Kimber is the Chief Technology Officer of One Medical Group, working to scale the technology innovations that underpin the re-invented doctor’s office and create a fully connected health engagement platform. Prior to joining One Medical, Kimber gained valuable experience at Box where she was most recently Senior Director of Web Application Engineering, leading a number of engineering teams behind the growing commercial success of the company.

Tara-Nicholle Nelson was the VP, Marketing for MyFitnessPal and Under Armour Connected Fitness. Over 120 million people worldwide use Under Armour Connected Fitness apps to get an around-the-clock view of their food and fitness activities. In Tara’s first year on the job, MyFitnessPal grew from 45 million to 90 million users, and went from raising an $18 million Series A to acquisition by Under Armour for $475 million.

Tara translates data into what makes strategic business sense for Pinterest. Every day her team leverages Pinterest’s massive stores of data to help everyone from product managers to community specialists make better decisions to grow Pinner value. Previously, she ran Business Analytics for One King's Lane and was a senior business analyst for True portfolio company SendMe Mobile.

Burt believes that strong communication skills create a competitive advantage. He's dedicated his career to helping people articulate their messages more effectively through improved content development and presentation delivery. When you’re preparing for high-profile and/or high-stakes presentations, I help you inspire, motivate, win, or just explain more effectively. No matter your position, he can help you tell your story.

John trains individuals and organizations in the ability to have conversations based in empathy, leading to compassion and collaboration. What is empathy? In this approach, it is a communication skill that integrates mindfulness, understanding, and a language of universal needs. It is the ability for emotional intelligence that produces connection, clarity, and effectiveness. In organizations, John provides training that builds a culture of empathy through structures that support empathic communication and having difficult conversations.

Diane has devoted her career to building and studying the role of culture in a company’s success. Whether she’s at the helm of a Fortune 500 HR organization or independently coaching and consulting chief executives of smaller organizations, and nonprofits, Diane is a leader in helping companies recognize what’s required to energize their people and to achieve long-term success at the bottom line.

Jory co-founded BlogHer, a category defining women’s digital media company, generating over $50M in income for digital influencers in the past 5 years. She spent 10 years on the founding team, enabling strategy from pre-venture funding through post-acquisition phase. BlogHer’s success was driven by her passion and expertise in building a scaled marketplace for social content.

Aaron runs the Data and Marketing teams at Uber. Before Uber he worked at RRE Ventures in New York. Prior to that he co-founded HowAboutWe, a media company focused on modern relationships. He was co-CEO and ran product, engineering, data, and design. His early career was in education -- the unsung, ideal training ground for entrepreneurism, insatiable mission-oriented drive, and product design.

Kate is a software engineer in San Francisco who mostly works on python projects. Tools she's worked with include python, django, flask, angularjs, bootstrap, jquery, backbone, reddis, chef, percona/innoDB, rabbitMQ, celery, PostgreSQL, salt, gunicorn, nginx, tons of python libraries, and git for version control. She enjoys working with open source software because you always get to learn something new, and there are some amazing technologies out there that people built to make software development faster, easier, and smarter..

Now COO at True portfolio company Athos, Don was previously Head of Operations at Pinterest, where he oversaw the community and operational teams focused on putting Pinners first while creating an engaging and valuable environment for brands, through scaled and timely responses and building feedback-driven products and solutions for the entire ecosystem. Prior to Pinterest, he spent 4+ years at Facebook, where he was VP of Online Operations, and also served as Manager of Online Sales and Operations at Google. Previously, Don served as Platoon Commander in the US Marine Corps.

Nazila is Head of Product Marketing and former Senior Director of Brand & Emerging Initiatives at eBay. Previously, she founded and was the CEO of Jooners.com, an online volunteer management system, and spent 15 years in engineering, product management and business development roles in companies such as Apple and Javasoft. She has founded and participated in the successful exits of two companies (Collation/IBM and eCircles/ UnitedOnline) and has spent a number of formative years as an associate at Glenwood Management, an early stage venture fund.

Mike founded Metamarkets in 2010 after spending more than a decade developing data analytics solutions for online retail, life sciences, digital media, insurance, and banking. Prior to Metamarkets, Mike successfully founded and sold two companies: Dataspora, a life science analytics company, and CustomInk, an early pioneer in customized apparel. He began his career as a software engineer for the Human Genome Project.

Jevan is the Chief People Officer at Blue Bottle Coffee. Previously, he was Head of People Development and Sales Operations & Strategy Lead for Square, leading critical organizational and people development initiatives as the company doubled from 400 to 800 employees. He joined Square after nine years at McKinsey & Company, where he served financial services, technology, and public sector clients on operational and organizational issues. 

Blending a fresh perspective, twenty-five years of experience working with world-class brands including Sony and Frito-Lay, and a talent for inspiring audiences, Denise is a leading authority on building and positioning exceptional brands. She has been a regularly contributor to Harvard Business Review, Forbes, NPR, and FOX Business TV.

With nearly two decades of experience in digital, print, broadcast radio and broadcast television, Joanna is a veteran of the media space. Her experience encompasses Sales, Sales Management, Operations and Advertising technology, including most recently Pandora, CBS Interactive, and Citysearch. She has worked with both start-ups and established organizations within the technology, online media, restaurant and retail sectors. Successfully leveraging early successes in sales and management, Joanna has become a nationally recognized expert in advertising operations. 

Johanna is  passionate about using data to design responsive products with remarkable user experiences. Her level of happiness increases when she is solving complex UX, product, or conversion problems. She has more than 15 years of experience in visual design, most recently including SurveyMonkey and Xmarks, and also spent four years on the faculty of Academy of Art University in San Francisco.

Carolyn is a proven marketing and management professional with nearly 20 year track record of driving growth and building successful brands, including One Kings Lane, Facebook, Speck, Timbuktu, eBay and Dolby Labs. Today, she leads brand strategy and development, brand programs, social media marketing and public relations for Thumbtack in San Francisco. 

For more than 25 years, Chris has worked as an owner, employee and as a hands-on consultant with hundreds of innovative startups, mid-sized mergers and Fortune 50 Corporations such as Microsoft and United Technologies. His experience spans industries including software, high technology, IoT, API's, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, digital media, retail, publishing, general and specialty contractors, industrial suppliers, wholesale distribution and more. He is a Certified Pricing Professional (CPP) and member of the Professional Pricing Society.

Luke has a decade of experience in digital marketing for ecommerce, lead generation, and CPG organizations. His areas of focus include search marketing, analytics, and strategic planningg. In his role, he leads, evaluates, and assesses the effectiveness of all marketing programs as well as define goals, metrics and ROI for programs. He's also responsible for testing and refining all components of demand generation programs; including lists, email templates, landing pages, offers, advertising, and keywords to continuously improve campaign effectiveness.

Ravi joined Google in 2014 after having been a founding member of Twitter's small/medium business (SMB) and self-serve ad solutions, starting when the ideas were rough whiteboard sketches. He led sales strategy (initially) and product strategy (later) for 3 years with successful launches in US, UK, Canada and Ireland.

Community, movements, technology, and brands have been Douglas's career history. He is the Global Head of Community at Airbnb, Co-Founder and Board Chair of Peers.org (a movement for the Sharing Economy) and CEO of theglueproject (all about social glue). Previously, he was a Partner at Meetup, and Co-Founder at Purpose (Movements for social change). He is also the author of 'The Culting of Brands' and has been a brand strategist at several agencies in London and NY.

As an executive, general counsel and director, Delida's career reflects her attraction to novel, uncertain, game-changing questions. She has advised companies and other organizations that have sparked industry-wide transformation with innovative technologies and services. Products that rip through culture, revolutionizing consumer expectations and behavior, appeal to Delida’s lifelong fascination with adventure. She helps redefine possibilities in the charged space and time after consumers adopt a new product, but before the cases are heard and the statutes are enacted.

Kakul is VP Product Management at GitHub.. Previously, she was CEO and co-founder of Tomfoolery, a mobile-first startup dedicated to building amazing apps for work. Over her 15 year career, Kakul has helped build some of the most loved consumer products ever: Adobe's Photoshop line of products, Flickr, Yahoo! Messenger, and Yahoo! Mail. At Adobe, Kakul managed the team that launched Photoshop Album, the first ever consumer product to introduce the concept of tagging photos.

She then went on to join Yahoo! as the first product person at Flickr, where she eventually became GM and led her team to grow the fledgling social photo service from 37,000 users to over 60M. Prior to forming Tomfoolery, Kakul was part of the leadership team at TinySpeck.

Linda Netsch is a Lecturer at Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, and the Haas School of Business, teaching negotiation and conflict resolution. Her executive education and consulting practice focuses on developing leadership, negotiation, and collaborative communication skills. She works with clients from a variety of fields, including technology, pharmaceuticals, energy, banking & finance, health care, law, government, and education. She has worked extensively in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, and Latin America. In addition to training and consulting, Linda practiced law at an entertainment law firm in Los Angeles and worked as an Alternative Dispute Resolution Attorney at the US Postal Service Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Linda started her career as an officer in the US Air Force.

Blake is a growth expert, serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and an advisor to several companies in the SF Bay Area. In his career, he has raised over $12 million in VC/Seed funding, started 7 companies, and sold 5 of them. He regularly gives talks on a wide variety of subjects including: Growth Hacking/Viral Marketing, Fundraising, and Building a Positive Culture.

Erika is the cofounder and director of strategy at Mule Design Studio in San Francisco, where she leads the research and information design practices. She is a natural problem solver with 20 years of experience in interactive strategy, technology, and design across a wide variety of industries. Recent clients include the Audubon Society, the Seattle Times, and the San Francisco Opera. She is also the author of Just Enough Research from A Book Apart.

Tricia is chief operating officer at Ophir, a boutique supply chain and product life cycle management company that provides virtual operations services to start-ups and MNCs that do not wish to invest in permanent supply chain functions. A consumer electronics industry veteran, she has worked for Apple, Infocus, Dell, in various senior supply chain roles, based in both the US and Asia. More recently Tricia has also spent time in supply chain consulting with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), based in the UK, with exposure to companies like Lego, Ericsson and Nokia.

John is a designer, technologist and catalyst behind the national movement to transform STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) to STEAM. He served as the 16th President of the Rhode Island School of Design where he repositioned the institution to regain its top position in the new economy. An internationally recognized thought leader at the intersection of design and technology, he now works with startup CEOs as Design Partner at Kleiner Perkins. In the 1990s, John led a research team at the MIT Media Lab to connect design with computer science. It was there that he fostered the first generation of engineers who could elegantly design, and designers who could fluently code. His early work for print and the computer was accessioned into the permanent collection of the MoMA. In recognition of his career-spanning efforts to bridge design, computer science and business, Esquire named John as one of the 75 most influential people of the 21st century.

Hiten has started three SaaS companies since 2005:  Crazy Egg, KISSmetrics and Quick Sprout. He is an active advisor and investor in startups who enjoys helping other people succeed in business and in life.

John is the Founder and CTO of Silicon Valley Data Science. In the business world, he likes to help organizations become more data driven. He has over 15 years of experience in machine learning, predictive modeling, and analytical system architecture. His focus is on the intersection of data science tools and techniques; data transport, processing and storage technologies; and the data management strategy and practices that can unlock data driven capabilities for an organization.

After receiving his PhD in computational neuroscience from MIT in 2008, Beau co-founded two companies based on probabilistic inference. The second, Prior Knowledge, was acquired by Salesforce in late 2012, where he worked as a product manager. Beau is interested in working on virtual reality, artificial intelligence, probabilistic programming, and machine intelligence and perception. His strengths are in connecting highly technical teams and ideas with the wider world - through listening, writing, speaking, and functional prototyping. He knows something about data science, predictive analytics, machine learning, probabilistic modeling and inference, Bayesian statistics, computational and systems neuroscience, Python, Javascript, technical product management, and startups.