Jared Goralnick
Founder, Co-organizer

Jared Goralnick is Productivity Evangelist and Founder of AwayFind, as well as President of SET Consulting. Feeling strongly that young entrepreneurs in this area will be our success in the future, he also recently launched Bootstrap Maryland. You can read more on his blog, Technotheory.com, where he talks about the intersection of productivity and happiness.

Jessy Cowan-Sharp
Co-organizer for Ignite DC 5

Jessy Cowan-Sharp is an urban hacker, an alchemist of social systems, and a communities scientist. She currently works at the Sunlight Foundation, a DC-based open government think tank, writing code to jump start the next generation of participatory citizenry. Previous to Sunlight, Jessy was at NASA working on the Nebula cloud computing platform. Jessy's research interests focus on the study of patterns in human behaviour, organization, and governance; and the development of platforms to facilitate collaboration and creativity. She is variously involved in open source software development, open education, intentional housing, cooking and crossfit. Find her @jessykate or online.