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Patrina Mack is CEO and founder of K’Bro. She is a board member of the Mental Research Institute. Prior to founding K’Bro, Patrina founded Vision & Execution in 1999. V&E served as interim sales, marketing and product development support for global clients including Agilent, BeVocal (acquired by Nuance), Cisco, DataStreams (Korea), Dream Audio Lab (Singapore), e-Cumulate (acquired by HP), Fasoo (Korea), GroundSource Geothermal, Intuit, Macromedia, NetIQ Corporation, Oblicore (acquired by Computer Associates), Traverse Networks (acquired by Avaya), Visa, Voxify, Wind River (acquired by Intel) and xBrain (France). Prior to that, she lead the SaaS product development for NetGravity launching globally through IPO until being acquired by Doubleclick. Before that, she led new product initiatives domestically and internationally for PacTel Corporation through its spinoff and IPO to become AirTouch.

Louis Monier was a founder of the Internet search engine AltaVista. After he left AltaVista, he worked at eBay and then at Google. He left Google in August 2007 to join Cuil, a search engine startup. He was Vice President of Products at Cuil. He also was the co-founder and CTO of Qwiki with Doug Imbruce. Qwiki won the TechCrunch Disrupt Award in 2010 and was recently sold to Yahoo. Louis was the Chief Scientist of Proximic until July 2013, and then founded a health technology company, Kyron. He is currently Chief Scientist at Import.io and serves as Advisor, Investor and Deep Learning Faculty member at Holberton School in San Francisco. Monier received a Ph.D. in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Paris XI, France in 1980 and worked at Carnegie Mellon University, Xerox PARC, and DEC's Western Research Laboratory.

Grégory “Redo” Renard is CTO & Chief Visionary Officer at xBrain, and previously was CIO at Wygwam sarl, Usilink, Regional Director at Microsoft, and Professor at ISEN. Grégory began his career in 1996 in academic research around new technologies and created his first company in 1997 in the field of web development. Greg is an expert in artificial intelligence and big data working on unsupervised deep learning, bot, personal assistant, connected things and voice/semantic search for more than 15 years. He is currently a Deep Learning Faculty member at Holberton School in San Francisco. Through his professional activities in the various companies he created, his publications (books, blogs, etc.) and conferences, he is recognized as an expert on computer technologies (especially from Microsoft with the title of Most Valuable Professional since 2003 and as Regional Director since 2006) then as a futurist and architect of innovations. Grégory continues to advise many large companies on their strategy and organization innovation. He is also a professional technical futurist speaker in different European universities and corporate events in France, Europe, and US.

Aiden Arnold has a PhD in cognitive neuroscience from the University of Calgary and was formerly a visiting research scholar at the University of California, Davis. He has 10+ years experience in research design, statistical analysis, and data visualization. The central theme of Aiden’s academic research is how the brain takes in sensory information, uses it to construct representations of the world, and informs decision making processes using these representations. During his PhD, I made numerous discoveries on how these processes occur through dynamic interactions of distributed neural networks by combining different aspects of graph theory and theoretical perspectives from cognitive psychology. In addition to being an Advisor to YouROK he also serves as Data Science Fellow at Springboard. Prior to this has been a co-founder for two startups: EmoGenius where he designed a neurotherapeutic game to train socially appropriate emotes in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and YouFindIt where he designed a neurotherapeutic game to assess and train spatial skills in children.

Wendy Renee Holthaus is founder of Warrior Hearts Coaching. She completed her B.A. in Clinical Psychology at San Francisco State University and her M.A. in Counseling Psychology, Marriage and Family Therapy at Notre Dame de Namur. She worked in the field of social work for 20 years at San Andreas Regional Center, Santa Clara County and San Mateo County. Wendy is certified as a Life Coach by Martha Beck, certified in BARE coaching by Susan Hyatt, certified as an addictions treatment counselor (CATC4), received her certification in Positive Psychology based on the UPenn curriculum, and has a certification in Childhood Education.