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By day, Zoia Kozakov heads up device-based Digital Wallets (Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay, etc.) at JPMorgan Chase, enabling millions of customers to transact using digital payment capabilities. By night, Zoia is on the Advisory Board of WIN: Women in Innovation and hosts a podcast of the same name, which has 40,000+ listeners from 250+ countries. On the side, Zoia also runs her own nonprofit focused on scholarships and financial literacy for creatives. She is also a Venture Partner at Lalotte Ventures, an early stage VC.

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Quincy Olatunde is a dynamic Product Management executive with a passion for People and Human-Centric Solutions, backed by the power of Data. With a profound understanding of human needs and desires, he has mastered the art of crafting products that resonate deeply with consumers. He knows that data is the heartbeat of every successful product. With an exceptional ability to harness the power of data-driven insights, he helps drive informed decisions, measure outcomes, and optimize products for growth and scalability.

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April Dunford is an accomplished startup executive with a 25-year tenure in B2B technology, where she led marketing, product, and sales teams across seven successful startups, many of which were acquired by major corporations like IBM, Siebel Systems, and SAP. With acquisitions totaling over two billion dollars, her expertise lies in positioning and launching products, a skill she further honed as a consultant for over 200 companies. Author of the best-sellers "Obviously Awesome" and "Sales Pitch," April's work centers on a systematic approach to positioning technology products.

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Zane Van Dusen is the Global Head of Risk & Investment Analytics Products at Bloomberg. Zane began this role in 2019 and under his leadership, the group has become one of the industry's top data analytics providers, supplying innovative risk metrics, such as Bloomberg's award-winning Liquidity Assessment solution (LQA), based on Bloomberg's vast database of market data. Zane works with quants and engineers to build data-driven analytics that address a wide range of client needs from investment research to portfolio construction to regulatory reporting.

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Holly Hester-Reilly blends her extensive background in scientific research with over 15 years of experience leading product initiatives as the founder and CEO of H2R Product Science, where she applies her expertise to teach the science of high-growth product development. Holly's unique approach combines her years as a Columbia University research scientist with her deep involvement in the tech industry, where she has worked with startups, high-growth companies, and large enterprises such as FalconX, MediaMath, Shutterstock, The Lean Startup Co, Unilever, Capital One, and Weight Watchers.

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John Haggerty is a seasoned product leader with a robust track record of driving innovation and strategic growth in the tech industry. His expertise lies in integrating business constraints across multiple domains, deeply understanding user motivations, and guiding product strategy with data-driven insights. At Highway.ai, John has been pivotal in leading cross-functional teams, fostering collaboration, and encouraging product leaders' contributions.

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Prerna Singh is a high-velocity self-starter with a demonstrated ability to set aggressive goals and lead teams to achieve them. Experienced in combining strategic insights and human-centered design principles to deliver high client and product value. Driven strategy and execution at various phases of the product lifecycle, from conceptualization and development to product launch, while managing product, engineering, design, and business teams.

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Sean Flaherty joined ITX Corp. in 1999 as a managing partner and EVP of Innovation. In that role, he directs his energy at the intersection of software product development, human motivation, and organizational leadership. At the core of Sean’s belief system is a passion for understanding human motivation – i.e., what makes humans tick. A self-proclaimed “motivation nerd,” Sean’s intellectual pursuits are embedded in his professional goals. At ITX, he is primarily motivated by helping clients solve complex business problems with technology so that they can move, touch, and inspire the world.

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Sahil is the founder and CEO of Gumroad. Gumroad exists to help every creative earn a living selling the stuff they make directly to their audience. Founded in 2011, the company took angel, then venture, funding from names including Max Levchin and Kleiner Perkins to scale, grow and become a unicorn business. In 2016, having failed to raise further funding, the company moved from 25 employees to one, Sahil, who radically rethought the purpose of the company. Since then, the revenue generated by creators on the platform have grown to over $10 million per month.

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Gabrielle Bufrem is a fractional CPO and Product Coach. She also runs a course on Building Impactful Products. Previously, she was the Head of Product at Little Otter Health - a mental health for kids startup that raised over 22M. Gabrielle has trained hundreds of Product Managers from startups to Fortune 500 companies and is a speaker in conferences around the world where she talks about product leadership, decision-making, and building impactful products.

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Dennis Crowley is a technology entrepreneur working at the intersection of the real world & digital world. His work focuses on creating things that make everyday life feel a little more fun and playful. He's a Co-Founder at LivingCities ("turning real-world places into 3D playable spaces"), a Co-Founder at Street FC ("building the biggest football club on the planet"), and is the Co-Founder/Co-Chair at Foursquare, one of the world's leading location technology platforms (and early pioneers of using game mechanics to drive real-world behaviors).