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
James Lyne is a cyber security expert who has been the global head of security research at Sophos, one of the world’s largest security firms. Through his work as a security researcher, Lyne has researched on malware, hacking, viruses, trojans, and more. He has also been known for giving live working demonstrations and shares his developments in technology and security... read full bio
Hod Lipson is an American robotics engineer who is the director of Columbia University’s Creative Machines Lab. Lipson was born in Haifa, Israel, and he has earned his B.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Technion Israel Institute of Technology. Lipson began his career working as an assistant professor at Brandeis University’s Computer Science Department. He has also previously been... read full bio
Bertalan Mesko is The Medical Futurist and is the Director of The Medical Futurist Institute, where he helps to analyze how technologies in science can help with reality in medicine as well as healthcare. Mesko is also an author and speaker and he has given talks for numerous organizations and governments which include universities such as Harvard, Stanford and Yale.... read full bio
Ian Pearson is a leading futurist and author who has been the former head of BT Laboratories. Pearson has previously earned his degree in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics from Queens University in Belfast. He then went on to begin working in Shorts Missile Systems where he focused on areas which included mechanical engineering and battlefield strategy simulation. From there,... read full bio
Andrew Ng is a British-born American businessman, computer scientist, investor, and writer, who works on machine learning and AI. Ng has previously co-founded and led Google Brain and has also previously been the former Vice President and Chief Scientist at Baidu where he helped build the company’s AI group. Ng has previously earned his undergraduate degree with a triple major... read full bio
Shuji Nakamura is an American electronic engineer and inventor who is known for specializing in semiconductor technology and who works as the professor for the Materials Department of the College of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Nakamura was born in Ikata, Ehime, Japan, and he earned his B.Eng. degree in electronic engineering from the University of Tokushima... 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
Michael Durst is a scientist and entrepreneur who is known for previously working as a strategy consultant for Siemens Business Services. During his work with Siemens, Durst worked on conducting digitization projects and also worked on IT strategy, enterprise architecture and e-commerce. He also worked on projects for the automotive industry, insurance companies, banks, utility companies and machine manufacturing. After... read full bio
Silvia Damiano is an award-winning specialist on leadership, a scientist, and filmmaker. She is the founder of About my Brain Institute, which she founded with the purpose of democratizing leadership and neuroscience. She has focused her studies over the years on the human brain, optimal brain functioning, and neuroscience and how it applies to leadership and daily life. Damiano has... read full bio
Sebastian Thrun is an entrepreneur, educator, and computer scientist who has been the CEO of Kitty Hawk Corporation as well as the chairman and co-founder of Udacity. Thrun was born in Solingen, West Germany, and he has earned his Ph.D. summa cum laude in computer science and statistics from University of Bonn and previously studied computer science, economics and medicine... read full bio
Max Tegmark is a physicist and AI researcher, and has been the President of the Future of Life Institute and Professor of Physics at MIT. Tegmark was born in Sweden and while in high school, Tegmark created a word processor which was written in pure machine code. Tegmark has earned his B.Sc. in Physics from the Royal Institute of Technolgy... read full bio
Marc Tarpenning is an American engineer and entrepreneur who has been the co-founder of Tesla Inc. alongside Martin Eberhard. Tarpenning was born in Sacramento, California, and he has earned his B.A. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. After earning his degree, Tarpenning began working for Textron in Saudi Arabia before going on to develop software and firmware... read full bio
Audrey Tang is the Digital Minister of Taiwan and a software programmer who is best known for revitalizing the computer languages Perl and Haskell. Tang was considered a child prodigy at the age of five as Tang was reading classical literature and went on to be performing advanced mathematics before six years old and was learning computer programming before eight.... read full bio
Eric Cole is a world renowned cybersecurity expert who is an expert on breadth and depth experience in integrated cyber security. Through his work, Cole solves problems with a business and technology mindset. Cole is founder of Secure Anchor Consulting and through his work there, he has been a speaker and expert on SCADA and critical infrastructure cyber security. Prior... read full bio
