Author: Tullio Siragusa

Can AI allow us to identify and achieve deep energy retrofits at scale? with Nishaant Sangaavi and Alex-Corneglio

Nishaant Sangaavi is the Founder and CEO of EnergyX Solutions, a Canadian Cleantech company empowering utility energy efficiency programs for homes and small businesses.  In his quest to utilize the 24-hours to the fullest, Nishaant has been spending many a sleepless nights since founding energyX. Fascinated by maximizing his own, and others’ potential, here are the words he lives by: “…The definition of hell; on your last day on earth, the person you could have become will meet the person you became.” — Anonymous. Nishaant has 15 years of experience in working in the utility space. His experience spans all aspects of selling complex software solutions to utilities that drive business value whether it be in the Billing and Operations, Customer Care and DSM business units. He is a proud father of 3 kids who enjoys experimenting with new workout programs in his home gym, and traveling the world.

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As a result of the changing landscape across all sectors and heightened use of digital tools due to COVID-19, it’s crucial for businesses to evolve in this new world with Rishi Khanna

Rishi Khanna is a serial entrepreneur and high growth CEO of ENO8. He is a passionate, impact-driven, result-oriented, visionary, and persistent individual with leadership, operations, finance, sales, marketing, risk management, and technical skills. He likes to use his time to guide, mentor, and assist others to follow their passion and purpose. He helps others find their purpose, passion, and unique abilities. He is a life coach.

He enjoys building high-performance teams and guiding leaders in organizations to follow their unique abilities, become better decision-makers, stays strategically aligned and operationally agile. He has experience in building and operating businesses in the US, UK, and India.

Eye-tracking and image processing for home treatment of “lazy eye” — Ran Yam, CEO @ Novasight

Ran Yam is the CEO of Novasight, an Israeli eye care startup, developing revolutionary solutions for the assessment and treatment of early vision disorders, using advanced eye-tracking and AI technology.

Aiming to prevent pediatric vision loss, Novasight’s products are specially designed for the unique needs and attention spans of children. The company’s management and advisory boards is comprised of experienced executives and world-renowned experts bringing broad and multidisciplinary expertise in the field of vision care.

Analysts report that it will likely be another 10 or more years before fully autonomous, self-driving vehicles are viable. Do we really have to wait? — William Santana Li, CEO @ Knightscope

William Santana Li is the CEO of Knightscope. He is an American entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience and has a broad and deep range of expertise gained from several global assignments in the automotive sector and a number of startups. During his career at Ford Motor Company, Bill held over 12 business and technical positions, focused on 4 continents, cutting across each functional area. These positions ranged from component, systems, and vehicle engineering with Visteon, Mazda, and Lincoln; to business & product strategy on the US youth market, India, and the emerging markets in Asia-Pacific and South America; as well as the financial turnaround of Ford of Europe. In addition, he was on the AMAZON team, which established an all-new modular plant in Brazil. Subsequently, he served as Director of Mergers & Acquisitions.

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How can you grow your client base without Zoom meetings? — Vivian Lim @ Beaze

Vivian Lim is the CEO of Beaze, a B2B vendor marketplace. She’s a former enterprise product manager of Google, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft. Her customers have been in the fabled Fortune 100 Global List.

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How accountants are supporting 65% more clients with AI. — Enrico Palmerino

Enrico Palmerino launched his first startup, ThinkLite, from his dorm room which grew to $8.5M ARR before he graduated. He then invested in SmartBooks joining as their Managing Director, and helped grow the tech-enabled accounting solution from 6-40 employees in 3 years before exiting. In 2015 Enrico founded Botkeeper which built an automated accounting platform using human-assisted machine learning and AI.

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From healthcare to the workplace to education and beyond, Real-Time Engagement technology is powering the creation of global communities by breaking down geographical barriers.

As CRO & COO of Agora.io, Reggie Yativ leads the team’s go-to-market and global expansion efforts. At his core, he believes that for Agora, a well-focused strategy around successful use cases and exploration use cases is fundamental to driving consistent growth for the company. Agora plays in the SDKs/ APIs economy empowering developers and helping them go live quickly.

How to find the best smart devices for your home, car and life.

Mark W. Westlake is the CEO and Founder of GearBrain. He is a veteran digital executive with a proven ability to lead and build successful digital businesses. Over the past 25 years, he has erected a successful track record in the online world. For the past few years, he has built a new innovative data and technology company to help simplify the Internet of Things (IoT) for consumers and small/medium size businesses. The company has a content site, GearBrain.com as well as a patent pending IoT compatibility find engine called The GearBrain. Both help users make sense of the smart devices in their home, car and office. Whether it’s keeping track of the items users have in their home, providing guidance on how each device can work with other smart devices or offering easy to find access to user manuals, setup guides or warranty information, GearBrain is the solution to assist users run your smart home.

The idea of a lone developer coding without social interaction or good communication skills is a thing of the past.

Scott Ford is the CEO and Co-founder of Corgibytes. Scott loves fixing and maintaining existing applications. So much so, that he’s built a team of like minded people to focus exclusively on legacy code projects. Through his business, Corgibytes, Scott helps businesses breathe new life into old code. He calls this ‘software remodeling’.