CTO, Flock Freight 

Lu leads the product and engineering groups at Flock Freight. He draws on 20+ years of experience building products and leading highly effective software development teams. 

Prior to joining Flock Freight, he led product development at two SaaS startups, from initial traction and growth through successful exit by acquisition

President, LEARN academy 

Adam is the President of LEARN academy, an early career workforce development code school. He's recently joined LEARN after a decade as the COO of ZEAL, an award winning web/mobile development agency. Prior to ZEAL, Adam lead brand strategy for a large publicly traded coffee company. Over the last few years, he's spoken on mechanical confidence, the development process, and software engineering practice.

Co-founder and CTO, XOKind

XOKind is an AI startup based in San Diego, founded with the mission of building the next generation of smart assistants to help simplify information retrieval, planning and decision making. Through her years of experience in AI and Machine Learning, Yinyin has worked on building AI software and hardware products for mobile, cloud, enterprises, travel, and open-source communities. Previously, Yinyin was the Head of Data Science at Intel AI, Principal Data Scientist at Nervana Systems (acquired by Intel in 2016), and a ML researcher at Qualcomm research.

CTO and Co-founder, Scientist.com

Chris Petersen, along with Kevin Lustig, PhD, and Andrew Martin, PhD, founded Scientist.com in 2007, a B2B marketplace that connects buyers and sellers of custom research services and products within the life sciences. Scientist.com now operates private enterprise marketplaces for most of the world’s top 30 major pharmaceutical companies, over 100 biotechnology companies and the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).