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People & Speakers

The research catalogs 625 speakers across the years with machine-readable schedule data. Coverage is deepest for 2018 and 2023, the two years with complete sched.com archives.

625
Speakers catalogued
398
Sessions archived
438
From 2018 archive
197
From 2023 archive

Most active speakers

Ranked by archived session count across 2018 and 2023.

Speaker Sessions Primary affiliation Years
Will Preble 23 3M / facilitator 2023
Cihan Behlivan 9 BETA.MN (Interim ED) 2023
Michael Arulfo 8 Boston Scientific (Board Chair) 2023
Shannon Shroyer 8 JPMorgan 2023
Ixchel McKinnie 6 ConnectUP! Institute 2023
Jeffrey Robbins 6 JPMorgan 2023
Aneela Idnani 5 HabitAware 2018, 2023
Angie Eilers 5 UR TURN 2018
Denise Butler 5 ACER Inc 2023
Kerri Miller 5 FrameWork Consulting 2018
Alysha Price 4 The Price Dynamic 2023
Charlie Lehmann 4 Kipsu 2018

Notable keynotes

Year Speaker Role
2025 Yia Vang Chef & Owner, Vinai / Union Hmong Kitchen
2025 Steve Grove CEO & Publisher, Star Tribune
2025 Nancy Lyons Co-founder, Clockwork
2023 Phil McKoy Optum Cup keynote
2023 Mary Grove VC Fireside Chat (TriNet)

Panel highlights

  • The Future of AI and GenAI (2023): Michael Arulfo, Matthew Versaggi, Dan McCreary
  • Inside the Mind of an Early-Stage VC (2025): Bread & Butter, Matchstick, M25, Hyde Park
  • Scaling B2B Tech in the Midwest (2025): Scott Burns, Cora Leibig, Sunny Han
  • The Future is Feminine (2023): Victoria Kyereme, Sabrina Saksena, Jayshree Seth, and others

Coverage notes

Speaker and session data is complete for 2017, 2018, and 2023 (sched.com archives). Other years' schedule pages returned empty or were hosted on platforms (Hopin, Communiful) without scrapable archives, so per-speaker counts understate the full multi-year total.

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