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Speakers:
12 Top Experts will Give a Talk

Andrei Kasyanau
Co-founder and CEO at Glorium Technologies
Dmitriy Stepanov
Co-founder and CTO at Glorium Technologies
Kelly Peng
CEO & CTO at Kura Technologies
Joseph Reth
CEO/CTO of RethDigital
Ali Salhi
CTO at LOOP | Forbes 30u30 2022
Konstantin Vilk
Building the Next Generation of Scalable Security for the Post-Quantum Enterprise
Rishab Nayak
Founder and CTO@Mount | Sr. Project Manager@Spark!
Preet Raj
Co-founder & CTO @ Bakstage | Top 10 CTOs To Watch 2022 - Entrepreneur. Ex-Goldman Sachs | JP Morgan | Morgan Stanley
Aman Naimat
Entrepreneur | ex-CTO Demandbase | Advisor McKinsey
Sam Kann
CTO at LINC and Founder at MyColLife.com.
Omar Zenhom
Co Founder & CEO at WebinarNinja
Lasse Andresen
Co-Founder & CTO - indyRIOT
Julia Valentine
FinTech Advisor | COO | CTO | ESG | AI&ML
Rachit Lohani
Chief Technology Officer, SVP (Engineering and Product) at Paylocityalready registered
Schedule
Day 1 – Wednesday – May 25 (Eastern Time UTC-5)
8.55 am – 9.00 am (ET)
Opening by host

Andrei Kasyanau
About speaker
9.00 am – 9.15 am (ET)
Introductory Speech

Rishab Nayak
About speaker
9.15 am – 9.55 am (ET)
Assembling a Kickass Founding Engineering Team
- Our hiring adventures, what worked, what didn’t?
- About hiring on story, pitch the company to them, gauge their interest, dedication, how important this is
- Hiring techniques and tips
- If not paying market rate, importance of explaining what equity is
- Importance of culture fit and cohesion
- Building a team from then on

Preet Raj
About speaker
9.55 am – 10.35 am (ET)
Building Technology That Adapts & Scales Easily with Product Market Fit
- Why Engineering Leaders & Engineers need to think about product market fit while building systems
- Working with the business to understand the “One Key Metric That Matters”.
- Importance of sharing that key metric with the entire engineering team to instill a sense of urgency and quality
- Helping the business pivot with the help of adaptable & scalable technology, if necessary, after finding the right product market fit
- These learnings helped us a lot when we pivoted from a B2C product to a B2B SaaS offering

Aman Naimat
About speaker
10.35 am – 11.15 am (ET)
Building an effective Data Science Organization
- How to structure culture and organization for success in data science?
- Who to recruit and attract data scientists? What to look for?
- How to approach getting to success in data science?
11.15 am – 11.35 am (ET)
Break

Sam Kann
About speaker
11.35 am – 12.15 pm (ET)
Rebuilt your K-12 learning culture into an adaptable powerhouse
- Professional Development for teachers in a fast moving world and how technology can help
- Saas, IaaS, PaaS – how does it all come together
- Qualitative and Quantitative models
- Content Rich and Critical Mass
- Consolidation of administrative technology

Konstantin Vilk
About speaker
12.15 pm – 12.55 pm (ET)
Quantum threat and defense against it
- Understand and quantify the risks posed by quantum computing as it relates to them
- Understand how quantum computers work, what they are and how they are being used in the near future and expected to develop
- Understand the new processes in the industry, NIST and NSA leadership around cryptography and cryptographic standards
- Understand new methods of protection needed to be effective against Quantum as well as Classical threats to cryptography

Ali Salhi
About speaker
12.55 pm – 1.35 pm (ET)
How LOOP built a $100M+ company using GCP
- Introduction to LOOP
- LOOP by the numbers (Journey and Team)
- The startup infrastructure needs
- Managed Services
- How does LOOP use GCP to satisfy those needs
- Conclusion
1.35 pm – 1.45 pm (ET)
Final word
Day 2 – Thursday – May 26 (Eastern Time UTC-5)
8.55 am – 9.00 am (ET)
Opening by host

Joseph Reth
About speaker
9.00 am – 9.40 am (ET)
The Singularity is Here(ish)
- Futurist, Ray Kurzweil predicts that the singularity-the time when the abilities of a computer overtake the abilities of the human brain-will occur in 2045 but what if I told you it’s already here in ways we could have never imagine.
- How ad tech is transforming our perception of people online and poisoning our societies.
- How LLMs like GPT-3 and Gopher aren’t true AGI but just good enough to trick the human mind.
- Why I think LLMs with the help of automation have already passed the Turing Test.

Kelly Peng
About speaker
9.40 am – 10.20 am (ET)
The best performing Augmented Reality glasses and global holographic telepresence platform
A couple of points of my talk:
- Main problems of AR today
- Kura’s performance
- Kura’s core technologies, with customized display, optics, system, software, ASICs
- Kura’s product and platform

Omar Zenhom
About speaker
10.20 am – 11.00 am (ET)
How to Hire, Manage and Motivate a Distributed Team
- Tackle the challenges of managing a distributed team with systems, not rules.
- Make the most of the advantages of a distributed team to compete in your market.
- Remotely hire the best talent AND culture fit for your SaaS business
- Manage your distributed team day to day. What works and what doesn’t.
- Implement a culture that incentivizes positivity and motivating each other.
11.00 am – 11.20 am (ET)
Break

Lasse Andresen
About speaker
11.20 am – 12.00 pm (ET)
Gather the right people and cool things will happen
- How to create a space to let cool things happen
- Who are the ‘best people’ and how to find and keep them
- Importance of your product/tech/service
- Disrupting and building
- Do you need a plan B
- Idea or execution

Julia Valentine
About speaker
12.00 pm – 12.40 pm (ET)
Successful Startups Build an Ecosystem
- Building the tech teams: 6 models you can use and how to choose the right one.
- What’s an agile business model and how to build it.
- How to speed up your design phase and be efficient with the build phase and the tool we see being used the most.
- How to pick the right advisors and what they should be able to do for you.
- Why successful startups build an ecosystem and how to do it.

Rachit Lohani
About speaker
12.40 pm – 1.20 pm (ET)
Scaling is hard but selling is harder
- You are seeing challenges scaling the people, tech, and processes.
- You see the problem and wonder why no one else is stepping up and taking the problem head on. Why are we stuck in the old way, why are we still talking about the past when the future is so clear.
- If you are seeing that, you have done a good job of identifying the issues, and now rather than scaling you need to do the selling.
- Next step is, selling your brand, your ideas, and concepts and making them theirs. You need to get out of the way and coach them from the sidelines, be their cheerleader their coach but not the problem solver.

Dmitriy Stepanov
About Dmitriy
2.00 pm – 2.15 pm (ET)
Topic to be clarified
Hosts

Javy Martinez
About Javy

April White
About April
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