Jonathan Widawski (known as Jo) is the co-founder and CEO of Maze, a continuous product discovery platform that lets teams run user research at the speed of product development. A veteran product designer and former UX instructor who worked with McKinsey, Rocket Internet, and PSG, he launched Maze in 2018 after experiencing firsthand how impossible it was for product teams to get reliable user data fast enough to matter. Under his leadership, Maze grew 6x during the pandemic, expanded to 60,000+ brands across 35 countries, and raised $60M total — including a $40M Series B in 2022 led by Felicis Ventures.
Nishant Mungali is Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Mindtickle, the AI-powered revenue enablement platform that became a unicorn in 2021. An IIT Guwahati-trained designer and engineer, he co-founded Mindtickle in 2011 alongside Krishna Depura, Mohit Garg, and Deepak Diwakar after experimenting with online gamification through a group called TeraMeraIdea. Mungali has been the product and design force behind Mindtickle's evolution from a gamified onboarding tool to a $1.2 billion platform serving over 2,000 enterprises globally with AI-powered sales coaching, training, and readiness capabilities.
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.
Nilesh Jadhav is the CEO and Co-Founder of AMISEQ Inc., a Milpitas, California-based cybersecurity and intelligent automation company he co-founded in 2017. With over 18 years in IT — more than 12 of them in Silicon Valley — he has built AMISEQ into a globally recognized firm serving Fortune 500 clients across cybersecurity, RPA, product engineering, and UX design. In 2025, AMISEQ launched Z-Deploy, a zero-touch automation platform that compresses multi-day security deployments into under two hours, and expanded aggressively into the Middle East.
Sidharth Saxena is the Co-Founder and CEO of Docyt, a Santa Clara-based AI accounting automation platform serving small and medium-sized businesses. An IIT Guwahati industrial design graduate who later earned a master's from Indiana University, he spent years as a UX designer at Oracle and VMware before co-founding Docyt with fellow IIT alumnus Sugam Pandey in 2016. Under his leadership, Docyt has raised $27.2M in total funding - including a $12M pre-Series B in August 2025 - and built its proprietary High Precision Accounting Intelligence (HpAI) engine trained on 128 billion data points across 20+ industry verticals, delivering 90%+ reductions in accounting review time for its clients.
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.
Kevin Hale is the co-founder of Wufoo, the online form builder acquired by SurveyMonkey in 2011 for $35 million - a 30,000%+ return on just $118,000 raised. A fine arts graduate turned product visionary, he spent seven years as a Y Combinator partner shaping how thousands of founders think about product design, customer love, and growth. Known online as @ilikevests, he's an angel investor, startup educator, and one of the rare designers who built a profitable SaaS company before most people had heard the term.
David Kadavy is a bestselling author, designer, and creative productivity expert who reverse-engineered design principles for developers, advised a startup that Google acquired, and built a location-independent career from a Nebraska cubicle. His books - including Design for Hackers, Mind Management Not Time Management, and Digital Zettelkasten - have sold 100,000+ copies in 13 languages. He lives in a cabin outside Medellín, Colombia, publishes his income reports publicly, and argues that creativity is about managing your mind, not your calendar.
Matt Birchler is a UX/UI product designer, tech blogger, YouTuber, indie app developer, and podcaster based in Illinois, USA. By day he designs at payments tech company NMI; by night he runs Birchtree - one of the longest-running independent Apple blogs on the internet, active since 2010 - and produces the 'A Better Computer' YouTube channel. He co-hosts the Comfort Zone podcast on MacStories, has built 8+ apps on the App Store, and operates a paid membership newsletter. His editorial independence is a point of pride: he never leaned on ads for income, keeping his voice authentically his own.
Ejaz Asi is a Lahore-based digital strategist and serial technopreneur with over 20 years of experience at the crossroads of culture, technology, and design. Co-founder of Chameleon Worldwide - a full-service digital agency serving clients from North America to the Middle East - and ALRUG, a handmade carpet e-commerce venture, he is a passionate advocate of User-Centered Design and Ubiquitous Computing. Beyond building businesses, he shaped the next generation as visiting faculty at Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, where he created the institution's first-ever Digital Strategy course. Father of three, avid reader, and a persistent optimist about what technology can do for people.
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.