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Tony Zhao

Tony Zhao is a serial entrepreneur, and founder and CEO at Agora. He founded Agora in 2014, with a vision to provide high quality voice and video as a ubiquitous platform to developers and business around the world. Previously, Tony was CTO and board director at YY.com (NASDAQ: YY), one of the world’s first video-based social network and live streaming apps with over 300 million users. From 1997 to 2004, he served as a founding engineer at WebEx Communications Inc, where he developed the audio and video technology for the industry’s first web collaboration solution. WebEx was acquired by Cisco in 2007 for $3.2 billion.

Reggie Yativ

Reggie is an accomplished executive with over 20 years of leading high-growth startups and enterprises. He currently serves as the CRO and COO at Agora Lab, Inc. (went public June 2020 NASDAQ; API), where he spearheads the go-to-market and expansion efforts. As a passionate and strategic leader, Reggie takes pride in driving global awareness towards Agora’s Real-Time Engagement technology. Along with a growing team at Agora, he works hard to provide the best value to developers, customers, and partners through operational excellence. Before joining Agora, Reggie was the VP of Sales at Redis Lab and excelled as a growth catalyst with dynamic talent acquisitions that led to impressive annual revenue growth across numerous global markets. He has also held other significant leadership roles, such as Americas CEO at Magic Software Enterprise, a Nasdaq-traded enterprise software company.

Barbara Pickering

Barbara has spent 25 years in high-tech, specializing in bringing new, innovative products to market. Prior to her career at HP, she ran a startup in Seattle, working primarily with Microsoft to create various consumer titles, build custom automation tools, create content, and moderate social media. Since joining HP, Barbara has been working in the Consumer PC division, releasing innovative products such as pioneering touch screen interfaces, integrating 3D cameras, and launching the OMEN Gaming PC and Spectre PC brands. Recently, she was an Innovation Scout, helping various HP Inc. computing divisions identify new technologies, and working with third parties to integrate them into our core products. Recently, she returned to the Gaming division to create the OMEN Oasis watch party service. When she is not working, she enjoys nature, art, and writing fiction.

Jay Wilder

Jay has over 20 years of experience leading teams to deliver high quality, market leading solutions across multiple industries including audio systems, consumer electronics, security, healthcare, and semiconductor equipment. Jay is passionate about building great products and modernizing development organizations using agile practices, devops, and automation.

Jay currently leads the global software team at Bose, working to deliver amazing products and experiences in consumer electronics, health and wellness, automotive systems, and professional and installed audio.

Mark Donnigan

Mark Donnigan leads the market development efforts for Visionular, a company focused on advanced video technology innovation and solution development. Mark is a veteran of the video ecosystem working with disruptive innovation companies to increase video codec, encoding, and streaming technology adoption. Mark has played key roles in trailblazing companies, including the video technology innovator Beamr, OTT VOD pioneer VUDU; Kaleidescape, a first-of-its-kind home entertainment server built by a NETAPP co-founder, and a digital video kiosk backed by Toshiba and NCR. Mark contributed actively to the cross-industry digital locker initiative Ultraviolet that enabled digital video content to be accessed across streaming platforms and OTT services. Ultraviolet lay the foundation for consumers to enjoy video on any device, at any time, and in any location.

Marc Metis

Marc Metis is an experienced leader driving innovation in XR, software, mobile, and the Metaverse, working in senior general management, product, marketing, and investment roles. He is Vice President of HTC’s VIVE business unit, where he heads XR Enterprise Software and founded and runs globally the industry leading VIVE X accelerator. He serves on the Board of Directors of the XRA industry association. Previously he was CEO at venture funded mobile and social games company Digital Chocolate. Prior to that, Marc headed marketing and ecommerce for flash memory leader SanDisk, and was VP of Global Brand Management at games industry leader Activision. He began his career in strategy at management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. Marc graduated from Dartmouth College and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Tom Impallomeni

Tom is Co-founder/CEO of Tribe XR. Tribe's mission is to make the world more creative. Their first product, "DJ in VR", is a virtual studio where DJs and Music Producers can take lessons, practice, play and perform. Tom is a serial entrepreneur. He previously co-founded SuperAwesome (acq: Epic Games), and was CFO of early social network WAYN.com (acq: Lastminute.com). Tom is an adviser to Genflow andFireTech Camp. In his spare time, he's a husband, dad to three girls, a music lover, and a long-suffering Tottenham Hotspur fan.

Michael Glenn Williams

MGW is currently Co-Founder and CTO of TotalVU. Before this he served as technical consultant to the United Nations in Rome as security and network expert. Previous to that he held the position of Chief Architect and Leading Scientist at Nokia. Other positions included Chief Architect at Fujitsu, Lead software engineer at HAL computers and Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems.MGW has a wide variety of patents, including Interactive Television, online video, online interactivity, security, mobility, clustering, wireless LAN, mobile office, search, email and in MMU design. As an industry leader he is a senior member of IEEE, has served as Vice Chair of the IEEE 802.21 working group, Secretary for the IEEE 1275 Open Firmware standard, member of the IEEE 1754 Open Microprocessor standard, and delegate from Fujitsu to the SPARC 10 architecture group.

Debargha Mukherjee

Dr. DebarghaMukherjee received his M.S./Ph.D. degrees in ECE from University of California Santa Barbara in 1999. Through 2009 he was with Hewlett Packard Laboratories, conducting research on video/image coding and processing. Since 2010 he has been with Google LLC, where he is currently a Principal Engineer/Director leading next generation video codec research and development efforts. Debargha has authored/co-authored more than 100 papers on various signal processing topics, and holds more than 100 US patents, with many more pending. He has delivered many workshops and talks on Google's royalty-free line of codecs since 2012, and more recently on the AV1 video codec from the Alliance for Open Media (AOM). He currently serves as a Senior Area Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, and as a member of the IEEE Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee (IVMSP TC).

Tsahi Levent-Levi

Tsahi Levent-Levi is a developer by heart, always have been. The thing is, Tsahi found out he loves writing and looking at the bigger picture of product and strategy. He joined the world of consulting and entrepreneurship when WebRTC was announced. For the last 20 years, Tsahi has been working in the software communications space as an engineer, manager, marketer and CTO. Through BlogGeek.me, Tsahi helps companies simplify communication technologies, creating elegant and effective solutions. He is the co-founder and CEO of testRTC, a company focusing on testing and monitoring WebRTC applications. He also serve as the W3C Evangelist for all things WebRTC.

Luis Alberto Guevara Mendoza

Luis is a Co-founder of My NextDerma YC(W21), the largest tele-dermatology app in Latin America. Luis loves designing and developing new technology and he is currently interested in machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Carlos Lucas

Carlos has been working at NexStreaming for almost 20 years, leading the company transformation from a software provider to handset makers to becoming the market leader Player SDK for premium video apps. Carlos is an engineer with MBA and passion to create innovations that help the global market.

Shawn Zhong

Dr. Shawn Zhong is the Chief Scientist at Agora, where he is in charge of developing advanced video coding, transmission and computer vision technologies. Prior to Agora, he had held various positions such as the CEO at the Hisense Microchip Company, CEO at SJ Micro Inc, and Senior Principal Scientist at Broadcom. He has more than 100 patents and patent applications and more than 30 published journal and conference papers.

Vadim Nekhai

Vadim is CRO and co-founder of Banuba. He is an AIPMM-certified product manager with an MBA from Belarusian State University. Based in Minsk, Belarus, he has extensive experience in IT, project, and product management with both start-ups and large enterprises. Vadim is a product guy who is passionate about turning ideas into products that consumers love. Modern video calling has some significant limitations when it comes to the camera and the way it represents us. Hiding backgrounds for privacy, adding beautification to feel comfortable with your look, or just wearing funny face filters to warm up the conversation; these features, so seemingly simple yet essential, are now possible with Banuba.

Jan De Cock

Jan De Cock joined Synamedia as director of codec development in 2019, where he is leading an international team of video experts who develop the in-house codecs that power Synamedia's real-time encoding products. Before that, he served as manager of the video and image encoding team at Netflix (Los Gatos, CA), where he was involved in the introduction of optimized video streams, new codecs and profiles, A/B testing of video innovations and the evaluation of codecs and standards. Before joining Netflix, he was active as Ph.D. researcher, post-doctoral researcher, and assistant professor at Ghent University (Belgium), where he worked on a variety of national and international projects in collaboration with academic and industrial partners. He held postdoctoral fellowships from Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship (VLAIO) and Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO). While in academia, he performed research on a range of topics in the field of video compression, including transcoding, scalable video coding, and high efficiency video coding. Jan was general co-chair of the 2018 Picture Coding Symposium (PCS), and holds M.Sc. (2004) and Ph.D. (2009) degrees in computer science engineering from Ghent University, where he also graduated in 2017 as M.Sc. in business engineering, majoring in finance.

Nora Abousteit

Nora Abousteit is a serial entrepreneur who is the founder and CEO of CraftJam Inc., which is a social media network for crafting that applies behavior-change and neuroplasticity research to age-old traditions delivering happiness. CraftJam's live-stream and IRL workshops are unforgettable curated small group experiences where people learn, craft, and connect. Previously she founded two million-user plus online crafting communities, including the world’s largest sewing network with over one million members. CraftJam is a fast-growing startup that has hosted over 25,000 attendees. The company has been featured in The New York Times, New York Magazine, TimeOut NY, and on NBC. Nora is Egyptian-German and holds a degree in Middle East studies, political science and philosophy from the American University in Cairo, Egypt. She talks frequently about entrepreneurship and the DIY economy. Her writing about life as a company founder has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and other publications. Nora is a member of The Board of Trustees of the American University in Cairo.

Tony Wang

Tony Wang is the co-founder of Agora with responsibility for Emerging technologies and emerging APAC markets. he has over 15 years technology and startup background and has been with Agora for over four years. He holds a BS of Computer Science from Purdue and MS of Computer Sciences from USC. Tony is based in Los Angeles and Shanghai.

Jim Rand

Jim is the CEO & Co-Founder of Synervoz Communications, a software development company focused on interactive voice and video chat projects with complex audio requirements.

Philippe Frères

Philippe is a co-founder and CPO at LiSA. As a passionate retail futurist, he designs and helps develop live and social commerce tools to help e-retailers transform from mere online shops into thriving social commerce platforms. He is an engineer by training and has spent many years as an executive in retail, where he designed and built the next generation of discovery-driven and seamless digital customer experiences.

Virginia Liu

Virginia Liu is SVP of Marketing and Ecosystems at Agora.io. Virginia brings more than 15 years of marketing, developer relations and strategic partnership experience in the software industry, with track record in delivering drastic growth and business transformation. Virginia joins Agora.io from Microsoft, where she held several leadership roles in developer marketing, business development, and product marketing. She also served as a board member and managing director for AppCampus, a $24M mobile accelerator jointly funded by Microsoft and Nokia. She holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from Zhongshan University and an MBA with honor from UNC-Chapel Hill.

Nidhi Sharma

Nidhi Sharma is the founder of Abby - a live shopping startup in India bringing together brands, shoppers and shopping experts on the same platform. Abby aims to make the online shopping experience for gen Z and millennials quick, fun & easy with live product demos and live interaction with the shopping experts. Nidhi was one of the leading home shopping anchors in India where she spent a little less than a decade presenting 2000+ live shopping shows on TV for premium brands and products across categories like jewellery, skincare, electronics, fashion and kitchen. Her biggest LIVE show touched a GMV of approx. $140,000 in real time. Nidhi describes herself as a passionate entrepreneur and also as a dreamer, seeker and learner.

Juan Olea

Currently the Co-Founder of Kuick, a Live Streaming Shopping APP that empowers Companies to sell LIVE and Co-Founder of Monde, a Singapore Global Business Network. He is a Colombian, American and Canadian Entrepreneur with over 12 years of retail experience working with North and South American Retailers, Distributors and Brands. Previously worked with various Latin America governments to provide them technology solutions to connect their local companies with International Buyers. Former Wholesale Distributor of Electronics throughout Latin America selling to the biggest retailers in the region. Juan has been a panelist and speaker in various events throughout the Asia region and Latin America Region. He holds a B.Sc. in Finance, from the Florida State University.

Kim Langen

Kim is the CEO and founder of Spirit of Math Schools Inc., the CEO and Founder of Releasing the Genius Inc., and a global consultant for private and public-school divisions. Kim’s interest in education started when she taught elementary and high school students in public and private institutions for over 20 years and was the director of academics for a private girls’ school. As an educator, she was instrumental in developing the proprietary curriculum, teacher training programs and business structure to form the Spirit of Math system, which also now includes Spirit of English and Spirit of Technology. As an entrepreneur, Kim placed as a finalist in the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2014 and under her leadership, Spirit of Math has placed in the Growth 500 ranking by MacLean’s and Canadian Business for six years in a row and included in Globe and Mail’s ranking for 2019 as one of “the 400 boldest businesses in Canada”. Disrupt magazine counts Kim amongst the “top 10 female leaders disrupting their industries in 2021.” Thrive Global includes Kim as one of the “top 10 thriving thought leaders to watch in 2021”. During the Covid-19 pandemic Kim embraced the technology explosion in the education realm by converting over 800 weekly math, English and Technology classes, and all teacher and business training to online learning in under 2 weeks and piloted over 20 new online programs. In developing strategic partnerships working with individuals, companies, and institutions that also believe in the potential of today’s youth, Kim founded Releasing the Genius Inc., to build a community of people who have the imagination and courage to change the world in ways that others thought were not possible.

Melody Liu

Melody manages and leads hands-on learning products at Coursera. She has been instrumental in launching and scaling Coursera's latest hands-on learning platform - Coursera Labs, which has reached millions of learners within the first year of launch and was voted as #1 platform innovation by educators. Outside Coursera, Melody serves as a volunteer executive for a K12 not-for-profit and was previously building artificial intelligence products at two early-stage SaaS startups in the Bay area. Melody is passionate about democratizing access through edtech and building lasting business ventures that positively impact society.

Sid Sharma

Sid Sharma is leading the developer evangelism efforts at Agora. He has experience in both API and platform evangelism with heavy exposure in the CPaaS. RTC, and RTE space. Prior to Agora, he worked on the Nexmo DevRel program to improve developer experience which helped increase the API call rate by over 350% in 2 years. Prior to that, he worked at CodinGame where he helped engage and grow the developer community by 3.5X to over 900k developers. As for hobbies, Sid enjoys attending tech conferences, watching/playing sports, and going on drives by the coastline.

Suzanne Nguyen

As Sr. Director of Communications, Brand, and Community at Agora, Suzanne is leading communications around Agora’s real-time engagement platform. Suzanne has been driving innovation for the developer ecosystems for over 20 years. She was one of the first evangelists for Java Mobile Edition and also the originator of the Java ME developer program. Suzanne was also one of the key drivers for Android community growth through T-Mobile’s developer community support. She also spearheaded the “Apps with Feelings” campaign at Immersion Corporation, which brought notoriety to haptic implementations in mobile apps. At Samsung, Suzanne lead the effort to connect the developer world to the next big opportunities and was the executive producer for Samsung Developer Conference for 4 consecutive years, growing the conference by 8x.

Ben Weekes

Ben Weekes is a Senior Architect at Agora. An original pioneer and innovator of WebRTC technologies, Ben was Founder and CTO of Requestec which was acquired by Blackboard in 2014 for expertise in WebRTC conferencing. After serving as Chief Architect at Blackboard, he joined Agora to continue his journey in pushing the boundaries of video telephony.

Brad Altfest

Brad is a media and entertainment business development professional with over 20 years of experience in designing, integrating, and selling large-scale production, post-production, and content distribution systems. Brad has spent the majority of his career on the technology side, working directly for media and entertainment companies and more recently, pivoted into bi-directional Real-Time Engagement via Social Audio and Social Video. Join Brad as he explores multi-device and multi-platform delivery, helping to create highly monetized and rich media user experiences.

Brad Mortensen

Brad Mortensen is a partnership development manager at Agora where he focuses on working together with third party technology to be made available within Agora’s Extensions Marketplace. In addition, Brad also concentrates on education partnerships, leaning on his five years of experience at Microsoft where he managed and grew relationships in the EdTech sphere.

Tiffany Xingyu Wang

Tiffany Xingyu Wang is the Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer at Spectrum Labs, a contextual AI platform set to build a safer internet. She also co-founded Oasis Consortium, a non-profit organization to create a new digital sustainability model for businesses to adopt. Tiffany Xingyu is a keynote speaker and expert at the intersection of AI and Trust & Safety, featured by major media, tech conferences, and governmental initiatives. She has been published in Harvard Business Review and Forbes. She also hosts the Brand Safety Exchange podcast, which is a destination for digital user safety thought leaders. The podcast is in the top 10% of podcasts in the world.

Tony Blank

As the Director of Agora for Startups, Tony Blank is deeply rooted in the startup ecosystem. He is a frequent speaker at industry events and has delivered hundreds of workshops, mentor sessions, and speaking engagements to help startups grow. His unique perspective and insights are drawn from thousands of conversations with startups around the world. Previous to Agora, Tony led the startup programs at Twilio and SendGrid, supporting a world-class team, helping over 5,000 startups find product/market fit and grow their first customers. Tony also draws on his technical expertise gained over the years at multiple startups, as a developer evangelist, and a software engineer. In his free time, Tony enjoys making music, going on dog walks, and cooking with his family.

William Bao Bean

William is a General Partner where he is the Managing Director of Chinaccelerator, SOSV’s global internet programs and the first startup development program to launch in Asia, and Managing Director of MOX, a mobile-focused program with 160m smartphone users on its platform. William joined SOSV from SingTel Innov8 Ventures where he was Managing Director supporting China investments. Previously, William was a Partner at Softbank China & India Holdings, a venture capital firm backed by Softbank and Cisco, leading investments in China and Southeast Asia. William spent 11 years as an equity research analyst most recently with Deutsche Bank where he was responsible for Internet and Telecom Equipment in Asia and China technology, media, and telecom. He currently sits on the boards of Phable, Scantrust, Goama, Boost Capital, italki, and SRT and organizations including Music Matters, Techyizu, US-China Strong, and Blair Academy. He holds a BA from Bowdoin College.

Yang Cai

Yang Cai is the Co-founder, President & CEO at VisualOn, the most trusted client streaming media solution provider for top media companies worldwide. Yang holds a Ph.D. degree from The University of Texas at Austin in the field of study Computer Science.

Jianyuan Feng

Jianyuan Feng, PhD. from Illinois Institute of Technology, Research specialist in University of Illinois at Chicago, audio algorithm expert in Agora. Jianyuan has conducted multiple projects related to real-time audio communication including deep learning audio codec, deep learning noise suppression system, blind source separation, real-time voice beatification, and audio effects system. Now responsible for the development of Agora ultra-high-quality audio system.

Amaya Becvar Weddle

Amaya is a multi-faceted product & strategy leader, with over 15 years of software industry experience in product leadership, user experience, research, product marketing, and strategy. She’s an inventor listed on over 50 technology patents in the US and internationally. As Chief Product Officer at bande, Amaya and her team are looking to transform the virtual fitness landscape by building an immersive live streaming platform and social networking platform that fosters real human connection and enduring relationships. Formerly Amaya was Vice President, Research & Product Marketing at Mindbody, where she built and scaled UX, market research, and product marketing disciplines. Amaya has a BA in Chemistry & Fine Arts from Amherst College, MS in Biochemistry, and a Ph. D. in Cognitive Science & HCI from UC San Diego.

Nassim Hadjoudj

Born in Algeria and raised in France, I spent 7 years in the Workplace industry in 3 different continents (Asia, Europe then North America). Passionate of new technology, I co-founded in 2014 the collective "Totoro Typhoon". In 2021, I co-founded Bublr because I believe the traditional world of work, although full of extraordinary people, is stuck in the past and struggling to adapt to new technology. I live between France and New York.

Liyia Wu

Liyia Wu is Founder & CEO of ShopShops, the leading livestream retail marketplace for fashion, beauty and lifestyle products. ShopShops streams with over a thousand partners, across the U.S., Middle East, Europe and Asia, including brands like Marni, Jimmy Choo, MaxMara, Chloe, Fendi and more. By virtualizing the physical shopping experience, ShopShops is breaking down geographical boundaries for savvy customers and allowing them to shop – not just buy things – from the palm of their hand. Prior to ShopShops, Liyia has 20 years of experience in fashion design, cross-border commerce, and talent management, She graduated from Parsons and the University of British Columbia. Wu founded a boutique in Beijing that carried U.S. designer brands, including Tory Burch, Loeffler Randall and Helmut Lang, among others. In 2009, she started her own contemporary fashion label, which was sold out of its own boutiques in Beijing, as well as retailers across China. By 2017, she combined her business and fashion knowledge from both the U.S. and Beijing to launch ShopShops. Liyia is also a mom of two kids and two dogs.

Marek Zweifka Sibley

Having previously founded Requestec, a real time communications company specialising in WebRTC video that was acquired by Blackboard Inc. in 2014, Trulience is Marek’s second venture in the world of live video.

Hermes Frangoudis

Hermes is a Senior Developer Evangelist at Agora.io, leading Agora’s Developer Education initiatives. In his role, he leads a team focused on creating guides and demos for developers leveraging real time engagement-based technologies, such as live interactive streaming, and video communication. Prior to joining Agora, Hermes was the lead solutions engineer for Blippar’s NY team, specialized in building web and mobile apps that leveraged Augmented Reality, Computer Vision and other emerging technologies.

Pedro Goes

Pedro Góes is the CEO of InEvent, a Y Combinator venture-backed company providing an event, marketing, and sales platform for Forbes 2000 Global companies, including Amazon, Coca-Cola, KPMG, Santander, Unilever, Boeing, Embraer, and Citibank. Early in his career, and during college, Pedro started a company with which he had more than 10,000 monthly active paying users. He is a Y Combinator Alumni, a 40 under 40 founder by Association Magazine, a UK Event Tech Award Winner, and a Gold Crocodile Award Winner.

Saroosh Gull

Saroosh Gull, CEO + Founder of Eventcombo, a shift-left #SinglePlatform event technology, is a seasoned product owner. Saroosh cofounded Eventcombo in 2015 after identifying the one-sided nature of the event industry, in which organizations contributed their business and data to the event platforms without any value in return, besides the use of the technology. The concept of a reciprocal event platform was born ensuring that event professionals receive mutual-value for their relationship. Saroosh’s career dates back to the dot-com bust era in 2000. He began his career at Bluestone Capital within the banking domain, servicing Wall Street trading firms. Over the course of two decades, Saroosh has noteworthy accomplishments within product roles for JPMC’s Quickpay (now Zelle), and Pfizer’s Infrastructure-on-Demand build-out. As an aggressive, seasoned product owner, Saroosh is driven by innovation. He has had the opportunity to pioneer the functional development of multi-billion dollar products. In addition to being an entrepreneur, Saroosh is passionate about access and opportunity due to his roots, having been raised in the Bronx, a diverse and multicultural community, uplifting others is always at the forefront of his objectives. To endeavor for excellence with the highest standards in the event ecosystem is in Saroosh’s DNA and the catalyst behind Eventcombo’s organic growth prior to raising capital from angel and institutional investors.

Catherine Connelly

Catherine is co-founder and SVP, Marketing at The Meet Group. The Meet Group owns and operates the most engaging dating communities in the world, including MeetMe, Skout, Tagged, and GROWLr. Serving millions of daters daily, each month, TMG’s livestreaming solutions entice its community to spend 1 billion minutes in video. TMG’s network size, technology, and leading moderation and talent teams enable it to partner for and acquire new audiences, including through video platform-as-service products. The Meet Group, Inc. is a subsidiary of ParshipMeet Group, a diversified international market leader in online dating, which also owns and operates leading matchmaking brands eharmony, Parship, and ElitePartner. The Meet Group traces its roots back to when Catherine co-founded myYearbook with her brothers in 2005. The Meet Group sold for $500 million in September 2020 and is now part of ParshipMeet Group. Catherine heads marketing at The Meet Group and drives new features that deliver on its mission -- to meet the universal need for human connection. Catherine holds an undergraduate degree from Georgetown University and an MBA from The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania.

Gregor Hofer

Gregor is the CEO and CoFounder of Rapport. He holds a PhD in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh, and previously served as a research fellow at the School of Informatics. In addition, he spent time as a senior researcher at the Telecommunications Research Centre in Vienna where he successfully commercialized a text-to-speech prototype that now powers several government websites. Gregor has also co-authored grants worth £1.5MM to fund the commercialization of technology. Through his leadership, Rapport has become the leading facial animation software (powered by our Speech Graphics technology) used by 9 of the top 10 video game publishers.

Damian Hickey

Damian is Beem’s Chief Product Officer, the augmented reality broadcast platfrom for realtime communications. Damian focuses on product innovation, development, and business transformation. He has created and implemented products that have delivered some of the worlds most cutting edge technologies working across FMCG, CPG, Government, Finance, Retail, Charity, Automotive and Telecommunications. Innovation, change and transformation is where Damian thrives, he is heavily plugged into the different startup markets globally and is constantly looking for the next best practice to stay ahead and translate new ideas into workable products.

Arushi Joshi

Arushi is an experienced executive and an entreprenuer at heart. Arushi has worked in various leadership roles for large multinationals and also started two startups. She loves the thrill of building something from an idea and seeing it solve real problems. She has two decades of professional experience. Some of her greatest learnings have come from pivots and changing with a changing environment. She is a passionate advocate of diversity of thought and action.

Alana Kalin

Alana Kalin founded De Kabeza, which makes it simple to launch live interactive games, after seeing opportunity to bring rich, realtime engagement to many. Previously, she was the General Manager for Blippar, an augmented reality platform and consulted in emerging markets globally. She’s a passionate supporter of underrepresented founders and bringing emerging technology to new markets.

Blaise Thomas

Blaise Thomas is a Software Engineer with a focus on Audio&Video, WebGL and RTC. In 2020 he founded Splashmob, part of the 2020 class of Techstars Music. Previously he has worked as a Software Engineer with a focus on web AR and as an instructor teaching full stack web development and data science at General Assembly. He joined Agora in 2021 as a Startup Advocate, helping new startups implement realtime engagement and human to human connection within their software products.

Surbhi Rathore

Surbhi is the CEO and Co-founder of Symbl.ai. Symbl is bringing to life her vision for a programmable platform that empowers developers and businesses to monitor, act and comply with voice, video conversations at scale in their products and workflows without building their in-house data science expertise. She co-founded Symbl almost 3 years ago that is now backed by Amazon, she is also a Techstars alum. Symbl raised an early-stage venture round of $6.5M and deployed capital to grow a team of tech enthusiasts to more than 40 people primarily distributed between India and Seattle. She comes with experience from technical and customer-obsessed roles in both startups and enterprises such as Nevis Networks and Amdocs. Before co-founding Symbl, she worked in the Conversational AI space with a focus on delivering value to Telecommunication users. She is an advocate for Women in AI with a personal mission to inspire more women to work in Data Science. In her free time, she loves to travel and spend time with her remote and distributed family.

Jonathan Kazanrian

Jon Kazarian is the Founder and CEO of Accelevents, a leading virtual & hybrid events platform. As CEO, Jon is focused on leading the company’s vision and helping event organizers and marketing professionals transform their events through innovative technology solutions. As an industry thought leader, Jon actively publishes insights on the events landscape and frequently speaks at industry events such as IMPACT: Scaling for the Future 2021 and EventMB’s Event Tech Innovation Summit. Jon chairs the board for the Fall Formal fundraiser benefiting the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Piyush Kumar

A seasoned marketer, Piyush Kumar is the founder and CEO of Rooter, India’s biggest gaming & esports community platform offering voice to millions of fans across gaming. At the company, Piyush spearheads business growth and partnerships division and is also responsible for Company’s Sales and Revenue. A Computer Graduate from Delhi University, Piyush spent close to 14 years in the Consumer Marketing Category and was associated with prominent brands like Dish TV and Swatch Group India, where he headed the marketing division for 5 years. After spending a significant period of his career in the marketing category, he took an entrepreneurial leap in 2016 with Rooter along with his business partner Dipesh Agarwal to build a strong community of sports fans around the world. But soon after the outbreak of COVID-19, he identified the changing needs and a major shift towards gaming streaming. Having already built a robust community of sports fans and sports influencers in India through Rooter, Piyush eventually forayed into game streaming in March 2020 to build one of the country’s biggest community of gamers as well. Currently, his platform has more than 20 million gamers and esports players onboarded from India and Indian subcontinent market. Piyush now plans to make Rooter India’s Biggest Gaming Community with streamers, esports players and gamers on single platform, having already build biggest game streaming audience by an Indian platform. Besides his entrepreneurial undertakings, Piyush is also an active philanthropist. He intends to make a difference in the lives of disadvantaged girls in the country by sponsoring their education. In his leisure time, Piyush loves to play sports, surf Twitter, and spend time with his family in Delhi.

Lauren Kunze

Lauren Kunze is the CEO of Pandorabots, a leading chatbot platform that powers conversational AI software for developers and top global brands, and the technology behind Kuki: an AI virtual talent that has exchanged over a billion messages with 25 million human fans. She excels at explaining AI and its real world applications to a general audience. Kunze speaks and writes frequently about chatbots and AI at conferences like TEDx, Mobile World Congress and SXSW, and for publications like TechCrunch, Quartz, and Venturebeat. Kunze and Pandorabots have been quoted or covered in outlets like the Wall Street Journal, BBC, Guardian, Wired, Quartz, RadioLab, TechCrunch, Reuters, VICE, Vogue, The New Yorker, and New York Times Magazine. She has also written four novels published by HarperCollins and scripts for movies and television shows. She graduated from Harvard with a degree in Literature and Language, and Neuroscience.

Rui Ma

Rui Ma has sixteen years of experience in technology and finance, spanning seed stage to pre-IPO investing spread evenly between the U.S. and China. She founded Tech Buzz China in 2018 to educate and consult investors, funds and entrepreneurs on Chinese tech companies products, strategies and trends. She previously worked at 500 Startups as an investment partner, and spent a decade in private equity and mergers & acquisitions roles at the Raine Group, Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch in both Silicon Valley and China. Rui holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley, and additional degrees from Tsinghua, INSEAD, UIUC and Harvard University.

Jose Manuel Peral Cortéz

I am a entrepreneur with backgroun in consultancy. Started investing in startups like Tuenti or Job and Talent, and in 2014 joint the PSP Easy Payment Gateway as COO and Co-Founder, that whats named one of the best startups in EU during 2018, that got sold in 2020. After I joint Cabify as Global Head of Payments but quickly started GuruCall as CEO.

James Meier

James is the CTO & Co-Founder at Synervoz Communications. He studied computer science and math at the University of Toronto and has a wealth of experience in audio programming, real time systems, VoIP, and cross platform development.

Clarence Pereira

Clarence has been in the mobile game Industry for over 16 years and is currently leading various products including Ludo King & Carrom King at Gametion Technologies. He has bagged over a decade of industry experience with The Walt Disney India. where he has led huge teams & worked on some finest titles like Cricket T20 Fever, ICC Pro Cricket 2015, Cupcake Dreamland, RA One Genesis and other 100+ games.

Tadas Petraitis

Google Developer Expert for Flutter & Dart. Developer Evangelist at Agora and also create YouTube Content.

Kerry Schrader

Kerry Schrader Co-Founder, CEO Kerry Schrader BBA, MBA, is the Cofounder/CEO of Mixtroz. She is the 37th Black Female to ever raise over $1M in pre-seed funding. Kerry has more than 25 years’ experience positively impacting the human assets of large companies including Ford, Alcoa, and Sears Holdings Corporation. Mrs. Schrader has vast experience developing programs that engage work-forces with results that increased productivity and bottom-line profitability. Mrs. Schrader is a former board member of Creative Startups(2019), Birmingham’s inaugural Mayor’s Small Business Council (2021), and UAB’s O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Advisory Board (2021). Kerry and her daughter were named “Powerful Women” by Entrepreneur Magazine on their inaugural list in November, 2019. In addition, Mrs. Schrader is a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. Most importantly, however, K E R R Y is a breast cancer survivor!

Vineeth Srinivasan

Vineeth is a developer Evangelist at Agora. He is a dreamer, problem-solver, and innovator. He is leading the App Builder team at Agora, pioneering in building the world’s first no-code RTE solution. He is highly enthusiastic about all things JavaScript. In his free time, he enjoys a game of chess, solving a Rubik’s cube, and sipping a hot cup of green tea!

Meherdeep Thakur

Meher is a developer Evangelist at Agora. He is extremely passionate about building mobile applications and specializes in Flutter and Android app development. He is also passionate about building AI applications with a real world use case. At Agora he has been building many sample applications, UIKits, blogs, and videos for Flutter and Android. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Engineering with specialization in Computer Science from Vellore Institute of Technology.

Ekaansh Arora

Ekaansh is developer evangelist at Agora currently building tools to improve the developer experience when building RTE apps with react and react-native. Apart from work he enjoys making (3D) art and music (sometimes with code).

Charlie Taylor

Charlie is currently a Corporate Innovation Manager at working to bring new concepts and products to market for Bose. Currently Charlie leads the Product, Strategy and Go-To-Market for the Bose PinPoint™ Noise Filter Technology. Before working in InnovationCharlie lead a Concept Development group focused on building developer and creator tools for the Bose AR platform. Prior to coming to Bose Charlie founded and worked with a variety of startups ranging from energy to fintech to consumer products. Charlie holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the George Washington University.

Stanley Wei

Stanley Wei serves as Chief Strategy Officer of Agora. Before Agora, Stanley is Managing Director of Hillhouse Capital, focusing on investments in Enterprise Software and Services. Stanley is a serial entrepreneur who cofounded 36kr(Nasdaq: KRKR), BData and Ztelic.

Bill Godfrey

WILLIAM “BILL” GODFREY retired as Fire Chief after 25 years active duty in the fire service. He is the CEO of C3 Pathways, a law enforcement and fire/EMS training group specializing in Active Shooter Incident Management (ASIM). Bill is a lead instructor and curriculum developer for several DHS-certified national curricula, national speaker, researcher, and innovator. He is the principal technology architect at C3 and directs software development of simulation and training systems. For more than 20 years, Bill has pushed the technology boundaries to improve training for law enforcement, fire, EMS, 911, and Emergency Management.

Kate Rosenblatt

Kate Rosenblatt, MA, LPC, LMHC is the Senior Clinical Manager at Talkspace, and is a Talkspace therapist. A member of the American Psychological Association (APA), Kate completed her Master's degree in Counseling Psychology at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. She has over 10 years of experience working with adults on a variety of issues, specializing in eating disorders and working with people going through life stressors such as finding your purpose, and navigating career changes. Her work has been featured in press outlets such as the Huffington Post, Refinery29, and FOX61 News.

Brian Viegas

Passionate, result-oriented product leader building products primarily focussed on the next generation of Sports Broadcast. Currently, at the intersection of video streaming and interactivity -obsessed with innovative Sport-Tech ideas and solutions that enhance the viewing experience of the Live Sports fan.

Charley Ho

Charley Ho is the Co-Founder and CTO of Remotion, a virtual office that helps remote-first teams connect like everyone's together. Before Remotion, Charley was an early engineer at Bebop, a startup that was acquired by Google. Charley has a BS & MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Jared Timmins

Jared Timmins is SVP of solutions at TVU Networks and leads the TVU Global Solutions team. He brings 15 years of sales, account strategy, and technology solutions experience in the broadcast industry.Prior to joining TVU, Timmins held several senior level positions at Grass Valley with his most recent as VP of advanced technologies. He has also held senior strategic sales roles at Piksel and Miranda Technologies.

Joe da Silva

Joe is the co-founder and CEO of Camvas (https://getcamvas.com), an intelligent collaborative platform for distributed teams. Camvas is on a mission to improve the way distributed teams work and solve problems. Camvas aims to enable inclusive, scheduled or spontaneous, real-time and asynchronous, intelligent omnichannel collaboration.

Matthew Lloyd

More than five years working from anywhere, Matthew is on a mission is to support companies with remote/distributed/hybrid workforces -creating value through driving a culture of engagement & community in future work with a customer-centric approach: nurturing relationships and gaining a deep understanding of the business to help effectively reach their goals (be that streamlining operations, reducing costs or increasing market share/revenue).

Michael Karliner

Mike has been in the computing industry for over 30 years, starting in avionics, and working his way through communications and distributed computing to language design and wireless and web technologies. He has been CTO at a number of companies, notably as the first CTO at Shazam, the music recognition company.

Navah Berg

Navah Berg is a Social PR Communication professional with a twist of Social VR enthusiasm taking community to the next level with true presence through Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Social Media. Navah is an early beta tester for Facebook Horizon, hosted numerous talk shows in VR, is co-founder of Women in Horizon, has been on Virtual Umbrella’s 2019 TOP 50 VR People to Follow list, listed in Base Reality’s 25 Most Influential Women to Follow in VR in 2020.

Shivam Gupta

In a world where Gen Z is characterized by their short attention span coupled with their desire for instant gratification, online education can serve students in ways that were not possible before. Recognizing this fact has enabled me to build products and content to engage with students effectively.With PuStack, I aim to continue building products to equip students for the future.

Tarek Amara

Tarek Amara has over 15 years of experience in video compression research , products and solution design and development. He is currently managing the video transcoding team at Twitch. He previously worked for Evertz Microsystems and Ericsson TV building video compression products. Areas of Interest: Compression technologies, Video streaming and delivery, ML enhanced transcoding.

Max Cobb

Max is a developer evangelist at Agora.io, helping to make the Agora developer experience best-in-class with guides and products such as Agora UIKit.

Kevin Guo

Kevin is the co-founder and CEO of Hive, a San Francisco based Series D startup offering AI models via cloud-based APIs. Today, some of the largest and most innovative companies in the world are leveraging Hive’s best-in-class models to process billions of pieces of data each month, solving challenges in content moderation, content indexing, marketing measurement, and more.

Prior to Hive, Kevin worked as a growth-stage tech investor and holds a BS and MS in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Ed Brakus

Ed Brakus is a video communications industry veteran with more than 30 years of experience working with pioneering video technology business including ATI (AMD), Polycom, and Vidyo. Ed has been awarded multiple patents in video technology including advances in real-time shared video experiences. Currently, Ed leads Agora's US and ROW product management and product marketing teams.

Parul Madan

Parul is a successful entrepreneur who has founded and led many companies to successful exits. As an active early-stage investor, she has invested in 39 start-ups worldwide and is also Managing Director of Quake Europe, where she leads the 5G Accelerator Program in partnership with Deutsche Telekom and RTL. Parul establishedthe Founder Institute, a pre-seed accelerator program from Silicon Valley here in the Cologne region in 2017, and recently founded DueDash with a mission to leave no investible start-ups behind.