The people behind the session

An executive leader, educator, and entrepreneur with more than two decades at the intersection of technology, education, and economic opportunity. As host and co-founder of The QiTime, a podcast devoted to making sense of new technology, Qi turns complex ideas into plain-language conversations and practical advice from the people who have actually done it.

Founder and CEO of OElement and two-time technology founder, with patents in secure access and emergency alert communication and systems built for TiVo, PBS, and Comcast. OElement provides AI consulting services for the real estate industry, optimizing how deals get found, evaluated, and won, without your data ever leaving your hands.

Founder of Teletrax, a platform for improving website conversion and customer support scalability, Louis is a technology strategist, product leader, and patent-holding engineer with decades of experience turning emerging technologies into award-winning, secure products at Apple, WebTV/Microsoft, Demandtec, IBM, and other Silicon Valley startups.

Tim Vi Tran, SIOR, CCIM, is Founder and CEO of The Ivy Group, advising corporations on commercial real estate strategy since 1999. He is one of the few professionals holding both designations, with 27 years as a CRE investor, strategist, advisor, and broker across Silicon Valley, Fremont, and the Bay Area. Before real estate, he worked as a mechanical systems engineer at Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin on aircraft carriers and destroyers.