Joe is the CEO of issuu, the world’s leading digital publishing and discovery platform connecting people to the content they love most. He has more th…  See More

Joe is the CEO of issuu, the world’s leading digital publishing and discovery platform connecting people to the content they love most. He has more than 20 years of experience in startup and growth technology leadership from early stage through to IPO. He served as CEO of Reverb during two rounds of financing; in addition, as head of SingleFeed, Joe oversaw that firm’s acquisition by Alibaba. Before that, Joe held sales and leadership positions at Gaia Interactive, Yahoo, Flickr and Virage. He directed the Economist Group’s business in China and has extensive board and tech-advisor experience. Joe was educated at the State University of New York at Albany and as a foreign student at Beijing Normal University in China.  See Less

Sara leads research & design teams that deliver human-centered software to help people and businesses thrive. Her design-thinking approach focuses on …  See More

Sara leads research & design teams that deliver human-centered software to help people and businesses thrive. Her design-thinking approach focuses on customer empathy, rapid experimentation and iterative design synched with agile development releases. As director of user experience design at Google Cloud, Sara leads a research and product design team that strives to transform the subpar user experience of current enterprise applications.
The product that her team is currently working on reimagines the job-search-and-hiring space with a marketplace model that leverages Google’s strength in search and machine learning. The team launched Google Jobs API and Google for Jobs—which helped millions of users within the first week of launch. Previously, Sara was vice president of user experience research and design at Walmart Labs. At Labs she built and led a team of over 100 who were responsible for the native app and web research, design strategy and execution for a global commerce platform that enables a multichannel retail user experience at scale.
Before diving into multichannel retail Sara served as senior vice president, user experience design at Bank of America where she led online banking innovation programs. Before working client-side, Sara pioneered human-centered research and design practices for some of the earliest internet tech and design consulting firms such as Ikonic and Organic. Sara is an active public speaker on product design and leadership topics. She holds a B.F.A. in Design from Pratt Institute and a master’s degree from The Art Center College of Design.  See Less

Before joining Oculus in 2014, Brian worked in videogames as an engineer, manager, and lead for 15 years at companies including Electronic Arts, Midwa…  See More

Before joining Oculus in 2014, Brian worked in videogames as an engineer, manager, and lead for 15 years at companies including Electronic Arts, Midway, and Bungie, where he and his teams built internal tools for the artists and designers. Brian tried his first modern VR headset on in 2013, and shortly thereafter brought his passion for creativity and the arts to Oculus where he is project director for Medium, a tool for sculpting in virtual reality.  See Less

Charles Hudson is a Founder and Managing Partner at Precursor Ventures. Hudson serves as a Venture Partner at SoftTech VC. He served as the Interim Ch…  See More

Charles Hudson is a Founder and Managing Partner at Precursor Ventures. Hudson serves as a Venture Partner at SoftTech VC. He served as the Interim Chief Executive Officer at Kahuna, Inc. until August 16, 2016. He focuses on mobile and gaming investments and supporting its portfolio companies on business and corporate development matters.
He focused on identifying investment opportunities in mobile infrastructure, mobile applications and marketplaces. He co-founded Bionic Panda Games Inc., and served as its Chief Executive Officer. He served as the Vice President of Business Development at Serious Business, Inc. until February 2010. Prior to that, he served as the Senior Director for Business Development at Gaia Interactive. He also worked in New Business Development at Google.
Prior to joining Google, he served as a Product Manager at IronPort Systems. He was the Founder of the Virtual Goods Summit and Social Gaming Summit. He is a Co-Author of Inside Virtual Goods. Hudson holds an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and B.A. in Economics and Spanish from Stanford University.  See Less

Mindy Abovitz Monk is a self taught drummer and programmer based in Brooklyn with a Masters Degree from The New School. She started Tom Tom Magazine; …  See More

Mindy Abovitz Monk is a self taught drummer and programmer based in Brooklyn with a Masters Degree from The New School. She started Tom Tom Magazine; the first and only magazine about female drummers, in 2009. Tom Tom is full color print magazine based out of NYC that is currently distributed globally and is carried by Guitar Centers and Barnes & Noble nationwide.
The magazine has a feminist mission and hopes to inspire women of all ages to drum, while strengthening and building the community of otherwise fragmented female musicians. Mindy has lectured, performed and held panels at Cambridge, Smith College, NYU, Sarah Lawrence, Carnegie Melon, UCSD, UCLA, CalArts, RISD, The Apple Store, Perez Art Museum Miami and MoMA PS1 amongst many other institutions.
She has appeared on the cover of Creative Review, and received press from the following media outlets: Red Bull TV’s Maven Series, Business Insider, FADER Magazine, i-D, BUST, Miami New Times, LA Weekly, Miami Herald, Gawker and The Smithsonian. She is a receiver of the 2016 She Rocks Award.  See Less

George McCalman is a fine artist, illustrator and graphic designer. He credits his Caribbean background for his unique ability to both embrace and reb…  See More

George McCalman is a fine artist, illustrator and graphic designer. He credits his Caribbean background for his unique ability to both embrace and rebel against traditional modes of design, enabling a brand to simultaneously integrate and stand out in its industry. After 14 years as a leading art director in the magazine industry (Entertainment Weekly, Mother Jones, ReadyMade), McCalman opened the doors to his branding studio MCCALMAN.CO in 2011. At MCCALMAN.CO, community is paramount - serving primarily art, lifestyle, and food clients, the work is based in classic, long-lasting brands that continue to define their clients as they evolve.  See Less

Lisa Stone is a leading marketing professional and the former CEO / Co-founder of BlogHer Inc. She has extensive experience working across sales, mark…  See More

Lisa Stone is a leading marketing professional and the former CEO / Co-founder of BlogHer Inc. She has extensive experience working across sales, marketing, engineering, product, content and community to design platforms, programs and partnerships that activate millions of people and achieve defined business goals. At BlogHer Inc., she built, led, and sold the leading social publisher for women, creating the #1 digital lifestyle network. Prior to BlogHer, she pioneered the first blog publishing network at Law.com, was Vice President, Programming and Editor in Chief at Women.com Networks, where she led original content and partnerships, launching 11 Hearst and two Rodale magazine sites, and worked as a media strategist and journalist (WebTV, CNN, The New York Times, LATimes.com, the Oakland Tribune).  See Less

Will Kabat-Zinn has practiced Insight Meditation intensively in the U.S. and in Burma for over 15 years. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay A…  See More

Will Kabat-Zinn has practiced Insight Meditation intensively in the U.S. and in Burma for over 15 years. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and teaches regularly at SF Insight, Eselan, Spirit Rock, and at meditation centers around the country. For eight years Will taught meditation and awareness practices to incarcerated youth in New York City and Oakland. In addition to sharing the Dharma, Will is an MFT Intern in private practice in San Francisco and Oakland.  See Less

Enrique Allen is the co-founder of Designer Fund where he invests between $100K – $1M in tech startups who are design leaders including Stripe, Gusto,…  See More

Enrique Allen is the co-founder of Designer Fund where he invests between $100K – $1M in tech startups who are design leaders including Stripe, Gusto, Omada Health, Altschool, and Shyp. He adds value by building and educating design teams through Designer Fund’s professional development program, Bridge. Previously, Enrique was a designer at venture capital firms, including 500 Startups, Facebook’s fbFund, and Venrock where he helped invest in companies like Behance, Lyft and Wildfire. He’s a Stanford University alum and continues to teach d.media, one of the most popular courses at the Stanford d.school.  See Less

Alexander Green was working as a theoretical physicist at the University of Rochester when he had a flash of inspiration: using visual technology that…  See More

Alexander Green was working as a theoretical physicist at the University of Rochester when he had a flash of inspiration: using visual technology that combines 3D modeling and mapping with addressable LEDs to light up a huge cubic structure that could be played like a DJ plays music. After teaching himself to code, he showcased the first of his 3D modelled light installation creations at Burning Man, and the concept - Sugar Cubes - took off to a mass success. On the heels of that success, Green left the academic world and launched Symmetry Labs, a startup that has continued to push the boundaries of art and tech for the past two years, creating installations and interactions that have toured the world for clients and events including Super Bowl City, Google, Uber, Dreamforce and The GRAMMYs after party.  See Less