has become the global standard of influencer marketing by providing the best full service client experience, managing complexity and scale of influencer work, and using data analysis to inform all strategies.

Javier Mata is the founder and CEO of Yalo, the leading conversational commerce platform in emerging markets. The platform helps enterprises optimize critical processes and improve relationships with customers through messaging applications such as Whatsapp.

Former covert surveillance private investigator who built an international multi-million dollar business from his suburban garage in Townsville.

Ashley has led numerous marketing organizations and guided companies through their greatest stages of growth and in most cases, successful exits.

Shuo Wang is a technology entrepreneur most notable for co-founding Deel, the market-leading international compliance and payments platform that automates international hiring and payroll for companies of all sizes.

Christina Cacioppo is a cofounder and the CEO of Vanta, a YC-backed security and compliance startup. She was previously Dropbox Paper’s lead PM and cofounded a mobile startup; she started her career in venture at Union Square Ventures.

Dan is an associate finance editor at Business Insider, based in New York. He covers financial technology and market structure.

Aaron Jacobson invests in entrepreneurs seeking to build, scale and secure the next-generation of SaaS applications, big data platforms, cloud infrastructure, and robotics.

Songe is the CEO and co-founder of Squire, the all-in-one point-of-sale and business management platform for barbershops.

Eric Rea is a Canadian entrepreneur and Co-founder and CEO of Podium, the leading communication and payments platform for local businesses.

Tsune focuses on investing in mid-to-late stage, high-growth technology companies. He led World Innovation Lab investments in Asana, Auth0, Kong, and TransferWise.

Sarah Shewey is an experience economy pioneer with a background in film and tech. She is the Founder & CEO of Happily, a network of over 50,000 sustainable event producers, technologists and creatives who produce world-class virtual and live events.

Ian is co-founder of Innovation Bay. He is also an active investor as a partner at Jelix Ventures. Prior to this he spent four years at AWS as Head of Startups for Australia & NZ.

Blessing has worked with brands across industries in unique capacities globally, including Seedstars, Facebook, Taeillo, Diageo, Heritage Bank, Dark and Lovely, Bolt, Lemi Ghariokwu, Victor Ehikhamenor, QuickCheck and more.

Jason Williamson is Vice President of Oracle for Startups and Oracle for Research reporting into the Office of the Founder.

Christina Galbato is a social media influencer, online educator, and digital marketing expert.

I am a freelance writer and documentary filmmaker. I co-authored with Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman the book Rise of the Data Cloud.

Jaime Schmidt is an entrepreneur and the founder of Schmidt’s Naturals, a brand of natural personal care products that she started in her kitchen in Portland, Oregon in 2010.

Alec is the Chief Innovation Officer & Managing Director at OneValley and OneValley Ventures, where he leads Acceleration, Ventures and Enterprise Innovation efforts.

Jomaree Pinkard is a native New Yorker who graduated from the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce and also earned his MBA from The Wharton School of Business.

Vieje leads the Equity Advisory team at Secfi where we help startups and their employees make informed decisions to get the most value out of their equity.

Andrew is a former founder/executive dedicated to solving the world’s inefficiencies with technology.

Kyle is a Partner at DCM, an early-stage global venture capital firm with offices in Silicon Valley, Beijing and Tokyo.

For the past 15 years Derek has been building communities. He is the Co-founder/CEO of Bevy, a SaaS product that helps companies like Salesforce, Atlassian, Google, Snowflake, and Adobe build virtual and in-person communities. He co-founded Startup Grind, a community of 600 Chapters in 125 countries educating, inspiring, and connecting startup people.

Alexa Hall is a California native interested in economic development, arts & culture and travel. She holds a Masters degree in Management and has more than 10 years of experience at high value organizations.

Known as the Heavyweight Champion of Story, Rajiv ‘RajNATION’ Nathan is Founder of Startup Hypeman, helping growing companies not suck at telling their story so they stand out to their audience, stand apart from competitors, and break through in their category.

Hubert Palan is Founder and CEO of Productboard. Driven by a passion for building excellent products, he started the company quietly and built a small team in Prague before launching at TechCrunch Disrupt.

Kristin is the Careers reporter at Forbes. Previously, she covered the world’s richest people as a member of Forbes’ wealth team.

Randall has over 15 years of experience developing scalable growth programs that range from Exit Strategy Development to scalable Go-to-Market Development.

Madeline first joined the Startup Grind community over three years ago as Co-Director of the Chicago Chapter. Her involvement with the organization grew deeper over time and Madeline now serves as Chapter Lead for the startup grind community where she oversees the growth and management of Chapters, events and sponsorship.

Lauren is a co-founder and Managing Partner at Acrew Capital where she leads the firm’s fintech investing practice.

Tyler is a truly engaging, dynamic and entertaining thought leader in the areas of B2B marketing, content marketing, video marketing and video selling.

Kirsten is a global marketing director at Dell Technologies and has been working in and around edge technologies for over seven years.

Josh Constine is a Principal investor at venture capital fund SignalFire, backing early stage startups with a focus on the creator economy, social apps, remote work, and telehealth.

ElecTrip was created to advance the adoption of electric vehicles(EVs). ElecTrip offers regional travel in EVs by allowing current owners to rent out their vehicles.

Mary Ann Azevedo is currently a senior reporter at TechCrunch, covering startups and investing. Previously, she was managing editor of FinLedger, a fintech focused publication.

Jason Pressman is a Managing Director at Shasta Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm with more than $1 billion under management.

Vlad Magdalin is a designer and front-end developer who is passionate about creating tools that push web design forward.

A gifted engineer and spirited entrepreneur, Chris graduated with a PhD in CS from Carnegie Mellon University in two years at the age of 22 (holding the record for the quickest person to ever receive a CMU CS PhD).