Ever since getting into Bitcoin mining in 2012, Arsen's passion in blockchain and crypto exploded. An influencer and enthusiast in the crypto community, Arsen has been helping many get into crypto by teaching trading strategies, technical and fundamental analysis techniques. In addition to advising many ICOs, and upcoming blockchain startups, Arsen is working on a unique blockchain startup of his own. Arsen has launched several AI-powered and deep-machine learning services which use his trading strategies to trade on behalf of investors. Arsen is also in the process of launching a Crypto AI-powered hedge fund. In addition to being into crypto, Arsen has a successful track-record in the app store. Arsen has created & published 400+ iOS apps of which many have reached the top charts, featured by Apple and have amassed tens of millions of organic downloads. Follow on Twitter @arsenpereymer

Pelli Wang heads partnerships at Token Foundry at ConsenSys, a platform that combines token economics, game theory and distributed systems to launch well-designed and governed token sales on the blockchain. Prior to joining ConsenSys, she led venture investments and partnerships for SeedInvest, an early pioneer in equity crowdfunding through the JOBS Act. Pelli has consistently been at the forefront of the democratization of fundraising for emerging technologies. She also has spoken at numerous industry conferences, judged at startup competitions and mentored young entrepreneurs.

Richard Hecker, CEO. Richie Hecker is a technology entrepreneur and investor. He has bought and sold assets that have had enterprise values over a billion dollars across the private, public and crypto markets. Richie co-founded the Crypto Working Group, the leading Self Regulating Organization in the industry. He is an op-ed writer for leading publications such as TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal Accelerators, HuffPo and Observer and lectures at universities including Columbia, Parsons and NYU on the fusion of politics, and entrepreneurship. You can follow him on Twitter @RichieBlueEyes

Cigdem Altay Binal, Director, Wesley Clover International.  Cigdem has over 10 years experience in technology industry having served in various roles in software design, product and project management, marketing and business development. For the past 2 years Cigdem has focused her efforts on building relationships with investment firms and the startup community in New York on behalf of both Wesley Clover International and L-SPARK. She is a mentor with Founder Institute and is a Women inPower fellow.

Erik Nordlander, Engineering Partner - GV. Erik joined the GV team in 2010 as an engineering partner. He is based out of New York City. Along with his technical knowledge, he brings expertise in building top notch engineering teams and scaling complex systems.

Prior to joining GV, Erik led the team that built Google’s next generation display ad serving system. He helped Google’s acquisition and technical integration for Doubleclick (DCLK) and led a team that built statistical modeling and machine learning models for Google’s ad businesses. Erik was also a developer on Google’s core engineering infrastructure, including a distributed file system that key products, such as Google.com and Gmail, rely on today.

Erik studied computer science and engineering at MIT, where he did his graduate research at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory on unique data extraction and disk forensics.

Pano Anthos, Founder & Managing Director - XRC Labs. Pano leads XRC Labs as its Founder and Managing Director. Having founded 4 startups around key platform shifts, he saw the seismic shift coming to retail and with the right vision and timing recruited Parsons School of Design and Kurt Salmon to be founding sponsors. Now with 18 accelerated startups, 10 active world class retail sponsors, 60+ business mentors, Pano has built a world-class ecosystem for retail and consumer goods innovation at XRC Labs. He speaks regularly at NRF national and regional meetings, Shoptalk and RILA executive conferences. He leverages a deep startup network in Silicon Valley, New York, and Boston to fuse leading technology, E-commerce and user experience innovations to existing customer-oriented businesses.

Aubrie Pagano is Co-Founder and CEO of Bow & Drape, a customization brand that celebrates showing your big personality. At B&D, she has driven the business to success, retailing online and in over 300 stores including Nordstrom, Bloomingdale's, and Saks and partnering with everyone from The New York Post, Dominos, and artist Donald Robertson. She was named Forbes 30 Under 30 in Retail, PayPal's 30 under 30 Makers + Shakers, LinkedIn's Next Wave of Professionals under 35, and introduced the world's first 3D printed accessories in market according to WWD. Aubrie also serves as an Investment Partner at XFactor Ventures, a venture capital fund that focuses on first-in capital for billion dollar businesses with at least one female founder. She holds a BA from Harvard and began her first business when she was six.

Sapna is an angel investor, retail expert and three-time entrepreneur. Through Red Giraffe Advisors, Sapna makes angel and early-stage seed investments in retail, fashion and consumer start-ups and offers advisory services to early-stage companies. Sapna is also the founder of Retail X Series, a retail startup boot camp program for pre-seed stage founders who are revolutionizing the future of retail.

Irene Ryabaya, Co-Founder of Monarq, investor, adventurer, techie, introverted networker & accidental feminist. Monarq builds diverse networks, accelerates revolutionary ideas & funds women-led startups. Monarq is the first women focused incubator in NYC. After a decade in finance working on various commodity trading desks, Irene is dedicated to creating more women led startups via strategy consulting, direct investment and deep impact events. Irene is also an advisor to Quentin Road Ventures. She was a trader with Hess Energy Company and technology lead for the commodities trading desk at Goldman Sachs. Irene graduated from New York University with a degree in computer science.

Frances Schwiep, Principal, Comcast Ventures. Frances is a New York-based venture capital investor focusing on early-stage investments in enterprise tech companies, with a particular focus on startups that are leveraging AI and digital assets to redefine the future of work, cities, and communication mediums in a “cloudy” and mobile world. Prior to joining Comcast Ventures, Frances was an investor at Highland Capital and Redstar Ventures, where she focused on consumer tech, healthcare IT, and B2B marketplaces. Before that she was a product manager at MC10 Inc., a wearable computing company where she helped develop applications for the company’s bio-sensors in sports and health verticals. Frances began her career in data science and consulting and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Oliver Mitchell, Founding Partner, Autonomy Ventures. Oliver has been a leading operator and manager of emerging technologies for more than 20 years. Oliver has built and sold numerous ventures, including: Holmes Protection to ADT/Tyco, Americash to American Express, and launching RobotGalaxy, a national EdTech brand. Oliver has been investing in the robotics industry for close to 10 years, with four successful exits in his angel portfolio in the past two years (including 2 IPOs). He is a member of New York Angels and co-chairs the Frontier Tech Committee. Oliver holds 14 patents, has appeared on numerous television shows, and is a sought after speaker/syndicated writer of robotics.

Ramphis Castro, Co-Founder, ScienceVest. Ramphis is the co-founder of ScienceVest (YC F3), a fund and platform for hard-tech and life science companies, and Impact Science Angels, an angel group focused on investing in companies that can impact 1MM+ lives. He is a Kauffman Fellow, a community of over 450 innovation investors worldwide representing 160 venture firms and corporate venture groups in 40 countries on 6 continents, that have collectively deployed $200B in venture capital. He is the Co-Chair the NYC chapter of the Society. As a Fellow, he has researched the funding gaps for radical science companies in the U.S., collecting interviews of over 200 stakeholders across the research & commercialization ecosystem in the U.S.

Amy Kadomatsu is co-founder and president of ROKO Labs, a mobile platform company that helps app creators grow and engage their user communities by adding referral programs, chatbots and promo code tracking, to their apps.  ROKO Labs is also the host of the App Idea Awards, a competition for app entrepreneurs to pitch their app ideas to top-tier VCs including First Round Capital, Greycroft and Samsung Ventures.  

Prior to ROKO Labs, Amy was a Managing Director at McGraw-Hill Financial, a Fortune 500 company.  A serial entrepreneur, Amy has created and launched multiple start-ups including TheMarkets.com, which was sold to S&P Capital IQ in 2010 for $300M.  Passionate about innovation and entrepreneurship, Amy is an active seed investor with HBS Alumni Angels of Greater New York, a mentor at Entrepreneurs Roundtable, pitch night judge and advisor to start-ups.  She also serves as Board Chair for MOUSE, a national nonprofit that empowers students to become leaders, inventors, and creators in the technology ecosystem.  Amy is a graduate of Harvard University and has an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Nathalie Molina Niño: CEO BRAVA Investments. Nathalie is an impact investor focused on making a catalytic impact on women in the world. A technologist and coder by training, she's a consummate entrepreneur, and a storyteller at heart, passionate about telling the often untold stories of women change-makers.

Keith Ferrazzi called her a "super-connector" in his updated best-selling classic, Never Eat Alone. Nathalie is the "fuel core of a network that makes it easy for her to tap the resources to get stuff done, and done quickly."

In 2016, as interim CEO of SELF MADE, Nathalie led the development of the SELF MADE platform based on the book by Telemundo's former Entertainment president, Nely Galan, including the launch of a mobile app, video series, and web platform.

In 2015, Nathalie stepped in as interim Chief Revenue Officer of PowerToFly, a startup aimed at closing the gender gap in tech. Nathalie launched her first tech startup at the age of 20, she later graduated with a degree in play writing at Columbia University. In 2012, Molina Niño co-founded Entrepreneurs@Athena at the Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard College, with the mission of leveling the playing field for women entrepreneurs, where she remains a founding advisor.

Brian Laung Aoaeh is a partner at Particle Ventures (fka KEC Ventures), an early stage venture fund based in New York City, where he devotes the majority of his time to assessing potential Seed and Series A investments in technology startups. He blogs at Innovation Footprints and is on Twitter: @brianlaungaoaeh, LinkedIn: Brian Laung Aoaeh and Instagram: @brianlaungaoaeh.

Jules Miller, Venture Partner, LunaCap Ventures. Jules is an impact investor, 3-time entrepreneur, ‘intrapreneur’ and hands-on operations expert. She is currently Venture Partner at LunaCap Ventures, an early stage venture debt fund investing in military veteran, women and minority (MWM) founders, and was previously interim COO of BRAVA Investments, a holding company investing in companies that economically benefit women. As an entrepreneur, Jules is co-founder & managing director Evolve Law, a community of entrepreneurs dedicated to accelerating the adoption of technology and innovation in the legal industry, was co-founder & COO of Hire an Esquire, a venture-backed labor marketplace providing an on-demand workforce of attorneys to law firms and in-house legal departments, and was founder & managing director of Carbonado Group, an on demand workforce of environmental sustainability experts. Previously she spent 7 years as an ‘intraprenuer’ helping companies including Ernst & Young, Salesforce.com and Tiffany & Co. to launch and grow new business units. Jules earned her BA from UCLA and her MSc from The London School of Economics.

Adam Quinton, Lucas Point Ventures. As the Founder & CEO of Lucas Point Ventures Adam invests in and advises early stage companies.

Adam's focus is supporting diverse management teams. His investments include The Muse, Glassbreakers, Venuebook, Pinks and Greens, Snaps, Rapt Media, Hire an Esquire, and Validately. He sits on the Board of Pinks and Greens and serves as an Advisor to a number of companies as well as Chicago based Techweek. In 2014 he served as Chief Financial Officer of leading NYC based cybersecurity company NopSec, another of his investees. He is an Advisor/Mentor to San Francisco based Astia, Boulder based MergeLane, New York based 37 Angels, Menlo Park based Women's StartupLab and LA based Vinetta Project.

In 2014 Adam was named by AlleyWatch one of "25 Angel Investors in New York You Need to Know" and also one of the "100 NYC Tech Influencers You Need to Know". In 2015 he was featured in Tech.co as "One of 8 VCs Making Waves" and in 2016 was named as one of "26 great people spearheading change in tech investment" by Silicon Republic.

Brittany Laughlin is a General Partner at Lattice Ventures, providing launch capital to entrepreneurs serving industries under served in innovation. Prior to launching Lattice, Gorevic served as General Manager at Union Square Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm with $1B+ under management. Some portfolio companies include Etsy, Twitter, SoundCloud, Tumblr, Lending Club, and Kickstarter. Her entrepreneurial endeavors include founding VetsinTech NYC, transitioning military veterans into technology jobs, and founded gtrot, a social travel recommendation engine sold to Groupon. She has a BA in Marketing and International Business from NYU.

Sarika Doshi, Co-founder & Advisor, Rank & Style. Sarika founded Rank & Style where she acted as CEO and led content, strategy, e-commerce, public relations, business development and fundraising efforts. In three years the company grew to become a trusted, recognized brand working with well-known brands, including Amazon, American Express, Nordstrom, and Refinery29 and was sold in 2016. Rank & Style was named 'Best of the Web' by InStyle and earned the 'Founders of the Future' award from Hearst and Sarika was listed as one of the "100 Most Creative People in Business" by Fast Company. Prior to Rank & Style, she was a member of the management team at a venture-backed growth company where she was responsible for growing and managing a $20 million business segment in London and New York. Sarika studied at Columbia University and the University of Michigan Law School.

Sapna Shah, Principal, Red Giraffe Advisors. Sapna is an angel investor, retail expert and three-time entrepreneur. Through Red Giraffe Advisors, Sapna makes angel and early-stage seed investments in retail, fashion and consumer start-ups and offers advisory services to early-stage companies. Sapna is a member of the Board of Directors of New York Angels.

Previously, Sapna co-founded Retail Eye Partners, an independent Wall Street equity research firm. Sapna also co-founded a menswear e-commerce retailer, Mind the Chap. Prior to Retail Eye Partners, Sapna held executive strategy roles at Linens 'n Things, Inc. and at Ann Taylor, and spent time at Gap, Inc. Previous to her career in retail, Sapna worked in investment banking at Punk, Ziegel & Knoell and in credit at Morgan Stanley. Sapna received her B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School as well as a B.A. in East Asian Studies from the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.

Erica Duignan Minnihan, Managing Partner, 1000 Angels.  Erica is Managing Partner at 1000 Angels, a private venture investment network for select accredited investors, family offices, and venture funds. 1000 Angels enables accredited investors to build a high-growth venture portfolio free of management fees, carried interest or capital commitments. Erica graduated from Columbia University Business School and University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA).

Georgia P. Quinn, CEO & Co-founder, iDisclose.  iDisclose is an  adaptive web-based application that enables entrepreneurs to prepare customized institutional grade disclosure documents for crowdfunding and private financings a fraction of the time and cost. Like TurboTax, iDisclose empowers entrepreneurs to do it themselves, because companies shouldn't spend all their money raising money. Heralded by Thomson-Reuters as a Top Female Attorney in NYC, Georgia also serves as of counsel at the leading firm in crowdfunding, Ellenoff, Grossman & Schole, specializing in facilitating financial transactions and compliance with the JOBS Act regulations. A foremost expert in corporate finance, she has worked on over $1 billion in business transactions over the course of her legal career. Georgia is a graduate of Columbia Law School and New York University.

Jeanne M. Sullivan, Chief Inspiration Officer - Advisor, Speaker, Connector (Co-Founder StarVest Partners, a leading NYC-based venture capital forum with $400MM under management, Board of New York Venture Capital Association, Board Member Women's Leadership Council at Harvard Kennedy School, Athena Entrepreneur Fellow at Barnard College, Astia Global Board of Trustees, Executive Team at eProvStudio)

Tereza Nemessanyi, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Microsoft (East Region); leading Microsoft's work with Startups in New York; passionate about women in high-growth entrepreneurship. As Founder/CEO of web startup Honestly Now, she was named one of the Forbes "Ten Female Entrepreneurs to Watch". She earned a dual MA/MBA at The Wharton School and Lauder Institute & was the first employee of CETV (IPO in 1995).

Lori Hoberman, Founder, Hoberman Law Group PLLC (Co-Founder of IMG Labs, a new innovation incubator, Chair of MIT Enterprise Forum in NYC and a Mentor with 37 Angels; named by AlleyWatch as one of the "20 Awesome People in the New York Tech Scene You Need to Know". 

Sarah Miyazawa LaFleur, Founder & CEO, M.M. LaFleur (Raised $2MM in venture capital. M.M. LaFleur is a new fashion label for professional women. Sarah serves on the Junior Board at International Rescue Committee and is a Harvard College graduate. As MM grows, its ethos remains the same: to make the purposeful woman look and feel beautiful, without having to work too hard at it.

Born in Bulgaria, Milena Berry moved to New York a week before Sept 11, ready to embrace the American dream. Thirteen years later — and with three kids under eight — she co-founded PowerToFly in part to share her experience of balancing family life and a fulfilling career. The firm's strong, dual mission is to empower companies by closing their gender gap in tech and to help millions of women around the world find innovative jobs.

Milena became a believer in working remotely as CTO of the distributed online activist community Avaaz.org, whose tech platform she scaled from being able to handle zero to 33 million members while managing to be present for a full schedule of field trips, family Fridays, and doctors appointments. Milena is a graduate of NYU’s ITP, led by the visionary “Mother of Silicon Alley” Red Burns. She speaks six languages and spends all her free time either with her kids, or escaping from them for an hour of exercise.

From Lingerie Design to Architecture, Ivory (as in 'Digital') experienced many different careers as an entrepreneur before finding her home in web. After working on large-scale projects for luxury brands, Ivory crafted her own “dream job”. ID is a digital agency that leverages business strategy, design and technology to meet the multi-faceted needs of small businesses. Since 2008, ID has employed a hybrid, aqueous approach to keep up with the pace of change in web. ID team members cover both creative and technical roles including production, strategy, information architecture, web design and development. Rated as a top NYC web design agency in 2014 for small business solutions, ID continues to help small brands stand out and compete in an increasingly digital world.

Corporate attorney turned fashion tech entrepreneur, Stephanie Joy Benedetto is the CEO and Founder of Queen of Raw, an e-commerce platform and mobile app connecting independent designers to suppliers of innovative & sustainable fabrics.

Prior to starting Queen of Raw, Stephanie attended Emory University School of Law, worked at Baker Botts LLP in media, entertainment, and technology in New York, and co-founded Paper No. 9, a sustainable textile manufacturing facility based in Brooklyn. An advocate for women in business and sustainable fashion, her companies have been featured in Vogue, WWD, New York Magazine, Huffington Post, and Fast Company.

"Olga Vidisheva is the founder and CEO of Shoptiques.com, an online destination for the best local boutiques from Paris to New York. Shoptiques is funded by Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, Benchmark, William Morris Endeavor Talent Agency among others. Olga is the first single non-technical founder accepted into Y Combinator. Prior to starting Shoptiques, Olga attended Harvard Business School, worked at CHANEL and Goldman, Sachs & Co. in Technology, Media and Telecom Investment Banking in New York and modeled for a numerous fashion brands.”

Tamar Donikyan, a partner at Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP, is a lawyer with a focus on business transactions and corporate financings. Ms. Donikyan primarily works with entrepreneurs and smaller public and private companies, as well as investors and investment banks focused on this segment of the market. She has extensive experience in structuring, negotiating and consummating private financings (including crowdfunding, early stage and private equity), initial and other public offerings, including alternative and creative public offerings. Ms. Donikyan and her firm have made a commitment to working with women entrepreneurs and guiding them through building their businesses and meeting their financing needs.

Leslie Grossman supports leaders in propelling their organizations by revitalizing their cultures via collaboration, communication and shared vision. With a focus on business development, her programs are rooted in building trusted relationships inside and outside the organization.

A leadership and business development facilitator, coach and strategist, Grossman chairs CEO Peer Advisory Boards for

Lin, the largest CEO organization in the world. She is author of two books: “Link Out: How to Turn Your Network into a Chain of Lasting Connections” (John Wiley, 2013) and “SELLsation: How Companies Can Capture Today’s Hottest Market: Women Business Owners and Executives”. After leading an integrated marketing/PR firm for 14 years, in 2001 she co-founded Women’s Leadership Exchange, a national conference program which provided knowledge, tools and connections to help women grow multimillion dollar businesses and impact women’s leadership. She also served as Chief Connections Officer of an Internet startup, Cojourneo.

Jan Mercer Dahms is Founder & Principal Consultant SWIG and Founder of 6-Figures; and brand experience management consultant.

Jan served as Managing Director at Plum Alley, crowdfunding for women entrepreneurs and business owners. Jan has enjoyed a 20 + year, C-suite career spanning operational and fiscal restructuring, strategic planning, business development, and brand experience management. Prior to Plum Alley, she served as CFO for International Planned Parenthood. Jan served in in-house senior level roles for organizations as diverse as Teach For America, Estee Lauder, and Medicis Pharmaceutical Corporation. Additionally, through her branding and client relations consultancy practice, her work spans B2B and B2C markets in financial services, airlines, healthcare, consumer products, apparel, and biotech. An entrepreneur herself, Jan is also the founder of 6-Figures, a networking initiative for highly accomplished women. Jan earned an MBA in International Business.