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
Joan Bajorek
CEO
Clarity AI
Budhaditya Bhattacharya
Developer Advocate
Tyk
Aliza Carpio
Director, Product and Tech Evangelism
Autodesk
Paulina Chotrova
CEO
PSK Group
DeveloperSteve Coochin
Senior Developer Advocate
Lumigo
Kimberly Hall
VP of Customer Operations
Toptal
Nicholas Denissen
Principal
Macri LLC
Alexander Galitsky
Managing Partner
Almaz Capital Partners
Venkat Gopalan
Chief Digital,Data & Technology Officer
Belcorp
Mary Grygleski
Senior Developer Advocate
DataStax
Kimbre Lancaster
Director, Strategic Event Marketing
Formerly PagerDuty, Gremlin, Split, Scalyr
Mike Litwin
Chief Marketing Officer
Edge
Rishi Malhotra
Chief Technology Officer
Equabli
Dave McAllister
Sr Open Source Technologist
NGINX Part of F5
Gargi Mishra
Foresight Manager
De Beers
Aditya Oberai
Developer Advocate
Appwrite
Jon Peck
Sr Manager, Developer Relations
GitHub
Aynat Ravin
Director
Marriott International
Gerson Ribeiro
Executive Director
Egregora Global
Steve Riley
Field CTO
Netskope Inc.
Ricardo Rodriguez
CPSO
Intellectio.com
Robert Upham
Head of Founder Services
Antler
Jonathan Wallace
Director
Expert Dojo
Rishikesh Yardi
Lead Product Manager
Instacart
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
Casey Bisson
Head of Product
BluBracket
Maximilian Bock
Investment Manager
HTGF
Clair Byrd
Partner
Wing Venture Capital
Matheus Cardoso
Developer Relations
Bitmovin
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
Paul Cowles
Founder
Social Scavenger
Rob Dawson
CTO
Consensys
Julien Delange
Founder
Codiga
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
Bob Gillespie
Executive Director
Second Century Ventures
Alex Goryachev
Innovator in Residence
Tulane University
Julia Grala
CX Data Analyst
Rocket.Chat
Wayne Haber
Director of Engineering
GitLab
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
Andres Lopez
CEO
Tekbees, Inc.
Tahir Mahmood
Founder & CTO
Tiqniat
J.J. Malfettone
Director, Strategy
KPMG
Zhi Martinez
Head of Product Strategy, Institutional Advice & Wellness
Vanguard
Rekha Mehr MBE
Director
Moonrekha
David Milette
Chief Technology Evangelist & Co-Founder
SQALogic
Tomoko Minagawa
Founder
Femtech Community Japan
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
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
Sanjiv Razdan
Global Head of SME
NIUM (Instarem)
Lindalia Reis
CEO
Ions Innovation & Hacking.Rio
Javier Robalino
Developer Relations
Front
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
John Valiton
CEO
Reemo Health
Nicolas Vega
Associate
500 Latam
Jordan Violet
Head of Developer Relations
SailPoint
Rani Yadav-Ranjan
Global AI Accelerator, Systems Management
Ericsson