Category Archives: Technology / Automation / Web 3.0 / Metaverse

Dr. Vassil Dimitrov, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Calgary

Lifelong curiosity and passion for mathematics
Bridging mathematics and engineering through hybrid education

Ramsay Brown, CEO of The AI Responsibility Lab: Shaping the Future of Safe and Ethical AI

PhD training under eminent neuroanatomist Dr. Larry Swanson
Viewing intelligence as an emergent property of complex adaptive systems

Chitra Nayak, Board Director, Infosys; Executive Advisor, BCG; Cofounder, Neythri

Chitra is a board director of Infosys and several other listed companies.
She’s an executive advisor at the Boston Consulting Group.

Sid Jashnani (Certified EOS Implementer & Founder, Rekruuto)

Growing up in an entrepreneurial family and working in his father’s retail business
Early failures during the dot-com era and the lessons they provided

Richard Yonck, Futurist Speaker and Author, ‘Mindstock’

Richard is a futurist speaker and an author of a book titled Mindstock.
He’s the founder of Intelligent Future Consulting.

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

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