Carl Orsbourn is a global retail executive and board member whose experience spans blue-chip companies (BP-owned ampm), disruptive start-up ventures (Juicer, Kitchen United), and restaurants (Alfa Co). Carl has been recognized as a Power Player by Nations Restaurant News and Business Insider for his thought leadership in supporting restaurants to adapt to the challenges and opportunities offered through digitization, technology, and automation. 

Meredith Sandland has created and driven disruptive growth at both Fortune 100 and start-up companies.  She has spent a decade navigating changing consumer demands and real estate environments for restaurants. 

As Chief Development Officer at Taco Bell, Meredith reignited unit growth after the 2008-2009 recession to build 1000+ Taco Bells and add over $1 billion in sales to the brand. 

As Chief Operating Officer at Kitchen United, Meredith created the business model, raised two rounds of capital, and was the public face of this Google Ventures-backed Ghost Kitchen start-up. 

Over the last three years, Meredith has met with every major restaurant company, food-tech company, real estate company, and VC investor who is exploring the online food revolution.  She is a sought-after speaker and consultant.

Bernadette Heier is the Managing Editor at Food On Demand. She brings with her years of prior experience as a multi-media journalist in the broadcast industry. Her current role consists of helping lead the editorial direction for the Food On Demand publication, creating content that covers the intersection of food, technology and mobility. She also helps build the company’s annual conference in Las Vegas and hosts various panels, virtual events, and Food On Demand’s podcast. 

Cijoy is a lifelong tinkerer that enjoys taking apart machines and systems to see how they work and how they can be improved. His career spans 30 years in technology development and deployment. 15 years of which are in a combination of technology, change management, and operations consulting. For the past 12 years he has been deep in the restaurant technology space with CIO roles and advisory to investors, operatators, and tech companies. He is focusing all of that experince into solving one problem for the restaurant industry today: Labor Costs with GM PILOT, search for GM PILOT to find all their website and linkedin page

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Deborah Matteliano serves as the Global Head of Restaurants for AWS. She spends most of the time advising executives at Quick Service Restaurants, Delivery Marketplces, and Restaurant Technology brands on deploying the cloud to power the latest AI use-cases. Prior to AWS, Deborah was an early leader of the Uber Eats marketplace, where she scaled restaurant technologies globally. She has held leadership roles in sales, marketing, and technical business development and enjoys working at the intersection of food innovation and technology. She holds a Masters of Business Administration from the Cornell Johnson School of Management.

After 15 years in brand marketing and international franchise marketing at Pizza Hut, KFC, and TGI Fridays, Olga noticed that restaurant chains were getting proficient at collecting customer data, yet the skill of using that data for marketing seemed to be lacking in many organizations.  Restaurant Loyalty Specialists, a boutique loyalty consulting firm, was founded right then.  
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We offer expertise in Loyalty and CRM for restaurant chains. The key principle is simple: find out what your guests already like, then give them more of that - at scale - to drive sales. Our clients range from 20 to over 800 locations. We work with any modern loyalty and CRM platforms, although most clients utilize Punchh, Paytronix, or Personica. 
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Olga was born in Moscow, Russia, and has lived and worked in Europe, Asia, and the US throughout her career. She holds a Harvard MBA and a Georgetown LLM.

Yaro Tsyhanenko is the founder of Pickpad. He is Ukrainian with 15 years of experience in restaurant tech. Built multiple companies in the industry, including a food delivery marketplace, a ghost kitchen chain, and a restaurant commerce SaaS. Recently moved to the U.S. and launched Pickpad to make every pickup area in every store smarter, fix operational chaos and take the customer experience to the next level using sensors and ML.