John Connors

Symend helps enterprises maximize collections effectiveness and optimize key metrics like recovery rates, liquidation rates, roll rates, and time to cure. By leveraging applied behavioral science and AI, Symend’s digital debt recovery solution empowers businesses in financial services, telecommunications, and utilities to create personalized engagements that guide customers towards positive financial outcomes. Founded in 2016 and globally recognized for innovation, Symend drives meaningful and sustainable improvements in collections strategies while fostering lasting customer relationships.

Our AI-first solutions bring the latest computer vision research and machine learning techniques to visual assessment. Using customer images, our AI products started enabling fast, accurate damage appraisal to help make recovery from accidents up to ten times faster. We’re now applying our award-winning AI to accelerate other processes involving visual inspection and appraisal. From salvaging car parts to property assessment, we’re on a mission to transform the way people live and work across whole industries. With AI on our side, we can free employee time for more valuable tasks, improve customer experiences, accelerate repairs and increase recycling – better for all of us, and the planet. Founded in 2014, Tractable has a world-class research and development team with over 30 years of combined research experience, and its solution is built on five years of dedicated research and development work undertaken by a team of Oxford/Cambridge-trained researchers. Tractable has raised $115m from Georgian Partners, Insight Partners and other top-tier investors. It achieved Unicorn status in 2021, is based in London, with other locations across the world.

Carbon Robotics, a Seattle-based agricultural robotics startup founded in 2018, builds innovative agricultural tools that empower farmers to operate more efficiently. Carbon Robotics’ revolutionary, high-precision laserweeding leverages sophisticated AI technology to improve crop quality, provide safer working conditions for farmers, reduce overall costs associated with modern farming, and create sustainable paths to regenerative and organic farming. The company launched its first product, the Autonomous LaserWeeder, in April 2021, raised a $27M Series B round in September 2021, and revealed its new LaserWeeder implement in February 2022. What’s it like working at Carbon Robotics? We are a no-nonsense team of passionate people with a bias for action. We know that our ability to execute on our ideas is what sets us apart. We do what we say we are going to do, externally and internally. We trust our people to act independently and make practical, real-world decisions.

Advata provides advanced data analytics software to improve decision-making and optimize administrative efficiencies in healthcare. Advata’s SaaS product offerings help healthcare providers capture more revenue and improve productivity by leveraging business intelligence, optimizing workflows, and reducing the time and cost to collect. The company’s revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions are powered by predictive analytics, actionable artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and automation.

Icertis is the AI-native contract intelligence company that turns enterprise strategy into faster execution at scale. Powered by Vera, the Icertis platform delivers an enterprise–wide contract intelligence layer that understands business and industry context – connecting agreements, data, and systems to drive the future of autonomous contracting.

Airwall is the zero-trust software-defined perimeter for all your things multi-factor authenticated, micro-segmented, encrypted end-to-end, & impervious to lateral movement. www.tempered.io

Splunk is helping to build a safer and more resilient digital world by equipping customers with the unified security and observability platform they need to keep their organization securely up and running — no matter what digital disruptions come their way.

NIKE, Inc. is a purpose driven company fueled by a shared commitment to move the world forward through the power of sport. Guided by our mission to bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world, we champion sport’s values of inclusion and diversity while pushing boundaries to shape the future. At Nike, every teammate plays a role. We operate with an athlete’s mindset — working together, embracing our differences, and demanding more of ourselves and each other to drive collective success. Whether you’re building products, platforms, experiences or systems, your work contributes to something bigger: making athlete* dreams real. Explore opportunities at nike.com/careers and join our Talent Community at https://nikeats.avature.net/niketalentcommunity. *If you have a body, you are an athlete.

FUSE is a venture capital firm based in the Pacific Northwest that partners with early-stage software entrepreneurs.

Symend helps enterprises maximize collections effectiveness and optimize key metrics like recovery rates, liquidation rates, roll rates, and time to cure. By leveraging applied behavioral science and AI, Symend’s digital debt recovery solution empowers businesses in financial services, telecommunications, and utilities to create personalized engagements that guide customers towards positive financial outcomes. Founded in 2016 and globally recognized for innovation, Symend drives meaningful and sustainable improvements in collections strategies while fostering lasting customer relationships.

Our AI-first solutions bring the latest computer vision research and machine learning techniques to visual assessment. Using customer images, our AI products started enabling fast, accurate damage appraisal to help make recovery from accidents up to ten times faster. We’re now applying our award-winning AI to accelerate other processes involving visual inspection and appraisal. From salvaging car parts to property assessment, we’re on a mission to transform the way people live and work across whole industries. With AI on our side, we can free employee time for more valuable tasks, improve customer experiences, accelerate repairs and increase recycling – better for all of us, and the planet. Founded in 2014, Tractable has a world-class research and development team with over 30 years of combined research experience, and its solution is built on five years of dedicated research and development work undertaken by a team of Oxford/Cambridge-trained researchers. Tractable has raised $115m from Georgian Partners, Insight Partners and other top-tier investors. It achieved Unicorn status in 2021, is based in London, with other locations across the world.

Carbon Robotics, a Seattle-based agricultural robotics startup founded in 2018, builds innovative agricultural tools that empower farmers to operate more efficiently. Carbon Robotics’ revolutionary, high-precision laserweeding leverages sophisticated AI technology to improve crop quality, provide safer working conditions for farmers, reduce overall costs associated with modern farming, and create sustainable paths to regenerative and organic farming. The company launched its first product, the Autonomous LaserWeeder, in April 2021, raised a $27M Series B round in September 2021, and revealed its new LaserWeeder implement in February 2022. What’s it like working at Carbon Robotics? We are a no-nonsense team of passionate people with a bias for action. We know that our ability to execute on our ideas is what sets us apart. We do what we say we are going to do, externally and internally. We trust our people to act independently and make practical, real-world decisions.

Advata provides advanced data analytics software to improve decision-making and optimize administrative efficiencies in healthcare. Advata’s SaaS product offerings help healthcare providers capture more revenue and improve productivity by leveraging business intelligence, optimizing workflows, and reducing the time and cost to collect. The company’s revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions are powered by predictive analytics, actionable artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and automation.