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Harvard graduate Johannes Ardiant earned his bachelor’s degree in Computing from the National University of Singapore. He also pursued a Master’s in Public Policy at Harvard. In 2015 he became the co-founder and COO of healthcare services platform Konsula, which pivoted into health food startup Lemonilo in 2017. Currently, he heads Lemonilo’s product, engineering, data, design and operations.

Jeff Hendrata co-founded motorcycle-mounted billboard firm Karta in 2016. He started his first company, digital media agency Brit-e2, in 2012 after graduating from Universitas Bina Nusantara with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science. Between 2012 and 2015, Jeff acted as Brit-e's CEO, overseeing projects with major clients, including Indonesia's fourth largest bank, CIMB Niaga and consumer products group Orang Tua. He remains an advisor to Brit-e after Karta was established.

Thibaud Plaquet hails from France, where he earned his master's degree in Electronics and Computer Science from Polytech'Paris UPMC. He previously worked as an apprentice tech support at Philips and later became an apprentice system engineer and channel account manager at Sony. In 2016, he moved to Indonesia and met Manggala Ratulangie when the two were hired to head a joint venture. After the project wound down, they established data science startup Datanest in 2017.

Miao Mengna obtained her bachelor's degree in architecture at Zhejiang University from 2007 to 2012. She completed a master's degree in Advanced Architecture Design in 2013 at Columbia University. Miao spent five years in architecture designing, working for architectural firms like KPF, before co-founding Bumie Tech in 2016. In 2018, she co-founded Onesight and has served as it's COO since. 

Carlos Lei Santos is the CEO and co-founder of P2P mesh network platform HypeLabs that was established in 2015. He graduated in Computer Science at the University of Porto in 2014 while working at Simbolo II.  Lei has worked for seven years as an IT manager at tech agency Simbolo II, providing assistance to clients like IBM and Banco Santander. He was also a mentor for various tech and startup initiatives.

Albert Marfà is co-founder and CEO of Spanish bioplastics startup Oimo, which he founded in 4Q17 and initially named Edible Plastic to promote the bioplastics he developed as his final degree project in university. The Spanish national holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) degree in Industrial and Product Design from London’s Brunel University and is an associate member of Spain’s Institute of Design Engineers. Besides Spanish, he speaks fluent English, French and Catalan.

Upon graduating from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2003 with a bachelor's degree in Mechanics, Alex Gu joined National Instruments, where he worked on data collection, signal processing, instrument testing and system integration. He started developing rehab robots in 2009 and founded Jinghe Robot in 2012. The startup, developer of rehab robot Flexbot, was acquired by rehab device manufacturer QJ Rehab in 2015. Gu founded Fourier Intelligence in July 2015 and has served as CEO ever since.

Co-founder and CEO of VUE Vlog, Kuang Fei was so intrigued by design when he was studying electronics and communication engineering at the Harbin Institute of Technology that he spent most of his time doing part-time designing jobs. Upon graduation, he started his designing career at NetEase in 2007. However his career veered towards product management when, a year later, he joined Tencent in Allen Zhang's team (the team that later designed WeChat). In 2012, Kuang joined a startup, an Android app store called Wandoujia as Chief Product Officer. In late 2015, he left Wandoujia and, in 2016, started VUE with two colleagues, an app that both fits his interest in designing and experience in product.

Former MARS Indonesia and GTZ researcher Diajeng Lestari holds a Social & Political Science degree from the University of Indonesia. Her husband is Achmad Zaky, the founder of Indonesian startup BukaLapak. Diajeng was born in 1986.

Based in Lisbon, Filipa Neto graduated in Economics at the Catholic University of Portugal in 2012. She co-founded her first business with college friend Lara Vidreiro at the age of 21. They went on to establish Chic by Choice in 2014 and were listed in Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe 2018: Retail and E-commerce. In December 2017, Neto also started working for Farfetch as a principal innovation specialist and mentor for its accelerator program Dream Assembly.

Xie graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 2012 with a master’s in Computer Science. Upon graduation, he was invited by famous angel investor Hadi Partovi to join startup project Fivestars, which would become the leading customer loyalty solutions provider in the United States. In 2015, Xie returned to China and adapted the Fivestars model to his own startup, Zaihui. Within just one week of his return, Zaihui raised millions of dollars from top Chinese investors.

Senja Lazuardy is an IT jack-of-all-trades, with skills ranging from Linux system administration to augmented reality. After graduating from Universitas Al-Azhar Indonesia, he worked for two years as a Linux system administrator and consultant. He later joined augmented reality startup AR&Co as its head of IT. Under his leadership, the company worked with big names like Disney, Nissan and Unilever. He is currently the IT director of Slingshot, formerly known as AR&Co, that is owned by the WIR Group.

Robbi Baskoro graduated in IT and has worked in both government and private sectors for over 12 years. He worked as an assistant at the Directorate General of Higher Education from 2010 to 2018. Based in Surabaya and Jakarta, he has also started his own company Nusaraya in 2010. The serial entrepreneur is also the co-founder and commissioner of gaming and lifestyle website Duniaku.net. He has exited various ventures and managed a software development house prior to co-founding Logisly as CTO.

Patxi Larumbe is the Spanish CCO and co-founder at 3D printing food tech and cell-based meat startup Cocuus, where he has worked since he co-founded it in 2017. Before Cocuus, Larumbe founded and directed eight other companies, the majority, like Cocuus, also based in Pamplona, Navarre. During his extensive entrepreneurial career, Larumbe had experience with design and manufacturing in 3D processes, which he used to innovate in Cocuus.  Before Cocuus, he was a director at his building materials distribution company, On Clima, for two years, which was preceded by a two-year stint heading up Tohama, an IoT tech developer for Somfy products.  Prior to that, he was commercial director for 20 years at building services company Terradisa and also founded its Catalonia offices.From 2000–2013, Larumbe was the founder and board member at Acustica Arquitectonica, an acoustic architectural design company and from 1995–2005, he had the same responsibilities at his hospitality company, Ostatu Zaharra. Other companies he founded were were Render (1990–96), Netcorp Factory (1996–2000) and No Solo Futbol ("Not Just Soccer") (2000–2004).   Larumbe studied electronics at first degree level in Pamplona. 

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