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Selim Ucer

Co-Founder
Doktar

Selim Ucer

Co-Founder
Doktar

Selim Ucer

Co-Founder
Doktar
 

Lukas Gentele

CEO
vCluster Labs

Lukas Gentele is the CEO & Co-Founder of vCluster Labs, a venture-backed startup virtualizing Kubernetes to enable advanced tenancy models to increase utilization, reduce cost and make Kubernetes more dynamic than ever. vCluster enables platform and infra teams to create virtual Kubernetes clusters which are as scalable and isolated as traditional clusters but much more lightweight and versatile.

Lukas Gentele

CEO
vCluster Labs

Lukas Gentele

CEO
vCluster Labs

Lukas Gentele is the CEO & Co-Founder of vCluster Labs, a venture-backed startup virtualizing Kubernetes to enable advanced tenancy models to increase utilization, reduce cost and make Kubernetes more dynamic than ever. vCluster enables platform and infra teams to create virtual Kubernetes clusters which are as scalable and isolated as traditional clusters but much more lightweight and versatile. Trusted by companies such as CoreWeave, Nscale, Adobe, and Deloitte, vCluster enables organizations to create fully isolated tenant clusters on any infrastructure, from public cloud to private clouds all the way to AI supercomputers powered by the latest GPUs. Lukas has been a keynote speaker and presenter at events such as KubeCon, DevOpsDays, ContainerConf, as well as at AWS and Kubernetes Community Days around the world.

Founders at all stages, this is your opportunity to engage directly with investors during a relaxed breakfast focused on funding. Come prepared with your questions and leave with actionable insights tailored to your brand's growth journey

Investors attending:

Author:

Tina Bou-Saba

Founder
CXT Investments

Tina Henry Bou-Saba is an investor, advisor, and entrepreneur in the consumer investment space, with a strong focus on beauty and personal care, health and wellness, e-commerce, and creators. She founded CXT Investments in 2016 to support purpose-driven entrepreneurs building the next generation of great consumer companies, including brands and enabling technology. Early investments include Beekeeper’s Naturals, Hill House Home, Kosas, Olive & June, and Saie. Tina is a thought leader and strategist whose extensive network, hands-on approach, and sharp instincts for commercial opportunities are highly regarded by investors, founders, and industry leaders. She balances strategy and investing expertise with a start-up owner mindset and a bias toward action and outcomes. A trusted partner and “first call” to entrepreneurs, Tina currently serves on the boards of Arrae, August, and Dae.

Tina is uniquely fluent across the languages of public and private markets, large corporations and start-ups, and consumer brands and technology. She has worked closely with many founders over the past decade and has collaborated with numerous leading VC and PE firms. Tina enjoys working with start-ups across a range of areas including:

  • Fundraising and financing
  • Commercial strategy and execution
  • Start-up culture and operations
  • Business model development
  • Team building and coaching
  • New business development

After starting her career in investment banking at Morgan Stanley, Tina covered retail as an equity analyst at Sanford Bernstein and Berman Capital, and has broad knowledge of the industry from mass to specialty to e-commerce. As a member of the strategy team at Victoria’s Secret, Tina worked closely with VS leadership to commercialize new business opportunities and lead extensive customer research. She attended Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard College, and Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar.

Tina is passionate about supporting female and diverse entrepreneurs and serving her community. She is proud of her many years of dedicated Board service at Safe & Sound and the Bay Area Discovery Museum. Tina lives in San Francisco with her husband and their three children.

CXT Investments: https://www.cxtinvestments.com/

Tina’s LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/tinabousaba

Tina Bou-Saba

Founder
CXT Investments

Tina Henry Bou-Saba is an investor, advisor, and entrepreneur in the consumer investment space, with a strong focus on beauty and personal care, health and wellness, e-commerce, and creators. She founded CXT Investments in 2016 to support purpose-driven entrepreneurs building the next generation of great consumer companies, including brands and enabling technology. Early investments include Beekeeper’s Naturals, Hill House Home, Kosas, Olive & June, and Saie. Tina is a thought leader and strategist whose extensive network, hands-on approach, and sharp instincts for commercial opportunities are highly regarded by investors, founders, and industry leaders. She balances strategy and investing expertise with a start-up owner mindset and a bias toward action and outcomes. A trusted partner and “first call” to entrepreneurs, Tina currently serves on the boards of Arrae, August, and Dae.

Tina is uniquely fluent across the languages of public and private markets, large corporations and start-ups, and consumer brands and technology. She has worked closely with many founders over the past decade and has collaborated with numerous leading VC and PE firms. Tina enjoys working with start-ups across a range of areas including:

  • Fundraising and financing
  • Commercial strategy and execution
  • Start-up culture and operations
  • Business model development
  • Team building and coaching
  • New business development

After starting her career in investment banking at Morgan Stanley, Tina covered retail as an equity analyst at Sanford Bernstein and Berman Capital, and has broad knowledge of the industry from mass to specialty to e-commerce. As a member of the strategy team at Victoria’s Secret, Tina worked closely with VS leadership to commercialize new business opportunities and lead extensive customer research. She attended Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard College, and Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar.

Tina is passionate about supporting female and diverse entrepreneurs and serving her community. She is proud of her many years of dedicated Board service at Safe & Sound and the Bay Area Discovery Museum. Tina lives in San Francisco with her husband and their three children.

CXT Investments: https://www.cxtinvestments.com/

Tina’s LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/tinabousaba

Author:

Nick Giannuzzi

Managing Partner & Co-Founder
Humble Growth

Nick Giannuzzi

Managing Partner & Co-Founder
Humble Growth

Author:

George Song

Principal
Strand Equity

George Song

Principal
Strand Equity

Author:

Julianne Kur

Principal
Alliance Consumer Growth

Julianne Kur

Principal
Alliance Consumer Growth

Author:

Kristina Lee

Vice President
Monogram Capital Partners

Kristina Lee

Vice President
Monogram Capital Partners

Author:

Deborah Benton

Founder & Managing Partner
Willow Growth Partners

Deborah Benton

Founder & Managing Partner
Willow Growth Partners
Glossary
Glossary
 

Steven Carlini

Chief AI Advocate
Schneider Electric

Steven Carlini

Chief AI Advocate
Schneider Electric

Steven Carlini

Chief AI Advocate
Schneider Electric

As cyber threats grow more sophisticated and infrastructure complexity increases, traditional approaches fall short. In this briefing Axiado CEO Gopi Sirineni introduces a hardware-anchored, AI-driven approach to platform security and system management, powered by intelligent agents embedded directly in trusted silicon and independent of the host CPU and OS. Running on our Trusted Control/Compute Unit (TCU), these agents autonomously detect, respond to, and recover from threats while optimizing system performance in real time. Learn how Axiado’s architecture transforms passive infrastructure into resilient, self-defending systems—delivering proactive protection and operational intelligence from the ground up.

Room 201

Author:

Gopi Sirineni

Founder, President & CEO
Axiado

Gopi Sirineni is a Silicon Valley veteran with four startups and almost thirty years of experience in the semiconductor, software and systems industries. As a senior executive, he has demonstrated exceptional skill at building highly efficient,
cost-effective organizations, managing them in rapidly changing environments, and bringing industry-changing technologies like Wi-Fi mesh, network-attached storage, and core network backplanes to market.

Gopi Sirineni

Founder, President & CEO
Axiado

Gopi Sirineni is a Silicon Valley veteran with four startups and almost thirty years of experience in the semiconductor, software and systems industries. As a senior executive, he has demonstrated exceptional skill at building highly efficient,
cost-effective organizations, managing them in rapidly changing environments, and bringing industry-changing technologies like Wi-Fi mesh, network-attached storage, and core network backplanes to market.

A staggering number of AI projects fail before reaching production, and the primary culprit is data. As enterprises re-architect their infrastructure to support generative, agentic, and physical AI across distributed infrastructures, the data layer is emerging as the lynch pin for success.

Learn how to architect a strategic data foundation that increases efficiency using infrastructure you already have, to simplify AI data pipelines, enable AI anywhere across any on-premises and cloud storage, and prepare for a future at a much larger scale.

Room 206

Author:

Jeff Echols

VP of Strategic Partners
Hammerspace

With a dynamic 20-year career in enterprise software, Jeff Echols has established himself as a leader in building differentiated solutions, strategic relationships, and driving joint partner success. He is currently the VP of Strategic Partners at Hammerspace, focusing on the company's AI Solutions and go-to-market strategy. His extensive experience spans enterprise and startup environments, including two IPOs and international assignments. Throughout his career at companies like WEKA, Nutanix, and CommVault, Jeff has led sales, product marketing, and corporate strategy teams, contributing to significant revenue growth and market differentiation.

Jeff Echols

VP of Strategic Partners
Hammerspace

With a dynamic 20-year career in enterprise software, Jeff Echols has established himself as a leader in building differentiated solutions, strategic relationships, and driving joint partner success. He is currently the VP of Strategic Partners at Hammerspace, focusing on the company's AI Solutions and go-to-market strategy. His extensive experience spans enterprise and startup environments, including two IPOs and international assignments. Throughout his career at companies like WEKA, Nutanix, and CommVault, Jeff has led sales, product marketing, and corporate strategy teams, contributing to significant revenue growth and market differentiation.