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Alexander Asseily is the founder and Executive Chairman of State. State is a global opinion network that enables any publisher site to give its visitors a light-touch and expressive way to share opinions that can be instantly networked and aggregated for deeper social engagement and insights.

Alexander is the co-founder of consumer technology company and industry-leading mobile lifestyle wearables company Jawbone, serving as Jawbone’s CEO through 2007 and as Executive Chairman until January 2015. In 2013 he co-founded Chiaro Technology, the women’s technology company behind the award-winning pelvic exercise tracker Elvie launched in 2015.

Alexander grew up in Beirut and London before receiving his BSc in Product Design and MSc in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. He is an investor and advisor to a number of startup companies and charities in the USA and Europe, and in 2015 was appointed to sit on the Council of Google’s Digital News Initiative Fund.

Igor Faletski is CEO and CoFounder of Mobify. He is passionate about making mobile commerce simpler, more effective and truly personal. Together with a fantastic team of engineers, designers, data scientists and marketers, I work on products and services Mobify customers rely on for all their mobile commerce needs.

Today, Mobify is the #1 mobile commerce platform powering Beyond the Rack, Ann Taylor, Crocs, Thinkgeek, Starbucks, Petflow, British Telecom, Expedia, Garmin, Bosch, Siemens, Charles Tyrwhitt, Condé Nast and many more leading retailers around the world.

Pocket is the Founding Partner of SoGal Ventures. Her mission is to close the diversity gap in entrepreneurship within our generation. With that in mind, she founded SoGal, a global community influencing 50,000 diverse entrepreneurs and investors in 20+ countries. We empower, inspire and connect entrepreneurial minds with high-impact communities, digital media, funding resources, networking, and startup advisory.

Pocket was Forbes 2016 30 Under 30 Asia in Venture Capital & Finance and LinkedIn 2015 Top Voices in VC & Entrepreneurship. She has been featured in Forbes, Harper's BAZAAR, BBC World News, The Huffington Post, Inc., The Straits Times, Channel News Asia, The Business Times, Next Shark, e27, DBS Treasures campaign, East West Bank, CLEO Magazine etc and is a Tedx and keynote speaker.

David's newest global venture is The Plastic Bank, the worlds only organization to monetize plastic waste. The Plastic Bank provides incentive to the worlds disadvantaged to collect and trade plastic waste as a currency. The Plastic Bank solves poverty and reduces plastic waste by revealing the value in Ocean Bound Plastic waste. David was recently named one of the world’s most compassionate entrepreneurs by Salt magazine. He is also Founder and Thought Leader at The Core Values Institute, a consulting and Global thought leadership platform. He has also been the President of the Vancouver Chapter of the Entrepreneurs' Organisation.

Mark is Owner of Multiply. He holds a recently awarded doctorate with research specialisms around branding, brand storytelling and organisational culture.
His career spans advertising (WPP – Ogilvy Group), integrated marketing as MD of KLP Euro RSCG (part of the worldwide HAVAS Group) and founding partner of Multiply. He is also a fully fledged creative capability, planning and NPD facilitator and in his spare time a lover of the sweet science.

Tarry Giannakos is Co-Creator/Founder of Revolver Coffee. Revolver is about two things: Coffee, and the experience that should go with it. Their coffee program is simple, but precise. All drinks are made fresh to order - after you order it, never before - from a rotating menu of our favourite coffees from world class roasters around North America. It's quite simple: We order what we like, and we don't order what we don't. We like being consistent, so we measure and weigh every variable there is, until there isn't. And we like details, of which coffee is but one of many in a finely tuned life. But it's such an important one, isn't it?