2026 Evolve Innovation Summit lineup:
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Dawn Dore-Stites
Dr. Dawn Dore-Stites completed her graduate training in clinical psychology at Western Michigan University. Her training included internship at Children’s Hospital of Michigan which focused specifically upon pediatric psychology, a branch of psychology that blends child clinical and health psychology. After internship, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan, where she was fortunate to receive additional training in behavioral interventions in pediatric sleep and elimination disorders.
Clinically, Dr. Dore-Stites works with children and adolescents struggling with sleep disorders and elimination disorders (fecal or urine incontinence). Dr. Dore-Stites relies on evidence-based treatment including behavioral and cognitive-behavioral strategies and tailors treatment to the individual needs of the child and their family.
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Rohan Shah
Rohan Shah is the Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer at Extend, where he has helped build the company from the ground up into a category-defining platform powering services programs for top-tier brands including Peloton, LoveShackFancy, Mattress Firm, HeyDude/Crocs, Oura, Ashley Furniture, and iRobot. Since launching in 2019, Extend has raised over $320M in venture funding and reached a $1.6B valuation, creating new revenue streams for merchants and enhancing the post-purchase experience for consumers.
Prior to Extend, Rohan was Founder & CEO of WITHIN, a venture-backed startup, and spent four years at BCG Digital Ventures, where he led product innovation initiatives and launched new businesses in partnership with Fortune 500 companies. A Stanford alum, Forbes “30 Under 30” honoree, and Retail Touchpoints “40 Under 40” winner, Rohan has long been immersed in the tech and venture capital ecosystems, with a sharp eye for identifying where legacy industries fall short in meeting modern consumer expectations.
In addition to founding multiple companies, Rohan is an active investor in several industry-leading startups and serves as an LP in institutional VC and PE firms through his fund, Shah Capital Partners, where he is a Managing Director. Rohan serves on the board and as President of a film & movie investment group Camelback Productions and also the board for the American India Foundation. Rohan splits time between SF and LA and continues to focus on building, investing, and philanthropy at the intersection of product, strategy, and innovation.
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Guy Metter
Guy leads the US & Canada side of Passionfruit - the AI marketing platform working behind the scenes for the likes of ADT, Empire Today, Gardner White, OrangeTheory Fitness & the Atlanta Braves. He's spent the better part of eight years in tech, most of it convinced that the interesting problems live in creating systems that turn data into some form of art.
Guy holds a Communication Design honours degree from Central Saint Martins, where he spent his time building generative systems - the kind of work that turned out to be surprisingly good preparation for an industry now obsessed with AI.
Before Passionfruit, Guy worked on marketing and technology projects for the likes of BBC, Dazed, and Sony Music and at the software company: Verve.
Outside the office- he's a competitive backgammon player and a classical pianist.
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Eve Weston
A storytelling and experience design consultant for clients ranging from top Hollywood producers to Silicon Valley manufacturers of XR hardware and software, Eve believes in storytelling as a force for positive change. She wrote and directed the award-winning world’s first 360VR sitcom, The BizNest, which is currently being adapted into a real-world entertainment and team-building experience. For The Bruce Lee Foundation, she solved the problem of bringing Lee's library to life in an engaging way; her resulting interactive exhibit Be Water: My Friend is currently on view at Seattle’s Wing Luke Museum.
Weston is published in double-blind peer reviewed academic publications, most notably for her Taxonomy of Experience—a framework for experience design on which European governments, theme parks and billion dollar companies have flown her out to speak. Weston is a professor of TV writing and immersive storytelling at top-ranked film schools and an alumna of Princeton, USC and Goldman Sachs. Her book 10 Kick-Ass Careers for Storytellers is available on Amazon. She also writes about the intersection of tech and entertainment for publications like The New York Post, Forbes (per alias), and the PGA's Produced By Magazine.
A produced television writer, Weston has written and developed for several ABC/Disney channels and shows, including Wizards of Waverly Place—where she wrote and choreographed a viral YouTube sensation for Selena Gomez that gave viewers agency to enter the TV story-world in an unprecedented way. Weston now brings this expertise to her work, her clients and her students.
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Cyrus Mistry
Cyrus Mistry is a Board Director, Chief Officer, Advisor, Angel Investor and AI technology pioneer with 30 years of experience in AI and 20 years of experience in both K-12 and Higher Ed strategy & technology.Cyrus learned 6 different programming languages by the time he was 19 and went on to earn 4 engineering degrees in 4 years from Johns Hopkins where his groundbreaking work in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning included teaching computers how to teach themselves to understand Wall Street Journal articles, diagnose cancerous tissue samples in 3D, perform robotic surgery, interpret EKG signals, and even how to understand the human genome.
Cyrus worked on the leadership team at Disney and then spent 15 years as a product executive at Google where he ran enterprise search and Google Calendar, was on the founding team of Google Drive, and was on the founding team of Chromebooks where he generated a billion dollar business for Google and made it the #1 device in schools worldwide.Cyrus then took on Chief Officer roles at billion-dollar EdTech & AI companies. Most recently, he was the CEO of Mudita Studios where he and his team generated breakthrough ideas and launched revenue-generating AI companies.
Cyrus has worked closely with several of the most disruptive next generation K-12 schools and has worked with Country Ministers and Secretaries of Education from around the globe to develop education technologies that directly improve student engagement and learning outcomes. In 2015, he was chosen by the White House to help the First Lady with her Reach Higher initiative. He has given countless keynotes on the future of education to thousands of educators worldwide. Cyrus is currently Board Director of the Michigan Colleges Alliance and Board Director of the Inspired Education Group which is the largest group of premium private schools in the world serving 80,000 K-12 students across 6 continents.
See below for the 2025 summit recap video, plus links to speaker presentations and footage.