Michelle Lee is an executive for Google, has worked as a computer scientist at MITs Artifical Intelligence Lab and HPs Research Lab, and the first female to lead the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Lee studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she graduated with a B.S. in electrical engineering and an M.S. in electrical engineering and computer science.... 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
Mikkel Svane, the CEO of Zendesk, has been named among the top tech speakers in the world. He founded Zendesk with Morten Primdahl and Alexander Aghassipour with the goal of providing an enhanced customer service experience for everyone and developing software that people love to use. Now, he leads Zendesks global operations and business strategy with those same goals in... read full bio
Mikko Hypponen is the Chief Research Officer for F-Secure. Hypponen has assisted law enforcement in the United States, Europe and Asia on cybercrime cases and advises governments on cyber crime. His team has been responsible for taking down the Sobig.F botnet. Hypponen has keynoted or spoken at various conferences around the world, including, Black Hat, DEF CON, DLD, Hack In... read full bio
Miles OBrien is a veteran news broadcaster and web journalist. Miles focuses on topics such as, technology, science, and aerospace. Currently, he is a PBS News Hour Science Correspondent and is a regular correspondent for any related PBC documentary for the television series Frontline and National Science Foundation Science Nation. Miles OBrien has had over 30 years of experience in... read full bio
Minter Dial is a nomadic bohemian who seeks out new adventures and fascinating individuals. His goal is to bring people, dots, and ideas together and elevate the discussion. Since he started out on his own, he has specialized in digital transformation and enjoys being a dynamic speaker on leadership, brand, and digital strategy. Minter returned to his entrepreneurial roots to become... read full bio
At university, MJ Petroni, a Cyborg Anthropologist, studied television series like Star Trek, but not (only) for fun. Their research focuses on the intricate interactions between people and technologies, examining how we influence technology and how it changes us. In order to prepare for emerging technologies, they assist organizations in becoming more digitally literate by addressing not only the tools... read full bio
Protopia Futures was founded by futurist and speculative designer Monika Bielskyte, who is also a partner of Africa Life Centric Design. Her work is not based on one-size-fits-all techno-solutionism, which is prone to short-term hype cycles and rapid obsolescence, but rather on contextual, complicated realities on the ground. With a background in immersive media and information technologies (generative AI, spatial... read full bio
Moon Ribas is a Catalonian avant-garde artist and activist for cyborgs who is known for developing and planting sensors in her feet which lead to her feeling earthquakes through vibrations in the sensors. This has led Ribas to be named the world’s first cyborg woman, or artist. Ribas was born in Mataro, Catalonia, Spain, and she began studying experimental dance... read full bio
Dr. Moran Cerf is a neuroscientist researching how conscious percepts are developed in our brains. He studies the activity of individual nerve cells directly from the brains of patients undergoing neurosurgery. These patients are implanted with electrodes deep inside their brains for clinical purposes. After the implantation, Dr. Cerf is able to use the implanted electrodes to analyze the ways... read full bio
Moriba Jah is an American space scientist and aerospace engineer who works as the associate professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin. Jah was born in San Francisco, California, and while growing up he moved and lived in Venezuela for a while before moving back to the United States. After moving back to... read full bio
Murat Gunak is the former head design at DaimlerChrysler AG, Volkswagen and Renault and is has been the head of MIA Electric cars. Gunak has studied design at Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste in Kassel and then went on to study at the Royal College of Art in London where he earned the award of Master of Automotive Design and went... read full bio
A seasoned IT entrepreneur, Mustafa Suleyman is the co-founder and CEO of Inflection AI, an AI-first business that is revolutionizing how people and computers interact. He formerly served as vice president of AI products and policy at Google. Prior to that, he co-founded DeepMind, which Google later acquired. He spent more than ten years as Head of Applied AI, helping the... read full bio
Natalie Sisson is an intrepid explorer and "Suitcase Entrepreneur" who goes to various places all over the world. She lives out of a bag, where she operates a highly successful online business from her laptop and smartphone, and she teaches people how to do the same thing. This is something that you probably have assumed. She is on a mission to... read full bio
Referred to as the father of the MP3 player, Nathan Schulhof is an entrepreneur who has been advancing in the technology industry for over thirty years. He is the lead inventor for three different patents, including the mp3 player, which was a major innovation within the music and technology world. He is also the co-inventor of a few other patents.... read full bio
Naval Ravikant is the CEO and co-founder of AngelList, a website for startups, angel investors, and job-seekers looking to work at startups. AngelList syndicates have invested over $100M in US startups so far, becoming the largest single pool of funds ever devoted to early-stage startups. Prior to forming AngelList, Naval co-founded Epinions (acquired by Shopping.com) and Vast.com. A prominent angel... read full bio
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Nicholas J. Webb is a world-renowned business, healthcare futurist, and innovation thought leader. He is the author of The Innovation Playbook and The Digital Innovation Playbook and a successful inventor with a wide range of patented technologies ranging from one of the worlds smallest medical implants to consumer and industrial products. Webb is also the inventor of the popular Hanz... read full bio
Futurist Nick Bilton is a special correspondent for Vanity Fair, where he covers the areas of technology, politics, business and culture. He is also a contributor to CNBC and a former columnist/ reporter for The New York Times. Bilton is the best-selling author of Hatching Twitter, as well as the newly released American Kingpin. Hatching Twitter chronicles the turmoil and... read full bio
