Nolan Bushnell is a technology pioneer, entrepreneur, engineer and recently, a published author. He is best known as the founder of Atari Corporation and Chuck E. Cheese’s Pizza Time Theater. Often cited as the Father of the video game industry, Mr. Bushnell introduced videogames to the masses with “Pong” and many other legendary games, as well as the home videogame console system with multiple game cartridges.
Over the past four decades, Bushnell has been a prolific entrepreneur, founding numerous companies, including: Catalyst Technologies, the first technology incubator; Etak, the first car navigation system whose mapping is still the basis for car navigation systems today; Androbot, a personal robotics company; and ByVideo, the first online ordering system, which allowed customers to order and pay for product from kiosks. In the process, he pioneered many of the workplace innovations that have long made Silicon Valley a magnet for creative talent.
With his latest startup, BrainRush, he is intent on fixing education with software that uses gamification principles to “addict” students to learning.
Nolan famously was also the first and only boss Steve Jobs ever had when he worked at Atari.  In Walter Isaacson’s book “Steve Jobs”, Nolan is described as one of the most important mentors and influences in Steve’s life.  Nolan published his first book in 2013, “Finding the Next Steve Jobs”.  In it he explains how to find, hire and nurture creative people.

Netflix, Inc. (Netflix), incorporated on August 29, 1997, is a provider of Internet television network. The Company has over 57 million streaming members in over 50 countries. The Company's members can watch more than two billion hours of television (TV) shows and movies per month, including original series, documentaries and feature films in Internet-connected screen. The Company has three operating segments: Domestic streaming, International streaming and Domestic DVD. The Domestic and International streaming segments derive revenues from monthly membership fees for services consisting of streaming content. The Domestic DVD segment derives revenues from monthly membership fees for services consisting of DVD-by-mail. Netflix's members can watch TV shows and movies directly on their TVs, computers and mobile devices. The Company offers streaming service both domestically and internationally.
The Company's International streaming segment offers streaming service in Canada, Latin America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Belgium and Luxembourg. Its members can play, pause and resume watching, all without commercials or commitments. Additionally, in the United States, Netflix's members can receive DVDs to their homes.

Joshua is the Technical Lead for the Software Infrastructure team within Under Armour Connected Fitness.  He joined MapMyFitness as a Software Developer and has been along for the ride as the original „Operations“ team of two turned into a team of six Software Infrastructure Developers working with six Site Reliability Engineers. Over the last 24 months Under Armour Connected Fitness has been transitioning from monolith to SOA and at the same time shifting from traditional Operations to Devops.  For every benefit of these migrations there has been a cost associated.

Technology leader who enjoys working on scaling engineering practices, software products and teams in high-growth environment. Kinshuk specializes in building internet consumer applications and has worked in various product domains like e-commerce, travel, gaming, digital content and entertainment. As a technologist he has experience working on high volume and highly available distributed systems, several class of data science problems ranging from user-personalization to different kinds of optimizations. Lately he has been excited about all the developments in several emerging platforms. As one of the early Spotify engineers in the US, Kinshuk has helped scale the Spotify engineering efforts in the US. In his free time Kinshuk loves running and programming legos, though not doing both at the same time.

Rajesh Wunnava is Director of Product Management, Personalization and Insights for Gracenote responsible for all product strategy, development and business planning related to the company’s addressable advertising and mobile initiatives.

Prior to joining Gracenote, Rajesh was Senior Director, Product Management at Warner Music Group where he owned responsibility for global product data driving product distribution and monetization. He played a key role in the company’s $750M acquisition of EMI Parlophone in Europe by leading product acquisition, integration and the global go-to-market execution. During his career, Rajesh has also worked and consulted for major brand advertisers and agencies including Procter & Gamble, Unilever and J. Walter Thompson/Mindshare handling multi-million dollar media planning and buying budgets.

Dave McKinstry is a Developer Technology Strategist for Microsoft and currently helps enterprise customer understand and apply modern practices to streamline their development.  With over 25 years of experience, Dave has played all roles in the development lifecycle: Scrum master, project manager, coach, tester, operations, architect, and primarily developer.  Although he assists customers in many areas of modern development, from languages and platforms to cloud and mobile, much of his efforts today focus on DevOps and process optimization.

Michael Harris is the Chief Technology Officer and a Fellow for GlobalMed and is responsible for the software, hardware and industrial design teams that develop their telehealth and telemedicine suite of products.
Harris has earned acclaim for his award-winning product designs and research coverage of the video software industries and holds multiple patents in light polarization.
Michael Harris has been in the camera and video conferencing industry for more than 25 years. Prior to co-founding GlobalMed in 2002, Harris was the Chief Technology Officer for PAR Technologies where he lead the charge in mobile video developments and software suite, and in 1995 was President and Chief Operation Officer for iREZ Research where he managed over the Sales, Marketing and DevOps of the company’s mobile video camera and h.324 video conferencing software technologies. Harris was also the Director of Marketing and Digital technologies at VideoLabs during a successful IPO in 1992.

Ajay Rajkumar received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. Dr. Rajkumar currently leads the SDN and Programmable Networks domain in Mobile Networks CTO at Nokia. Dr. Rajkumar has received Bell Labs President’s Award for Design and Prototype of Base Station Router (BSR) which was used to develop flat IP architectures across many different cellular standards deployments and has since its early days evolved into Edge Computing and Content paradigm. He has received another Bell Labs President’s Silver award for the first prototype that demonstrated seamless interworking across heterogeneous access networks for real-time applications.  Dr. Rajkumar led the mobile industry to develop standards that enable ubiquitous coverage across heterogeneous access and was the Founding Chair of IEEE 802.21 for Media Independent Handover. He was also a Member of the IEEE 802 Executive Committee Board. Dr. Rajkumar has been a frequent invited speaker at research labs, universities, industry and technical panels. He has many publications and has received more than 25 patents in very diverse areas of technology.