Kevin Sekniqi is an entrepreneur by vocation and a computer science researcher by background. Kevin is currently work at growing Ava Labs and researching ways to improve the Avalanche protocol. Prior to Ava Labs Kevin was a PhD candidate at Cornell University. Some of Kevin's work is in fully homomorphic encryption schemes, OPE schemes, distributed systems/consensus, crypto economics, and more. Sreeram Kannan is Founder of Layr Labs, which is building EigenLayr and an associate professor at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he leads the UW Blockchain Lab. He was a postdoctoral scholar at University of California, Berkeley and a visiting postdoc at Stanford between 2012-2014 before which he received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and M.S. in mathematics from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. He is a 2021 National-Academy-of-Engineering Frontier-of-Engineering speaker on blockchain, a recipient of the 2019 UW ECE outstanding teaching award, and 2017 NSF Faculty Early CAREER award. Kevin Sekniqi - Kevin's Twitter: @kevinsekniqi - Ava Lab's Twitter: @avalabsofficial - Avalanche's Twitter: @avalancheavax - Avalanche's Website: https://www.avax.network/ Sreeram Kannan - Sreeram's Twitter: @sreeramkannan - UW-Blockchain-Lab: http://blockchain.ece.uw.edu/ Logan Jastremski - Co-Founder at Frictionless Capital: - Logan's Twitter: @LoganJastremski - Frictionless Capital: https://www.frictionless.fund/