Kristina Wallender is VP of Marketing at Ticketfly where she helps event promoters and venues create better experiences for fans of live events. Before joining Ticketfly, Kristina spent 6 years at Amazon.com in marketing and product leadership roles. She is passionate about helping businesses succeed with actionable, data-based insights and automated marketing. Kristina received her MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA from Cornell University. Her most memorable live event experience was seeing Peter Gabriel’s epic WOMAD festival held at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga, NY.

Justin is the Product Manager for Events in Google Search and the Knowledge Graph. He joined Google in 2011 from ITA Software, where he was VP of Web Data Integration and Associate Chief Scientist. Prior to that, he did a computer science Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon and was an actual rocket scientist at NASA Ames Research Center. On stage, he has performed keyboards with Off-Off Campus, Painted Mice (sometimes misbilled as Printed Mice), and Blue Note Soup at miscellaneous dive bars with sticky floors.