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Simon Loong and the advantages of starting over
After 15 years in banking, Simon Loong went back to school and came home with a different plan. The WeLab founder is still finding reasons to become a beginner.
ICT Hub learned to put innovation on the payroll
A Belgrade startup hub found a paying audience inside established companies. Its story turns on a refused grant, a five-day experiment and the unglamorous business of making new ideas useful.
Swarmia wants your code to spend less time waiting
The Finnish engineering intelligence company follows the queues, handoffs, and habits that slow software teams down. Now it is asking whether AI makes the whole operation faster - or merely produces more work for the queue.
Sega Cheng Left Google to Build the Company That Could Survive Him
He traded a coveted engineering career for a karaoke startup, then rebuilt it around cloud, data and AI. The enduring project was never a single product. It was learning how to change without losing the plot.
Deb Wolf Knows What to Build When the Playbook Runs Out
Across 35-plus years in technology marketing, she has learned to prefer the difficult middle: the moment when a promising company needs a system, a team, and an honest answer about what comes next.
Eileen Canady Is Giving AEC’s AI Conversation a Human Voice
The English major who learned finance now translates AI for an industry built on precision - with research, disciplined storytelling and a microphone passed to the people doing the work.
Nicole Sanders Is Building the Human Layer Enterprise AI Forgot
The Foxtrot Services co-founder learned inside Lockheed Martin and Palantir that complicated systems succeed only when people trust them. Now she is turning that lesson into a company built around the unglamorous work between an AI demo and a dependable operating tool.
Andrea Tarrell Built the Missing Middle Between Marketing and Machines
She entered the Salesforce ecosystem for a free trip to San Francisco. She left it, eight years and eight months after founding Sercante, having proved that strategy, systems and human judgment belong in the same room.
Dux Raymond Sy
Dux Raymond Sy is a technology executive at AvePoint, a Microsoft Regional Director, and a long-time Microsoft MVP who has spent more than two decades helping commercial, education, and public sector organizations navigate digital transformation. He is the author of 'SharePoint for Project Management,' the creator of the LinkedIn Learning course 'How to Build Your Personal Brand,' and host of the #ShiftHappens podcast. A sought-after keynote speaker, he has presented to more than 25,000 people at events worldwide including Microsoft Ignite and the Gartner Digital Workplace Summit.
Pandatron
Pandatron is an AI change-activation platform that helps large enterprises turn strategy into execution. Its conversational AI runs private, role-tailored coaching conversations with thousands of employees at once, then feeds leaders real-time behavioral intelligence on readiness, resistance and risk. Founded in Helsinki and now with a San Francisco presence, Pandatron works with Fortune 500 companies including SAP, Panasonic, Mitsubishi, Merck and Skanska to make coaching-driven change dramatically cheaper and more measurable.
Section
Section is a New York-based AI workforce-transformation company that helps enterprises turn expensive AI licenses into measurable behavior change. Founded in 2019 by NYU Stern professor Scott Galloway as the business-education startup Section4 and led by CEO Greg Shove, the company pivoted hard into AI in 2023. Its software - Section HQ, Section Coach and the ProfAI assistant - pairs certification, coaching and use-case discovery to move employees from 'I have a ChatGPT login' to actually applying AI on the job. Customers include Johnson & Johnson, Nike, Unilever, Okta and Horizon Media.
Workhelix
Workhelix is an enterprise AI-measurement company that breaks jobs down into individual tasks - hundreds of thousands of them per client - and scores each one for how much generative AI can actually help. Founded by economists Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, and Daniel Rock alongside CEO James Milin, the company pairs proprietary task-scoring software with data scientists to tell C-suite leaders where to deploy AI, how it is being adopted, and what return it is producing. It raised a $15M Series A in February 2025 and counts Wayfair, Coursera, Accenture, and BAYADA among its customers.
100mentors
100mentors is an Athens-based company that helps organizations adopt generative AI - with people, not just tools, at the center. Founded in 2015 as an on-demand mentorship platform that connected 21,000+ students across 17 countries with 2,500+ mentors from top universities and companies, it pivoted with the rise of generative AI into an enterprise partner offering AI upskilling bootcamps (GenAI Academy), an AI-powered meeting tool (Wiserwork), and the GenAI Summit, positioned as one of Europe's largest generative-AI leadership conferences.
Yiorgos Nikoletakis
Yiorgos Nikoletakis is the co-founder and CEO of 100mentors, an Athens- and San Francisco-based edtech company that started as a platform connecting young people with mentors worldwide and has since pivoted into generative-AI skilling for organizations. A Fulbright scholar with degrees from AUEB, Ohio State, and Columbia, he describes his job as teaching people to ask better questions, use GenAI well, and keep humans in the loop. His personal motto: arguing like he's right, listening like he's wrong.
Foxtrot Services
Foxtrot Services is a Washington, D.C.-based, Palantir-certified professional services firm that designs, implements and scales Palantir Foundry and AIP solutions for enterprise, startup and government customers. Founded and led by former Palantir operators, the team specializes in moving organizations past stalled AI pilots into production - through AI use-case acceleration, MVP development, data engineering and operational 'control tower' solutions across security, manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, energy and global supply chain.
Stephanie Ferguson
Stephanie Ferguson is Corporate Vice President of Microsoft's Global Demand Center (GDC), the unified engine that powers all of Microsoft's global digital customer engagement. With 25+ years at Microsoft and a career that spans IBM, the insurance industry, and a family fashion business, she built the GDC from the ground up — combining data, digital marketing, and AI into a single connected sales-and-marketing machine. A Wharton MBA and Dartmouth economics graduate, she is also a passionate advocate for equity in education and served as Board President of the Bellevue Schools Foundation.