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Teampay CEO and founder Andrew Hoag revolutionized corporate spending when he created Teampay in 2016, after seeing how broken legacy platforms were firsthand as an employee and operator. Hoag’s vision guided the company to build a breakthrough patented platform and now, Hoag continues to innovate on his ongoing quest to bring human-centered finance to companies. Hoag's leadership has allowed the company to continue to see exponential growth – Teampay now supports hundreds of thousands (over 250,000) of users from high-growth, public or IPOing companies.

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A cloud native pioneer and evangelist, Tobi Knaup serves as the CEO of D2iQ. Previously, Tobi served as D2iQ’s Chief Technology Officer. As the primary author of the world’s first open-source container orchestrator (Marathon) and co-creator of the KUDO toolkit for building Kubernetes Operators, Tobi has the unique ability to understand an organization’s cloud-native journey from all levels--business, technological, and talent. And as the driver behind D2iQ’s next-generation Kubernetes platform, Tobi helps make it possible for organizations to navigate the cost and time-intensive challenges associated with enterprise-grade container orchestration. 

Before co-founding D2iQ, Tobi was one of the first engineers and technology lead at Airbnb, proving the technology’s value at scale in a production environment serving millions of users.

A German native, Tobi holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science from the Technical University of Munich.

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Nick Durkin is Field CTO for Harness.io, a Continuous Delivery-as-a-Service platform designed to make deployments easy, safe, and repeatable for everyone in engineering and DevOps organizations. He is responsible for the organization's worldwide field engineering team, post-sales engineering team, and a portion of the product. He previously held technical and executive roles in organizations such as OverOps, DataTorrent, and Early Warning. Nick also held the position of a lead architect on the Department of Homeland Security’s FIVICS initiative as well as developed several patents for anti-fraud technologies currently in use among not only the Federal Government but also the world's largest financial institutions.

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Diego Hoter, Co-founder & CEO at ucrop.it, a collaborative platform for farmers and companies to agree, trace, verify and share sustainable CROP STORIES(tm) at a farm level in a profitable, digital, scalable, and immutable way. They eliminate greenwashing in climate metrics. 

Diego is a +20 years experienced entrepreneur and professional with a demonstrated history of delivering valuable results across several industries such as management consulting, technology, agriculture, and the real estate industry. He is a company and team builder!

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Having saved up in the early stages of his career, Ritesh Raj made it his mission to travel as much of the world as he possibly could and has been to over 100 countries so far. In 2017, along with Haitham Saead, Ritesh founded the Florida-based online travel agency (OTA) CuddlyNest — the fastest-growing accommodation booking platform with millions of properties of all types across 200+ countries. 

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David Heinemeier Hansson is the creator of Ruby on Rails, co-owner of 37signals (makers of Basecamp & HEY), a best-selling author, Le Mans class-winning racing driver, antitrust advocate, and investor in Danish startups.

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Devin Bandara is the Founder & CEO of Nirvana Labs - Enlightening Blockchain Infrastructure

Devin started in the blockchain space as a software engineer in 2018 and went on to build Aegis Studio, a web3 engineering and consulting company that solves really hard problems using web3 technology. While growing Aegis Studio, he noticed that many of the existing blockchain/web3 development tools out there were both very expensive and didn't work as advertised.

Seeing that there was a huge opportunity to apply the web2 concepts of vertical integration and web3 concepts of decentralization to the infrastructure level of blockchain networks, they needed to move quickly. Within 9 months, they've deployed Ethereum and Avalanche nodes to 33 cities around the world using a multi-cloud and energy-renewable grid. When comparing their nodes to their competition, web3 developers see an average savings of 40% on their web3 infrastructure bill. The craziest part is that they're 260% faster as well!

In short, they built Nirvana Labs so web3 devs can build better dApps in less time while serving more users for less money!

Their mission is to decentralize all blockchain infrastructure and then decentralize themselves after they have achieved a network effect to build a true public web3 cloud.

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Vivien Zhang is a retail executive, turned tech entrepreneur. Having worked at some of the most sought-after luxury brands, including Tiffany & Co. and Harry Winston, she combines her deep knowledge in the luxury space with her passion for technology and founded - The Spot Room. 

With a mission to accelerate Web3's mainstream adoption, The Spot Room is building the infrastructure of decentralized commerce to enable physical goods to transact on blockchain. 

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Prasad Gundumogula is a successful Entrepreneur and Operator since 1999, with an excellent track record for founding multiple transformative ventures and nurturing them from startups to Multi-millions in businesses spanning the Travel, Logistics, Retail, and Auto industries. Built ExploreTrip, Metaminds, Logixcube, and POD Technologies from the ground up and evolved them as technology leaders with path-breaking innovations in the respective business area with successful exits.

In his current venture at Mondee Inc, as a Founder and CEO, he crafted its vision, was instrumental in raising Multi-hundred Million dollars PE investment, and helped it become the pioneer Travel technology company and the World’s largest Air Consolidator. Played a vital part in the strategic acquisitions of Mondee and led the effort to acquire ten (10) top-notch travel technology companies and air consolidators.

Visionary Architect with an uncanny knack for leveraging cutting-edge technology in solving core business problems. A natural leader and team player with a unique capability in motivating people to accomplish impossible missions. A versatile and multifaceted personality can engage in a deep-dive technical session with Architects and Developers and shift gears the next moment to participate in strategic meetings with top management to provide thought leadership. Endeared for his Leadership and genuine concern in welfare of everyone around him and his problem-solving skills, is considered the Go-To man by all strata of the organization.

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Olliver Barr is the co-founder of Finterest and is passionate about changing how people view their money through DeFi. Finterest is truly decentralized borrow and lending protocol on The Internet Computer built to support Native Bitcoin borrow and lending. Olliver is a recent Oregon State graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics with a focus on Statistics and Data Science. He develops DApps from scratch with a focus on well-tested Solidity smart contracts. He is currently developing with Solidity, JavaScript, Node.js, Web3.js, Truffle, and Ganache. 

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