Derek Andersen is the co-founder and CEO of Bevy, a SaaS product that helps companies build community in real life. Bevy powers event communities for Salesforce, Atlassian, Asana, Duolingo, and others. Derek co-founded Startup Grind, a community of over 600 Chapters in 120 countries designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. Since 2012 Startup Grind has hosted 7,000 events for more than 250,000 people. In 2010 he co-founded Commonred which was acquired by Income.com. Derek also previously worked at Electronic Arts on games like Burnout and The Sims 3. Derek lives in Palo Alto CA with his wife and four children.

Caroline Chayot is a Partner at Atomico where she helps companies hire, develop and retain the best talent in Europe. Previously she led the EMEA HR team at Twitter, where she supported the leadership team in scaling the business from two to six markets and grew the team from 80 based in London to 500 across the region. Prior to that she worked at Google in HR for 9 years.

Miguel Andres is an Argentinian IT Executive, Entrepreneur and Computer Science Researcher with 15+ years of experience. Throughout his career, he has focused his talent and energy on improving people's lives with technology. Miguel obtained a BSc and a MSc degree in Computer Science from the National University of Córdoba in 2006. While studying, Miguel worked at various IT-related companies including starting up his own company in 2004, PuntoAr, a company providing IT services to multiple SMBs. After graduating in 2006 he moved to the Netherlands and then to Paris as a Ph.D. and Postdoctoral researcher in computer security. To this day, his ground-breaking research has been published in various prestigious conferences and journals, reaching 1000+ citations across his 15+ publications.

Looking for ways to increase his impact on people’s lives with technology, Miguel joined Google Headquarters in California in 2012 as a Software Engineer. He worked in various high visibility teams and was promoted rapidly within the company, to become part of the top 5% of Google’s engineer force as a Software Engineer. Among his greatest contributions, was his lead on the Google Pay Transit product (the product has launched across the globe and today involves 100+ people) as well as the Google Pay Launch in Japan.

Eager to face new exciting challenges, Miguel moved to Barcelona in 2019 with his wife and newly son to join badi as CTO with the aim of continuing to transform the property sector following the company’s recent $30 million Series B funding announcement.

Venezuelan living in Madrid. Daniela holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas-Venezuela and a Masters degree in Strategic Design from IED Master in Madrid-Spain. She jumpstarted Goiko Grill with her brother and parents in 2013. Since then and until 2019 has served as its CMO, and has been able to create along with her marketing team, a Spanish Love Brand and a social media movement that catapulted Goiko’s growth. She proudly earned a National Marketing Award for the company -within other recognitions- and became a keynote speaker that inspired on the matter among entrepreneurs, mainly struggling with her same challenges at first stages. Goiko currently owns 74 restaurants nationwide and employs more than 1200 people, while being a success case for the industry. Daniela calls herself a Love-Storyteller, and she strongly believes in the power of purpose. In addition, Daniela is a mother of one, and loves country music and peanut butter.

Dorion Carroll is a 20-year veteran engineer with deep experience developing product and services in areas including search, email processing, e-commerce, personalization, ad targeting, CRM, data warehousing, order management and financial services. Prior to joining Technorati, Dorion was director of engineering at Postini, Vice President of Engineering and General Manager of Neomeo (which was acquired by Postini), Technologist-in-Residence at Softbank Venture Capital, and Senior Director of Engineering at Excite@Home, among other roles. Dorion has a Bachelor of Arts from Pitzer College, with four years Mathematics / Computer Science at Harvey Mudd College, in Claremont, California.

He'd been working as CTO and CIO at Zynga, the mobile gaming company responsible for titles like Farmville, Clash of Titans, Words with Friends, Zynga Poker and many others, before joining Amazon as VP of Customer Engagement Technologies.

I am a product leader with extensive experience in hypergrowth pre and post-IPO companies. I am currently the Chief Product Officer at N26, where we are building a retail bank which empowers users to live and bank their way, and with 5 million customers, we’re well on our way! I love to build things - products, teams, companies, user value, anything exciting and challenging! My interests range from transforming organisations from early stage into global businesses to embedding a product-led mindset in order to drive consumer value and commercial outcomes.

Martin Davis is the CEO of Draper Esprit. He has more than 20 years’ experience in financial services and joined Draper from Aegon Asset Management where he was the Head of Europe, Aegon Asset Management & CEO Kames Capital.

Prior to Aegon Asset Management, Martin served as CEO at Cofunds, spent 8 years at Zurich Insurance Group, and was also CEO of Zurich’s joint venture, Openwork, the largest network of financial advice firms in the UK. Prior to this, Martin held senior management roles at Misys, Corillian and Reuters. Martin also served for 11yrs in the British Army.

Martin has an MBA from London City Business School (CASS) and Diplomas from the Institute of Marketing and the Market Research Society.

Chad is Director of Marketing & Comms at Revolut, a UK financial technology company that offers banking services.

He previously held the same position at Rocket Internet.

Building web platforms and teams since 2002, with a focus towards entrepreneurship, innovation and start-ups. I work as (a mix of): entrepreneur, tech lead, coach, system architect and software developer.

I like: technical challenges, growth, leadership, lean approaches

Specialties: tech strategy, team building, e-commerce, agile/lean, scaling teams and web platforms

Serious coding and system design done in: Python, Java, C++, PHP, ASP and BASH+CGI. Lately focused on Python but language-agnostic.

Lina as an Investment Director at Target Global, the international Venture Capital firm headquartered in Berlin, with €700m in AuM that invests in fast-growing online platforms, targeting trillion $ markets.

Lina joined Target Global in 2018 after having worked in product and monetization at ResearchGate, a company aiming to connect the world of science. Prior to ResearchGate, she was an investor at Hasso Plattner Ventures, a fund backed by the Chairman of SAP. Lina began her career as an entrepreneur operating two startups, one of which was acquired by Living Social.

Lina received her Masters in Law and Business from Bucerius Law School and WHU School of Management in Germany, and a B.A. in Philosophy/ Law and Society from the University of California, Riverside.

Ander is a “natural-born doer”, whose passion, high standards and determination lead him and those around him to give their best and strive to achieve any goals.

13 years of experience as a successful entrepreneur and investment banker.

Lived and worked in Spain, the United States and the United Kingdom.

Josh in an entrepreneur and digital strategist who just last month exited Rentify, the startup he co-founded in his kitchen in London 7 years ago. He's also spent 15 years working with some of the world's leading brands including HP, Coca-Cola and McDonald's, as well as for leading global politicians, foundations and the British government. Amongst other things, he is currently head of digital for 89up.org and is working for the British government as an advisor to its enquiry into Fake News and the future of social media legislation.

One can look at her career as a list of emerging technologies that went mainstream: a handheld PDA, a search engine, a streaming video platform, photo sharing, blog search, the first celebrity/UGC comedy video destination site, a streaming movie Netflix-competitor, streaming radio, and now, looking into the future to bring immersive video experiences to mobile users. During the dot-com crash, she opened San Francisco's first organic patisserie, Miette. Now, she's investing in the next group of world-changers.

New technologies excite Liz, uncharted territory is her favorite place to go. She excels at making technology accessible and delightful to the end user. General Magic's PDA could send wireless email in 1994. SpotLife was a pre-YouTube broadcasting platform that let anyone stream, cam, or post clips of their lives back in 2000. Kodak/Ofoto pioneered online photo sharing. Funny or Die broke the wall between professional and amateur entertainment with hilarious videos starring A-list celebrities. Pandora is the first, and best, personalized radio station that plays only the music you love. These are some of the places she's been privileged to work and change the way the world uses technology and entertains itself. 

With more than 15 years in leadership positions, Jorge is well known in the Startup ecosystem for his experience running Product and Development teams. His background is in Software Engineering, but pretty soon found himself managing teams of developers and designers and obsessing about how teams should work, how to best develop software and successful products and how to optimise for happiness as well as for productivity.

He is most proud of BeBanjo, the company he co-founded in 2008 and later sold to the TDF group, as well as of his time in CARTO, where he led Technology and Product for the last 3 years as Chief Dev. Officer. He recently co-founded Tinybird.co, a startup focused on making data teams more productive through simple and highly scalable real-time APIs. He also teaches at Instituto Tramontana, where he co-directs the Program for Product Direction.

Adam Lasri is a Senior Associate in the investment team at Atomico where he works on sourcing and due diligence of investment opportunities and portfolio management for France, Spain and Portugal. Prior to joining Atomico, Adam was Head of Expansion for an on-demand logistics startup where he led the company’s launch across five cities in the UK and two in Spain. Before that, Adam spent three years at Barclays’ Investment Banking Division in London. 

Casey is a serial entrepreneur who Cofounded and grew Couchsurfing.com to a community of more than 15 million members. He founded Upstock - a way to modernise the antiquated stock option system by offering a replacement that is simple, fair and inspiring to everyone. He has also built Wonder, a 360 peer feedback app and Mastly, equity as a service. Justin has a passion for building talented, diverse teams and bringing groundbreaking ideas to life.

Peter is a Managing Director at Vitruvian; a venture partner at BlueYard and LocalGlobe; an advisor to Entrepreneur First; and a Trustee of Frazzled Cafe, Doteveryone, and the Oxford Mindfulness Centre (Oxford University). He is an angel investor/advisor in over 100 tech startups, including: BigHealth, BookingBug, Business Of Fashion, CarThrottle, Citymapper, Craft, Diagonal View, Eyeclick, EyeEm, Farfetch, Freeformers, GetYourGuide, GiveMeSport, GoEuro, Hopster, Medigo, Memrise, Mippin, Mixlr, Monoqi, MoviePilot, Mubi, MyHeritage, Oddshot, Qapital, Qidenus, Quill, ReturnPath, Roli, Sailthru, Snap.hr, SofarSounds, Songkick, Styla, Tictrac, TVBeat, and Twitmusic

Peter was previously an angel/advisor at NevenVision (acquired by Google), Saynow (Google), Readmill (Dropbox), Fizzback (Nice Systems), Techlightenment (Experian), uberVu (Hootsuite), Gidsy (GetYourGuide), Bandpage (Youtube), AdjustYourSet (Oliver Group), ChicChickClub (JustFab), Shopwiki (Oversee), Launch Music (Yahoo), LoveFilm (Amazon), Skype (eBay), TastemakerX (Rdio), Mobix (Seachange), Kindo (MyHeritage), MusicNation (Universal Music), Preview Networks (Rightster), Playahead (MTG), HSX (Cantor Fitzgerald), H2G2 (BBC), iFilm (MTV), Metacafe (The Collective), Liveplanet (Disney), Fandango (Comcast), WoolAndTheGang (Blue Gem), YPlan (Time Out), and Meevee (eUniverse)

Peter was previously: General Partner at Google Ventures; Board Director of GP Bullhound and Entertainment Insights; President of Nielsen Entertainment; Governor at Beaconsfield High School; Fellow of Wellington College; a film awards judge at BAFTA; and a digital advisor to Oxfam, Sport England, and The Roundhouse. He is an active supporter of Founders Forum, Founders4Schools, AppsForGood, Speakers4Schools, Cambridge Wellbeing, Mindfulness In Schools, Mind & Life, CSAP, and NFTS. He was an Associate Producer on Rabbit Fever and an (uncredited) actor in Flyin' Ryan which both received some of the worst reviews in movie history

Partner at K FUND.

Anne Driscoll is a current CMO of Startup Genome; an international effort providing insight to entrepreneurs and partners alike in order to help foster success within global tech startup communities. Based in Silicon Valley, Anne’s experience in the Valley also stems from a background as a former Google Executive. Her passion for startups has led to a passion for global connections, and is also an advisor for multiple roles and companies at the CMO level. In March, Anne recently launched Startup Genome’s Global Startup Ecosystem Report for 2017 – providing data analysis and knowledge for startup ecosystems from around the world

Senior Telecommunications Engineer, has more than 20 years of experience in Information Technology & Operations, leading transformation projects and launching new businesses. Montse has spent the last 7 years building bridges between Start-Ups and Multinationals, working very close to multidisciplinary and multicultural teams with high experience in cutting-edge technologies and entrepreneurial skills. Prior to her current position at Banco Sabadell, where she leads a team specialized to identify the business challenges where emerging technologies could provide a competitive advantage. Montse worked in France at an Oil & Gas Services multinational from 2008 to 2016, managing globally the technology portfolio and the international software engineering team. Her work with multicultural teams in different countries has allowed her to live, adapt and adopt the cultural richness of several countries in Europe, South America, the United States, Japan, South Korea, South Africa, India, Malaysia, and of the Arab Emirates. She has been COO of a Information Technology multinational in South America and responsible for the implementation and delivery of Information Technology services of 4 Olympic Games, Pan American Games, and several World Championships and UN Summit. Montse is a regular contributor to social innovation programs. She is Vice-President of the Alastria Consortium and President of the Quantum Blockchain Alliance.

Entrepreneur. co-founder and angel investor with a strong general management background and a 19 years 360 degrees experience in all types of start ups from early stage to post IPO (lastminute.com, eRepublik Labs etc.) Recognized by the World Economic Forum (Davos) as a Young Global Leader (YGL) in 2012.

Passionate about building successful organizations and management teams in fast growing environments, to deliver maximum results by offering the best service to customers. Building great companies is hard its also an incredibly interesting adventure.

Specialties: General management, people management, strategy, culture change, online marketing, offline marketing, e-commerce companies, PR, business development, entrepreneurship, international development, online media market, online projects, commercial sales, online travel, videogames, online games, social games, mobile games, game development, game design, healthcare industry, angel investing, start ups, public speaking.

Founder and CEO of SocialCar, the first platform in Spain for P2P car rental. Mar, is a benchmark in sharing economy, sustainable mobility and legality. Founding member of Sharing España and board member of ADigital. Mar supports Barcelona's tech ventures as a member of BCN Tech City's board of directors. She is also a promoter of innovation as part of the Creafutur advisory board. Graduated in Law and PDD by IESE, she began her professional career at Cuatrecasas Abogados and her social entrepreneurship interest began at Grameen Bank with Prof. Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

Ryan is an entrepreneur, educator and software developer. He has over 10 years of experience in the education technology space, and over 15 years of experience building software companies. Ryan has been recognized on Inc. Magazine's 30 Under 30 list, and selected as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. He is the Co-Founder and former CPO of Codecademy, an online startup-up company that has taught over 45 million learners around the globe to write their first lines of code.

Chief Product & Technology Officer, Dow Jones Professional Information

Pepe Agell leads Chartboost’s strategic planning, marketing and corporate development efforts. In this role, he oversees the company’s strategic partnerships, key future product developments, m&a activities, external communications and thought leadership. He holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from the UPC Barcelona and the ETH Zurich. Prior to joining Chartboost, Agell led product management and operations teams in both multinational (Hilti AG) and startups (3scale and Innovalley). 

Michael Eckhardt is Managing Director at Chasm Institute in their Silicon Valley Office, where Michael has been a partner for over 15 years:

  • a veteran of PwC, Harbridge Consulting, HP, and Pepsico

  • a Harvard MBA and Wall Street Journal Award winner, Michael is a recognized expert in new product launch success & go-to-market tools + best practices. He has lead over 500 client engagements in the US / Europe / Asia Pacific

  • Michael’s clients include: Adobe, Spotify, Citrix, Google / Nest, NetApp, RSI, HotChalk, Intel, Cisco, Xilinx, 3D printing ventures, Autodesk, SAP, Agilent Life Sciences, Jive, QAD, Micron, Philips Medical, Samsung, Logitech, and many other tech-based businesses, from large enterprises to mid-sized companies to venture-backed start-ups.

  • his firm’s books include the newly-updated “Crossing the Chasm 3.0” -- with 25 all-new tech company examples best practices, as well as the companion books “Escape Velocity” and “Zone to Win”

  • these best-sellers -- over 3,000,000 books sold -- continue to be proven playbooks for entrepreneurial success in B2B and B2C markets

  • its frameworks underpin the way tech companies around the world plan & fund their investments in disruptive innovations

  • Michael’s client focus, through 2-day strategy workshops and consulting services, drive three client outcomes:

      (1) accelerating new product success in next 12 to 24 months

      (2) best practices and tools for revenue growth

      (3) launching profitable innovations

  • Michael served as editor and contributor for both the updated for 2017 “Crossing the Chasm 3.0” and “Escape Velocity" books, which have sold more than 3 million copies worldwide

Carlota has more than 15 years in the Energy field in Spain, US and Germany, both in generation and commercialization of electricity and gas. She was Professor of Efficiency and Renewable Energy at University of Barcelona.

Education:

Executive MBA, IESE. Universidad de Navarra

Business Management, New York University (NYU)

Master in Mathematical Methods for Financial Markets, Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya (UPC)

Industrial Engineering, Escola Técnica Superior d’Enginyeria Industrial de Barcelona (ETSEIB)

Awards and recognitions:

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award by FEDEPE (Federación Española de Mujeres Directivas, Ejecutivas, Profesionales y Empresarias).

DonaTIC by Tertulia Digital and SmartCAT (Generalitat de Catalunya)

Innovation Award by FIDEM (Fundación Internacional de la Mujer Emprendedora)

Blackbox Connect Participant in 2017, scaling up program for female cofounders lead by Google.

Considerada por Forbes como una las 100 personas más creativas en 2016.

Top Executive of the Year 2018 by Asociación de Empresarios y Directivos (AED).

Laura Urquizu, CEO and Partner of Red Points, is leading the worldwide innovation for online IP protection. Laura joined the initial founding team in 2014 and has led the company since its infancy. Red Points is the game-changer in online brand protection, online copyright protection, and the prevention of illegal online content distribution. Sales have grown exponentially under Laura’s leadership with the company surging from 10 to 170 people. She is leading the way for global adoption of Red Points’ technology and continues to bolster worldwide sales throughout Europe and the United States. Previously, Laura held executive and management positions in Arthur Andersen, Caja Navarra, and Corporacion CAN. In addition, she was the Advisor for the Board of Directors and Corporate Development at Lokku as well as being appointed to numerous Boards across European technology companies. Laura holds a Masters in Management Development from IESE for Caja Navarra and an Economics degree from Universidad del Pais Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea. In August 2018, Red Points was named one of the hottest European start-ups to follow by Wired (world reference publication in technology) and in October, CEO, Laura was included in the “50 most influential women entrepreneurs and investors in the European Technology Industry.