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.
Lata Ahuja
Sr Director of Engineering
CarGurus
Shola Akinrolie
Program Manager
Turing
Samhita Alla
Software Engineer and Tech Evangelist
Union.ai
Johan Aludden
Software Engineer
Let’s Do This
Elio Assuncao
Founder
Venture Capital World Summit Inc
Joan Palmiter Bajorek
Founder
Women in Voice
Budhaditya Bhattacharya
Product Evangelist
Tyk
Casey Bisson
Head of Product
BluBracket
Maximilian Bock
Investment Manager
HTGF
Clair Byrd
Partner
Wing Venture Capital
Matheus Cardoso
Developer Relations
Bitmovin
Aliza Carpio
Director Tech Evangelism
Autodesk
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
Unnati Chhabra
Developer Relations Engineer
Zenduty
June Cho
Developer & Design Evangelist
Zeplin
David Christiansen
CIO
VENZA, Inc.
Stewart Christie
IoT Ecosystem Evangelist
Intel Corp
DeveloperSteve Coochin
Senior Developer Advocate
Lumigo
Paul Cowles
Founder
Social Scavenger
Rob Dawson
CTO
Consensys
Julien Delange
Founder
Codiga
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
Nirvana Farhadi
Regulatory Expert
Nirvana Enterprises
Elen Gales
Brand Principalv
ODSC
Alexander Galitsky
Managing Partner
Almaz Capital Partners
Bob Gillespie
Executive Director
Second Century Ventures
Venkat Gopalan
Chief Digital, Data & Technology Officer
Belcorp
Alex Goryachev
Innovator in Residence
Tulane University
Julia Grala
CX Data Analyst
Rocket.Chat
Mary Grygleski
Streaming Developer Advocate
DataStax
Wayne Haber
Director of Engineering
GitLab
Kimberly Hall
Head of New Business Launches
Toptal
David Hasebroock
Strategic Partner Manager
Google
Samantha Huang
Principal
BMW i Ventures
Chintan Jain
Senior Director, Cyber Engineering and Architecture
Hilton
Nahrin Jalal
Vice President of Developer Experience
Aptible
Tina Joros
Vice President, General Manager – Veradigm Platform
Allscripts Healthcare
Max Kahn
Head of Growth for SAP.iO
SAP
Snehan Kekre
Developer Advocate
Streamlit/Snowflake
Shin Kishioka
President
I.T.A., Inc.
Hadet Kovačević
Project Manager
Business Metropole Ruhr GmbH
Shruti Kuber
Senior Developer Advocate
Restack
Anuradha Kumari
Frontend Consultant
Passionate People
Leroy Lawrence
Managing Director
Lawrence Investment Holdings
Gosia Leszczynska
Digital Media/Paid Search Lead
Independent
Nava Levy
AI/ML Dev Advocate
Redis
Christopher Lindsey
Head of Product Marketing
Peoplevine
Mike Litwin
Marketing Consultant
MDL Marketing Consultants
Andres Lopez
CEO
Tekbees, Inc.
Tahir Mahmood
Founder & CTO
Tiqniat
J.J. Malfettone
Director, Strategy
KPMG
Rishi Malhotra
Chief Technology Officer
Equabli
Zhi Martinez
Head of Product Strategy, Institutional Advice & Wellness
Vanguard
Dave McAllister
Open Source Strategic Technologist
Nginx
Rekha Mehr MBE
Director
Moonrekha
David Milette
Chief Technology Evangelist & Co-Founder
SQALogic
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
Moataz Nabil
Developer Advocate
Bitrise
Maen Naboulsi
Strategic Planning Consultant
The Mena Catalysts
Magith Noohukhan
Evangelist
Braze
Aditya Oberai
Developer Advocate
Appwrite
Vishal Pallerla
Developer Advocate
Telnyx
Alex Patterson
Developer Advocate
CodingCat.dev
Hanna Phan
Head of Innovation Culture & Communication Strategy
VMware
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.
Javier Robalino
Developer Relations
Front
Ricardo Rodriguez
Chief IT Officer
American Financial Systems
Tomás Sabat
Chief Operating Officer
Vaticle
Anil Saldanha
Chief Cloud Officer
Rush University System for Health
Cherish Santoshi
Developer Relations Engineer
Orkes
Raj Sathyaseelan
CEO and Principal
LINK Silicon Valley
Arya Setiadharma
CEO
Prasetia Dwidharma
Atulpriya Sharma
Developer Advocate
InfraCloud Technologies
Rachel Sienko
Global Head of Developer Experience
Pismo
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
Timothy Spann
Developer Advocate
StreamNative
Robert Upham
Advisor, Mentor
UC Berkley, various startups and incubators
John Valiton
CEO
Reemo Health
Nicolas Vega
Associate
500 Latam
Jordan Violet
Head of Developer Relations
SailPoint
Jonathan Wallace
Investment Director
Expert Dojo
Rani Yadav-Ranjan
Global AI Accelerator, Systems Management
Ericsson
Rishikesh Yardi
Senior Product Manager
Instacart