Gerd Leonhard is one of the worlds leading futurists, amassing more than 1500 speaking engagements in over fifty countries and a collective audience of over 1 million. Gerd is an expert on near-future, nowist observations and actionable foresights in the areas of humanity, society, business and commerce, media, technology and communications. He has been hailed by The Wall Street Journal... read full bio
Kevin Warwick is a renowned scientist and Deputy Vice Chancellor at Coventry University. His areas of expertise include artificial intelligence, control, robotics, and biomedical engineering. A Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of The Institution of Engineering & Technology, Warwick is the youngest person ever to become a Fellow of the City & Guilds of London Institute. He has authored or... read full bio
As the former Director of Enterprise Services at Amazon, John Rossmans most well known accomplishment is launching and scaling the Amazon Marketplace business, which now accounts for more than 50% of all Amazon goods sold and shipped. In his role at Amazon, he oversaw global services to enterprise clients like Target.com, Toys R Us, Sears, Marks and Spencer, and the... read full bio
Janine Benyus works as an innovation consultant, natural sciences writer, author, and speaker. Known as an expert on a subject called biomimicry, Janine has written several books on the topic. Her books include Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, Beastly Behaviors: A Zoo Lovers Companion, Northwoods Wildlife: A Watchers Guide to Habitats, The Secret Language & Remarkable Behavior of Animals, Christmas... read full bio
Alex Stamos is a computer scientist, cybersecurity expert, business leader, entrepreneur, and the former chief security officer at Facebook. He is currently working to improve the security and safety of the Internet through his teaching and research at Stanford University. He is an Adjunct Professor at Stanford’s Freeman-Spogli Institute and a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution. Stamos graduated with... read full bio
A designer and innovator, Manuel Lima is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and has been nominated by Creativity magazine as “one of the 50 most creative and influential minds”. Lima is the founder of VisualComplexity.com, Design Lead of Codecademy, and a regular teacher of data visualization at Parsons School of Design. Lima wrote Visual Complexity: Mappings patterns... read full bio
Russ Angold is the owner of Angold Engineering. Previously, Angold has been the CTO and Co-founder of Ekso Bionics. From the founding of Ekso Bionics up until 6 years after, Angold served as the Vice President of Engineering. Angold earned his B.S. in Engineering from California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo. He has also taken an Executive Short Course in... read full bio
Ganesh Padmanabhan is the current Chief Revenue Officer of Molecula which helps enterprises execute on Artificial Intelligence. Ganesh has previously been the Vice President of Global Business Development and Marketing at CognitiveScale where he was responsible for growth through channel sales, business development, strategic partnerships and marketing. Ganesh has previously been a software engineer in product management at Microsemi, he... read full bio
Iddris Sandu is a Ghanaian software engineer and architectural technologist who was born in Accra, Ghana, and was raised in Compton, California. Sandu is best known for creating the world’s first smart retail store experience entitled, “The Marathon Store”, alongside the late Nipsey Hussle. Sandu’s work with The Marathon Store includes coding and creating algorithms and the store would allow... read full bio
Tyler Shultz is a notable figure in the field of biotechnology and entrepreneurship, recognized as the CEO and co-founder of Flux Biosciences, Inc. This innovative company focuses on utilizing magnetic sensing technology to make medical-grade in-vitro diagnostics accessible to consumers and patients in the comfort of their own homes. Shultz gained widespread attention due to his pivotal role in exposing the... read full bio
Anthony Atala is the Surgeon Director of Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine where he works on growing and regenerating tissues and organs. Atala and his team at Wake Forest have been the first to engineer a lab-grown organ, which was a bladder, that was implanted into a human. Atala has previously earned his undergraduate in psychology at University of... read full bio
Camille Wardrop Alleyne is an American aerospace engineer, space scientist, speaker, writer, leader, and current Associate Program Scientist for the International Space Station at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Alleyne was born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, and she moved to the United States at 18 years old to pursue a career in space. She went on to earn her... read full bio
Ray Hammond is known for being Europe’s most experienced futurist and is a keynote speaker on the future. Hammond began his career working as a junior news reporter for The Middlesex Chronicle. As a journalist, he went on to work for The Sunday Times, Sounds, and also founded a magazine publishing company that opened offices and publications in Germany and... read full bio
Lars Hamberg is an investor, advisor on innovation, analytics, big data and FinTech expert. He is known for being an expert in the financial industry and has founded several businesses the focus on training, analytics, asset management, AI and IT software. Hamberg has previously earned his Master’s degree in Language Studies and had Ph.D. studies at Stockholm University. He began... 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
Avrohom Gottheil is a thought leader in high-tech and founder of #AskTheCEO Media. Gottheil has become a thought leader in tech through his over 20 year career working in IT and in Telecom. Gottheil has earned his Bachelor’s degree in Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services from Touro College. He then went on to begin working for Avaya as... read full bio
Michael Irwin Jordan is an American scientist who is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and is a researcher for topics which include machine learning, statistics and AI. Jordan has previously earned his BS magnua cum laude in psychology from Louisiana State Universiy and went on to earn his MS in Mathematics from Arizona State University before going... 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
Oona Horx-Strathern is an international speaker, author, trend expert and consultant and futurist. Horx-Strathern found her love of the future during her childhood trip to India where she visited Chandigarh and the Taj Mahal. She went on to study at the Holland Park Comprehensive School before going on to earn her B.A. in Human Geography from Bristol University. While earning... read full bio
Shawn Henry is a retired award-winning FBI Cyber Investigations Executive Assistant Director and the President of the Services Division and Chief Security Officer for CrowdStrike, a company that protects companies against cybersecurity breaches. Henry has earned his BBA from Hofstra University and went on to earn his M.S. in Justice Administration from Virginia Commonwealth University. He began his career working... read full bio
