Amy Wilkinson is the CEO of Ingenuity and a Lecturer in Management at Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is a strategic adviser (with clients that include Google, Salesforce, Cisco, Roche and Genentech), keynote speaker, and the author of The Creator’s Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs. Amy advises executives and emerging leaders on how to master the skills that underlie entrepreneurial success. She also serves as a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center and has been a White House Fellow and special assistant to the US Trade Representative.

Anu Bharadwaj is the President of Atlassian, where she leads the product, engineering, and business teams across the company’s entire portfolio. Since joining Atlassian in 2014, she has been a driving force behind the company’s massive growth and its successful transition to the cloud. Prior to Atlassian, Anu spent over 10 years at Microsoft, launching several products for the Visual Studio team.

Basil Shikin is AppLovin’s Chief Technology Officer. His teams are responsible for supporting the company’s worldwide growth through building secure and highly scalable distributed systems. Basil was one of AppLovin’s early hires, and previously served as Vice President of Engineering, playing a critical role in building and optimizing the AppLovin platform, growing it to support over billions of app downloads. Under Basil’s leadership, AppLovin’s platform has experienced explosive growth, helping to create a richer ecosystem and more games to be played by millions. Before joining AppLovin, Basil was a Senior Software Engineer at DeviceAnywhere.

Benjamin Mann is a Co-Founder of Anthropic, an AI safety and research company dedicated to building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Previously, he was a member of the technical staff at OpenAI, where he worked on infrastructure, efficiency, and safety for GPT-3. Before that, Benjamin was a senior software engineer at Google, where he helped build Google's carpooling service Waze Carpool.

Bobby Napiltonia is the Founder and Chief Helper at The GTM Firm, where he leverages over 30 years of experience to help companies scale their Go-To-Market strategies. A Silicon Valley veteran, Bobby previously served as President of Worldwide Field Operations at Okta and prior to that, he spent a decade at Salesforce as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Channels and Alliances, building one of the largest partner ecosystems in the industry. He has also held senior leadership roles at Twilio and BEA Systems.

Bruce Cleveland is a Founding Partner at Traction Gap Partners and the author of Traversing the Traction Gap. A seasoned Silicon Valley executive and investor, Bruce has held senior leadership roles at Apple, Oracle, and Siebel Systems and C3 AI. As a venture capitalist, he was an early investor in companies such as Marketo and Engagio. He is widely recognised for developing the "Traction Gap" framework, taught in university classrooms and used by entrepreneurs worldwide to navigate the critical phase between initial product release and market scale.

Frederic Kerrest is the Vice Chairman and Co-Founder of Okta. As Okta’s Chief Operating Officer for over 13 years, he was responsible for the company’s day-to-day operations, helping to build the enterprise identity standard from an idea to a publicly traded company with thousands of employees and customers. He is also the author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Zero to IPO and serves as an advisor to high-growth software companies.

George R. Roberts is the Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chairman of KKR. A pioneer of the private equity industry, he founded KKR in 1976 alongside Henry Kravis and Jerome Kohlberg. For nearly five decades, he has led the firm’s growth into a global investment powerhouse, actively overseeing its management and serving on regional and sectoral investment committees. Beyond KKR, he is the Founder and Chairman of REDF, a venture philanthropy organisation that creates jobs and employment opportunities for people facing significant barriers to work.

Jared is the Founder and CEO of Mithril, an AI omnicloud platform backed by over $80M from Sequoia, Lightspeed, and NEA. He bridges the gap between deep technical research and investment experience, having served as a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind and Google Brain, and as an investor at KKR and BCG. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Justin Osofsky leads Partnerships and Business Development at Meta, driving revenue and engagement across the company’s ecosystem. A Meta veteran since 2008, he previously served as COO of Instagram, where he oversaw its growth to 2 billion monthly active users and scaled Reels from a pre-revenue product to a $3B annual run rate. His extensive leadership experience also includes heading the SMB sales group and leading Corporate Development (M&A). Earlier in his career, Justin was a consultant at McKinsey & Company, and he holds an MBA and JD from Harvard.

Kath Easthope is Co-Founder and CEO of Boardwave, a community supporting Europe's top technology and AI leaders. In three years, it has grown to 2,000+ members, offering events, peer learning, mentoring, and support across the tech ecosystem.Kath brings extensive experience in leadership, growth, and strategic communications, having led global marketing for a generative AI business that exited in 2022 and run leading European comms and content agencies. She is passionate about meaningful connections, diversity in tech, and Boardwave's broader mission to accelerate European tech growth while raising visibility and funding for Cure Parkinson's.

Kathryn Parsons MBE is the founder and co-CEO of Decoded, a leading technology education company helping Global 2000 firms adopt AI. She also co-chairs GBx Global and has advised the UK government (Number 10, Treasury). A contributor to The Sunday Times and FT, she successfully campaigned to introduce coding to the UK curriculum and was awarded an MBE for Services to Education.

With over 20 years of experience driving $10B in exit value, Mark Charkin helps tech start-ups scale from early go-to-market to commercially unstoppable. He has led global revenue engines at major companies, including growing Bebo’s revenue from $2M to $45M and scaling King’s ad business 10x. Specializing in the $0–$100M stage across the US and EMEA, he currently serves as Executive Director at GBx supporting UK founders, a Venture Partner at Odyssey Ventures, and a fractional CRO advising boards on building high-performing commercial functions.

Martin W. Korman is a Partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he focuses on mergers and acquisitions, activist defense, and corporate governance. A veteran dealmaker, Martin has led some of the most significant and complex transactions in the technology sector. His track record includes representing LinkedIn in its $26.2 billion acquisition by Microsoft and representing Twitter in its $44 billion acquisition by Elon Musk. He regularly advises public and private company boards on strategic matters, serving as a trusted counselor during critical corporate pivots and high-stakes negotiations.

Phill is one of the most accomplished Chairpeople, CEOs and Non-Executive Board Members, in the European software industry. ​ Phill founded Boardwave with a strong belief that all the knowledge and experience exists in Europe to build many more world-leading software businesses that compete on a global scale. But that knowledge is often fragmented by geography, growth stage, sub sector focus and investor portfolio. Boardwave was created to connect the leading software CEOs, Chairs, Non-Execs, Founders and Investors in Europe. To enable them to share knowledge and best-practice, to network and to mentor one another. The goal is simple - to create strong connections that accelerate success in European software.

R. Martin "Marty" Chávez, Ph.D.Partner and vice chairman of Sixth Street Partners; member of the board of directors of Alphabet, where he serves on the Audit and Compliance Committee and the Risk Committee. Former CFO and Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs, where he spent much of his career building technology platforms for the financial giant. Ph.D. in AI in Medicine from Stanford (1991). Brings deep expertise in AI, financial technology, risk management, and applying technology to traditional industries.

Richard Socher is the Founder and CEO of You.com, a personalised AI-powered search engine built to summarise the web. He previously served as the Chief Scientist (EVP) at Salesforce, and prior to this founded MetaMind which was then acquired by Salesforce. Richard holds a PhD from Stanford, where he served as an Adjunct Professor, and his research has been instrumental in advancing deep learning for language processing.

Vishal Shah leads the AI product team within Meta Superintelligence Labs. Previously, he spent four years running the Metaverse team across hardware, software, and content. Prior to that, Vishal spent six years at Instagram, where he led the product team across consumer and business.Prior to Meta, Vishal spent 10 years at Turn working on programmatic advertising and marketing technology across engineering and product. Vishal holds degrees in Computer Science and Business from the University of California, Berkeley and resides in the Bay Area with his wife and their two boys.

Rob Bland is the Chief Growth Officer of Metropolis, responsible for directing the company’s GTM approach. He brings nearly two decades of strategic experience from McKinsey, where he was most recently a Senior Partner and the co-leader of the practice serving startups and high-growth companies worldwide. Rob's expertise lies in scaling high-growth organizations and driving transformation.