Michael DeLacey is the US CEO of Symetri, the global AECO and manufacturing technology consultancy he helped build from a two-person New England Autodesk reseller in 1994 into a 500-person organization spanning the US and Europe. As co-founder of Microdesk — which Symetri acquired in 2022 and rebranded in 2023 — DeLacey has spent three decades embedding building information modeling, enterprise asset management, and cloud-based digital workflows into the design, construction, and operations practices of architects, engineers, and manufacturers. His conviction: teach people to fish, not fish for them.
Jason Knight is co-founder and CEO of Lotlinx, a VIN-specific AI platform that helps auto dealerships manage and market individual vehicles with data-driven precision. After 25+ years building and exiting private equity-backed businesses across automotive, CPG, and manufacturing, Knight co-founded Lotlinx in 2012 and formally became CEO in March 2024. Under his leadership, the company grew to $21.7M in revenue and won the 2024 AutoTech Breakthrough Award for best use of AI in automotive technology.
Michael Tsai is an indie Mac developer and the one-person operation behind C-Command Software, creator of SpamSieve - the gold-standard Bayesian spam filter for macOS that has been filtering email since 2002. He also runs one of the most respected daily link blogs in the Apple developer community, curating Mac and iOS developer news with original commentary since 2002. His roundups of community reaction to Apple events are so authoritative that Daring Fireball's John Gruber regularly links to them as the definitive overview.