Updates on the Summit in SF on Sept 23rd: Speakers, Topics, Other Logistics

Let's start with the speakers.

So we've announced eight speakers this week, and there's more coming next week.

We have Rakesh Patel, who's EVP and general manager at Experian.

He runs their marketplace business.

He'll be on stage.

We have John Liu, who's the VP of Lightbox and Strategic Product Partnerships.

John's been there for a long time.

I remember meeting him in 2016.

So a decade at Karma, now running Lightbox.

We have James Brandon, head of product at Prism Data.

James works with lenders on lending and credit analytics, specifically when it comes to cash flow intelligence.

We have Zach Burnett, General Manager of Lending at Engine by Gen. Eric Rader, VP Product Management at Experian.

He's been there from the early days building their marketplace.

We have Stephanie Briggs, Senior Manager Growth at Experian.

Stephanie's unique in that she's a practitioner here on organic growth, AI discovery.

She's spearheading initiatives around visibility and LLMs, including ChatGPT and Gemini.

We have Tomas Campos, CEO and co-founder at Spinwheel.

Spinwheel is connecting publishers and lenders with their technology.

They're doing some really cool things to reduce the friction, the transaction friction in affiliate marketing.

And then we have Supriya Gupta, who's a founder and CEO at EVE, the executive voice engine at She's a former GM and VP at Credit Karma.

She and I met there as well in probably 2018.

She was former Lightbox core team, and now she is working with founders and executives on their writing and their voice, and she'll be moderating some of the conversations there.

at the summit.