Valio Con 2025

Cristina Cordova

Cristina is Chief Operating Officer at Linear and an active angel investor. She started her career in partnerships, joining startups as one of the first business hires. She spent 7 years at Stripe, joining as the 28th employee. In her time there, she grew the Partnerships organization from the ground up and led a business unit building new financial services products for businesses. After Stripe, she joined Notion to lead Platform & Partnerships, where she also led the growth team.

Dann Petty

Designer & Entrepreneur

Dann has been non-stop full-time freelancing as a designer for over 20 years with well-known clients, like: Google, Nike, Airbnb, Meta, Adobe, etc. He created the very popular adventure based conference for creatives called Epicurrence. He's also the author of the popular books: That Portfolio Book + That Freelancer Book.

Kathleen Warner

Designer & Musician

Kathleen is a musician (Lyrah) and product designer. She's been playing piano and singing since she was 3. And in 2022 she quit her product design job at Meta so she could focus on her music project Lyrah full-time.

Linus Ekenstam

Designer & AI Evangelist

Linus is a product designer and entrepreneur with 20 years of experience working in tech. These days he writes a lot about AI, technology, and future trends as well as keep up with what's going on in the realm of space, robotics, and the world of finance.

Haruko Hayakawa

CG Artist & Creative Director

Haruko is a CG artist and creative director with over a decade of experience in branding, advertising and photography. She focuses on creating 3D visuals for brands, editorial outlets and advertising campaigns. Some of her clients include Apple, The New York Times, Google, Bubble Skincare, and more.

Rogie King

Designer

Rogie is a multidisciplinary designer, illustrator, and builder that loves the intersection of art and code. He currently I works at Figma as a Designer Advocate. He also has built a set of popular Figma plugins.

Rob Hope

Designer & Entrepreneur

Rob is a product designer from South Africa. After a decade of freelance, he's taken the leap to work on his products, One Page Love and Show Them, full-time. He is also the creator and host of the popular Yo! Podcast, spotlighting designers, developers, and entrepreneurs.

Hiten Shah

Founder & Investor

Hiten is long time technology entrepreneur. He currently works on product & growth for the AI Products at Dropbox. Over the last 20+ years, in addition to starting my own companies (Crazy Egg, KISSmetrics, and Nira), he's invested in hundreds of incredible founders and have become a trusted advisor and supporter to help their companies grow.

Madison Waldvogel

Head of Marketing at AngelList

Madison is a marketing pro with a strong background in demand generation and brand leadership. She currently Head of Marketing at AngelList. Previously, she was at Loom as Senior Manager of Demand Generation. Before that, she was at Bloomberg LP, and helped grow the revenue marketing team at Wunderkind managing client marketing initiatives.

Hon Weng Chong

Founder at Cortical Labs

Hon is the founder and CEO of Cortical Labs, the company that built the first ever commercially available biological computer. Previously, he founded CliniCloud, a medtech startup building connected medical devices. A medical doctor from The University of Melbourne, Hon discovered tech entrepreneurship during research at Johns Hopkins. He's also a full-stack software engineer, machine learning enthusiast, and was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2016.

Sebastiaan de With

Designer & Co-Founder at Lux

Sebastiaan is co-founder and designer at Lux. They make award-winning apps for photography and video like Halide, Kino, Spectre, and Orion. He also runs a small design and photography studio, with a focus on motorcycles, technology and typography. Previously he designed for Apple, Sony, Mozilla, Oracle, frog design, HP, and EA.

Michael Flarup

Designer & CEO at Northplay

Michael is a Danish designer & entrepreneur. He runs entertainment studio Northplay, Pixelresort and design resource platform Apply Pixels. He’s got a treasure-trove of experience creating his own companies, leading teams of developers and designers and working on countless of succesful products, games and services.

Pablo Stanley

Founder at Lummi.ai

Pablo is a designer and co-founder at Lummi, and writes comics. He's also on the design advisory board at Canva. Previously, he co-founded Carbon Health and Blush, and held roles as a staff designer at Lyft and lead designer at InVision.

Claudio Guglieri

Designer

Claudio is a designer with over two decades of experience working for brands, crafting digital products, and interactive experiences. He's currently Senior Director at Work & Co. Previously he was Head of Design at Opal Camera, Creative Director at Microsoft, Art Director at Fantasy Interactive, and more.

Jeremiah Warren

Creative & Video Director

Jeremiah is a creative director, producer, and photographer based out of Los Angeles. He’s worked with a variety of companies such as Figma, Acorns, Meta, 7-11, Tommy Hilfiger, Sony Pictures, Kobalt, and Interscope Records. He has over a decade of experience in digital marketing, video, photography, and digital media.

Evan Ferrante

Artist

Evan is an artist that has worked on films and commercials for some of the biggest brands on the planet: Disney, FX, TechCrunch, Astellas, Toyota, GoDaddy, DirecTV, DraftKings, FedEx, and more.

Will King

Design Engineer

Will is a self taught creative engineer with a passion for building digital products. He's currently a design engineer at Crunchy Data. Previously, Will was a freelance developer and designer.

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