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James Layfield is an entrepreneur and investor creating positive change through innovation in sectors ranging from property to financial technology. Most recently, James co-founded Clearfind, an easy-to-use, unbiased artificial intelligence platform that is changing the way companies manage and optimize software with data. James is a general partner in a fintech investment fund Treasury with the cofounders of Acorns, Betterment, and a board member of Paypal, and has angel investments across a host of technology ventures.

James has founded and led multiple successful companies including Rise, the world’s largest fintech innovation platform, with Barclays; Never Ever Limited, an innovation catalyst and consulting agency; and Central Working, a shared workspace hub for business professionals. James is currently an ambassador for CognitionX the AI event, London and Partners, and the ScaleUp Institute. He also serves as the New York Tech Ambassador for the Mayor of London.

Prasanth Nair is an internationally acclaimed productivity expert. He believes that productive people do better things for themselves, their organizations, their families, and the world. He is the creator of the Stack Method, the world’s preeminent email processing technique, available for free at www.stackmethod.com.

Through his firm, Double Gemini, Prasanth teaches his email, meeting, and time management strategies to organizations across the globe. Outside of work, Prasanth is a father of four kids, and in his ever shrinking spare time, enjoys endurance training and triathlons.

Gary Saarenvirta is Daisy’s founder and CEO and a preeminent authority on artificial intelligence. The former head of IBM Canada’s data mining and data warehousing practices, Gary is passionate about AI and its ability to transform how retailers and insurers grow their businesses and establish an edge in an increasingly challenging and competitive environment.

Under Gary’s leadership, Daisy has established a track record of delivering verifiable financial outcomes for a rapidly growing list of global clients.

How can AI and software help patients, providers, and the healthcare system as a whole? with Pamela Singh, CEO & Co-founder @ CaseCTRL.

Pamela Singh, CEO & Co-founder of CaseCTRL, has a background in Systems Engineering and Operations Research. A fierce patient advocate, Pamela is working to modernize the delivery of personalized surgical care!

Deep Varma is the CTO of Varo. He has more than 20 years of Silicon Valley experience creating consumer-focused products, developing platform experiences that use artificial intelligence and big data, and building world-class engineering teams.

His experience includes companies like IBM, Yahoo!, Trulia/Zillow, and over 5 years of startup experience. He is leading Varo’s Technology teams to build Technology Bank from the ground-up to scale to millions of customers. He holds a Masters’ degree and an MBA from UC Berkeley.

Jennifer Wilde draws on over 15 years of hands-on experience developing strategies for fostering innovation during emergencies in volatile contexts, and excels in bringing together diverse, innovative groups to collaborate on problems and big opportunities.

Dan MCClure is a specialist in disruption. Throughout his 40 year career, he has been a choreographer of ambitious messy change, reimagining complex systems in business, international aid, and society as a whole.

After working with Fortune 500 companies, governments and some of the world’s largest non-profits, Jenny and Dan, both Managing Directors at Innovation Ecosystem, are looking to share some of their insights into how all types of businesses need to think outside the box to solve problems.

Angela Castillo is a seasoned executive with experience scaling hyper-growth companies including marketing technology powerhouse, Drift. She has vast expertise in Brand Development, the usage of technology for marketing, and bringing products to consumers both internationally and in the U.S.

Angela speaks 3 languages and holds a bachelor’s degree in Marketing and Advertising from CEU University of Valencia, Spain, and an MBA from Babson College, Boston USA.

Andrew Levy is the co-founder and CEO of Aircover, a venture-backed company focused on real-time, in-meeting sales tools and intelligence. He has been in the analytics space for over 15 years. He previously was the co-founder/CEO of Crittercism, renamed Apteligent, acquired by VMware.

At its peak, Crittercism was deployed on close to a billion devices worldwide. At VMware he led end-user computing analytics & automation. Andrew is a YC and AngelPad alum, and has a BS in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.

Craig Fryar is the COO and EVP Data at Fundify. Craig is an executive thought leader, architect, team builder and data-driven operational expert. As a FinTech platform COO he created the product roadmap, then hired and led design and engineering teams to produce and prepare for launch.

As a CDO, he designed an award-winning (Oracle) data platform, plus governance, quality, access and security systems. He rapidly evaluates, assesses and deploys technologies into cost‐effective solutions. He builds highly skilled, loyal teams. Craig is an experienced startup founder, investor and advisor.

Albert Saniger is the founder and CEO at nate, the first app with the technology to enable mobile checkout on behalf of a user for any item at any online retailer.

Receiving his MBA at London Business School, Albert worked briefly on Amazon’s Fashion Retail platform and in 2018 founded nate with a mission to simplify and transform the online shopping experience into a social one. By April 2020, nate had closed the largest series seed round for a consumer software company of the year and launched to the public that summer.