Guest Justin Bingham is the co-founder and chief technology officer at Janeiro Digital. The engineering and business design savant has worked at technology companies since he was 16 years old, foregoing college in favor of pursuing a career in Boston’s innovation economy straight out of high school. Bingham’s background includes nearly two decades of experience building sophisticated technology solutions and bringing them to market. He is fluent in numerous programming languages, has extensive knowledge of enterprise application architecture, network infrastructure and protocols, distributed systems, and large-scale data processing. Bingham invented one of the first systems to passively detect and identify sophisticated covert channels over a network. He is also an editor of the Solid specification. Bingham oversees both the technology and creative divisions at Janeiro Digital, which he co-founded with his brother Jonathan Bingham (CEO). The Binghams are working with inventor of the World Wide Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee to define the commercial market, ecosystem, and enterprise platforms for Solid, which aims to decentralize the business model of the Web. Discover more Boston Speaks Up at Boston Business Journal's BostInno: www.americaninno.com/boston/boston-speaks-up/

Guest Miracle Olatunji is the youngest person to appear on Boston Speaks Up, only 19 years old at the time of recording. Olatunji embodies the aspiration of Boston to nurture a more diverse, mission-driven class of social impact entrepreneurs. Currently a student at Northeastern University, Olatunji works as the Director of Innovation of the student organization Thrive, whose mission is to empower students through financial literacy programs and support student-led entrepreneurial projects and ventures. While in high school, Olatunji founded OpportuniMe, an award-winning education organization which democratized access to summer learning opportunities for high school youth, enabling them to develop lifelong leadership skills and build their network. Along with her main ventures into innovation, Olatunji has been honored as a Young Global Leadership Scholar, Youth Entrepreneur Of The Year, and a ‘Woman To Watch’ -- among many more impressive accolades. And if that wasn’t enough, she is the author of Purpose: How To Live and Lead With Impact. Discover more Boston Speaks Up at Boston Business Journal's BostInno: www.americaninno.com/boston/boston-speaks-up/

Guest David Delmar Sentíes is the Founder and Executive Director of Resilient Coders, a highly competitive, free, nonprofit coding bootcamp that trains people of color for high growth careers as software engineers, and connects them with full-time jobs. He's a workforce equity activist, passionate about democratizing access to the high growth careers that are automation resilient. Delmar Senties looks forward to a day when Boston's innovation landscape is led, not by the smartest among the luckiest, but by the smartest, full stop. A graduate of Boston University's College of Fine Arts, he’s also an artist that combines his love of history with his interest in comic book culture. His Red Cloud Series seeks to present historical heroes in a visual vocabulary inspired by comic book culture. Discover more Boston Speaks Up at Boston Business Journal's BostInno: www.americaninno.com/boston/boston-speaks-up/

Guest Katie Hall graduated from Wellesley College in 1984 as one of only five physics majors in her class. She has since spent her career championing women in technology and bringing diversity to the C-suite. Currently, she is the Chief Intellectual Property Officer at Ciprun Global, a company that makes it efficient and cost-effective for U.S. organizations to secure IP protection in the Chinese market. Simultaneously, Katie is a Distinguished Lecturer of Physics at her Alma Mater, Wellesley College. Katie is passionate about showing the value of mentorship by mentoring students in and out of the classroom. Katie is set to become the Faculty Advisor of Posse, there she will have the chance to train a diverse group of high school students on leadership skills that will help them their whole lives. Katie is a strong believer in proactively identifying and breaking down the barriers in business that prevent diverse, minority populations from rising to the top. Discover more Boston Speaks Up at Boston Business Journal's BostInno: www.americaninno.com/boston/boston-speaks-up/

Guest Mike Volpe is the CEO of Lola.com, the fast-growing corporate travel SaaS platform that raised $37 million earlier this year with aims to dominate the $1.6 trillion global travel market. HubSpot’s third founder and former marketing chief, Volpe was offered the position of Lola.com CEO while still the CMO at Cybereason, a cybersecurity SaaS company where he led marketing and sales development. He’s also a member of the Board of Directors at sales and marketing SaaS Validity Inc. Volpe is well known in the Boston startup community, and an angel investor in more than 30 startups, including Desktop Metal, Drift, and Privy. He has an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management where he focused on marketing, product management, strategy, and startups. Discover more Boston Speaks Up at Boston Business Journal's BostInno: www.americaninno.com/boston/boston-speaks-up/

Guest Roman Jaquez is a software engineer at Philips Health Systems. He's also a Snapchat Official Lens Creator. Originally from Dominican Republic, Jaquez moved to New York when he was 17 years old, and graduated from college in The Bronx with a BA in Computer Science. Now a Methuen, MA resident, Jaquez devotes his free time to helping children in the Merrimack Valley learn computer science through tools like Snapchat's Lens Studio as a co-founder of the local organization Tech4Hood. He also provides consulting services through his own software consulting company called DRCoderz. Additionally, Jaquez is a 3D Modeler, AR/VR enthusiast, and a mobile game developer with several games on iOS and Android. Discover more Boston Speaks Up at Boston Business Journal's BostInno: www.americaninno.com/boston/boston-speaks-up/

Guest Sam Thompson is one of the founding partners of Progress Ventures, the venture capital arm of Progress Partners, a boutique M&A advisory firm in which he serves as senior managing director. His main focus is on the marketing and media technology marketplace, where he has built a strong network of contacts that can help early and growth-stage businesses. Thompson has a reputation for developing strategy for retail, digital media, and marketing technology clients. He offers unique perspectives having previously worked for IGN Entertainment, Proctor & Gamble, and the Phoenix Media/Communications Group. He is also one of the orchestrators of Progress Partners’ annual Progress Connect conference in which chief executives in digital media, marketing and ad tech descend on Boston for the invite-only event. In his spare time, Thompson coaches leadership to undergraduate students at his alma mater Babson College. Discover more Boston Speaks Up at Boston Business Journal's BostInno: www.americaninno.com/boston/boston-speaks-up/

Guest John Piermarini is a software developer, a cookie delivery entrepreneur (yes, you read that correctly) and a restauranteur. In 2017, he leaped when he opened up Fare Well, a restaurant out of a shipping container in Boston’s Seaport district. This wasn’t the first leap he took in his career. After finding out he didn’t love being a software engineer at IBM, Piermarini took his first venture into the food industry by opening Sweet Idea, a late night cookie delivery business which operated from 2012 to 2015. After Sweet Idea, Piermarini was recruited by Mei Mei to manage their new Boston Seaport location out of a shipping container, the very same location that would later become Fare Well. At Fare Well, John Piermarini works with local New England farmers to make honest to goodness food for the people of Boston. Discover more Boston Speaks Up at Boston Business Journal's BostInno: www.americaninno.com/boston/boston-speaks-up/

Guest Rowan Walrath joined BostInno in April 2019 as a staff writer covering innovation in Massachusetts, bringing a unique perspective to Boston from her time as a freelance journalist in San Francisco. Walrath has an impressive journalism background, having spent time writing and fact-checking for WIRED, Mother Jones, Eater, HuffPost and more. While known for her ability to cover an expansive range of topics, Walrath has spent dedicated time on the future of transportation beat at WIRED; and during her editorial fellowship at Mother Jones, she reported on health, science, climate and related policy. Her new role at BostInno is a bit of a coming home party. Walrath is a graduate of Northeastern University, and she cut her reporting teeth in Boston covering local news at the Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, and WGBH. Discover more Boston Speaks Up at Boston Business Journal's BostInno: www.americaninno.com/boston/boston-speaks-up/

Guest Jason Burke is the Chief Strategy Officer of clypd, a Davis Square, Somerville-based startup providing an audience-based sales platform for television advertising. Burke possesses a unique skillset as both a product engineer and business designer. Prior to clypd, Burke built optimization products for Boston-based ScanScout which was acquired by Tremor Video in 2010. A graduate of Tufts University, Burke has also made a name for himself locally as an angel investor and startup advisor. In May 2019, Burke joined Underscore.vc's UFirst accelerator program, serving as a mentor to first-time founders. Outside his activity within the entrepreneurial landscape, Burke's recreational sanity has been questioned, having chosen to suffer through three "Double Bostons." Discover more Boston Speaks Up at Boston Business Journal's BostInno: www.americaninno.com/boston/boston-speaks-up/