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Fardad Zabetian
Fardad Zabetian is the founder and CEO of KUDO, a New York-based platform that puts live human interpretation and AI translation inside video meetings in more than 200 languages. An engineer by training, he spent two decades building the physical hardware of multilingual conferencing - including a role in the 2012 redesign of the United Nations General Assembly Hall - before turning that expertise into a cloud platform. He has founded five companies, invested in more than 20 startups, and built his career around a single idea: that language should not be the border between people.
Snow Huo
Snow Huo is the co-founder and CEO of Langfinity (formerly Byrdhouse), a San Francisco AI company building real-time voice and video translation across 100+ languages for global teams. A former remote Chinese interpreter and product leader at Groupon, Chowbus, and Disney, she moved to the US at 17 and was teased for not speaking English - an experience that became the founding seed for a tool that lets people understand each other instantly, no matter the language they speak.
Spence Green
Spence Green is the co-founder and CEO of LILT AI, a San Francisco-based enterprise AI translation platform that has raised $95.5M across three funding rounds. A Stanford PhD in computer science and University of Virginia computer engineering graduate, Green built LILT in 2015 alongside co-founder John DeNero after both worked on Google Translate. His research career spans Northrop Grumman defense systems, Johns Hopkins NLP research, and Google, where he developed English-to-Arabic translation models. LILT now serves government agencies including the U.S. Air Force and global enterprises, combining adaptive machine translation with human oversight. Green's guiding philosophy - 'the world belongs to the discontented' - reflects his conviction that universal multilingual information access remains an unsolved problem.