Category Archives: Industry

Nils Fonstad, Academic Research Fellow, MIT Center for Information Systems Research (CISR)

Nils was educated at Cornell and MIT Sloan and earned his PhD from MIT.
He has held senior research roles at INSEAD/eLab in Paris and MIT, publishing widely, including in Harvard Business Review.

Rabbi Yafa Joanie Tsehaynesh Chase, President & Founder of Ezra’s World, on Uplifting Families and Soulful Leadership

Explanation of her American (Joanie), Hebrew (Yafa), and Ethiopian (Sahainish: “sunshine or light”) names
How each name represents different aspects of her identity and spiritual mission

Marleen Stikker, Founder & Executive Director, Waag Futurelab

Marleen Stikker reveals her drive to understand “how the world functions.”
Explains how philosophy aided her critical view of economics and technology.

Ilyas Khan, Founder & Vice Chairman of Quantinuum: Leading the Quantum Computing Revolution

$600M funding round at a $10B valuation
JP Morgan’s public commitment and leadership role

Brewster Kahle, Founder & Digital Librarian

Brewster Kahle is an American digital librarian, computer engineer, and Internet entrepreneur.
He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982 with a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and engineering.

Abeba Birhane, Assistant Professor of AI, Trinity College Dublin

Abeba is the founder and principal investigator of the AI Accountability Lab (AIAL) housed at the School of Computer Science and Statistics in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Gal Borenstein, CEO, The Borenstein Group; Author, ‘Don’t Believe the Hype’

Gal is the CEO of the Borenstein group, which is the technology focused B2B and B2G branding and marketing agency.
He’s also an author of a book titled Don’t Believe the Hype.

The Retail Doctor’s Cure for Human-First Commerce | Bob Phibbs, The Retail Doctor

Bob is the retail doctor, and he is there to transform store performance through strategic sales training.
His mission is to make every retail encounter a moment of genuine human connection, one conversation at a time.

Sangeet Paul Choudary, Author of Reshuffle & Senior Fellow, UC Berkeley

Early 2000s tech era was more than offline-to-online transitions
Realization that technology reorganizes economic and social activity