Mike Biglan
Founder / CEO, Twenty Ideas

Website | @twentyideas

An avid technologist, Mike Biglan is the founder and CEO of Oregon-based Twenty Ideas, a company that builds elaborate products and platforms, nurturing them from ideation to launch and beyond. With a range of experiences from statistics to education and psychology to economics—and with expertise rooted from leading hundreds of projects, Mike leads the Twenty Ideas team to guide successful new projects and products for organizations such as the XPRIZE and Avant Assessment. Forged as a developer, he’s worked with a variety of languages, frameworks, and technologies touching on software architecture, coding, AI, machine learning, and DevOps. Previously, Mike was head of technology of Silicon Valley startup Joya, the creator of Marco Polo App. Mike earned his BA in economics at the University of Chicago and his MS in computer science and engineering at the University of California San Diego. He’s served on a variety of boards and spoken several times at OSCON.