Steve Chen was the co-founder and chief technology officer of YouTube. Steve was instrumental in building YouTube into a viral video phenomenon. He helped lead YouTube through the Google acquisition for $1.65 billion, less than a year after launching the site. As the key technologist, Steve developed the company’s massive data centers and helped build YouTube into a premier entertainment destination, and one of the most popular websites on the Internet today.

Cliff Morgan is the Founder and CEO of Gamma Labs, maker and marketer of GFUEL energy drink. Originally a Sports Nutrition company, Gamma transitioned to a direct-to-consumer e-commerce business through the early adoption of influencer marketing. GFUEL currently maintains over 200 active influencer relationships, with a combined reach of over 70 million people a month across all social media platforms. Gamma Labs has been recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in the United States for two consecutive years by the Inc. 5000 (2016 #416, 2017 #636).

Justin Kan is a serial entrepreneur and investor. He is widely known for founding Twitch, a video game streaming platform acquired for $970mm by Amazon in 2014. Justin has founded various companies including Kiko, the first AJAX web calendar; Justin.TV, a live video streaming platform; Socialcam, a mobile video sharing app (Acquired for $60mm by Autodesk in 2012); and Exec, an on-demand home cleaning service (acquired by Handybook in 2014). He has additionally incubated two companies out of his home in the past 2 years: Alto (Formerly ScriptDash), a modern online pharmacy, and Whale, a video Q&A app. Justin impacted over 900 companies as a Partner at Y Combinator from 2011-2017 and personally invested in over 65 companies, including Cruise, Zenefits, and Wave. Currently, he is the Founder and CEO of Atrium LTS, building technology to revolutionize the legal industry. Justin graduated from Yale University with a degree in Physics and Philosophy.

Kyle Okamoto is the Chief Network Officer at Verizon Digital Media Services, overseeing the Network, Technology and Operations businesses and one of the original employees of the VDMS startup. Kyle has worked for Verizon for many years in a number of leadership roles as well as at several start-ups in the social enterprise and digital media space. He’s been instrumental in the AOL and Yahoo integration as well as the EdgeCast Networks, UpLynk and Volicon acquisitions that currently form the foundation of Verizon Digital Media Services.

Dennis Fong is the Founder & CEO of Plays.tv, a video platform that helps gamers level up their play. Known as "Thresh" in gaming circles, Dennis was crowned world champion of Doom, Quake, and Quake 2, was called the "Michael Jordan of video games" by the Wall Street Journal, and inducted into the eSports Hall of Fame. Dennis is also the co-founder of several successful startups, including Xfire (acquired by Viacom), Lithium Technologies (acquired by Vista Partners), Gamers.com and Raptr.

Sam Wick is a leading digital and entertainment executive. He currently leads UTA’s new venture group. He most recently was a key member of Maker Studios’ management team where he was responsible for the enterprise P&L, corporate development, business development and strategic partnerships. He has 20+ years of experience in the media and technology space including senior positions at MySpace, AOL, Mp3.com and Sony. During this time he was involved in M&A activity including financing and acquisitions of his companies.

Karen is Senior Vice President of CJ Hello and leads their internet streaming media services business including online offerings of top Korean networks, movies, sports, animations and apps. Prior to joining CJ Hello, Karen was founder and CEO of Across, a strategy consulting and executive advisory company in the media & technology space. Before founding Across, she gained significant experience in the media space at Google, where she served as Sr. Business Development Manager of YouTube Korea and headed TV/movie/news & sports content partnerships, and Naver, where she oversaw digital content business, strategic partnerships and content acquisitions. Karen began her career at LG Uplus, where she managed the online content business and launched LG’s paid Video-on-Demand service for the first time in Korea.

Jonathan is Director of Product at Rakuten Viki, where he drives the overall product vision and strategy, and leads a team of product managers in building Viki's apps on web, mobile and TV platforms. Previously, Jonathan was at Microsoft leading the Bing Ads business across Southeast Asia, India and Korea. Before that, he was the Head of Consumer Apps & Services Marketing, responsible for overall brand strategy, marketing execution and driving user adoption of Microsoft apps and services.

Dovey Wan is Founding Partner of Primitive Ventures, a long-term focused cryptoasset investment fund she founded with Eric Meltzer. Prior to founding Primitive Ventures, Dovey served as Managing Director for DHVC (formerly Danhua Capital), where she participated in investments in marquee blockchain projects such as OmiseGo, Cosmos/Tendermint, and Kyber Network. Outside of blockchain ventures she also participated in investments in LimeBike, LoomAi, Chariot, and Flexport. She began her career at eBay, where she spent nearly 4 years progressing through Data Science Engineer, Senior Business Analyst, and Product Manager roles.

Fan Zhang is a pioneer in the venture capital industry in China. He previously served as a Founding Member of Sequoia Capital China, and a Director of DFJ ePlanet Ventures' China practice. Mr. Zhang has extensive experience investing into emerging technologies since 2001, and has been ranked multiple times by Forbes as one of leading venture capitalists in its annual China's Midas List.

Riz Virk is Executive Director at Play Labs @ MIT, as well as Chief Strategy Officer and Cofounder at BitMovio, a video entertainment marketplace. He previously cofounded and/or was an early investor in THETA.tv, Theta Labs, GameView Studios, and Tapjoy. Riz was the founder of Bayview Films, and independent film studio. He holds a Masters in Management from Stanford Business School and a BS in Computer Science & Engineering from MIT.

Travis Skweres is an early entrepreneur and investor player in cryptocurrencies. Travis was the CEO and Cofounder of CoinMKT, one of the first Bitcoin exchanges based in the United States. Operating from 2013 - 2015, CoinMKT achieved tens of thousands of users, millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin traded, and was acquired by ANX Hong Kong in 2015. Travis remains an active investor in the cryptocurrency community and is currently working on releasing his next cryptocurrency-related project. Travis clients have included Occidental Petroleum, The Home Depot, Blinds.com, NBC Universal, and more.

Ma is the founder and CEO of aelf, a decentralized cloud computing blockchain network, as well as founder and CEO of Hoopox, a technology company that provides vertical industrial solutions from infrastructure to blockchain systems. A blockchain expert and early adopter of digital assets, Ma also previously served as CTO of GemPay and AllCoin. He is a member of Blockchain Experts’ Commission of Chinese Institute of Electronics.