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Director of Engineering, Nava
Public Interest Tech: Engineering for Impact at Scale
Haiyan Sui is the Director of Engineering with Nava, a public benefit corporation working to make government services more simple, effective, and accessible to all. She manages engineering teams in building digital products for federal and state agencies. In her previous role as the Director of Technology & Product at the NYC Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity, Haiyan led a digital team in developing products that catered to the needs of low-income New York residents. Prior to her government position, Haiyan spent over a decade in the digital marketing field.
Consultant, Experience Strategy & Design
Advisor, All Tech is Human
Moving from CX to HX: How We Humanize Journeys to Provide a Framework for Change
Sherine is an award-winning Design Executive with 20+ years experience leading teams in-house, at design studios, and within agencies. Throughout her career, she’s worked at the intersection of human-centered design and technology to transform businesses through products, services and environments.
Passionate about protecting human interests, Sherine is currently an Advisor to the ethics think tank, All Tech is Human. She was previously the Head of Design at Siberia, where she led the digital transformation initiative for The Whitney Museum of American Art. Prior to that, she held agency roles as Chief Experience Officer at Wunderman Thompson, Global Managing Director at Huge, and Director of User Experience/Creative Director at AKQA. She has also held key leadership positions in-house at Electronic Arts, Friendster, and Walmart.com.
When she’s not online, she can be found outside where The Berkshires meets Hudson Valley with her husband and new puppy.
Founder and CEO, One Fact Foundation
The Hidden Curriculum of Coolness and Suffering
Jaan (he/him/his) was a tall, white, shy kid. Because he was usually the tallest in his grade, he stood out; this served as a kind of exposure to having a lot of attention and dealing with the ensuing discomfort. To cope, he learned to self deprecate and worked hard to try to earn the trust people seemed to place in him. This led him to studying math and physics as a way of gaining career capital and creating optionality while avoiding the decision of what to do. Next, he further increased optionality and procrastinated by focusing his grad school studies on artificial intelligence & machine learning. During grad school, he saw what it was like to work at Google & DeepMind building AI, and learned about corporate incentives and the risk of feeling forced to optimize for high salary. After his graduate training, he decided to avoid working in industry to gain further leverage in the area of health care in the hopes of seeing AI creating practical impact in lieu of abstract existential risk & angst. But he didn't like working in a hospital because of how political it was, so he started a nonprofit where he is now learning to fundraise and deploy AI where it might actually improve health instead of revenue. He supports the sauna, improv, psychotherapy, and other tools that should be accessible to anyone to help engender psychological safety & creative exploration at scale. Say hi! Email him at [email protected].
Executive Director, NeighborShare
Digital Compassion: How NeighborShare is Transforming the Way Communities Give and Receive Help
Kelli Kreps is a seasoned nonprofit leader with a focus on building teams, finding solutions, and creating opportunities for all. Kelli currently serves as the executive director of NeighborShare, a nonprofit tech startup that’s disrupting the way we get “just-in-time” help to struggling households when other options have run out. Prior to her work at NeighborShare, Kelli ran her own consulting practice where she worked with a number of organizations from national nonprofits to hospital systems. Prior to that, Kelli served in a variety of roles in the United Way system, most recently as vice president of the U.S. Network team at United Way Worldwide. Personally, Kelli has a passion for justice, fairness, and equity. She originally hails from the great Mitten state – Michigan – and currently resides in Arlington, VA, with her husband and stepson. Kelli is a former high school mascot, Golden Girls enthusiast, and is fueled by meaningful connection, running, and copious amounts of strong coffee.
Co-Founder, Research to the People
Using Liberal Arts Skills to Create Useful Structures in Medicine
Peter is the Founder of Research to the People, a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in the SF Bay Area. In July 2021, Research to the People joined Stanford Medicine under Michael Snyder, PhD, Chair of the Genetics Department. Research to the People @ Stanford is a program for oncology patients who have exhausted their clinical options and need to move beyond standard of care. We generate advanced multi-omics data, run cutting edge analysis to interrogate new therapeutic possibilities. Our program also leads discovery and AI innovation initiatives for complex multi-systemic disease. Previously: In addition to several early-stage healthcare tech startup explorations. Peter started Healthcare.mn, a healthcare startup tech community in Minneapolis, and one of the first co-working spaces for startups in Minnesota. He studied Chinese Language and Literature at the University of Minnesota.
Assistant Professor, Cornell Tech
Engineering for Efficiency and Equity in Resident Crowdsourcing
Nikhil Garg is an Assistant Professor of Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell Tech as part of the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute. He uses algorithms, data science, and mechanism design approaches to study democracy, markets, and societal systems at large. Nikhil has received the INFORMS George Dantzig Dissertation Award, an honorable mention for the ACM SIGecom dissertation award, several other best paper awards, and Forbes 30 under 30 for Science. He received his PhD from Stanford University and has spent considerable time in industry -- most recently, he was the Principal Data Scientist at PredictWise, which provides election analytics for political campaigns.