2023 Speakers
Presenting Curation Partner
Keynote Speakers
Devon Townsend
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, Cameo
Rodney Williams
Co-Founder, SoLo Funds
Sherrell Dorsey
CEO, Plexus
Songe LaRon
CEO & Co-Founder, Squire
Shegun Otulana
Founder & CEO, Harmony Venture Labs
Candice Matthews Brackeen
CEO, Lightship Foundation
Additional Panelists
Afua Bruce
Founder & Principal, ANB Advisory Group LLC
Aleeya Cain
Associate Director of Operations, Holistic
Allison Scott, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer, Kapor Foundation
Andrew Goldener
Co-Founder & CEO, GrowthX
Anthony Day
Lead Technical Architect, Analytics SalesForce
Burton Rast
Former UX Design Lead, Google
Chad Trull
CEO, HighFive Healthcare
Chris Wink
CEO & Co-Founder, Technical.ly
Chun Schiros, Ph.D.
SVP Head of Enterprise Data Science Group, Regions Bank
Cornell Wesley
Chief Economic Development Officer, City of Birmingham
Curt Carver, Ph.D.
Vice President and Chief Information Officer, UAB
Dustin Ryan
Senior Data and AI Specialist, Microsoft
Eugene Johnson
Vice President of Economic Development, REV Birmingham
Jake Chen, Ph.D.
Chief Bioinformatics Officer, Professor of Genetics, Computer Science, and Biomedical Engineering, UAB
Jamal Lewis
Economic Opportunity Manager, PIN (Partnership for Inclusive Innovation)
Kai Frazier
Founder & CEO, Kai XR
Kwamena Aidoo
Co-Founder at Corridor Ventures
Maria Underwood
President, Birmingham Bound
Mary Bell
Workforce Alliance Relationship Manager Consultant, NCWIT
Matt Glazer
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, Blue Sky Partners
Miraj Patel
Founder & CEO, Harness
Nathan Ryan
CEO, Blue Sky Partners
Nicole Allshouse
News Reporter & TV Talent, WBRC FOX6
Shannon Scott
CEO & Founder, Trak Capital
Sixue Zhang, Ph.D.
Head of A.I. Drug Discovery, Southern Research
Trent Kocurek
Founder, Airship
Trevor Johnson
Head of Customer Engineering, Google
