United States startup ecosystem
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Brian Long
Co-founder and Managing Partner of Atlantic Bridge, the Dublin- and London-based growth-equity firm. A serial semiconductor and technology entrepreneur, he leads the firm's transatlantic 'Bridge Model', helping European deep-tech companies scale into the US market.
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Brieane Olsen
Brieane Olsen is the Chief Executive Officer of PacSun (Pacific Sunwear), a leading American lifestyle fashion brand and retail chain centered on youth culture. Under her leadership, PacSun has become a recognized pioneer in community-driven retail and influencer-commerce integrations. She is a confirmed keynote speaker at NRF 2026: Retail's Big Show Europe in Paris, speaking on creating community and embracing influencers.
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Bryony Cole
Bryony Cole is the Founder of Future of Sex, a global media and research platform exploring the convergence of technology and human sexuality, and the creator of the Sextech School. She is widely recognized as a pioneer in the sextech industry, known for her TED talk and long-running podcast on the future of sex and technology, which have established her as a sought-after international speaker and entrepreneur. Her work bridges technology entrepreneurship, human behavior, and innovation in an emerging consumer-tech sector, and she is a confirmed speaker at AI Summit Budapest 2026.
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Dana Lawson
Dana Lawson is the Chief Technology Officer at Netlify, the leading web development and deployment platform powering millions of modern sites and applications globally. Prior to Netlify, she held senior engineering leadership roles at GitHub, where she was recognized for scaling engineering teams and culture at high-growth developer platforms. She is a prominent speaker at major developer conferences and a widely respected voice on engineering culture, developer experience, and platform scalability.
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Diego Borgo
Executive advisor to Web3 founders and brands on digital strategy and NFTs, and a confirmed speaker at Web3 Warsaw 2026. Advises companies entering the Web3 and metaverse space.
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Dremio
Dremio is an open, high-performance data lakehouse platform built to accelerate AI and analytical workloads across enterprise data environments. The platform combines an intelligent query engine, an AI semantic layer, an open catalog powered by Apache Polaris, and a built-in AI agent, running natively on Apache Iceberg format. Dremio is notable for shipping the first Model Context Protocol (MCP) interface in the data lakehouse industry, enabling direct integration with AI agents such as Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini.
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Eve Psalti
Eve Psalti is Senior Director of Artificial Intelligence at Microsoft, one of the world's largest technology companies, where she leads AI strategy and enterprise initiatives. She is a recognized voice in applied AI leadership and has represented Microsoft at major international industry summits, including the AI Tech Summit 2026 in Belgrade, Serbia.
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Helima Croft
Helima Croft is Managing Director and Global Head of Commodity Strategy at RBC Capital Markets, where she leads analysis of global energy markets, geopolitical risk, and commodity pricing for one of the world's leading investment banks. A former CIA energy analyst, she is widely regarded as one of the most cited experts on oil market dynamics and energy geopolitics, regularly advising governments and major financial institutions. She is a confirmed speaker at the ONS 2026 Strategic Conference in Stavanger.
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John Martinis
John Martinis is a distinguished quantum computing physicist and professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He previously led Google's quantum hardware team as chief scientist and spearheaded the landmark 2019 demonstration of quantum supremacy using Google's 53-qubit Sycamore superconducting processor. He is a confirmed keynote speaker at Finnish Quantum Days 2026 in Jyväskylä, Finland, in September 2026.
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Leslie Motta
Web3 advocate and public speaker known for the 'Crypto at the Border' initiative, and a confirmed speaker at Web3 Warsaw 2026. Speaks internationally on crypto adoption, financial inclusion, and the social impact of blockchain.
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Lydia Kavraki
Lydia Kavraki is the Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science at Rice University, internationally recognised for her work in robotics, motion planning, artificial intelligence and computational biomedicine. She is a plenary speaker at NANOTEXNOLOGY 2026 in Thessaloniki.
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Mandy Andress
Mandy Andress is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Elastic, a major enterprise software and data observability platform. She is also recognized as an investor and board member in the cybersecurity sector, bringing extensive experience in enterprise security strategy and risk governance. Andress is a prominent figure in the global cybersecurity community and a frequent speaker at leading industry events worldwide.
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Mark B. Richardson
Project Lead at Bancor Protocol, a decentralized liquidity and DeFi protocol, and a confirmed speaker at Web3 Warsaw 2026. Works on automated market-making and on-chain liquidity infrastructure.
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Martin Jasinski
Co-founder and Managing Partner of Cogito Capital Partners. Based largely in New York, he leads the firm's transatlantic growth-stage investing, helping Central and Eastern European software companies scale into the US market.
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National Retail Federation
The National Retail Federation (NRF) is the world's largest retail trade association, headquartered in Washington D.C. and representing retailers across more than 100 countries. NRF organizes the global Retail's Big Show event series, including its flagship New York show and the European edition in Paris. NRF 2026: Retail's Big Show Europe is co-organized with Comexposium and is the rebranded successor to Paris Retail Week, bringing together over 12,000 retail professionals from 60 countries.
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NumFOCUS
NumFOCUS is a US-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that promotes open source scientific computing through fiscal sponsorship of more than 60 projects, including NumPy, Pandas, and Jupyter. It operates the PyData educational program globally, which organizes conferences and community events for data scientists and developers around the world. NumFOCUS serves as a Super Organizer and institutional backbone for PyData PyCon Yerevan 2026.
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Shardul Shah
Partner at Index Ventures and one of the firm's leading enterprise and security investors, known for backing Datadog and Wiz. He has been a repeat Forbes Midas List performer and helps anchor Index's US cybersecurity and infrastructure portfolio.
