A big thank you to all of our 2026 speakers
Lip Bu Tan
CEO at Intel Corporation
Deidre Paknad
CEO of WorkBoard
Jihong Kim
Managing Director at Samsung Ventures America
Nicolas Sauvage
President at TDK Ventures
Barbry McGann
SVP & Head of VC at Workday Ventures
John Wesley
Founding Investment Director at NVentures
Jason Clinton
Deputy CISO at Anthropic
Tamara Steffens
Business Executive and Board Member at TR Ventures
Andrew Ferguson
Vice President, Databricks Ventures at Databricks
Michelle Gonzalez
CVP and Global Head at M12
Jonathan Hurst
Co-founder at Agility Robotics
Phoebe Wang
Chief AI Officer at Nuvini
Ira Ehrenpreis
Founder & Managing Partner at DBL Partners
Jim Mawson
Founder at GCV
Senator Richard Burr
U.S. Senate (2005-2023)
Hoolie Tejwani
Global Head, Coinbase Ventures at Coinbase
Gabriela Hernandez
Head of Strategy & Corporate Development at Mercado Libre
Daniel Golden
VP, Global R&D Strategy and Research & Discovery at Elanco
Dan Northover
Venture Principal at InMotion Ventures Studio
Elliott Parker
CEO at Alloy Partners
Mark Simoncelli
Founder and CEO at LaunchStone
Stefanie Diaz
Innovation & Venture Strategy at Catalyst by Wellstar
Greg Reichow
General Partner at Eclipse
Milo Werner
General Partner at DCVC
Anil Achyuta
Partner at Energy Impact Partners
Ann Bordetsky
Investor & Board Director
Dr. Trevor Lanting
Chief Development Officer at D-Wave Quantum
Maija Palmer
Editor at GCV
Dong-Su Kim
CEO at LG Technology Ventures
Bernard Harris
NASA Astronaut and Venture Partner at non sibi Ventures
Kent Lucas
Founding Partner at non sibi Ventures
Steve Abbott
Founding Partner at Sapphire Ventures
Jay Eum
Co-Founder at GFT Ventures
Eric Buatois
General Partner at BGV
Barrie Laver
Managing Director, Head of Venture Capital & Private Equity at RBC Capital
Danny Cotter
Managing General Partner at The Westly Group
Roger Barga
Senior Vice President, AI & ML at Oracle Cloud
Hyundo Kwon
Principal at Honda Innovations Silicon Valley, Inc
Ian Goldstein
Business Lawyer at Fenwick & West
Sandi Knox
Partner at Sidley Austin LLP
Anish Patel
COO & Managing Director at Yamaha Motor Ventures
Austin Noronha
Managing Director at Sony Innovation Fund
Gen Tsuchikawa
Founder at Sony Ventures
Emilie Mazzacurati
Founding Partner at Tailwind Futures
Fred Schonenberg
Founder and CEO at VentureFuel
Paul Lambert
Founder & CEO at Quilt
Richard Wang
Co-founder and CEO at Voya Energy
Sha-Chelle Devlin Manning
Chief, Commercial Strategy at DARPA
Thamara Prado
Head of Innovation Strategy, Open Innovation & Corporate Investments (CVC, M&A) at Natura Latam
Takuya Odagiri
Senior Investor at Mitsubishi Corporate CVC
Saeed Amidi
Founder & CEO, at Plug & Play
Jasdeep Sawhney
Managing Director at InMotion Ventures Studio
Justin Watkins
Partner at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Hiroto Takeuchi
Senior Manager at Mitsubishi Corporate CVC
Andrea Siciliani
Founding Partner at Tech Energy Ventures
Raj Singh
Managing Partner at JLL Spark
Mike Jones
General Partner at Science
Lena Ambrozy
Investor at Henkel Ventures
Joel Krikston
Managing Director – Venture Investments at Merck Global Health Innovation Fund
Ana Lopes
Chief of Staff to SVP of Strategy and M&A at IBM
Todd Stavish
Managing Partner at SRI Ventures
James Fischer
Partner at DLA Piper
Mike Smeed
Managing Director at InMotion Ventures
Mark Rakoski
Vice President Advanced Engineering at Mitsubishi Electric
Greg Heibel
Partner at Orrick
Ellen Ehrenpreis
Senior Partner at Orrick
Einat Meisel
Partner at Fenwick
Evan Gutoff
Managing Director at Kearney Ventures
George Hoyem
Former EVP at In-Q-Tel
Fernando Fabre
CEO at Kaufmann Fellows
Josemaria Siota
Executive Director, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center at IESE Business School
Jonathan Sagot
Partner at Fenwick
Lukasz Garbowski
Chief Investment Officer at BTomorrow Ventures
Mark Hannan
Partner, Venture Investing & Strategy at Rainmaking
Mike Gulla
CEO at Adaptive Insurance
Philip Krim
CEO at Montauk Capital
Quentin Servais-Laval
VP Finance & Operations at DeepSky
Siddhant Masson
Co-Founder & CEO at Wokelo AI
Sydney Robinson
Senior Manager, New Products Innovation & Analytics at Tokio Marine HCC
Shannon Yavorsky
Partner at Orrick
Lee Sessions
Instructor and Corporate Venture Ecosystem Development Head at GCV Institute
Jeff Baglio
Partner at DLA Piper
Rob Freelen
General Partner at Sozo Ventures
Jonathan Siddharth
CEO at Turing
Ankur Saxena
Investment Director – Physical AI at TDK Ventures
Quinn Li
Global Head of Qualcomm Ventures at Qualcomm
Rob Carlson
Partner at Sidley
Mile Corrigan
CEO at Noblis
Neal Hansch
CEO at Silicon Foundry
John Glushik
Managing Director at HG Ventures
Victoria Slivkoff
Global Head of Innovation Partnerships at Chemonics
Bill Taranto
President at Merck Global Health Innovation Fund
Roman Mueller
Executive Director at RTX Ventures
Jason Miles
Founder & Managing Partner at Amenti Capital Partners
Murat Oguz Arcan
Managing Director at Sabanci Climate Ventures
Sarah Applebaum
Partner at Pangaea Ventures
Bruno Francisco
Head of CVC – Petrobras Fund at Petrobras
Daniel Moczydlower
President & CEO at Embraer-X
Arbaaz Khan
Founder & CEO at Graphon AI
Mark McQuade
CEO & Co-Founder, Arcee AI
Kate Niedermeyer
Venture Capital & Startup Strategy at AWS
Felix Belisle Dockville
CEO at Axya
Todd Lyons
Naval Post-Graduate School
Daniel Wypler
Managing Partner at QBE Ventures
Sha-Chelle Devlin Manning
Commercial Strategy at DARPA
