Titans of Tech 2022 Awardees Announced

Santa Cruz Works invites you to our most celebrated event of the year, our 6th Annual Titans of Tech event! Join us as we celebrate people who have lifted us with their challenges, their successes, their character, and contributions to our community. Food, music, and plenty of opportunities to make connections. Get Your Tickets FAST! Here are the awardees:

2022 Titans of Tech Awardees

Allison Steitz: Head of Growth and Innovation at Paystand
Aviv Elor: Co-Founder and Principal Investigator at Immergo Labs
Bates Marshall: CEO and Co-founder at Ambient Photonics, Inc.
Chris Bley: Co-Founder and Director of Monterey Bay DART and Founder of AirSpace Integration
Cindi Busenhart: Founder and CEO at MERGE4 a certified B Corp
Joshua Resnick: CEO/CTO at Parallel Flight Technologies
Leila Takayama: VP of Design and HRI at Robust.AI
Nada Miljkovic: CEO of GetVirtual
Stacy Nagel: Google Staff Program Manager at Google
Will Wiseman and Alba Forns: Co-Founders at Climatize

2022 Nominees

Allison Steitz: Head of Growth and Innovation at Paystand
Andrea Pesce: Director of industry Alliances, Innovation & Business Engagement Hub at UCSC
Andrew Devlin: CEO of PitchHub
Aviv Elor: Co-Founder and Principal Investigator at Immergo Labs
Bates Marshall: CEO and Co-founder at Ambient Photonics, Inc.
Bella Bonner: Executive Director of Black Surf Club
Benjamin Richardson: Director at Defense Innovation Unit
Bob Cagle: CEO, productOps
Chris Bley: Co-Founder and Director of Monterey Bay DART and Founder of AirSpace Integration
Cindi Busenhart: Founder and CEO of MERGE4
Elmar Mair: Co-founder of Neatleaf
James O'Connor: CEO and Founder of Innovation Within
Jordan Layman: Owner of Idea Fab Labs
Juan Bravo: Director of Technical Services at Cruz foam
Julie Edwards: Coordinator, Career Technical Education at Pajaro Valley Unified School District
Leila Takayama: Associate Professor at UCSC, VP of Design and HRI at Robust.AI
Maggie Mathias: Chief Product Officer at 2NDNATURE
Nada Miljkovic: CEO of GetVirtual
Richard “Ed” Green: Professor at UCSC/Co-founder Claret Bio
Scott Nelson: Executive of Veritas Substrates and International Biz Dev at Plant Sciences, Inc.
Sri Kurniawan: UCSC Associate Professor of Computational Media
Stacy Nagel: Google Staff Program Manager at Google
Susan Ruiz: Assistant Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz
Tammie Weigl: Director of ISD, County of Santa Cruz
Terri Oropeza: CIS Faculty | Internships and Work Experience at Cabrillo College
William Wiseman: CEO and co-founder of Climatize

Nominees who have been a Titan in the past have been omitted.

Past Titans

February 23, 2017

Ken Kannappan, Plantronics
Ryan Evans, Inboard
Keri Waters, Calliope Waterworks, Inc.
Sol Lipman, Ya Doggie
Jacob Martinez, Digital NEST
Toby Corey, SolarCity/Tesla
Peggy Dolgenos, Cruzio Internet
Drew Meyer, Amazon Web Services
Mohamed Abousalem, UC Santa Cruz Office of Research
Margaret Lawrence Rosas, Looker

January 25, 2018

Darrin Caddes - Chief Design Officer at Poly
Doug Erickson - Santa Cruz New Tech MeetUp / Nanigans
Heidi Schriefer - Looker
Ted Holladay - Studio Holladay
Jeremy Almond - Paystand
Bonnie Lipscomb - City of Santa Cruz Economic Development Office
Justis Earle - HANSNAP
Keri Waters - Buoy Labs
Robert Singleton - Santa Cruz County Business Council
JoeBen Bevirt- Joby Aviation

January 17, 2019

John Felts - Cruz Foam
Chrissy Meyer - Partner at Root Ventures
Guy Kawasaki - Chief evangelist, Canva. Board member, Cheeze. Brand ambassador, Mercedes-Benz.
Sara Isenberg - Santa Cruz Tech Beat
Robin Hunicke - Professor at UCSC and Co-Founder at Funomena
Socrates Rosenfeld - Jane Technologies
David Dennis - Microsoft / Ventana Surfboards & Supplies
Orion Melehan - LIFEAID Beverage Co.