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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.