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.
Asanka Abeysinghe
Chief Technology Evangelist
WSO2, Inc
Jayesh Agrawal
Software Architect & Product Manager
Securly Software
Kaan Akin
CEO/ Founder
Hackquarters
Johan Aludden
Software Engineer
Intuit
Ebenezer Anane
Founder & CEO
TechGenez
Jj Asghar
Developer Advocate
IBM
David Awad
Developer Evangelist
R3
George Al Bcherraoui
Founder & CEO
CapB
Dr. Andreas Berger
Managing Director
Wintershall Dea Technology Ventures
Jonathan Beri
CEO
Golioth
Akanksha Bhasin
Community Evangelist
Symbl.ai
Sharon Bort
Senior Officer, Sustainability
MIT Solve
Brad Bosserman
Head of Corporate & Brand Partnerships
POLITICO
Maryna Bozhenko
New Business Development Manager
DataRobot
Paul Brebner
Technology Evangelist
Instaclustr
Alex Britkin
CEO and Founder
NFWare
Jonathan Burbaum
Founder & Principal
Gnosys Inc
Clair Byrd
Partner, Marketing
Wing Venture Capital
Aliza Carpio
Principal Tech Evangelist
Intuit
André Cedik
Product Manager & Developer Advocate
shipcloud GmbH
Tuana Celik
Developer Advocate
Cumul.io
William Chernicoff, PhD
Senior Manager – Global Research & Innovation
Toyota
June Cho
Developer & Design Evangelist
Zeplin
Stewart Christie
IoT Ecosystem Evangelist
Intel Corp
Simon Crosby
CTO
SWIM.AI
Anthony Dombrowski
Developer Advocate
Ping Identity
Marlon Evans
CEO
Nex Cubed
Ahmad “Al” Fares
CEO
Celitech Inc.
Sana Fathima
Investment Manager
Lockheed Martin Ventures
Shahar Fogel
CEO
Rookout
Joe Furbee
Developer Advocate
SAS
Chinmay Gaikwad
Tech Evangelist
Epsagon
Dan Garfield
Co-founder, Chief Open Source Officer
Codefresh
Natalie Gil
CTO
Darshana
Laurent Gil
Founder and Chief Product Officer
CAST.AI
Andrey Golub
Head of AI+3D R&D
ICOL Group
Alex Goryachev
WSJ Bestselling Author
Mary Grygleski
Senior Developer Advocate
IBM
Karthik Iyappann Gunasekaran
VP of Product Innovation
Kaplan Inc.
Kimberly Hall
Vice Chair
Impact Public Service Fund
Rob Hedgpeth
Director, Developer Relations
MariaDB
Arthur Hicken
Evangelist
Parasoft
Dotan Horovits
Technology Evangelist
Logz.io
Dani Horowitz
Founder
DaniWeb LLC
Yiwen Huang
CEO
R2.ai, Inc.
Sharon Hunt
VP Product Management
Clovers
Sun Hwang
General Manager
KOTRA, Chicago
Erikka Innes
Senior Devleoper Evangelist
Api Video
Vlad Ionescu
Founder, CEO
Earthly Technologies
Takeo Ishizaki
President & CEO
ABC DREAM VENTURES
Adam Jendrisak
Associate Portfolio Manager
Capital Innovators
Chris Jensen
Dir. DevExp
Sinch
Amit Jha
Sr. Developer Advocate
Amazon Web Services
Jerod Johnson
Technology Evangelist
CData Software
Max Kahn
Head of Growth for SAP.iO
SAP
Denis Kaminskiy
Founder
Arcus Global
Melodi Kaya
Head of Developer Marketing
Chainlink Labs
Roger Kibbe
Senior Technical Evangelist
Samsung
Eran Kinsbruner
Sr. Director, Product Management
Perforce
Jacob Knopf
Developer Evangelist
Galvanize Inc
Jacqueline Krain
Global Head of Business Innovation
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Erich Kron
Security Awareness Advocate
KnowBe4
Shruti Kuber
Developer Advocate and Community Manager
EMnify GmBH
Anuradha Kumari
Frontend Consultant
Passionate People
Veronika Kuznetsova
Director, Innovation & Strategy
UBS Evolve
Ravi Lachhman
Evangelist
Harness
Dario Laverde
Director of Developer Relations
HTC
Vickie Li
Developer Evangelist
ShiftLeft Inc
Brian Linder
Director, Community Partnerships & Activations
Fandom Inc.
Christopher Lindsey
Head of Product Marketing
Peoplevine
Sonita Lontoh
Global Marketing Chief
HP Inc.
Lori MacVittie
Principal Technical Evangelist
F5
Maria Malavenda
Partner
KOL Ventures
J.J. Malfettone
Director, Strategy
KPMG
Sergio Martinez
Experience Manager
Hubspot
Dave McAllister
Sr technical evangelist
Splunk
Vanessa Measom
Developer Advocate
SlashData Ltd
Alejandro Mercado
CTO
KMMX
Gargi Mishra
Digital Transformation Advisor, Speaker
Yasyf Mohamedali
CEO
Sym
Jean Moreau
Co-founder & CEO
PHENIX SAS
Andy Netzel
VP Innovation lab
KeyBank
Chelsea Nguyen
Investment Manager
ThinkZone Ventures
Kevin Nguyen
CEO/Founder
JobHopin
Magith Noohukhan
Evangelist
Braze
Roshan Norouzi
Founder
Iran Images
Nik Novoselov
CEO
ArtNauka
Brendan O’Leary
Sr. Developer Evanglist
GitLab
Florian Pachinger
Developer Advocate
Cisco Systems
Justin Padinske
Head of Partnerships
Alchemist Accelerator
Nick Parsons
Director of Developer Marketing
Stream.io, Inc.
Bhuvan Pasham
CEO
Invati Inc.
Jonathan Peck
Technical Advocate
GitHub
Antonio Pellegrino
CEO
Mutable
Hanna Phan
Head of Innovation Culture & Communication Strategy
VMware
Natalie Pistunovich
Lead Developer Advocate
Aerospike
Gayathri Radhakrishnan
Director VC
Micron Ventures
Oscar Ramos
Partner & Managing Director
SOSV Chinaccelerator MOX
Aynat Ravin
Head of M Live
Marriott International
Naeem Raza
Partner
Mighty Capital Management
Lindalia Reis
CEO
Ions Innovation & Hacking.Rio
Kelly Revenaugh
Developer Advocate
Galvanize
Chris Riley
Sr Technology Advocate | DevRel
Splunk, Inc.
Angel Rivera
Senior Developer Advocate
CircleCI
Andrew Roberts
CEO
Tiny
Raj Sathyaseelan
CEO and Principal
LINK Silicon Valley
Michele Sciabarrà
Area Manager, Europe
Nimbella
Josemaria Siota
Corporate Venturing Expert & Executive Director of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center
World Economic Forum & IESE Business School
Paweł Skrzypek
Chief Technology Officer
AI Investments
Leon Stigter
Sr. Product Manager, Serverless
Lightbend
Stefan Tabacaru
Founder and CEO
FinOpsIT
Claire Uhar
Director, Strategic Partnerships
Protocol
Sera Unlu
Global Marketing Executive
John Valiton
CEO
Reemo Health
Jonathan Wallace
Investment Director
Expert Dojo
Mandi Walls
DevOps Advocate
PagerDuty
Frederik Weidemann
Chief Technical Evangelist
Onapasis
Isabel Wu
Director
Meta Management
Josh Wulf
Developer Advocate
Camunda
Rani Yadav-Ranjan
Global Head AI Technology & Innovation
Ericsson
Hubert Zajicek
CEO
Health Wildcatters
Rudy de Busscher
Product Manager
Payara
M4dz 🥑🦄
Principal Developer Advocate
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