Kevin Brown

Innit
CEO and Co-founder

Kevin is an accomplished entrepreneur and executive, with more than 20 years experience in the food tech, search, e-commerce, security, and cloud sectors. Prior to Innit, Kevin served in roles including CEO of Kidaro (acquired: MSFT), Vice President at Decru (acquired: NTAP), and VP/GM and founding team at Internet infrastructure pioneer Inktomi (NASDAQ: INKT, acquired: YHOO). Kevin is a Fellow at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business where he sits on the Dean's Advisory Circle, and earned his Bachelor's and MBA degrees at UC Berkeley, where he served as MBA class president.

フードテック・検索エンジン・eコマース・情報セキュリティ・クラウドの分野で20年以上の経験を持つ起業家であり経営者。Innitへの参画以前は、Kidaro（Microsoftにより買収）のCEO、Decru（NetAppにより買収）の副社長、インターネット・インフラのパイオニアであるInktomi（NASDAQ上場後Yahooにより買収）のvice president、 general managerなどの役職を歴任。カリフォルニア大学バークレー校ハースビジネススクールのフェローであり、学長諮問サークルのメンバー。同校で学士号とMBAを取得し、クラス委員長を務めた。

Kai Schaeffner

Tangram International
Smart Kitchen Expert & Business Model Innovator

http://linkedin.com/in/kai-schaeffner-a955b9b

Kai Schaeffner is a proven CEO & effective Leader in the field of disruptive business models, innovation, product & service development. He invented & launched the first Digital Thermomix with a fully integrated Digital Recipe Ecosystem and launched both world-wide at the same time. The investment resulted in still the only and highly profitable recipe-subscription lifetime revenue model.He has profound knowledge in building North American Market operations from scratch and roll them out with accelerated growth and high profitability. He is a talented and experienced leader and built numerous cross-functional, -cultural & -national high-performance teams and established very successfully the Thermomix Business in North America over the last 6 years.Currently, he specializes in designing Open Ecosystems and building Digital Platforms business models based on ML/ AI  in the Food/ Health/ Medical and Wellness area. His focus is to prevent & avoid diseases caused by wrong nutrition. Currently, he engages in and supports start-ups in Europe & USA, endorsing this innovation, securing IP & patents, fundraising industry leaders & PE for pilots and investment.

CEOおよびリーダーとして、革新的ビジネスモデル構築、イノベーション、製品・サービス開発分野等の実績を持つ。 これまでに、デジタルレシピ・エコシステムを備えたキッチンデバイス「Digital Thermomix」を発明し、全世界で発売した。また、6年間にわたって部門・文化・国を超えたチームを結成し、北米でのビジネスを成功させた。現在は、食品・医療・ウェルネス分野のエコシステムと、機械学習および人工知能に基づくデジタルプラットフォーム構築に携わり、栄養の偏りによる病気予防に注力。欧米のスタートアップに向けた特許取得・資金調達の支援も行っている。

Michael Wolf

The Spoon
Founder & CEO, Editor in Chief

https://thespoon.tech/

Michael Wolf is the creator of the Smart Kitchen Summit and publisher of The Spoon. He put SKS together in 2015 because he saw how new disruptive technologies would reinvent the food system over the next decade.

Smart Kitchen Summit(SKS)の創設者。中長期的視点で、テクノロジーが料理・食事・食糧システムを変えていく可能性を見抜き、SKSを2015年に立ち上げた。また、最先端のスマートキッチン・トレンドを発信するサイト「The Spoon」やポッドキャスト「Smart Kitchen Show」の企画・運営など、活動は多岐にわたる。