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.
Rebecca Shostak is the co-founder and CEO of Flodesk, a design-first email marketing platform that reached $36 million in annual recurring revenue without a single dollar of outside funding. A Silicon Valley native who taught herself Photoshop at 10, designed merchandise for Rihanna and Linkin Park, and built a company that Y Combinator rejected - then outgrew - Shostak turned a template shop frustration into a platform serving over 100,000 small businesses worldwide. Now steering Flodesk into AI, she spent five months in Vietnam with her engineering team building proprietary technology and filing seven patents.
Steve Schoger is a Canadian visual designer and partner at Tailwind Labs, best known for co-authoring Refactoring UI with Adam Wathan - a book and video course that generated over $2.5 million in sales by teaching developers how to design beautiful interfaces. He built a 127K+ Twitter following by sharing meticulous, practical design tips, and created widely-used free resources including Heroicons, Zondicons, and Hero Patterns. His work sits at the intersection of design education and developer tools, making professional UI design accessible to programmers worldwide.