Northside Festival

Josh Wexler co-founded and leads the Occom Group, which partners with their clients to help them translate their innovative ideas into quality software solutions. Occom provides a way for anyone to visualize and validate new technology product ideas before any code has been written. Through the process, non-technical people, who are typically left out of the design of the product, can have a meaningful voice in what the product is going... Read More →

Nicole Tecco Reece is the chief product officer for Case Commons, a non-profit product shop and consulting firm serving human service agencies. At Case Commons, Nicole was the first product manager, leading an agile team to build the first version of CC’s Casebook product for a foster care agency on the East Coast. She has scaled CC’s product team and their agile-infused process for engaging with government clients, leading the effort... Read More →

Surya brings over 15 years of experience spanning technology, entrepreneurship, media, and politics. During web 1.0, he got his start by building e-commerce websites and experimenting with online marketing, and joined Procter & Gamble upon graduation. He became a brand manager before the age of 25, and subsequently worked at LinkedIn and Groupon, pre-IPO. Putting his business career on hold in 2010, he won the Democratic nomination for... Read More →