Chris Matthews

Author of 'Start Telling People', The Guide to Marketing Strategy and Brand Building for Future-Defining Startups, Chris Matthews guided the go-to-market strategy for companies such as Pebble, Mayfield Robotics and Iron Ox.

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Andra Keay

Early stage robotics angel investor, mentor, and advisor to The Alchemist Accelerator and The Creative Destruction Lab, alongside creating a robotics startup accelerator at Silicon Valley Robotics and developing the IEEE Robotics Startup Bootcamp and Entrepreneur Course.

Nia Jetter

Nia Jetter has a background in intelligent optimization, artificial
intelligence and dynamics and controls. She is passionate about changing the world through innovation, technology planning, teaching, mentoring and solving tough problems in Autonomy and AI that can be applied across different platforms. Nia is also focused on helping people who may not have access to fundamental educational materials for complex technical topics as demonstrated through her development and deployment of her Rockets and Robotics curriculum.

Ted Larson

Ted Larson, CEO of OLogic, leads an R&D outsourcing firm specializing in robotics, with clients like Google, Amazon, and Facebook. A computer software and electronics expert with 30+ years of experience, he previously founded Urbanite Network, a web publishing platform, securing $10M in funding. Larson has also worked at HP, Iomega, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. He holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

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