Lifelong entrepreneur, board advisor and non-executive director with international experience across numerous industries including property, manufacturing, retail, automotive and deep technology. Board Director at Fountech.ai, leading AI think-tank, Founder at Prospex.ai, AI-powered sales leads intelligently, board advisor to numerous deep tech start-ups.

Nikolas brings 4 decades of hands-on experience in the field of artificial intelligence innovation, as an entrepreneur, investor, developer, writer and advisor. He bridges the divide that usually exists between entrepreneurs and scientists; this leads to the creation of novel, practical and impactful AI-centric solutions.

Joseph H. McCall has a lifetime of investment experience. A President's Scholar merit recipient at Texas A&M University, he occasionally enjoyed an early career as an oil-field insurance surveyor during the boom of the latter 70's. He found his calling as a Financial Advisor for Merrill Lynch and Prudential Securities for over 20 years. He acted as a conduit between the firm's analysts and investment bankers and the Austin tech community. During that time he helped found and was Program Chair for the two longest lived technology networking organizations in Austin, TX - Austin Technology Council and Technology Advisors Group. He held a position as Executive Director for the Texas Nanotechnology Initiative, a statewide trade group for the industry. He is an investor in a boutique investment bank in NYC. He is also an investor in International Accelerator in Austin, has been judge and MC at IA pitch events, as well as participating in the investment committee to select candidates to join IA.

He still mows his own lawn and doesn't forget the milk when his wife sends him to the grocery store.

Ms. Taylor is a senior level executive with 35 years’ experience inventing new technologies, forming startups, building committed teams and raising funds. She has led advanced development and strategy efforts at organizations from very small start-up companies to multinationals and senior advisory roles at the U.S. Department of State. She has done numerous deals involving licensing, venture capital investing, sales negotiations, identifying market opportunities.  She’s an inventor and multiple patent holder of technology that, among other things, makes your phone smarter.  Ms Taylor has advised dozens of startups in the course of her professional career, helping them with funding strategies, technology planning, and negotiations.

Petros works at the interface of mathematics, statistics and AI. He specialises in the development of mathematical and statistical models, especially in the context of Big Data. He understands and deconstructs the complexities of leading-edge technologies to create solutions to contemporary problems.

I have the normal degrees from the normal universities, and have published and presented an amazingly large number of extraordinarily boring papers on arcane topics. I sometimes suspect that I am bestowed this dubious pleasure because I have yet to learn when to say "no". On the other hand, it has given me innumerable opportunities to meet and mix with great numbers of similarly opinionated and zealous folks. After too many years in dull corporate IP practice, I ventured out into the cold world of private practice, struggling to keep my ears above snow level. Unfortunately, I am not independently wealthy, so I must work in order to finance my true vocation -- climbing frozen waterfalls with small bits of sharp metal.

Jennifer is a versatile executive with 30 years of accounting and finance experience leading technology companies through start-up, turnaround, and continuous profitable growth situations. A hands-on problem solver with an extensive background in accounting, auditing, financial modeling, M&A, systems implementations, international business and related.  Jennifer has held financial and operational leadership roles in multiple privately held, private equity backed and public organizations. Jennifer has been instrumental in completing numerous capital transactions from $1 million to over $100 million in the form of venture capital, private equity and IPO’s as well as exit transactions.

When not working Jennifer can be found teaching scuba diving in Roatan, Honduras or traveling the world by motorcycle.

An attorney on the cutting edge of technology law. He has experience throughout the technology space having counselled numerous companies from start-up through acquisition. Brian has many years of experience negotiating a variety of agreements and deal structures, including licensing, consulting, and outsourcing arrangements. In addition, he provides services around entity formation and early stage funding including convertible debt financing and Series A investments. Brian acts as an outsourced general counsel for many of his clients.