Carolyn Joshua is the President and CEO of Trilyon, Inc., a Silicon Valley-based IT staffing and workforce solutions firm she has led since 2009. Under her leadership, Trilyon has grown into a globally recognized, women-owned and minority-certified enterprise serving Fortune 500 companies including Google, Cisco, Samsung, Hitachi, and Oracle across North America, LATAM, EMEA, and APAC. A champion of diversity, inclusion, and women's empowerment, she serves as Co-Chair of USPAACC WISE and has been recognized with the J.P. Morgan Unity in Action Award (2025), the SheLeads Impact Award (2024), and named a Top 50 Women Leader of San Francisco (2023).
Igor Repeta is the CEO of Empat Tech, a Kyiv-based software development and outsourcing firm with nearly 200 engineers serving clients across 17 countries. He rose from Project Manager to Chief Executive Officer in four years, formally taking the helm in February 2026 after co-authoring the company's operational playbook as COO. Empat ranked #5 globally on the Clutch 100 Fastest-Growing Companies list in 2026 and holds back-to-back #1 Best IT Employer rankings in Ukraine (DOU 2024 and 2025). Beyond commercial growth, Repeta launched two civic tech projects during Russia's invasion of Ukraine: RevengeFor, a military fundraising platform channeling funds to ComeBackAlive, and HealUA, a peer-to-peer medical consultation platform for Ukrainian doctors.
Israel Felix is the CEO and Founder of CBQA Solutions Inc., a Pleasanton, California-based technology services firm specializing in QA automation, software development, cybersecurity, and cloud migrations. With 30+ years of experience spanning Nortel Networks, Cisco Systems, and Veeva Systems, Felix built CBQA from scratch in 2015 into an 80-person operation with offices in the US, Mexico, and Colombia, serving Fortune 500 clients including Honda, Toyota, Bio-Rad, iRhythm, and United Airlines. He is also co-founder and CTO of Auditate, a fixed asset management platform, and a member of LBAN (Latino Business Action Network) Cohort 16.
Mikael Carlsson is the CEO of Forte Group, an AI-native product development partner with 900+ specialists and 25 years of history. A Swedish-born technology executive with 20+ years in digital engineering, he scaled Lohika 5X before joining Forte in October 2022. Under his leadership, Forte Group closed 2025 at an all-time financial high and has positioned itself around AI transformation, data engineering, and outcome-driven software delivery for Fortune 500 and mid-market clients across North America, Europe, and Latin America.
Valerio Adrián Anacleto is the co-founder and CEO of Epidata, Latin America's first innovation outsourcing company, which he built from a three-person startup in Buenos Aires in 2003 into a 900-person firm operating across 10 Latin American countries and the United States with $30M in annual revenue. A product of Argentina's public university system who started working at age 10 in the La Matanza district, Anacleto also serves as First Vice President of CESSI, Argentina's software industry chamber, and is a longtime professor at the University of Buenos Aires and Universidad Católica Argentina.
Chike Agbai is the CEO and Founder of Azumo, a San Francisco-based nearshore software development company he launched in 2016 after nearly two decades on Wall Street advising over $100 billion in enterprise software transactions for clients like Oracle, Salesforce, and Dell. A Stanford Economics graduate, he pivoted from investment banking to entrepreneurship on the conviction that exceptional technical talent exists everywhere - not just in traditional tech hubs. Under his leadership, Azumo has grown to 110+ employees across 20+ countries in Latin America, earned a 4.9-star rating on Clutch, served 100+ clients including Facebook, Twitter, and Discovery Channel, and been recognized among the '10 Smartest Companies of the Year 2025.' He credits his grandfather's migration from Louisiana to Los Angeles in the 1930s as the spark behind his own entrepreneurial ambition.