Kamran Elahian

Global Catalyst & 500Startups

Chairman and Founder, Global Innovation Catalyst, LLC; Chairman, Advisory Board, Global Venture Alliance; Global Innovation Advisor, 500 Startups; Founding Mentor, Unreasonable Institute; Founding Board Advisor, Harbour.Space University; Advisory Member, Seedstars World; Advisory Member, UNICEF Innovation Fund. As an Innovation Catalyst, Kamran advises various governments on the needed transition from fossil based economies to sustainable innovation economies.Startups and Founding Advisory Board Member at Harbour.Space University.

Orit Kopel

Founder at Wikitribune

Orit Kopel is the Co-Founder & VP of Business Development of WikiTribune, an inventive Wiki-based news platform which brings together a community of volunteers with hired professional journalists in an effort to create a collaborative news space. With a background as a qualified Human Rights Lawyer, Kopel is CEO of the Jimmy Wales Foundation for Freedom of Expression, advocating for bloggers and social media users who are persecuted for speaking out online. She previously acted as Jimmy Wales’ Special Adviser for Google’s Expert Advisory Council on the ‘Right To Be Forgotten’, defending Internet freedom.

Ryan Bubinski

Founder at Codecademy

Ryan is an entrepreneur, educator and software developer. He has over 10 years of experience in the education technology space, and over 15 years of experience building software companies. Ryan has been recognized on Inc. Magazine's 30 Under 30 list, and selected as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. He is the Co-Founder and former CPO of Codecademy, an online startup-up company that has taught over 45 million learners around the globe write to their first lines of code.

David Okuniev

CEO at Typeform

Born in Belgium and educated in England, David Okuniev started his professional career as a musician. Expression through music soon turned to expression through product and brand design, which led to David founding the Barcelona-based design studio, Fat-Man-Collective. From working in the same co-working space, David later met Robert Muñoz, and the two went on to co-found Typeform. Today, David is joint CEO and heads the Design team at Typeform.

Peter Read

Partner at Vitruvian Partners

Peter is a Managing Director at Vitruvian; a venture partner at BlueYard and LocalGlobe; an advisor to Entrepreneur First; and a Trustee of Frazzled Cafe, Doteveryone, and the Oxford Mindfulness Centre (Oxford University). He is an angel investor/advisor in over 100 tech startups. Previously, he was an angel/advisor at NevenVision, General Partner at Google Ventures; Board Director of GP Bullhound and Entertainment Insights; President of Nielsen Entertainment; Governor at Beaconsfield High School; Fellow of Wellington College; a film awards judge at BAFTA; and a digital advisor to Oxfam, Sport England, and The Roundhouse. He is an active supporter of Founders Forum, Founders4Schools, AppsForGood, Speakers4Schools, Cambridge Wellbeing, Mindfulness In Schools, Mind & Life, CSAP, and NFTS. He was an Associate Producer on Rabbit Fever and an (uncredited) actor in Flyin' Ryan which both received some of the worst reviews in movie history.

Anne Driscoll

CMO at Startup Genome

Anne Driscoll is a current CMO of Startup Genome; an international effort providing insight to entrepreneurs and partners alike in order to help foster success within global tech startup communities. Based in Silicon Valley, Anne’s experience in the Valley also stems from a background as a former Google Executive. Her passion for startups has led to a passion for global connections, and is also an advisor for multiple roles and companies at the CMO level. In March, Anne recently launched Startup Genome’s Global Startup Ecosystem Report for 2017 – providing data analysis and knowledge for startup ecosystems from around the world.

Michael Eckhardt

Crossing the Chasm 3.0

Michael Eckhardt is Managing Director at Chasm Institute in their Silicon Valley Office, where Michael has been a partner for over 15 years:

• a veteran of PwC, Harbridge Consulting, HP, and Pepsico.
• a Harvard MBA and Wall Street Journal Award winner, Michael is a recognized expert in new product launch success & go-to-market tools + best practices. He has lead over 500 client engagements in the US / Europe / Asia Pacific.
• Michael’s clients include: Adobe, Spotify, Citrix, Google / Nest, NetApp, RSI, HotChalk, Intel, Cisco, Xilinx, 3D printing ventures, Autodesk, SAP, Agilent Life Sciences, Jive, QAD, Micron, Philips Medical, Samsung, Logitech, and many other tech-based businesses, from large enterprises to mid-sized companies to venture-backed start-ups.
• his firm’s books include the newly-updated 'Crossing the Chasm 3.0' -- with 25 all-new tech company examples best practices, as well as the companion books 'Escape Velocity' and 'Zone to Win'.
• these best-sellers -- over 3,000,000 books sold -- continue to be proven playbooks for entrepreneurial success in B2B and B2C markets.
• its frameworks underpin the way tech companies around the world plan & fund their investments in disruptive innovations.
• Michael’s client focus, through 2-day strategy workshops and consulting services, drive three client outcomes:
  1. accelerating new product success in next 12 to 24 months
  2. best practices and tools for revenue growth
  3. launching profitable innovations
• Michael served as editor and contributor for both the updated for 2017 'Crossing the Chasm 3.0' and 'Escape Velocity' books, which have sold more than 3 million copies worldwide.

Carina Szpilka

Partner at K FUND

Partner at K FUND.

Alexis Bonte

Partner at Atomico

Entrepreneur. co-founder and angel investor with a strong general management background and a 19 years 360 degrees experience in all types of start ups from early stage to post IPO (lastminute.com, eRepublik Labs etc.) Recognized by the World Economic Forum (Davos) as a Young Global Leader (YGL) in 2012. Passionate about building successful organizations and management teams in fast growing environments, to deliver maximum results by offering the best service to customers. Building great companies is hard its also an incredibly interesting adventure.

Chad West

CMO at Revolut

CMO @ Revolut

Dhiraj Mukherjee

Co-founder at Shazam

Dhiraj Mukherjee is one of the cofounders of the music identifying service, Shazam. He completed his Master's at Stanford University in 1997 and currently serves as the Head of Banking Innovation for Virgin Money in the United Kingdom. Prior to starting Shazam, Mukherjee worked in consulting for Bain & Company and as a Project Manager for Viant Corp.

Tom Studd

Partner at Vitruvian Partners

Investor focusing on high growth technology-enabled businesses. Invest in both late stage venture rounds where we take a minority stake and in growth buyouts. Slightly eclectic range of expertise ranging from online marketplaces, software, adtech/martech and fashion/luxury in the online world. Currently Board representative or observer at Carwow, Ebury, Farfetch and Vestiaire Collective. Other deals at Vitruvian include Just-Eat, Snaplogic, Trustpilot, Group IMD, Inenco, Inspired Gaming Group, Instinctif, JacTravel and OpenBet.

Casey Fenton

Founder of Couchsurfing

Casey Fenton is currently co-founder and CIO of CouchSurfing International, a network of welcoming people worldwide. The concept was born in 1999 after Casey traveled and had several experiences staying with locals. After attending college for computer science in 1997, he worked as a technology and Internet consultant before starting several technology companies. Nowadays, he's spearheading Mastly, his new startup. Mastly is a performance-based equity tool to help startups reach goals.

Derek Andersen

CEO at Startup Grind

Derek Andersen is the founder and CEO of Startup Grind, a community of over 200 Chapters in 80 countries designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. Startup Grind's values of giving, helping others, and making friends have spread across the world. Since 2012 Startup Grind has hosted 4,000 events for more than 200,000 entrepreneurs. In 2009 Derek founded Vaporware Labs, incubating many products including Startup Grind and professional social network Commonred, which was acquired by Income.com in 2012. He lives in Palo Alto with his wife and three children.

Clancy Childs

CTO at Dow Jones

Chief Product & Technology Officer, Dow Jones Professional Information.

Carlos Kuchkovsky

CTO New Digital Business @ BBVA

CTO New Digital Business @ BBVA | Board Member Hyperledger.

Xavier Redó

Founder & CTO at MarsBased

Xavier is a founding member and CTO at MarsBased, an all-remote Ruby on Rails & Javascript development agency. He's responsible for architecture and development and an expert in managing teams of remote developers. Xavier started his career freelancing before joining the corporate world, working for companies like ATOS Origin and Gnuine, where he discovered the wonders of Ruby on Rails, which inspired him to create a specialised company just a few years after.

Mar Alarcón

CEO at SocialCar

Founder and CEO of SocialCar, the first platform in Spain for P2P car rental. Mar, is a benchmark in sharing economy, sustainable mobility and legality. Founding member of Sharing España and board member of ADigital. Mar supports Barcelona's tech ventures as a member of BCN Tech City's board of directors. She is also a promoter of innovation as part of the Creafutur advisory board. Graduated in Law and PDD by IESE, she began her professional career at Cuatrecasas Abogados and her social entrepreneurship interest began at Grameen Bank with Prof. Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

Howard Love

CEO at LoveToKnow

Howard Love is a life-long entrepreneur who has founded, co-founded, funded and managed startups for over 30 years. He is the Founder & CEO of LoveToKnow, one of the largest US digital media companies, whose web properties include lovetoknow.com, yourdictionary.com, trails.com, and golflink.com. Love founded his first company, Inmark Development, while an undergraduate at Colgate University. Inmark Development was eventually sold as Rogue Wave and subsequently went public. Since then, Love has founded or co-founded over 15 businesses and invested in over 50 startups. Love speaks frequently on entrepreneurship for conferences, summits & events in North America and overseas, including Techtoberfest, Startup Grind, Start-Up Week, TechStars, Plug & Play, Capital Factory – as well as Slush Helsinki & the Government of Spain. Love recently published his first book, the Amazon bestseller The Start-Up J Curve. Recently, he's opened a development center in Barcelona.

Pepe Agell

CSO & Founder at Chartboost

Pepe Agell leads Chartboost’s strategic planning, marketing and corporate development efforts. In this role, he oversees the company’s strategic partnerships, key future product developments, m&a activities, external communications and thought leadership. He holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from the UPC Barcelona and the ETH Zurich. Prior to joining Chartboost, Agell led product management and operations teams in both multinational (Hilti AG) and startups (3scale and Innovalley).

Svetlana Velikanova

CEO & Founder at Harbour.Space

Svetlana Velikanova is the co-founder and CEO of Harbour.Space - Europe’s state of the art university for technology, design and tech entrepreneurship. She is driven to create a space of learning where the most gifted young people in technology and design from all over the world can evolve and emerge as the most ground-breaking graduates in their field. With the Harbour.Space board, she shares a highly innovative vision for university education: to connect the best professionals of today with extraordinary young people through immersive and progressive learning, which will revolutionise our technology-led future.

Toni Raurich

CBO at Wallapop

Internet professional since 2003, focused on transactional sites, specialized in hyper-growth marketing, operations, product and financing. Academically investigating the problems generated on employees with artificial intelligence, low labor and high capital intensive technologies and what we as society will do to mitigate its effects on the labor market.

Xavier Noria

Ruby on Rails Core Team Member

Xavier Noria has been doing software professionally for the last eighteen years, twelve of which remotely. An independent consultant from Barcelona with a math background, Xavier has taught dynamic languages at the University of Barcelona, and has been an active member of the open source community for many years. Most notably, he was into Perl in the 2000s, he's been in the Ruby on Rails core team since 2011, and he's also personally interest in Erlang and Elixir, projects he has contributed a bit too.

Julia Barrett

Program Offering Manager at e-Residency

Julia Barrett recently joined e-Residency to help transform the program. Previously the Global Program Director of Startup Relations at Salesforce, Julia initially joined Salesforce to assist acquisition Heroku on corporate alignment, strategic partnerships and go-to-market strategy. Prior to Salesforce, Julia drove early-stage marketing for Wealthfront, the fastest growing fintech startup in the United States. Julia has also managed several global e-commerce partnership programs, including the eBay Partner Network, after time on Wall Street.

Laura González

HR Manager at Schibsted

Laura is an experienced international Recruiter and HR Manager, specialist in Talent Acquisition, HR Processes and Policies, Payroll and Compensation management, with experience ranging from top corporate environments to start-ups worldwide. Talent is everywhere. Why search for the best engineers only in your city? Laura has been working in recruitment, creating remote environments and establishing processes and operations for full remote startups. Building an engineering culture, improving communication amongst teams and dealing with cultural differences is her day to day life. Her passion is people, she’s an advocate for company culture and loves creating a strong talent landscape wherever she goes. After leading the HR teams for retail companies such as Bershka or Deichmann, and managing Recruitment and HR Processes for Couchsurfing, Sovolve and Divescover, she moved to manage the Talent Acquisition and HR for the international hub of Schibsted in Barcelona. She’s also the mother of two girls and a dive instructor.

Jacinto Roca

CEO & Founder at RakutenTV

CEO and Founder.

Marek Fodor

Chairman at Kantox

With 15+ years of experience in managing tech companies and strategic consulting, Marek is also the Head of the Marketing at Kantox. Before joining Kantox, he co-founded Atrapalo. Additionally, he is an investor and acts as a mentor at Seedrocket.

Vicenç Martí

Chairman at Billy Mobile

Vicenç Marti is half entrepreneur, half executive. A full time leader who loves getting involved in exciting projects, with more than 17 years of experience focused on strategy, business development and relations with investors. He is currently President of Tangelo Games (ex-Akamon), the biggest Gaming Community Platform, and of Billy Mobile, a 100% mobile Ad Exchange focused on performance. Also involved as a strategic advisor in elrowFamily, a music entertainment company, and as an investor and advisor in Ubiqum, a Code Academy, and Finizens, a Fintech startup, among others. In the past he had various other roles including the CEO of Akamon Entertainment, CCO of the low cost airline Vueling and a part of the team behind its successful IPO, and CEO of the Interactive Division over a five-year tenure at Spain's largest gaming company Cirsa.