Alex started his career as a research scientist for NASA, the Naval Research Lab, and Sandia National Lab. He later joined Fisker Automotive heading sustainability initiatives across design and engineering. In 2010 he left to launch At The Pool and Yeti, social apps reaching members in more than 120 countries. Alex has an engineering degree from UCLA, lives in Los Angeles, and likes to ski, bike, and skydive. 

Tom Doyle brings over 30 years of experience in operational excellence and executive leadership in analog and mixed-signal semiconductor technology to Aspinity. Prior to Aspinity, Tom was group director of Cadence Design Systems’ analog and mixed-signal IC business unit, where he managed the deployment of the company’s technology to the world’s foremost semiconductor companies. Previously, Mr. Doyle was founder and president of the analog/mixed-signal software firm, Paragon IC solutions, where he was responsible for all operational facets of the company including sales and marketing, global partners/distributors, and engineering teams in the US and Asia. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from West Virginia University and an MBA from California State University, Long Beach.

Uday Kiran Chaka, the Founder & CEO of Sentry AI, is on a mission to build a crime-free society using AI-based Video Monitoring. Uday has more than 20 years of experience in the technology industry, holds 2 patents for innovative computer vision AI applications, and has presented at many industry conferences. Earlier in his career, Uday advised Fortune-100 companies as a strategy consultant at Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC). His formal education includes an MBA from Duke University and B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). He is a tech evangelist, entrepreneur, and angel investor who has co-founded 4 technology companies in Silicon Valley and advises many tech startups.

Todd Mozer is President and CEO of Sensory, which has played a pioneering role in bringing speech recognition into consumer products over the past 20 years. Sensory has enabled hundreds of products with speech recognition by companies such as Ecobee, Huawei, Garmin, GoPro, Motorola, Plantronics, Samsung, Sony, and many, many others. Mr. Mozer hold over 20 patents issued in speech technology and related fields, and holds an MBA from Stanford University.

Sai Reddy, Ph.D., is the CEO and founder of CamerEye, Sai, a lifelong water lover - swimming, surfing, and sailing - decided to use his knowledge and experience in building AI technology to address one of the biggest problems in the aquatic industry: water safety using video based AI recognition system. With CamerEye, Sai is working to build peace of mind and safety for millions of pool owners across the nation.

Mike Dooley is a leading pioneer in consumer robotics, shipping millions of robots into homes over the past 25 years. He launched LEGO MindStorms in 1998, introducing millions of kids to robotics as well as the best-selling product in the history of LEGO. He later co-invented and launched what is now the Braava series of smart robotic mops (acquired by iRobot) and helped develop the autonomous navigation system used in Roomba today. Mike now serves as co-founder and CEO of Labrador Systems, a robotics startup backed by SOSV, Amazon and iRobot. Labrador is developing a new generation of assistive robots to transform home health and empower individuals to live more independently. Mike has an MBA from Stanford and BA in Psychology from Tufts.

Terry Anderton is the Founder and CEO of Wagz® Inc. and a lifelong dog owner with a long history of building disruptive and forward-thinking technology companies.

He founded Wagz after attending a Fourth of July party in which his newly rescued puppy, Abby, ran away after being scared off by fireworks. Luckily, Abby was found safe five days later. However, after the worry and fear Anderton and his family felt, he decided to create a better way for pet parents to keep their dogs safe while giving them peace of mind.

Before Wagz, Anderton was involved in the creation and worldwide growth of the game of Paintball. Anderton led global sales at Cabletron Systems and McAfee before co-founding NitroSecurity, a network security developer, in 2004. Anderton served as President & CEO of NitroSecurity raising over $40M of venture funding before being acquired by Intel in 2011. He went on to create Trunity, a cloud-based textbook and learning platform company, raising over $15M in venture funding and eventually taking it public in 2012. Anderton also founded the social commerce platform, Gemr in 2013, raising $5.43M before its sale to a private equity firm.

Anderton is completing his Master of Business Administration from UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School and has a Bachelor of Science in Organizational Behavior from Daniel Webster College. Anderton has been granted four patents. He has also been appointed by the Governor of New Hampshire to serve on the Board of the New Hampshire Innovative Research Council. He currently lives in New Hampshire with his wife, four children, and two dogs.

Tom Klein is a 40+ year IT professional with 10 years of specialization in digital security and PKI. His experience includes running business groups for IBM, Microsoft, and AWS in both product and professional services. In addition, he has served as a senior go-to market specialist in PKI, IoT, and access management with several high-growth organizations. Tom has contributed to the FDA's Cybersecurity Premarket Guidance for Medical Device Design and is a member of the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA) working on Matter . He is passionate about business outcomes that represent customer value and end-user confidence.

Bob Langlois Founder Water Control Management www.water-controls.com (WCM) As an entrepreneur Bob has developed, managed and sold professional services practices in the property tax field where a large share of the revenue was contingency based with fees derived from identifying and delivering savings. This same contingency model is being deployed in the water sector to support owners with the capability to reduce their operating costs by using less water and/or reduce their loss rate with no capital or on-going operational investment. The deployment of technology has been key in supporting this business model. WCM is an Advisory and Project Management firm focused on providing technology enabled solutions to measure and minimize how the built environment uses water. Solution implementation includes testing and deploying a variety of #IoT based sensors to measure and minimize the water footprint for residential, multi-residential and commercial buildings and to apply insight from these efforts to save money and/or reduce risk for building owners. Bob has identified and developed a series of key relationships with industry partners to provide testing grounds for their new IoT technology and support proof of concept for these new market entrants. This passion for value creation and identifying trends that others have not yet embraced best demonstrate the impact Bob is able to deliver for his clients and various stakeholders within the communities he supports. As an Ideator, Bob excels in value creation where existing tools and solutions are redirected to a problem that often varies from the original intent of the solution. Falling in love with the problem vs falling in love with the solution is a guiding discipline for Bob. 

Glenn Reid is CEO of Marathon Machines, who make smart, connected appliances. A veteran product guy from Silicon Valley, Glenn built iconic products like iMovie and iPhoto at Apple, and is now working in connected hardware, IoT, smart home, and manufacturing.