Hi,

You come to Code Conference because you want to hear from the most important people in their industries — a list that includes software, ride-sharing, e-commerce, wireless, social media and digital music and TV. It’s a long list.

Let’s make it a little longer, by adding two men at the forefront of two very different fields — food and biotech.

David Chang runs a cutting-edge restaurant empire based on the inventive, category-defying cuisine he started making in 2004 at his first Momofuku outpost in New York’s East Village. Now Chang is branching into media with his globe-trotting Ugly Delicious series on Netflix, and Majordomo Media, a startup that just launched its first podcast.

Francis deSouza is the CEO of Illumina, which built a name for itself as the first to sequence a human genome for $1,000. Since then, Illumina has bet its future on a series of ambitious "moonshots," including Grail, a spinout company developing a blood test for early-stage cancer.

How are we going to get all those folks on the same stage, at a single event? Come see for yourself.

Hope to see you there!

Kara Swisher and Peter Kafka