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David Durand
David Durand is the CEO and co-founder of Tizra, the Providence-based digital publishing platform that helps associations and scholarly publishers sell, organize, and deliver high-value content. A PhD computer scientist who has worked with markup languages and hypertext since 1984, he helped shape the standards that quietly run the web - XML, TEI, HyTime, XLink, and WebDAV - and co-wrote the first in-depth guide to HyTime. He taught at Brown, served as Chief Scientist at its Scholarly Technology Group, and turned decades of document-engineering research into a company that powers digital libraries for groups like the American Dental Association.
Ramu Arunachalam
Ramu Arunachalam is a General Partner at A.Capital Ventures, the San Francisco-based VC firm known for a founder-friendly approach and a portfolio spanning Notion, Anthropic, Databricks, Coinbase, and Replit. An engineer turned product manager turned investor, Ramu brings a rare depth of technical credibility to the table - he helped build VMware's first virtual switch, shaped a16z's Cloud and Big Data thesis during his time as Partner there, and now leads A.Capital's $180M Fund V with a focus on AI and crypto-native companies.
Talal Shamoon
Talal G. Shamoon is a Silicon Valley-based CEO, electrical engineer, and computer scientist who has led Intertrust Technologies since 2003. A Cornell-trained PhD, he helped pioneer digital rights management in the late 1990s and has since built Intertrust into a global leader in trusted computing, data governance, and IoT security. Under his leadership, Intertrust's patents and products now underpin billions of licensed devices worldwide, spanning entertainment, energy, and connected infrastructure.