Jeremiah Owyang is a General Partner, Blitzscaling Ventures, Investor and Founder based in Silicon Valley

Matthew Browning Prince is an American business executive. He is the co-founder, executive chairman, and chief executive officer of the technology company Cloudflare. With a net worth of US$2.3 billion as of March 2023, Prince is the second wealthiest person in Utah behind Gail Miller. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and raised in Park City, Prince expressed an interest in computer science from an early age and was graduated from Trinity College in 1996, the University of Chicago Law School in 2000, and Harvard Business School in 2009. Prince began teaching at University of Illinois Chicago School of Law when the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 passed, inspiring him to found Unspam and Project Honey Pot, an open source data collection software. In 2009, he created Cloudflare with Harvard Business School alumnus Michelle Zatlyn and Project Honey Pot co-founder Lee Holloway.

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I love cars, direct-to-consumer businesses and technology – and my passion lies where those three converge. I’m drawn to big, game-changing ideas that solve big problems or make an experience better. Right now I’m working hard at Fair to make getting a car better by letting people do it the same way they make countles

He is a founding developer of WordPress, the Open Source software used by over 43% of the web, including this site. The website says WordPress is “a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform” but more importantly WordPress is a part of who I am. Like eating, breathing, music, I can’t not work on WordPress. They celebrated 20 years of WordPress in 2023. (I was 19 when I started. I’m 39 now.) The project touches a lot of people, something he has recently begun to appreciate. He consider himself very lucky to be able to work on something I love so much.

Founder and CEO of Freigeist Capital, European Early Stage Tech Investor, Venture Capital, Disruption, Technology, 10xDNA, Startup-DNA, Shark Tank. Frank Thelen is a German businessman, investor and author based in Bonn. He is best known as a former investor in the TV series Die Höhle der Löwen, the German version of Shark Tank. In 2012, Thelen received the "Innovate 4 Society Award" from Microsoft for the startup "doo". The award was handed over by Angela Merkel.

Roxanne Varza is Director of Station F, a startup campus, the world's biggest facility of its kind, based in Paris, France where she is recognized as one of the most influential figures in the French startup ecosystem.

Enis Hulli is a General Partner at 500. Educated as an engineer he has a firm grasp of the technological aspect of the startup world and the ambition and knowledge to see the global potential in the regional startup scene. That is why, rather than venturing on the civil engineer path, he founded firstseed, a network of investors focusing on early stages investments. He aims to cultivate and grow the startup ecosystems in Emerging Europe, help talented entrepreneurs of the broader region and the diaspora in building explosive businesses that will integrate with Silicon Valley. His goal is to position 500 as the leading actor in the region in order to re-shape the future of innovation at Emerging Europe. 500 EE is an early-stage fund within the 500 Global network, a leading global venture capital seed fund and startup accelerator with over 2,600 investments in more than 75 countries and venture partners in more than 25 countries. 500 EE's mission is to back seed-stage technology companies targeting sizeable markets and help them scale globally. Launched in August of 2016, 500 EE has 60 portfolio companies that have collectively raised more than $1B from international investors.

Bogdan is the solo General Partner of Underline Ventures, a venture capital firm that partners at the earliest stages with Eastern European founders building high-growth startups with global ambitions. Also, founder of the How to Web Conference, one of Europe’s leading startup and innovation events, Bogdan is advising early-stage startups on raising capital, building useful products, or crafting great pitch decks. Previously Partner with Gecad Ventures, entrepreneur (founded and exited Conectoo, an enterprise email marketing service), he was involved with MVP Academy, MVP Angels, TechHub Bucharest, and 3TS Capital Partners.

Delian Asparouhov is a Co-Founder of Varda and a Partner at Founders Fund

Akis is a Partner at Lakestar in London and focuses on investment opportunities in AI & Data as well as Healthcare sectors. He has been involved in Lakestar's investments in Nelly, Builder.ai, Colossyan, Fuse, Validio and Neko Health among others. Lakestar was founded in 2012 and has since raised c. $3bn. The team's investments include Spotify, Revolut, Skype, Klarna, Opendoor, Oscar among others. The fund actively advises and supports portfolio companies in marketing, recruitment, technology, product development and regulatory insight, accompanying founders from seed to early stage to growth stage or exit. Lakestar has presence in Berlin, Zurich and London.

Brian Solis is an American futurist,[1] digital anthropologist, speaker and author. As of September 2023, he is the Head of Global Innovation at ServiceNow.[2] Prior to that, Solis was VP of Global Innovation at Salesforce. Before joining Salesforce, Solis was the principal analyst and partner studying disruptive technologies and its impact on business at Altimeter Group, a research firm acquired by global brand management consultancy Prophet in 2015.[3] He has also authored several books discussing digital marketing, evolving business models, customer experience and brand innovation.

Edward is a CS and journalism student at Princeton, building GPTZero, an AI detection solution with a mission to foster an internet where authentic human content can thrive. He previously worked as an investigator at the BBC and open source researcher at Bellingcat.

Lubomila Jordanova is a CEO & Founder Plan A & Co-Founder Greentech Alliance, Obama Leader. MIT Under 35 Innovator, LinkedIn Top Voice

Mike Butcher (M.B.E.) is Editor-at-large of TechCrunch. He has written for UK national newspapers and magazines and been named one of the most influential people in European technology by Wired UK. He has spoken at the World Economic Forum, Web Summit, and DLD. He has interviewed Tony Blair, Dmitry Medvedev, Kevin Spacey, Lily Cole, Pavel Durov, Jimmy Wales, and many other tech leaders and celebrities. Mike is a regular broadcaster, appearing on BBC News, Sky News, CNBC, Channel 4, Al Jazeera and Bloomberg. He has also advised UK Prime Ministers and the Mayor of London on tech startup policy, as well as being a judge on The Apprentice UK. GQ magazine named him one of the 100 Most Connected Men in the UK. He is the co-founder ThePathfounder.com newsletter; TheEuropas.com (the Annual European Tech Startup Conference & Awards for 12 years); and the non-profits Techfugees.com, TechVets.co, and Coadec.com. He was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in 2016 for services to the UK technology industry and journalism.

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