Waze is a social traffic & navigation app based on the world's largest community of drivers sharing real time road info, with over 20m users & $67m+ in VC funding. Prior to co-founding waze Uri has been a coach and consultant to startup companies in Israel, gleaning from his experience of more than two decades in the mobile industry at various companies (Comverse, Openwave, Celltrex).

Bedy is responsible for leading the investments in Latin America at 500 Startups, a seed and incubator fund in Silicon Valley. In addition, Bedy founded Brazil Innovators, an organization that became the epicenter and resource for Brazilian tech founders.

Bernhard is the Co-Founder & CEO of busuu.com, the world's largest social network for language learning with currently more than 20 million users. He is also a part time associate professor at IE Business School in the area of digital marketing and mentor at the Wayra accelerator.

Mark is founding partner of White Summers Caffee & James LLP and leads the firm’s international practice. Mark represents emerging growth, mid-stage and mezzanine stage companies and investment funds on all matters and has been involved in a number of high profile transactions in The Valley.

Vertex Venture Capital is a top-tier Israeli VC with an experienced multi-disciplinary team of professionals, an impressive track record of exits through M&A and IPO and a strong international investor base including Fujitsu, NTT, and Hitachi.

Xebier is the Founder & CEO of the successful Spanish firm Sherpa, the first Spanish language voice assistant for Android phones.

Jeff is a serial entrepreneur having founded a number of ventures in Japan and the US, including: maneo, Japan's first social lending service site; Sozon, an online marketing company sold to ValueCommerce; Solis, a domain registrar sold to GMO Internet; SSK Technology, Inc., a printed circuit board company sold to Suzuki Manufacturing; and Pario Software, a network security software company sold to Lucent Technologies. J Seed Ventures is a startup incubator and early stage investor based in Tokyo with the purpose of promoting entrepreneurship in Japan.

Gary is an executive director in Wayra Spain. Wayra is Telefónica’s start-up accelerator, it supports the creation of high-tech IT companies in Latin America and Spain. In addition, Gari is the co-founder of nuroa.com, an Internet start-up based in Barcelona, Spain that has raised over €3 million in financing.

United States Ambassador to Spain and Andorra since 2010. Prior to his diplomatic service, Alan Solomont was an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political activist. Mr. Solomont spent his professional career in the health and elder care arenas. He was Chairman of Solomont Bailis Ventures, investing in early stage health care companies.