2018

Peter Vesterbacka

Mighty Eagle

Entrepreneur, Angel Investor and former Mighty Eagle of Angry Birds (Rovio). Peter has over 20 years of experience in building brands and communities. Time Magazine has named Peter one of the 100 most influential people on the planet.

Renaud Visage

Co-founder

Renaud Visage is the technical co-founder & CTO of Eventbrite, the largest live experience platform in the world by the number of events and creators. Eventbrite has raised $334M from high caliber VCs including Sequoia, Tiger Global, and T. Rowe Price, and the company recently crossed $10B in cumulative gross ticket sales.

Renaud is also a board partner with Point Nine Capital and an angel investor, guiding founders that are solving challenging technical problems in realizing their global ambitions.

Angie Jones

Senior Software Engineer

Angie Jones is a Senior Developer Advocate who specializes in test automation strategies and techniques. She shares her wealth of knowledge by speaking and teaching at software conferences all over the world, as well as and leading the online learning platform, Test Automation University. As a Master Inventor, Angie is known for her innovative and out-of-the-box thinking style which has resulted in more than 25 patented inventions in the US and China. In her spare time, Angie volunteers with Black Girls Code to teach coding workshops to young girls in an effort to attract more women and minorities to tech.

Ralph Echemendia is a world-renowned cyber security expert, speaker and entrepreneur known internationally by his alter ego “The Ethical Hacker.”

VIOLA LLEWELLYN

Co-founder

Viola Llewellyn is the co-founder and President of Ovamba Solutions, Inc. Ovamba is an award winning African “TradeTech” company that creates culturally attuned technologies to serve formal and informal African SMEs in the trade & commodities sectors. Ovamba’s solutions combine innovative Sharia compliant structures with eCommerce, logistics services, and technology to drive financial inclusion and promote growth. Llewellyn oversees technology development, strategic implementation, investor communications, and global business development for Ovamba. In June of 2018, Ovamba was selected by the World Economic Forum as a Global Technology Pioneer, securing a 2-year Ambassadorship and a place at the prestigious “Davos Summit” conference.

Y–Vonne Hutchinson

Founder & CEO

Y-Vonne Hutchinson is the Founder & CEO of ReadySet and the Co-founder of Project Include, and her theme in this year’s TechChill will be about tech ethics.

Nikolay Storonsky

Founder&CEO

Nikolay Storonsky is the founder and CEO of Revolut. He is a British-Russian entrepreneur. He studied for a master’s degree in physics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and during this time became a state champion swimmer. He completed a separate masters in economics at New Economic School in Moscow.

Ana Carolina Alex

Head of Startup Programs

Ana was Lead Program Manager at BMW Startup Garage. There she was responsible for setting up the program of the BMW Startup Garage as well as managing several projects with Startups.
She hold a Master Degree in Entrepreneurship & Innovation Management from TU Berlin and Warsaw School of Economics.