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(2)Andrew Rowland
Andrew Rowland is the founder and CEO of Classkick, a Chicago-based education technology company whose real-time digital notebook lets teachers see every student's work as it happens and respond instantly with notes, audio, or chat. A former Chicago high-school math teacher known to his students as 'Mr. Roro,' Rowland taught through Teach for America and started a school robotics program before retraining in computer science and working at Google and YouTube. He built Classkick to scale the thing he loved most about teaching: the 'aha' moment and the fast feedback loop. The platform now reaches more than half of U.S. schools and students in 180-plus countries, running on Firebase infrastructure.
Steve Peltzman
Steve Peltzman is the CEO of FeedbackNow, the company behind the smiley-face feedback buttons in airport bathrooms and security lines. A former U.S. Air Force officer who worked on the B-2 Stealth Bomber, a decade-long CIO of New York's Museum of Modern Art, and Forrester's first Chief Business Technology Officer, he spun FeedbackNow out of Forrester in September 2024 with a $9M Series A. He is turning a network of physical sensors and one-tap buttons into a real-time, AI-driven operating system for hospitals, convenience stores, airports and stadiums across 40 countries.