Florian Jourda was the first hired engineer at Box, the cloud service for enterprise content management and collaboration. In the 8 years he worked there, he saw the startup grow from 7 to 1300 employees and go public. As Principal Architect, he was involved building many strategic products and solving Box most critical technical problems. He also played a key role in defining and maintaining the amazing company culture during the explosive growth. After 10 years in Silicon Valley, Florian is now moving back to France to bring back best practices about technology and organizational scaling as a permanent advisor of the French accelerator TheFamily. He is currently working on a new startup project and is travelling through Asia to get inspired by the problems that entrepreneurs are trying to solve in the region.

80'li yıllardan beri bilgisayar programlamaya gönül vermiş, 2001-2012 arasında İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Web Uygumala Geliştirme Bölümünde "Lead Developer / Engineer" olarak çalışmış, Commodore'cu AmigA'cı python + ruby programcısı "vigo" I met my first computer in 1984 which was Commodore 16. Due to its poor game graphics, i decided to learn programming. I still keep the C16 User Manual. I learned how to draw sine dots, circles etc. Before i graduate high school, my grand mother got me a Commodore 64 with 1541 Drive. I started to watch Intros in front of the cracked games. I clearly remember the first intro i tweaked. It was Papillion's intro (crack group) and i some how managed to change scroll text via action replay's cartridge power! There were no open-source or github thoses days (: All you can do is to tweak memory via MONITOR command. I managed to learn 6502 Assembly Language on Commodore 64. Later, my family got me an Amiga 500. I quickly jumped to 68000 Assembly and my yoda Ghost/Bronx taught me how to code with and ide: Master Seka. Long story short, i learned many programming languages. Currently i make my money from Python, Django and Web Application Development.

San Francisco'daki Y Combinator'ın ortaklarından Adora Cheung daha önce Homejoy adında saatliği 20 dolardan temizlik hizmeti veren bir ev – temizlikçi arabulucu sitesi kurucu ortaklarındandı. 2010-2015 yılları arasında Homejoy beş turda 64,2 milyon dolarlık yatırım aldı. Homejoy aynı zamanda Y Combinator girişimiydi.

Steve Blank is a retired serial entrepreneur-turned-educator who has changed how startups are built and how entrepreneurship is taught. He created the Customer Development methodology that launched the lean startup movement, and wrote about the process in his first book, The Four Steps to the Epiphany. His second book, The Startup Owner's Manual, is a step-by-step guide to building a successful company. Blank teaches the Customer Development methodology in his Lean LaunchPad classes at Stanford University, U.C. Berkeley, Columbia University, UCSF, NYU, the National Science Foundation and the I-Corps @NIH. He writes regularly about entrepreneurship at www.steveblank.com.

David S. Rose has been described as "New York's Archangel" by Forbes, "patriarch of Silicon Alley" by Red Herring, and a "world conquering entrepreneur" by BusinessWeek. He is a serial entrepreneur, an Inc 500 CEO, and one of the most active angel investors in the country. David is CEO of Gust, which operates the standard collaboration platform for over 250,000 startups and 50,000 early-stage investors, and is the author of the New York Times best selling book "Angel Investing: The Gust Guide to Making Money & Having Fun Investing in Startups". He founded and is Chairman Emeritus of New York Angels and is on the boards of KoolSpan, Waywire, Social Bicycles, Miner and TekServe. As an angel investor, he has helped to fund over 90 startup companies, with acquisitions by companies including Facebook, Google, Intel, Amazon, and other industry leaders. David founded the Finance, Entrepreneurship & Economics track at Singularity University, and is a keynote speaker on the future of business and technology. Dubbed by BusinessWeek "The Pitch Coach" for his ability to help entrepreneurs perfect their fundraising skills, he is a frequent guest lecturer at business schools including Yale, Harvard, Columbia, NYU and Venture for America. David founded wireless Internet pioneer AirMedia in 1988, and in 1997 was honored as a finalist for Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Earlier in his career David was co-founder of one of the world’s first computer training firms, and spent a decade developing technology-enhanced real estate. Prior to that, he served as Deputy Director of the New York office of US Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. A native New Yorker, David has a B.A. from Yale (where he is an Associate Fellow of Pierson College), an M.B.A. in Finance from Columbia Business School and a D.Eng. (hc) from Stevens Institute of Technology. He is a graduate of the New York City public school system and Horace Mann High School. Specialties:Entrepreneurial executive and investor with extensive experience in high technology, angel and venture investments, finance and government.

Mr. Christopher M. Schroeder is a well-known venture investor and entrepreneur. Mr. Schroeder has served as CEO at HealthCenter, Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive and Legi-Slate. Mr. Schroeder has received his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree from Harvard University and Harvard Business School.

Dr. Steven H. Seggie is the Entrepreneurship Department Chair and Associate Professor of Marketing at Özyeğin University. Dr. Seggie is also freelance business consultant and associate at FC Sports Marketing. One of the notable startups that Dr. Seggie advises to is ErasmusInn which is an Istanbul and Dublin based startup, which enables students to securely find and book accommodation.

Global Head of Strategy of Naspers with responsibility for the group portfolio strategy, identifying new investment opportunities, corporate development, and special projects. Naspers Group is an investor in and builder of winning platforms in ecommerce, classifieds, marketplaces, price comparison, O2O, FinTech and video entertainment in high growth geographies(Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa) More than 15 years of experience at Bain & Company and Monitor Group helping companies in eCommerce, FinTech, retail/consumer good, and Private Equity. Investor in various early stage, seed and growth stage companies Non-executive board member in (social) ventures in high tech and new media industries. Worked in 35 countries across the globe covering both mature (Western Europe, USA) and emerging markets (South East Asia, Russia, Eastern Europe, and Middle East/Africa)

Dr. Erhan Erkut is one of the leading influencers of Turkish entrepreneurs. Currently Dr. Erkut is Vice President at MEF University. Previously, Mr. Erkut was founding Rector at Özyeğin University, which is the first university opening Entrepreneurship Department. Dr. Erkut has received his Ph.D. from University of Florida. Dr. Erkut was also Dean of Management Faculty at Bilkent University.

Dave McClure is the founding partner of 500 Startups, a venture capital firm and startup incubator in Silicon Valley founded by PayPal and Google alumni, with over $150M under management. He has been an investor in hundreds of companies around the world such as Credit Karma, Twilio, MakerBot, Wildfire Interactive, Viki, Mashery, SendGrid, Mint.com, and SlideShare, among others. Dave has been geeking out in Silicon Valley for twenty-five years as a developer, entrepreneur, blogger, investor, and internet marketing nerd. He has worked with companies such as PayPal, Founders Fund, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twilio, Mint.com, Simply Hired, O'Reilly Media, Intel, & Microsoft

Elmira Bayrasli spearheads WPI's Entrepreneurship Ecosystems Project. In 2012, Public Affairs commissioned her to write a book about the rise of global enterprises. Tentatively titled "Steve Jobs Lives in Pakistan: Extraordinary Entrepreneurs in the Developing World," it takes a look at the growth of innovation beyond Silicon Valley; focusing on talented individuals around the world who have overcome insurmountable obstacles to lead high-growth businesses. Elmira writes about global innovations and entrepreneurship in her weekly column Entreventures on Forbes.com. She also contributes to Reuters, VentureBeat, the Huffington Post, and MIT's Innovations journal. In 2010, Elmira co-authored a study for Pakistan's Planning Commission on entrepreneurship, entitled: "Creating a Place for the Future."

Kaushal is founder and CEO of Scaale Group and Managing Partner of Cross Border Angels. A true serial entrepreneur and investor. Over the last three decades, Kaushal has founded over 20 ventures across the USA, Europe and Asia with 3 successful exits and an IPO in 1987. Kaushal was born and raised in India, where he studied Electrical Engineering and Management. After that he moved to the UK, Germany and today he lives in the USA where he has been a resident for the last 25 years. San Francisco is the place he calls home, although he travels 2 weeks every month to visit the Scaale teams around the world.

Having done my share of corporate work in Microsoft for 4 years my entrepreneurial drive got me out and lead me trough a series of different ventures. They all happened to be on the edge of technology varying from online marketing and voip in 2001 to the online gaming industry later on. I today continue to build new ventures where I see opportunities. Specialismen:vision, innovation, creativity, start-up management, enterprise level technological know-how, online marketing, branding, technology deployment, technology management, product development, market adaptation

Bilişim teknolojileri alanında 26 yıllık ulusal ve bölgesel deneyime sahip olan Murat Kansu, 2003 yılında Microsoft Ortadoğu ve Afrika yönetim ekibine Sunucu Yazılımlarından Sorumlu Birim Yöneticisi olarak katıldı. Microsoft servis ve ürünlerinin pazarlanmasıdan sorumlu olduğu bu görevinde gelirlerin 3 kat artmasında rol oynadı. 2007-2010 yıllarında Microsoft Ortadoğu ve Afrika Bölgesi’nde Operasyonlardan Sorumlu Direktör olarak görev yapan Kansu, 2010-2012 yıllarında Microsoft’un Ortadoğu ve Afrika Kurumsal Müşterilerden Sorumlu Direktör olarak çalıştı. Kansu, son 3 yıldır Microsoft Ortadoğu ve Afrika Cihaz Üreticileri ve İş Ortakları’ndan Sorumlu Genel Müdür olarak görev yapıyordu. 80 ülkeden sorumlu olduğu bu dönemde, Microsoft yazılımlarının uluslararası ve yerel sunucu ve cihaz üreticileri pazarında yaygınlaşmasını sağladı. Murat Kansu, 1 Eylül 2015 itibarıyla Microsoft Türkiye’nin Genel Müdürü oldu.

Specialties: Start-up business set-up and development, Improving operational efficiency in large organization, Turnaround Management, Customer Service and Satisfaction improvement, Sales improvement programs, Motivation systems