Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell is a researcher focused on the ins and outs of machine learning and ethics-informed AI development in tech. She has published over 50 papers on natural language generation, assistive technology, computer vision, and AI ethics, and holds multiple patents in the areas of conversation generation and sentiment...
Otto Scharmer
Otto Scharmer is Senior Lecturer at MIT and the founding chair of ELIAS (Emerging Leaders for Innovation Across Sectors), an initiative focused on developing profound system innovations for a more sustainable world. ELIAS links twenty leading global institutions across the three sectors of business, government, and civil society. He...
Priya Lakhani
Priya Lakhani OBE is the Founder CEO of CENTURY Tech, the award-winning education technology company that develops AI-powered learning tools for schools, colleges, universities and employers across the world. In 2008, Priya left her career as a barrister to launch a successful FMCG business, which through its charitable foundation...
David A. Smith
David Smith is Chief Executive and Futurist at Global Futures and Foresight, a futures research firm, based in London, which he has led for the past 13 years. He has over 35 years of marketing, leadership, and strategy experience, in global IT and IT services firms and was responsible...
Andrew Grill
Actionable Futurist and former IBM Global Managing Partner Andrew Grill is a popular and sought-after keynote speaker and trusted board-level technology advisor. With a broad career spanning over 30 years in large corporates such as IBM, British Aerospace and Telstra, as well as 12 years running technology start-ups, Andrew...
Sofie Lindblom
Sofie’s expertise lies in turning complex challenges into concrete plans for organizations to create value and take the lead in their respective industries. During the past ten years she has led over 100 innovation processes in different roles and organizations. Among other things, she was the head of innovation...
Robert Garbett
Robert Garbett is one of the world’s foremost experts in drone technology and Founder and Chief Executive of Drone Major Group Limited, the world’s leading global Drone and Counter Drone consultancy. He is an ex-army entrepreneur who ended his military career in 2007 as the head of airworthiness for...
Nina Schick
Nina Schick is a globally recognized author, entrepreneur, and advisor specializing in Generative AI. She has made it her mission to democratize AI and make it accessible to everyone, authoring the first book on AI-generated content in 2020. Nina has been analyzing Generative AI since 2017 – long before...
Toby Walsh
Toby Walsh is Chief Scientist at UNSW.ai, UNSW’s new AI Institute. He is a Laureate Fellow and Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW Sydney, and he is also an adjunct fellow at CSIRO Data61. He was named by the Australian...
Tony Travers
Tony Travers is Director of LSE London, a research centre at the London School of Economics. He is also a Visiting Professor in the LSE’s Government Department. His key research interests include local and regional government, public service reform and transport issues. He is currently an advisor to the...
