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 a leading authority on transformational leadership and strategic innovation, with extensive experience in guiding universities through systemic disruptions. He is a Lecturer and Business Fellow at Oxford University’s Smith School of Enterprise & Environment, lecturing in Transformational Leadership at Oxford’s most applied for graduate programme. His...
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
Dr. Daniel Hulme is a globally recognised expert in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and investor in emerging technologies. He’s the CEO of Satalia, an award-winning AI company that was acquired by WPP – a world leader in media, marketing, and communications – in 2021, and is now their Chief AI...
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...
Nell Watson
Nell Watson is an engineer, entrepreneur, and futurist thinker who grew up in Northern Ireland. She has a longstanding interest in the philosophy of technology, and how extensions of human capacity drive emerging social trends. Nell has had an unusual career, including teaching post-grad Computer Science at the age...
