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Jane Chen, co-founder of Embrace Innovations, helped pioneer a low-cost infant incubator that has saved over one million babies worldwide—an innovation that won the Economist Innovation Award, brought her to the White House to present to President Obama, and earned the support of Beyoncé to expand into Africa. Now, with her memoir Like a Wave We Break (Penguin Random House, Oct 14), she shares a deeply personal journey of resilience, healing, and leadership.

Tim Hwang is the founder of FiscalNote, a company transforming how organizations engage with policy and regulatory data. Beyond FiscalNote, Tim is actively involved in a number of ventures spanning fintech, AI, cybersecurity, and healthcare, building companies that tackle highly complex, regulated markets. Michelle Moon from Asian Tech Collective sat down with Tim to discuss his journey, company-building philosophy, and the perspective he brings as a Korean American entrepren

Jenny Xiao is a Partner at Leonis Capital, a research-driven VC fund focused on seed and pre-seed AI companies. Before Leonis, she was an early employee at OpenAI and a Ph.D. researcher at Columbia. She left OpenAI just a week after ChatGPT took off to join forces with her partner, Jay Zhao, to build a research-driven fund backing AI-native companies. Jenny’s research has been featured in Nature, the NYT, the WSJ, and Bloomberg.

Han Shen is the Founding Partner of iFly VC, a U.S. venture capital firm focused on investments that bring American consumers joy. Born and raised in Nanjing, China, Han came to the United States in 1998 to pursue a PhD in Chemistry at the University of Chicago. He had expected to follow his parents into academia, but years as a scientist, followed by an MBA at Wharton, drew him toward the challenge of turning ideas into real-world innovations, using venture capital as the ca