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Eileen Wu is the founder and CEO of Ignite Ventures, empowering VCs, tech leaders, and founders to build winning market advantages by mastering narrative and network. With over a decade at the intersection of venture capital and media, she has a proven track record of pioneering marketing and community-building strategies that amplify influence, strengthen brands, and create powerful network effects. As a former Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, she worked closely with senior leadership to develop innovative playbooks that created a gravitational pull—driving stronger brand engagement, deeper relationships, and sustained growth for the firm. Through Ignite Ventures, Eileen advises, coaches, and speaks at conferences worldwide—sharing hard-won insights and field-tested strategies that help clients unlock growth and accelerate success through powerful narrative-driven and network-led approaches.

Amjad Masad is a Jordanian American entrepreneur and engineer. He founded Replit, a cloud-based AI-powered software development platform, and one of the fastest growing developer communities in the world. Prior to his role at Replit, Amjad worked at Facebook, where he led the JavaScript infrastructure team and contributed to popular open-source developer tools. Additionally, he played a key role as a founding engineer at Codecademy, a prominent online coding school.

David Hefter leads BlackRock’s internal AI strategy and adoption for investments, working across public and private markets. He chairs the AI governance committee and produces an internal weekly AI newsletter. With over two decades experience at BlackRock, David has been driving AI initiatives for the past 5+ years, having studied computer science and AI at Columbia University.

Praveen Akkiraju is a Managing Director at global software investor Insight Partners. He brings a product and operational lens to investing in passionate entrepreneurs who seek to challenge the status quo in the areas of AI & automation, data platforms, DevOps, and infrastructure software. Praveen spent the early part of his career in the trenches, building products and scaling engineering teams to build world-class platforms in highly competitive market segments. As CEO of VCE and Viptela, Inc., Praveen has lived through the experience of navigating startups through product strategy, team building, and the Go-To-Market scaling required to build $100M+ revenue businesses. At Insight, Praveen counts CrewAI, Reco, Workato, and Bardeen among the companies in his portfolio, many of which he supports as a board member.

Rak is a partner at Bain Capital Ventures, where he is an early-stage investor across the cyber-security, AI, and infrastructure sectors. He also spearheads BCV Labs, an incubator for AI founders and researchers. Prior to Bain Capital Ventures, Rak was a product manager at Atlassian, where he founded and led Access, an identity security product with millions of users. Rak is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area and graduated from UCLA with a degree in computer science.

Eric is a Partner at Scale Venture Partners, where he focuses on investments in cloud infrastructure and security. He is a Board member at Scale portfolio companies QA Wolf, Cortex, Datastax, Permit.io, and Upsolver, and a Board observer at AppOmni, BigID, Expel, Honeycomb, and Matillion. Before Scale, Eric led early Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services product teams. At Google, he was a Product Manager in the Data Analytics and Machine Learning group. He led the team that launched Cloud Dataprep and key components of Cloud Dataflow. Previously, Eric built aircraft engines in General Electric’s Operation Management Leadership Program. He’s a contributor to open source projects including Alluxio, where he is on the Project Management Committee, and Apache Beam.

Jon is a Partner at Khosla Ventures passionate about machine learning and its impact on enterprise infrastructure, applications, and developer tools.Prior to KV, Jon built a career in technology as a founder, early employee, and organizational leader across a variety of engineering and product roles. He began his career as an early engineer at Palantir (PLTR), helping scale it from 200 to 1800 employees and founded and sold KoalityCode to Docker, where he created and led Docker’s enterprise division. At Opendoor (OPEN), Jon held roles as both Head of Product for Growth and Head of Engineering for Core Machine Learning helping scale the company to IPO. Most recently, Jon spent time at Facebook leading international engineering organizations in both VR & ML.Jon holds a B.S. in Computer Science with University Honors from Carnegie Mellon University.

VC of Blitzscaling AI Fund, Speaker, Event Host in Silicon Valley

Ted has spent his working career at the intersection of technology and business strategy most recently as an Expert Partner at Bain & Company. In his role at Inflection AI, Ted oversees all business operations including sales, marketing, and customer success. Follow Ted on LinkedIn to read his regularly published newsletter on AI, Infinite Future.

SC Moatti is the Founding Managing Partner of Mighty Capital, a Silicon Valley venture firm that capitalizes on the growing importance of product managers in enterprise success. She earned her reputation as a “genius at making products people love” during the cloud/mobile era, when she built products that billions of people use at Siebel Systems and Meta, won industry awards and nominations from the Wall Street Journal and the Emmys, and wrote an award-winning bestseller on what makes a great product. As a venture capitalist honored on the Kauffman Top 30 Index, she invested in pioneering companies like Amplitude (NASDAQ: AMPL), Groq, and Canela. SC earned a master’s in electrical engineering and a Stanford MBA, and is a Kauffman Fellow and member of YPO.