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Ivan Smolnikov
Ivan Smolnikov is the founder and CEO of Smartcat, an AI-powered language and content platform used by more than 1,000 corporate customers, including roughly 20% of the Fortune 500. A physicist by training, he co-founded ABBYY Language Solutions in 2004 and led it for over a decade before spinning out Smartcat as an independent company in 2016 to replace the slow, manual translation-agency model with software. He is building toward a future of work where human experts collaborate with AI teammates to unlock large productivity gains for global enterprises.
Vinay Manglani
Vinay Manglani is the co-founder and CEO of VigourSoft Global Solutions, a Pune-headquartered IT services and software engineering firm with offices across India, the US, and Poland. With over two decades of engineering and leadership experience at companies like Siebel Systems and Symantec, he built VigourSoft in 2016 into a 50+ person shop delivering cloud orchestration, AI/ML, healthcare analytics, software localization, and DevOps solutions for global enterprises. Based across San Francisco and Pune, he bridges Silicon Valley product thinking with India's engineering depth.
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.