Speakers

Tom Ryan is the Chairman of Struck Studio, as well as the President and CEO of Streaming at Paramount Global.

Prior to Struck Studio and Paramount, Tom was the CEO and Co-Founder of Pluto TV, the leading free streaming television service in America that is also available in 22 countries across Europe and Latin America. At Pluto TV, Tom was responsible for scaling annual revenue to $1Bn in 7 years. Paramount acquired Pluto TV in 2019.

Earlier in his career, Tom served as CEO of Threadless (a popular crowdsourced design and e-commerce company), SVP of Digital Strategy at EMI Music, and as a co-founder of Cductive (an early digital music retailer company that he merged with eMusic). 

I am the Bill and Cathy Osborn Professor of Computer Science at Northwestern University and the co-founder of the Artificial Intelligence company Narrative Science, recently acquired by Salesforce. I am the faculty lead of Northwestern’s CS + X initiative, exploring how computational thinking can be used to transform fields such as the law, medicine, education, and business. He is director of Northwestern’s Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence (MSAI).

Most recently, Professor Kristian Hammond founded the Center for Advancing Safety in Machine Intelligence (CASMI), a research hub funded by Underwriter’s Laboratories. CASMI is focused on operationalizing the design and evaluation of AI systems from the perspective of their impact on human life and safety.

Professor Hammond's research is at the intersection of data analytics and human/machine communication. His vision is to bridge the gap between the data that serves us and the language we need to understand it. He believes in humanizing computers with the aim of stopping the process of mechanizing people.

Robin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Liquifi. Robin was a product lead at Eco, Adobe, LinkedIn, and investment banking at Morgan Stanley.

Liquifi is building the "Carta for crypto" by helping companies automate their token vesting, tax compliance and reporting, and manage their token cap table. With Liquifi, teams launch their tokens faster with fewer resources, and save time handling compliance and token distributions. Liquifi's contracts are fully secured, audited by multiple firms, and protected from losses