Jonathan Johnsongriffin is VP of Global Brand & Creative at Google, where he leads the Global Brand Studio's creative strategy. A veteran of Nike's most iconic campaigns - including 'You Can't Stop Us' and 'Just Do It Crazy Dreams' - he spent nearly five years shaping Nike's global brand narrative before joining Google in January 2023. Co-founder of the Serena Williams Design Crew program, jury member at Cannes Lions 2023 and 2024, and board trustee at Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Johnsongriffin blends industrial design roots with cultural storytelling at the intersection of sport, technology, and purpose.
Antoine Pitrou is a Paris-trained product designer based in San Francisco who turns complex digital problems into elegant, simple experiences. As the Founder and CEO of Hayes Studio and co-founder of SYLAPS (a browser-based video collaboration platform), he has shaped product design across fintech, legaltech, and SaaS - including a notable tenure as Senior Product Designer at Human Interest, the 401(k) platform redefining retirement savings for small businesses.
Haya Odeh is the co-founder and VP of Design at Replit, the cloud-based AI-powered software development platform with over 50 million users. Born in Abu Dhabi and raised in Jordan, she studied graphic design and fine arts before building the visual identity and product design of one of the world's fastest-growing developer communities. She pioneered Replit's design shift from developer-only tooling to accessible, no-code software creation - a single word change from 'deploy' to 'publish' dramatically increased app creation rates. Alongside her husband and co-founder Amjad Masad, she navigated four Y Combinator rejections before being accepted in 2018 and raising over $872 million in total funding.
John Martin co-founded Level Home in 2016 with the idea that the best technology is invisible - literally. After a snowstorm stranded him and his family at Lake Tahoe without keys, he set out to reinvent the deadbolt from scratch. The result: Level Lock, a smart lock engineered to hide entirely inside the door, preserving home aesthetics while adding full smartphone control. Martin spent decades across Microsoft, Starbucks, Apple, and Nokia before building Level into a $171M-funded company that was ultimately acquired by ASSA ABLOY in 2024 - a hardware giant recognizing that the future of the lock is invisible.
Sergie Magdalin is the co-founder and Chief Experience Officer of Webflow, the visual web development platform that lets designers build production-ready websites without writing code. Alongside his brother Vlad Magdalin and Bryant Chou, Sergie — a former freelance graphic designer and UX designer — built Webflow from a rejected Y Combinator application into a $4B company with over 3.5 million users. His design sensibility shaped Webflow's core UX, including pioneering visual interaction tools and a responsive design system that democratized professional web publishing.
Steve Holm is the CEO of Copper, a Google Workspace-native CRM serving professional services firms. One of Copper's founding team members - employee #4 - he spent five years helping grow the company from concept to $25M ARR before leaving to gain scale experience at Dropbox and Podium. He returned in August 2023 as a boomerang CEO to lead a product-focused turnaround, refocusing Copper on agencies, consulting firms, and relationship-centric businesses.
Simone Giertz is a Swedish-born inventor, YouTuber, and product designer best known as the 'Queen of Shitty Robots' - a self-styled title earned by building hilariously dysfunctional machines that helped her (and millions of viewers) overcome perfectionism. She parlayed viral robot comedy into a serious design career, founding Yetch Studio in 2022, whose products include the Every Day Calendar (sold at MoMA) and the Laundry Chair - a swivel-rail accent chair for 'half-dirty' clothes that raised nearly $1 million on Kickstarter in 2026.
Søren Abildgaard is the CEO of KeyShot, the industry-leading 3D visualization and rendering platform used by designers, engineers, and marketers worldwide. A Danish-born engineer-turned-executive, he brings two decades of engineering leadership from Zendesk, Avaya, Contentful, Adobe, Autodesk, and Microsoft to his mission of transforming KeyShot from a photorealistic rendering tool into a full-lifecycle visualization and realization platform. Having served on KeyShot's board since 2023, he stepped into the CEO role on May 1, 2025, backed by GRO Capital, with a sharp focus on AI integration, customer proximity, and strategic clarity.
Raphael Schaad is a Swiss designer-engineer and Visiting Partner at Y Combinator who built three generation-defining products: iA Writer (the minimalist writing app), Flipboard (the original social magazine), and Cron (acquired by Notion in 2022). Raised in the Swiss Alps, trained at MIT Media Lab, he brings a rare combination of technical depth and design taste that has made him a go-to mentor for founders navigating the AI era.
Teija Bean is the Head of Product Design at Forum Ventures' AI Studio, where she transforms zero-to-one AI concepts into market-ready B2B SaaS products. A decade-long storyteller at the intersection of tech and design, she has guided companies through AI, Web3, and SaaS — from ideation to funding — bringing a rare blend of creative direction, brand strategy, and hands-on product craft. Based in New York, Teija leads design across Forum Ventures' portfolio of AI-native startups, co-building companies from scratch and proving that great design is often the difference between a funded startup and a forgotten one.
Joe Gebbia is the co-founder of Airbnb and a designer-turned-billionaire who helped reshape how humanity thinks about trust between strangers. He graduated from RISD with dual degrees in graphic and industrial design, then turned air mattresses and a breakfast cereal stunt into a $100 billion company. After stepping back from Airbnb in 2022, he founded Samara - a prefab housing company - and in 2025 became America's first Chief Design Officer under the Trump administration, tasked with redesigning the federal government's 27,000+ websites to feel as intuitive as the Apple Store.
Kevin Systrom co-founded Instagram in 2010 with Mike Krieger, transforming mobile photography into a global phenomenon with over 1 billion users before selling to Facebook for $1 billion in 2012. After leaving Instagram in 2018, he launched Artifact, an AI-powered news app, later acquired by Yahoo in 2024. A Stanford-educated engineer with a passion for photography and design, Systrom serves on the boards of Walmart and Snowflake while continuing to invest in and advise tech startups from San Francisco.
Tony Fadell is the inventor of the iPod, co-creator of the iPhone, and founder of Nest Labs - the company Google bought for $3.2 billion. Known as the 'Father of the iPod,' he holds 300+ patents and now runs Build Collective from Paris, coaching 200+ deep-tech startups focused on climate, energy, food, and robotics. He also wrote the bestselling book 'Build' (2022) and designs hardware for companies like Ledger.
Jason Fried is the co-founder and CEO of 37signals, the bootstrapped software company behind Basecamp, HEY, and ONCE. A contrarian voice in tech, he has spent 25+ years arguing that smaller is smarter, calm beats hustle, and profitable beats funded. He co-wrote Rework - a Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestseller - and his TED Talk on why work doesn't happen at work has millions of views. Along with co-founder David Heinemeier Hansson, he has built one of the most influential (and deliberately small) software companies in history.
Evan Spiegel is the co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc., the company behind Snapchat, Spectacles, and Bitmoji. He built one of the few social platforms to meaningfully challenge Facebook by betting on ephemeral messaging, augmented reality, and the camera as the primary interface of human communication. At 26, he became the youngest CEO of a newly public major U.S. tech company. He turned down $3 billion from Mark Zuckerberg at 23. He holds dual American and French citizenship, is married to supermodel Miranda Kerr, and completed his Stanford degree six years after dropping out.
Nir Eyal is an Israeli-American behavioral designer, author, and angel investor best known for the 'Hooked Model' - the four-step framework used by the world's most habit-forming tech products. His 2014 book Hooked became a Silicon Valley bible for building engagement; his 2019 book Indistractable offered the antidote. His 2026 NYT bestseller Beyond Belief, co-authored with his wife Julie Li, tackles the hidden variable behind human performance: belief itself. A former Stanford lecturer, Eyal has backed companies like Canva and Kahoot, writes for the NYT and Harvard Business Review, and runs the influential blog NirAndFar.com.
Julie Zhuo is Facebook's first intern turned VP of Product Design, author of the WSJ bestseller 'The Making of a Manager,' and co-founder/CEO of Sundial - an AI-powered analytics platform backed by Sequoia Capital with OpenAI as a client. She spent 14 years at Facebook helping scale it from under 100 employees to over 2 billion users, overseeing the design of News Feed, the Like button, and Reactions. Today she runs a 95,000+ subscriber newsletter called The Looking Glass and is building what she describes as 'the analytics platform for the AI era.'
Ryan Singer spent 17 years at Basecamp (37signals) evolving from UI designer to Head of Strategy, where he invented the product development framework that became Shape Up - a methodology that replaced sprint cycles with six-week appetite-driven building cycles. After leaving in 2020 he founded Felt Presence, a consultancy operating from Portugal, where he works as a fractional CPO and teaches teams how to stop running in circles and start shipping work that matters.
Scott Belsky is an entrepreneur, author, and prolific angel investor best known for founding Behance - the world's leading platform for creative professionals - which he sold to Adobe for ~$150M in 2012. After serving as Adobe's Chief Product Officer and later Chief Strategy Officer (overseeing growth from $19B to $170B+ market cap), he departed in January 2025 to become a Partner at A24, the acclaimed indie studio, where he is founding A24 Labs. He is the author of two bestsellers - 'Making Ideas Happen' and 'The Messy Middle' - and publishes the 'Implications' newsletter on design, tech, and product strategy. With 282+ angel investments including Uber, Pinterest, Airtable, Notion, and Ramp, Belsky is one of the most active design-focused investors in tech.
Sheba Najmi is a Stanford-trained UX leader, civic technologist, and founder of Code for Pakistan — the country's first civic tech nonprofit. Over two decades she has shaped digital products for hundreds of millions of users (Yahoo Mail, LinkedIn, FreeWill) while simultaneously running a parallel mission: using open-source technology to make Pakistani government services work for ordinary people. Her work has served 2.1 million citizens, trained 600 government officials, and opened 6,000 public datasets. In 2024 she received the HUM Women Leaders Award for her contributions to civic innovation in Pakistan.