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