Brandon Middleton is a technologist and educator with deep expertise spanning artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and the Web. He currently serves as Global Head of Education at Replit, where he leads the company’s educational initiatives. Brandon has held previous positions at Amazon (AWS) and Microsoft. Alongside his industry work, Brandon has been a Lecturer at Stanford University since 2019, designing and teaching courses at the intersection of finance, AI, and emerging technology, and concurrently teaches Introduction to Social Design at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Brian Holt is a Principal Technical Program Manager at Microsoft. Before product management, Brian spent a decade as an engineer shipping code at Netflix, Reddit, and LinkedIn. Most recently was a Staff Product Manager at Databricks, focused on developer infrastructure and AI products. He previously led product at Neon (acquired by Databricks), Snowflake/Streamlit, Stripe, and Microsoft Azure—giving him a deep experience across the data and developer tools landscape.