Change Wave

Rich founded The Wealth Factory with a mission to provide equal access to financial literacy across the world. Today her company designs WealthyLife financial literacy education technology games. The online games are supported by a financial curriculum, programming and activities, walking people from birth to retirement in 12 subjects.

Claus is the Chief Technology Officer for CVS Health, leading Technology Innovation, Business Transformation Incubation, Architecture Planning, Delivery and Forensics, Digital Integration and M&A activities across CVS Health. Plays a pivotal role in becoming a trusted health partner delivering a connected experience.

Lisa is SVP of Product at Zenefits, where she is responsible for the development, management and execution of the product vision. Prior to joining Zenefits, Lisa was vice president of corporate strategy at Workday, where she collaborated with customers and internal business leaders to develop and implement strategies to build sustainable, long term value.

Jake is the CTO at Entrepreneur Media.

While the business is best known for its magazine, they are a complete digital publishing company. His primary role is to oversee the engineering for all of their digital products.

Entrepreneur Magazine is a national business publication based in Irvine, California. For nearly 40 years, Entrepreneur has been the definitive guide to all the diverse challenges of business ownership.

As CTO, Richard focuses on long term strategic planning, business and technology alignment, strategic customer and partner relationships, alliances and the research and innovation programs. Looking at today's challenges, Richard is exploring the benefits of employing operations information technology for societies, communities and industry to better understand and manage their relationship with resources, industries and commerce with the goal of helping these greater systems to thrive.

Nilka Thomas is the VP of Talent & Inclusion at Lyft. She serves as a strategic business partner to senior leadership focused on a broad-based and transformational talent agenda designed to recruit, develop and retain the very best innovative talent in the business and build a world-class organizational culture. She oversees global talent acquisition, employee relations, and inclusion, ensuring that Lyft's diversity efforts are seamlessly integrated through the entire employment process.

Kim leads teams that conquer tough design challenges with enthusiasm—and whether working with other senior executives or operating in complex organizations across departments, she combines strategies with operational excellence. Known in the office as a ruthlessly optimistic leader and catalyst for change.

With over 24 years' of design and UX expertise, from reviewing and directing projects, to leading large, innovative design departments—her passion is to bring clarity to complexity.

Clinical Information Technology Leader and Executive

Career-long record of accomplishment spanning IT/CT / biomedical program development, infrastructure / architecture planning, solution engineering, and enterprise-wide integration

Repeated success delivering innovative, ground-breaking clinical information technology systems, solutions, and infrastructure models to enable dramatic expansion of clinical services, biomedical capabilities, and patient service capacity.

Avery is a leader and engineer with a proven track record of shipping market-leading products and building high-performing teams in transformative companies. Over 400M people and the Fortune 500 use products built by his teams.

He has strong hands-on technical expertise in high-volume consumer Internet, growth engineering, data-driven products, and statistics / analytics / machine learning.

He helped build successful tech companies: Wealthfront, LinkedIn (IPO), and Tablus ($100M acquisition).

Dr. Rajesh Pankaj is a SVP of engineering at Qualcomm Research. He currently oversees Qualcomm Research’s Systems Engineering and Systems Integration and Test departments in San Diego. He also directs Qualcomm Research’s international offices in Austria, China, Germany, India, and Korea. In this role, he leads the operational efforts for a broad portfolio of research projects with topics ranging from next-generation wireless networks to innovative technologies such as 3G HetNets, LTE, and small cells.