Speakers
Code. Product. F(o)unding
Insights backed by science, from some of the brightest minds around the globe. Our promise to bring on stage 50 top leaders in technology, business, and investment that will challenge your vision about the future. Are you ready?
They’ve joined the stage as speakers. Left as community supporters, business mentors, friends.


Tim Draper

“Techsylvania is one of the most special tech events I’ve been to in some time. The energy and optimism of the emerging Romanian tech community are just delightful and were very well captured at the various events at Techsylvania. I will definitely be coming back next year!”

Sonny Vu


Di-Ann Eisnor

“Vibrant crowd, great questions, lots of ideas and a lovely setting made Techsylvania a thoroughly enjoyable event.”

Mark Shuttleworth


Newton Howard
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Our First 2020 Speakers

Amy Lewin
UK
Deputy Editor

Christopher Leacock aka Jillionaire
Trinidad and Tobago
DJ and music producer

Jonathan Rivers
USA
CTO

Albert Wenger
USA
Managing Partner

Mark Porter
USA
CTO

Mark Cuban
USA
Owner

Scott Belsky
USA
Chief Product Officer

Prince Constantijn van Oranje
Netherlands
Envoy
Helping quantify and accelerate the tech ecosystem of the Netherlands

QuHarrison Terry
USA
Growth Marketer

Ralph Echemendia
USA
Ethical Hacker and CEO

Zac Bookman
USA
Co-Founder & CEO

Alex Bangash
USA
Founder and CEO

Trang Nguyen
USA
Co-Founder

Kara Swisher
USA
Co-Founder
One of the most influential technology journalists of our time

David Gorodyansky
USA
Founder

Trae Stephens
USA
Partner

Hermann Hauser
New Zealand
Founder

Daniel Dines
USA
Co-Founder & CEO

Alex Konrad
USA
Senior Editor

Sam Lessin
USA
Co-Founder

Kevin Guo
USA
Co-Founder & CEO

Kent Graziano
USA
Chief Technical Evangelist
Leading developer efforts team for a $12 billion cloud computing unicorn

Andrei Serban
USA
Co-Founder

Reshma Sohoni
UK
Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Luke Finney
USA
Co-Founder

Niko Bonatsos
USA
General Partner

Samuel Burke
UK
Business & Technology Correspondent

Xenia Muntean
UK
Co-Founder & CEO

Mikael Fredholm
Sweden
Co-Founder & CEO

Tony Fadell
France
Principal
Founder of Nest, iPod inventor & iPhone co-inventor

Alessandro Monterosso
Italy
Co-Founder & CEO

Dennis Vilović
Spain
Founder

Johnny Boufarhat
UK
Co-Founder & CEO

Bruno Kovacic
Croatia
CTO

Esther Delignat-Lavaud
UK
Investor

Brett Martin
USA
Managing Partner

Andy Muntean
USA
COO & Co-Founder

Irina Haivas
UK
Partner

Philipp Kandal
Singapore
Head of Engineering, Geo

Jack Abraham
USA
Founder, Managing Partner & CEO

Michael Smith
USA
Chief Information Officer
Responsible for further advancing ELC's innovation in technology

Jeannette Liendo
Belgium
Senior Vice President of Marketing and Communications
Leads brand, consumer and B2B marketing throughout Europe

Alin Iftemi
Romania
Head & Co-founder

Ajey Gore
Singapore
Operating Partner - Technology
Works with portfolio CTO's and CPO's and mentors high-performing teams across Southeast Asia

Axel Bard Bringéus
Germany
Deal Partner

Jeannette zu Fürstenberg
Germany
Founding Partner
Fostering co-operation between young digital disruptors and established companies

Ryan Begelman
USA
Co-Founder

Cory Reid
USA
Managing Director
Previous Speakers
CODE

Mark Shuttleworth
Founder of Ubuntu & Canonical

Koen Koppen
CTO at Klarna

Paul Cutter
CTO at Paddy Power Betfair

Chad Fowler
Divisional CTO at Microsoft Wunderlist

Andreas Ehn
First employee & CTO at Spotify

Jatin Aythora
Chief Architect at BBC

Japjit Tulsi
VP Engineering at eBay

Ahmed Aljunied
VP Engineering and Product at GoJek
PRODUCT

Di-Ann Eisnor
Director of Growth at Waze

Peter Vesterbacka
Co-Founder of FinEst Bay Area

Newton Howard
Director of the MIT Synthetic Intelligence Lab

Jerald Singh
Group Head of Product & Design at Grab

Steffi Czerny
Managing Director at DLD Media

Donald DeSantis
Co-Founder & SVP Design of VTS

Katherine Manderfield
Director of Content Strategy at The New York Times

Martin Wezowski
Chief Designer at SAP
F(O)UNDING

Tom Mueller
Co-Founder & Former CTO of SpaceX

Yossi Vardi
Angel Investor

Tim Draper
Founder of DFJ

Ion Stoica
Executive Chairman at Databricks

Sakshi Chhabra Mittal
Investment Director at Softbank Vision Fund

Alexis Bonte
Executive in Residence at Atomico

Matt Michelsen
Partner at DCVC (Data Collective)

Fang Yuan
Vice President at Baidu Ventures