Ali is the CEO and co-founder of Databricks, responsible for the growth and international expansion of the company. He previously served as the VP of Engineering and Product Management before taking the role of CEO in January 2016. In addition to his work at Databricks, Ali serves as an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley and is on the board at UC Berkeley’s RiseLab. Ali was one of the creators of open source project, Apache Spark, and ideas from his academic research in the areas of resource management and scheduling and data caching have been applied to Apache Mesos and Apache Hadoop. Ali received his MBA from Mid-Sweden University in 2003 and PhD from KTH/Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden in 2006 in the area of Distributed Computing.

Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a “security guru” by the Economist. He is the New York Times best-selling author of 14 books -- including Click Here to Kill Everybody -- as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter Crypto-Gram and blog Schneier on Security are read by over 250,000 people. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University; a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School; a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, AccessNow, and the Tor Project; and an advisory board member of EPIC and VerifiedVoting.org. He is the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc.

Dr. Tom Leighton co-founded Akamai Technologies in 1998 and served as Akamai’s Chief Scientist until he became CEO in 2013. Under his leadership, Akamai has evolved from its origins as a Content Delivery Network (CDN) into one of the most essential and trusted cloud delivery and cybersecurity platforms. As one of the world's preeminent authorities on algorithms for network applications and cybersecurity, he discovered a solution to freeing up web congestion using applied mathematics and distributed computing. Akamai used this technology to create the world's largest distributed computing platform, which today delivers and secures tens of millions of requests per second to billions of users around the world. For more than three decades, he has been committed to increasing the pipeline of students pursuing STEM careers as a mathematics professor at MIT and strong supporter of the Akamai Foundation.

Robin Chase is a transportation entrepreneur. She is co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar, the world’s leading carsharing network; as well as co-founder of Veniam, a network company that moves terabytes of data between vehicles and the cloud. She has recently co-founded her first nonprofit, NUMO, a global alliance to channel the opportunities presented by new urban mobility technologies to build cities that are sustainable and just. Her recent book is Peers Inc: How People and Platforms are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism. She has been on many boards, lectures widely, has been frequently featured in the major media, and has received many awards in the areas of innovation, design, and environment. Robin graduated from Wellesley College, MIT's Sloan School of Management, and was a Harvard University Loeb Fellow.

Alex (MIT ’19 M. Eng ’20) is a co-founder of Gather Town. Originally leading the engineering effort on the product side, he scaled the engineering team and later, the product management and design organizations. He now leads Product, Design, Arts/Maps, and Growth. Before his work at Gather, he spent a lot of time teaching and mentoring students at MIT, most recently through his work in 6.148 (web.lab) and 6.006 (introduction to algorithms).

Jessie Woolley-Wilson is President and CEO of DreamBox Learning®. Prior to joining DreamBox, she held executive positions at leading EdTech companies, including Blackboard, LeapFrog, and Kaplan. She has been a featured speaker at TEDx Rainier, SXSWedu, and the ASU GSV Summit, and Ernst & Young named her "Entrepreneur Of The Year®" in the Pacific Northwest region. She has supported the broader education community by serving on several boards, including Quizlet, Rosetta Stone and the Western Governors University Board of Trustees. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from the University of Virginia.

Dr. Frida Polli is an award-winning Harvard and MIT neuroscientist turned CEO and co-founder of pymetrics. Named one of Inc.’s Top 100 Female Founders and one of Entrepreneur’s Top 100 Powerful Women, Dr. Polli’s mission is to help everyone realize their true potential at work by removing bias from the talent matching process and improving job fit. Dr. Polli and pymetrics have been featured by CNN, BBC, CNBC, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Forbes, among others. Her scientific achievements include awards such as MIT 100K, Harvard Business School Life Science Award, and NARSAD Young Investigator Award, and publications in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Brain, and Journal of Neuroscience. Frida contributes to numerous AI governance organizations, including the IEEE group on AI governance and the WEF group on AI in HR.