Ravi Bijlani is the Founder and CEO of KYXStart.AI, a transaction verification platform headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, that unifies KYC, KYB, KYP, phone intelligence, and agentic-AI-ready verification (the KYCA framework) across 180+ countries through a single global API.

A tech entrepreneur and fintech executive with more than 25 years of experience in identity, fraud, and payments, Ravi previously held leadership roles at Prove Identity, Data Zoo, Equifax, and TSYS.

He holds an MBA from the Georgia Institute of Technology (summa cum laude) and serves on the advisory boards of Everyware, Cashela, Privo, Infanity, and Boardy Pro.

Ravi founded KYXStart in October 2024 and is based in the Atlanta/Alpharetta area.

Valeria Brenner is the founder and CEO of Thryft Ship, an operating hub that helps social-first sellers manage orders, payments, shipping, and Instagram sales.

Drawing on her own experience as an Instagram seller, she founded Thryft Ship to simplify the manual work required to run a business through social media.

The platform has supported more than 400 businesses and 10,000 customers and currently processes approximately $52,000 in payments each month.

A University of Georgia graduate and alumna of the Techstars Oakland Spring 2024 accelerator, Valeria is focused on building technology that will enable the next generation of businesses on social media.

Nyah Chapman is the CEO and Founder of LUXE AI, an intelligent wallet that turns your credit cards and unredeemed rewards into an agentic concierge, unlocking the $360B in value that goes unredeemed every year.

She brings 15+ years in adtech, building behavioral systems that made brands from Alice + Olivia to Modern Luxury Media know their customers.

She watched all that intelligence get pointed at advertising rather than the customer experience. In 2021, she launched a personalized recommendation newsletter that grew to 100,000 subscribers and became the behavioral dataset behind LUXE AI.

Chapman is building toward the personalization layer of the next era: a living, portable profile that follows you everywhere to personalize your experience across retail, finance, and hospitality ecosystems, starting with your wallet.

Mussadeq Khan is a utility technology entrepreneur and product leader with deep experience in smart grid, energy data analytics, utilities, DER, demand response, grid modernization, and startup commercialization.

He previously co-founded Verdeeco, a smart grid analytics company that pioneered the “iTunes of smart grid apps” concept and was later acquired by Sensus. Musaddeq Khan, alongside his business partner Venki, have already built and commercialized utility data platforms before, and Accio Labs is the next evolution of that work.

Kacie Luaders is the founder of Pretty Cool Data, an initiative dedicated to building research and practical tools for a more equitable creator economy.

With a background rooted in the creative arts, Kacie bridges empirical data and real-world practice to support both independent creators and legacy organizations navigating the modern digital landscape. She leverages podcasts and media as accessible, open channels to share key findings directly with the community.

Through Pretty Cool Data, Kacie works to democratize industry insights, helping storytellers at every level build sustainable, self-determined careers.

Hussain Punjani is the Founder and CEO of Agentix, an AI commerce infrastructure company building the transaction layer for agentic commerce.

He brings more than 14 years of experience across payments, fintech, commerce, and AI, with leadership roles at Visa, Worldpay/FIS, InComm Payments, and AIG, where he helped build and scale products generating more than $100 million in revenue.

Under his leadership, Agentix has gained early enterprise and platform traction, won the TAG FinTech South Innovation Challenge, and was selected as a Showcase Company for Venture Atlanta.

Agentix is now entering its next stage of growth, scaling through e-commerce platforms, payment companies, and enterprise partners while building a strong pipeline of high-value commercial opportunities that can expand distribution, recurring revenue, and transaction volume.