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Dave Landa is the Chief Executive Officer of Kintone Corporation, which provides a teamwork platform with a visual application builder that empowers individuals, teams and organizations to effectively manage their data and workflows for better collaboration. Since 2004, Dave has been on the forefront of the cloud revolution, driving strategic business development on the executive teams of leading SaaS application providers.

His career includes stints at Fortune 500 companies (Ball Corporation) and startups (Blue Rice, SPG Solutions, Electric Run), and he was instrumental in bringing a mid-stage company (Active Network) through to a successful IPO. Dave is a published author, frequent speaker, and recognized thought leader in leadership, corporate culture and organizational transformation.

As Chief Strategy Officer, Michael Wood provides strategic consulting and technology guidance to Insightin Health’s customers.

His deep insight into the Medicare Advantage marketplace provides the team with a highly informed and knowledgeable view from the health plan’s perspective. Prior to Insightin Health, Michael led program management at Highmark, with a focus on member engagement and member experience.

Beginning with his work for the UK Department of Work & Pensions, Michael has focused his career around complex transformation in public change. An Accenture alum, he spent time working within the Human Change team providing consulting, technology implementation, and business analysis for various direct-to-consumer industries.

Julia Slanina is the CEO and Founder of Treehouse. She is a graduate of the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA). Her degrees led her to work in the foreign service; however, due to her love for health and science, she made a career change and started medical school. After one year, she withdrew from studies to take care of her mother who was terminally ill. Because Julia was the primary caregiver for not only her newborn baby but also her late mother, she saw a need to improve the support and community healthcare for families and children across Canada. Since then, she and her team have developed a platform that offers education, resources, and support from trusted experts within the maternal care industry.

“I designed Treehouse Medical with the intent to promote positive parenting, streamline maternal health information and build a stronger degree of engagement in the Canadian healthcare network.”

Shira Shamban is a security researcher and technical expert with a focus on cloud security. Currently, she is the Co-founder and CEO of Solvo, a software company that automates and shifts left cloud security. Shira started her professional career in cybersecurity as a military officer in the elite intelligence unit 8200.

Shira strongly believes in empowering women and under-represented communities in the world of technology. She volunteers as a lecturer and a mentor in forums such as SheCodes, Cyber Ladies and Women in AppSec. Shira started the local mentoring program Security Diva and is the co-chair of OWASP Israel.

Developing Artificial General Intelligence that Learns by Dreaming.

Brent Oster is the President and CEO of ORBAI. He has 28 years experience in 3D computer graphics, animation, simulation, and AI with Bioware, Electronic Arts, Autodesk, and NVIDIA. He was the co-founder Bioware and Check Six, and he has completed the Stanford Continuing Studies curriculum of classes in entrepreneurial business, along with his degrees in Aerospace Engineering at University of Toronto and Scientific Computing at UC Santa Barbara.

As a Sr Solution Architect at NVIDIA, Brent helped Fortune 500 companies (and startups) looking to adopt ‘AI’, but consistently found that DL architectures tools fell far short of their expectations for ‘AI’. Brent started ORBAI to develop something better for them.

Can technology prevent global civil unrest for both political and product issues?

Daniel Curran is the Founder at CustEx.com, a voter & customer demand platform. Forbes #7, Crunchbase #4 Silicon Valley SuperAngel. 178+ investments, 18+ unicorns. Tech Executive.

What does it take to disrupt an antiquated industry like commodities trading?

Jesse Solomon is Co-Founder of Mickey, a commoditech company focused on modernizing global trade by making it easier for small to midsize suppliers to export products globally. He, along with co-founder Alex Rabens, set out to launch a platform with the goal of wiping out the global trade crisis. Today, Mickey is modernizing the way raw materials and commodities are sourced and exported out of the United States. In his role, Jesse oversees sales, hiring, and fundraising for the company. Since its founding in 2019, Jesse has been instrumental in helping to raise more than $10m in capital from top VC firms Lightbank and Lerer Hippeau. Prior to co-founding Mickey, Jesse led sales for Endeavor Content Live, a production house that struck licensing deals with film and entertainment companies such as Lionsgate, Warner Brothers and other Hollywood film studios. Here, Jesse booked and managed more than $65m in revenue globally within his first year.

Before his work with Endeavor Content Live, Jesse worked in talent booking for William Morris Endeavor (WME), the longest-running talent agency in the country. While at WME, he became the fastest agent to be promoted in the company’s history.

Jesse is a two-time cancer survivor who actively mentors cancer patients through Imerman Angels. He received a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Business from the University of Miami. While a student, he was Vice President of the Sigma Chi fraternity, a member of the university’s men’s basketball practice squad, and was on the school’s radio station WVUM’s promotions team.

Joel Cumming is SkyWatch’s Chief Technology Officer. His team focuses on making earth observation data open and accessible for everyone. Previously, as Head of Data at Kik Interactive, Joel directed data engineering and data sciences at petabyte scale. Prior to that, Joel managed analytics and big data teams at BlackBerry, helping the company grow from 3 million to 80 million subscribers.

Joel holds several data related patents on location AI and contextual analytics. Outside of work, Joel is an active member of the local community as a coach in minor baseball and hockey.

With experience in the payments industry for nearly a decade, Caleb Avery was often asked to help software companies who were looking to monetize their payments. Working with these businesses he realized software companies who were looking to optimize their integrated payment processing solution were looking for two key things. One, an instant digital sign-up experience. And two, to maximize their revenue.

Unable to find a solution that didn’t require his clients to compromise on either technology, user experience, or economics, he decided that he needed his own. That led him to build Tilled and create PayFac-as-a-Service. Tilled’s revolutionary platform empowers software companies to monetize the payments flowing through their platforms.

David Dulany is Founder and CEO of Tenbound, a research and advisory firm focused and dedicated to Sales Development. Tenbound has become the hub of the Sales Development industry, with a thriving online research center, market map, tool directory, training and consulting programs and The Tenbound Sales Development Conferences held yearly around the world and virtually.

He recently published his first book, The Sales Development Framework, now available onAmazon.com.

Knowing ways to adapt and survive in the Real Estate industry.

Thad Wong is the co-founder and co-CEO of @properties, the nation’s 10th largest brokerage firm by sales volume (REALTrends 500). @properties and its affiliated companies have over 3,500 agents in nine states, as well as annual closed sales volume of over $12 billion.

Wong and @properties‘ co-founder, Mike Golden, met in the mid-1990s at a small brokerage firm in downtown Chicago. They teamed up to sell new-construction and condominium-conversion developments, and quickly became two of the city’s top producing agents.

In 2000, recognizing a need among fellow agents for more services and support, they established @properties. The idea for the name came to Wong as he rode a department store escalator past a Christmas tree adorned with ornaments bearing the “@” symbol.

From the beginning, Wong and Golden placed a heavy emphasis on culture, marketing and innovation, and in less than 10 years, @properties grew into the #1 residential brokerage firm in Chicago by sales volume. Over the past decade, the firm has expanded throughout the metro area and into Northwest Indiana, Southwest Michigan and Wisconsin. Today, @properties is the largest residential brokerage firm in Illinois.