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Yoni Bloch
Yoni Bloch is an Israeli rock musician turned technology founder who runs eko, the New York company that invented seamless interactive, branching video. He started eko (originally Interlude) with his bandmates in 2011 after they wanted to make a music video the viewer could steer and found no tool existed to build it. eko went on to power the interactive version of Bob Dylan's 'Like a Rolling Stone,' work with Coldplay, Intel, Pepsi and Disney, and sign a $250 million joint venture with Walmart. Today Bloch is pushing eko toward AI-driven, shoppable, choice-driven video for retail and entertainment.
Vincent Yang
Vincent Yang is the co-founder and CEO of Firework, the world's largest AI-powered video commerce platform. A serial entrepreneur with a Stanford MBA, he previously co-founded EverString (acquired by ZoomInfo) and built a career spanning investment banking at J.P. Morgan and venture investing at Summit Partners. At Firework, Yang raised $270M+ in funding - including a $150M SoftBank Vision Fund 2-led Series B - and built a platform used by 1,500+ global brands to embed shoppable live and short-form video directly on their owned digital properties. Named to Ad Age's Tech Power List 2024, he is now betting on agentic AI as the next frontier of commerce.