Roger Spitz is a leading futurist wo is the founder of Techistential, which is a global foresight strategy and futures intelligence platform. He is also a startup and board advisor where he sits on a number of advisory board, venture capital funds, and academic institutions. He is also chairman of the Disruptive Futures Institute. Through his work as a leader... read full bio
Mikey Cohen is best known for being an architect and principal engineer for the Netflix Edge Platform, which is part of the Netflix streaming application. Through the edge platform, Cohen worked to help create a support system that takes over 10 billion request per day and serves over 50 million customers all over the world. Prior to his work with... read full bio
Graham Cluley is a British technology consultant, security blogger, and author who is best known for his daily blog, grahamcluley.com, which talks on computer security news, advice, and opinions. Cluley began his career working in the security business as a programmer for the anti-virus firm, S&S International. During his time working for S&S International, Cluley began writing up Dr Solomon’s... read full bio
Dr. James Bellini is a futurologist, author, and former editor and presenter for the Financial Times Television. He is known to be a speaker that is thought-provoking and is also a moderator for numerous conferences and business schools all over the world. He is a leader on social, economic and technological trends and is also an analyst and writer on... read full bio
Daniel Sieberg is the current senior marketing manager at Google. He specializes in media outreach and is an official spokesperson of the company. In addition, Sieberg is an Emmy-nominated and award-winning television correspondent and author. He has appeared on networks worldwide including ABC News, BBC News, MSNBC, PBS, and on shows like The Dr. Oz Show and The Nate Berkus... read full bio
Mike has spent his whole career, which spans 28 years, working to expand the range of options and levels of care available to people who require long-term care. At the moment, he works as a member of the advocacy team with California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR), which is his present place of employment. Mike's prior position was as... read full bio
Kevin Surace is a highly regarded Silicon Valley innovator and entrepreneur. He’s been named INC Magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Year, a CNBC Innovator of the Decade, World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer, Chair of Silicon Valley Forum, and Planet Forward Innovator of the Year nominee. Mr. Surce has been inducted into RIT’s Innovation Hall of Fame. His technical background includes pioneering... read full bio
Amy Myers Jaffe is a leading expert on the geopolitics of oil, energy, security and risk. Associate director of the Energy Program at Rice University's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, she is a frequent keynote speaker at major energy industry and investment conferences. Jaffe is a co-author of the book Oil, Dollars, Debt and Crises: The Global... read full bio
Babak Hodjat is the co-founder and chief scientist of Sentient Technologies, a company that started some of the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence. Apart from his work with A.I., he is also a scholar, inventor, entrepreneur, and technologist. Hodjat is a big name in the tech city Silicon Valley, and has started numerous companies there including being an architect for... read full bio
Graphic designer and computer scientist John Maeda has had a hand in redefining electronic media as a tool for artistic expression. His work has been displayed in personal shows in New York, London, and Paris and rests in the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Cartier Foundation in Paris. He received his undergrad... read full bio
Jer Thorp is an active public speaker, artist, and writer from Brooklyn, New York. An avid examiner of the ties between data, art, and culture, Thorp provides a unique perspective on the categories via many venues. He is currently the Innovator-in-Residence at the Library of Congress and a professor at New York University. Prior to his participation in these roles,... read full bio
Dr. Kirke Borne is an astrophysicist and Principal Data Scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton. Previously, he was a Professor of Astrophysics and Computational Science at George Mason University for twelve years. Prior to that, he supported NASA projects in a variety of roles, such as program manager in NASA’s Space Science Data Operations Office and Data Archive Project Scientist for... read full bio
Ian Crosby is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bench, a design focused technology business that is spearheading the movement toward automating the bookkeeping process, while operating as North America’s largest bookkeeping service for small businesses. Bench provides a combination of custom-built software and professional online bookkeepers to organize the financials of small businesses. Ian has been named at the top... read full bio
SC Moatti is a technology visionary, venture capital investor and best-selling author of the book “Mobilized”. She is currently the managing partner of Mighty Capital, an early-growth Silicon Valley venture capital firm. Moatti graduated from Stanford University Graduate School of Business with an MBA and also earned her MS in Computer Engineering & Management Science from CentraleSupelec. From there, she... read full bio
Chris Urmson is an engineering who is best known for his work pioneering self-driving car technology. He has previously worked with Alphabet, and is CEO of their start-up company Aurora Innovation. Urmson graduated from the University of Manitoba with a BEng in Computer Engineering. He then went on to earn his Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University. Upon graduting,... read full bio
Joy Buolamwini is a Ghanaian-American digital activist and computer scientist who is based out of the MIT Media Lab. She is founder of the Algorithmic Justice League, which is an organization that challenges bias in decision making software. When Joy was only 9 years old, she had a fascination by Kismet, the MIT robot and from there, she taught herself... read full bio
Janelle Shane is an American optics research scientist, AI researcher, writer, and speaker, who is best known for her blog, AI Weirdness. She is also known for her debut book, “You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How AI Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place.” Shane has previously studied electrical engineering at Michigan State... read full bio
Pieter Abbeel is an Belgian Professor who is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director of the Berekeley Robot Learning Lab at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also co-director of the Berkeley AI Research Lab at Berkeley. Abbeel has also been co-founder of covariant.ai, which is a start-up that teaches robots skills. As a businessman,... read full bio
Dennis Hong is a Korean-American mechanical engineer, inventor, innovator and roboticist who is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and founder of RoMeLa, the Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory at UCLA. Hong is best known for his research on robot locomotion and manipulation, humanoid robots, and autonomous vehicles. Through his research, he has gone on to invent robots... read full bio
Steve Mann is a Canadian engineer, professor, and inventor, who is known for specializing in augmented reality, computational photography, and high dynamic range imaging. He is the founding member of the IEEE Council on Extended Intelligence and is co-founder of InteraXon. He has also been co-founder and CTO of Blueberry X Technologies and is chairman of MannLab. Mann was born... read full bio
