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Matthew Callahan
Matt has always been fascinated by the power of storytelling. At an early age he applied this fascination to performing, and got his B.F.A. from The Theatre Conservatory at Chicago College of Performing Arts. This led to award-winning career onstage in musical theatre, spanning almost a decade of national tours and shows in New York, Chicago, Toronto, and beyond.
Eventually Matt’s love of writing, technology and design got the better of him, and he founded two startups that turned into thriving companies — a creative agency, and an e-commerce board game concept.
He’s now a Creative Director at VaynerNFT, which is bringing the world of non-fungibles to the world’s largest brands.
Michael Russell
Michael Russell is Vice President, Head of Architecture and Innovation at Mutual of America Financial Group. He’s held similar roles at ViacomCBS, Standard and Poors, and Starwood Hotels while doing a stint on the sales side at Red Hat as well.
Monica Sarbu
Monica Sarbu is the founder and CEO of https://xata.io a next generation serverless nosql database. She previously founded packetbeat (acquired by Elastic) and tupu.io. She’s also an active VC having recently invested in https://tactic.fyi and https://www.wander.com
Nick Drost
Nick Drost is a Senior Director of Pre-Sales and Solution Architecture at Elastic. He previously worked at large technology companies such as Oracle and Salesforce.
Noelle Silver
Noelle Silver is a multi-award-winning technologist and entrepreneur who specializes in helping companies with emerging technology, cloud, AI and Web 3.0. She has led teams at NPR, Microsoft, IBM, and Amazon Alexa, and is a consistent champion for public understanding of the ethical use of AI and tech fluency. She is the founder of AI Leadership Institute and is an AI Executive at IBM.
Rasmus Makwarrth
Rasmus Makwarth is the Founder and CEO at Bucket. He was formerly a Sr Director of Product Management at Elastic, and the Co-Founder and CEO at OpBeat.
Rhett Garber
Rhett Garber is a senior engineering leader at GitHub/Microsoft and has previously led teams at Yelp and Postmates.
Rory Trifon
Rory Trifon is the President of the Estate of Richard Bernstein. While Richard Bernstein is most widely remembered today as the creator of Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine distinctive covers, since the mid 60s he was one of the pioneers and architects of Pop Art. One of the first artists to blur the line between commercial and fine art, Bernstein’s technicolor work (whether on canvas shown in a gallery or a magazine cover at a newsstand) captured the glamour, extravagance, and innovation of the Pop Art era.
His works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Portrait Gallery, Stedelijk Museum, Hirshhorn Museum and has had exhibitions at the Iris Clert Gallery , Gallerie Barozzi, Byron Gallery “The Box Show,” among others, most recently exhibited at The Deitch Gallery, Whitney Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, Nottingham Contemporary and upcoming Warhol Museum exhibition September 2022.
Shane Connelly
Shane Connelly leads the Product team at Vectara (product management, product marketing, design, developer advocacy/relations, and technical writing). Prior to Vectara, heI led the product management team for Kong’s flagship API gateway. Prior to Kong, he led product for Elasticsearch at Elastic.