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2026 speaker lineup

Meet our first batch of speakers coming to Slush 2026.

Past speakers
David Silver
Founder & CEO
Ineffable Intelligence
Jessica Livingston
Co-founder
Y Combinator
Erik Bernhardsson
Co-founder & CEO
Modal
Alexander Stubb
President of the Republic of Finland
President of the Republic of Finland
Richard Socher
Co-founder & CEO, Managing Partner
Recursive, You.com, AIX Ventures
Dr. Elina Berglund Scherwitzl
Co-founder & CEO
Natural Cycles
Matthew Prince
Co-founder & CEO
Cloudflare
Parag Agrawal
Co-founder & CEO
Parallel Web Systems
Andrea "Annie" Kritcher
Co-founder & Chief Scientist
Inertia Enterprises
Rafal Modrzewski
Co-founder & CEO
ICEYE
Jack Zhang
Co-Founder & CEO
Airwallex
Benedetto Vigna
CEO
FERRARI
Emily Yuan
Co-founder & COO
Corgi
Grant LaFontaine
Co-founder & CEO
Whatnot
Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve
Co-founder & CEO
Alan
Christopher Pedregal
CEO & Co-Founder
Granola
Renen Hallak
Founder & CEO
VAST Data
Baiju Bhatt
Founder & CEO
Cowboy Space Corporation
Anton Osika
Co-Founder & CEO
Lovable
Ekaterina Zaharieva
European Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation
European Commission
Grant Lee
Co-Founder & CEO
Gamma
David Kirtley
Co-founder & CEO
Helion
Shardul Shah
Partner
Index Ventures
Hélène Huby
Founder & CEO
The Exploration Company
James Cadwallader
Co-founder & CEO
Profound
Sonya Huang
Partner
Sequoia
Philip Johnston
Co-Founder & CEO
Starcloud
Benedict Evans
Principal
Independent Researcher
Mark Thompson
Co-Founder & CTO
PsiQuantum
Jan Oberhauser
Founder & CEO
n8n
Neil Zeghidour
Co-founder & CEO
Gradium
Ryan Beiermeister
Partner
Founders Fund
Johannes Reck
Co-Founder & CEO
GetYourGuide
Carlos Espinal
Managing Partner
Seedcamp
Fabrizio del Maffeo
Co-Founder & CEO
Axelera AI
Feyza Haskaraman
Partner
Felicis
Matt Turck
Partner
FirstMark
Andy Beam
Co-founder & CTO
Lila Sciences
Jagdeep Singh
Co-Founder & CEO
Rhoda AI
Elena Verna
Head of Growth
Lovable
Victoria van Lennep
Co-founder
Lendable
Lainie Yallen
Co-Founder & COO
Simile
Benoit Lemaignan
Co-founder & CEO
Verkor
Eoin Hinchy
Co-founder & CEO
Tines
Victoria Weller
Operations
ElevenLabs
Zhenya Loginov
Partner
Accel
Marcelo Lebre
President and Co-Founder
Remote
Deedy Das
Partner
Menlo Ventures
Brett Gibson
Managing Partner
Initialized
Francesco Sciortino
Co-Founder & CEO
Proxima Fusion
Aarthi Ramamurthy
General Partner
Schema Ventures
Grace Isford
Partner
Lux Capital
Ilya Fushman
Partner
Kleiner Perkins
Jason Risch
Partner
Greylock
Judith Dada
Co-CEO / Senior Partner
Langdock / Visionaries Club
David Paffenholz
Co-founder & CEO
Juicebox
Colin Zima
Co-founder & CEO
Omni
Tom Mackenzie
Anchor
Bloomberg
Jacomo Corbo
CEO & Co-Founder
PhysicsX
Tuomas Artman
Co-founder & CTO
Linear
Anders Forslund
Founder & CEO
Heart Aerospace
Hayley Barna
Partner
First Round Capital
Moritz Baier-Lentz
Senior Advisor
OpenAI
Peter Sarlin
Founder & Executive Chairman
PostScriptum, NestAI, Qutwo
Steve Basher
Founder & CEO
SolveAI
Will Ross
Co-Founder & CEO
Federato
Ross McNairn
Co-founder & CEO
Wordsmith
Carla Gómez Cano
Co-founder & CEO
THEKER
Andreas Klinger
Investor
PROTOTYPE
Vojtech Horna
Co-lead
EU–INC
Joshua Browder
Founder & CEO
DoNotPay
Khaled Helioui
Partner
Plural
Will Bryk
Co-founder & CEO
Exa
Jan Hammer
Partner
Index Ventures
Koen Bok
Co-founder & CEO
Framer
Gabriel Le Roux
Co-founder & CEO
Primer
Madeline Lawrence
Co-Founder & CGO
Aikido Security
Somesh Dash
General Partner
IVP
Alex Ferrara
Partner
Bessemer Venture Partners
Lotti Siniscalco
General Partner
Emergence Capital
Vrushali Paunikar
Chief Product Officer
Carta
Antti Vasara
Board member
European Innovation Council
Diana Avila
Chief Banking & Expansion Officer
Wise
Ted Persson
Partner
EQT
Pia d'Iribarne
Founder
Main Object Capital
John Thornhill
Tech columnist FT, founder Sifted
Financial Times/Sifted
Dan Mishin
Founder & CEO
Manifest OS
Carles Reina
Managing Partner
Baobab Ventures (ex ElevenLabs VP Revenue)
Paolo Fois
Co-Founder & CEO
Lexroom
Din Bisevac
Co-Founder & CEO
Buena
Carmen Alfonso Rico
Founder / VP of Business Operations
Cocoa Ventures / Fractile
Ruben Bryon
Founder & CEO
Verda
Dr. Christian Nagel
Co-founder & General Partner
Earlybird
Julia Hawkins
General Partner
LocalGlobe
Sauraj Gambhir
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
Prior Labs
Joel Hwang
Managing Director
HarbourVest
Iain Martin
Senior Editor
Forbes
Philip Chopin
Managing Partner
NEA
Niko Bonatsos
Founder & Managing Director
Verdict Capital
Niklas Zennström
CEO & Founding Partner
Atomico
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Stage Program FAQs

What is Slush's philosphy for curating stage program ?

Through our stage programs, we support our mission to help and create founders to change the world. Our stages primarily feature the most accomplished founders and operators, sharing candid, no-nonsense insights on building high-growth, enduring companies.

Each stage has a distinct purpose—whether it’s spotlighting early-stage founders, unpacking the startup and tech landscape, sharing company-building advice, or diving into raw founder journeys.

As a not-for-profit, we don’t pay speakers, and they don’t pay us.

How do I suggest a speaker for Slush 2026?

We're unfortunately no longer looking for new speakers for Slush 2026, as our stage program for this year's event is full.

Feel free to drop a note to speakers@slush.org with any questions you may have.

Got any questions?

Reach out to speakers@slush.org

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