Speakers

Akbar is the CEO of Lager Data and an embedded engineer with 16 years of experience. He has developed firmware and hardware for numerous industry-leading companies including SolarCity, Pax, Juul, Volkswagen, and Bosch.

Before Lager, he was Director of Engineering for the a16z-backed startup Ringly and co-founder of Minna, an award-winning sexual health device company, and Pocobor, a Bay Area embedded systems design firm.

As Dwelo’s CTO, Karen designs it’s IoT platform to connect and orchestrate tens of millions of devices, clients, sensor readings, and user commands. Previous to Dwelo, she was an engineering manager at Quizlet, where she built the data science team and designed backend services. Karen has over a decade of experience working with high scale distributed systems and doing interesting things with data, like building book retail recommendation engines and computer vision systems for art recognition.

Daniel is passionate about the new opportunities that are being unlocked in our personal lives and our businesses in the era of intelligent, connected devices.  Daniel has given TEDx talks and addresses at numerous national conferences on new business opportunities emerging from digital transformation and connected products.

Currently building the online platform Ioterra, a locally-focused donation platform Give&Gab, and renovating my backyard for my friends wedding. I’m best known for my previous company, Breadware, which is a niche IoT product development firm that was acquired in March of 2020.

Entrepreneur with experience growing mobile, software, internet, IoT, and SaaS companies. Available to consult on product strategy, marketing, e-commerce, analytics, and operations for interesting D2C, B2C, and B2B companies.

Cristina is helping grow an amazing IoT ‘Internet of Things’ startup, and learning along the way.

Cristina is increasingly curious and enthusiastic about startups, tech, workplace well-being, music, and meeting beautiful minds around the world.

David is a passionate about the opportunities for social, economic and cultural development that technology and science can bring to the country. David is experienced in areas of applied physics that includes optics, electronics, instrumentation, digital signal processing, biotechnology, biology, and biochemistry, among others. This knowledge is useful when presenting day-to-day technological solutions.

🚀 Scaling a global IoT startup.
☕ Enjoying the simple.
🌐 In search of things I don’t know I don’t know.
Currently CEO/Co-founder @Ubidots

I work with incredible people to bring new hardware products to life.

Hypothesis Factory is a venture studio that partners with founders to prove and scale their next business idea. Christian currently sits on the board at Nomi Network, a nonprofit empowering survivors of human trafficking with education and work opportunities.

Christian’s obsession with the process taking an ideas to global impact started at UCSB where co-founded TrackR. As President, he and the team scaled from 2 engineers in a garage to $50MM in annual revenue, shipping over 8 million devices.

I build strategic partnerships, secure sponsorship deals, handle branding, digital marketing, and social media strategy for AllianceSoCal.

I’ve had the pleasure of working with companies such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, AEG, iHeartRadio, ESPN, Sprint, Sony, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, The Recording Academy, CBS Radio, Techstars, Not Impossible Labs, 11:11 A Creative Collective, MiLA Capital, and more.

Previously manager of hardware and design at Indiegogo, Sarah Meister has worked with hundreds of hardware, design, and technology companies from around the world to bring their ideas for innovative products to life.

Sarah is the Founder of Artio Consulting, a crowdfunding and product marketing consulting company for entrepreneurs, mid-sized businesses, and larger organizations.  Additionally, Sarah has joined Industrial Design firm Sprout Studios as the Director of Growth and Development.

Innovation, Internet of Things (IoT), Edge Computing, and Strategic use of Emerging Technology.

I am an entrepreneur, constantly learning. Looking for new ways in which information technologies can help the productive processes of companies. Specialized telecommunications networks and IT infrastructure. Focused on the development of IoT technologies and services.