Speakers
All Speakers
Real Stories and Hard-Won Lessons from Tech's Most Successful Entrepreneurs
Matthew Stepka
Managing Partner at Machina Ventures, Ex-VP at Google
Andy Raskin
Strategic Narrative Lead at Salesforce, Uber, Square, Yelp, VMware, Intel, Turing
Le Cong
Associate Professor at Stanford University Co-Inventor of CRISPR, Ex-VP of Moderna
Bo Li
CEO of Virtue AI, Professor at UIUC
Marshall Hawks
Author | Investor | 20-Year Venture Lender
Aditya Bhatia
Author of "The Virality Playbook", Serial Founder, Forbes 30U30
Andy Lyu
Co-Founder & CTO at Osmosis (YC W25)
William Gao
Stealth Startup Founder building the world’s leading AI wearable
Jeff Boudier
Head of Product @ Hugging Face
Xiangyi Li
Founder at BenchFlow. Author of SkillsBench
Xiaoyin Qu
Founder at skillboss.co(backed by OpenAI), Exited Founder, Stanford Dropout
Zecheng Zhang
Cofounder & CTO @ TraceRoot.AI (YC S25) Founding Engineer @ Kumo.AI
Brad Bebee
Director, AWS, Amazon ElastiCache, Neptune, and Timestream
Ellie Chio
Senior Director of Engineering at Turing ex-Google Brain
Jaclyn Zhuang
VP Product & GM @ Eightfold AI
Mahi De Silva
Co-Founder & CSO, Higgsfield AI($100m ARR)
Rachel Hu
Founder of Energent.ai | Forbes 30U30
Sophia He
Founder of Story Engine
Ang Li
CEO & Co-Founder at Simular, Ex-Google DeepMind Research Scientist
Philip Rathle
CTO @ Neo4j
Bob Baxley
Executive Design Advisor, ex-Apple, Pinterest, Yahoo!, ThoughtSpot
Ram Rajagopal
Associate Professor at Stanford | Co-founder: GridCARE.
Kuang Xu
Associate Professor at Stanford GSB, Ex AI & Science Lead @Uber
Brendan Marshall
Managing Director @ Stanford-StartX, Ex-CEO & Cofounder @ Flow (acq.)
Coco Mao
CEO & Co-Founder at OpenArt
Jay Ram
Co-founder & CEO at HUD (YC W25)
Ron Shepherd
VP, Business Development @ OpenRouter
Jiantao Jiao
Director of AI & Distinguished Scientist @ NVIDIA
Xiao Zhang
Founder & CEO, Collov Labs | =| Stanford PhD in AI for Science | Forbes 30 Under 30
Yijia Shao
Phd Student at Stanford CS
Arvin Sun
CEO & Founder @ Traini
Catherine Liu
Partner at MagStone Law, LLP
Emmie Chang
Founder, Yuzu Labs
Junyu Huang
COO @ Novita AI | YC alum, ex-Scale AI
Nancy Zheng
Building voice-native interactive media | 2x founder, ex-Google, ex-Stripe
Rissa Cao
Co-Founder & CEO @ Fish Audio & 39 AI
Susan Linwood
CEO of ChargePodX,
Anna Goldie
AlphaChip Co-Lead, Ex-Google DeepMind & Anthropic, Founder & CEO of Ricursive Intelligence
Rajat Suri
Co-founder of Lyft and Presto
Prof. Jonathan Chen
Associate Professor of Stanford Medicine | Stanford Director of Medical AI Education
Michal Kosinski
Stanford Professor | Frontier AI Evaluation, AI and Human Psychology, Psychometrics I Public Speaker
Mariane Bekker
Managing Partner at Founders Bay and founder of Women Founders Bay
Bruce Wang
Director of Games Platform Engineering @ Netflix, 2x founder, investor
Muhammad Hashmi
DevRel at Daytona
Ravin Kumar
Senior Researcher, Gemini & Gemma Models @ Google DeepMind
Banghua Zhu
Co-Founder & CTO @ RadixArk
Derek Z. H. Yan
Author of "The Toughest Sell", Ex-Founder & CTO, Polarr (acq.), Stanford-StartX
Yinan Na
CEO @ Creatify, The AI Video Ad Maker | Ex Snap & Meta
Bei Zhang
VP of Growth at Tanka AI
Chang Chen
Founder at Hockey Stick | 3X exits | Ex-Otter.ai, Heygen, Cartesia, Microsoft
Erika Bahr
Founder & CEO of Daxe
Justin Gerrard
Growth & GTM | Fractional CMO | 3X Startup Exits
Nazrul Islam
Founder & CEO at CloudAEye
Roger Luo
Founder & Managing Partner @ Embedding VC
Vish Vadlamani
Co-founder of BHuman.ai | Founder of Refuge.app
Jim Benton
Co-Founder @ Adapt.com, Ex-CEO of Chorus.ai (NASDAQ: GTM) and Apollo.io ($1.6B Valuation)
Wen Sang
Co-founder & COO Genspark.ai
Jay Jung
Lead of OpenAI’s GTM Innovation Labs
Honglei Liu
Co-Founder &CEO of Tofu, Ex-Facebook and Twitter
Jay Wu
Co-Founder @ OpusClip, Ex-Airbnb & Linkedin
Vivek Pandit
Frontier AI Lead at Turing
Yu Jin (Lou)
Head of Dev Ecosystem @ Z.ai
Linda Sheng
Head of Global Business @ MiniMax
Ari Messer
Head of Partnerships @ Kilo Code
Jilei (Neo) Liu
VP, American Publishing @ Tencent Games, Head of NA Publishing @ Tencent
YJ Guo
CGO @ Mathos AI (1M MAU) | Serial Founder | Growth & Monetization in AI
Bethany Wang
Google Staff Engineer-Post-Training, RLHF & Evaluation (Gemini / Vertex AI)
David Hefter
AI Strategy @ BlackRock
Gaurav Aggarwal
CEO & Co-founder of Truva AI
Kisson Lin
CEO @ Tanka Entrepreneur in A
Ning Gao
Cofounder@Linkloud, ex VC@Hillhouse Capital
Russell Palmer
Co-Founder @ CyberFilm AI, ex-Microsoft, Samsung (Viv), JPMorgan
Alice Ou
Founder & CEO at Silicon Valley Circle (SVC) Forbes U30
Angela Ying
VP of Business Operations at NVIDIA
Tom Siegel
Co-Founder & CEO of Trust Lab, Ex-VP at Google
Xiaoliang Qi
Stanford Professor Co-Founder @ Path Integral Technology
Soohyun Bae
Founder/CEO Podonos | YC alum | Ex-Google
Vlada Bortnik
Co-founder and CEO of Marco Polo, Ex-Microsoft
Jason Qi
Research Scientist at Snorkel AI
Sarah Wang
Global Partnerships @ Kimi (Moonshot AI)
Jeff Fu
Head of Model Solutions, Qwen Model Lab @ Alibaba Cloud Intelligence
Vedran Jukic
Co-founder and CTO at Daytona
Yi Shi
CEO of FlashIntel, Serial founder - 1 IPO, 1 unicorn, 1 acquired($350m)
Yue (Lawrence) Xu
CEO @ TrustAI – Serial Entrepreneur, AI Safety Advocate, ex-Alibaba
Bob Zhang
Machine Learning Tech Lead/Manager at Google DeepMind
Dr Xuan Zhao
CEO & Co-Founder @ Flourish Science
Holly Chen
VP Growth Marketing at Samsara, Ex-Slack, Google, Loom, Miro, ServiceNow
Mahesh Sathiamoorthy
CEO of Bespoke Labs, ex-Google DeepMind researcher
Priyaa K
CEO & Co-Founder of Lica World
Samer Masterson
Software Engineer at Harvey, ex-Google search infra, ex-Dropbox
Andrew Lee Miller
15+ year startup marketing guy | Drove 3 exits (total $200m)
Matthew Stepka
Managing Partner at Machina Ventures, Ex-VP at Google
Jim Benton
Co-Founder @ Adapt.com, Ex-CEO of Chorus.ai (NASDAQ: GTM) and Apollo.io ($1.6B Valuation)
Bob Baxley
Executive Design Advisor, ex-Apple, Pinterest, Yahoo!, ThoughtSpot
Tom Siegel
Co-Founder & CEO of Trust Lab, Ex-VP at Google
Prof. Jonathan Chen
Associate Professor of Stanford Medicine | Stanford Director of Medical AI Education
Bo Li
CEO of Virtue AI, Professor at UIUC
Honglei Liu
Co-Founder &CEO of Tofu, Ex-Facebook and Twitter
Brendan Marshall
Managing Director @ Stanford-StartX, Ex-CEO & Cofounder @ Flow (acq.)
Vlada Bortnik
Co-founder and CEO of Marco Polo, Ex-Microsoft
Bruce Wang
Director of Games Platform Engineering @ Netflix, 2x founder, investor
Andy Lyu
Co-Founder & CTO at Osmosis (YC W25)
Yu Jin (Lou)
Head of Dev Ecosystem @ Z.ai
Ron Shepherd
VP, Business Development @ OpenRouter
Jeff Fu
Head of Model Solutions, Qwen Model Lab @ Alibaba Cloud Intelligence
Banghua Zhu
Co-Founder & CTO @ RadixArk
Xiangyi Li
Founder at BenchFlow. Author of SkillsBench
Jilei (Neo) Liu
VP, American Publishing @ Tencent Games, Head of NA Publishing @ Tencent
Yijia Shao
Phd Student at Stanford CS
Yue (Lawrence) Xu
CEO @ TrustAI – Serial Entrepreneur, AI Safety Advocate, ex-Alibaba
Bei Zhang
VP of Growth at Tanka AI
Brad Bebee
Director, AWS, Amazon ElastiCache, Neptune, and Timestream
David Hefter
AI Strategy @ BlackRock
Emmie Chang
Founder, Yuzu Labs
Holly Chen
VP Growth Marketing at Samsara, Ex-Slack, Google, Loom, Miro, ServiceNow
Justin Gerrard
Growth & GTM | Fractional CMO | 3X Startup Exits
Mahi De Silva
Co-Founder & CSO, Higgsfield AI($100m ARR)
Ning Gao
Cofounder@Linkloud, ex VC@Hillhouse Capital
Rissa Cao
Co-Founder & CEO @ Fish Audio & 39 AI
Samer Masterson
Software Engineer at Harvey, ex-Google search infra, ex-Dropbox
Vish Vadlamani
Co-founder of BHuman.ai | Founder of Refuge.app
Ang Li
CEO & Co-Founder at Simular, Ex-Google DeepMind Research Scientist
Philip Rathle
CTO @ Neo4j
Angela Ying
VP of Business Operations at NVIDIA
Rajat Suri
Co-founder of Lyft and Presto
Le Cong
Associate Professor at Stanford University Co-Inventor of CRISPR, Ex-VP of Moderna
Jay Jung
Lead of OpenAI’s GTM Innovation Labs
Kuang Xu
Associate Professor at Stanford GSB, Ex AI & Science Lead @Uber
Soohyun Bae
Founder/CEO Podonos | YC alum | Ex-Google
Mariane Bekker
Managing Partner at Founders Bay and founder of Women Founders Bay
Aditya Bhatia
Author of "The Virality Playbook", Serial Founder, Forbes 30U30
Vivek Pandit
Frontier AI Lead at Turing
Jay Ram
Co-founder & CEO at HUD (YC W25)
Sarah Wang
Global Partnerships @ Kimi (Moonshot AI)
Ravin Kumar
Senior Researcher, Gemini & Gemma Models @ Google DeepMind
Jeff Boudier
Head of Product @ Hugging Face
Ari Messer
Head of Partnerships @ Kilo Code
Xiao Zhang
Founder & CEO, Collov Labs | =| Stanford PhD in AI for Science | Forbes 30 Under 30
Yi Shi
CEO of FlashIntel, Serial founder - 1 IPO, 1 unicorn, 1 acquired($350m)
Yinan Na
CEO @ Creatify, The AI Video Ad Maker | Ex Snap & Meta
Zecheng Zhang
Cofounder & CTO @ TraceRoot.AI (YC S25) Founding Engineer @ Kumo.AI
Bethany Wang
Google Staff Engineer-Post-Training, RLHF & Evaluation (Gemini / Vertex AI)
Catherine Liu
Partner at MagStone Law, LLP
Dr Xuan Zhao
CEO & Co-Founder @ Flourish Science
Erika Bahr
Founder & CEO of Daxe
Jaclyn Zhuang
VP Product & GM @ Eightfold AI
Kisson Lin
CEO @ Tanka Entrepreneur in A
Nancy Zheng
Building voice-native interactive media | 2x founder, ex-Google, ex-Stripe
Priyaa K
CEO & Co-Founder of Lica World
Roger Luo
Founder & Managing Partner @ Embedding VC
Sophia He
Founder of Story Engine
Alice Ou
Founder & CEO at Silicon Valley Circle (SVC) Forbes U30
Anna Goldie
AlphaChip Co-Lead, Ex-Google DeepMind & Anthropic, Founder & CEO of Ricursive Intelligence
Andy Raskin
Strategic Narrative Lead at Salesforce, Uber, Square, Yelp, VMware, Intel, Turing
Wen Sang
Co-founder & COO Genspark.ai
Ram Rajagopal
Associate Professor at Stanford | Co-founder: GridCARE.
Xiaoliang Qi
Stanford Professor Co-Founder @ Path Integral Technology
Michal Kosinski
Stanford Professor | Frontier AI Evaluation, AI and Human Psychology, Psychometrics I Public Speaker
Marshall Hawks
Author | Investor | 20-Year Venture Lender
Jay Wu
Co-Founder @ OpusClip, Ex-Airbnb & Linkedin
Coco Mao
CEO & Co-Founder at OpenArt
Jason Qi
Research Scientist at Snorkel AI
Muhammad Hashmi
DevRel at Daytona
William Gao
Stealth Startup Founder building the world’s leading AI wearable
Linda Sheng
Head of Global Business @ MiniMax
Jiantao Jiao
Director of AI & Distinguished Scientist @ NVIDIA
Vedran Jukic
Co-founder and CTO at Daytona
Derek Z. H. Yan
Author of "The Toughest Sell", Ex-Founder & CTO, Polarr (acq.), Stanford-StartX
Xiaoyin Qu
Founder at skillboss.co(backed by OpenAI), Exited Founder, Stanford Dropout
YJ Guo
CGO @ Mathos AI (1M MAU) | Serial Founder | Growth & Monetization in AI
Arvin Sun
CEO & Founder @ Traini
Bob Zhang
Machine Learning Tech Lead/Manager at Google DeepMind
Chang Chen
Founder at Hockey Stick | 3X exits | Ex-Otter.ai, Heygen, Cartesia, Microsoft
Ellie Chio
Senior Director of Engineering at Turing ex-Google Brain
Gaurav Aggarwal
CEO & Co-founder of Truva AI
Junyu Huang
COO @ Novita AI | YC alum, ex-Scale AI
Mahesh Sathiamoorthy
CEO of Bespoke Labs, ex-Google DeepMind researcher
Nazrul Islam
Founder & CEO at CloudAEye
Rachel Hu
Founder of Energent.ai | Forbes 30U30
Russell Palmer
Co-Founder @ CyberFilm AI, ex-Microsoft, Samsung (Viv), JPMorgan
Susan Linwood
CEO of ChargePodX,
Andrew Lee Miller
15+ year startup marketing guy | Drove 3 exits (total $200m)
Matthew Stepka
Managing Partner at Machina Ventures, Ex-VP at Google
Philip Rathle
CTO @ Neo4j
Anna Goldie
AlphaChip Co-Lead, Ex-Google DeepMind & Anthropic, Founder & CEO of Ricursive Intelligence
Jim Benton
Co-Founder @ Adapt.com, Ex-CEO of Chorus.ai (NASDAQ: GTM) and Apollo.io ($1.6B Valuation)
Angela Ying
VP of Business Operations at NVIDIA
Andy Raskin
Strategic Narrative Lead at Salesforce, Uber, Square, Yelp, VMware, Intel, Turing
Bob Baxley
Executive Design Advisor, ex-Apple, Pinterest, Yahoo!, ThoughtSpot
Rajat Suri
Co-founder of Lyft and Presto
Wen Sang
Co-founder & COO Genspark.ai
Tom Siegel
Co-Founder & CEO of Trust Lab, Ex-VP at Google
Le Cong
Associate Professor at Stanford University Co-Inventor of CRISPR, Ex-VP of Moderna
Ram Rajagopal
Associate Professor at Stanford | Co-founder: GridCARE.
Prof. Jonathan Chen
Associate Professor of Stanford Medicine | Stanford Director of Medical AI Education
Jay Jung
Lead of OpenAI’s GTM Innovation Labs
Xiaoliang Qi
Stanford Professor Co-Founder @ Path Integral Technology
Bo Li
CEO of Virtue AI, Professor at UIUC
Kuang Xu
Associate Professor at Stanford GSB, Ex AI & Science Lead @Uber
Michal Kosinski
Stanford Professor | Frontier AI Evaluation, AI and Human Psychology, Psychometrics I Public Speaker
Honglei Liu
Co-Founder &CEO of Tofu, Ex-Facebook and Twitter
Soohyun Bae
Founder/CEO Podonos | YC alum | Ex-Google
Marshall Hawks
Author | Investor | 20-Year Venture Lender
Brendan Marshall
Managing Director @ Stanford-StartX, Ex-CEO & Cofounder @ Flow (acq.)
Mariane Bekker
Managing Partner at Founders Bay and founder of Women Founders Bay
Jay Wu
Co-Founder @ OpusClip, Ex-Airbnb & Linkedin
Vlada Bortnik
Co-founder and CEO of Marco Polo, Ex-Microsoft
Aditya Bhatia
Author of "The Virality Playbook", Serial Founder, Forbes 30U30
Coco Mao
CEO & Co-Founder at OpenArt
Bruce Wang
Director of Games Platform Engineering @ Netflix, 2x founder, investor
Vivek Pandit
Frontier AI Lead at Turing
Jason Qi
Research Scientist at Snorkel AI
Andy Lyu
Co-Founder & CTO at Osmosis (YC W25)
Jay Ram
Co-founder & CEO at HUD (YC W25)
Muhammad Hashmi
DevRel at Daytona
Yu Jin (Lou)
Head of Dev Ecosystem @ Z.ai
Sarah Wang
Global Partnerships @ Kimi (Moonshot AI)
William Gao
Stealth Startup Founder building the world’s leading AI wearable
Ron Shepherd
VP, Business Development @ OpenRouter
Ravin Kumar
Senior Researcher, Gemini & Gemma Models @ Google DeepMind
Linda Sheng
Head of Global Business @ MiniMax
Jeff Fu
Head of Model Solutions, Qwen Model Lab @ Alibaba Cloud Intelligence
Jeff Boudier
Head of Product @ Hugging Face
Jiantao Jiao
Director of AI & Distinguished Scientist @ NVIDIA
Banghua Zhu
Co-Founder & CTO @ RadixArk
Ari Messer
Head of Partnerships @ Kilo Code
Vedran Jukic
Co-founder and CTO at Daytona
Xiangyi Li
Founder at BenchFlow. Author of SkillsBench
Xiao Zhang
Founder & CEO, Collov Labs | =| Stanford PhD in AI for Science | Forbes 30 Under 30
Derek Z. H. Yan
Author of "The Toughest Sell", Ex-Founder & CTO, Polarr (acq.), Stanford-StartX
Jilei (Neo) Liu
VP, American Publishing @ Tencent Games, Head of NA Publishing @ Tencent
Yi Shi
CEO of FlashIntel, Serial founder - 1 IPO, 1 unicorn, 1 acquired($350m)
Xiaoyin Qu
Founder at skillboss.co(backed by OpenAI), Exited Founder, Stanford Dropout
Yijia Shao
Phd Student at Stanford CS
Yinan Na
CEO @ Creatify, The AI Video Ad Maker | Ex Snap & Meta
YJ Guo
CGO @ Mathos AI (1M MAU) | Serial Founder | Growth & Monetization in AI
Yue (Lawrence) Xu
CEO @ TrustAI – Serial Entrepreneur, AI Safety Advocate, ex-Alibaba
Zecheng Zhang
Cofounder & CTO @ TraceRoot.AI (YC S25) Founding Engineer @ Kumo.AI
Arvin Sun
CEO & Founder @ Traini
Bei Zhang
VP of Growth at Tanka AI
Bethany Wang
Google Staff Engineer-Post-Training, RLHF & Evaluation (Gemini / Vertex AI)
Bob Zhang
Machine Learning Tech Lead/Manager at Google DeepMind
Brad Bebee
Director, AWS, Amazon ElastiCache, Neptune, and Timestream
Catherine Liu
Partner at MagStone Law, LLP
Chang Chen
Founder at Hockey Stick | 3X exits | Ex-Otter.ai, Heygen, Cartesia, Microsoft
David Hefter
AI Strategy @ BlackRock
Dr Xuan Zhao
CEO & Co-Founder @ Flourish Science
Ellie Chio
Senior Director of Engineering at Turing ex-Google Brain
Emmie Chang
Founder, Yuzu Labs
Erika Bahr
Founder & CEO of Daxe
Gaurav Aggarwal
CEO & Co-founder of Truva AI
Holly Chen
VP Growth Marketing at Samsara, Ex-Slack, Google, Loom, Miro, ServiceNow
Jaclyn Zhuang
VP Product & GM @ Eightfold AI
Junyu Huang
COO @ Novita AI | YC alum, ex-Scale AI
Justin Gerrard
Growth & GTM | Fractional CMO | 3X Startup Exits
Kisson Lin
CEO @ Tanka Entrepreneur in A
Mahesh Sathiamoorthy
CEO of Bespoke Labs, ex-Google DeepMind researcher
Mahi De Silva
Co-Founder & CSO, Higgsfield AI($100m ARR)
Nancy Zheng
Building voice-native interactive media | 2x founder, ex-Google, ex-Stripe
Nazrul Islam
Founder & CEO at CloudAEye
Ning Gao
Cofounder@Linkloud, ex VC@Hillhouse Capital
Priyaa K
CEO & Co-Founder of Lica World
Rachel Hu
Founder of Energent.ai | Forbes 30U30
Rissa Cao
Co-Founder & CEO @ Fish Audio & 39 AI
Roger Luo
Founder & Managing Partner @ Embedding VC
Russell Palmer
Co-Founder @ CyberFilm AI, ex-Microsoft, Samsung (Viv), JPMorgan
Samer Masterson
Software Engineer at Harvey, ex-Google search infra, ex-Dropbox
Sophia He
Founder of Story Engine
Susan Linwood
CEO of ChargePodX,
Vish Vadlamani
Co-founder of BHuman.ai | Founder of Refuge.app
Alice Ou
Founder & CEO at Silicon Valley Circle (SVC) Forbes U30
Andrew Lee Miller
15+ year startup marketing guy | Drove 3 exits (total $200m)
Ang Li
CEO & Co-Founder at Simular, Ex-Google DeepMind Research Scientist