Luc Julia
Human-machine interaction specialist, Dr Luc Julia, co-created voice assistant Siri at Apple, was Chief Technologist at HP, and co-founded a number of start-ups in the Silicon Valley. As CTO and VP Innovation for Samsung 2012-17, he led the company’s vision and strategy for the Internet of Things. Now, as...
Dr. Mark van Rijmenam
Known as The Digital Speaker, Van Rijmenam is a strategic futurist who has significantly influenced the digital landscape. His pioneering efforts include the first TED talk in VR in 2020. In 2023, he further pushed boundaries when he delivered a TED talk in Athens with his digital twin, delving...
Leo Johnson
Leo Johnson is Head of PwC’s Disruption practice. He explores the big ideas that will shape business and society in the years to come and considers how the world might respond. Johnson’s expertise spans revolutions in energy and transport to predictive policing and an end to language barriers. As...
Hiroshi Ishiguro
Dr Hiroshi Ishiguro is Director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, part of the Department of Systems Innovation in the Graduate School of Engineering Science at Osaka University, Japan. A notable development of the laboratory is the Actroid, a humanoid robot with lifelike appearance and visible behaviour such as facial...
Rand Hindi
Dr Rand Hindi is an entrepreneur and data scientist. He is the founder and CEO of Snips, the first GDPR-compliant Voice platform. Rand Hindi started coding at the age of 10, founded a Social Network at 14 and a web agency at 15 before getting into Machine Learning at...
Hod Lipson
Hod Lipson is a roboticist who works in the areas of artificial intelligence and digital manufacturing. He and his students love designing and building robots that do what you’d least expect robots to do: Self replicate, self-reflect, ask questions, and even be creative. Hod’s research asks questions such as:...
Daniel Hulme
Daniel Hulme is the CEO of Satalia, a London-based company that provides Artificial Intelligence (AI). He is also the Director of UCL’s Business Analytics MSc, applying AI to solve business and social problems. Hulme specialises in philosophy, technology, innovation and organisational design. He is passionate about how technology can...
Sophia the Robot
Sophia the Robot is the brain child of Dr David Hanson of Hanson Robotics, a modern-day renaissance man who has built a reputation for creating the world’s most human-like robots. A former Disney Imagineer, Hanson’s mission is to create genius machines that are smarter than humans and able to...
Ambarish Mitra
Ambarish Mitra is the CEO and co-founder of Blippar, the leading augmented reality browser using artificial intelligence and computer vision to give people more from the world they see. Under Mitra’s direction, Blippar has grown from a ground breaking idea to an industry leader with offices in the UK,...
Tanmay Bakshi
Tanmay Bakshi, 15 years old, is a Software/Cognitive Developer, Author, Keynote Speaker, Algorithm-ist, Honorary IBM Cloud Advisor, IBM Champion for Cloud and YouTuber. He lives just outside of Toronto, in Brampton, Canada. Programming since the age of 5, he had his first iOS app, tTables, accepted when he was...
