Laurel Woerner is a venture capital platform strategist, consultant, and founder-success leader who has spent a decade building the connective tissue between investors and founders. After co-creating the community function at Work-Bench Ventures and defining the brand voice at AI scheduling startup x.ai, she became Platform Manager and then Director of Platform at RRE Ventures, where she transformed 25 years of firm relationships into a living, self-organizing network. Through her consultancy LTW Consulting, she has advised firms including Union Square Ventures, Bessemer, and Frontline Ventures on platform excellence. Today she serves in founder-success and platform roles at both Quiet Capital and Infinity Constellation, the self-described first AI holding company, with a mission she keeps simple: get founders from zero to one to one hundred.
Lia Haberman is a creator economy strategist, educator, and the author of ICYMI — a weekly newsletter read by 45,000+ marketers, brand social teams, and creators. Teaching social media and influencer marketing at UCLA Extension since 2018, she built her reputation as an independent, no-nonsense analyst who helps brands and creators navigate a landscape that reinvents itself every six months. With clients ranging from Google to Disney and a Threads following that dwarfs her Instagram audience, she practices what she preaches.
Gregor Hohpe is a transformation architect, prolific author, and sought-after speaker who has spent decades helping organizations bridge the gap between boardroom strategy and engine-room engineering. Co-author of the canonical 'Enterprise Integration Patterns' (2003), he coined the concept of the 'Architect Elevator' - the idea that great architects must fluently move between executive suites and server racks. A former Google Cloud Technical Director, Singapore Smart Nation Fellow, and Chief Architect at Allianz SE, Hohpe now runs the Architect Elevator platform, writing, teaching, and consulting on IT strategy, cloud, and the art of making everyone else in the room smarter.