Experienced manager in Consumer and Business Marketing, in Sales, Product management, eCommerce, Banking (10 yrs) and Telecoms (6 yrs). 

Shannon Lucas, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Catalyst Constellations, has over twenty years’ experience working with startups, launching her own ventures, and driving innovation into the world’s largest companies. Shannon is the best-selling author of Move Fast, Break Shit, Burn Out; The Catalyst’s Guide to Working Well. She is a passionate thought leader about creating sustainable organizations in every sense of the word - for people, planet and profit. 

Shannon launched Catalyst Constellations to provide essential support for a unique group of people driving the most profound change in the world - Catalysts. Shannon and her partner create tools, resources, and research, along with physical and virtual spaces to connect and support a highly curated global community of Catalysts. Their mission is to help Catalysts amplify and accelerate positive impact around the world.

In her previous roles, as EVP of Emerging Business at Ericsson, Senior Innovation Architect at Cisco’s Hyperinnovation Living Lab and Director of Innovation at Vodafone Global Enterprise, Shannon empowered Fortune 500 businesses to stay agile, competitive and sustainable through the adoption of new technologies and organizational structures. 

At Runway, my time is split between two functions: managing the Michelson Runway education technology accelerator and working with global corporations to expand their external innovation capabilities and startup networks through M&A and BD opportunities. 

Shelby is a social entrepreneur who is intrigued by the power of connecting people online to positively impact the offline world. Shelby has been called a pioneer in “Collaborative Consumption” or the “Sharing Economy.” This movement is rapidly changing consumer behaviors in many ways, compelling people to share everything from cars to apartments to lawnmowers, united by the core concepts that access trumps ownership and value unused is waste. As an independent consultant and speaker, Shelby aims to spread these ideas to organizations around the world.

Brian Frank is a a successful entrepreneur and product leader, now serving as the General Partner of Food for Thought Worldwide (FTW) Ventures.

Sam Rosenblum is Director of Business Development at Coinbase, which was founded in 2012. Coinbase is a platform where merchants, consumers and traders can transact with digital currency. In January 2015, Coinbase completed Series C to a total of 106M.enblum is Director of Business Development at Coinbase, which was founded in 2012. Coinbase is a platform where merchants, consumers and traders can transact with digital currency. In January 2015, Coinbase completed Series C to a total of 106M.

Donald Jones is a globally recognized leader in Digital Medicine – the Internet of Medical Things and technology enabled health services. He is a sought out as a speaker, advisor and board member. He works across a spectrum of healthcare, pharmaceutical, medical device, wearable, apparel, material science, Telco and early stage companies. 

Throughout my career in technology, research, and consulting, I have been passionate about building strong relationships and providing solutions to help business leaders solve complex problems. 

Evan Wittenberg is SVP, People at Box. As chief human resources officer, he leads a team that finds, develops and retains the company’s world-class talent while maintaining the unique culture at Box.

Mr. Jeetu Patel has been Chief Strategy Officer and Senior Vice President of Platform at Box, Inc. since August 2015. Mr. Patel served as General Manager and Chief Executive Officer of Syncplicity, Inc. 

Manisha Ramchandani is Head of Business and Operations at Oak Labs. 

Pieter Abbeel received a BS/MS in Electrical Engineering from KU Leuven (Belgium) and received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2008.

He joined the faculty at UC Berkeley in Fall 2008, with an appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. He has won various awards, including best paper awards at ICML and ICRA, the Sloan Fellowship, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program (AFOSR-YIP) award, the Okawa Foundation award, and the 2011's TR35.

Tony Campitelli leads Planet’s Marketing Team. He’s held top marketing and product marketing positions at Canara, Laszlo Systems, eMeter, Macromedia (now Adobe), and FileMaker Inc. (Apple Subsidiary). 

Leen Gorissen, Ph.D. in Biology, is specialized in ecology, transition science, regenerative development and bio-inspired innovation. She is the author of the recent book ‘Building the Future of Innovation on millions of years of Natural Intelligence’ and the founder of Centre4NI, a catalyst that helps organizations and businesses to innovate like nature. She is a frequently asked evaluator of innovation projects by the European Commission, a thought leader on innovation-beyond-the-usual, a strategist and business innovation process facilitator. She has worked for a broad range of clients and organized bio-inspired innovation sessions in cities across the world. From 2009-2017, Leen worked as a Transition Research Coordinator at the Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO Belgium). 

Anke is the Digital Marketing Nanodegree lead at Udacity, where she is responsible for the digital marketing and analytics curriculum. Anke is also an Adjunct Professor at the Anderson School of Management at UCLA and the co-founder of Favrit, a local bookmarking platform, that will extend into a local native advertising platform. 

Kate Stewart is Global Events Marketing Manager at Uber