Colby Takeda is the co-founder and CEO of Pear Suite, where he oversees operations, business development, and strategic partnerships. Colby is a former senior living executive and has dedicated most of his professional career to improving community well-being through population health management programs, policy change, and technology solutions, particularly around the social drivers of health. After completing his undergraduate studies in exercise science at Willamette University, Colby completed a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Shidler College of Business, and a Master of Public Health (MPH) from the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health.

Nick Lockett is the technical co-founder and CTO of Pear Suite where he leads engineering & data science. A graduate of Duke University, Nick has worked on engineering teams at Microsoft and several startup companies, including SoundCommerce, where he led platform development. Nick has deep experience building dynamic technical solutions at scale, transforming big data into insights, and integrating artificial intelligence and machine learning to exponentially improve system potency.

Rachel Dowling is the co-founder and CEO of Equal Time. She is a founding member of the WomenTech Network and speaks regularly about inclusive meeting design at conferences for DEI and women's empowerment. She, former VP Product at TrustYou, and Growth PM at Study.com where she led the Teachers vertical from 0 to $12M ARR. She studied Philosophy at Stanford University, and International Comparative Education at the University of Oxford.

Kim LaRocca is the co-founder and CTO of Equal Time. She is a Senior Engineering Manager at NYPR, and founded a nonprofit that teaches women to code called “Merge Conflict.” Previously, she built the Black Lives Matter Website, and worked in real-estate tech. She studied Computer Science and Italian at Rutgers University.

Mr. Mohr is a sought-after HR thought leader & operator, helping some of the biggest companies in the world solve costly hiring, retention, and engagement issues in the workplace. Mr. Mohr is also a published author and a notable public speaker on purpose-driven leadership and organizational culture.

Mr. Gocke is a 4-time startup founder with extensive experience building cloud-based software solutions and has expertise in social listening, data mining, and AI/ML-enabled applications. Mr. Gocke earned a B.S. in Systems Engineering from West Point. He spent several years as a Satellite Officer in the U.S. Army.

Julia has been working as a fashion technology and AI expert for over a decade and has worked on special teams and networks for Sony Design Center & Corp, Google Search, Google Travel, Facebook AI and previously her personal blog technicallysweet.com

Lukas built two startups and previously ran as the CEO of three innovation outposts (Palo Alto, Shanghai & Berlin) for a multi-billion dollar company. He was previously the CEO of Swisscom Cloud Lab Ltd- Swisscom’s outpost. Located in Palo Alto, California, this innovation lab is a special subsidiary of Swisscom. While studying business administration at the University of St. Gallen, Lukas Peter founded a startup within the educational sector, which he later sold to a German educational publisher, Schulbuchverlag Klett. Lukas also has a Ph.D. in Business Innovation from the University of St.Gallen.

Benjamin is an Ex-McKinsey Manager in the payment and FinTech industry with a Masters in data science from Cornell.

Snow is the co-founder & CEO of Byrdhouse. She's been building software products for more than 5 years. Previously, she was the head of consumer product at Chowbus where she hired and led a squad of 15 people to build products and user community, which contributed to Chowbus’ 700% YoY growth, and 2 rounds of funding. Before Chowbus, she founded the merchant communication product at Groupon. She started her career at the Walt Disney Company, and was a part of the opening team for Shanghai Disney Resort.

Jacob is the co-founder and CTO of Byrdhouse. He previously built an AI-powered audio application to help immigrants overcome language barriers. He was also the co-founder of a video sharing platform for influencers. He used to work as an engineer at Alkami, and Dell. His specialty is video / audio platform with ML technology.

Benoit Scherrer grew up in France, living in many different cities. He started programming when he was 12 years old and, at 15 years old, was the youngest finalist of Prologin, a French national programming contest (36h non-stop). He earned his Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science in 2004 (rank: 2nd), a Master in Computer Vision in 2005, and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics in 2009, receiving the "Best Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics" award of INPG Grenoble University. He came to Boston in 2009 for a postdoc at Boston Children's Hospital with Simon K Warfield and, in 2018, became an Assistant Professor in Radiology at Harvard Medical School. During more than 12 years in the Radiology department at Boston Children's Hospital, Benoit witnessed Radiology's critical lack of metrics to manage equipment and has taken this on as his next big project. Today, he is the Co-Founder and CEO of Quantivly, a startup that spins off a technology initially developed at Boston Children's Hospital that will do just that.

Yaoyi Fan is the CEO and co-founder of design with FRANK. She graduated from the Cooper Union in 2018, earning the Yurnall Awards, and she was part of the Wallpaper* Magazine Graduate directory of 2018. She was raised in a family business of construction and developed in-depth interests in optimizing the construction business industry. Shenzhen urbanism biennial exhibited her recent project Instant Lounge in Futian train station in 2019. She also participated in the Venice Biennale of architecture in 2018 with her large-scale 3D printer, "Spider Print." She exhibited her works at the Haughton Gallery, Santiago University, and A&M University and published in several press publications, including Wallpaper*, Spring Wise, Idea For Good, Arch daily, and Artnet. Yaoyi taught at NYIT school of architecture and Cooper Union's Saturday program.

Gabriel is the CTO and co-founder of design with FRANK. He graduated from the Cooper Union, earning the Peter Bruder award for structure. Shenzhen urbanism biennial exhibited his recent project Instant Lounge in Futian train station in 2019. He also participated in the Venice Biennale of architecture in 2018 with his large-scale 3D printer, "Spider Print." Gabriel received an award of Meshell fellowship to 3D scan African indigenous villages in Ghana. He is both an inventor and architect, and he saw an opportunity to optimize the traditional construction process into a fast, streamlined process through computer programming. He published several works in the US, Argentina, China, and Europe, including Spring Wise, Idea For Good, Arch daily, and Artnet. Gabriel taught at NYIT school of architecture and Cooper Union's digital fabrication program for over three years.

David Suendermann-Oeft is Founder and CEO of Modality.AI. A scientist, engineer, founder, and former tenured university professor, he has 15 years of experience leading industrial and academic R&D departments, with a publication track record of over 170 books, patents, and articles. David has held C-level and senior management positions in industry and academia in the US and Europe.

David began commercializing technology products in the mid-80s. His experience spans product development, distribution and direct to consumer sales. He moved from his home country of Australia to San Francisco to found an internet venture, exiting to a public company. He has co-founded two non-profit organizations and is a first-round investor in numerous startups.

As a 3-time winner of the International Physics Olympiad, Dovran earned his Bachelor's degree at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His capstone project on brain-inspired computing was selected as the best project of 2019 in Hong Kong by judges from the Head of Innovation and Technology Commission of Hong Kong and Managing Partner of Sequoia Capital. This project led to the founding of NeuronSpike in 2019, the same year when he was admitted to the Harvard University Ph.D. program to work on brain-inspired computing. In 2021, he graduated from Harvard University with a master's degree and is now building NeuronSpike full-time.

Tomo started his career as the founding team member of Impact Hub Tokyo, a global movement of building co-working spaces and communities for visionary entrepreneurs. In 2015, he joined M3, Inc., a $70B+ valued medical platform in Japan, contributing to the new venturing in precision medicine.

Yuta was a founding member at DeNA Life Science, a spin-out startup from one of Japan's largest tech companies (DeNA Co., Ltd). As the Head of Science, Yuta developed a consumer genomics service by collaborating with professors from The University of Tokyo.

Ken is a founding member of P5, Inc., a joint venture between Sony, Illumina, and M3, where he led the R&D of genome-based testing solutions for medical institutions. He also has experience in genome analysis at Tohoku Medical Megabank, the largest genome cohort in Japan, and web development at M3, the largest web service for doctors in Japan.

Eddie is the co-founder and CEO of Visual Feeder. He comes from a digital media background; after graduating from Columbia College in the film program, he started working with large brands on creating projection mapping experiences for events and installations for marketing purposes. He saw an opportunity to utilize the technology to a larger scale and developed a business model to use retail windows and convert them into media displays. His large vision is to bring the look of science-fiction movies into reality. Eddie’s life’s passion is creating artful experiences using technology. With a background in media, visual, and design, his drive is to create opportunities to uplift human interactions with their surroundings. With a Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA focused on Visual Studies and communications from Columbia College Chicago.

Yaxi is the co-founder and COO of Visual Feeder. She pairs a range of creative leadership experience in business development and marketing strategy with a deep understanding of experiential design. She has held operational and management roles for leading media and bespoke manufacturing companies before starting Visual Feeder.

Dr. Zhao is an expert in semiconductor device design, manufacturing and characterization, receiving his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a serial entrepreneur and has successfully led fundraising efforts of a semiconductor startup. With a keen interest to combine unique technology with business insights, he oversees Atantares’ strategy, fundraising, business development and R&D.

Dr. Kolandaivelu is trained in both engineering and medicine, having received a PhD in mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and M.D. from the Harvard Medical School. He was trained at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital where he is a licensed cardiologist and an expert on the measurement of blood properties and translational assay development.

Dr. Aniruddh Sarkar received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and did postdoctoral training at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is an expert on blood processing technologies and bioMEMS/microfluidics.

Dr.Shahar Barbash is a former startup postdoctoral fellow in the Runway program at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute and a visiting fellow at Thomas P. Sakmar's lab at The Rockefeller University. Dr. Barbash obtained his Ph.D. from Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC) at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, under the supervision of Prof. Hermona Soreq. He is an author and co-author of over 20 publications in brain science and biology and the holder of four patents. Dr. Barbash is a recipient of the Rothschild postdoctoral fellowship and the Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation award for Ph.D. thesis.

Michael Levitt is a biophysicist and professor at Stanford University. From 1977-79 Levitt worked at the Salk Institute in California before taking up a permanent position at the Weizmann Institute, where he was appointed chair of Chemical Physics in 1980. In 1987, he was invited to work at Stanford University in California and has remained there ever since as Professor of Structural Biology. Levitt received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Martin Karplus and Arieh Warshel for "the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems."

Fernando Gómez-Baquero, Director of Runway and Spinouts at Jacobs institute, Cornell-Tech, is an innovation economist, nanomaterials engineer, and entrepreneur. He mentors a wide range of companies on diverse topics such as IoT, digital innovations, new materials for transportation, electric vehicles, wind, and solar power improvements, etc. Fernando specializes in novel energy storage materials, entrepreneurship in science and technology, academic research commercialization, and nanotechnologies' economic and policy analysis. Fernando holds a Ph.D. in Nanoscale Engineering.

Dr. Hansen Zhang is an established bioscientist and geneticist. He has published over ten publications and got two pharmaceutical patents. Between 2011 and 2017, he worked as a research associate at Cornell University, focusing on cancer treatment. He has more than ten years of experience in drug development. Hansen is also the advisor of Tiferet Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (Hong Kong). Dr. Zhang earned his Ph.D. degree from Michigan State University in genetics and bioscience.

Chandler Fang is a financial professional with over five years of experience in investment banking, VC, and capital market. He specializes in investment banking, fundraising, and product innovation. Before co-founding Alteron Therapeutic, Chandler worked as a fintech product manager at JP Morgan. He is also intensively involved in the Silicon Valley venture capital field and contributes to FoundersX Venture as an advisor.

Dr. Xinchun Zhang is a seasoned biostatistician and molecular biologist. She received her Ph.D. degree from Michigan State University and then worked as a research associate at Cornell University. Dr.Xinchun has extensive experience in biostatistics and molecular biology and has published over ten academic papers.

A biology graduate from Yale University, Louis Ausguste started his career with USAID managing over 1 million dollar worth of aid to Haiti in his first year as a program lead. After leaving Haiti, he joined Virgin Media UK as an iOS team lead / UX designer, where he developed an award-winning user interface for the TiVo remote app for blind users. Louis took part in the Virgin Media Pioneers program where he won the Technology Strategy Board's prize. Louis founded Alexapath in 2015 and has gone on to win numerous awards including, Top 10 Science Start Ups in the World, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers award for Best Hardware Prototype. With the support of the Melinda & Bill Gates Foundation, Alexapath launched the AiDA microscope in January of 2019.

Shishir is the co-founder and CTO of Alexapath. Before joining Alexapath, Shishir worked at the Center for K-12 STEM Education at NYU where he helped create and manage STEM programs and activities for K-12 students. During his time there, he managed programs that enrolled over a thousand middle and high school students with over a million dollars in funding. Shishir joined Alexapath in 2015 after graduating from NYU with an MS in CE. Apart from building diagnostic solutions, Shishir spends his time on projects that combine art with technology as well as photography.

Robert Luo is a three-time entrepreneur. He sold his first company, Xiamen Ubi Technology Inc., for $300,000 in 2017 while he studied at the University of Southern California for his Bachelor’s in Business Administration. He holds a place in the Entrepreneur Hall of Fame at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business. Robert is a Forbes Under 30 Scholar and was awarded Global Shaker's Sustainable Fashion Innovator 2019. He has also been nominated for LA Business Journal’s “20 in 20s”.

Adriana is a product developer with a keen sense of listening to users and understanding their needs. Born and raised in Mexico City, she moved to the US and received her Masters in Integrated Product Design from the University of Pennsylvania and a BS degree from MIT in Math with Computer Science. She has experience in Project Management and Software Development at Morgan Stanley, algorithmic research at BMW, and UX Design at an NYC Health and Lifestyle startup. Adriana is committed to improving the lives of women through technology, and feels compelled to use her skills to make a difference and share her wonderful ride as a woman of color in tech.

Sujay hails from Hyderabad, a metropolitan city in South India, and completed his Bachelor’s in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Osmania University. Sujay moved to the US and got a Masters in Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, with a focus on Integrated Circuit Design and Embedded Systems. In the High Energy Physics Group at UPenn, Sujay designed the oscillator circuit for the ATLAS experiment of the CERN particle accelerator. Prior to Lilu, he worked at Reliance Jio Infocomm, where he was an integral part of the team that launched 4G in India. He also founded a nonprofit to support women who were harassed by providing access to therapy sessions, self-defense classes, and a secure platform to encourage them to report their offenders anonymously.

Atilio is an Argentinean entrepreneur who specializes in new technologies. He founded his first company, ZDG Consulting at the age of 17 and has worked on several innovative projects since then. In 2015 Atilio’s company GTN Medical was selected by the Mexican government (INADEM) and Startup Mexico to participate in a soft landing program to bring talent to Mexico. GTN Medical was a Case of Success and Atilio was invited to give a speech at the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs in Mexico City.

Alex Hejazi is an entrepreneur at the core with a finance background. He started his professional career working at a boutique investment bank in Dubai before moving to Chicago and joining Wells Fargo. After a couple of years in the banking industry, he decided to join a fintech startup by the name of Paro and helped lead the sales team to grow the company from six to 50+ employees, raising over 15MM. After finding some success with Paro, Alex decided to start BallBox in 2017 and fundamentally change the way that people access consumer products.

Abdi Shayesteh is a serial entrepreneur and 15-year corporate and banking lawyer. As an entrepreneur, he founded four and successfully sold two startups. During the course of his law career, he has worked in diverse settings from Biglaw, in-house at a global bank, to government and start-ups. Abdi holds a J.D. and has worked at prestigious firms and provided legal services to top organizations, such as White & Lee, LLP, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, King & Spalding LLP, and MUFG in the Americas. Fed up with the status quo, Abdi realized that there needed to be a better way to professionally educate lawyers in a meaningful, dynamic and experiential way, while providing access for everyone.

Jeremy Liles has a strong background in technology and product leadership positions. His past experience includes technical product manager at USinternetworking, the first cloud application service provider platform; head of software development at iPreo, where he helped build the first real-time capital markets joint book-running platform; and VP of Technology & Legal Affairs at Innovest Systems, a leading cloud-based trust and wealth management platform. Jeremy has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Finance, and a JD in Corporate & Commercial Law.

Stakh Vozniak is the main ideologist behind Cargofy and is heavily involved in the company’s business development and investor negotiations. Stakh was born in the small provincial town of Kalynivka Druha in central Ukraine and set up his first business at the age of 13 - selling DVDs. When Stakh was nineteen, he started his first trucking company Wozward in Ukraine. This allowed him to understand that individual truck drivers are always facing problems such as inconveniences working with truck dispatchers, high dispatcher fees, and too much downtime. He moved to the U.S. and founded Cargofy.com to solve these issues, which now has $2.5 million in revenue.

Yasser Boumenir graduated from GeorgiaTech as a biomedical engineer with a minor in mathematics. It was through this course that he got extensive experience at AT&T Foundry, where he took part in an accelerator-like program. Before starting Prinsta, Yasser worked at a biotech startup where he tackled a problem called 'Computer Assisted Surgical Navigation'. He has also completed several hackathons hosted by GaTech and a VC firm, where he was subsequently invited to be a speaker for the Atlanta community.

Sam Matthews holds a degree in mechanical engineering and one in communications, with a major in film production. Throughout his time as a filmmaker, Sam worked a variety of jobs, from waiter to telemarketer to house restoration. He also spent some time working for Sam Dolbel, working on the SEO and website development for his e-Commerce business. Moving away from e-Commerce, Sam shot a feature-length documentary in Tanzania, where he began learning to code through videos. This was the first of many steps towards the founding of SINC.