Santiago has been programming and building stuff for a lifetime. He is a true hacker always trying to become a better hacker. Early in life he started an online community with thousands of users. After some years, we was a key player in the development of products such as Tikkia and DoingIt. Lately, he has been developing serious games at Innovations Games and not so serious game during his free time. Santiago is a cofounder of SuperHappyDevHouse Mexico City. He is also the editor of the weekly Hacker Digest newsletter.

César has been a web developer and entrepreneur for almost 10 years now. During the last three years he has lead key efforts to empower the startup and hacker communities in Mexico. He specializes in User Experience Architecture and Product Engineering. He describes himself as a behavioralist, traveler and hacker culture practitioner, always interested in what makes people act the way we do. He is the original founder of 42 Claps. He is also one of the cofounders of SuperHappyDevHouse Mexico City and Hackspedition.

Lisa is a born hacker and businesswoman. The daughter of two physicists, she received her BS with Honors in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology and was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at Stanford University, earning her Masters in Electrical Engineering. Lisa was a management consultant at L.E.K. Consulting before becoming the first employee and Vice President of Engineering of IncentAlign, a sales optimization startup in Silicon Valley with business ties in China and Japan. Lisa has been a founder or team member of startups spanning the space of digital media, image recognition, sales optimization, and greentech.

Tim McCoy helps companies understand their customers and deliver compelling products and services. He is active in the agile and lean user experience community, working to create balanced teams of designers, developers, and product management. Tim currently serves as Designer in Residence for Startup Monthly and is a Director at Cooper, a strategic design and development consultancy in San Francisco.

Since 1994, Ariel has started and ran three Internet companies (I/PRO, Topica & TextMarks) and has helped (as an active board member) start and run several others (Kana Software, LinkExchange, Silicon Investor, Odeo and StumbleUpon).

She is currently the CEO of TextMarks, and on the boards of Freedom Financial, SpeedDate, LOLapps Strava & MixTent.

Hiten started on the Internet by founding a Internet marketing consultancy, ACS. He then went on to create Crazy Egg, an analytics tool that visualizes the user experience on a website. Now with KISSmetrics (http://kissmetrics.com) he is building a data driven solution for online businesses. Hiten is passionate about helping other entrepreneurs and startup people.

Dan Martell is the co-founder of www.flowtown.com, a venture backed startup building social marketing applications for businesses. An award-winning Canadian entrepreneur, at 25, Dan formed his first start-up, Spheric Technologies Inc., and watched it grow by an average of 152% per year before he sold the company 4 years later in mid-2008. As an informal angel investor, he is active in advising entrepreneurs using lean startup methodology and metrics based marketing to gain market adoption.

Brant Cooper is an author, speaker and entrepreneur who possesses over 17 years of success bringing high tech products to market. He digs directing the strategy, design, and launch of key technology offerings by leveraging expertise in technology, marketing, and business development. Brant has served as a Marketing and Product Management executive for several start-ups and currently operates as an independent consultant in San Diego.

Patrick Vlaskovits is an entrepreneur, mentor and author. He has founded two startups (now on his third) and co-wrote The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development: A Cheat Sheet to The Four Steps to the Epiphany. Affectionately known as the “CustDev book,” it serves as course text for classes at Stanford University, Boston University, DePaul University, University of Minnesota and University of Norway.

Sean Murphy has taken an entrepreneurial approach to life since he could drive. He has served as an advisor to dozens of startups, helping them explore new options and bring their businesses to new levels. His firm, SKMurphy, Inc. (www.skmurphy.com), focuses on early customers and early revenue for software startups, helping engineers to understand business development. His clients have offerings in electronic design automation, artificial intelligence, web-enabled collaboration, proteomics, text analytics, legal services automation, and medical services workflow.