Chad is CTO & General Partner at BlueYard Capital and has worn many hats over his career, including co-creating RubyGems, co-founding and organising RubyConf and RailsConf, and keynoting countless conferences around the world.

Chad Fowler, CTO & General Partner and BlueYard Capital, has had a long and impactful career as a software developer, best-selling author, conference speaker and open source contributor. He co-created RubyGems, the package manager for Ruby which set the standard for pip, npm and others. He co-founded and organized both RubyConf and RailsConf for over a decade. He has been invited to keynote at countless conferences worldwide. Professionally he's led large teams, served as CTO for multiple startups, and led developer advocacy for Microsoft.

He authored Rails Recipes, the second book ever published on Ruby on Rails and The Passionate Programmer, one of the industry's go to books on career development for software developers.

Chad is currently focused on investing in deeply technical teams in the crypto and web3 industry. He is co-host of The Privacy Podcast, where he and his co-host explore topics as diverse as privacy's role in the coming AI boom, privacy-preserving blockchain technology and government policy.

Anil is a tech entrepreneur and writer. He has been creating Internet technologies for two decades, focused on ensuring that technology's transformative impact on society, media, the arts, labor, government and culture is as positive as possible.