WorldFestival organizes 150+ judges on the Judging Committee for the WorldFestival Innovation Awards, including Venture Capitalists, Angel investors, Corporate Executives, Tech Media & Press, and leading speakers. Our past startup competitions have hosted judges from NEA, Index Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Greylock Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and more.

Johan Aludden
Software Engineer
Let’s Do This

Jj Asghar
Developer Advocate
IBM

Elio Assuncao
Founder
Venture Capital World Summit Inc

Dr. Andreas Berger
Managing Director
Wintershall Dea Technology Ventures

Maximilian Bock
Investment Manager
HTGF

Sharon Bort
Senior Officer, Sustainability
MIT Solve

Brad Bosserman
Head of Corporate & Brand Partnerships
POLITICO

Clair Byrd
Partner
Wing Venture Capital

André Cedik
Product Manager & Developer Advocate
shipcloud GmbH

Tuana Celik
Developer Advocate
Cumul.io

Goshi Cheragwandi
Managing Director/CEO

William Chernicoff, PhD
Senior Manager – Global Research & Innovation
Toyota

June Cho
Developer & Design Evangelist
Zeplin

Stewart Christie
IoT Ecosystem Evangelist
Intel Corp

Nicholas Denissen
NED/Advisor/Investor
Macri LLC

Spondon Dey
Chief Technology Disruptor
AT&T

Murilo Durigan
Marketing and Communications
PMI

Marlon Evans
CEO
Nex Cubed

Sana Fathima
Investment Manager
Lockheed Martin Ventures

Elen Gales
Brand Principalv
ODSC

Alexander Galitsky
Managing Partner
Almaz Capital Partners

Bob Gillespie
Executive Director
Second Century Ventures

Alex Goryachev
Innovator in Residence
Tulane University

Julia Grala
CX Data Analyst
Rocket.Chat

Mary Grygleski
Streaming Developer Advocate
DataStax

Karthik Iyappann Gunasekaran
VP of Product Innovation
Kaplan Inc.

Kimberly Hall
Vice Chair
Impact Public Service Fund

David Hasebroock
Strategic Partner Manager
Google

Dani Horowitz
Founder
DaniWeb LLC

Samantha Huang
Principal
BMW i Ventures

Takeo Ishizaki
President & CEO
ABC DREAM VENTURES

Adam Jendrisak
Associate Portfolio Manager
Capital Innovators

Amit Jha
Sr. Developer Advocate
Amazon Web Services

Tina Joros
Vice President, General Manager – Veradigm Platform
Allscripts Healthcare

Hadet Kovačević
Project Manager
Business Metropole Ruhr GmbH

Jacqueline Krain
Global Head of Business Innovation
Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Anuradha Kumari
Frontend Consultant
Passionate People

Max Kahn
Head of Growth for SAP.iO
SAP

Shin Kishioka
President
I.T.A., Inc.

Veronika Kuznetsova
Director, Innovation & Strategy
UBS Evolve

Dario Laverde
Director of Developer Relations
HTC

Leroy Lawrence
Managing Director
Lawrence Investment Holdings

Gosia Leszczynska
Digital Media/Paid Search Lead
Independent

Christopher Lindsey
Head of Product Marketing
Peoplevine

Mike Litwin
Marketing Consultant
MDL Marketing Consultants

Sonita Lontoh
Global Marketing Chief
HP Inc.

Maria Malavenda
Partner
KOL Ventures

J.J. Malfettone
Director, Strategy
KPMG

Zhi Martinez
Head of Product Strategy, Institutional Advice & Wellness
Vanguard

Dave McAllister
Open Source Strategic Technologist
Nginx

Rekha Mehr MBE
Director
Moonrekha

Tomoko Minagawa
Founder
Femtech Community Japan

Gargi Mishra
Digital Transformation Advisor, Speaker

Shambhavi Mishra
Director of Investments
Brand Capital International

Carolina Morandini
Open Innovation & Ecosystem Lead
Accenture Ventures

Maen Naboulsi
Strategic Planning Consultant
The Mena Catalysts

Andy Netzel
VP Innovation lab
KeyBank

Chelsea Nguyen
Investment Manager
ThinkZone Ventures

Jonathan Peck
Technical Advocate
GitHub

Hanna Phan
Head of Innovation Culture & Communication Strategy
VMware

Juan Ramirez
CEO
Celerik, Inc

Oscar Ramos
Partner & Managing Director
SOSV Chinaccelerator MOX

Aynat Ravin
Head of M Live
Marriott International

Sanjiv Razdan
Global Head of SME
NIUM (Instarem)

Lindalia Reis
CEO
Ions Innovation & Hacking.Rio

Steve Riley
Field CTO
Netskope Inc.

Tomás Sabat
Chief Operating Officer
Vaticle

Raj Sathyaseelan
CEO and Principal
LINK Silicon Valley

Arya Setiadharma
CEO
Prasetia Dwidharma

Paweł Skrzypek
Chief Technology Officer
AI Investments

Valeria Sologoub
Chief Marketing Officer
Grinteq

Daniil Solopov
Director of Strategic Metaverse Development
Sensorium DLT

Juan Soto
COO
Mavity

Sera Unlu
Global Marketing Executive

Robert Upham
Advisor, Mentor
UC Berkley, various startups and incubators

John Valiton
CEO
Reemo Health

Nicolas Vega
Associate
500 Latam

Jonathan Wallace
Investment Director
Expert Dojo

Rani Yadav-Ranjan
Global AI Accelerator, Systems Management
Ericsson

Hubert Zajicek
CEO
Health Wildcatters