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Jane Sun

CEO, Trip.com Group

Jane Sun is the Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of Trip.com Group Ltd. She first joined the company as the Chief Financial Officer in 2005, later serving as the Chief Operating Officer and the Co-President, before moving into the CEO role in 2016. Founded in 1999 with the mission of bringing the best travel experience to travelers, the company effectively adapted to the rise of mobile Internet, growing from a small tech company into a one-stop-shop for travel services for 400 million users worldwide. As the only female CEO in China’s high-tech industry, Ms. Sun proactively advocates gender equality, and has made it her mission to empower women to achieve balance and success in both their career and family lives. For example, Trip.com Group is the first company in China to offer egg-freezing as an employee benefit. Other female friendly policies include birth gifts and commuter benefits for pregnant workers. At Trip.com Group, female employees represent over half of the total workforce and a third of senior management.

Ms. Sun is well respected for her extensive experience in operating and managing online travel businesses, mergers and acquisitions, and financial reporting and operations, having received numerous accolades for her work in the industry. In 2019, she was awarded an Asia Society Asia Game Changer Award and joined as a member of the Asia Society Board of Trustee. Forbes named her one of the Emergent 25 Asia’s Latest Star Businesswomen in 2018, and one of the Most Influential and Outstanding Businesswomen in China in 2017. She was also one of 2020 Fortune’s Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Business.

Glenn Fogel

CEO, Booking Holdings and Booking.com

Glenn Fogel is the Chief Executive Officer and President of Booking Holdings, a position he has held since January 2017, and Chief Executive Officer of Booking.com, a position he has held since June 2019. He previously served as Head of Worldwide Strategy and Planning, an office he held from November 2010 to December 2016. He was also Executive Vice President, Corporate Development, a position he held from March 2009 to December 2016, and was responsible for worldwide mergers, acquisitions and strategic alliances. Glenn joined Booking Holdings in February 2000. Prior to that, he was a trader at a global asset management firm and prior to that was an investment banker specializing in the air transportation industry. He is a member of the New York State Bar (retired). Glenn is a graduate of Harvard Law School and earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics degree from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

Susan Doniz

Chief Information Officer, Boeing

Susan Doniz is the chief information officer (CIO) and senior vice president of Information Technology & Data Analytics at The Boeing Company. She leads all aspects of information technology, information security, data and analytics for the world’s largest aerospace company. She also supports the growth of Boeing's business through IT- and analytics-related revenue-generating programs.

Prior to joining Boeing in May 2020, Doniz was the Group CIO of Qantas Airways, where she focused on expanding the airline’s digital ecosystem and adopted new technology to support the needs of the business and its customers.

Previously, during a 17-year career at Procter & Gamble, she led IT programs in support of the supply chain, research-and-development and sales, as well as a cross-functional program to digitize the company. She’s also worked at SAP and Aimia. At SAP, she was a strategic advisor to the Global CEO on transformation and technology issues in support of customers.

Doniz has been a champion and self-starter of a variety of diversity networks for women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, as well as for Hispanics in business leadership. In 2012, she was named as a national diversity champion in Canada.

She has been a board member of multiple non-profit organizations including The Women’s College Hospital Foundation, Salvation Army, and Engineers without Borders. She serves as an advisor to the Center for Digital Transformation at the University of California, Irvine and vice chair of the Digital Transformation Advisory Council of the International Air Transport Association. In 2011, she was named one of Canada’s most powerful women by WXN.

An honors graduate of the University of Toronto with a degree in Engineering, she has lived and worked in Australia, Canada, Spain, most of the countries in Latin America and the United States. Her first language is Spanish, which she speaks at home with her family. She also is fluent in French and English.

Damien Kieran

Chief Privacy Officer, Twitter

Bio coming soon.

Yuri Sebregts

EVP, Chief Technology Officer, Shell

Yuri leads a global Technology organisation of more than 3,000 people, combining technical, scientific and commercial expertise. These teams are based at Shell’s major technology centres in Amsterdam, Houston and Bangalore, and at smaller technical centres located close to Shell’s customers and partners. Yuri is responsible for Shell’s technology strategy and new technology development for all segments of Shell’s businesses including digital innovation, as well as technology commercialisation activities. These activities range from research and development programmes delivered both in-house and through collaborations with partners, to deployment of technologies across Shell’s operations, as well as catalyst manufacturing and sales, and technology licensing and technical services to third parties. He is a board member of the MIT Energy Initiative, Amsterdam Economic Board, and the Dutch ECN/TNO Strategic Advisory Board.

Lori Beer

Global Chief Information Officer, JP Morgan Chase

Lori Beer is the Global Chief Information Officer (CIO) of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and a member of the company's Operating Committee, responsible for the firm's technology systems and infrastructure worldwide. Beer manages a budget of more than $11 billion and over 50,000 technologists supporting JPMorgan Chase's retail, wholesale and asset and wealth management businesses. She also serves as the co-sponsor of the firm's Access Ability Business Resource Group.

Beer joined the firm in 2014, and was most recently the Chief Information Officer for the Corporate & Investment Bank (CIB). Prior to joining the firm she was Executive Vice President of Specialty Businesses and Information Technology for WellPoint, Inc., responsible for a $10 billion business unit which included WellPoint's Specialty Products.

Beer has been named a Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leader and National Association for Female Executives Women of Excellence Health Care Champion. She has been featured in many publications including Fortune, Computerworld, eFinancialCareers and MIT Sloan Management Review. She also serves as a member of the University of Cincinnati's Lindner College of Business Advisory Council and has endowed a scholarship at the University to support the growing number of women in STEM careers.

Beer holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Dayton.

Bret Arsenault

Chief Information Security Officer, Microsoft

Bret Arsenault is Corporate Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Microsoft, the world’s largest software company. In the CISO role since 2009, Bret is charged with keeping all Microsoft data secure from the 21st century’s ever- growing cyber-threats, while ensuring compliance with evolving regulations. With the global team of information security professionals that he leads, he successfully developed and implemented the company’s robust corporate incidence response strategy, as well as sophisticated companywide defenses that combine threat monitoring, vulnerability analysis and control tools.

In addition to his responsibilities as CISO, Bret serves as Chairman of Microsoft’s Information Risk Management Council, convening teams from across the company that focus on data protection. He frequently takes his expertise directly to enterprise customers as the host of Microsoft’s Security Council, a forum that drives product direction and operational best practices. Bret serves as an outside cyber-risk advisor to executives and boards at numerous Fortune 100 companies, and has served on the Advisory Boards of several enterprises and numerous government agencies. He is a founding member of Security 50 and the Executive Security Action Forum (ESAF), an association of senior information security and risk executives from governments and Global 1000 companies. Bret is frequently asked to speak on cyber security strategy, at events that include HP Discover, Security50, the Pacific Enterprise Risk Forum and Gartner’s Security and Risk Management Summit.

Sana Khareghani

Head of UK Government Office for AI, UK Government

Holding a BSc in Computer Science and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sana Khareghani has over 20 years’ experience in technology and business across the private and public sectors. She has worked as a software engineer in big corporates and start-ups, as a management consultant advising senior officials throughout North America, Europe and the Middle East, and in HMG, currently and over the past year as Head of the Office for AI – a joint unit between Department for Digital, Media, Culture and Sport (DCMS) and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). The Office for AI is putting in place the foundations around: Skills, Access to Data, International and Leadership by the UK AI Council, to underpin the adoption of AI & Data technologies across the economy for the betterment of society. Sana is also on the Advisory Board of Tortoise Media Global AI Index and Bristol Interactive AI Centre for Doctoral Training.

Tarika Barrett

CEO, Girls Who Code

Dr. Tarika Barrett is the CEO of Girls Who Code, an international non-profit organization working to close the gender gap in technology that has served over 450,000 students to date. Tarika started her career as an educator and has spent two decades building educational pathways for young people at organizations like iMentor, the New York City Department of Education, New Visions for Public Schools, and New York University’s Center for Research on Teaching and Learning. A graduate of Brooklyn College, Tarika has an M.A. in Deaf Education from Columbia Teachers College and a Ph.D. in Teaching and Learning from New York University. Tarika serves on the board of McGraw Hill and is the recipient of the New York University’s Steinhardt School Dorothy Height Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Sreedhar Suragouni

Chief Information Officer, Oman Insurance Company

Sreedhar has 25+ years of global experience in the BFSI domain performing key management roles across Asia, North America, UK, EU & Middle East specialising in L&P, General, Health Insurance and Investment sectors.

He has a proven track record of leading multiple Digital & Business transformations for large insurers in UK, EU & Middle East from vision through execution, resulting in winning prestigious industry awards for successful execution.

Currently as a CIO for UAE’s largest composite insurer, responsible for defining future-ready IT strategy and enhancing customer experience by implementing Digital-First mandate across all the business lines of Oman Insurance.

In his previous role as a Segment Head for BFSI vertical at TCS, he has successfully managed P&L of a large portfolio of USD 150+ Mn and 2500+ talented associates, delivering the best-in-class value to large global insurers by transforming their estates to Digital-First from multiple delivery locations across India, UK, Ireland, France, Poland & Italy.

Proven track record in winning & executing large multi million Global IT contracts and M&A’s for TCS and its subsidiary Diligenta - with complete solution & cost ownership.

Successfully delivered a variety of complex programmes which demanded:

- Building multi culture / multi skilled global teams (0 to 2500+)

- Setting up private cloud on own custom-built Data centres

- State of the art Service Desk, Service, Change, Release and Security management frameworks, Contact centers, Business continuity and DR facilities

- Scalable HR & Payroll on SAP cloud (25000+ employees) and Integrated Oracle Financials suite for multiple GL’ s post M&A

- Implementing scalable Life & Pensions platform (TCS BaNCS) adhering to UK regulation and migrating 5+ Mn policies from 15 different L&P platforms - today it administers 25+ million policies and counting...

- Modernisation / Integration of IT estates with robust security controls (legacy n-5 versions to n) to achieve target operating model designed in M&A strategies

- Nurturing strategic partnerships, growing from $100 Mn to $1+ Bn profitable service contracts

Won multiple awards - IDC#CIO50, Digital Initiative of the year for OIC, Agile transformation of the year ($ 1 BN PA change spend from 100% waterfall to Scaled / Distributed Agile) for a Global Insurer & Service Innovation Award (implemented multiple software engineering tools for a Global Insurer, resulting in deploying CI/CD framework and Release on the Go)!

Carissa Rollins

Chief Information Officer, United Health Group

Carissa Rollins is the chief information officer (CIO) for UnitedHealthcare Technology. She is responsible for the technology strategy, roadmap, and investments in support of all business portfolios and constituents across UnitedHealthcare. Prior to joining UnitedHealth Group, Carissa held the positions of CIO and chief human resources officer at Gander Mountain where she oversaw all aspects of the company’s technology and information systems, omni-channel initiatives, cyber-security, and enterprise data and business analytics in addition to all aspects of human resource management. Carissa has also held leadership positions at Kohl’s Corporation, Manpower Global and Miller-Coors. Carissa earned an MBA and a Bachelor of Science - Management Information Systems degree from Marquette University. Carissa serves on the board of directors for the YWCA, Minneapolis.

Vish Sankaran

Global Chief Innovation Officer, Walgreens Boots Alliance

Vish Sankaran leads, coordinates and advances WBA’s innovation strategies across its business operations, digital transformation and enterprise, and enhances the Company’s long-term vision, growth and value to its many stakeholders and stockholders.

A long-time practitioner in using business operations, talent and technology to build shareholder and public value, Sankaran is a veteran healthcare business and technology executive. His comprehensive experience includes 24 years in the private sector and the U.S. federal government working to transform healthcare by making consumer and clinical outcomes central to patient care-related conversations. He came to WBA from Ayus Health Inc., a health strategy and product development firm, which he founded and for which he last served as Managing Director. Prior to Ayus Health, he was Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer for CareMore, an Anthem company.

Roshan Navagamuwa

Chief Information Officer, CVS Health

Roshan provides the vision and leadership for the overall technology organization, to enable business strategies and pursue our company's vision to transform health care, by putting the consumer at the center.

Ranjeeta Sing

Chief Product Officer, The Climate Corporation

Ranjeeta Singh is the Chief Product Officer (CPO) at Climate Corporation where she is responsible for driving the Product Strategy and Roadmap for Digital Farming. Ranjeeta brings her background in hardware, software and services space to this perfect intersection of IOT, AI and Data Science to make a difference in the lives of farmers and other players in the Agriculture value chain.

Prior to this, she was the VP and GM of Data Science & Artificial Intelligence (AI) at Teradata where she was focused on driving AI Capabilities in the Teradata Platform and making it a solid workbench for data scientists.

She started her career at Wipro. She spent around 18 years at Intel, where she was Senior Director of Incubation & Segment GM of Connected Worker Portfolio & Environmental Monitoring in Internet of Things (IOT) Group prior to joining Teradata. She has been a hands-on Intrapreneur & has jump-started multiple IOT businesses grounds-up at Intel. She has held multiple leadership positions spanning across strategy, business planning, product management & marketing, architecture and engineering across various platforms.

She holds a BS in Computer Science & Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology, India, a MS in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York and an MBA from Santa Clara University. She has five patents and multiple publications. She has been active with speaking engagements. She is the recipient of "Top 50 under 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology" and "Top 100 Women in Technology" awards.

Solutions & Industries: Industrial IOT, Automotive IOT, Financial Services (IOT & AI), Digital Home IOT, Agriculture (IOT, AI), B2B Enterprise software

Skills: Building profitable businesses from scratch; Strategy & Business Planning; GTM & launch strategy; Roadmap Planning; Product Management & Marketing; Resource Planning Budget/Portfolio Management; Strategic Marketing; Partner/Vendor Management; Business Process Reengineering; Solution definition & prioritization; Contract Negotiations; Ecosystem analysis; Cross-Functional Team Leadership; New Business Development; Design-Thinking; P&L Management

What makes her unique? 1.Exceptional leader & people manager 2. High integrity 3. Passionate 4. Cross-functional experience across engineering, architecture, strategy, product management, marketing, P&L management 5. Highly results-oriented 6. Tenacity & drive to jump-start initiatives grounds-up & scale these 7. Inspirational Speaker 8. Solid customer-orientation 9. Change agent (has led multiple big transformations)

David Almeida

Chief Strategy and Technology Officer, Ab InBev

Long-Term partner with AB-InBev. Part of the team that transformed a collection of regional breweries into one of the top CPG companies in the world. Had the opportunity to live in multiple countries and had many different experiences as I have grown personally In my 22 year career with the Company.

As Chief Strategy & Technology Officer am currently focused on transforming our company for an exciting future by leveraging technology and AI to enhance our business.

Scott Spradley

Chief Technology Officer, Tyson Foods

Scott is Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Tyson Foods. He is responsible for establishing and driving enabling strategies across all of Tyson Foods’ technology platforms, information systems delivery, information security, data and analytics, transforming the company through technology and advancing technology strategies.

A member of Tyson Foods’ enterprise leadership team, Scott reports to President & CEO Dean Banks.

Before coming to Tyson Foods, Scott was the Chief Information Officer at Hewlett Packard and most recently Hewlett Packard Enterprise. He led the IT separation and spin-merge of the HPE Enterprise Services with Computer Sciences Corporation into a $25B publicly traded company. Scott’s reputation as a transformational CIO grew as a result of his leadership in executing the largest corporate divestiture-spin-merge in history, by taking $115B Hewlett Packard and splitting it into two separate and publicly traded companies in a period of ten months.

Prior to joining HP, Scott spent more than 15 years in a variety of leadership roles at Chevron and Intel Corporation. At Chevron, he delivered a strategic long-range plan covering 20 years designed to ensure Chevron’s global position as one of the world’s largest energy companies. During his time at Intel, Scott spent time honing his leadership skills across a wide array of roles, ranging from Information Technology to Product Development to Human Resources.

Scott has been named as one of ComputerWorld’s Top 100 Technology leaders, and in CIO Magazine’s list of the Top 100 CIOs. Scott received his Bachelor’s degree at San Diego State University. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees for National World War II Museum.

Yael Cosset

CIO & Chief Digital Officer, Kroger

Mr. Cosset was elected Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer in May 2019, and is responsible for leading Kroger’s digital strategy, focused on building Kroger’s presence in the marketplace in digital channels, personalization and e-commerce. In August 2020 he also assumed responsibility for Kroger’s alternative profit businesses, including Kroger’s data analytics subsidiary, 84.51 ͦ LLC and Kroger Personal Finance. Prior to that, Mr. Cosset served as Group Vice President and Chief Digital Officer and Chief Information Officer of 84.51 ͦ LLC from January 2017 to April 2019. Before that, he served as Chief Commercial Officer and Chief Information Officer of 84.51 ͦ LLC from April 2015 to December 2016. Prior to Joining Kroger, Mr. Cosset served in several leadership roles at dunnhumby USA, LLC from 2009 to 2015, including Executive Vice President of Consumer Markets and Global Chief Information Officer.

Karen Dolva

Cofounder, No Isolation

Karen Dolva is CEO and co-founder of No Isolation, a company that develops technology solutions for groups living in loneliness or social isolation. In 2018 she was awarded the European Commission’s Women Innovators: Rising Innovators prize. She’s an avid supporter of female entrepreneurship, and strongly encourages girls to pursue careers in tech.

Jason Roos

Chief Information Officer, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Jason Roos has more than 25 years of experience leading and managing information systems and technology organizations across the defense, healthcare, higher education, and high tech industries, including international experience in Europe and the Middle East. He is currently the Chief Information Officer for King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) located just north of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Prior to joining KAUST, Jason worked in Silicon Valley as the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Stanford Health Care at the Stanford University Medical Center and as an executive for the leading cyber security firm Symantec. His other international engagements included leading the technology design for the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi Hospital located in the United Arab Emirates. Jason began his career in the U.S. Army as an expert in Electronic Warfare and Signals Intelligence. His formal education includes completing a healthcare administration postgraduate fellowship at Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, a MBA from Texas A&M University, a BA from the University of Houston, and a diploma from the Defense Language Institute’s school of Arabic in Monterey, California. In addition, he has served on Symantec’s Technical Advisory Board, SAP’s Research and Higher Education Advisory Council, and IDC’s Middle East CIO Advisory Board. In 2021, Jason was named in the top 10 CIO Middle East awardees by CIO Magazine.

Saul Van Beurden

Head of Technology, Wells Fargo

Saul Van Beurden is the head of Technology and a member of the Operating Committee at Wells Fargo. As the leader of Wells Fargo Technology, Saul leads a team of more than 40,000 information technology and security professionals who help keep Wells Fargo at the forefront of America’s diversified financial services companies. Under his leadership, technology team members are executing an engineering-led IT strategy to deliver stable, secure, scalable and inovative services that provide Wells Fargo global customers ‘round-the-clock’ banking access through in-store, online, ATM, and other channels. Additionally, Saul owns the Information Cyber Security function and programs for Wells Fargo. Saul plays a critical role in the execution of Wells Fargo’s strategy where technology is a key element of the company’s customer and team member experience, business and risk management transformation, and growth agenda. He is instrumental in driving the company’s transformation and efforts to become a leader in risk management and innovation. Prior to joining Wells Fargo in April 2019, Saul was chief information officer of consumer and community banking at JPMorgan Chase. He also has served in Technology & Operations leadership roles at Marsh & McLennan, ING Group and different firms in his native Netherlands. Saul is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Museum of American Finance in New York. He also sits on the Board of the Wells Fargo Foundation that harnasses the power of philantrophy. He is based in New York.

Monique Morrow

President and Cofounder, Humanized Internet

With over 25 years’ experience as a global technology leader, Monique Morrow is Senior Distinguished Architect for Emerging Technologies at Syniverse Technologies where her main role and responsibilities is to provide thought leadership and to help the strategic direction and vision for Syniverse's identified emerging technologies across the company, partners and industry forum. Specific focus areas include extensions of Distributed Ledger Technology [DLT] and other emerging components of Blockchain technologies to Syniverse’s Lines of Business and our Enterprise. Emerging technology areas include DLT interoperability; Zero Knowledge Proofs/Data Anonymization, Trust and Identity and Mobile Payments. She has worked across the industry including AMD, Ascom Hasler, Swisscom, Cisco and has been active in the start-up community. Additionally, Monique is President and Co-Founder of the Humanized Internet a Swiss based non-profit with a focus on digital identity and ethics in technology. Monique is former President of the VETRI Foundation based in Zürich, Switzerland. The main purpose of the Foundation is to represent a platform now known as VETRI, and to finance, establish and implement initiatives focused on data management and control and data protection. The foundation adheres to the principles of "trust and transparency". The vision is to empower individuals to have control over their own data. She is also an active member of the IEEE Ethics in Action Executive Committee as well as Co-Chair of the IEEE Ethics in Action Extended Reality Committee. Monique has been recognized in the industry for her tireless focus on social good. Monique holds over 15 patents and has co-authored several books. Monique was selected as one of the top Digital Shapers 2018 in Switzerland. Forbes Magazine listed Monique Morrow as one of the top 50 women globally in technology. OneWorldIdentity recognized Monique as of the top 100 influencers in identity for 2019. In May 2019, Monique was recognized by Cybersecurity Ventures as one of the top 100 women in Cybersecurity In March 2020, Monique was one several innovators featured in Red Bull Innovator Magazine In April 2020, Monique was selected as one of the 5 leading figures in Business by the Europa Forum Lucerne [Switzerland] specific to its theme, “Safety and Security in Times of Uncertainty.” Monique is also 2020 winner WomenTech Network Global Technology Leadership award. Monique will be one of the Top 100 Women featured in a EU sponsored book to be published in May 2021: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/100-women-cybersecurity-europe Monique has an MSc in Digital Currency and Blockchain; and M.S. in Telecommunications and MBA. See also: https://www.linkedin.com/in/moniquejeannemorrow/

Blake Dodge

Senior Healthcare Reporter, Business Insider

Blake Dodge is a senior healthcare reporter at Business Insider, taking readers inside the secretive health ventures of Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft.

She previously wrote about healthcare and politics at Newsweek, Bloomberg News, and the Center for Public Integrity.

Blake graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Morehead-Cain scholar, where she competed in the 800-meter and mile on the varsity track team, winning All-ACC honors.

Yung Wu

CEO, MaRS Discovery District

Yung Wu is CEO of MaRS Discovery District, one of the world's largest innovation hubs. Since 2008, MaRS-supported companies have raised over $8.2B in capital, generated over $5.6B in revenue and currently employ over 20,400 people in health, cleantech, fintech and other sectors.

As a serial entrepreneur and investor, Yung has built breakthrough scale-stage companies in enterprise software, mobile analytics and big data, media and entertainment, technology services and pharma drug development. He is a co-founder of two not-for-profit organizations, the Coalition of Innovation Leaders Against Racism (CILAR) and DifferentIsCool (DiSC).
Yung currently serves on the boards of OMERS, the Toronto Region Board of Trade, Antibe Therapeutics Inc. (TSE:ATE) and is a member of Green Shield Canada. He also sits on the committee overseeing Canada’s march towards net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

Yung has been recognized as one of Canada’s ‘Top 40 under 40’ and for leading one of the “50 Best Managed Private Companies” in the nation. Yung has a B.Sc. Computer Science, Economics and Mathematics from the University of Toronto and is a graduate of the Entrepreneurial Masters Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) and the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD.D).

Courtney McColgan

CEO, Runa

Courtney is the CEO & Founder of Runa, a software that is automating payroll for Latin America. Prior to Runa, Courtney was the CMO of Cabify, a taxi application for Latin America, where she grew the company from 3 cities and $20MM valuation to 130 cities across 12 countries and a $1.5Bn valuation. Courtney founded her first company (Wokai.org) at 22 and her second company (Yellowsmith.com) at 28. Previously, she also worked in venture capital and finance at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Morgenthaler and Morgan Stanley. Courtney holds an MBA from Stanford and a BA in Chinese and Economics from Berkeley. She is fluent in Chinese, Spanish and English and the mother of three children.

Sebastian Vidal

Chief Innovation Officer, Puerto Rico Science, Technology & Research Trust

Bio coming soon.

Joseph-Olivier Biley

CEO, Wefly Agri

Bio coming soon.

Kristy Folkwein

SVP, Chief Information Officer, ADM

Kristy Folkwein is senior vice president and chief information officer for ADM, and a member of the company’s Executive Council. In that role, she is responsible for all of ADM’s information technology strategies, including initiatives to improve the quality and integrity of the company’s data and strengthen ADM’s analytical capabilities.

Before joining ADM in 2016, Folkwein served as senior vice president and chief information officer, Global Business Services, at Dow Corning. Prior to her time at Dow Corning, Folkwein was vice president of information technology at Ashland, Inc., where she helped lead eight successful implementations of SAP within North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and Asia Pacific.

Folkwein holds a bachelor’s degree from Bowling Green State University in Ohio, and an MBA in finance from the University of Toledo.

Dan Sutch

Director, CAST Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology

Bio coming soon.

Darshak Sanghavi

Global Chief Medical Officer, Babylon Health

Darshak joins Babylon from UnitedHealthcare (Medicare & Retirement), where he successfully executed dozens of programs aimed at improving cost and quality of care, and supervised national clinical and strategy teams. Darshak's distinguished career also includes serving in the Obama Administration, where he held the role of Director of Preventive and Population Health at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. In this role, Darshak was the architect of numerous initiatives including the $157m Accountable Health Communities model, Million Hearts Cardiovascular Risk Reduction model, and the $1bn Medicare Diabetes Prevention program. In addition, as CMO at OptumLabs, Darshak addressed health priorities including the opioid crisis, health care affordability, artificial intelligence and big data, maternal mortality, dementia, diabetes, and numerous other collaborative clinical programs. Darshak also worked for several years as a US Indian Health Service Pediatrician on a Navajo reservation.

Educated at Harvard College and Johns Hopkins Medical School, Darshak completed his pediatrics residency and cardiology fellowship at Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston. A fellow and managing director of the Brookings Institution in Washington DC, Darshak directed efforts to better engage clinicians in health care payment and delivery reform. He is also an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and was Chief of Pediatric Cardiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Darshak has published dozens of scientific papers on topics ranging from the molecular biology of cell death to tuberculosis transmission patterns in Peruvian slums. A frequent guest on NBC's Today as a commentator and healthcare columnist, Darshak has regularly written about healthcare for the New York Times Magazine, Boston Globe, and Washington Post. His best–seller, "A Map of the Child: A Pediatrician's Tour of the Body,' was named best health book of the year by the Wall Street Journal.

Aly Madhavji

Managing Partner, Blockchain Founders Fund

Bio coming soon.

Gil Perry

CEO, Co-Founder, D-ID

Gil has broad experience as a manager and developer in corporate and start-up environments, and served as a commander in a Special Forces unit of the Israeli Defense Forces. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University, where he focused on computer vision and image processing.

Mor Assia

Founding Partner, Co-CEO, iAngels

An Israeli high-tech insider, a graduate of the IDF’s elite intelligence unit 8200, Mor leads iAngels’ investment committee, deal screening, due diligence and portfolio management activities.

Mor’s tech background with SAP, IBM and Amdocs has proven invaluable in assessing new technologies and her ability to deep dive with entrepreneurs into their business strategy and solution has created a strong foundation for relationship building. Mor has been instrumental in structuring and pricing investment rounds and consistently brings value add partnerships to help portfolio companies.

Mor is a recognized investment expert in the areas of Fintech, AI and Automotive. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Technion, Israel’s Institute of Technology, and an MBA from Columbia University in NY. Mor mentors on several accelerator programs and serves as a board member for iAngels portfolio companies.

Eric Bracerman

CEO, Schmidt Futures

Eric Braverman is the chief executive of Schmidt Futures. Prior to creating Schmidt Futures, Eric oversaw all philanthropic and non-investment efforts for the Schmidts and directed the family office.

Named by Fortune magazine in 2010 as one of the “40 Most Influential Leaders in Business” worldwide under 40 years old, Eric previously served as CEO of Rex Group from 2015-2017, CEO of the Clinton Foundation from 2013-2015, and a partner and co-founder of McKinsey & Company’s government practice – as part of a career at the firm from 1997 to 2013.

At the Clinton Foundation, Eric led an effort to secure an endowment, develop infrastructure to support best-in-class operating practices, improve strategic planning and financial management, strengthen Board governance and internal controls, and use data effectively. During his tenure, Charity Navigator awarded the Foundation a perfect score (and four stars) for transparency and accountability.

At McKinsey, Eric was the global leader of McKinsey’s work on government innovation and an expert on the transformation of complex institutions. He counseled heads of state and former presidents, cabinet secretaries, civil service officials, and business leaders in media, entertainment, and technology. Eric also served as an advisor on performance management for President Obama’s transition team in 2008.

Eric is a senior fellow at Yale, teaching about ethics in public leadership and innovation at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale School of Management, and Yale Law School. He holds a B.A. summa cum laude from Yale and a J.D. from the Yale Law School. He is a member of YPO and the New York State Bar, and serves on the boards of Ready, Arena Stage, and other organizations.

Dr Arunabha Ghosh

Founder, CEO, Council on Energy, Environment and Water

Dr Arunabha Ghosh is a public policy professional, adviser, author, columnist, and institution builder. As the founder-CEO of the Council on Energy, Environment and Water, since 2010, he has led CEEW to the top ranks as one of Asia's leading policy research institutions (eight years in a row); and among the world’s 20 best climate think-tanks in 2013 and 2016. He was actively involved in conceptualising and designing the International Solar Alliance. He conceptualised and is a founding board member of the Clean Energy Access Network (CLEAN). Co-author/editor of four books and with experience in 45 countries, he previously worked at Princeton, Oxford, UNDP (New York), and WTO (Geneva). In 2018, the UN Secretary-General nominated him to the UN's Committee for Development Policy. In 2020, the Government of India appointed him Co-Chair of the energy, environment and climate change track for India’s Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP2020). His 2019 TED Talk on air quality (Mission 80-80-80) has crossed 240,000 views. He is co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Clean Air and is a member of the international high-level panel of the Environment of Peace initiative. He serves on the Board of Directors of ClimateWorks Foundation.

He is lead author of Jobs, Growth and Sustainability: A New Social Contract for India’s Recovery (CEEW, 2020). He is the co-author/editor of four books: The Palgrave Handbook of the International Political Economy of Energy (2016); Energizing India: Towards a Resilient and Equitable Energy System (SAGE, 2016); Human Development and Global Institutions (Routledge, 2016); and Climate Change: A Risk Assessment (FCO, 2015). Arunabha’s essay “Rethink India’s energy strategy” in Nature was selected as one of 2015’s ten most influential essays.

Arunabha advises governments, industry, civil society and international organisations around the world. This has included India’s Prime Minister’s Office, several ministries and state governments. He was invited by France, as a Personnalité d’Avenir, to advise on the COP21 climate negotiations; and also advised extensively on HFC negotiations. He served on the Executive Committee of the India-U.S. PACEsetter Fund. He has been a member of Track II dialogues with ten countries/regions; and formulated the Maharashtra-Guangdong Partnership on Sustainability. He was a member of the Environment Pollution (Prevention & Control) Authority for the National Capital Region (2018-2020).

His regular columns are widely read and have been published in the Business Standard, Financial Express, Forbes, Hindustan Times, Indian Express, Nikkei Asian Review, The Hindu, The Times of India, among other platforms. He has hosted a documentary on water in Africa, featured in National Geographic and Discovery Channel documentaries on energy and climate change, and delivered a TED Talk on air quality. He has been regularly interviewed on Al Jazeera, CGTN, CNBC, CNN News 18, India Today TV, NDTV, etc. He is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, was member of WEF’s Global Future Council on Energy, and an Asia Society Asia 21 Young Leader. He holds a D.Phil. from Oxford and topped Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi.