A true pioneer in the direct marketing of personal computers, Ted Waitt is the founder and former Chairman and CEO of Gateway, Inc. This project, which started in his Iowa farmhouse, has revolutionized the way people use technology to live, work, and play. Tedd Waitt has moved on to form Avalon Capital Group, Inc., which is a billion-dollar private investment... read full bio
He Jiankui is a Chinese biophysics researcher who has been an associate professor in the Department of Biology of the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China. He is best known for claiming he created the first human genetically edited babies, the twin girls known as Lulu and Nana. Jiankui was born in Xinhua County, Loudi, Hunan and... read full bio
Barbara Rae-Venter is an American genetic genealogist and retired patent attorney who is best known for helping find the Golden State Killer. Barbara was born in Auckland, New Zealand and earned both her BA and doctorate from University of California at San Diego. She also studied law at University of Texas at Austin where she earned her J.D. Barbara gained... read full bio
Sophia is the creation of Dr. David Hanson, a modern-day Renaissance man known for engineering the most lifelike robots in the world, of Hanson Robotics, a company with headquarters in Hong Kong. Dr. Hanson, a former Disney Imagineer, is on a mission to build intelligent machines capable of learning creativity, empathy, and compassion. Sophia has performed live, spoken to audiences in... read full bio
Rana el Kaliouby is an Egyptian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur who is known for her work in emotion AI, Artificial Intelligence and for being the co-founder and CEO of Affective, an AI start-up that came from the MIT Media Lab. Rana has earned her Bachelors and Master of Science degrees from the American University in Cairo and then went on... read full bio
Tessa Lau was the founder and CTO of Savioke and she has been nicknamed the “Chief Robot Whisperer”. During her time with Savioke, Lau led the software team that developed the first generation Relay system. She also created the company’s Field Operations organization and quantified Relay’s performance over time. Since then, Lau has gone on to be founder and CEO... read full bio
DJ Patil is an American mathematician, technology speaker and computer scientist who has previously served as the Chief Data Scientist of the United States Office of Science and Technology Policy. Patil has previously earned his B.A. from the University of California, San Diego. From there, Patil went on to earn his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Maryland... read full bio
David Hanson is a robotics designer who is best known for being the creator of the robot, Sophia, and is founder and CEO of the robotics company, Hanson Robotics. Hanson was born in Dallas, Texas, and he has earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School od Design in film, animation, and video, and went on to... 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
Dr. John Medina is a molecular biologist who specializes in the isolation and characterization of genes that are involved in the development of the human brain, as well as the genetics of various psychiatric disorders. He’s spent a good portion of his professional career as an analytical research consultant who works mostly in the field of pharmaceutical and biotechnology. Most... read full bio
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO) at NetApp is Cynthia Stoddard. Providing a long-term technological vision that supports and is in line with the organization's strategies, goals, business plans, operational needs, and overall efficiencies is the CIO's responsibility. In order to facilitate the implementation of global business solutions and infrastructure that support the company's expansion, she gives leadership... read full bio
President and CEO of EPRI Arshad Mansoor is in charge of the organization's day-to-day operations as well as its portfolio of R&D and demonstration activities, which cover all power generation, distribution and utilization sources as well as environmental concerns. Mansoor formerly held the position of senior vice president, research and development, where he was in charge of overseeing the creation of the... read full bio
American theoretical and experimental physicist John Francis Clauser is most known for his contributions to the theory of local realism and the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt (CHSH) inequality, as well as for the Freedman-Clauser experiment that provided the first experimental evidence that non-local quantum entanglement is real. The Freedman-Clauser experiment, along with the CHSH prediction, is thought to be of sufficient significance that it has... read full bio
Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Vienna and Senior Scientist at the Austrian Academy of Sciences' Center for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information is Anton Zeilinger. He is a Quantum Physicist who was honored with the Institute of Physics' first Isaac Newton Award for his "pioneering conceptional and experimental contribution to the foundation of Quantum Physics, which have... read full bio
Canadian novelist and cultural critic Stephen Marche has been penning articles about artificial intelligence for years. Marche offers a distinctive viewpoint on the meeting point of AI and the humanities thanks to his PhD in Shakespeare. His writing examines how AI is transforming how we think about creativity and authorship. Marche garnered media attention in 2021 for his groundbreaking breakthrough in... 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
Among the greatest creators of the modern era is Ray Kurzweil. He was the primary developer of the first omni-font optical character recognition system, the first print-to-speech reading device for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer and the first CCD flat-bed scanner. Along with designing the first commercially available large-vocabulary speech recognition system, he also built the first music synthesizer that... read full bio
Baroness Susan Greenfield, CBE, is a British scientist who specializes in brain physiology. She studies how the brain creates awareness, the effects of modern technologies on the mind and innovative treatments for neurodegenerative illnesses like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. After completing her DPhil in the Department of Pharmacology at Oxford University, Baroness Greenfield went on to work as a researcher at NYU Medical... read full bio
Cynthia Breazeal is a brilliant pioneer in the world of robotics; she is the creator of Jibo, a personal assistant robot, said to be the first ever family robot. Cynthia also works as an associate professor of media arts and sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for which she directs the Personal Robots group at the MIT Media Laboratory.... read full bio
After specializing in Energy Systems Engineering at Stanford University, Straubel quickly established himself in the business. After graduating from college, he worked with Rosen Motors to build a new hybrid car drivetrain. Straubel was one of the original members of the Pentadyne Power Corporation team that contributed to the advancement of this technology. After that, Straubel was the Chief Technical Officer... read full bio
