Category Archives: Technology / Automation / Web 3.0 / Metaverse

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

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.

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

Mark Gazit, Chairman & CEO of Marga AI: Scaling Human Wisdom with Master-Grade AI Mentorship

Grew up across cultures: Latvia, Israel, German heritage
Worked in Israeli Air Force, focusing on tech and cybersecurity

Neil Trevett, President, Khronos Group; Chair of the Metaverse Standards Forum

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.

Dr David A Bray, Distinguished Fellow and Chair, Henry L. Stimson Center

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, IEEE President & CEO

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 Bryan: Chair, Supervisory Board at Datenna on Cybersecurity, Leadership & Authenticity

Inge speaks about her early background in tourism and humanities.
She highlights the role of curiosity and following one’s heart.

Pat Pataranutaporn, Antidisciplinary Technologist, Massachusetts In

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.