Early 2000s tech era was more than offline-to-online transitions
Realization that technology reorganizes economic and social activity
Grew up across cultures: Latvia, Israel, German heritage
Worked in Israeli Air Force, focusing on tech and cybersecurity
Neil Trevett has served as the elected president of the Khronos Group for more than 20 years and most recently founded and now serves as the President and Chairman of the Metaverse Standards Forum.
Built his first website at age 15.
Experimented with NLP and search engines during college.
Dr. David A. Bray is a Distinguished Fellow and Chair of the Accelerator with the Alfred Lee Loomis Innovation Council at the non-partisan Henry L. Stimson Center.
Mary Ellen Randall is the Founder and CEO of Ascot Technologies and a former IBM leader with decades of experience spanning flight simulator software, chip and systems development, operating systems, networking, and enterprise mobile solutions.
Inge speaks about her early background in tourism and humanities.
She highlights the role of curiosity and following one’s heart.
Pat Pataranutaporn is a technologist, scientist, and artist at the MIT Media Lab, exploring the intersection of AI, synthetic biology, and wearable computing.
His projects fuse art, science, and technology — from AI “wisdom wearables” to bio-digital tools that enable self-healing and space medicine.
Kathleen R. McKeown is the Henry and Gertrude Rothschild Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University and is also the Founding Director of the Data Science Institute at Columbia.
Realizes personal strengths lie beyond test scores
Combines computer science and pre-med in undergrad despite advice
