Bryan Kim (“BK”) is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he invests primarily in consumer AI applications. He is particularly interested in how AI is reshaping consumer experiences across core themes such as productivity (ElevenLabs, Cluely, Raspberry), consumer health (Function Health, Slingshot AI), creation (Captions, Civit.ai, Glif, Viggle), and connection (BeReal, Partiful). He is also actively exploring new categories and behaviors emerging at the frontier of consumer AI. BK serves on the boards of Captions and Partiful, and as a board observer at ElevenLabs and Function Health. Prior to joining a16z, BK spent several years at Snap, where he helped scale the company through its hyper-growth and IPO. He built and led the growth and product operations teams, driving user expansion globally. He also scaled the finance team from zero to 70+ people and led several key milestones, including the IPO. As a founding member of the strategy team, he sourced and integrated major acquisitions such as Looksery (which powers Snap AR Lenses) and Bitmoji. Earlier in his career, Bryan was CFO at Bungalow and a founding General Partner at Uncommon Projects, an operator-led seed fund. He began his career in investment banking at Credit Suisse, advising technology companies on M&A and capital markets transactions. He holds a BA in Economics and International Relations from Carleton College and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Luana Lopes Lara is co-founder and COO of Kalshi, the largest prediction market in the world. The exchange trades hundreds of millions of contracts monthly and offers contracts on politics, sports, economics, and entertainment, among many others. Kalshi has raised over $500M in funding from investors including Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Paradigm, and Spark Capital. Before founding Kalshi, Luana worked as a quantitative trader at Citadel Securities and as a software engineer at Bridgewater Associates. Luana earned a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Mathematics at MIT. She was a professional ballerina with the Bolshoi Ballet School before starting at MIT. She is originally from Brazil.

Sebastian Mallaby is the Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, he is the author of six books, including More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite and The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future, which have become investment classics. His latest book is The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence. An experienced journalist and public speaker, Mallaby’s interests cover a wide variety of domestic and international issues, including the technology sector, central banks, financial markets, the implications of the rise of newly emerging powers, and the intersection of economics and international relations. His study of American economic statecraft, The Man Who Knew: The Life & Times of Alan Greenspan, won the 2016 Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award and the 2017 George S. Eccles Prize in Economic Writing. His earlier works are The World’s Banker, a portrait of the World Bank under James Wolfensohn that was named as an “Editor’s Choice” by the New York Times; and After Apartheid, which was named by the New York Times as a “Notable Book.” An essay in the Financial Times said of The World’s Banker, “Mallaby’s book may well be the most hilarious depiction of a big organization and its controversial boss since Michael Lewis’s Liar’s Poker.” Before joining CFR, Mallaby served eight years as a columnist and editorial board member at the Washington Post and spent thirteen years with the Economist. While at the Economist, he worked in London, where he wrote about foreign policy and international finance; in Africa, where he covered Nelson Mandela’s release and the collapse of apartheid; and in Japan, where he covered the breakdown of the country’s political and economic consensus. Between 1997 and 1999, Mallaby was the Economist’s Washington bureau chief and wrote the magazine’s weekly Lexington column on American politics and foreign policy. In 2015, he helped to found a startup, InFacts.org, a web publication making the fact-based case for Britain to remain in the European Union. Mallaby was educated at Oxford, graduating in 1986 with a first class degree in modern history. After eighteen years in Washington, DC, he moved to London in 2014, where he lives with his wife, Zanny Minton Beddoes, editor in chief of the Economist.

Linda Rottenberg is one of the world’s leading voices on global entrepreneurship, venture capital, and ecosystem transformation. She has been named “Innovator for the 21st Century” (TIME), one of “America’s Best Leaders” (U.S. News & World Report), “the World’s Mentor Capitalist” (Tom Friedman), and “the Entrepreneur Whisperer” (ABC). As Co-Founder & CEO of Endeavor, Linda built a global network that identifies, mentors, and invests in the highest growth entrepreneurs across 50+ countries — showcasing the power of innovation “elsewhere”. Endeavor’s global investment fund, Endeavor Catalyst, manages $540M in AUM across four funds, with over 375 investments and 64 “unicorn” companies valued at $1B+. Linda currently serves on two public company boards: Globant, a leading digital transformation company (NYSE: GLOB); and Pershing Square SPARC Holdings (SPARC). She is a founding member of the Yale Ventures Advisory Board and Vice-Chair of Yale President’s Council on International Activities. In 2014, Linda published CRAZY IS A COMPLIMENT, a New York Times bestseller. She has been the subject of one Stanford and five Harvard Business School case studies.A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, Linda lives in Brooklyn with her husband, author Bruce Feiler, and visits her identical twin daughters in college when she’s not traveling the world.

Charles is a technology investor and has served on the Meta Platform Inc. Board of Directors since December 2024, where he also chairs the Risk and Strategy Committee Committee. Previously, he served as General Manager of Global Corporate Strategy at Microsoft Corporation from 2009 to 2013 and as General Manager from 2005 to 2009, focused on partnering and M&As. He ran the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal and drove the Skype acquisition. Before running Corporate Strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry. Charles invests in a broad range of startups, with a primary focus on enterprise SaaS and deep tech, as well as biotechnology, cybersecurity, and quantum computing companies. Charles holds a Bachelor's degree in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from Oxford University.

Joe Tsai is co-founder and Chairman of Alibaba Group. He is the owner of several American professional sports teams, including the NBA Brooklyn Nets, 2024 WNBA Champions New York Liberty, and the San Diego Seals and Las Vegas Desert Dogs in the National Lacrosse League. He is also an investor and board member of the Premier Lacrosse League. Joe and his wife Clara are active philanthropists supporting education, research, economic mobility, and arts and culture. Joe is a founding board member of The Asian American Foundation (TAAF), a non-profit whose mission is to combat discrimination and support prosperity and representation for Asian Americans. Joe is a member of Asia Business Council, J.P. Morgan International Council, EXOR Partners Council, BDT & MSD Partners Advisory Board, and International Advisory Council of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Prior to Alibaba Group, Joe was a private equity investor in Asia for Investor AB of Sweden’s Wallenberg family. He practiced tax law as an associate with Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York. He is a graduate of Yale College (BA ’86) and Yale Law School (JD ’90).