Dave DeLong is a software craftsman with fifteen years of building iOS and macOS apps that ship on billions of devices - and, he likes to point out, some that run in outer space. A seven-year Apple veteran who worked on Siri, UIKit, Apple Maps, and Developer Evangelism, he led the WWDC app from 2013 to 2015 and helped ship the first releases of Swift, WatchKit, HomeKit, and HealthKit. He is among the top contributors of all time on Stack Overflow, a fixture of the Swift Evolution process, and the author of widely cited open-source libraries on calendrical math. He blogs at davedelong.com, speaks at conferences worldwide, and is currently building a stealth startup.
Emily Garza is a customer success executive, founder, and one of the most recognized voices in the CS profession. As Head of Customer Engagement at Unit21 - an AI-powered fraud and AML risk platform trusted by 200+ financial institutions - she oversees the entire post-sale customer journey. She is also the founder of ValueCSwithEmily, a platform and community that produces podcasts, articles, and resources for CS professionals. Named a Top 25 Customer Success Influencer in 2023 and a Top 100 CS Strategist in 2021 and 2022, Garza built her career scaling CS organizations from the ground up at companies like Fastly and Proton.ai, growing recurring revenue from $60M to $300M+ at Fastly alone.
Noel Fenton is a Founding General Partner of Trinity Ventures, the Menlo Park-based venture capital firm he co-founded in 1986. Before entering venture capital, he built two companies from scratch as CEO — Acurex (scaling revenues to $65M over a decade) and Covalent Systems (profitable at $12M in three years) — and that operating DNA defines everything about how he invests. With a BS in Chemistry from Cornell and an MBA from Stanford, Fenton has spent four decades backing enterprise software and B2B companies, with notable wins including LoopNet (IPO), ServiceMax (acquired by GE), SciQuest (IPO), and DotLoop (acquired by Zillow). Despite repeated attempts at retirement, he is still at his desk by 7:30 AM.
Anya Cheng is the Founder & CEO of Taelor, an AI-powered men's clothing rental and styling subscription service that raised $5M+ and ranked #1 in U.S. menswear rentals by GQ. A Taiwanese-American first-generation immigrant who spent 15+ years at Target, McDonald's, eBay, and Meta (where she helped launch Facebook Shopping), she pivoted to entrepreneurship to solve a problem she saw everywhere: busy professional men who needed to look sharp but hated shopping. Taelor combines AI trend forecasting with human stylists to deliver curated wardrobes to subscribers, tackling fashion's 30% waste problem along the way. Cheng also teaches at Northwestern's Medill School and mentors at 500 Startups.
Azhar Hussain is a Karachi-based software engineering leader with over 25 years of experience building and scaling engineering teams across Pakistan and the Gulf. He is the co-founder and former CTO of ChargeUp, a Pakistani fintech-EV startup, and currently serves as CTO of Aladdin Informatics, a company digitizing small retail stores across Pakistan. A 3-time hackathon champion, angel investor, prolific mentor, and IAB member at FAST-NUCES, Azhar sits at the intersection of enterprise architecture, startup culture, and Pakistan's growing tech ecosystem.