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Former Vice President Al Gore is a co-founder and chairman of Generation Investment Management. He is a senior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and a member of Apple Inc.’s board of directors.

Gore is also chairman of The Climate Reality Project, a non-profit organization devoted to solving the climate crisis. Gore was elected to the U.S.

House of Representatives in 1976, 1978, 1980, and 1982 and to the U.S. Senate in 1984 and 1990.

He was inaugurated as the 45th vice president of the United States on January 20, 1993, and served eight years. He is the author of the best-sellers Earth in the Balance, An Inconvenient Truth, The Assault on Reason, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, and, most recently, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change. He is the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, and a new film premiering in July 2017, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power. Gore is the co-recipient, with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, for “informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change.” •. Tommi is the CEO and co-founder of Blueprint Genetics, a clinical genetic testing company based in Helsinki, San Francisco and Dubai. Tommi has been running Blueprint Genetics since the beginning and is responsible for sales management, business development, finance and administration.

Prior to Blueprint Genetics he grew an online data analytics company into the Nordics and UK. Tommi holds a M.Sc. (Tech) from the Helsinki University of Technology where he studied business strategy and applied mathematics. Naveen Jain is an entrepreneur. He is the founder of several successful companies including Moon Express, BlueDot, Viome, Intelius, Talent Wise & InfoSpace.

Naveen Jain is a trustee of the board and vision circle member at the X PRIZE Foundation and Singularity University. Naveen Jain has been awarded many honors for my entrepreneurial successes and leadership skills including “Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year”, “Albert Einstein Technology Medal” for pioneers in technology, “Light of India” award for business leadership, “Most inspiring Entrepreneur” by Andaaz TV, “Most admired Serial Entrepreneur” by Silicon India, Humanitarian Innovation Award at the United Nations, and “Top 20 Entrepreneurs” and “Lifetime Achievement Award” for the leadership in the technology by Red Herring. Urska Srsen is the co-founder of Bellabeat Inc., a Silicon Valley company designing the future of healthcare. The Bellabeat team is behind the Leaf health tracking jewelry for women - one of the best mobile products of 2015 according to Digital Trends; Spring, the first smart water bottle powered by AI and Shell, the innovative non-invasive fetal heart monitor.

Urska is the detail-obsessed execution force behind Bellabeat’s products and design which have been recognized as some of the most innovative products launched within the digital health market. In 2016 Urska was chosen by Forbes as ambassador of the Technology field for their first European 30 under 30 list. She was nominated as best female entrepreneur in Croatia in 2016 by Veuve Clicquot and has also received the Jabolko Navdiha (Apple of Inspiration) award from the President of the Republic of Slovenia. Bellabeat was part of the Winter14 batch at Y Combinator where it completed the program top of its class. So far it has raised seed funding from investors such as SV Angel, Justin Kan, Michael Seibel, Paul Bucheit and Yi Pin Ng. Bellabeat has offices in San Francisco (USA), Shenzhen (China) and Zagreb (Croatia) and employs over 80 people. Indu Subaiya is a visionary healthcare leader whose work builds community, creates dialogue and inspires us to radically rethink how our health shapes our lives.

Indu co-founded and served as CEO of Health 2.0, the leading conference and media platform that promotes and catalyzes new technologies in healthcare. Health 2.0 was recently acquired by HIMSS and Indu continues to head the organization as Executive Vice President as it scouts new technologies, advances edge and builds initiatives to drive sustainable change in today’s healthcare landscape.

Indu is a female immigrant from India and is a passionate advocate for an end to healthcare disparities and increased diversity across the leadership ranks of the industry. In recent years, Indu has created a parallel career as a writer and filmmaker. She wrote and directed the narrative short film The Apartment, which earned the Best Actor Award at the World Indian Music Film Festival and jury recognition at the Indian World Film Festival and the Bangalore Shorts Festival. The film, about an immigrant’s relationship to home and homeland, stars legendary Indian actor Rajit Kapur. Combining her twin desires to create compelling personal stories and innovate healthcare, Indu has directed several short documentaries that explore technology and patient-centered care.

She is currently developing a healthcare road trip in which she’ll document communities’ evolving healthcare needs and stories of innovative solutions and the individuals who create them. Recognized as an engaging interviewer, moderator and keynote speaker, Indu has spoken or moderated at the Clinton Foundation Health Matters Initiative, the President’s Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Mayo Clinic Transform Symposium, SXSW Interactive, Cleveland Clinic Patient Experience Summit, IFC Global Private Health Conference, the upcoming Slush 2017, and others. She has worked with the Robert Wood Johnson, World Bank/International Finance Corporation, the New York City Economic Development Corporation and the California Health Care Foundation to design innovative health technology programs including healthcare specific hack-a-thons, developer competitions and pilot programs.

In 2013, FierceHealthIT named Indu one of Health Information Technology’s Most Influential Women. Indu was born in Bangalore, India and grew up on Long Island, New York. A physician by training, she received her BS from Cornell University in Science and Technology Studies and MD from Stony Brook University. She came west to receive her MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, deciding to forgo medical residency in order to develop new healthcare dialogues and care models.

Prior to founding Health 2.0, Indu was Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Physic Ventures, Vice President of Healthcare and Biomedical Research at Gerson Lehman Group and Director of Outcomes Research at Quorum Consulting, Inc. She has served as Vice President of the Society for Participatory Medicine and on advisory committees of the Department of Health and Human Services and National Health Data Consortium. Indu lives in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles with her husband and son. Upon arriving in California nearly two decades ago, Indu fell in love with the state’s diversity and creative culture. She looks forward to catalyzing the next generation of person-centric healthcare and continuing to serve the many interests of California’s dynamic residents and health care stakeholders. Parneet is a Columbia- and Harvard-trained physician who believes that we can create a compassionate society where health is the default.

She moved away from clinical practice to focus on prevention working at the intersection of lifestyle medicine, behavior change and technology. She currently serves as Chief Science Officer at Wisdom Labs, a San Francisco based company focused on building happy, healthy, wise and resilient work cultures using the science of mindfulness and compassion. Parneet’s decade-long meditation and mindfulness practice is key to her personal wellbeing. She continues to foster interdisciplinary health innovation as a TEDMED Scholar and Presenter. Her writing has appeared in various publications including Harvard Business Review and she has been featured on the cover of Mindful magazine. She wishes she was the author of this Raymond Williams quote: 'To be truly radical is to make hope possible, not despair convincing.' Corporate venture capital has been an unstable market over decades but it offers many benefits such as investor patience and access to big markets.

What about when a VC and a CVC join forces and co-invest? What are the shared advantages and what's different for startups? Digging deeper into these topics on stage are the Wall Street legend and Founder of Ellevest, Sallie Krawcheck, Vice President of Salesforce Ventures, Matt Garrat and CEO and Managing Partner of Silicon Foundry, Neal Hansch. Leading the discussion is Jason Karain from Quartz. Matthew Garratt currently serves as the Vice President of Salesforce Ventures where he has completed over 40 Investments and Acquisitions in leading enterprise SaaS companies.

Prior to Salesforce, he was a Vice President at Battery Ventures where he invested in early stage Enterprise Software and GreenIT companies. Matthew was also a Vice President of Plymouth Ventures, a late stage investment fund based in Ann Arbor Michigan. He has also worked for GE in their corporate strategy group, and has spent time in Africa monitoring energy and infrastructure investments for E+Co, a public purpose investment. Matthew holds a BS from Purdue University and an MBA from the University of Michigan where he helped to develop The Frankel Cleantech Fund and was an Erb Fellow where he performed research for the UN.

He currently serves as a mentor and advisor to several startups and organizations including the Alchemist Accelerator and the Frankel Fund at the University of Michigan. Financial feminist Sallie Krawcheck is the CEO and Co-Founder of Ellevest, a recently launched innovative digital investment platform for women. She is the Chair of Ellevate Network, the global professional woman’s network, and of the Pax Ellevate Global Woman’s Index Fund, which invests in the top-rated companies in the world for advancing women. She is also the best-selling author of “Own It: The Power of Women at Work.” Before becoming an entrepreneur, she was CEO of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, of Smith Barney and of Sanford Bernstein. During her career, Krawcheck has a history of turning around and growing troubled businesses, eliminating Wall Street conflicts of interest, and advocating a true client-centered business model. Fortune Magazine called her “The Last Honest Analyst” during her tenure at Sanford Bernstein, and noted that hers was the most influential voice for research quality and integrity. Krawcheck has also been named among the top ten of Fast Company's '100 Most Creative People” in business list, as well as one of Entrepreneur Magazine’s Entrepreneurs to Watch.

And she has also been referred to as one of the most successful and influential executives in financial services. Krawcheck also lends her voice to social media, reaching a network of more 1,700,000 followers on LinkedIn and 46,000 on Twitter. A native of Charleston, South Carolina, Krawcheck attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on the Morehead Scholarship and graduated summa cum laude in 1987.

In 1992, she received a Master of Business Administration from Columbia University. Jason Karaian is global finance and economics editor at Quartz, based in London.

He previously spent 10 years at The Economist Group, first at the European edition of CFO magazine writing about the financial aspects of business and later, as financial services editor at the Economist Intelligence Unit, covering the business aspects of finance. He also served as industries editor for The World In and wrote about everything from banks to bonds to basketball for The Economist. Before moving to London he was a macroeconomic analyst in Chicago, where he developed an affinity for data and statistics that he now uses to enrich—and demystify—stories about the business world. Sophia is an Executive in Residence at Atomico. Based in Stockholm, she advises founders on communications and marketing strategy and scaling their brand. As an active player in Stockholm’s startup scene, Sophia also helps with sourcing and the evaluation of new investment opportunities. Sophia was the Global Marketing Director at Spotify from 2007-2014, where she built out a strong consumer brand from scratch, while launching and marketing the service globally.

Today she is an active angel investor and advisor to startups, and serves as a Board Director at Avanza, Kindred Group and non-profit organization Race For The Baltic. She is also a co-founder of non-profit foundation AllBright.se and has invested in start up’s such as Tictail, Clue, DogBuddy, Shim, Joints Academy, Search Inc, Bokio, DigiExam, Greta.io, Scout, Brighten, Prion, Simple Feast, and Sana Labs.

With hands on experience from building a brand, launching a product in 56+ markets and growing a team across different continents Sophia can relate to the joy and stress of life as an entrepreneur. The insights and experiences from her years at Spotify is something she’s happy to share as well as insights from the VC world on how to go about raising funds.

Sophia believes in working with people who share the same set of values and want to improve the world through innovation. Brent Hoberman is chairman and co-founder of Founders Factory, an ambitious corporate backed incubator/accelerator based in London, and also of Founders Forum,​ a series of intimate annual global events for the leading entrepreneurs of today and the rising stars of tomorrow. Brent is a co-founder and was founding chairman of Smartup, Grip & made.com, a leading European direct-from-factory consumer homewares retailer. Most recently, Brent co-founded firstminute capital, a London-based pan-European seed fund,​ backed by some of the world’​s top entrepreneurs.

Brent co-founded lastminute.com in April 1998, was CEO from its inception and sold it in 2005 to Sabre for $1.1bn. Technology businesses he​ has co-​founded have raised over $500m.

Brent sits on the Advisory board for LetterOne Technology (a $16bn investment fund) and the UK Government Digital Advisory Board. He is a board member of The Economist, a YGL and one of the ​Prime Minister’s Business Trade Ambassadors​. Brent was awarded a CBE for services to entrepreneurship in the 2015 New Year’s Honour’s List.

Philip is the founder and CEO of DistroKid. DistroKid is one of the world's largest music distributors and helps 150,000+ musicians get their music into online stores & streaming services.

DistroKid artists keep 100% of their earnings, and range from bedroom musicians to major artists including Will Smith, Ludacris, and others. In 2015, a DistroKid release by act Jack & Jack went to #1 worldwide in the iTunes charts, making it the first time a #1 charting artist was able to keep 100% of their earnings. In 2016, DistroKid launched an industry-first feature called 'Teams,' which makes it possible for royalties from any song to be automatically split amongst collaborators and shareholders. Prior to DistroKid, Philip founded TinyLetter (acquired by MailChimp), AdBrite (acquired by SiteScout), and wrote the best-selling book, 'F'd Companies: Spectacular Dot-com Flameouts' (Simon & Schuster). Philip is an active angel investor, advises several companies, and was Entrepreneur in Residence at Charles River Ventures. Philip is a heavy metal drummer, and lives with his wife in New York City. Brian Wong is the 26-year-old co-founder and CEO of Kiip.

Kiip (pronounced “keep”) redefines how brands connect with consumers through a rewards platform that targets “achievement moments” in mobile games and apps. This innovative approach to mobile marketing creates meaningful engagements between consumers and brands. Backed by Verizon Ventures, AmEx Ventures, US Cellular, North Atlantic Capital, Hummer Winblad, Relay Ventures, True Ventures, and others, the company has raised over $32 million in funding to date. Kiip has been recognized by Forbes as one of the “4 Hot Online Ad Companies to Put on Your Watch List,” named on the Dow Jones “FasTech50” and is listed on Fast Company’s “50 Most Innovative Companies in the World.” Once the youngest person to ever receive venture capital funding, Brian received his Bachelor of Commerce from the University of British Columbia at age 18, after skipping four K-12 grades. Before starting Kiip, Brian led key publisher and tech partnerships at the social news website Digg.com, where he accelerated the company’s mobile presence by launching the Digg Android mobile app. Brian launched his first book, The Cheat Code, in September 2016, published by Crown Business / Penguin Random House.

The Cheat Code contains 71 bite­sized and virtually effortless shortcuts to get a leg up on the competition, garner attention for creative thinkers and their ideas, and to accelerate success. The book has been featured by Forbes, CNBC, Elle, The Telegraph, The Globe and Mail, and many more publications around the world, and is quickly becoming the go-to book for entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial advice for our generation. Mark Pincus is a serial entrepreneur, best known for founding Zynga in 2007 and taking the company public in 2011. Zynga is one of the most successful mobile social gaming companies in the world. To-date, more than one billion people around the world have played Zynga’s games, including the world’s largest social poker game, Zynga Poker; the world’s most popular mobile word game, Words With Friends; and the #1 Top Grossing Mobile Racing Game, CSR Racing 2. Zynga is also at the forefront of emerging chat-based platforms such as Facebook Messenger Instant Games and Apple iMessage Games, exploring new ways to engage audiences on these highly social platforms.

Pincus currently serves as Zynga’s executive chairman. In 2014, Pincus founded superlabs, a San Francisco-based product lab focused on developing products that connect and empower people, which was acquired by Zynga in 2015. Pincus also founded Zynga.org in 2009, a non-profit organization dedicated to using social games for social good. Pincus also founded Tribe.net, a company he launched in 2003 and one of the first social networks in the industry, Support.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRT), a help desk automation software, in 1997, and FreeLoader, Inc., a web-based news company, in 1996.

In addition to founding his own companies, Pincus is an active early stage investor in startups. He was an early investor in some of the Internet’s largest and most successful companies, such as Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, JD.com, Xiaomi, and Napster. Pincus’ latest project is called Win the Future, a virtual political party that empowers people to choose their leaders and set the agenda, which he set up with Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn. Miki Kuusi is the CEO and co-founder of the Helsinki-based tech company Wolt. Founded in fall 2014, Wolt has raised EUR 15 million in funding to help people discover and get great food on mobile. Previously, Miki ran Slush as co-founder & CEO, where he oversaw the event’s growth from a local, 300-person gathering in Helsinki to one of the leading tech and investor events in the world attended by more than 30,000 people annually, expanding across Europe and Asia.

Wired listed Miki as #32 on their top technology influencers in Europe for 2015, while Forbes featured Miki on their 30 under 30 list for 2016. Liz Bacelar is a global leader at the intersection of fashion, retail & technology and the founder of TheCurrent, a leading open innovation advisory firm identifying partnership opportunities between startups and leading fashion, beauty and retail brands in New York, London, Milan, Paris and Tokyo. Prior to launching TheCurrent in 2016, she founded, grew and exited Decoded Fashion, the world's top event series connecting Fashion & Technology. Liz is an Emmy-nominated producer, a member of the CFDA Innovation Board & South by Southwest Advisory Board.

Ben Pugh is the founder and CEO of Farmdrop, an ethical grocery company that delivers food directly from sustainable farms to people's doors using a fleet of electric delivery vans. Ben started the company in 2012 having seen the opportunity new technology provided to cut out the supermarkets from the food chain. Prior to Farmdrop, Ben spent several years sailing around the world as a yacht salesman, before going on to work in the City of London as a retail broker at Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, and PWC.

Ryan Pandya is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Perfect Day, a food company on a mission to create delicious animal-free dairy products, while leaving a kinder, greener footprint on the planet. Ryan’s background is in Chemical & Biological Engineering (Tufts University). At Tufts, Ryan contributed to seminal research on tissue engineered meat under the oversight of professor David Kaplan, the head of the Biomedical Engineering department.

Before starting Perfect Day, Ryan worked at MassBiologics, a small biotechnology company in Boston, MA, where he developed next-generation antibodies against tetanus and diphtheria. Christopher Lai is an investor and the director of consumer and retail investments at Horizons Ventures, the private investment arm of Mr. Based in Hong Kong, Lai invests across the technology landscape globally and manages the consumer and retail technologies portfolio for Horizons; he is currently also the Chairman of Celsius Holdings (NASDAQ:CELH). Lai was previously a mergers and acquisitions investment banker in New York with Mooreland Partners, specialising in TMT cross-border M&A and corporate finance. He was a key team member on numerous transactions, including Magnolia in the sale of its patent portfolio to Google; Newbay’s acquisition by RIM; and Xigo acquisition by Dimension Data. Lai is a graduate of Columbia University.

Parneet is a Columbia- and Harvard-trained physician who believes that we can create a compassionate society where health is the default. She moved away from clinical practice to focus on prevention working at the intersection of lifestyle medicine, behavior change and technology. She currently serves as Chief Science Officer at Wisdom Labs, a San Francisco based company focused on building happy, healthy, wise and resilient work cultures using the science of mindfulness and compassion.

Parneet’s decade-long meditation and mindfulness practice is key to her personal wellbeing. She continues to foster interdisciplinary health innovation as a TEDMED Scholar and Presenter. Her writing has appeared in various publications including Harvard Business Review and she has been featured on the cover of Mindful magazine. She wishes she was the author of this Raymond Williams quote: 'To be truly radical is to make hope possible, not despair convincing.' Indu Subaiya is a visionary healthcare leader whose work builds community, creates dialogue and inspires us to radically rethink how our health shapes our lives.

Indu co-founded and served as CEO of Health 2.0, the leading conference and media platform that promotes and catalyzes new technologies in healthcare. Health 2.0 was recently acquired by HIMSS and Indu continues to head the organization as Executive Vice President as it scouts new technologies, advances edge and builds initiatives to drive sustainable change in today’s healthcare landscape. Indu is a female immigrant from India and is a passionate advocate for an end to healthcare disparities and increased diversity across the leadership ranks of the industry.

In recent years, Indu has created a parallel career as a writer and filmmaker. She wrote and directed the narrative short film The Apartment, which earned the Best Actor Award at the World Indian Music Film Festival and jury recognition at the Indian World Film Festival and the Bangalore Shorts Festival. The film, about an immigrant’s relationship to home and homeland, stars legendary Indian actor Rajit Kapur. Combining her twin desires to create compelling personal stories and innovate healthcare, Indu has directed several short documentaries that explore technology and patient-centered care. She is currently developing a healthcare road trip in which she’ll document communities’ evolving healthcare needs and stories of innovative solutions and the individuals who create them. Recognized as an engaging interviewer, moderator and keynote speaker, Indu has spoken or moderated at the Clinton Foundation Health Matters Initiative, the President’s Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Mayo Clinic Transform Symposium, SXSW Interactive, Cleveland Clinic Patient Experience Summit, IFC Global Private Health Conference, the upcoming Slush 2017, and others. She has worked with the Robert Wood Johnson, World Bank/International Finance Corporation, the New York City Economic Development Corporation and the California Health Care Foundation to design innovative health technology programs including healthcare specific hack-a-thons, developer competitions and pilot programs.

In 2013, FierceHealthIT named Indu one of Health Information Technology’s Most Influential Women. Indu was born in Bangalore, India and grew up on Long Island, New York. A physician by training, she received her BS from Cornell University in Science and Technology Studies and MD from Stony Brook University.

She came west to receive her MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, deciding to forgo medical residency in order to develop new healthcare dialogues and care models. Prior to founding Health 2.0, Indu was Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Physic Ventures, Vice President of Healthcare and Biomedical Research at Gerson Lehman Group and Director of Outcomes Research at Quorum Consulting, Inc. She has served as Vice President of the Society for Participatory Medicine and on advisory committees of the Department of Health and Human Services and National Health Data Consortium. Indu lives in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles with her husband and son. Upon arriving in California nearly two decades ago, Indu fell in love with the state’s diversity and creative culture.

She looks forward to catalyzing the next generation of person-centric healthcare and continuing to serve the many interests of California’s dynamic residents and health care stakeholders. Naveen Jain is an entrepreneur. He is the founder of several successful companies including Moon Express, BlueDot, Viome, Intelius, Talent Wise & InfoSpace. Naveen Jain is a trustee of the board and vision circle member at the X PRIZE Foundation and Singularity University. Naveen Jain has been awarded many honors for my entrepreneurial successes and leadership skills including “Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year”, “Albert Einstein Technology Medal” for pioneers in technology, “Light of India” award for business leadership, “Most inspiring Entrepreneur” by Andaaz TV, “Most admired Serial Entrepreneur” by Silicon India, Humanitarian Innovation Award at the United Nations, and “Top 20 Entrepreneurs” and “Lifetime Achievement Award” for the leadership in the technology by Red Herring. Tommi is the CEO and co-founder of Blueprint Genetics, a clinical genetic testing company based in Helsinki, San Francisco and Dubai. Tommi has been running Blueprint Genetics since the beginning and is responsible for sales management, business development, finance and administration.

Prior to Blueprint Genetics he grew an online data analytics company into the Nordics and UK. Tommi holds a M.Sc. Playboy The Mansion Free Download Full Game For Pc.

(Tech) from the Helsinki University of Technology where he studied business strategy and applied mathematics. Urska Srsen is the co-founder of Bellabeat Inc., a Silicon Valley company designing the future of healthcare. The Bellabeat team is behind the Leaf health tracking jewelry for women - one of the best mobile products of 2015 according to Digital Trends; Spring, the first smart water bottle powered by AI and Shell, the innovative non-invasive fetal heart monitor. Urska is the detail-obsessed execution force behind Bellabeat’s products and design which have been recognized as some of the most innovative products launched within the digital health market. In 2016 Urska was chosen by Forbes as ambassador of the Technology field for their first European 30 under 30 list. She was nominated as best female entrepreneur in Croatia in 2016 by Veuve Clicquot and has also received the Jabolko Navdiha (Apple of Inspiration) award from the President of the Republic of Slovenia. Bellabeat was part of the Winter14 batch at Y Combinator where it completed the program top of its class.

So far it has raised seed funding from investors such as SV Angel, Justin Kan, Michael Seibel, Paul Bucheit and Yi Pin Ng. Bellabeat has offices in San Francisco (USA), Shenzhen (China) and Zagreb (Croatia) and employs over 80 people. Sam Hashemi is the CEO and founder of Remix.

He and his team are working with over 200+ cities around the world to plan better public transit. Remix is the first web-based platform for cities to visualize their transit network and make data-driven decisions about planning. Sam is passionate about building livable cities and creating impact through user-centered design and technology.

Previously, he was a Fellow at Code for America, partnering with the City of Atlanta to dramatically reduce unnecessary arrests. Prior to that, Sam was a designer at NASA.

His work led to the redesign of the 1990s era systems aboard the International Space Station, replacing them with modern iPad and iPhone apps. He also designed and prototyped next-generation interfaces for the Mars Curiosity Rover, the Kepler Space Telescope, and the Deep Space Network, setting a bar for the role of design inside a space agency. Stan Boland is co-founder and CEO of Five AI Inc., a venture-backed company developing a safe urban autonomous vehicle platform that it will deliver as a consumer service.

Five AI’s solution was awarded a record $15M in grant money from the UK government, is partnered with Transport for London and recently raised a $18M Series A round. Stan was co-founder and CEO of two of Europe’s most successful communications silicon and software companies, Element 14 and Icera, one bought by Broadcom and the other by NVIDIA, for an aggregate value of over $1 billion. Before that he was CEO at computer pioneer Acorn and a Board member at ARM. His early career includes spells at the aerospace firm Rolls-Royce and computer company ICL (now Fujitsu Services). He graduated in Natural Sciences (Physics) from the University of Cambridge •. Mats is the Nordic Director of ReGen Villages – the Tesla of Eco Villages - and part of the global 30+ team supporting the founder James Ehrlich in establishing ReGen Villages as a Global Tech-Integrated and Regenerative Residential Real Estate Company.

ReGen Villages is currently raising a $10M Series A round to support the first developing phase of ReGen Villages in the Netherlands and the Nordics. Mats is a passionate serial entrepreneur and a EIR (Entrepreneur In Residence) with a background from Telecom, IT, Cleantech and Digital Visualization.

He has co-founded a number of companies spanning from Biomimicry based Water Technology to VR/AR and is currently connected to SRI International (Stanford Research Institute) as their representative in the Nordics. He holds a Masters degree in Industrial Management and Engineering from the Technical University of Linkoping, Sweden. Tom is a Partner and Head of Research at Atomico, focusing on research to support the sourcing and evaluation of investment opportunities. Tom also oversees Atomico’s learning programme, providing regular all-hands on key technology trends. He has published several research reports including the ‘State of European Tech’ at the Slush conference in November 2015. Prior to joining Atomico in May 2013, Tom was a Principal Analyst and member of the management team at Informa Telecoms & Media, a specialist technology research firm.

At Informa, Tom led a global team of analysts and oversaw research and consulting activities for Europe, Latin America and the US. During his time there, Tom advised leading technology companies from across the world. Tom holds a First Class B.Sc. (Econ) from Cardiff University.

One summer break, Tom decided to try his hand at teaching English and, after qualifying with distinction through the Cambridge University-administered CELTA programme, went on to teach English to students from more than 30 countries in Oxford. Fortunately, his English is much better than his French, German and Spanish, although he claims to get by in all of them. Startup founders - you are not just building products and companies, you're building the tools for a new society. Centralized financial systems and a centralized web are threatening privacy and democracy. Fortunately, two technologies offer new hope: Crypto-currencies decentralize finance and the third wave of the web (web3) is being built on decentralized platforms like Ethereum. Learn why choosing decentralized systems benefits your business and society as a whole. This discussion is led by security expert and crypto author Andreas M.

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She previously served as Chief of Security for the Ethereum Foundation, overseeing security audit and integration prior to the launch of the public blockchain in 2015. Steiner also co-founded Project Provenance, where she pioneered the use of blockchain technology to foster transparency in supply chains.

She has helped found and advise a number of additional organisations, including GridSingularity; a decentralised energy data exchange platform hosting a range of applications to facilitate energy data analysis and benchmarking, investment decisions and smart grid management – a key enabler for a sustainable shift from a traditional to a distributed energy market model. Dr Steiner holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Bonn, following which she started her career as a consultant for McKinsey. Alan Mamedi is the CEO and co-founder of Truecaller. Truecaller is one of the leading mobile communication applications in the world with services in caller ID, spam detection, dialer functionalities and payment, and has more than 250 million users globally. In this position, Alan focuses on product development and innovation, and charting the strategic roadmap for the company’s success. To date, Truecaller has raised 80 million USD from Sequoia Capital, Atomico, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Mark Pincus is a serial entrepreneur, best known for founding Zynga in 2007 and taking the company public in 2011.

Zynga is one of the most successful mobile social gaming companies in the world. To-date, more than one billion people around the world have played Zynga’s games, including the world’s largest social poker game, Zynga Poker; the world’s most popular mobile word game, Words With Friends; and the #1 Top Grossing Mobile Racing Game, CSR Racing 2. Zynga is also at the forefront of emerging chat-based platforms such as Facebook Messenger Instant Games and Apple iMessage Games, exploring new ways to engage audiences on these highly social platforms. Pincus currently serves as Zynga’s executive chairman. In 2014, Pincus founded superlabs, a San Francisco-based product lab focused on developing products that connect and empower people, which was acquired by Zynga in 2015. Pincus also founded Zynga.org in 2009, a non-profit organization dedicated to using social games for social good. Pincus also founded Tribe.net, a company he launched in 2003 and one of the first social networks in the industry, Support.com, Inc.

(NASDAQ: SPRT), a help desk automation software, in 1997, and FreeLoader, Inc., a web-based news company, in 1996. In addition to founding his own companies, Pincus is an active early stage investor in startups.

He was an early investor in some of the Internet’s largest and most successful companies, such as Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, JD.com, Xiaomi, and Napster. Pincus’ latest project is called Win the Future, a virtual political party that empowers people to choose their leaders and set the agenda, which he set up with Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn. The new technologies in mobility such as connected cars improve our safety and help us in infrastructure and traffic planning. But if algorithms are in charge of our safety, what is safe enough? Where do we draw the line? Also, which decisions should be up to individuals and which regulated by socities? What is the balance between freedom of choice and safety in mobility?

Simon Levene, co-founder and partner at Mosaic Ventures asks the questions while we hope to get insights from Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz, co-founder and CTO of Nexar and Josh Mohrer, former GM of Uber New York. Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz is Nexar’s co-founder and CTO. At Nexar, his team is using terascale computer vision and deep learning to capture and analyze millions of hours of real-world driving in order to make our roads safer. Before Nexar, Bruno was a Yahoo Senior Fellow. In his last role at Yahoo he was overseeing the development and delivery of Yahoo’s personalization, ad targeting and native advertising teams; prior roles at Yahoo included chief architect for Yahoo’s cloud and platform, and chief architect for international. Prior to joining Yahoo, Bruno founded OneSoup, later acquired by Synchronica. Before that, Bruno held roles as an enterprise architect for Fidelity Investments, and as manager in Accenture’s Center for Strategic Research Group.

Bruno holds a MSc degree in Transportation Science, Operations Research, from MIT, and he was also a research affiliate at the MIT Intelligent Transportation Systems Lab. Alexander have founded Target Global in 2012 and is focusing on the firm’s consumer internet and marketplace investments. Prior to joining Target Global, Alexander worked at the VC firm DFJ Esprit in London. Before that, he led several private and corporate startups in the tech field, including the medical business unit of United Corporation for Innovations. He started his career as an analyst at Troika Dialog Asset Management, where he covered the telecom and IT sectors.

Alexander holds a bachelor’s degree from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences and an MBA from the London Business School. Alexander also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst ® designation. Renaud Visage is the technical co-founder of Eventbrite. Renaud anticipated several fundamental shifts in the way we use the internet – including the arrival of social media, big data analysis, the shift to mobile devices as first screens and the ubiquity of APIs – and leveraged their disruptive power to Eventbrite’s advantage, fuelling the company’s growth into the globally leading self-service ticketing platform it is today.

In 2014, Renaud was included in Wired UK's Top 100 digital influencers in Europe. Renaud is also Venture Partner at Index Ventures, guiding founders in realizing their global ambition and helping Index evaluate and support companies that are solving challenging technical problems. With engineering degrees from Cornell University (USA) and Ecole Centrale de Lyon (France), Renaud started his career as an environmental consultant before joining the dot com world in 2000 in Silicon Valley.

When he is not thinking about technology, he’s taking pictures somewhere around the world. Sam Hashemi is the CEO and founder of Remix. He and his team are working with over 200+ cities around the world to plan better public transit.

Remix is the first web-based platform for cities to visualize their transit network and make data-driven decisions about planning. Sam is passionate about building livable cities and creating impact through user-centered design and technology.

Previously, he was a Fellow at Code for America, partnering with the City of Atlanta to dramatically reduce unnecessary arrests. Prior to that, Sam was a designer at NASA.

His work led to the redesign of the 1990s era systems aboard the International Space Station, replacing them with modern iPad and iPhone apps. He also designed and prototyped next-generation interfaces for the Mars Curiosity Rover, the Kepler Space Telescope, and the Deep Space Network, setting a bar for the role of design inside a space agency.

Stan Boland is co-founder and CEO of Five AI Inc., a venture-backed company developing a safe urban autonomous vehicle platform that it will deliver as a consumer service. Five AI’s solution was awarded a record $15M in grant money from the UK government, is partnered with Transport for London and recently raised a $18M Series A round. Stan was co-founder and CEO of two of Europe’s most successful communications silicon and software companies, Element 14 and Icera, one bought by Broadcom and the other by NVIDIA, for an aggregate value of over $1 billion. Before that he was CEO at computer pioneer Acorn and a Board member at ARM. His early career includes spells at the aerospace firm Rolls-Royce and computer company ICL (now Fujitsu Services). He graduated in Natural Sciences (Physics) from the University of Cambridge •.

Mats is the Nordic Director of ReGen Villages – the Tesla of Eco Villages - and part of the global 30+ team supporting the founder James Ehrlich in establishing ReGen Villages as a Global Tech-Integrated and Regenerative Residential Real Estate Company. ReGen Villages is currently raising a $10M Series A round to support the first developing phase of ReGen Villages in the Netherlands and the Nordics. Mats is a passionate serial entrepreneur and a EIR (Entrepreneur In Residence) with a background from Telecom, IT, Cleantech and Digital Visualization. He has co-founded a number of companies spanning from Biomimicry based Water Technology to VR/AR and is currently connected to SRI International (Stanford Research Institute) as their representative in the Nordics. He holds a Masters degree in Industrial Management and Engineering from the Technical University of Linkoping, Sweden. Leila Janah is the founder and CEO of Sama and LXMI, that share a common social mission to end global poverty by giving work to people in need. Leila is passionate about building different kinds of businesses to see a different kind of world.

She joins the stage with Christopher Lai, an investor and the director of consumer and retail investments at Horizons Ventures. Together they will talk about creating business models that are more inclusive and using traditional business as a force for social good. Christopher Lai is an investor and the director of consumer and retail investments at Horizons Ventures, the private investment arm of Mr.

Based in Hong Kong, Lai invests across the technology landscape globally and manages the consumer and retail technologies portfolio for Horizons; he is currently also the Chairman of Celsius Holdings (NASDAQ:CELH). Lai was previously a mergers and acquisitions investment banker in New York with Mooreland Partners, specialising in TMT cross-border M&A and corporate finance. He was a key team member on numerous transactions, including Magnolia in the sale of its patent portfolio to Google; Newbay’s acquisition by RIM; and Xigo acquisition by Dimension Data. Lai is a graduate of Columbia University. Casey Fenton is the founder and CEO of Mastly, a modern alternative to the antiquated stock option system. As CouchSurfing and Sovolve’s original founder he’s focused his energy primarily on achieving their vision of a better world. Dedicated to finding a solution to the antiquated stock option system, he is also motivated by saving founders time and money by deploying transparent performance equity pools shown in real-time.

Team members start thinking like entrepreneurs, building value every step of the way. After attending college for computer science in 1997, he worked as a technology and Internet consultant before starting several technology companies. From 2003 to 2009, Casey worked on creating the original CouchSurfing website. Casey was the company’s Executive Director prior to becoming CIO. Sofie is an experienced managing director with a strong entrepreneurial spirit. Her strategic skills coupled with a passion for AI led her to create SearchInk with the goal of redefining the way people work and how companies are handling their business operations. SearchInk is as an MI-based, SaaS solution to massively optimize workflows, and empower businesses to make comprehensive data-driven decisions.

Prior to SearchInk, Sofie founded Qidenus Technologies which quickly became the leader in the market of robotics and digitization. Sofie is also the patent owner of the Vshape scanner Technology and winner of several awards including the Woman Technology & Research Award. Karoli Hindriks is the CEO and Founder of Jobbatical – a disruptive leader in the hiring industry which sits squarely at the intersection of the future of travel, work and talent mobility. While there are many companies in this space, Jobbatical is a unique leader in that it provides company branding through job announcements, immigration assistance and a community of professionals eager to relocate to join innovative companies.

Karoli founded her first company at the age of sixteen (officially becoming the youngest inventor in Estonia). In total, she has founded three and directed five companies in the media, marketing and recruiting fields.

This includes successfully leading the launch of seven television channels in Northern Europe, from National Geographic Channels to MTV and Fox entertainment. In 2016 Karoli was listed among the 50 most influential women in the European startup and venture capital space by EU-Startups.com. Early in her career, BusinessWeek named Karoli one of the 20 most promising young entrepreneurs under 25 in Europe. Karoli is also an alumnus of Singularity University. In 2017 she was chosen as one of the most inspiring women in European tech by Wired Magazine. Jerome Ternynck is the Founder and CEO of SmartRecruiters, the Talent Acquisition Suite, used by high-performance organizations who want to make recruitment a competitive advantage. His 20+ years in recruiting includes pioneering recruiting technology with MrTed, a prominent first- generation ATS system.

Jerome is an entrepreneur with his heart in recruiting and soul in technology. Jerome envisions a world where recruitment is transparent, and hiring is so easy that his grandma can do it. He's passionate for what he does, hates the status quo, and loves innovation especially when it reaches disruption.

Jerome's goal is to bring the economy to its full potential by removing friction in the labor market and eradicating unemployment. Even though the trend is obviously towards an increasing use of social media there still seems to be more and more refusiniks trying to do whatever it takes to avoid it. Many of the former enthusiasts have noticed the addictive ways in which we are lured into the online life fueled by the likes that feed our ego.

Like the slow food movement that was trying to make us be aware and take control over what our bodies consume, we now need to turn to slow web and take control over what our brains consume. A serial entrepreneur and angel investor, Tariq has a passion for building highly disruptive new products. He is currently exploring ideas around the slow internet. He was the founder and CEO of Jolicloud, a pioneer in personal cloud computing. Prior to Jolicloud, Tariq founded Netvibes, the personal startpage used by millions around the world. A thought leader and regular speaker at global technology and media conferences, he was recognized by MIT Technology Review as one of the world’s “Top Innovators Under 35” (2007), by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader (2008), and was honored by the President of France as “Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.” As a former journalist for La Tribune, Tariq has been a keen observer of the Web since its genesis. He graduated from University Paris VII Jussieu, ENST (Telecom ParisTech) and the Harvard Kennedy School.

He can be reached at www.tariqkrim.io or @tariqkrim on twitter. A serial entrepreneur and angel investor, Tariq has a passion for building highly disruptive new products.

He is currently exploring ideas around the slow internet. He was the founder and CEO of Jolicloud, a pioneer in personal cloud computing. Prior to Jolicloud, Tariq founded Netvibes, the personal startpage used by millions around the world. A thought leader and regular speaker at global technology and media conferences, he was recognized by MIT Technology Review as one of the world’s “Top Innovators Under 35” (2007), by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader (2008), and was honored by the President of France as “Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.” As a former journalist for La Tribune, Tariq has been a keen observer of the Web since its genesis. He graduated from University Paris VII Jussieu, ENST (Telecom ParisTech) and the Harvard Kennedy School. He can be reached at www.tariqkrim.io or @tariqkrim on twitter. Caterina Fake is the co-founder of Flickr, Hunch and Sesat School.

She is an investor board member and advisor to many startups. She served as Chairman of Etsy and sits on the board of the Sundance Institute. As an early creator of social media and a believer in the possibilities of the internet as a positive force, Caterina’s interests include social media, innovation, creativity, connection and community–and how we can all make the internet a kinder, more human place.

Fake has received Honorary Doctorates from Rhode Island School of Design and The New School. Time Magazine named her one of the most influential people in the world. Especially the new generation of entrepreneurs is deeply invested with a question: What is the best way to organize your company? What kind of structure and company culture embody the purpose of the company while being the most efficient one? Are holacracy and other forms of self-organization just bed time stories or can they actually work?

Blinkist has established it's own way of working called Blinkcracy of which we will hear straight from Blinkist co-founder Niklas Jansen. Vishal Vasisth on the other hand has a take on functional hierarchies.

On the stage will be also Founder and CEO of Smartly.io, Kristo Ovaska, who has his own war stories to share and leading the discussion is the CEO of Slush, Marianne Vikkula. Vishal Vasishth has co-founded Obvious Ventures with Evan Williams and James Joaquin.

Obvious Ventures invests in world positive technology companies across three themes: Sustainable Systems, Healthy Living & People Power. Most recently Vishal was the founding partner of SONG Investment Advisors, an India- based fund backed by Soros Economic Development Fund, Omidyar Network and Google. He also served as a senior executive at Steve Case’s Revolution, LLC and as Chief Strategy Officer at Patagonia, a leading multichannel retailer of outdoor and active lifestyle products in the US. Vishal has demonstrated track record of operating and investing both in USA and Asia and creating value across diverse consumer oriented businesses. He was selected as a Henry Crown fellow of the Aspen Institute and a Next Generation Fellow of the American Assembly, both fellowships that recognize value-based leaders. Vishal earned a B. Tech degree in India, a Master’s degree in Sciences from North Carolina State University and an MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management.

Vishal grew up in the fast growing city of Chandigarh, India. Marianne is the CEO at Slush, the leading startup and technology event in Europe and Asia. Slush originates in the wintery Scandinavia but has now become one of the world-shaping movements of our time with Slush communities also in Shanghai, Tokyo and Singapore. All in all, there are more than 40 Slush events organized every year with close to 40 000 attendees. She’s been part of the team since 2013 joining as the CFO and now working as the CEO.

She has also run a sand-box accelerator program for pre-seed companies and worked for the Boston Consulting Group. Kristo Ovaska is the CEO and Co-Founder at Smartly.io. Smartly.io is building a SaaS tool for the largest online advertisers. We're one of the fastest growing Facebook Marketing Partners, and we're happy to serve 500+ customers globally, including eBay, Skyscanner and TechStyle. Currently focused on Facebook and Instagram, Smartly.io’s long-term vision is to automate the online sales funnel across platforms. Kristo has also been an important driver of the Finnish startup scene — first as a cofounder of Aalto Entrepreneurship Society (one of the driving forces behind Slush), later as a founder of nonprofit accelerator program Startup Sauna, and now as a mentor and speaker at events as CEO of Smartly.io.

He’s a strong believer that company culture eats strategy for breakfast. Esther Wojcicki is a internationally known journalism teacher and the founder of the Palo Alto High School Media Arts Program, a program that focuses on empowering students through the use of media (newspaper, magazine, yearbook, websites, video production, photography, radio, & television). The program started in 1984 with an already established (1918) 6 -8 page newspaper and 19 students; it has grown to become one of the most distinguished and the largest scholastic media program in the nation today (2016) with 600+ students, five additional teachers, nine publications, and a new 25,000 sq.

Ft Media Arts Center (2014). Esther is a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at MediaX at Stanford, a 2009 MacArthur Foundation Research Fellow,; the 2002 California Teacher of the Year by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing; the 2011 Charles O’Malley Award recipient from Columbia Scholastic Press. In 2013, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from Palo Alto University, and in 2016 an honorary doctorate from Rhode Island School of Design. Michael Bodekaer is a tireless visionary and the founder of multiple technology companies. His goal is to solve world problems through innovative technology, bold ideas and enthusiastic, engaged teamwork. Some of his companies include Labster, a revolutionary provider of virtual learning simulations; Livit, a company with the vision of empowering innovative global organizations to solve the world's most important challenges; and Mailbird the best modern email communication platform for Windows.

A self-taught developer, Bodekaer programmed his first game on a Palm Pilot at the age of 12 and developed his first software company at a Danish internet cafe three years later. This Copenhagen-born tech entrepreneur is working diligently towards assembling a worldwide organization of 10,000 passionate, determined and empowered team members who seek to change the world through the use of innovative technologies and intrepid thoughts and solutions. Jonathan Moules has been a writer at the Financial Times since 1999. His first five years were spent in the newspaper’s New York bureau, where, as technology, media and telecoms news editor, he oversaw coverage of the 1990s dotcom bubble and its aftermath.

After returning to London, he became entrepreneurship correspondent, charting the challenges of running fast growing companies and profiling interesting founders. He has been business education correspondent since September 2014, writing about the business school market globally. Jonathan is an economics graduate from the University of Liverpool. Installer Emulateur Super Nintendo Sur Ps3 Themes. His journalistic career has been interrupted only once, in 2007, when a botched home birth plan forced him to play midwife and deliver his middle child. Martin focuses on startups which operate in large markets (food, transportation, finance, health, SME) through the development of must-have products that get exponentially better with each additional user.

He has worked with many entrepreneurs who started such businesses, including BlaBlaCar and Deliveroo. He also serves on the board of Drivy, Rad, TheFamily, Trainline (following the acquisition of Captain Train) and till recently SwiftKey (acquired by Microsoft in 2016). In addition to the companies already mentioned, he led Seed round in hosted search API company Algolia.

Most of his initial investments are Seed and Series A. Since joining Index in 2010, Martin has spent a lot of time helping build the Parisian ecosystem (he led the first institutional investment in local startup network TheFamily and currently sits on their advisory board), and also regularly travels to the Nordics.

Prior to joining Index, Martin was in the TMT team at UBS Investment Bank and co-founded the beauty subscription business Boudoir Prive (acquired by Joliebox/Birchbox) and a student web radio service rsp.fm. Casey Fenton is the founder and CEO of Mastly, a modern alternative to the antiquated stock option system. As CouchSurfing and Sovolve’s original founder he’s focused his energy primarily on achieving their vision of a better world. Dedicated to finding a solution to the antiquated stock option system, he is also motivated by saving founders time and money by deploying transparent performance equity pools shown in real-time. Team members start thinking like entrepreneurs, building value every step of the way. After attending college for computer science in 1997, he worked as a technology and Internet consultant before starting several technology companies.

From 2003 to 2009, Casey worked on creating the original CouchSurfing website. Casey was the company’s Executive Director prior to becoming CIO. Karoli Hindriks is the CEO and Founder of Jobbatical – a disruptive leader in the hiring industry which sits squarely at the intersection of the future of travel, work and talent mobility.

While there are many companies in this space, Jobbatical is a unique leader in that it provides company branding through job announcements, immigration assistance and a community of professionals eager to relocate to join innovative companies. Karoli founded her first company at the age of sixteen (officially becoming the youngest inventor in Estonia). In total, she has founded three and directed five companies in the media, marketing and recruiting fields. This includes successfully leading the launch of seven television channels in Northern Europe, from National Geographic Channels to MTV and Fox entertainment. In 2016 Karoli was listed among the 50 most influential women in the European startup and venture capital space by EU-Startups.com.

Early in her career, BusinessWeek named Karoli one of the 20 most promising young entrepreneurs under 25 in Europe. Karoli is also an alumnus of Singularity University. In 2017 she was chosen as one of the most inspiring women in European tech by Wired Magazine. Sofie is an experienced managing director with a strong entrepreneurial spirit. Her strategic skills coupled with a passion for AI led her to create SearchInk with the goal of redefining the way people work and how companies are handling their business operations. SearchInk is as an MI-based, SaaS solution to massively optimize workflows, and empower businesses to make comprehensive data-driven decisions. Prior to SearchInk, Sofie founded Qidenus Technologies which quickly became the leader in the market of robotics and digitization.

Sofie is also the patent owner of the Vshape scanner Technology and winner of several awards including the Woman Technology & Research Award. Jerome Ternynck is the Founder and CEO of SmartRecruiters, the Talent Acquisition Suite, used by high-performance organizations who want to make recruitment a competitive advantage. His 20+ years in recruiting includes pioneering recruiting technology with MrTed, a prominent first- generation ATS system. Jerome is an entrepreneur with his heart in recruiting and soul in technology. Jerome envisions a world where recruitment is transparent, and hiring is so easy that his grandma can do it. He's passionate for what he does, hates the status quo, and loves innovation especially when it reaches disruption.

Jerome's goal is to bring the economy to its full potential by removing friction in the labor market and eradicating unemployment. Gary Carter trained as an actor in his native South Africa, before moving to Britain in the 1980s, where he became an agent.

He represented writers, producers, directors and choreographers before becoming active in the emerging format industry. In 1996 he joined Planet 24, where he lead the second phase of the development of Survivor, and licensed the first productions of the series. In 1998 he joined Endemol, where he became Executive Director of Programme Affairs for Endemol International, overseeing the management and distribution of the Endemol catalogue.

He oversaw the roll-out of Big Brother, and acquired the licences for 15 European territories of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire (Celadon). In the early 2000s he joined FremantleMedia, and became first President, Creative Networks, and later Group COO. In 2012 he joined Shine Group, as Chairman, Northern Europe - including Shine Nordics - and Chairman, Shine 360, and later with responsibility for the central creative division, Shine Network. After the merger between Endemol and Shine, he became Co-CEO, International Operations at the new entity, and oversaw the integration of the two organisations in Northern Europe, before leaving the company.

He is currently Non-Executive Director of KLOK, the Helsinki-based creative content agency, and Non-Executive Director of K7 Media, the Manchester-based content research and insight consultancy, and a consultant to the investment sector and the creative industries. Alex Mahon is the CEO of Channel 4 the British public-service television broadcaster. Channel 4 is a publicly-owned and commercially-funded family of channels with a statutory remit to deliver high-quality, innovative, alternative content that challenges the status quo.

The business is funded by advertising with revenues of c £1bn annually and has a unique purpose to innovate, take creative risks and inspire positive change and ensure that all of Great Britain is represented in its programmes. Alex was CEO of Foundry the leading design and visual and 3D effects software firm for 2 years from, 2015-2017 under its ownership by Hg Capital. Foundry is at the heart of the creative industries and technology sectors in London making software for the virtual reality, design and entertainment industries. Alex is now a board member and Deputy Chairman at Foundry.

Before Alex moved into technology she spent 15 years running creative production companies and her focus is high growth, international and entrepreneurial businesses. She was CEO of Shine Group which she joined in 2006 and with partners built the group through M&A and organic growth into an organisation with 27 creative labels in 12 countries, and brands including MasterChef, Biggest Loser, Broadchurch, Spooks & The Bridge. Prior to this she had a career in media across Europe, at Talkback Thames, FremantleMedia Group and RTL Group.

She started off as a PhD Physicist and then a strategy consultant at Mitchell Madison Group in the pre 2000 internet boom. Alex is the Senior Independent Director at Ocado Plc, and co-Founder of tech start-up WeAreTV. Alex is a supporter of the creative industries and has been Chairman of Royal Television Society Programme Awards, Non-Exec on the Edinburgh International Television Festival, and a member of the Government’s DCMS Advisory Panel on the BBC. She was also previously Appeal Chair of The Scar Free Foundation - a national charity funding pioneering and transformative medical research into disfigurement. Serial entrepreneur Johan Attby has more than 15 years of software, corporate development, venture capital and business development experience that he brings to his role of co-founder and CEO at Fishbrain. In addition to managing day-to-day operations of the company, Johan is responsible for Fishbrain’s rapid expansion to multiple markets and millions of users around the globe.

Awarded 'Founder of the Year' in Sweden by the Nordic Startup Awards in 2015, Johan has a passion for building game-changing businesses, as well as successfully bringing Swedish technology companies to the U.S. He grew up hunting and fishing, but it wasn’t until nearly a decade into his career of investing in and founding various successful start-ups, that he brought together his passion for analytics and fishing to launch a deep social network for anglers.Prior to Fishbrain, Johan founded software company Tific, where he grew the company from simply an idea to a highly profitable organization with a rapidly growing international customer base. In 2011, heorchestrated a successful exit once Tific was acquired PlumChoice. Johan graduated from Chalmers University of Technology with a Master of Science degree in Engineering Physics before entering a Chalmers PhD program, which he eventually left to pursue his passions as an entrepreneur and innovator. Johan serves as an investor, advisor and board member to an extensive network of early stage technology companies, and is a frequent speaker on entrepreneurship and start-ups. Doron brings vast experience in business and technology management to StoreDot. Prior to founding the company, he served as senior director of SanDisk SSD Business Unit (NASDAQ: SNDK), establishing and managing the division in Israel, building product strategy, marketing and business development, resulting in sales to leading laptop makers amounting to over $100M in revenue in under 3 years.

Previously, he was VP Flash and Operations of msystems, a flash memory global leader, where he managed strategic sourcing of $1B annually, resulting in annual revenue of over $1.5B. Doron’s diverse record also includes founder and CEO of InnerPresence, a Silicon Valley security software company, and co-founder and VP business development of Siftology, a pioneer in interactive media search. Earlier, as a partner at Tefen – Semiconductor Operations Management, Doron managed West Coast US operations, in charge of the design and setup of over 40 semiconductor, pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturing facilities worldwide. Doron holds PhD in R&D Management (1994), MSc in information systems (cum laude, 1991) and BSc in Industrial Engineering Management (cum laude, 1989) - all from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Inna Braverman founded Eco Wave Power in 2011, at the age of 24, and recently chosen as one of the 100 most influential individuals in the world by medium.com (along with Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and others) She holds a BA in Political Science and English Language and Literature from Haifa University, and is one of the only women sitting on the TC114 Committee for Marine Energy in IEC, which sets international standards for all electric technologies. With her leadership, Eco Wave Power installed the first commercial-scale wave energy array in Europe, where Eco Wave Power is selling electricity to Gibraltar's Electric Authority through a commercial scale Power Purchase Agreement.

She is also responsible for securing 130MW of projects pipe-line for the company. Due to this achievements, she was selected to present her unique life story at TED, and won an award for 'Best Woman-Owned Renewable Energy Company' in Israel by CV Magazine. Recently, she was selected by Smithsonian Magazine as one of eight young innovators with ingenious ideas for the future of energy and featured in the January 2017 issue of WIRED Magazine for her accomplishments and contributions in the wave technology field. Corinne Vigreux is a Co-Founder of TomTom, the navigation technologies company that continues to create cutting edge technologies that solve mobility problems and address the challenges of autonomous driving and smart cities. As one of the top fifty most inspirational women in European tech, Corinne champions women in the workforce and passionately advocates for improved social mobility through education. She is a member of the supervisory board of takeaway.com NV and Groupe ILIAD, member of the supervisory board of the Dutch National Opera & Ballet and advisor to the Amsterdam Economic Board. Corinne was made Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur in 2012 and knighted in the Royal Order of Orange-Nassau in 2016.

Gordon is an experienced technology journalist who has written for Wired, The Guardian, the BBC and is currently one of Forbes' most popular columnists. He started in b2b print journalism in the year 2000, covering tech companies at the height of the dot com boom and switched to covering consumer technology as the iPod took off. Gordon was a founding member of TrustedReviews in 2003, a time when online sites were still deemed unable to compete with print-based rivals.

Within four years TrustedReviews had grown so large it was purchased by Time Media to become its flagship tech title. Since then Gordon's work has been published by almost every major tech title as he pursues his passion for technologies which disrupt the status quo. Mission for the rising generations is to solve the present existential global crises. Consumers worldwide have started minding their habits stronger year by year, and as a consequence, are rewarding companies with a positive societal and environmental impact. This trend has not gone unnoticed by companies and VCs. Vishal Vasisth from Obvious Ventures, Ela Madej from Fifty Years and Erik Engeliau-Nilson from Norssken take the stage to talk about how can profits go hand in hand with positive impact. Erik Engellau-Nilsson is the CEO of Norrsken Foundation, a non-profit foundation combining entrepreneurship, technology and venture capital to maximize social good.

In January, the foundation launched Norrsken House which has quickly grown to become the largest ecosystem for social entrepreneurship in Europe. Just before summer, the foundation closed the first Norrsken Founders Fund supported by unicorn founders investing 300 million SEK in entrepreneurs creating transformative companies solving the biggest challenges facing humanity.

In addition, the foundation has launched two initiatives seeking to reduce global corruption and democratizing and spreading personal growth tools leveraging technology. A serial entrepreneur and a Founding Partner at Fifty Years, an early stage VC fund that backs entrepreneurs solving the world’s biggest problems with technology. A Y Combinator alum who previously co-founded Base CRM, the software development company Applicake, and was a Partner at Innovation Nest, a Europe-focused VC firm. With Fifty Years, Ela has invested in over 30 private companies in areas such as synthetic biology, energy, space tech, health tech, food tech, autonomous vehicles, and more. Ela also runs Impact.tech, a platform for technologists in Silicon Valley who want to combine purpose with profit. Vishal Vasishth has co-founded Obvious Ventures with Evan Williams and James Joaquin.

Obvious Ventures invests in world positive technology companies across three themes: Sustainable Systems, Healthy Living & People Power. Most recently Vishal was the founding partner of SONG Investment Advisors, an India- based fund backed by Soros Economic Development Fund, Omidyar Network and Google.

He also served as a senior executive at Steve Case’s Revolution, LLC and as Chief Strategy Officer at Patagonia, a leading multichannel retailer of outdoor and active lifestyle products in the US. Vishal has demonstrated track record of operating and investing both in USA and Asia and creating value across diverse consumer oriented businesses. He was selected as a Henry Crown fellow of the Aspen Institute and a Next Generation Fellow of the American Assembly, both fellowships that recognize value-based leaders. Vishal earned a B. Tech degree in India, a Master’s degree in Sciences from North Carolina State University and an MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management.

Vishal grew up in the fast growing city of Chandigarh, India. Elizabeth Stark is cofounder and CEO of Lightning, where she is building a programmable financial layer for the internet through fast, scalable blockchain transactions. Further, she is an advisor at Comma.ai, a startup building autonomous driving technology, and a fellow at Coin Center, the leading digital currency policy organization. Stark previously taught at Stanford and Yale University about the future of the internet, and was a visiting fellow at Yale's Information Society Project. Elizabeth played an instrumental role in the Internet freedom effort that defeated SOPA/PIPA, engaging 18 million people worldwide.

She has advised numerous decentralized technology and blockchain startups and was an entrepreneur-in-residence at Stanford StartX. Stark holds a J.D. From Harvard. Steiner is the co-founder and CEO of Parity Technologies. She previously served as Chief of Security for the Ethereum Foundation, overseeing security audit and integration prior to the launch of the public blockchain in 2015.

Steiner also co-founded Project Provenance, where she pioneered the use of blockchain technology to foster transparency in supply chains. She has helped found and advise a number of additional organisations, including GridSingularity; a decentralised energy data exchange platform hosting a range of applications to facilitate energy data analysis and benchmarking, investment decisions and smart grid management – a key enabler for a sustainable shift from a traditional to a distributed energy market model. Dr Steiner holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Bonn, following which she started her career as a consultant for McKinsey.

Adam Fridman is a seasoned entrepreneur, startup veteran and founder of digital marketing agency Mabbly, who believes that exceptional cultures happen when people pursue purpose together. As the co-author of Science of Story, creator of ProHabits and a contributor at Inc., Adam inspires organizations to transform and create more engaged cultures through supporting their people’s personal and professional growth. Adam’s upcoming book, The Science of Story, is based on two ideas: that brands are a reflection of culture, and that culture is the result of purpose that inspires, values that guide and habits that define the organization. In the course of researching the book, Adam interviewed more than 600 leadership experts and executives at America’s top brands to understand how purpose, values and habits transform organizations at the human level, by developing individual potential.

These interviews inspired ProHabits, a positive psychology-based application that links professional habits to personal and organizational goals. Companies select tracks that support their values, individuals then select a track that delivers daily “micro-habits” that help them develop skills like focus, teamwork, productivity and empowerment. ProHabits aggregates this data to deliver research that helps organizations understand the obstacles preventing engagement. Adam believes that in a world full of distractions, people seek deeper meaning in their lives and work. A culture centered on purpose is the key to attracting a tribe of customers and employees that are invested and engaged in your organization’s success. Adam has inspired countless organizations and individuals to make the conscious choice to pursue purpose - let him inspire you.

Nicolas Dessaigne is the CEO and Co-founder of Algolia, a hosted Search-as-a-Service platform. Seeing search as a great touch point to optimize user engagement, Nicolas launched Algolia in 2012 with CTO and Co-founder Julien Lemoine to help developers connect their users with what matters most. Over 3,000 customers are now using Algolia to deliver instant, relevant search results to their users anywhere in the world.

He is a firm believer of “culture-first” companies, and is focused first and foremost on building just that at Algolia where ownership is the path to accomplishing their goals. Prior to Algolia, Nicolas spent over 12 years working on information retrieval at Exalead and Thales. Monique Woodard is an investor at 500 Startups where she invests in early stage startups and leads a $25M microfund that invests in Black and Latino founders and growing markets. She believes that demographic shifts combined with current $2.5 trillion in Black and Latino purchasing power is creating the next big emerging market – right here in the United States. As the co-founder of Black Founders, Monique created an organization for tech entrepreneurs and has provided support for startups around business strategy, marketing, and fundraising. She also served as an Innovation Fellow for the City of San Francisco where she worked on government innovation, including open data and municipal broadband access. Monique has had a 15 year career in tech that includes both entrepreneur and operating experience in consumer-centric businesses in mobile, media, e-commerce, and government technology.

Terri Hanson Mead is Founder/Managing Director of Class Bravo Ventures. She is also President of Solutions2Projects, LLC, a consulting company that provides IT strategy and IT compliance services in the life sciences space in addition to expert witness consulting services. She is also an active angel investor and former Vice President of Sand Hill Angels, regularly advises startups and in her spare time, flies helicopters.

She is passionate about supporting, and advocating for, female founders and investors. Serial entrepreneur Johan Attby has more than 15 years of software, corporate development, venture capital and business development experience that he brings to his role of co-founder and CEO at Fishbrain. In addition to managing day-to-day operations of the company, Johan is responsible for Fishbrain’s rapid expansion to multiple markets and millions of users around the globe. Awarded 'Founder of the Year' in Sweden by the Nordic Startup Awards in 2015, Johan has a passion for building game-changing businesses, as well as successfully bringing Swedish technology companies to the U.S.

He grew up hunting and fishing, but it wasn’t until nearly a decade into his career of investing in and founding various successful start-ups, that he brought together his passion for analytics and fishing to launch a deep social network for anglers.Prior to Fishbrain, Johan founded software company Tific, where he grew the company from simply an idea to a highly profitable organization with a rapidly growing international customer base. In 2011, heorchestrated a successful exit once Tific was acquired PlumChoice. Johan graduated from Chalmers University of Technology with a Master of Science degree in Engineering Physics before entering a Chalmers PhD program, which he eventually left to pursue his passions as an entrepreneur and innovator. Johan serves as an investor, advisor and board member to an extensive network of early stage technology companies, and is a frequent speaker on entrepreneurship and start-ups.

Doron brings vast experience in business and technology management to StoreDot. Prior to founding the company, he served as senior director of SanDisk SSD Business Unit (NASDAQ: SNDK), establishing and managing the division in Israel, building product strategy, marketing and business development, resulting in sales to leading laptop makers amounting to over $100M in revenue in under 3 years. Previously, he was VP Flash and Operations of msystems, a flash memory global leader, where he managed strategic sourcing of $1B annually, resulting in annual revenue of over $1.5B. Doron’s diverse record also includes founder and CEO of InnerPresence, a Silicon Valley security software company, and co-founder and VP business development of Siftology, a pioneer in interactive media search. Earlier, as a partner at Tefen – Semiconductor Operations Management, Doron managed West Coast US operations, in charge of the design and setup of over 40 semiconductor, pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturing facilities worldwide. Doron holds PhD in R&D Management (1994), MSc in information systems (cum laude, 1991) and BSc in Industrial Engineering Management (cum laude, 1989) - all from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Corinne Vigreux is a Co-Founder of TomTom, the navigation technologies company that continues to create cutting edge technologies that solve mobility problems and address the challenges of autonomous driving and smart cities.

As one of the top fifty most inspirational women in European tech, Corinne champions women in the workforce and passionately advocates for improved social mobility through education. She is a member of the supervisory board of takeaway.com NV and Groupe ILIAD, member of the supervisory board of the Dutch National Opera & Ballet and advisor to the Amsterdam Economic Board. Corinne was made Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur in 2012 and knighted in the Royal Order of Orange-Nassau in 2016. Miroslava Duma is a visionary CEO and Founder of Fashion Tech Lab - a global company aspiring to transform the fashion and apparel industry into an innovative, technologically advanced, environmentally friendly and socially responsible one. Fashion Tech Lab combines an investment company, a multinational incubator, an agency, an experimental laboratory and a philanthropic organisation helping new technologies and sustainable innovations connect, collaborate and create products and brands that evolve the $3T fashion and apparel industry and improve its social and environmental footprints. Miroslava is also the founder of several innovative international ventures across digital media (Buro247 platform present in 12 markets), e-commerce (The Tot), a digital entrepreneur, an active investor in a range of businesses including digital media, technology, responsible fashion and an avid philanthropist. Miroslava has been cited as ‘the most connected digital entrepreneur in fashion’ by Vogue and ‘a force of the fashion industry by Financial Times.

Anu Jain is an entrepreneur and philanthropist driven to make a positive impact in the world. She is passionate about empowering girls and women. She is the Founder of the Women Safety XPRIZE and President of the Anu Jain family Foundation.

She is also the Co-Founder of InfoSpace and Lavish Life. Anu recently launched a $1 million XPrize competition to incentivize innovators to design a technology-based solution that sets a new safety standard for women. The winning technology solution will autonomously and inconspicuously trigger an emergency alert while transmitting information to a network of community responders, all within 90 seconds and for less than US $40 per device.

85 teams globally have registered to compete.
Anu is a board member of the X-Prize Foundation, an organization focused on using exponential technology to solve the grand challenges of humanity. She is also a founding member of the investing circle and advisory council member of the UN Foundation Girl Up that specifically focuses on empowering adolescent girls in the US and around the world. Anu is a board member of Bellevue LifeSpring and member of Women Moving Millions. Anu holds a BA in business administration and economics from SUNY, Stony Brook, NY, and an MBA from Rutgers University in New Jersey. She grew up in Jerusalem and many different countries as a UN child.

Anu and her husband have three children who are all entrepreneurs and actively involved in positively impacting the world. Elizabeth Nyamayaro is Senior Advisor to Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women and the Head of the HeForShe Initiative, a global solidarity movement which seeks to engage men and boys as advocates for gender equality. A strong advocate for women rights and economic empowerment, Ms. Nyamayaro has worked at the forefront of Africa’s development agenda for more than a decade in both the public and private sector, and previously held positions with UNAIDS, World Health Organization and the World Bank. Prior to UN Women, she was Director External Affairs & Policy, Africa and part of the Corporate Strategy Office at Merck. Born in Zimbabwe and a Political Scientist by training, Ms. Nyamayaro holds a MSc in Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science and she has completed executive education at Harvard Business School.

Kjartan Slette is the Co-Founder and COO at Unacast - the makers of the Real World Graph. Unacast is a Norwegian company based out of NYC, leading the push for accuracy and transparency in location data, and featured at Slush 2016 as a part of 'the next generation of Nordic game changers'. Unacast has won awards for its innovative culture and focus on building a company based on decency and diversity. Previous to Unacast, Kjartan was part of the founding team at TIDAL, acquired by Jay Z in 2015.

Toby Coppel is a co-founder and partner at Mosaic Ventures, a London-based venture capital firm focused on early stage investing across Europe. Toby has been investing and operating in internet startups since 1996.

He began his investment career at Allen & Company, before starting his first investment firm. He joined Yahoo!’s new management team in 2001 and spent 6 years as Yahoo!’s Chief Strategy Officer, leading over $5 billion of investments and acquisitions including $1 billion into Alibaba. Following that, both as an angel and alongside Richard Branson and Virgin, he made investments including 3DRobotics, CreativeLive, Criteo, Indiegogo, Pinterest, and Transferwise. At Mosaic, Toby is thematically focused on blockchain and next-generation finance, as well as digital health and marketplaces, and works closely with our portfolio companies Blockchain, habito, and Teemo. He is a graduate of Oxford University and Harvard University, and a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute.

Alice Bentinck is co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Entrepreneur First. Entrepreneur First (EF) was created to support the world’s most ambitious individuals to build their own startups from scratch. EF has £50m under management and has built more than 100 startups in London and Singapore. Significant exits include Magic Pony Technology ($150m to Twitter) and Represent ($100m to Custom Inc). EF is backed by LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, Greylock Partners, Founders Fund, Mosaic Ventures and Lakestar. She also set up Code First: Girls, a not-for-profit that has taught 5,000 women to code for free while at university.

She advised Prime Minister Cameron at the Northern Future Forum on startup strategy and currently sits on Imperial College's Computer Science Industrial Liaison Board. Alice previously worked at McKinsey & Company and for the former Prime Minister, Tony Blair, after he left office. Kat Manalac is a partner at Y Combinator and originally joined as its first Director of Outreach. Kat focuses on finding great entrepreneurs for the program. Prior to YC, Kat worked as Chief of Staff to Alexis Ohanian, cofounder of reddit and head of the nonprofit Breadpig.

Before that, she was at WIRED Magazine. Kat attended Northwestern University where she studied communications and worked with the university's Web Use Project. Kat was born in the Philippines and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. Nicolas Dessaigne is the CEO and Co-founder of Algolia, a hosted Search-as-a-Service platform. Seeing search as a great touch point to optimize user engagement, Nicolas launched Algolia in 2012 with CTO and Co-founder Julien Lemoine to help developers connect their users with what matters most. Over 3,000 customers are now using Algolia to deliver instant, relevant search results to their users anywhere in the world. He is a firm believer of “culture-first” companies, and is focused first and foremost on building just that at Algolia where ownership is the path to accomplishing their goals.

Prior to Algolia, Nicolas spent over 12 years working on information retrieval at Exalead and Thales. Young Sohn is president and chief strategy officer for Samsung Electronics, and Chairman of the Board, Harman International. He leads development and strategy for global innovation, investment and new business creation. Young led the $8 billion acquisition of Harman International Industries.

Prior to joining Samsung Electronics, Young served as CEO of Oak Technologies, Agilent Semiconductor (now Avago) and Inphi Corporation. Under his leadership as CEO and board member, he took PLX Technologies, Synnex Technologies and Inphi public. He also has served on the Boards of ARM, Synnex Corporation and Cymer, Inc.

He serves on the MIT Sloan School North America Board, is a senior advisor to the private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, is a member of the board of directors at Cadence, is a board member of the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), and is an advisor for the University of California Innovation Council. Young also was a senior advisor for the MIT Media Lab’s One Laptop per Child. Young holds a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and MS from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

With a games career spanning more than 30 years, Henrique has been at the forefront of many gaming revolutions, from the demo scene of the late 80s, through to mobile, MMOs, VR, social games and creatively-led indie titles. His previous experiences includes Head of Gaming at GloboTV in Brazil, where he developed the most popular online trading card game in LatAm during the early 00s.

Henrique held the position of Head of Game Development at Jagex, overseeing the overhaul of its main title 'Runescape HD' and saw it achieve its peak subscribers number. He left Jagex to join Playfish as Studio Director in the UK, where his team successfully produced the BAFTA-nominated 'FIFA Superstars'. As the co-founder and Gamer-In-Chief at Bossa Studios, Henrique is responsible for the company strategy, management and game design. The studio's biggest titles are the unexpected Surgeon Simulator -- a YouTube runaway success with more than 4 million copies sold; the BAFTA-winning Monstermind; I Am Bread, the multi-million selling journey of a humble piece of Bread to become toast; and Worlds Adrift, the first of a new generation of massive online simulations that aims to redefine multiplayer gaming. Alexis is an Executive in Residence at Atomico advising on new investments in France, Spain and Portugal as well as sourcing and value building in the games vertical.

He is also interested in high impact purpose driven companies. A strong believer that 'great companies can come from anywhere', Alexis is also the co-founder & ceo of games company eRepublik Labs (eRepublik.com, Age of Lords, World at War) a 'free to play' pioneer with HQ in Ireland and studios in Bucharest and Madrid. Alexis has numerous angel investments mainly in Europe. He is the non-executive chairman of the video and music social entertainment community trilulilu.ro and of Zonga.fm the music streaming service that powers Vodafone in Romania. More recently, he invested in Jampp one of the top mobile app advertising platforms.

Prior to Erepublik Labs, Alexis was part of the first wave of internet start ups and was with lastminute.com for 6 years right up to its 1.1b$ trade sale to Sabre in 2005 – first as Head of Business Development (UK) then as Marketing and Sales Director (France) and then as Managing Director (Italy). A recognized speaker, Alexis is passionate about helping the European digital eco-system scale and as such is a co-founder of the Chamberi Valley digital entrepreneurs association and was one of the driving forces behind the iN3Spainconference in 2015 and 2016 and bringing Founders Forum to Madrid in 2016. Alexis shares his time between London, Paris, Bucharest and Madrid, is fluent in French, Spanish, Portuguese, English, Italian and understands basic Romanian if pushed. A long time ago he was a sailing national champion (Portugal), now he prefers to stay dry and play chess with one of his 3 kids.

Fredrik Wester is the CEO and Principal Owner of Paradox Interactive, the Sweden-based games company best known for developing PC strategy games like Stellaris, Europa Universalis, Crusader Kings and Hearts of Iron series as well as publishing a wide range of titles including Cities Skylines, Pillars of Eternity and Magicka. Since 2003, Wester has built Paradox from a 7-man studio to an international publisher with over 200 employees and another 10 partner companies (200 people) making games on contract. Paradox is publicly traded on Nasdag First North Premier under the trading symbol PDX.Wester has been in leading positions at Paradox for 13 years and acted as CEO & President for the past 8 years. He holds a number of board positions in startup companies and is also an active investor and advisor in the gaming, tech and media industries. Kjartan Slette is the Co-Founder and COO at Unacast - the makers of the Real World Graph. Unacast is a Norwegian company based out of NYC, leading the push for accuracy and transparency in location data, and featured at Slush 2016 as a part of 'the next generation of Nordic game changers'.

Unacast has won awards for its innovative culture and focus on building a company based on decency and diversity. Previous to Unacast, Kjartan was part of the founding team at TIDAL, acquired by Jay Z in 2015. Anu Jain is an entrepreneur and philanthropist driven to make a positive impact in the world. She is passionate about empowering girls and women. She is the Founder of the Women Safety XPRIZE and President of the Anu Jain family Foundation.

She is also the Co-Founder of InfoSpace and Lavish Life. Anu recently launched a $1 million XPrize competition to incentivize innovators to design a technology-based solution that sets a new safety standard for women. The winning technology solution will autonomously and inconspicuously trigger an emergency alert while transmitting information to a network of community responders, all within 90 seconds and for less than US $40 per device. 85 teams globally have registered to compete.
Anu is a board member of the X-Prize Foundation, an organization focused on using exponential technology to solve the grand challenges of humanity.

She is also a founding member of the investing circle and advisory council member of the UN Foundation Girl Up that specifically focuses on empowering adolescent girls in the US and around the world. Anu is a board member of Bellevue LifeSpring and member of Women Moving Millions. Anu holds a BA in business administration and economics from SUNY, Stony Brook, NY, and an MBA from Rutgers University in New Jersey. She grew up in Jerusalem and many different countries as a UN child. Anu and her husband have three children who are all entrepreneurs and actively involved in positively impacting the world. Elizabeth Nyamayaro is Senior Advisor to Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women and the Head of the HeForShe Initiative, a global solidarity movement which seeks to engage men and boys as advocates for gender equality.

A strong advocate for women rights and economic empowerment, Ms. Nyamayaro has worked at the forefront of Africa’s development agenda for more than a decade in both the public and private sector, and previously held positions with UNAIDS, World Health Organization and the World Bank. Prior to UN Women, she was Director External Affairs & Policy, Africa and part of the Corporate Strategy Office at Merck. Born in Zimbabwe and a Political Scientist by training, Ms. Nyamayaro holds a MSc in Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science and she has completed executive education at Harvard Business School. Purnima Kochikar is the Director of Apps and Game Business Development at Google Play where she oversees all aspects of the app ecosystem including strategy, operations, partnership management, technical support and developer marketing.

Her team focuses on helping both world’s leading companies and fledging entrepreneurs create effective mobile businesses and reach global audiences. Prior to Google, Purnima held various roles at Nokia including leading developer activities worldwide, which took her to more than 30 countries working on initiatives as diverse as building mobile education centers in Africa, tech incubators in Singapore, Bangalore and Tel Aviv, and launching mobile apps to solve some of the most fundamental human problems including education, healthcare, and supply chain management for food and medicines.

Purnima is passionate about K-12 education and entrepreneurship, and focuses on helping girls and women excel in both. A self professed geek, she is a tinkerer (her first toy was a meccano set), traveller, bookworm and a budding chef. She serves on the board of SVForum, which focuses on fostering entrepreneurship through education and mentorship. Andrew Stalbow is co-founder and CEO at Seriously, a company creating mobile games designed to be developed into entertainment properties. The business development and marketing functions for Seriously are based in Los Angeles, while the game studio is based in Helsinki, Finland. Previously, Stalbow was EVP Strategic Partnerships at Rovio Entertainment where he was responsible for commercial strategy and the company’s biggest partnership and animation distribution deals. Examples include negotiating with Lucasfilm for ‘Angry Birds Star Wars’ and launching Rovio’s first animated series - ‘Angry Birds Toons’ - by building a video distribution and channel business within Rovio’s games.

Before Rovio, Stalbow ran 20th Century Fox’s mobile division where he commercialized the studio’s film and television properties. Examples include working with the creative team at Gracie Films, and negotiating with Electronic Arts, to launch ‘The Simpsons Tapped Out’, a top grossing mobile game, and making James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ movie available as a pre-load as part of a launch marketing program for Samsung’s first Galaxy S smartphone. Arjun Kharpal is a technology correspondent for CNBC in London.

He moved into the role after being a news assistant at the company for two years, and a reporter for a year following that. Arjun's heads up CNBC's 'Tech Transformers' special report, interviewing guests or offering analysis on 'Squawk Box Europe' and 'Street Signs', as well as writing a plethora of stories online. He writes extensively on the technology industry covering the latest trends and topics all the way from the most innovative start-ups up to the biggest companies in the world including Apple and Google.

Arjun talks to the most important industry players including company chief executives, investors, and entrepreneurs. Arjun has previously written for The Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian and The Mirror in London. He holds a BA in English Literature from the University of York and an MA in Newspaper Journalism from City University, London. Scott Stanford is a Managing Director at Sherpa Capital, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm he co-founded with Shervin Pishevar in March 2013.

Sherpa Capital is an investor in companies such as Uber, Airbnb, Munchery, ipsy, Shyp, Stance, Rent the Runway, PillPack, Doctor on Demand and Cue Health. Scott serves on the Board of Directors of Curology, ipsy, Luka and Shyp. Scott has been focused on the Internet / technology sector for over 20 years as an advisor, operator and investor.

Prior to co-founding Sherpa Capital, Scott co-headed Goldman Sachs’s Global Internet Investment Banking business based in San Francisco. In his twelve years at Goldman he advised clients on $80 billion of equity and debt financings and strategic transactions and was deeply involved in making approximately $1.6 billion of principal investments in companies like Facebook, Uber, DST/Mail.ru and LinkedIn.

His client coverage responsibility included companies such as Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Groupon, Zillow, Airbnb, Uber and many other established and emerging technology-enabled companies. Prior to Goldman, Scott was an early employee of LookSmart, where he helped build the company from a start-up to a publicly traded NASDAQ company. During his tenure he held several technical, product, financial and strategic management positions including running eCommerce, Product and Development, Strategy and Corporate Development and Business Development. While in business school, Scott coded prototype applications for two start-up ideas, one focusing on community service and the other focusing on automating and prototyping core financial analysis. He has been coding since the age of thirteen. Scott received his A.B. With Honors from Harvard College (Social Studies) and M.B.A.

From Harvard Business School. Jacob de Geer is a serial entrepreneur. Recognised as one of the most influential leaders in fintech, Jacob is co-founder and CEO of iZettle, a business headquartered in Sweden and named by The Financial Times as one of Europe’s most innovative and fastest growing companies. Under Jacob’s leadership, iZettle has grown into a ‘one-stop-shop’ for small business commerce. Live in 12 markets in Europe and Latin America, more than 1000 new small businesses sign-up to access iZettle’s financial and commercial tools each day. Prior to launching iZettle, Jacob co-founded movie sharing firm, Ameibo, and Tre Kronor Media, an award-winning communications agency. Jacob cut his teeth at performance marketing firm TradeDoubler.

He was the first employee and helped to grow the advertising network to become one of the largest in Europe before its listing on the Swedish stock exchange in 2005. David is a technologist and visionary, founder of Unity, non-executive director of Plain Vanilla, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and revenue streams, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do. David‘s background is in software, an assortment university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of the game technology company Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with the unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next generation of the games industry. Priya is Ecosystem GM for RocketSpace, a San Francisco HQ-ed company that helps tech entrepreneurs, high-growth startups and corporate innovators bring the future to market.

RocketSpace’s UK campus opened Spring 2017. Priya was a career diplomat who recently returned from San Francisco where, as British Consul General, she focussed on transatlantic tech and entrepreneurship. As the first female British Consul General, Priya used her platform to support women in business, helping to bring out delegations of UK female tech entrepreneurs to Silicon Valley.

Priya is also an Advisor to Merian Ventures, a VC firm that invests in women-led innovation, a Non-Executive Director of Innovate UK and is on the Advisory Board of Tech London Advocates. Tracy Chou is an entrepreneur, software engineer, and diversity advocate. She is currently exploring and advising a range of new projects across the startup world, civic tech and engagement, and diversity activism. From 2011 to 2016 Tracy was an engineer and tech lead at Pinterest, with roles on home feed and recommendations, ads products, web, infrastructure, API, email, and growth. Before Pinterest, she worked at Quora, also as an early engineer there.

During the previous federal administration she was on reserve with the U.S. Digital Service as a technical consultant as well. Alongside her engineering career, Tracy is most well-known for her work pushing for diversity in tech. In 2013, she helped to kick off the wave of tech company diversity data disclosures with a Github repository collecting numbers on women in engineering. Tracy is now a founding member of Project Include and focused on driving solutions in the space. She was named Forbes Tech 30 under 30 in 2014 and has been profiled in Vogue, WIRED, The Atlantic, and other outlets for her advocacy.

Tracy is an advisor to Homebrew VC and enjoys working with startups on engineering, product, culture, and diversity. Tracy graduated from Stanford with an M.S. In Computer Science and a B.S.

In Electrical Engineering, where she was a Terman Scholar and Mayfield Fellow and elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi. Marianne is the CEO at Slush, the leading startup and technology event in Europe and Asia. Slush originates in the wintery Scandinavia but has now become one of the world-shaping movements of our time with Slush communities also in Shanghai, Tokyo and Singapore. All in all, there are more than 40 Slush events organized every year with close to 40 000 attendees. She’s been part of the team since 2013 joining as the CFO and now working as the CEO. She has also run a sand-box accelerator program for pre-seed companies and worked for the Boston Consulting Group. Vishal Vasishth has co-founded Obvious Ventures with Evan Williams and James Joaquin.

Obvious Ventures invests in world positive technology companies across three themes: Sustainable Systems, Healthy Living & People Power. Most recently Vishal was the founding partner of SONG Investment Advisors, an India- based fund backed by Soros Economic Development Fund, Omidyar Network and Google. He also served as a senior executive at Steve Case’s Revolution, LLC and as Chief Strategy Officer at Patagonia, a leading multichannel retailer of outdoor and active lifestyle products in the US. Vishal has demonstrated track record of operating and investing both in USA and Asia and creating value across diverse consumer oriented businesses. He was selected as a Henry Crown fellow of the Aspen Institute and a Next Generation Fellow of the American Assembly, both fellowships that recognize value-based leaders. Vishal earned a B.

Tech degree in India, a Master’s degree in Sciences from North Carolina State University and an MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. Vishal grew up in the fast growing city of Chandigarh, India. Ina Fried is chief technology correspondent for Axios and editor of its daily tech newsletter, Login. Before joining Axios in February, she was a senior editor at Recode, covering mobile, and produced the Code/Mobile series of conferences. Her road to becoming the woman she is today has been a long one. Before helping launch Recode, Ina covered mobile at All Things Digital.

Prior to that she spent a decade at CNET where she covered, among other things, Microsoft and Apple. Her reporting spanned several continents, two genders and included chronicling the Hewlett Packard-Compaq merger, Bill Gates’ transition from software giant to philanthropist, as well as the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. There are accelerators and Demo Days. Startup Sauna’s Demo Days aren’t your usual snoozefest; they’re a celebration of early-stage startups on their way to becoming scaleups, and we are good at celebrating. Eurasia’s most intensive accelerator, Startup Sauna, brings its Demo Day to Slush 2017 to showcase the most impressing early-stage founders found from Finland, Russia, Ukraine, Switzerland, UK, and South Korea.

Startup Sauna’s cohorts go through a military boot camp like experience before they climb on the stage. On November 30th, we celebrate the fact that the founders have spent the last seven weeks in a crunch mode at Startup Sauna’s premises validating their value proposition.

See you on November 30th at Slush Startup Station. Will Marshall is a Space Scientist, who co-founded Planet Labs in year 2010. As CEO of Planet, he is dedicated to lead the overall company strategy and direction. Prior to Planet, Will was a Scientist at NASA/USRA where he was a systems engineer on lunar orbiter mission “LADEE”, a member of the science team for the lunar impactor mission “LCROSS”, served as Co-Principal Investigator on PhoneSat, and was the technical lead on research projects in space debris remediation.

Will received his Ph.D. In Physics from the University of Oxford and his Masters in Physics with Space Science and Technology from the University of Leicester. Will was also a Postdoctoral Fellow at George Washington University and Harvard. Purnima Kochikar is the Director of Apps and Game Business Development at Google Play where she oversees all aspects of the app ecosystem including strategy, operations, partnership management, technical support and developer marketing. Her team focuses on helping both world’s leading companies and fledging entrepreneurs create effective mobile businesses and reach global audiences. Prior to Google, Purnima held various roles at Nokia including leading developer activities worldwide, which took her to more than 30 countries working on initiatives as diverse as building mobile education centers in Africa, tech incubators in Singapore, Bangalore and Tel Aviv, and launching mobile apps to solve some of the most fundamental human problems including education, healthcare, and supply chain management for food and medicines.

Purnima is passionate about K-12 education and entrepreneurship, and focuses on helping girls and women excel in both. A self professed geek, she is a tinkerer (her first toy was a meccano set), traveller, bookworm and a budding chef.

She serves on the board of SVForum, which focuses on fostering entrepreneurship through education and mentorship. Lisa Barnett is the co-founder and CMO of Little Spoon, a fresh, direct-to-consumer baby food and early childhood nutrition company. Prior to Little Spoon, Lisa spent 6 years as an investor in and operator at some of the world’s top consumer brands.

Her venture experience included time spent as a Partner at Sherpa Foundry and, before that, an investor at VC firms Maveron & Dorm Room Fund. Her investment focus was on B2C technology startups, namely, e-commerce, marketplace, and brands - leading her to be recognized as a Forbes 30 under 30 VC in 2017.

Before becoming an investor, she led multi-channel growth strategy for Estee Lauder Companies. There, her focus was taking their traditionally offline, department-store brands and building out a direct-to-consumer and digital marketing strategy for customer acquisition and engagement. Lisa started out at the Boston Consulting Group, working with Fortune 500 retail and healthcare technology clients on brand, customer experience and market entry strategy.

Lisa holds a Bachelors of Arts with Honors in Communication and Marketing from the University of Pennsylvania, where she also graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with the top scholar-athlete accolades as a member of the Varsity Cross Country and Track teams. Ryan Pandya is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Perfect Day, a food company on a mission to create delicious animal-free dairy products, while leaving a kinder, greener footprint on the planet.

Ryan’s background is in Chemical & Biological Engineering (Tufts University). At Tufts, Ryan contributed to seminal research on tissue engineered meat under the oversight of professor David Kaplan, the head of the Biomedical Engineering department. Before starting Perfect Day, Ryan worked at MassBiologics, a small biotechnology company in Boston, MA, where he developed next-generation antibodies against tetanus and diphtheria. Perumal Gandhi is a co-founder of Perfect Day, a food company on a mission to create delicious animal-free dairy products, while leaving a kinder, greener footprint on the planet. Perumal’s background is in Biomedical Engineering (SUNY Stony Brook). Prior to co-founding Perfect Day, Perumal worked in the Rubinstein Lab at Stony Brook to develop functional tissue engineering scaffolds, as well as the Shrivastava lab at IIT-Bombay to create a microcapsule theranostic device allowing for site-directed cancer treatment.

A serial entrepreneur and a Founding Partner at Fifty Years, an early stage VC fund that backs entrepreneurs solving the world’s biggest problems with technology. A Y Combinator alum who previously co-founded Base CRM, the software development company Applicake, and was a Partner at Innovation Nest, a Europe-focused VC firm. With Fifty Years, Ela has invested in over 30 private companies in areas such as synthetic biology, energy, space tech, health tech, food tech, autonomous vehicles, and more. Ela also runs Impact.tech, a platform for technologists in Silicon Valley who want to combine purpose with profit.

Jussi Laakkonen is Executive Vice President at Unity Technologies, the creator of the leading game development platform powering over 34% of TOP1000 mobile games and used by over five million game developers. At Unity Jussi is leading an internal startup developing a pioneering service for mobile games. Jussi was previously the founder and CEO of Applifier and led the company to its acquisition by Unity Technologies in 2014. The acquisition brought to Unity a booming ads business that has since become one of the world’s largest mobile video ad networks. Jussi has been an entrepreneur since 1992 when he was part of the founding team and later the main organiser of the ASSEMBLY computer festival, that has over 10,000 participants annually.

David is a technologist and visionary, founder of Unity, non-executive director of Plain Vanilla, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and revenue streams, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do. David‘s background is in software, an assortment university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of the game technology company Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with the unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next generation of the games industry. Will Marshall is a Space Scientist, who co-founded Planet Labs in year 2010. As CEO of Planet, he is dedicated to lead the overall company strategy and direction. Prior to Planet, Will was a Scientist at NASA/USRA where he was a systems engineer on lunar orbiter mission “LADEE”, a member of the science team for the lunar impactor mission “LCROSS”, served as Co-Principal Investigator on PhoneSat, and was the technical lead on research projects in space debris remediation. Will received his Ph.D.

In Physics from the University of Oxford and his Masters in Physics with Space Science and Technology from the University of Leicester. Will was also a Postdoctoral Fellow at George Washington University and Harvard. Scott Sandell is Managing General Partner and head of NEA’s Technology investing practice. Since joining the firm in 1996, he has personally led investments in industry-transforming companies like Bloom Energy, Data Domain, Fusion-io, Salesforce.com, Tableau Software, WebEx, and Workday. Scott is one of only four investors named to the Forbes Midas List every year since 2007, with 23 technology companies in his portfolio having successfully completed public offerings or mergers. In addition to his focus on information technology and alternative energy investments, Scott leads NEA’s investing activities in China. Scott is currently a director of a number of private companies including Bitglass, Bloom Energy, Branch Metrics, CareZone, Cloudflare, Coursera, Datrium, Enigma, Hello Alfred, One Concern, Qadium, Robinhood, Transfix, and UnifyID.

Other previous investments include Fusion-io (acquired by SanDisk), Neoteris (acquired by Juniper Networks), NetIQ (acquired by Attachmate Corporation), Playdom (acquired by Disney), and Spreadtrum Communications (acquired by Tsinghua Unigroup). Prior to joining NEA, Scott was a Product Manager at Microsoft, where he worked on Windows 95.

Before joining Microsoft, Scott was the first salesperson at C-ATS Software and later co-founded and ran the company’s European subsidiary. He began his career at the Boston Consulting Group. Scott holds an MBA from Stanford and an AB in Engineering Sciences from Dartmouth College.

Scott also serves on the Board of Overseers for the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth and is a former Chairman of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) (2014-2015). Manu is part of the founding team at Lakestar, having raised $550m in three years to invest in technology businesses worldwide.

Recent investments or board representations include Opendoor, SOFI, GoEuro, Algomi, Taulia, Aetion, Tictail, Lenda as well as historically being involved with exits of Maker Studios, BrandsExclusive, Markafoni, Casacanda, GLG, Clickon Brazil. Prior to Lakestar, Manu was Head of the European Internet coverage effort at Goldman Sachs, covering Europe, India, and consulting for Brazil. His career started in Silicon Valley as a Product Manager at Oracle, and coding in the first versions of Java at Sun Microsystems. Manu received an MBA from the University of Chicago and an Honors in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS) from UC Berkeley.

He’s lived in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, London & Zurich. Leila is a founding partner at Kindred Capital, a London based seed-stage venture firm that practices equitable venture. Kindred invests early - backing exceptional entrepreneurs at the beginning of their journey, and helping them to build global businesses around their vision.

She is on the board of companies including Kalo, Verve, and Mrs Wordsmith, and serves as senior advisory board member to Entrepreneur First. Leila is both an investor and an entrepreneur, with over a decade of operating experience in technology businesses, including serving as General Manager of Kleiner Perkins backed consumer internet business Plum District, and cofounding a health technology business that spun out of Stanford called GenapSys. Leila is a mathematician by training with a first class degree from Yale University and a Harvard MBA. Ryan Pandya is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Perfect Day, a food company on a mission to create delicious animal-free dairy products, while leaving a kinder, greener footprint on the planet. Ryan’s background is in Chemical & Biological Engineering (Tufts University). At Tufts, Ryan contributed to seminal research on tissue engineered meat under the oversight of professor David Kaplan, the head of the Biomedical Engineering department.

Before starting Perfect Day, Ryan worked at MassBiologics, a small biotechnology company in Boston, MA, where he developed next-generation antibodies against tetanus and diphtheria. Perumal Gandhi is a co-founder of Perfect Day, a food company on a mission to create delicious animal-free dairy products, while leaving a kinder, greener footprint on the planet.

Perumal’s background is in Biomedical Engineering (SUNY Stony Brook). Prior to co-founding Perfect Day, Perumal worked in the Rubinstein Lab at Stony Brook to develop functional tissue engineering scaffolds, as well as the Shrivastava lab at IIT-Bombay to create a microcapsule theranostic device allowing for site-directed cancer treatment. Lisa Barnett is the co-founder and CMO of Little Spoon, a fresh, direct-to-consumer baby food and early childhood nutrition company. Prior to Little Spoon, Lisa spent 6 years as an investor in and operator at some of the world’s top consumer brands. Her venture experience included time spent as a Partner at Sherpa Foundry and, before that, an investor at VC firms Maveron & Dorm Room Fund. Her investment focus was on B2C technology startups, namely, e-commerce, marketplace, and brands - leading her to be recognized as a Forbes 30 under 30 VC in 2017.

Before becoming an investor, she led multi-channel growth strategy for Estee Lauder Companies. There, her focus was taking their traditionally offline, department-store brands and building out a direct-to-consumer and digital marketing strategy for customer acquisition and engagement. Lisa started out at the Boston Consulting Group, working with Fortune 500 retail and healthcare technology clients on brand, customer experience and market entry strategy. Lisa holds a Bachelors of Arts with Honors in Communication and Marketing from the University of Pennsylvania, where she also graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with the top scholar-athlete accolades as a member of the Varsity Cross Country and Track teams. Robyn is co-founder and CEO of Apolitical, a global peer-to-peer platform for government created to help public servants find the ideas, experts and partners they need to solve society’s hardest problems.

Robyn previously co-founded OneLeap, a London based executive education company, and Level Up, which teaches income generation skills to vulnerable young people in Southern Africa. She has written an acclaimed memoir about growing up in Botswana. She is an ambassador for the Access to Medicine Index, an advisor to the Responsible Mining Index, a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a Gates Scholar. She has a BSc in Bioinformatics from Auckland University and a Masters in Bioscience Enterprise from Cambridge University. Sari Stenfors is a futurist and strategist. She is passionate about new technologies and their potential to support new solutions for business and society.

For the last decades she has been studying how cyborgs set up their societies. She is the Executive Director of Augmented Leadership Institute, a California think tank, and a European Commission Blockchain Innovation Fellow. She holds a PhD in Business Technology and works in various research projects with Stanford University, Aalto University, and other international universities. In addition to her consulting and academic career, Sari has over 15 years of executive experience in health care, retail, advertising and entertainment sectors. She is a serial entrepreneur, and currently a board member for several start-up companies focused on AI, Blockchain or AR/VR. In her pursuit for improving our society, she is also involved in social entrepreneurship, impact investment, and game changing economic and political concepts.

Sari lives in multiple locations – one of them San Francisco, California. Toni Lane is an artrepreneur in the Digital Currency and Blockchain Industry who co-founded CoinTelegraph and CULTU.RE, the virtual blockchain nation movement. She is an empath, investor, artist, advisory board member, transformational evangelist and founder who has been affectionately entitled “The Joan of Arc of Blockchain” by her peers and various publications.

​Miss Lane ​serves as an advisor to several notable companies, funds and family offices, including, but not limited to: SingularityU, Polymath Network, Factom, The United Nations, Propy, HSBC, Cicso, P&G, Institute for the Future and St. Gallen Symposium.

Miss Lane is grateful to have been given the opportunity to be of service toward these accomplishments, and retains the perspective that every idea of who a person 'is' appears irrelevant in the face of time. True unconditional love and friendship; what matters. In other worlds, Toni Lane is a recording artist and the founder of the “immateralism” (post art) movement where she uses consciousness as a medium. Rich Wong joined Accel as a partner in 2006 and focuses on software, internet services and mobile technologies. Rich led the investments and currently serves on the Boards of Atlassian (TEAM), Checkr, Instabug, Nextbit, Osmo, Qwilt, Sunrun (RUN), and Tune. Rich also led Accel's investment in Rovio.

Rich previously led Accel's investments in Airwatch (acquired by VMWare), MoPub (acquired by Twitter), Admob (acquired by Google), Dealer.com (acquired by Cox), Parature (acquired by Microsoft), Swiftkey (acquired by Microsoft) and 3LM (acquired by Motorola). He was the first outside Board member and lead investor in Atlassian, Checkr, MoPub, Tune, and 3LM. He has been actively involved in the mobile and broadband ecosystems for more than a decade, having served as SVP of products for mobile pioneer, Openwave Systems and CMO of Covad Communications. Rich started his career as a brand manager at Procter & Gamble and at McKinsey.

Stephan is the Co-Founder of Edge of Space, a company focused on exciting space based projects including enabling STEM based access to space for students around the world. Stephan is also a member of EBAN Space’s Executive Committee, as well as the Executive Director of the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) Space. He is the Co-founder and CEO of Angelus Funding, a trust-based global network of angel investors, who actively evaluate a wide range of innovative investment opportunities. Stephan serves on the board of directors of several companies and has personally made over 37 investments since 2012. Per his passion for space, he formed a key strategic partnership with CASIS in 2013, enabling the expansion of Newspace angel investments. Prior to starting Angelus Funding, Stephan served in several international executive roles including: COO of DigiLink Software, a China-based embedded video solutions developer, and the Director of North American Sales at India-based Ittiam Systems. As the founding Director of EMEA Operations for Telogy Networks, his company was acquired for half a billion dollars by Texas Instruments.

Stephan holds Bachelor’s and Masters of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts. A second generation Russian and a true native New Yorker, he is fluent in 5 languages. He enjoys travelling the world and has flown over 5.5 million miles, the equivalent of 11 moon missions. Stephan is a “professional' volunteer for several impactful organizations and an active community leader. He resides in Golden, Colorado with his family.

Sparked by his lifetime exposure to rockets, balloons and Space Exploration projects in which his father was involved, Jose Mariano became an entrepreneur in 2009 when he founded Zero 2 Infinity. He set himself to change the way we go to Space. An MIT-grad, from Aero/Astro, he’s convinced that frequent and low cost access to Space is around the corner. And it does not require new technologies, just using what exists in a different way. This will enable constellations of microsatellites to better connect and protect the Earth. Even affordable Space Tourism is possible, as he proposed back in 2002. To prepare himself to start Zero 2 Infinity he worked at Boeing Phantom Works, the Boston Consulting Group and the European Space Agency.

Surrounded by a group of talented youngsters and industry veterans, with Zero 2 Infinity, he’s proving there are no limits. Jim Cantrell is a well known entrepreneur and expert in space systems and has 30 years of experience in the aerospace and high technology industries. Jim was part of the SpaceX founding team and served as the company’s first Vice President of Business Development. Jim founded two other successful aerospace and automotive engineering companies and has held CEO positions in aerospace and biometric software companies. Jim also played key roles in the development of Skybox Imaging (now Terra Bella) and has had developmental roles in numerous venture funded space efforts including Rocket Lab, Planet, Black Sky and Spaceflight.

Natalya Bailey is the CEO and a co-founder of Accion Systems, a company providing in-space propulsion for satellites and spacecraft. An Oregon native, Natalya moved to Cambridge to complete her doctorate in space propulsion at MIT where she helped invent the first working prototype of an ion engine technology for small satellites, which would become the first product at Accion. Prior to MIT, she invented a new chemical rocket technology that she turned into a space startup.

Natalya was a New England Entrepreneur of the Year finalist in 2017, a Boston Business Journal Woman to Watch in 2017, and named to Inc. Magazine’s 30 Under 30 in 2017 and Forbes' 30 Under 30 list in 2016. During graduate school, Natalya was a National Science Foundation Fellow and a NASA Ambassador to the US at the International Aeronautical Congress. In her free time, she works with the group YouthCITIES to show kids you can work on changing the world and having fun at the same time in STEM fields, and is also learning to program in Python with her husband.

• Friday - Dec 01st •. AI has the potential to positively and dramatically change our world. In healthcare, AI advances are being made in diagnosis and better care but is the technology capable of curing disease? Ken Mulvany, serial healthcare entrepreneur and founder of BenevolentAI, one of the world’s largest private AI companies, will discuss why, despite the huge growth of knowledge and information the process of scientific discovery has not changed for 50 years (until now!), how AI is dramatically accelerating the development of new medicines and how, for the first time, a machine brain may have cured a human brain disease. Ken is a serial entrepreneur, investor, healthcare and technology industry veteran. He is currently the Chairman of BenevolentAI, a $1.7bn valuation British technology company he founded, which is applying AI to accelerate and enhance scientific discovery. He was previously CEO of Proximagen, a UK-based biotech company that he founded which was committed to delivering novel drugs and innovative new treatments for central nervous system disorders.

Proximagen was sold to a US pharmaceutical company in 2012 for $555m. Ken sits on the advisory panel to the UK Government on Artificial Intelligence and is a member of the All Party Artificial Intelligence Parliamentary Group.

He is currently the Chairman of the Trustees of the Cure Parkinson’s Trust. Ken also sits on the Advisory Board for Oxford Sciences Innovations. Ken is twice a world champion sailor and competed in the 1992 America's Cup. Spencer Crawley is Co-Founder and General Partner at firstminute capital. Launched in June 2017 and co-founded with Brent Hoberman, firstminute is a $85M global seed-stage fund.

It is proud to count two institutional investors (Atomico and Tencent) and 28 founders of billion dollar technology businesses amongst its investors. Previous roles include Business Development at AppDirect (a San Francisco-based cloud commerce platform provider), Investment Associate at DMC Partners (Goldman Sachs spin-out Special Opportunities fund), and Analyst in the Moscow office of Goldman Sachs (in the Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities division). Spencer studied History at Oxford University, did his MBA at INSEAD, and speaks fluent Russian and pigeon French. Pete Flint is a Managing Partner of NFX (www.nfx.com), an early stage Venture Capital fund with offices in Silicon Valley and Israel focused on network effect businesses. The Partners at NFX are a team of entrepreneurs and investors that have collectively founded 10 companies that have had exits of $10 billion and have made more than 300 investments. Prior to NFX, in 2005 Pete founded the online real estate company Trulia (www.trulia.com), now one of the most popular real estate websites and mobile apps in the U.S. He was its CEO and Chairman from inception to acquisition.

In July 2014, rival property service Zillow purchased Trulia for $3.5 billion, with both brands continuing to operate side-by-side. Before founding Trulia, Pete was part of the founding team at lastminute.com, a leading European online travel company that was acquired by Sabre/Travelocity in 2005 for over $1 billion. Pete is a founding Board member of New Story Charity (www.newstorycharity.org), a technology enabled platform focused on eliminating homelessness by building sustainable communities around the world. He is also a founder and co-chair of GBx (www.gbxglobal.org), the leading British technology community based in Silicon Valley helping to connect and scale technology ecosystems in the UK and Silicon Valley. He is a frequent speaker at Internet, entrepreneurship and technology conferences, and additionally is a guest lecturer at Stanford's Graduate School of Business and at Oxford's Said Business School. He has been named E&Y Northern Californian Entrepreneur of the Year, “Most Admired CEO” by the San Francisco Business Times, and one of the “Most Powerful CEOs Under 40” by Forbes.

Mika Salmi is a serial entrepreneur and is currently a Senior Advisor at Raine Group. He also serves on the Boards of CreativeLive, Feed.fm, INSEAD, Pixvana, and Trace in addition to advising numerous start-up companies. Previously, Mika was CEO of the education company CreativeLive and he founded the GPS based sports app Mad Races. He also led Viacom’s transition to digital as its President of Global Digital Media from 2006 to 2009. Back in the day Mika founded and was CEO of Atom Entertainment which owned the largest online video and game brands of the 90s/early 2000s - AtomFilms, Shockwave, and AddictingGames. Mika started his career in music as a DJ and working at record labels, notably discovering and signing Grammy and Oscar winning artist Nine Inch Nails. Mika was born in Finland, is a US and Finnish citizen, speaks several languages and has an MBA from INSEAD.

Jaan Tallinn is a founding engineer of Skype and Kazaa. He is a co-founder of the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, Future of Life Institute, and philanthropically supports other existential risk research organisations.

Jaan is on the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and has served on the Estonian President’s Academic Advisory Board. He is also an active angel investor, a partner at Ambient Sound Investments, and a former investor in and director of the AI company DeepMind. David is the co-founder and CEO of Founders Pledge. Having run the gauntlet of finance, start-up, and academia, started Founders Pledge to make it absurdly easy for entrepreneurs to do good in their work and lives. David moved into the non-profit sector from an eclectic commercial background; following high school, David joined Mortgage Capital Associates, one of the largest privately held mortgage banks in the U.S., where he launched the secondary marketing department, after which he worked as a mortgage and investment banker at CS Financial in Beverly Hills. David also founded and ran a boutique real estate and relocation firm in Germany and was the general manager of Urban Motion Inc., the highest volume Segway dealer network in the world.

David is a graduate of UCLA and the University of Cambridge. Jaana is an innovation activist and passionate about helping growth companies to scale. She has Master of Economics and a long career in Nokia Networks, Regus, NewCo Helsinki and Laurea as a recognized innovation driver and execution focused and independent global project leader in all the continents. Currently she is an entrepreneur in Promover Latam and heading 10 Days 100 Challenges program in Laurea University of Applied Sciences. Jaana also has experience in running design oriented business for 5 years as an entrepreneur and passion for digital marketing. Warwick Hill is a New Zealand business executive and currently the CEO-in-Residence and Managing Director of Microsoft Reactor London. Warwick is renowned for successfully building and selling global companies in the digital sector.

Most notable is the sale of 3rd Space a Digital Innovations Agency that was acquired by the Chinese State Broadcaster, one of the largest media companies in the World. With over 30 years’ experience in the global technology, telecoms, media and digital sectors Warwick Hill leads Microsoft’s Reactor in its mission to take good startups and make them great through an intensive 14-week programme. Warwick takes an active role in mentoring CEOs, a pragmatic and at times brutally honest approach means CEOs graduating from the programme are suitably tested and prepared to engage with enterprise clients as well as late stage investors. Warwick’s experience establishing companies in India, Hong Kong, UK and mainland China mean CEOs receive advice that supports their global aspirations. Warwick is married and lives in London.

He is an active runner and enjoys all things fitness. Anna is the Founder and CEO of nyris, a visual search engine, providing computer vision solutions to retail & industry.

She founded nyris together with her brother, a former Amazon employee. Nyris is the winner of several challenges and competitions such as the Bits&Pretzels or Agorize AI challenge, some of Germanys biggest companies are amongst their customers. The company is as well part of the Microsoft Growth Accelerator and the Google Cloud StartUp Program. Anna studied Engineering at the RWTH Aachen, graduated with honours with the best marks in her year. Her first role was inside the steel industry, where she developed a feed forward control system to optimize the geometry of steel slabs. Here she already started to work with AI based methods to analyse visual measurement data and feed her process control system. Afterwards she wanted to achieve a higher business mindset in what she did.

This led to her becoming part of the Boston Consulting Group, where she worked for more than 9 years, serving industry clients from all over the world in mainly strategic matters. She left BCG as principal in 2014 and started to work on nyris. Anna is married and a proud mother of two irresistible, fabulous boys. Megumi Ikeda is a Managing Director of Hearst Ventures and the General Manager of Hearst Ventures Europe, where she oversees investments and non-organic acquisitions across Europe.

She is based in London. Ikeda previously ran the European arm of the Peacock Equity Fund, GE Capital and NBCUniversal’s $250MM venture fund.

Previously, she worked in corporate M&A and distribution deals at NBCUniversal. Ikeda started her career in Tokyo as a reporter for Dow Jones and an international business manager at Wired in San Francisco. Ikeda received her undergraduate degree from Columbia College, Columbia University and earned her MBA at UCLA’s The Anderson School. Throughout his highly successful international career Jeff has been insistently promoting internet communications and telephony and has helped change the way the world communicates. An order named after him was issued by the Federal Communications Commission, supported by the White House.

Jeff Pulver can be described as: Internet Pioneer, VoIP; Entrepreneur, Investor, Strategist, Astro photographer, Speaker and Futurist. He helped shape the worldwide market acceptance of VoIP; Founder / co-founder of numerous startups including Free World Dialup, VON, Vivox, MoNage and Vonage. Veteran of the Tradeshow industry; producer, host, curator of events.

Known as a globally renowned Internet thought leader. In 1995 defined 'VON' to stand for Voice/Video on the Net. From 1997 to 2008 he hosted/produced the VON Conferences. In 2009 started the #140conf events. Founded MoNage in 2016. His work in Washington is the reason services like: FaceTime, Messenger and WhatsApp are free. Has influenced the creation of numerous other startups.

Currently exploring the intersection of: Computing, AI and Communications. Strategic adviser to a number of Blockchain projects. He has invested in over 350 startups since 1998.

In 2012 Jeff adopted a lifestyle of health and wellness and dropped 120 pounds (54 kilos) along the way. Advocate of healthy living. Pulver is committed to the future of the Internet and is featured often in the media as an expert in his field. -- The Pulver Order -- On February 12, 2004, Mr. Pulver's petition for clarification declaring Free World Dialup as an unregulated information service was granted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). This landmark decision was the first decision it made on IP communications.

Now referred to as 'the Pulver Order', the ruling provides important clarification that computer-to-computer VoIP service is not a telecommunications service. By doing this, the FCC delivered a strong signal to consumers and capital markets that the FCC is not interested in subjecting end-to-end IP Communications services to traditional voice telecommunications regulation under the Communications Act. Since May 2016 Thilo Koslowski has been CEO of Porsche Digital GmbH. Before moving to Porsche he was Vice President, Distinguished Analyst and Head of Automotive Vehicle ICT and Smart Mobility Practice at Gartner Inc., which he founded in Silicon Valley in 1997. Prior to this, Thilo Koslowski was Managing Consultant of Emerging Technologies and Business Practice at Gartner, where he was responsible for global consulting assign- ments for leading organisations in the automotive, consumer electronics, hardware, software and IT sectors. His career in the automotive sector began with various marketing and strategy posi- tions with Audi. He holds a degree in Business Administration with focus on Marketing and Production Technology from RWTH Aachen.

Ken is a serial entrepreneur, investor, healthcare and technology industry veteran. He is currently the Chairman of BenevolentAI, a $1.7bn valuation British technology company he founded, which is applying AI to accelerate and enhance scientific discovery.

He was previously CEO of Proximagen, a UK-based biotech company that he founded which was committed to delivering novel drugs and innovative new treatments for central nervous system disorders. Proximagen was sold to a US pharmaceutical company in 2012 for $555m. Ken sits on the advisory panel to the UK Government on Artificial Intelligence and is a member of the All Party Artificial Intelligence Parliamentary Group.

He is currently the Chairman of the Trustees of the Cure Parkinson’s Trust. Ken also sits on the Advisory Board for Oxford Sciences Innovations. Ken is twice a world champion sailor and competed in the 1992 America's Cup. Marcus Claesson currently serves as Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Daimler Trucks, Buses and Vans with a global responsibility across all divisions, brands and markets. Claesson has started his career at Daimler in January 2017.

Prior to assuming this position, he was Group CIO of Electrolux AB and CEO of Electrolux IT Solutions AB, having the full responsibility for development, delivery and governance of IT on a global scale. Claesson holds a B.Sc. In Computer Science and has worked in the field of Information Technology for two decades. During his studies, he started his career at the Swedish Civil Aviation Authority.

Later he joined AGA AB, a multinational industrial gases company, as Systems Analyst. When Linde AG acquired AGA AB in 1999, Marcus Claesson had been promoted to Manager and was offered the opportunity to move to Munich and lead the combined IT infrastructure team within the Linde Gas Division.

This initial role at Linde Gas was followed by various IT leadership positions in the Linde Group, including Head of Processes and Applications, reporting to Group CIO of Linde AG. In 2007, Marcus Claesson joined Electrolux AB as CTO in charge of Technology, Architecture, Security and IT Operations globally. He also had the opportunity to lead the Global Business Applications organization before assuming responsibility as Group CIO in 2010. Karima Delli is a member of european Parliament, Chairwoman of the European Parliament's Transport and Tourism Committee. Responsible for a report on sustainable urban mobility when the Volkswagen scandal broke out, she gradually specialized on the issue of air pollution and the future of mobility.

In February 2016, after having worked to set up a European Parliament inquiry committee on the 'dieselgate', she became vice-president of the Commission of Inquiry into the measurement of emissions in the automotive sector. At the same time, she is also on the Employment and Social Affairs Committee where she continues her work on health and safety workers and the social dumping, particularly in the transport sector. Chairwoman and founding member of the European Startups Prize for mobility whose first edition will be on February 22, 2018 in Brussels. Kat co-founded Five by Five, a boutique innovation consultancy, helping organizations of all stripes understand how to work both with and like startups. The young company’s portfolio includes blue chip players like Google, Engie, SNCF and The World Bank.

As Founding Partner, Kat’s focus is on helping corporates building organizational capacity for open innovation--her expertise ranging from startup-corporate partnerships to go-to-market for open APIs. Other hats include French Tech Ticket Ambassador, founding director of the City of Paris’ Resilient Paris Innovation Fellowship and Techstars Entrepreneur-in-residence. In a previous life, she was the Director of the Open Data Institute Paris, Google product strategy expert, communication strategist at the United Nations and member of the French government’s first Open Data Expert Committee. Kat holds degrees from Science Po Bordeaux and McGill University.

Seth is a Founding Partner at Fifty Years, a seed fund that backs entrepreneurs solving the world's biggest problems with technology. Seth has invested in a range of startups shaping the world for the better -- from a company engineering microbes to produce industrial chemicals sustainably, to a company building small satellites to cover the earth in internet, to a company culturing meat to eat. Seth is also the co-founder of impact.tech and the founder of Amicus. A graduate of Y Combinator, Seth was named twice to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Social Entrepreneurship. Martin Lau is the President of Tencent.

Martin joined Tencent in 2005 as the Chief Strategy and Investment Officer and was responsible for corporate strategies, investment, M&A and investor relations. In 2006, Martin was promoted to President and managed the day-to-day operation of Tencent. In 2007, he was appointed an Executive Director of the board. Prior to joining Tencent, Martin was an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C's investment banking division and the Chief Operating Officer of its Telecom, Media and Technology Group. Prior to that, Martin worked at McKinsey & Company, Inc. As a management consultant.

Martin received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA degree from Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University. Ilkka Paananen is the CEO and co-founder of Supercell, the Helsinki-based mobile games developer behind Clash of Clans, Hay Day, Boom Beach and Clash Royale. Since its founding in 2010, Supercell's four games have amassed 100m daily players and have remained in the global top 10 years after launch. In June 2016, Supercell became the first European technology start-up to reach a valuation of $10 billion. In addition to his role at Supercell, Ilkka helps other entrepreneurs as both an investor and as an active member of the Helsinki-based startup community where he mentors and coaches other founders. Alongside his co-founder Mikko Kodisoja, he has established the We Foundation to fight social inequality and help marginalized children and families in Finland.

Prior to founding Supercell, he was the CEO & co-founder of Finnish games developer Sumea, which was later acquired by Digital Chocolate, where he worked as President until 2010. Throughout his highly successful international career Jeff has been insistently promoting internet communications and telephony and has helped change the way the world communicates. An order named after him was issued by the Federal Communications Commission, supported by the White House.

Jeff Pulver can be described as: Internet Pioneer, VoIP; Entrepreneur, Investor, Strategist, Astro photographer, Speaker and Futurist. He helped shape the worldwide market acceptance of VoIP; Founder / co-founder of numerous startups including Free World Dialup, VON, Vivox, MoNage and Vonage. Veteran of the Tradeshow industry; producer, host, curator of events. Known as a globally renowned Internet thought leader.

In 1995 defined 'VON' to stand for Voice/Video on the Net. From 1997 to 2008 he hosted/produced the VON Conferences. In 2009 started the #140conf events. Founded MoNage in 2016. His work in Washington is the reason services like: FaceTime, Messenger and WhatsApp are free. Has influenced the creation of numerous other startups. Currently exploring the intersection of: Computing, AI and Communications.

Strategic adviser to a number of Blockchain projects. He has invested in over 350 startups since 1998.

In 2012 Jeff adopted a lifestyle of health and wellness and dropped 120 pounds (54 kilos) along the way. Advocate of healthy living. Pulver is committed to the future of the Internet and is featured often in the media as an expert in his field. -- The Pulver Order -- On February 12, 2004, Mr. Pulver's petition for clarification declaring Free World Dialup as an unregulated information service was granted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

This landmark decision was the first decision it made on IP communications. Now referred to as 'the Pulver Order', the ruling provides important clarification that computer-to-computer VoIP service is not a telecommunications service. By doing this, the FCC delivered a strong signal to consumers and capital markets that the FCC is not interested in subjecting end-to-end IP Communications services to traditional voice telecommunications regulation under the Communications Act.

Megumi Ikeda is a Managing Director of Hearst Ventures and the General Manager of Hearst Ventures Europe, where she oversees investments and non-organic acquisitions across Europe. She is based in London. Ikeda previously ran the European arm of the Peacock Equity Fund, GE Capital and NBCUniversal’s $250MM venture fund. Previously, she worked in corporate M&A and distribution deals at NBCUniversal. Ikeda started her career in Tokyo as a reporter for Dow Jones and an international business manager at Wired in San Francisco.

Ikeda received her undergraduate degree from Columbia College, Columbia University and earned her MBA at UCLA’s The Anderson School.

Fulfill Your Quest For Global Domination. Paradox Development Studio is back with the fourth installment of the award-winning Europa Universalis series. The empire building game Europa Universalis IV gives you control of a nation to guide through the years in order to create a dominant global empire. Rule your nation through the centuries, with unparalleled freedom, depth and historical accuracy.

True exploration, trade, warfare and diplomacy will be brought to life in this epic title rife with rich strategic and tactical depth. • Key features. • Use your Monarch Power: Experience the new system of monarch power where your choices are influenced by the caliber of the man or woman you have at the top and will direct the ebb and flow of gameplay. • Experience history coming to life: The great personalities of the past are on hand to support you as you make your mark on thousands of historical events. • Turn the world into your playground: Enjoy hundreds of years of gameplay in a lush topographical map complete with dynamic seasonal effects. • Experience the all new trade system: The trade system adds a new dimension to the great trade empires of the period. Gain control of vital trade routes and make the wealth of the world flow to your coffers.

• Bring out your negotiating skills in a deeper diplomatic system: Use coalitions, royal marriages and support for rebels and explore the possibilities of the new unilateral opinion system. • Create your own history & customize your game: Europa Universalis IV gives you the chance to customize and mod practically anything your heart may desire and uses Steam Workshop. • Requirements.