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Featured Speakers

Samir Mayekar

City of Chicago

Deputy Mayor for Economic and Neighborhood Development

Lori Lightfoot

City of Chicago

Mayor

Vic Mensa

savemoneysavelife

Founder

Kristi Ross

tastytrade

Co-Founder,Co-CEO and President

Brad Keywell

Uptake

Founder and CEO

Chris Gladwin

Ocient

CEO and Co-Founder

Charles Adler

Kickstarter

Co-Founder

Lior Ron

Uber Freight

Head

Kelly Leonard

Second City Works

Executive Director of Insights and Applied Improvisation

Speakers

Silhouettes

Z-Minor

Leith Akkawi

DeCypher DataLabs LLC

Founder and CEO

Rich Alapack

we all live here

Founder

Ibraheem Alinur

City Health Tech

Co-Founder

Ragy Amin

University of Chicago

Student

Sarah Ather

CNA Insurance

Application Developer

Katja Berthold

Intinium Illinois Tech

University Representative Lead

Casey Bogin

Cast21

Account Manager

Jeremy Borchardt

mHUB

Development Manager

Caitlin Botsios

Helix Illinois

Co-Executive Director and Director of Education

Justine Bracco

Intinium

Project Lead

Sarah Brincks

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Student

Dr. Evan Brown

Meet & Teach

Founder and CEO

Montana Butsch

Spotivity

Founder

Jesse Case

Second City

Musical Producer

Jane Castro

Future Founders

Program Manager

Vijay Chattha

VSC

Founder and CEO

Jahmal Cole

My Block My Hood My City

Founder and CEO

Dr Garry Cooper

Rheaply

Co-Founder and CEO

Corina Cuevas-Pahl

Lockheed Martin

Talent Management & Organizational Development Consultant

Ritwik Divakaruni

Oracle

Technical Product Manager

Jessica Dixon

TradeWater

Head of HR

Jeremy Docken

Kalderos

Founder and CEO

Kaitlyn Doyle

TechNexus Venture Collaborative

Director

Salvador Duenas

Future Founders

Startups Manager

Manu Edakara

iVenture Accelerator

Program Director

Dennis Estrada

City Colleges of Chicago

Student

Yamilett Estrada-Reyes

Lane Tech

High School Student

Mona Fang

Karma Trade

Founder

Michael Fassnacht

City of Chicago

Chief Marketing Officer

Yasmeena Faycurry

Unfound

Founder

Hannah Fernandez

ROI Business Funding

Founder and CEO

John Godoy

John Godoy Lifestyle

Professional Speaker and Communication Skills Coach

Seth Green

Baumhart Center

Founding Director

Rohan Gupta

QuillBot

CEO and Co-Founder

Marc Gyöngyösi

OneTrack.ai

CEO

Julia Haried

MakerGirl

Co-Founder and Executive Director

Heather Harper

Harper Legal

Founder

Amanda Harshbarger

M25

Venture Capital Associate

Aleeza Huda

Protostar at Lane Tech

Co-Director of Marketing

Jewel Ifeguni

YouMatter Studios

Founder and CEO

Keilin Jahnke

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Teaching Assistant Professor

Kevin Jain

University of Chicago Booth of Business

1st Year MBA Candidate

Ilalee Harrison James

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Lecturer

Seungah Jeong

MPOWERD

CEO

Naomi Kent

In Touch

President

George Khalife

TSX

Vice President of Capital Formation

Lilia Kogan

The Garage

Propel Program Manager

Anu Kris

Akris Global

CEO and Co-Founder

Abin Kuriakose

World Business Chicago

Innovation & Venture Strategy (ChicagoNEXT)

Connor Lake

Stackend Solutions

Founder and CEO

Miranda Lee

University of Chicago

Student

Samuel Lee

Yale New Haven Health

Innovation and Venture

Paul Leroux

Twain Associates, Inc

Presentation Trainer and Speech Coach

Jared Lorince

Narrative Science

Data Intelligence Technical Lead

Tom Marren

Southport Group

Founder and Managing Partner

Sergio Marrero

Rebel One-RBL1

Founding Partner

Jonathan McGee

Global Organization for Applied Political Leadership

Founder and CEO

Alexandra Medina

Accenture

Software Engineering Associate

Eddy Mejia

Category Manager

Intel Corporation

Scott Metcalf

University of Chicago

Director of Pre-Professional Programs

Alida Miranda-Wolff

Ethos

CEO and Founder

Nirav Modi

Cevona

Founder and CEO

Bill Moller

Bill Moller Communications

President

Jovoney Morton

The Gray Matter Experience

Design and Project Management Intern

Biju Nair

HYLA Mobile

EVP and President, Global Trade-in and Upgrades

Stacy Neier

Loyola Quinlan School of Business

Senior Lecturer

Meighan Newhouse

Inspirant Group

Co-Founder and CEO

Olga Niamera

Mojotrek

Recruiting Lead

Nathan Nichols

Narrative Science

Chief Scientist

Mechie Nkengla

Data Products

Chief Data Strategist

Joseph Norton

Next Era Transformation Group

Chairperson

Julie Roth Novack

PartySlate

CEO and Co-Founder

Amor Montes De Oca

Illinois Women in Cannabis

Executive Director

Lucas Peralta

Polsky Center

Associate Director for College and Cross Campus Programs

Jack Pio

Intinium Illinois Tech

Logistics and Operations Manager

Steven Platt

RetailPredict.ai

Co-Founder and Chief Development Officer

Paul Polizzotto

Givewith

Founder and CEO

Dana Todd Pope

Fearlessly Hue

Founder

Claire Powell

Illinois Tech

Student

Mike Raab

The Garage

Associate Director

Matthew Rastovac

Atmos

Co-Founder and Head of Engineering

Ben Ray

VRTUmind

CEO and Co-Founder

Bill Reichert

Pegasus Tech Ventures

Partner

Ashley Ritter

Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University

Career Coach

Britney Robbins

The Gray Matter Experience

Founder and CEO

Nik Rokop

Stuart School of Business

Clinical Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship

Will Rush

CoinFlip

Business Development

Maryam Saleh

Kaplan Institute

Executive Director

Brad Schnitzer

Techstars

Program Manager

April Lane Schuster

Loyola University's Quinlan School of Business

Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurship

Ashish V. Shah

dina

Co-Founder and CEO

Prashant Shah

Monta Vista Capital

Partner

Samantha Sheppard

Product/Architecture and Design

Architect 1

Thru Shivakumar

Cohesion

CEO and Co-Founder

Henry Soong

Facebook

Product Manager

Lilliana De Souza

Captain

Incoming Software Engineer

Kamalesh Srikanth

AlertOps

Solution Engineer

Arshya Srinivas

SONIC Research Group

Data Science Intern

Dana Sun

OCA Ventures

Senior Associate

Brian Sykes

Insomniac Studios

Project Manager

Taylor's Tacos

Taylor's Tacos

Anthony Tassone

GreenKey

Founder and CEO

Guy Turner

Hyde Park Venture Partners

Managing Director

Dante Vaisbort

LTF Ventures

General Partner

Dan Willenborg

AptAmigo

Co-founder and CEO

Seth Wissenbach

Dr. Kate Wollin

Circea

Principal

Dani Zuchovicki

The Hatchery

Program and Curriculum Coordinator

Jessica Zweig

The SimplyBe Agency

Founder and CEO