Influencers and Enablers

Lena is currently serving as the CTO and Co-Founder of Good Face Project, a chemistry based AI SAAS platform for the Personal Care industry. She previously worked as a scientist in the Ukrainian Space Research Institute. She is a serial entrepreneur and the creator of proprietary Data Mining packages for…

Michael is Co-Managing Partner for Lonergan, where he focus­es on building leadership teams for grow­ing pub­lic and ven­ture-backed com­pa­nies in deep tech, espe­cial­ly semi­con­duc­tors, sys­tems, and next-gen com­pute for AI. He has made suc­cess­ful place­ments at notable pub­lic com­pa­ny clients includ­ing Infi­neon, Mod­el N, C3​.ai and Ram­bus; he has also…

Dr. Sanjoy Paul is a recognized leader in innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship, currently serving as Executive Director of Rice Nexus—Rice University’s flagship innovation hub accelerating research translation and venture creation. He is also Co-founder of Houston AI, a nonprofit driving AI innovation and collaboration across academia, industry, and community. A…