Valerio Zanini

CPIT, CPIP

Valerio Zanini is recognized among the top trainers in AI and Product Management practices, having trained hundreds of AI and product teams at Fortune 500 companies since 2017.

With two decades of product development experience in a variety of organizations including Capital One, Cisco, Goozex.com and others, he excels at building new products in the early stages of product innovation, where uncertainty and lack of a clear solution are the biggest challenges. He works with organizations worldwide to spark a culture of innovation and drive agile transformations. 

He is a Certified Product Innovation Trainer (CPIT) with Spark Engine and a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) with the Scrum Alliance.

He is the author of several books on Agile and Product Management practices, including AI for Product Managers and Deliver Great Products That Customers Love, published in 2018.

Zeina Zeitouni

CPIT, CPIP

Zeina Zeitouni is an Innovation Expert, and a Certified Product Innovation Trainer at Spark Engine. She has over 10 years experience running product innovation strategy in both startup and Fortune 500 environments, namely, as a Innovation Consultant at Insight Enterprises and Microsoft where she worked across various sectors including Retail, Finance, Healthcare, Government, Agriculture and Transportation.

Before consulting, Zeina worked as an innovation manager, design strategist, and product manager in various lines at Capital One, where she is acknowledged for infusing innovation, data science, and design thinking practices to launch new products. In a push to bring the science and art of product innovation together; she developed a seminar series on how to use “Design Thinking and Data Science to Solve Complex Problems” which she presented at Columbia University.

Zeina is committed to helping entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs develop new ideas that make an impact by facilitating training and accelerator programs at Spark Engine. She also serves on the strategic advisory boards of two impact-driven startups-Syntoniq and eVital.

Zeina is originally from Los Angeles, where she graduated from UCLA with a degree in International Development and Sociology, and has since acquired certifications in Co-Active Coaching, Public Relations, Executive Banking (CBA), Behavioral Design, and Design Sprint Facilitation. She spent several years doing development work in Afghanistan, Tanzania and Brazil before moving to New York in 2013 to launch her own impact investing startup.

Holly Chasan-Young

CPIT, CDTI

Holly Chasan-Young is an award-winning strategist, coach, educator and speaker, and an industry expert in Design Thinking. Holly equips teams to dream big, amplify creativity and boost innovation. Considered a “Customer Whisperer,” Holly serves as interim strategy officer for teams designing products, services and experiences that serve consumers’ purpose while meeting business objectives. She is a service design strategist who incorporates organizational change strategies in transformation efforts as the key that unlocks strategic momentum.

She is a Certified Product Innovation Trainer (CPIT) in Design Thinking.

Anil Jaising

CPIT, CDOI

Anil has been delivering mission critical projects and products since the early 1990s. He discovered Agile by  accident in early 2000 and has never looked back.
Anil has been teaching Agile Principles and Values, and how they are used in Scrum and Kanban, professionally since 2011.

With his technical background, Anil has trained and coached over 100 teams, participated in over 400 Sprints, and helped teams move from deploying once per year, to several times in a week.

Anil is passionate about designing and delivering engaging training and is one of 10 trainers worldwide that can deliver both practitioner and train the trainer workshops in Training from the BACK of the Room.

Anil is also skilled at facilitating workshops using liberating structures.
He is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), CSP, CSPO, and CSM.

He is a DevOps Institute certified trainer. He is also a Certified Training from the Back of the Room Trainer (TBR-T). He is also a Spark Engine Certified Product Innovation Trainer (CPIT).