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
Yu Jin (Lou)
Head of Dev Ecosystem @ Z.ai
Jeff Fu
Head of Model Solutions, Qwen Model Lab @ Alibaba Cloud Intelligence
Vedran Jukic
Co-founder and CTO at Daytona
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)
Chang Chen
Founder at Hockey Stick | 3X exits | Ex-Otter.ai, Heygen, Cartesia, Microsoft
Emmie Chang
Founder, Yuzu Labs
Jaclyn Zhuang
VP Product & GM @ Eightfold AI
Mahesh Sathiamoorthy
CEO of Bespoke Labs, ex-Google DeepMind researcher
Ning Gao
Cofounder@Linkloud, ex VC@Hillhouse Capital
Russell Palmer
Co-Founder @ CyberFilm AI, ex-Microsoft, Samsung (Viv), JPMorgan
Vish Vadlamani
Co-founder of BHuman.ai | Founder of Refuge.app
Aditya Bhatia
Author of "The Virality Playbook", Serial Founder, Forbes 30U30
Philip Rathle
CTO @ Neo4j
Bob Baxley
Executive Design Advisor, ex-Apple, Pinterest, Yahoo!, ThoughtSpot
Ram Rajagopal
Associate Professor at Stanford | Co-founder: GridCARE.
Sarah Wang
Global Partnerships @ Kimi (Moonshot AI)
Jeff Boudier
Head of Product @ Hugging Face
Xiangyi Li
Founder at BenchFlow. Author of SkillsBench
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
Coco Mao
CEO & Co-Founder at OpenArt
Erika Bahr
Founder & CEO of Daxe
Junyu Huang
COO @ Novita AI | YC alum, ex-Scale AI
Mahi De Silva
Co-Founder & CSO, Higgsfield AI($100m ARR)
Priyaa K
CEO & Co-Founder of Lica World
Samer Masterson
Software Engineer at Harvey, ex-Google search infra, ex-Dropbox
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
Rajat Suri
Co-founder of Lyft and Presto
Xiaoliang Qi
Stanford Professor Co-Founder @ Path Integral Technology
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
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
David Hefter
AI Strategy @ BlackRock
Gaurav Aggarwal
CEO & Co-founder of Truva AI
Justin Gerrard
Growth & GTM | Fractional CMO | 3X Startup Exits
Mariane Bekker
Managing Partner at Founders Bay and founder of Women Founders Bay
Rachel Hu
Founder of Energent.ai | Forbes 30U30
Soohyun Bae
Founder/CEO Podonos | YC alum | Ex-Google
Andrew Lee Miller
15+ year startup marketing guy | Drove 3 exits (total $200m)
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 Wu
Co-Founder @ OpusClip, Ex-Airbnb & Linkedin
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
Yijia Shao
Phd Student at Stanford CS
Arvin Sun
CEO & Founder @ Traini
Bruce Wang
Director of Games Platform Engineering @ Netflix, 2x founder, investor
Dr Xuan Zhao
CEO & Co-Founder @ Flourish Science
Holly Chen
VP Growth Marketing at Samsara, Ex-Slack, Google, Loom, Miro, ServiceNow
Kisson Lin
CEO @ Tanka Entrepreneur in A
Nancy Zheng
Building voice-native interactive media | 2x founder, ex-Google, ex-Stripe
Rissa Cao
Co-Founder & CEO @ Fish Audio & 39 AI
Sophia He
Founder of Story Engine
Ang Li
CEO & Co-Founder at Simular, Ex-Google DeepMind Research Scientist
Angela Ying
VP of Business Operations at NVIDIA
Tom Siegel
Co-Founder & CEO of Trust Lab, Ex-VP at Google
Vlada Bortnik
Co-founder and CEO of Marco Polo, Ex-Microsoft
Linda Sheng
Head of Global Business @ MiniMax
Ari Messer
Head of Partnerships @ Kilo Code
Brendan Marshall
Managing Director @ Stanford-StartX, Ex-CEO & Cofounder @ Flow (acq.)
Yinan Na
CEO @ Creatify, The AI Video Ad Maker | Ex Snap & Meta
Bei Zhang
VP of Growth at Tanka AI
Catherine Liu
Partner at MagStone Law, LLP
Ellie Chio
Senior Director of Engineering at Turing ex-Google Brain
Honglei Liu
Co-Founder &CEO of Tofu, Ex-Facebook and Twitter
Kuang Xu
Associate Professor at Stanford GSB, Ex AI & Science Lead @Uber
Nazrul Islam
Founder & CEO at CloudAEye
Roger Luo
Founder & Managing Partner @ Embedding VC
Susan Linwood
CEO of ChargePodX,
Anita Wang
Product Leader @ Meta
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
Xiaoliang Qi
Stanford Professor Co-Founder @ Path Integral Technology
Yu Jin (Lou)
Head of Dev Ecosystem @ Z.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
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
Chang Chen
Founder at Hockey Stick | 3X exits | Ex-Otter.ai, Heygen, Cartesia, Microsoft
Dr Xuan Zhao
CEO & Co-Founder @ Flourish Science
Erika Bahr
Founder & CEO of Daxe
Honglei Liu
Co-Founder &CEO of Tofu, Ex-Facebook and Twitter
Justin Gerrard
Growth & GTM | Fractional CMO | 3X Startup Exits
Mahesh Sathiamoorthy
CEO of Bespoke Labs, ex-Google DeepMind researcher
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
Soohyun Bae
Founder/CEO Podonos | YC alum | Ex-Google
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 Wu
Co-Founder @ OpusClip, Ex-Airbnb & Linkedin
Sarah Wang
Global Partnerships @ Kimi (Moonshot AI)
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
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)
Bruce Wang
Director of Games Platform Engineering @ Netflix, 2x founder, investor
Coco Mao
CEO & Co-Founder at OpenArt
Ellie Chio
Senior Director of Engineering at Turing ex-Google Brain
Gaurav Aggarwal
CEO & Co-founder of Truva AI
Jaclyn Zhuang
VP Product & GM @ Eightfold AI
Kisson Lin
CEO @ Tanka Entrepreneur in A
Mahi De Silva
Co-Founder & CSO, Higgsfield AI($100m ARR)
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
Sophia He
Founder of Story Engine
Alice Ou
Founder & CEO at Silicon Valley Circle (SVC) Forbes U30
Anita Wang
Product Leader @ Meta
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.
Vlada Bortnik
Co-founder and CEO of Marco Polo, Ex-Microsoft
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
Brendan Marshall
Managing Director @ Stanford-StartX, Ex-CEO & Cofounder @ Flow (acq.)
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
Catherine Liu
Partner at MagStone Law, LLP
David Hefter
AI Strategy @ BlackRock
Emmie Chang
Founder, Yuzu Labs
Holly Chen
VP Growth Marketing at Samsara, Ex-Slack, Google, Loom, Miro, ServiceNow
Junyu Huang
COO @ Novita AI | YC alum, ex-Scale AI
Kuang Xu
Associate Professor at Stanford GSB, Ex AI & Science Lead @Uber
Mariane Bekker
Managing Partner at Founders Bay and founder of Women Founders Bay
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
Susan Linwood
CEO of ChargePodX,
Andrew Lee Miller
15+ year startup marketing guy | Drove 3 exits (total $200m)
Aditya Bhatia
Author of "The Virality Playbook", Serial Founder, Forbes 30U30
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.
Xiaoliang Qi
Stanford Professor Co-Founder @ Path Integral Technology
Jay Wu
Co-Founder @ OpusClip, Ex-Airbnb & Linkedin
Vlada Bortnik
Co-founder and CEO of Marco Polo, Ex-Microsoft
Yu Jin (Lou)
Head of Dev Ecosystem @ Z.ai
Sarah Wang
Global Partnerships @ Kimi (Moonshot AI)
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
Brendan Marshall
Managing Director @ Stanford-StartX, Ex-CEO & Cofounder @ Flow (acq.)
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
Bruce Wang
Director of Games Platform Engineering @ Netflix, 2x founder, investor
Catherine Liu
Partner at MagStone Law, LLP
Chang Chen
Founder at Hockey Stick | 3X exits | Ex-Otter.ai, Heygen, Cartesia, Microsoft
Coco Mao
CEO & Co-Founder at OpenArt
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
Honglei Liu
Co-Founder &CEO of Tofu, Ex-Facebook and Twitter
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
Kuang Xu
Associate Professor at Stanford GSB, Ex AI & Science Lead @Uber
Mahesh Sathiamoorthy
CEO of Bespoke Labs, ex-Google DeepMind researcher
Mahi De Silva
Co-Founder & CSO, Higgsfield AI($100m ARR)
Mariane Bekker
Managing Partner at Founders Bay and founder of Women Founders Bay
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
Soohyun Bae
Founder/CEO Podonos | YC alum | Ex-Google
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
Anita Wang
Product Leader @ Meta
Aditya Bhatia
Author of "The Virality Playbook", Serial Founder, Forbes 30U30