Lauren Gilchrist

Product Manager at Pivotal Labs
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Lauren has been building software and companies for almost 10 years and currently helping Pivotal Lab's clients build better products. She's also the co-founder of Hack'n Jill.

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Will Turnage

VP, Technology & Invention at R/GA
ENGINEERING/CONNECTED DEVICES

Will leads innovation around products, services and communications at R/GA. He's built mobile apps, APIs, connected devices and takes a user-centric approach to technology.
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Rohan Deshpande

CTO & Co-Founder of Fundera
CODING

Prior to co-founding Fundera, Rohan was a team lead at Gilt Groupe and has consulted with startups like GroupMe and Paddle8. He is an expert in Ruby on Rails web development.
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Reza Chowdhury

Founder at AlleyWatch
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

Reza has specialized in early stage ventures at NY Startup Lab and has built expertise in emerging technology, brand promotion, engagement, and user acquisition.
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Lily Liu

Founder of PublicStuff
POLICY

Lily founded PublicStuff, a civic engagement platform. She was recently named one of Forbes '30 under 30' and Business Insider's people to watch.
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Daniel Gulati

Entrepreneur in Residence at Comcast Ventures
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Daniel co-founded FashionStake, a marketplace for independent fashion acquired by Fab.com. He led the fashion vertical and several product efforts while at Fab.
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Ted Ulrich

Partner, Connected Technologies Design & Engineering at Tomorrow Lab
ENGINEERING/CONNECTED DEVICES

 Ted designs, engineers, and develops revolutionary products. He has helped the early stages of hardware projects like  littleBits and Social Bicycles.
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Fiona Spruill

Head of Global Growth at Meetup
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Fiona leads international product and strategy at Meetup. Before that she was the Editor for Emerging Platforms at The Times, where she was the newsroom's lead on mobile.
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Christopher Daggett

Vice President at ideas42
DESIGN

Chris works at ideas42, a behavioral economics design and research lab. He is an expert at leveraging insights from behavioral science into product strategy and design.
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Peter Crysdale

Founder and CEO at StrategyHack
MARKETING

Peter aims to close the divide between the startup and marketing communities in NYC. Former Director of Programs at Venture For America and former Peace Corps in Burkina Faso.
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Bobby Emamian

CEO at Prolific Interactive
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Bobby and his team have built mobile products with companies such as ModCloth, Threadless, lululemon, NBA, Rent The Runway, HP and more.
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Alec Hartman

CEO at DevShop
CODING

Alec is the CEO of DevShop, Producer of NY TechDay, and a Co-Founder of DigitalOcean. His background is in product and business development and is a rails developer by trade.
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Michael Chiang

Co-Founder at FitBark
ENGINEERING/CONNECTED DEVICES

Michael previously founded MatchPuppy, a site that helps owners & dogs find new friends locally. Now, he is Co-Founder at FitBark, a startup that makes wearable tech for dogs.
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Jennifer Vargas

Head of Product at ClassPass
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Jenn is a Product Manager with both a technical and UX background. She has worked with Yahoo, Flickr, Etsy, Birchbox, and founded Accomplsh.co.
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Noel Hidalgo

Cofounder at BetaNYC
POLICY

Noel is an internationally known government technologist and civic hacker. He has a great understanding of NYC's open data portal and how to generate insights from it.

Aidan Feldman

Education Hacker at GitHub
CODING

Aidan Feldman is the Education Hacker at GitHub. He also organizes Hacker Hours, volunteers at CoderDojo, and teaches Advanced JavaScript at NYU.

Johnny Won

Product Lead at Mobext
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Johnny led mobile at a big ad agency and helped clients like Dunkin' Donuts, Liberty Mutual, MAC Cosmetics, Barclays, Morgan Stanley put together apps, sites and strategies.
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Jessica Peltz

VP, Business Development at Evol8tion
MARKETING

Jessica has 10+ years experience working with blue chip brands, including H&M, Verizon, and Kraft.  She specializes in digital media, emerging technology, and mobile strategy.
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Jason Novack

Product & Strategy at Placemeter
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Jason has worked all stages of product development on everything from learning apps to space vehicles. His background includes equal parts engineering and business strategy.
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John Coghlan

Founder of DUMBO Startup Lab
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

John is Founder of DUMBO Startup Lab with experience in nonprofits and investment banking. His expertise is in market analysis, partnerships and community building.
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Lyel Resner

Adjunct Professor at NYU Stern
POLICY

Lyel is an Adjunct Professor at NYU Stern and a World Economic Forum Global Shaper. He serves on the boards of The Center for Social Innovation & The Bronx Academy for Software Engineering.
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Diego Mayer-Cantu

CEO at Inventively and Presidential Innovation Fellow at US Government
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Diego is the CEO of Inventively, an intellectual property startup.  He is also a Presidential Innovation Fellow working on Open Data, and a USPTO registered patent agent.
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Vivian Shangxuan Zhang

CTO of SupStat
CODING

Vivian is an expert on Data Mining and Visualization. She organizes the NYC Open Data Meetup and founded NYC Data Science Academy.

Dan Reich

Entrepreneur in Residence at Great Oaks Capital
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

Dan has started and been involved with companies that have collectively raised over $100M in venture capital and have exited for close to $1B in M&A.
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Nir Markus

Co-founder & CTO at OKpanda
ENGINEERING/CONNECTED DEVICES

Nir has built three tech startups in the mobile space and is an expert in mobile social gamification. Prior to that he worked in software roles at Bloomberg and Checkpoint.
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Hannah Aase

Founder of Wonderloop
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

Hannah is the founder of Wonderloop, the world's first video-profile identity platform. She is recognized for her skills in predicting the trajectories of technology, philanthropy and sociology trends.
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Hamdan Azhar

Researcher at Facebook
CODING

Hamdan is a researcher on the Advertising Research team at Facebook's New York office. His background is in data science, psychology, and quantitative politics.
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Arjun Anand

Lead Developer/Ninja at Crowdtap
CODING

Arjun has worked at Google, American Express, and RecycleBank in the past. He's an expert in Ruby, Rails, JS, Testing(TDD/BDD), and being Lean.
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Mina Kim

Director of User Experience at Adjacent to One
DESIGN

Mina has led the creation and functional design of apps and features for high profile brands, most notably UrbanDaddy, Moviefone, Patch, eMusic and American Express OPEN.
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Jamyn Edis

CEO of Dash & Professor at NYU Stern School of Business
ENGINEERING/CONNECTED DEVICES

Jamyn is the CEO of Dash, a connected car platform. He has 15 years of experience in consumer tech, including HBO and Accenture.
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Ray Velez

Chief Technology Officer at Razorfish
CODING

Ray has 20 years of experience in software development and manages Razorfish's capabilities in Web technology.

James Torio

Solution Manager at McKinsey & Company
DESIGN

James has developed products for Fortune 500 companies and startups. His focus is on designing products people will want to use (strategy and UX) and delivering business impact.
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Matylda Czarnecka

Director of Content at Internet Week
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Matylda works at the intersection of media and tech. Before Internet Week, she ran a hackathon consultancy, helped TechCrunch launch a greentech section and mentored startups.

Metodi Filipov

Co-founder of Flipps
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Metodi is product manager and co-founder of Flipps, an innovative connected TV service that grew organically to 10 million users. 
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Arun Nagarajan

Developer Relations at Google
CODING

Arun is an engineer with the Google Developer Relations team working closely with developers to help build using all of Google technologies.

Eric Grant

Creative Director at Razorfish
DESIGN 

Eric is the principal creative lead for the Razorfish Emerging Experiences group. He manages teams working on projects that live at the intersection of physical & digital worlds.

Nicholas Furness

Developer Evangelist at Esri
CODING

Nick has built large and small software systems around the world, focusing primarily on GIS. He is an expert in iOS and Javascript.

Brian Shimmerlik

Co-Founder & CEO of Vengo
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

Brian started his 1st company at 19, was named "NYC Next Idea 2012" and went on to raise 2 rounds of venture funding and roll out a commercial product across Manhattan.
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Caitlin Smith

UX Designer at TBWA\Chiat\Day NY
DESIGN

Caitlin is a UX designer with expertise ranging from content strategy to visual design primarily for complex, functional mobile applications.
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Jesse Reiner

Experienced Product Manager
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Jesse has over 10 years of product development expertise helping tech companies succeed amid rapid expansion and growth. He is also a specialist in UX design.

Jon Mandell

Vice President at 1800Flowers.com
MARKETING

Jon has worked with startups in NYC since 2004, including Confabb, PubSub, Angstro & others. He is now helping to build & grow businesses within the 1800flowers enterprise.
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Alexander Rea

Technology Producer at IPG Media Lab & CTO at Trubbelmaker
ENGINEERING/CONNECTED DEVICES

Alexander designs tech solutions to creative problems that focus on platforms and scalability. He is a mentor at the Techstars R/GA Connect Devices Accelerator.

Matthew Sawyer

Managing Partner, Rocket Market Development & Adj. Professor at Parsons New School for Design
MARKETING

Matthew is a business strategy and marketing executive. He helps early stage mobile, online video, and ad tech companies achieve revenue growth.

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Raven Keller

Product Design Lead at Neo Innovation
DESIGN

Raven is a Design Generalist at Neo Innovate, and a UX Design Instructor at General Assembly. Her focus is on finding simple solutions to complex problems.

Deborah Estrin

Professor at Cornell NYC Tech
ENGINEERING/CONNECTED DEVICES

Deborah is a technologist interested in mobile health, small data, and open architectures. She is the co-founder at Open mHealth.

Mark Wachen

Managing Director of Upstage Ventures
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT 

Mark has been in the internet space since 1994.  In 2001, he founded Optimost, the first multivariate testing system, which he sold in 2007.  He now focuses on seed investing.
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Steven Adler

Information Strategist at IBM
ENGINEERING/CONNECTED DEVICES

Steven is IBM's Information Strategist. He is responsible for IBM Information Strategy, including Data Governance, Big Data, Open Data, and System Dynamics.

Dan Chiu

Founder & CEO of HD MADE
MARKETING

Dan leads strategy, marketing and new business for HD MADE, a digital creative agency. He used to lead digital strategy, Insider, e-commerce and league relationships for ESPN.
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Robert Chang

Managing Partner at Mogility Capital
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

Robert is a partner at Mogility Capital, board director, advisor, and angel. Former CEO, VP + GM at venture-backed SaaS and Fortune 50.
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Bryan Hamilton

Vice President, User Experience at Razorfish
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Bryan is a geek with a fine arts degree that has been designing web experiences for over 10 years.

Laura Nolte

VP of Global Marketing at RealNetworks
MARKETING

Laura has 15 years of experience building digital brands in competitive categories like telecom, cable and mobile. She's an ever-curious marketer with a passion for startups.
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Jen van der Meer

Chief Strategy Officer of Luminary Labs & Adjunct Professor NYU ITP and SVA PoD
DESIGN

Jen is an investor and business modeler at Luminary Labs, formerly Organic, Frog Design, and Dachis Group. She teaches at NYU ITP, SVA's PoD.
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Dean DiPietro

Partner, Product Architecture & Mechanical Design at Tomorrow Lab
ENGINEERING/CONNECTED DEVICES

Dean has over 15 years experience in mechanism design for manufacture, and product development.

Mary Hermant

COO at Fresh Digital Group
MARKETING

Mary is currently Interim COO at Fresh Digital Group. She has done business development for Jumpwire Media, SocialExtract, Mobile Ready, and in private equity.
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