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Petri Kajander

Managing Partner - Credentum

Petri Kajander is a business artist building the future with growth companies focusing on strategy, branding and funding. Host of Talks with Petri & Purpose 'n Clarity -podcasts. He advises startups and leaders, mentors and coaches in startup programs and lectures in universities, writes and shares his views on technology and society. Starting early with his entrepreneurial career he has co-founded startups but he’s also the founder and the first executive officer of the leading Finnish free market think tank, Libera Foundation. He has translated and published economics classics in Finnish. Before Covid-19 he made his first movie cameo role, and is open for new castings. If you don’t find him listening to jazz he’s probably eating dark chocolate or scouting the best dark roast around.

John Thompson

Venture Partner - Lightspeed Venture Partners

Venture Capital investor entrepreneur

John Wendell Thompson is an American technology executive who was the chair of Microsoft from 2014 until June 2021, and chair of Illumina since 2021.

Ivan Soto-Wright

Co-founder & CEO - MoonPay

entrepreneur investor FinTech

Ivan is a financial technology entrepreneur, investor, and early adopter of digital assets. He is Co-Founder & CEO of MoonPay. He is also Founder & General Partner at HODL, a venture capital fund and company builder.

Nidhi Tolani

Templore - Templore

entrepreneur

High school student, new to entrepreneurship

Bobby Healy

CEO & Founder - Manna Drone Delivery

Technology Software entrepreneur

Bobby Healy is an experienced inventor and technology entrepreneur specialising in booking engine software. Bobby continues to be an avid computer programmer and is a frequent speaker on the international circuit.

Cathy White

Founder and CEO - CEW Communications

Startups Technology Digital Strategy

Cathy specialises in working with startups and the organisations that support them, with a real passion for working with growing companies where she can make an impact on their business.

Jan Goetz

CEO & Co-founder - IQM Quantum Computers

Quantum Computing entrepreneur Computer

Jan Goetz is a quantum physicist and co-founding CEO of IQM Quantum Computers (IQM), building next-generation quantum computers.

Jean-Charles Velge

Co-Founder - Qover

entrepreneur Technology Insurance

Jean-Charles Velge co-founded Qover in 2016. He spent the early years of his career at Bain & Company. Before founding Qover, he held several key positions in the private equity industry both in Europe and Hong Kong.

Maarten Bosch

CEO - Mosa Meat

entrepreneur Food and Beverage Sustainable Development

Maarten Bosch is the CEO of RisingFoodStars startup Mosa Meat. Maarten is passionate about making a positive impact on climate change, animal welfare and food shortages.

Miki Kuusi

ceo - Wolt

entrepreneur Delivery Service Technology

Miki Kuusi is the co-founder & CEO of the Helsinki-based company Wolt.

Nora Bavey

General Partner - Unconvential Ventures

branding Technology Sustainable Development

General Partner at Unconventional Ventures that focuses on impact tech companies founded by diverse founders. She is the award-winning brand strategist who became a tech entrepreneur only to become the investor she needed.

Jose Maria Alvarez-Pallete

President, Ceo - Telefónica

Telecommunications Wired Telecommunications entrepreneur

José María Álvarez-Pallete López is a Spanish economist and chief executive officer of Telefónica S.A. since 8 April 2016.

Andrew Hessel

Co-Founder Chairman - Gp-Write

Biotechnology entrepreneur

Andrew Hessel is a micro-biologist and geneticist and entrepreneur. He received a M.Sc. in biology from University of Calgary and was Research Operations Manager at Amgen Institute 1995-2002.

Jim Adler

Founder, Director - Toyota ventures

entrepreneur Data Analytics

Jim Adler is the founding managing director of Toyota Ventures, and an executive advisor at Toyota Research Institute (TRI). He also serves on the Investment Committee of JetBlue Technology Ventures.

Nuria Pastor

CEO - humanITcare

Computer entrepreneur Artificial Intelligence

Nuria Pastor, a graduate in Psychology with a master's degree in Neuroscience, and Unai Sánchez, a computer engineer with a master's degree in Advanced Computing, are the founders of the startup HumanITcare.

Angel Alberich-Bayarri

CEO - Quibim

Artificial Intelligence entrepreneur Digital Strategy

Angel Alberich-Bayarri is a biomedical engineer, researcher and entrepreneur. He completed his PhD on advanced MRI post-processing in the Technical University of Valencia. He is the founder of Quibim

Merce Tell

Co-Founder - Nekko Capital

Equity Venture Capital entrepreneur

Co-founder and COO of Encomenda Capital Partners, Mercè has 20 years of experience in venture capital and investment in technology-based projects in the early stages of development mainly in Southern Europe.

André Schwämmlein

Founder and CEO - FlixBus

entrepreneur Digital Strategy Business Development

André Schwämmlein is an experienced manager in the field of digital businesses. He has a thorough understanding of growing digital businesses and the market-model as a result of the development of FlixBus from a start-up to a worldwide agglomeration.

Sahra-Josephine Hjorth

Co-Founder, CEO - CanopyLAB

entrepreneur E-Learning Artificial Intelligence

Award winning entrepreneur Sahra-Josephine Hjorth has spent the past six years creating digital social learning experiences with groundbreaking results. She is the co-founder and CEO of the first-of-its-kind learning experience platform CanopyLAB.

Arden Tomison

Founder and CEO - Thalamos

Health Care entrepreneur digital health

Founder and CEO at Mental Health Software Solutions Company: Thalamos

Mayra Castro

CEO - InvestAmazônia

entrepreneur Networking strategy

A connector and partnership catalyst, Mayra holds a master degree in International and European Law. She has founded InvestAmazonia, an amazonian company that uses regional expertise and international experience to design projects and partnerships.

Gastón Irigoyen

Co-Founder, CEO - Pomelo

FinTech Financial Services entrepreneur

Gastón Irigoyen is Co-Founder & CEO of Pomelo, the fintech that is building the new financial services infrastructure in Latin America.

Benoit Bazin

CEO - Saint-Gobain

entrepreneur Building Material Construction

Benoit Bazin headed the Building Distribution Sector and then the Construction Products Sector from 2016 to 2018. He will become Chief Executive Officer of the Saint-Gobain Group as of July 1, 2021.

Stefano Buono

Founder and CEO - Newcleo

Energy entrepreneur Clean Energy

Founder and CEO of Newcleo, a company that is focused on social impact in the field of Sustainable Innovation, Wellbeing, Education, Art and Culture.

Janne Poranen

CEO - Spinnova

Textiles entrepreneur Biomaterials

Janne Poranen is now working as an CEO and founder of a new and innovative R&D company, Spinnova Ltd. Spinnova is a VTT spin-off company.

Avery Schrader

Founder and CEO - Modash

Marketing entrepreneur Social Media

Avery Schrader is Co-founder and CEO of Modash.io a startup headquartered in Estonia with the mission to help every creator earn a living. Modash is an Influencer data platform used by more than 600 consumer brands.

Emma Ridderstad

Co-Founder and CEO - Warpin

entrepreneur Metaverse IT Management

Emma Ridderstad is the Co-Founder and CEO of Warpin Media, an XR software development company in the Nordics.

Ben Goertzel

CEO - SingularityNET

entrepreneur Blockchain Cryptocurrency

Ben Goertzel is a cognitive scientist, artificial intelligence researcher, CEO and founder of SingularityNET, leader of the OpenCog Foundation, and the AGI Society, and chair of Humanity+.

Alice Delahunt

Founder and CEO - SYKY

entrepreneur Fashion Technology

Alice Delahunt, founder and CEO of next-gen fashion platform SYKY, the impact of digital environments on the fashion world.

Pam Murphy

CEO - Imperva

entrepreneur Cyber Security Network Security

Pam is the Chief Executive Officer at Imperva, the cybersecurity leader championing the fight to secure data and applications wherever they reside. Pam was previously Chief Operating Officer at Infor

Cian Ó Maidín

Founder - NearForm

entrepreneur Software Digital Strategy

A computer scientist turned entrepreneur in digital solution development, Cian founded NearForm in 2011 with the mission to bring the advantages of open source software to the enterprise.

Jake Wood

Founder and CEO - Groundswell

Charity FinTech entrepreneur

Jake Wood is currently the founder and CEO of Groundswell - a venture backed software company aiming to democratize philanthropy by building a new category at the intersection of fintech, benefits tech, and charity.

Sri Chellappa

Founder and President - Engagedly Inc

entrepreneur Human Resources Software

Sri Chellappa is the President and Co-Founder of Engagedly. A passionate entrepreneur in building high-performance organizations that care about their people, and brings over 20 years of experience in leading organizations in software development.

Marjut Falkstedt

CEO - European Investment Fund

Venture Capital Equity entrepreneur

Marjut is the Chief Executive of the European Investment Fund, since January 1st, 2023. She builds on a long-standing career in the European Commission, where she worked from 1996 to 2013.

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