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Ben Lerner

CEO, Espresso AI

Ben is the cofounder and CEO of Espresso AI. Espresso uses generative AI to optimize code, starting with SQL for data warehouses. Before Espresso, Ben worked on performance engineering and machine learning at Google.

Selection Committee

CEO, Robin Hood Foundation

Executive VP & Executive Director of the Rising Generations Center, Aspen Institute

President & CEO, GitLab Foundation

Partner, Digital Assets, Data & AI, Apollo

Angela Glover Blackwell

Founder in Residence, PolicyLink

Head of Equities, Platform, Cloud & Core Engineering, Citadel

General Partner, Founder, Seven Seven Six

Evaluation Panel

ReAle Cornelius

Educational Assistant, New York City Department of Education, Robin Hood Blue Ridge Labs - Design Insight Group (DIG)

Chief Program Officer, Girls Who Code

Engineering Manager, Two Sigma

Małgosia Rejniak

Director of the Public Interest Technology (PiTech) Initiative, Cornell Tech

Robin Hood Blue Ridge Labs - Design Insight Group (DIG)

Managing Director, Kendall Square Capital

Nicole Coronado

Robin Hood Blue Ridge Labs - Design Insight Group (DIG)

Marjorie Parker

CEO & President, JobsFirstNYC

Robin Hood Blue Ridge Labs - Design Insight Group (DIG)

Hillary Gonzalez

Robin Hood Blue Ridge Labs - Design Insight Group (DIG)

Diana Echevarria

Senior Program Officer, The Tow Foundation

Carmelo Barbaro

Executive Director, Inclusive Economy Lab, University of Chicago

Senior Managing Director, Citadel

Head of AI for Social Good, Google.org

Robin Hood Blue Ridge Labs - Design Insight Group (DIG)

Robin Hood Blue Ridge Labs - Design Insight Group (DIG)

Founder, Reforesters Laboratory

Robin Hood Blue Ridge Labs - Design Insight Group (DIG)

Robin Hood Blue Ridge Labs - Design Insight Group (DIG)

Cameron Werhane

Vice President - Technology Corporate Banking, J.P. Morgan

Octavius Kendric

Robin Hood Blue Ridge Labs - Design Insight Group (DIG)

Executive Director, Communitas America

NYC Chief Equity Officer & Commissioner, NYC Mayor's Office of Equity & Racial Justice

Robin Hood Blue Ridge Labs - Design Insight Group (DIG)

Chief Information Officer, NYC Civic Engagement Commission

Founder, President & CEO, Kids in Tech

Sole Proprietor, Michael J Park Organization Consulting

Maulana Randall

CEO/Founder Robin Hood Blue Ridge Labs - Design Insight Group (DIG)

Director, Economic & Fiscal Policy, New School

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Instructor, Schulich School of Business

Director of Programs & Operations, Coleman Family Ventures

Chief of Staff, Bezos Family Foundation

Global Android Lead for Government Affairs and Public Policy, Google

Author, The Tech That Comes Next

Robin Hood Blue Ridge Labs - Design Insight Group (DIG)

Robin Hood Blue Ridge Labs - Design Insight Group (DIG)

Robin Hood Blue Ridge Labs - Design Insight Group (DIG)

Robin Hood Blue Ridge Labs - Design Insight Group (DIG)

Siramadliz Pimentel

Educational Assistant

Robin Hood Blue Ridge Labs - Design Insight Group (DIG)

Shadaria Kareema Mcduffie

Robin Hood Blue Ridge Labs - Design Insight Group (DIG)

Patricia Niles-Barker

Robin Hood Blue Ridge Labs - Design Insight Group (DIG)

Nicole Sanchez-Astupuma

Robin Hood Blue Ridge Labs - Design Insight Group (DIG)

Monica Be. Barrette

Robin Hood Blue Ridge Labs - Design Insight Group (DIG)

Kelvin Arturo Abreu

Robin Hood Blue Ridge Labs - Design Insight Group (DIG)

Jody-Ann Thomas

Undergraduate Student

Hector Trujillo

Robin Hood Blue Ridge Labs - Design Insight Group (DIG)

Robin Hood Blue Ridge Labs - Design Insight Group (DIG)

Robin Hood Blue Ridge Labs - Design Insight Group (DIG)

Robin Hood Blue Ridge Labs – Design Insight Group (DIG)

Robin Hood Blue Ridge Labs - Design Insight Group (DIG)

Vicki Moeller-Chan

AI, ML & Data Executive, Scientist, Technologist

Santhanam Nagarajan

Partner, Portfolio Oversight, Tudor Investment Corp

Analyst, Sora Investors

Michael Weston-Murphy

Communications - Content, Bloomberg Philanthropies

Scholar Advisor, Morehead-Cain Foundation

Diane Schweitzer

Dana Archer-Rosenthal

Owner, Dana Archer-Rosenthal Consulting

Co-founder & CEO, Toma

Kimberlyn Leary

EVP, Urban Institute, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

Raymond Iwanowski

Founding Principal, SECOR Asset Management

Co-founder, KindWork

Head of TGIV, Tiger Global Impact Ventures

VP & Associate General Counsel, Vox Media

Managing Director, PDT Partners LLC

Director of Partnerships, GitLab Foundation

Colin Teichholtz

Head of Quantitative Platform & Technical Strategy for Private Investments, Two Sigma

Executive Director, Black Family Philanthropies

Vice President, New York City Economic Development Corporation

Melur Ramasubramanian

Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost & President of the Research Foundation, State University of New York

Deputy Secretary for Finance & Technology, State of New York, Executive Chamber

Désirée Younge

CEO/Founder, Conscious Catalyst Group Inc.

Chairwoman, Bulova Stetson Fund

William Sternlicht

Principal, JAWS

Chief Capital Formation Officer, Andalusian Credit Partners

Chief Marketing Officer, Tia

CTO/Co-Founder, Cove

Nicole Sebastian

Executive Director, Family Advisory & Philanthropy Services, UBS

Visiting Faculty, Head of Public Interest Technology Studio, Cornell Tech

Head of Strategic Initiatives, General Catalyst

Partner, Apollo Global Management, Inc.

Social & Community Impact Manager, Nike Inc.

Founder / CEO, Cuthman Capital

Jeff Livingston

Founder & CEO, EdSolutions & The Center for Education Market Dynamics

Erin Levi Blondes

Founder, 4 North

Head of VC & Startup Partnerships, Americas, Google

Investor, Stellation Capital

Chief Marketing & Product Officer, data.org

Jessica Fredston-Hermann

Portfolio Manager, Overdeck Family Foundation

Founder, Decisive AREA Method

Jonathan Ashtor

Partner & Global Co-Head of IP & Technology Transactions, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP