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Founder and CEO at Sayva Solutions

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Innovation Instigator. Venture guy. Community builder. Longtime SD doer. Working to create the best damn innovation ecosystem on the planet.

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Dan Flanegan is a seasoned product and business leader with a track record of driving growth in XR, AI, gaming, and social tech. A three-time venture-backed entrepreneur, he specializes in product strategy, execution, and partner management for high-growth startups. Dan has held leadership roles at Qualcomm, ClayAIR, and Butter, and he currently advises and invests in emerging tech companies. As Product Lead at ClayAIR (acquired by Qualcomm), Dan built platform-agnostic hand tracking and gesture recognition solutions leveraging breakthrough computer vision, machine learning, and advanced cognitive science. The technology enabled hand interactions with XR virtual content, smart devices, and digital interfaces—no controller, no touch. As CEO & Co-founder of Butter, he led the development of a mobile app designed to help people make new friends anywhere in the world. Butter built a graph of people users wanted to connect with through photos and chat, generating over a billion mobile page views. Previously, Dan was Co-Founder & CEO of Soapbox Mobile, a mobile marketing platform provider. As CEO, he was responsible for the company’s vision and mission of helping brands enhance customer engagement through mobile. He played a key role in developing a next-generation mobile marketing and CRM platform that powered campaigns for major brands, including Levi’s, Guinness, Vans Warped Tour, Procter & Gamble, W Hotels, and General Motors. Soapbox was acquired in 2007. Dan is a Product Hunt Golden Kitty Winner and has been a featured speaker at The UC Irvine Graduate Computer Science Program, The Rady School of Management at UCSD, The MIT Enterprise Forum, and Dow Jones VentureWire. Specialties: Entrepreneurship, Lean Startup, growth, product management, marketing, advertising, virtual reality, mobile & wireless, mobile marketing, public relations, public speaking.

David Schonthal

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Entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and award-winning professor of Strategy, Innovation & Entrepreneurship at the Kellogg School of Management. Bestselling author of “The Human Element: Overcoming the Resistance that Awaits New Ideas. For more, please visit davidschonthal.com

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Amit Singh is a Corporate Partner at Mintz. Amit is a go-to transactional lawyer leading venture capital, private equity, and technology transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures. He has more than two decades of experience handling sophisticated business transactions and frequently serves as outside general counsel to life sciences and technology companies. Amit has a broad client base that spans companies and investors in a variety of industries, including software, hardware, communications, artificial intelligence and networking, internet-based technology, manufacturing and distribution, biotechnology, diagnostics and medical devices. Deploying his extensive knowledge of his clients’ businesses and industries, he provides pragmatic legal counsel that advances their business goals. Experience overseeing hundreds of complex transactions, particularly for IP-centric companies, informs his guidance on a diverse range of sophisticated corporate matters. Prior to joining Mintz, Amit led the West Coast Corporate Practice of a global law firm, where he partnered with clients on pivotal transactions. In addition to his practice, Amit frequently speaks and writes on issues involving start-ups, venture capital, and M&A. Since 2024, Amit has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America for his expertise in mergers and acquisitions law and venture capital law.

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Venture-backed serial entrepreneur passionate about growing companies, building teams, and solving hard problems: 2x exits 5x honor role graduate from the school of hard knocks 4x E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year regional semifinalist Winner: Nvidia & GigOM Global A.I. Challenge Finalist: University of California Global Corp. Venturing & Innovation Founder & former CEO of Rev.I (aka LeadCrunch), a global AI B2B marketing company. Our technology delivers more intelligent and accurate intelligence for B2B sales teams. Our AI makes sense of the complex, incomplete, and often inaccurate data about millions of companies to enable unprecedented capabilities to target and engage the ideal audiences for B2B sales and marketing teams. LeadCrunch grew revenues by 7,248% between 2017 and 2019 to win the #2 spot for marketing companies following awards on the Inc 5000 list in August 2020.