Aashna Purkayastha

I’m a 2nd year student reading for dual degrees in Social Policy & Sociology. After completing my degrees at the University of Bristol, I intend on studying for a Law degree and eventually pursue a legal career with the intention of becoming a barrister. My parents reliably inform me that I have been traveling to far-off countries since I was 2 months old - certainly I do love traveling & have combined that with teaching English to village kids in Tamilnadu in India.

Adah Parris

I create safe and brave spaces.

Alain Sylvain

Alain is the Founder and CEO of SYLVAIN, a strategy and design consultancy that provokes progress for companies, people and society at large. Clients include Google, American Express, Spotify, Airbnb, Blackrock, Amazon, Diageo, GM, the NBA, UBER, New York Times, Nike, Apple and others. Founded in 2010, the company is headquartered in NYC, with offices in Amsterdam and Richmond, VA, and is a Certified B-Corporation. Alain is a partner and investor in several ventures, including Master + Dynamic, a design-driven, premium audio brand, Free Rain, a line of enhanced sparkling water, a mobile gaming company, Lilo, an açai bowl company, and PetMio, a smart pet food startup. He is on the board of Plus Pool, an ambitious project to build the world’s first floating, filtering swimming pool in NYC harbor, a Founding Member of Kindred, and a member of the New York City Mayor’s Creative Council. Alain is also an active contributor to various non-profit initiatives around the world including the Lower East Side Girls Club, The Bowery Mission and Anseye Pou Haiti.

Alberto Giovanni Busetto

AI and Data Science innovator - passionate about tech for good.

Alex Melnyk

Alex Melnyk is the founder and president of The Futurists. Alex has a fierce passion for elevating the work of women entrepreneurs who are solving for a sustainable, equitable and just world. Over the years of leading different organizations, Alex has learned to focus on connecting people to their purpose and passion. Her purpose is fulfilled in her current feature length CauseUmentary, WeRiseUP which explores a new definition of success at the personal, collective and universal levels that places living your purpose and making a contribution to the world as the way to have a thriving future for humanity.

Alexandre Scialom

Grew up on a farm in France, now living in San Francisco where I’ve been doing startup stuff, and enjoying the great outdoors scene since 2006.

Andreas Cohen

Tribal leader of the Smart Marketing Data elite. Scientist of life's finer moments.

Andrew Tatarsky

Andrew, a psychologist and psychoanalyst, developed Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy (IHRP) and is Founder and Director of the Center for Optimal Living in NYC. His writing, teaching and leadership aim to promote a re-humanized view of problematic substance use and a harm reduction continuum of care that will extend help to everyone where ever they are ready to begin their positive change journeys.

Andrus Aaslaid

Mostly an engineer, sometimes an artist. For most part of my life I have been "giving machines a soul" and that has led me to quite diverse array of projects, from space communications to writing a libretto for an opera.

Armonia Pierantozzi

Proud of my three passports - Italian, Brazilian and French. Living in Joigny, a small city in Northern Burgundy, after years of fluttering around the world. My thing is to make impactful ideas real and bring them to the next level.

Béa Ercolini

Founder of TPAMP, NGO against street harassment and sexism. 17.000+ children and students concerned. 500+ police men and women trained. Lobbying for political solutions. Founder of the Belgian edition of ELLE magazine, former editor in chief and editorial team director. Founder Beabee, women business club in Brussels. Journalist https://www.facebook.com/bea.ercolini.3 https://twitter.com/Bea_Ercolini https://www.linkedin.com/in/beaercolini/ http://www.instagram.com/Bea_Ercolini

Benoit Faiveley

Producer and engineer working in art - science and space. Creator of sanctuaryproject.eu and historycube.com

Bradford Richardson

I am a passionate builder of global business operations for US based companies - transforming culture, localizing brands, engaging cross border teams. I am committed to making a difference through philanthropic and artist engagement.

Carlo Rizzo

Creating opportunities for young innovators and makers whilst researching and making art about remote corners of the Earth

Chen Raviv

Chen Raviv, Partnerships and Marketing Lead at Digital Lift – monday.com‘s philanthropy arm. Chen has a vast experience in social entrepreneurship and tech, he is the co-founder of “Change a world” NGO in Israel that solves healthcare problems among underserved communities, he joined monday.com two years ago to build the social impact initiative of the company. He has led the company’s mission to Moldova, working with the UNDP and the local government to harness technology into good since the war in Ukraine started

Christie Marchese

Christie Marchese is the founder and CEO of Kinema, a social cinema platform that empowers anyone, anywhere to show award winning films in creative spaces. She was previously the founder and CEO of impact agency Picture Motion, and spent time at film studio Participant Media and civic participation nonprofit Declare Yourself. Marchese holds a BA from SDSU, in both International Security and Conflict Resolution and Religious Studies, with a concentration in Arabic and the Middle East.

Cindy Chin

Data-driven operator and inventor (IP) with deep expertise in AI, data, and machine learning. Entrepreneur's 50 Most Daring Entrepreneurs 2018. Cindy is the CEO of CLC Advisors and a founder of CLIPr. She is a data evaluator in frontier technologies with data, AI, machine learning, geospatial satellite technology, clean energy, and planetary defense focus areas. She is also a NASA Datanaut, a RSA Fellow, a visiting professor at FH Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, a mentor, advisor and board member to tech startups teams including Google’s for Startups Accelerator and Women Techmakers in North America as well as the AI Data Lab at Howard University.

Danielle Yoo

Witty, World Explorer, and dare I say: Gen Z. An LGBTQIA/ BIPOC advocate, Danielle’s experience as an Asian American transgender woman of color lends herself to a calling larger than herself. Inclusivity is at the heart of her values, and thats exactly what drives her work at TikTok as Gen Z’s influence and dominance of this platform continues to drive and shape our rapidly expanding culture as we know it.

Ekaterina Tarbo Ignatenko

Katerina Tarbo-Ignatenko is a producer of international feature and documentary films with a focus on co-production. She has created projects in USA, Georgia, Belgium, Belarus, Mexico, Estonia, Italy and Cyprus and has won over 20 international prizes. Her films have been contenders for the Golden Globes and Oscars.

Fabio Zaffagnini

Rockin'1000 CEO and Founder I organize concerts where 1000 people perform all together

Flavie Nanchino Hindi

Fashion photographer

Gil Golan

Gil Golan is the Managing Director of the General Motors Technical Center in Israel. Established in 2008, Tech Center Israel develops advanced technologies for GM’s key Electric, Autonomous and Connected vehicle programs, including Technologies such as AI, Software Defined Vehicle, Automated Parking, Viewing Systems, Sensing, Cloud, Cybersecurity and New Mobility Services. He has been with GM since the late 1990s and has previously held several executive positions in the US, including as a Director for Global Strategy with GM Research and Development and a Director with GM Corporate Venture Capital. Gil earned his Bachelor & Master of Science degrees at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, studied at the Harvard Business School (executive program) and is a graduate of a Stanford University GSB program.

Ida Benedetto

Ida Benedetto is an experience strategist and researcher. She is recognized as an innovator in the field of experience design for creating transgressive adventures for major cultural icons and transformative strategy sessions for heads of industry. As a Director of Organizational Change at NOBL Collective, she leads clients in behavior change efforts that align company culture with business strategy. Ida's research on the design of transformative social experiences has been used in coursework at Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, and NYU. She’s been featured in Businessweek, Fast Company, NPR, and The New Yorker.

Jed Sherwindt

Hi! I’m Yoshimi Iyadomi and I’m an entrepreneur/investor primarily focused on the Future of Work. I’m originally from Japan but I was educated and have worked in the US since 1990.

Jodok Batlogg

Tech Entrepreneur, building solutions to save the climate. Biodiversity, Climate Change, Sustainability, People. I love all kinds of trees.

Joe Marchese

Joe Marchese is the Executive Chairman and lead investor in Human Ventures. Joe serves as president of Advanced Advertising Products at Fox Networks Group, where he leads operations in non-linear advertising products and services for 21st Century Fox's global portfolio of channels. His amazing wife is filling out his registration form so this is all of the bio I feel like including :)

Iain Nash

Iain Nash is a creative technologist and engineer. A graduate of USC’s computer engineering program, Iain studied photography and researched interactive design in the final years of university. Upon moving to NYC, Iain continued with both of these interests, completing the School of Poetic Computation and building small experiences for various events, galleries, and artists. Iain’s practice focuses on infrastructure as art through teaching, open source participations, and building infrastructure and tools for artists. Currently, Iain works for Zora, a blockchain media protocol working on projects with Holly Herdon, Rhizome, PleasrDao, and Matthew Ball.

Jonathan Bryant

Loving life to the full, Memento mori, nothing matters and yet everything does. Chocolate is important, tech spirited entrepreneur. Bringing poetry to the digital world.

Joshua Keay

Joshua Keay is an artist and entrepreneur living in New York City. He’s the author of “Formal Notices from the Bureau of Communcation” and “Thinking with Paper.” He co-founded Vestwell and Magnetism Studios, who's clients include Apple, Airbnb and Instagram. He helped start the New York chapter of the BarCamp un-conference, and loves throwing sushi making parties on Sunday afternoons.

Juliette Menager

Fondatrice de Joule studio casting studio international

Kahina BAHLOUL

Kahina BAHLOUL est juriste, islamologue, autrice et conférencière. Elle est diplômée en islamologie de l’Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes et prépare actuellement une thèse de doctorat sur le penseur Ibn ‘Arabî. Elle s’intéresse à l’universalité du message de l’Islam et à la diversité religieuse et plus particulièrement, à la question du ministère religieux féminin, au rôle des femmes dans les lieux de culte en Islam et dans le discours religieux. Elle a publié deux livres en 2021 : Mon islam, ma liberté, Ed Albin Michel Des femmes et des Dieux, Ed Les Arènes

Kathryn Myronuk

STEAM driven synthesist focused on science education, SDG startups, and failure modes of experts. Was founding team & mentor at SingularityU

Kenneth Chabert

Ted Talking, 3-mile running, mezcal drinking, Harvard educated, social entrepreneur. Coined the term, Powerful First Experiences™️, while living a life full of them.

Khaled Ben Jilani

Khaled Ben Jilani is a Senior Partner and a member of the Executive Committee of AfricInvest. He leads VC and financial sector investments. Khaled is also an advocate for better laws and regulations to spur innovation in Africa. Khaled is also an innovation advocate and is one of the architects of the Startup Act and the Financial Inclusion law in Tunisia. Before joining AfricInvest, Khaled was successively an analyst at Barclays Bank, and a strategy consultant at Proxicom, a technology strategy firm.

Laila Durrani

Laila Durrani is a recent graduate from Smith College, USA, where she studied Math and Government, and a Fulbright Scholar. She is passionate about educational access, specially for women, and has worked in various NGO's in the USA and abroad. Laila is deeply interested in the future of the global food system. She has been cooking since she was eleven and has apprenticed with Chef Roberto Rossi at Il Silence, his Michelin-starred restaurant in Tuscany, Italy, to understand food sustainability in context of climate change. In the future she hopes to work the intersection of policy and social change to address the big problems of our time.

Lauren Bergman

As a figurative narrative artist Lauren Bergman creates stories in paint that reside at the juncture of myth and social realism. Through her personal language of symbols, the paintings explore both female identity and comment on our shifting political and cultural landscape. Beginning as a high school student, Lauren Bergman was involved in art classes at the Corcoran School of Art. Her talents and mature narratives quickly landed her gallery exhibitions in Washington, D.C. at Capricorn Gallery, exhibiting among renowned American realists, including Burton Silverman and Sondra Freckelton. Bergman’s work has been featured in publications ranging from The New York Times to Juxtapoz Magazine. She has had three solo exhibitions at the O.K. Harris Gallery in New York, which represented her for a decade. Other solo and two-person exhibitions include the Makor Gallery and Tria Gallery in New York and the Corey Helford Gallery in Los Angeles. Her many group shows include Plus One Gallery in London, Carl Hammer Gallery in Chicago, and Jonathan Levine Gallery and Claire Oliver Fine Art in New York. Bergman grew up in the Washington metro area, where she studied at the Corcoran School of Art. She earned her bachelor’s degree in fine arts and education from the Univeristy of Massachusets at Amherst, graduating summa cum laude, and her master’s degree at Smith College before relocating to Manhattan to study painting and design at FIT and The Art Students League. Bergman now lives and works in a barn in Saugerties, NY.

Laurence Ainouz

Mirrors. Chocolate. Sourdough. Investor. Emergency medicine. Recovered corporate executive.

Mareme Dieng

Mareme is the lead of Market Strategy, Africa. Previously, she was the head of international partnerships and relations at Draper University and an investor associate at Draper University Ventures. Originally from Senegal, Mareme is a strong advocate for technology and innovation in emerging markets, particularly in Africa where she led several initiatives to increase funding opportunities for startups on the continent. She has more than 5 years of experience in innovation and investment working previously as an investor associate, accelerator program manager, corporate innovation lead consultant and sitting as an advisor on the board of several startups. She also holds a strong background in education currently acting as a Trustee board member at Bennington College, one of the top American liberal Arts Colleges.

Margaret Bates

Sunny Bates, founder and CEO of Sunny Bates Associates, operates wherever executives, thinkers, artists, creators, innovators, entrepreneurs, educators, philanthropists connect and collide around the globe. Her genius is developing networks of extraordinary people and connecting their ideas in surprising ways toward concrete outcomes. As a serial entrepreneur, mentor and advisor, her client roster has included some of the world’s most prominent companies and organizations, from TED and Credit Suisse to Creative Capital, the National Academy of Sciences, Techstars and Kickstarter, of which she is a founding board member.

Maria Tanjala

Maria Tanjala is an entrepreneur, filmmaker and sociologist. CEO of FilmChain, delivering real-time payments to the film and TV industry, secured by blockchain technology, she bridges an opaque and traditional industry with transparent fintech solutions.

Mariem Mhadhbi

With over 13 years of experience in different areas of Financial Markets Equity Derivatives structuring, structured products sales, institutional coverage across different geographies Amsterdam, New York, Brussels and Paris, I am now leveraging my expertise and network to create new multidimensionnel return models that explicitly integrate human, social and natural capital into financial market valuations. Over the last two years, I have been conducting Research on ESG and transition factors integration in valuations. I faced many issues related to diversity of opinions, data inconsistencies. Addressing these, and as a first step, I launched Valuecometrics with the goal to bring more engagement between investors and companies and to federate the ESG community. My longer term vision is to build a decentralized collaborative intelligence that while embedded in CBDC, measures ESG of underlying operations. I love music and painting.

Meghan Rutigliano

I am a world traveler, lifelong learner, and curator of arts and cultural experiences. Recent projects have included work for an international experimental film festival, and a festival based on Sinai/Egypt for which I am the Global Community Curator. I also love to sing and practice my French.

Michael Shaun Conaway

Michael Shaun Conaway is a Generative Futurist and an award winning film director. He purpose is to unleash greatness to bring about a thriving future. His mission is to empower and accelerate the redesign of our failing systems to create an anti-fragile, anti-rival world, one that works for all.

Michelle de Bruijn

Michelle is the founder of Mind Avenue, executive coach, well-being tech professional, and speaker. At this key juncture in history it’s her mission to bridge ancient wisdom with modern science to elevate the well-being of humanity, one leader at a time. As a lifetime student of Tibetan Buddhism and meditation guide she teaches how to transform the mind, rewire the brain and open the heart that allowing top level leaders to gain access their deeper heart intelligence.

Naomi Dabby

With more than 20 years of experience in medicine, Naomi is highly qualified to take health care to new horizons. She passionately believes that medicine needs to be more accessible and hold higher technological standards. With modMD’s innovative services and products across the country she is not messing around. Naomi is the CEO and founder of modMD, an innovative healthcare movement providing premium service for on-site, on-demand COVID testing, lab analysis and personalized medical care. Her previous company was in the blockchain space. Naomi was a founder of shEOS, an all female block producer for EOS. She has practiced Emergency Medicine in large trauma centers for the past 20 years in NY, LA and SF.

Nili Ohayon

Musician and audio-visual artist, making electro-pop with rough edges. Content creator with a passion for education, en-route to change the way we teach music to children.

Nirit Harel

Nirit Harel is a US/Israeli/ Portuguese and global citizen committed to building alliances towards a better tomorrow, leveraging the best technology anywhere. She is a veteran of the Israeli start-up environment with 25+ years of turnaround, marketing and management experience positioning ventures for growth, public offering and acquisition, including MRV Communications which subsequently reached a valuation of $5B+ (NASDAQ MRVC). Ms. Harel has extensive experience negotiating partnerships with world leaders in the European Framework Program/ Horizon, winning and managing multi-year European Commission technology development bids for the world's most established and promising innovators. Instrumental in launching and establishing a diverse range of tech, impact and nonprofit ventures in 60+ countries, she is a frequent speaker on the subject of innovation, women's leadership/ gender equity and triple bottom line. Ms. Harel currently serves as Global Chair of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Network at YPO, where she was also selected as Regional Honoree and shortlisted as one of only two women nominated for the organization’s most prestigious Hickok Distinguished Service Award in 2020. She is particularly invested in verticals common to Israel & Portugal such as Med/HealthTech, Agritech and alternative energy. and is currently heavily involved in Ukraine venture relocation to Portugal, facilitating smooth and seamless integration of R&D and other operations for companies and their families.

Nomi Bar-Yaacov

International human rights lawyer, International negotiator and mediator. Specialising in back-channel negotiations aimed at conflict prevention, or conflict mitigation. Passionate about life, justice and peace!

Olivier Escarfail

Pablo Rodriguez

Pablo Rodriguez is a creative entrepreneur, business leader, and computer scientist. He is a Director at Google´s Office of the CTO (OCTO). He was founding CEO at Alpha, Europe's first moonshot factory, and Ambassador for [X] — Google’s Moonshot Factory. Developing 10x science projects that will affect 100 Million+ people, be a force for good on the planet, and grow into new impactful businesses. He is an AI Ethics Board member to the Spanish Government, and has published a best selling book on Artificial Intelligence — how it will change the world around you and your life. His innovation work is also featured in the "Non-bullshit innovation" book by the founding editor of WIRED. He has more than 200 publications and 30 patent inventions. Pablo loves to play inside the chaos, alchemise tensions, and is passionate about the inner innovator journey from belief to impact.

Patrick Morselli

Tech operator, scale-up pro & Web3 builder. Early Uber, WeWork, ConsenSys. I love plants, cities, and inclusion.

Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie

Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie is the founding spiritual leader of Lab/Shul NYC and the creator of Storahtelling, Inc. An Israeli-born Jewish educator, writer, and performance artist, he received his rabbinical ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 2016.

Sam Glassenberg

Building teams and companies that push the cutting-edge of video games - from Hollywood to healthcare. Former LucasFilm, Microsoft. Currently advancing the practice of medicine using video game technology and design.

Samina Rind

I'm a mission-driven operator investor and strategic advisor passionate about supporting missions, causes and movements contributing to humanity's thriving and environmental stewardship. I personally invest and organize special purpose vehicles to co-deploy capital from my values-aligned and value-add network comprised of angels, family offices, funds, strategics, ultra-high-net-worth individuals. Recent opportunities I've been invited by founder partners to advise and invest in include biotech, crypto mining, crypto security, DeFi, DeSci, ESG investing, longevity, psychedelics, Web3. Please get in touch if you’re a founder or investor focused on these missions. samina@saminarind.com +1-954-591-9544

Santos Rodriguez

Publishing visionary and dreamer. Founder and publisher of Nowtilus Publishing (2002) and Argonowt (2022). Cofounder of Plaza Digital (2001), Cofounder and CEO of the pioneer Ecuality ecommerce venture (1999), General Manager at ANAYA MULTIMEDIA and ANAYA INTERACTIVA (1984, 1988). Experience in trade publishing, media licensing, electronic publishing, consumer software, online marketing & ecommerce. Publisher of the “Psychonaut Guides” (www.psychonautguides.news) Committed and passionate about making the science of psychedelics accessible to all. Systematic psychonaut & vocational psychedelic guide. Ham Radio operator (NK2R/EB4B). Enthusiastic explorer & adventurer. Guided in life by science, curiosity and love.

Shii Ann Huang

Shii Ann Huang is an entrepreneur, artist, actor, and a former reality TV star. A graduate of UC Berkeley, NYU's ITP graduate program, and Maggie Flanagan Studios, her academic and creative interests are wide-ranging. Currently, Shii Ann funds her artistic interests and futurist curiosity by running a successful real estate team at Compass in New York City. Her passions run the gamut from NFTs, costume design & immersive theater to ethics and law in a future with AI and Crispr engineered humans

Simon Luling

Co-Founder of Ekonavi, a platform mapping and supporting ecological initiatives in Brazil. Co-Organizer of Tattoo Planetarium, the World's biggest tattoo convention, in Paris at the Grande Halle de la Villette.

Taiye Selasi

Taiye Selasi is, among other lesser things, a storyteller. Born in the UK, raised in the US, educated at Yale and Oxford, Selasi is spectacularly inept at answering the question 'Where are you from?' Instead she's devoted her post-academy recovery to publishing novels, giving TED talks, creating television series, mastering vegan cooking and inventing terms. Two of the latter — 'Afropolitan' and 'Multi-Local' — have touched the lives of millions of people. A storyteller can ask for no more.

Timothy O Connell

Timothy is a pioneer in the European start-up scene both as a serial entrepreneur, investor, business leader and educator. Over the past 10 years he managed over 20 international Accelerator Programs across multiple Industries (Food, Fashion, IoT, Blockchain, Wellness…) that collaborated with 100’s of early-stage startups. As an Innovation & Investor, he is currently a Senior Partner at H-Farm, where he directs Accelerator programs with industry leaders such as Gucci, Vodafone, Generali, Henkel and Cisco. He also represents Europe on the Board of the GAN (Global Accelerator Network) and is a founding partner of the EAS (European Accelerator Summit). As a Business Leader, he is currently Managing Director of Wellness Explorers, an innovative venture builder founded by Technogym, together with his role as co-Founder & Strategy Director at The Tailors, a brand & design agency.

Vika Viktoria

Vika Viktoria is a Ukrainian- American MOTH storyteller and speaker. Savors ballroom dancing, jiu-jitsu, and Taoism. Writing a book about men.

Wendy Miller

I am a psychologist, a psychoanalyst, a couple's therapist and a sex therapist. I have a thriving private practice in NYC and I teach and train as well. Of particular interest to me is helping people in their quest to create connections that are vital, thriving and fluid and facilitate navigating the complicated task of being a deeply connected and sexually alive couple. I am an avid walker and composter. If I had another life, I might become a photo journalist.

Won Hee Chang

Coloratura soprano and academic in exile turned serial entrepreneur and advisor in NLP/search/OTT messaging space, with a special interest in support for displaced populations; martial artist and certified NYS EMT, volunteer crisis text hotline counselor.

Xander Bueno de Mesquita

Developed a circular hotel with a greenhouse in Amsterdam. Currently developing a regeneration area of 500 hectares in Portugal

Adah Parris

I create safe and brave spaces.

Aharon Mohliver

I am a strategy scholar specialising in quantitative research of business ethics and corporate social responsibility at London Business School, with an emphasis on socio-political strategies. My research seeks to help stakeholders understand what drives bad behaviour in firms, and by firms so that the conditions leading to potential costly organizational misconduct can be avoided. I research a wide variety of settings ranging from stock option backdating and financial restatements, to student plagiarism violence in professional sports and violations of health standards in elderly care-homes. In a related research stream I examine how, in a politically polarized world, social mobilisation to support diversity, environmental sustainability and labour safety can in fact push some firms to pollute, discriminate and abuse labour even more. Before joining Academia, I served as the domestic policy advisor for FMP Benjamin Netanyahu (2005-2007) and the heads of the Economics and Government Oversight Committees in Israel.

Alex Beard

Author of Natural Born Learners, Director of the Global Learning Lab at Teach For All

Alicia Bozyk

I am a software engineer at Korai and build high quality, secure, user friendly software. I live in Brooklyn, and love volleyball, rock climbing, and hiking.

Amichai Lau-Lavie

Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie, an Israeli-born scholar, social activist and performance artist, is the Founding Spiritual Leader of Lab/Shul NYC and the creator of the ritual theater co. Storahtelling, Inc.

Andreas Cohen

Tribal leader of the Smart Marketing Data elite. Scientist of life's finer moments.

Bradford Richardson

I am a passionate builder of global business operations for US based companies - transforming culture, localizing brands, engaging cross border teams. I am committed to making a difference through philanthropic and artist engagement.

Carlos Toro

Carlos Toro is the founder of Steer, a multimedia studio specializing in cinematic video production. In 2015 he was awarded the Blue Ocean filmmaker of the year award, by Albert II, Prince of Monaco, for his short film The Edge, which explored humanity’s impact on the natural world. He’s directed and served as underwater cinematographer for several shows for Discovery channel and National Geographic around the issues of ocean health and conservation. His primary motivation has been to leverage the power of film, to bring issues to light around human rights, ocean health and planet sustainability. Carlos is currently executive producing a testimonial series with the United Nations Development Program, to promote the Lion’s Share program, which asks companies who use animal imagery in their marketing to contribute a very small portion of their media spend to worldwide conservation efforts.

Caroline Daniel

Partner at Brunswick Group, covering all things AI, tech, museums, and strategic communications. Former journalist including Editor FT Weekend for six years and White House correspondent at the FT. Curious about where tech meets public policy. Used to read more books. Regret that, alas, I don't now.

Dan Guido

Dan Guido is the CEO of Trail of Bits, a cybersecurity firm he founded in 2012 to address software security challenges with cutting-edge research.

Danielle Yoo

Witty, World Explorer, and dare I say: Gen Z. An LGBTQIA/ BIPOC advocate, Danielle’s experience as an Asian American transgender woman of color lends herself to a calling larger than herself. Inclusivity is at the heart of her values, and thats exactly what drives her work at TikTok as Gen Z’s influence and dominance of this platform continues to drive and shape our rapidly expanding culture as we know it.

Dominique Schiff

Née à Anvers. A toujours chanté. A vécu en Israël, Amérique et est installée à Paris. Etudes de stylisme. Styliste free-lance, a voyagé partout pour la création de collections, Inde, Italie, Corée, Hong-Kong.... Création d'un spectacle musical en 2000 ; "ECLATS de MEMOIRE". Elle s'accompagne de l'accordéon. Elle chante en yiddish et raconte en français, des histoires drôles, des histoires vraies... Participe à de nombreux festivals en France et en Belgique. Création du groupe "HERSHEL ORKESTRA" en 2018. Yiddish plus rock avec son fils, chanteur guitariste et trompettiste. Un bassiste et un batteur. Faire de la musique, chanter et faire la fête, voilà son crédo.

Ezra Hampikian

Ezra builds at the intersection of science and art. Her current creative endeavor is completion of an MPhil in Human Evolution.

Ingrid Rothe

Ingrid leads Global Strategic Partnership Marketing for PayPal’s global Digital Platforms including Facebook, Google, Uber and Airbnb. Her passion for Digital Transformation through change of human behavior have paved her way in executive roles at Universal Music and as co-founder in Digital Media and Publishing. The future of Commerce is collaborative!

Jessie Lam

Jessie Lam is a passionate and active tech investor internationally, with a focus on data-driven technologies. As Partner & COO of Parameter Ventures, a New York-based venture capital firm, she invests in early stage enterprise companies. Jessie has also been a featured speaker on venture capital at leading industry events including TEDx, Collision, and RISE.

Iain Nash

Iain Nash is a creative technologist and engineer. A graduate of USC’s computer engineering program, Iain studied photography and researched interactive design in the final years of university. Upon moving to NYC, Iain continued with both of these interests, completing the School of Poetic Computation and building small experiences for various events, galleries, and artists. Iain’s practice focuses on infrastructure as art through teaching, open source participations, and building infrastructure and tools for artists. Currently, Iain works for Zora, a blockchain media protocol working on projects with Holly Herdon, Rhizome, PleasrDao, and Matthew Ball.

Karim Hajjaji

Karim Hajjaji has an extensive experience and expertise in the financial and banking industry and had held executive roles in Europe, Asia and United States. He is currently the Global Chief Operating Officer and member of the Executive Committee of Santander Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB). Karim is also Chairman or Board Member of different companies of the Group. He is in charge to support the worldwide growth (products and geographies) of the CIB businesses and to lead its transformation (digital and innovation). Formerly, Karim was the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Société Générale Investment Services covering Brokerage, Asset Management, Private Banking and Securities Services. Previously he was Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Executive Committee of SG Americas covering Corporate and Investment Banking in USA, Canada and Latin Americas. Karim started his career in consulting, quantitative research and capital market activities. He is graduated in Engineering and Economics from ENSAE (France). Karim is currently living in London. He is passionate about painting, poetry and philosophy. He is involved in social accomplishments and entrepreneurship mentoring particularly in his country of origin, Tunisia.

Kenneth Chabert

Ted Talking, 3-mile running, mezcal drinking, Harvard educated, social entrepreneur. Coined the term, Powerful First Experiences™️, while living a life full of them.

Kevin Balktick

KEVIN BALKTICK is a New York-based producer, creative director, and cultural entrepreneur focused on live experiences and hospitality. He is driven by a passion to create gatherings that bring inspiration and a touch of magic into the lives of their communities. Over the last fourteen years, his oeuvre has included parties, festivals, concerts, conferences, exhibitions, and experiences that defy description, in locations as varied as churches, warehouses, fortresses, libraries, mansions, prisons, universities, city streets, and the great outdoors. His work has been featured in The New York Times, National Public Radio, The New Yorker, Vogue, WWD, Vice, Hospitality Design, Wired, NHT (Japan), The Guardian (UK), Ha’aretz (Israel), and other publications.

Laurence Ainouz

Mirrors. Chocolate. Sourdough. Investor. Emergency medicine. Recovered corporate executive.

Leah Siegel

Artist

Lina Plioplyte

Lina is Emmy, Clio and Silver Lion awarded documentary filmmaker and cameraperson with work spanning commercials, portraits of interesting people, travel stories, branded and feature documentaries. Her passions are no-trash lifestyle, celebration of Earth through cultures and storytelling, and bringing about the gender equality in uplifting female experiences. Her passions reflect in her films and on the film sets, as she's championing green film movement.

Mo Lishomwa

I am a digital strategist, product manager and owner, and business person with a passion for mentoring and supporting young people. Having passions for art, science, technology and music, I have had a pretty varied career. Some of what I've done includes R&D on the database which powers the BBC i-player. Building Yahoo! Personals which is now Match.com and Meetic in France. Launching a digital business unit for adidas, building a consultancy withnin Adobe, and now advising & leading tech procurement on digital business transformation for corporate and non for profits. As well as launching a green tech business in Southern Africa.

Olivia Judson

Writer, scientist, lover of life in all its forms.

Olivier MOULIERAC

52, Napoleon's co-founder, danish mother, two kids, curious!

Oshrit Aviv

A tech-lawyer, data and tech compliance-by-design expert, running a consulting company in the space (www.entero.io), and sometimes writing about it in academic magazines. Also heading a strategic partnerships department for a cyber-security company, and part of the leadership of a non-profit alliance handling market self regulation for ad-tech and online monetization space (www.cleansoftware.net). I am passionate about technology, innovation, science, travels, cultures, art, food and photography and as part of my side gigs you can find: my travel & photography blog (www.fomoshi.com), Milk & Cookies friends meetups (https://sites.google.com/entero.io/mnc/home) and Artuality events (art-tech expositions).

Pablo Rodriguez

Pablo Rodriguez is a creative entrepreneur, business leader, and computer scientist. He is a Director at Google´s Office of the CTO (OCTO). He was founding CEO at Alpha, Europe's first moonshot factory, and Ambassador for [X] — Google’s Moonshot Factory. Developing 10x science projects that will affect 100 Million+ people, be a force for good on the planet, and grow into new impactful businesses. He is an AI Ethics Board member to the Spanish Government, and has published a best selling book on Artificial Intelligence — how it will change the world around you and your life. His innovation work is also featured in the "Non-bullshit innovation" book by the founding editor of WIRED. He has more than 200 publications and 30 patent inventions. Pablo loves to play inside the chaos, alchemise tensions, and is passionate about the inner innovator journey from belief to impact.

Paula Rae Gibson

Paula Rae Gibson is a photographer and musician from the UK. She has had three books published of her deeply personal work, exploring anguish, grief ,loss and beauty. She is also a singer -songwriter, renowned for her lyricism and ethereal work.She approaches both mediums with bold expressiveness. Paula lives in London with her daughter.

Philippe Casidanus

Né à Paris. Etudes de théâtre à Vincennes. Passe 2 ans au Gabon, il comprend la force des marionnettes traditionnelles. Achète le Guignol des Champs-Elysées à la famille Guentleur, installée là depuis 1818. Nombreux festivals dans le monde entier avec son castelet portatif ; Australie, Inde, Japon, Egypte, Israël, Naples, Corée, Belgique etc.... Est nommé chevalier des Arts et Lettres Born in Paris, studied Theater, Philippe spent 2 years in Gabon. He understands the strength of traditional puppets. Bought the Guignol des Champs-Elysées from the Guentleur family, established there since 1818. Numerous festivals around the world with its portable castelet; Australia, India, Japan, Egypt, Israel, Naples, Korea, Belgium etc ... Awarded the title of Chevalier des Arts et des lettres

Pierre Renom

Trading of fixed income assets and global team management until 2012. 2015 : Design and Innovation Master (ENSCI France) 2018: Co-founder of Gebel Ltd. Digital assets trading

Romaric Rollet

I have a strong IT profile (from dev to architecture) in various domains. I'm very curious of new technologies in a "maker" mode. As such, I strongly support the maker approach to enable all the added-value of technology. By the way, I love chatting on any topic with others.

Shii Ann Huang

Shii Ann Huang is an entrepreneur, artist, actor, and a former reality TV star. A graduate of UC Berkeley, NYU's ITP graduate program, and Maggie Flanagan Studios, her academic and creative interests are wide-ranging. Currently, Shii Ann funds her artistic interests and futurist curiosity by running a successful real estate team at Compass in New York City. Her passions run the gamut from NFTs, costume design & immersive theater to ethics and law in a future with AI and Crispr engineered humans

Simon Luling

Co-Founder of Ekonavi, a platform mapping and supporting ecological initiatives in Brazil. Co-Organizer of Tattoo Planetarium, the World's biggest tattoo convention, in Paris at the Grande Halle de la Villette.

Susan MacTavish Best

Susan is the Founder of Posthoc. Posthoc hosts salons for curious people in NYC/LA/London and beyond. A salon is a curated gathering of people - food & drink, conversation and music.

Won Hee Chang

Coloratura soprano and academic in exile turned serial entrepreneur and advisor in NLP/search/OTT messaging space, with a special interest in support for displaced populations; martial artist and certified NYS EMT, volunteer crisis text hotline counselor.

Xander Bueno de Mesquita

Xander’s manifesto 'Treating Life Well' is a blueprint for creating human centered experiences for the 21st-century which combine hospitality with circularity and communities. Among other things Xander is the founder of QO hotel Amsterdam, one of the most sustainable hotels in the world and the first hotel being a fully circular building with a high-tech greenhouse on its rooftop to close the circles, including Hydro and Aquaponics. Xander Bueno de Mesquita develops future-proof places that bring a positive impact to the neighborhoods around them and the world as a whole.

A Dara Dotz

Dara known as the “MacGyver of Warzones,” combines her design strategy experience and rapid ethnographic assessment skills to empower others through technology. Dara is a pioneer in using design and exponential technologies to solve challenges in austere environments. She has studied, lived, and worked and in over 45 countries designing tangible solutions for vulnerable populations both on and off earth.

Adah Parris

I create safe and brave spaces.

Alejandro De Angulo

Colombian Civil Engineer, with studies in Finances, Strategy and Risk Management. I believe it’s time to build a better world and I want to be part of it

Alex Zhang

Alex Zhang is the artistic and creative director of Summit, a thriving community of multi-disciplinary leaders. Summit hosts events that bring together leaders in surreal environments designed to catalyze positive personal and collective growth. At Summit, Alex Zhang leads the creative production team in immersive event design and curates the Art program through both programming and site specific art installations. I In addition, Alex is also the curator for Powder Mountain, a ski resort and mountain town in Northern Utah centered around art, community, and culture.

Alexandre Kouchner

I am a political analyst by training, a journalist by passion and a consultant in communication and strategy by curiosity. As an editorial consultant, I try to identify promising profiles, innovators and thinkers who can have a real impact on the world and help them present their ideas and actions. As a teacher at Sciences Po, I seek to share my passion for writing. As a journalist, I am co-editor in chief of Européens and I contribute to prospective magazines like Usbek & Rica and L'ADN. I believe in promoting new solutions and lasting positive change and that the best is yet to come !

Alon Rozen

I love reading, learning, sharing ideas, creativity sessions, discovering other people's life journeys, languages, tennis, surfing and wine. By day, Dean of Ecole des Ponts Business School and Prof. of Innovation. Extensive consulting and teaching experience, and over 20 years of founding, running or being involved in startups. As a professor, mentor, angel investor, trainer and consultant in innovation and entrepreneurship, this has taken me to Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and the Middle East. My academic hat includes research in areas like the wine ecosystem in the face of globalization (best research ever!), dynamic business modeling, entrepreneurial ecosystems, new business models, potential applications of circular economy models, social impact investing, inclusive business models and agile methods in management. By night, proud father of two and husband

Alyssa Petersel

Alyssa Petersel is the founder and CEO of My Wellbeing, which connects seekers who struggle to find appropriate mental health care with compatible providers.

Amandine Roche

Amandine Roche is a Human Right/Women empowerment expert with almost 20 years of experience with United Nations in conflict contexts. She is also an award winning author, a photographer, a yoga and mindfulness teacher specialist in emotional intelligence, meditation and conscious leadership. She is the founder of the Amanuddin Foundation in Afghanistan that develops the culture of peace and promote wellness to prisoners, women, soldiers, and kids. She is also created the Inner Peace Corps to implement in Middle East, the inner peace keeping program she has designed for humanitarians and refugees, suffering of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, burnout, depression and anxiety.

Amber Lee

CEO & Co-Founder of content studio @VisualCountry. Single mom to Ben. World Traveler. Rollerblader. #NYC #LA

Andreas Cohen

Tribal leader of the Smart Marketing Data elite. Scientist of life's finer moments.

Andreas Gebhard

Founder & CEO re:publica

Andrew Shearer

Farmer, Founder and CEO of Farmshelf, Love building things that empower people to create more and working to feed the world. Alum of Twitter, Pinterest, Wells Fargo and Pepperdine University. Based in Brooklyn.

Andrus Aaslaid

Mostly an engineer, sometimes an artist. For most part of my life I have been "giving machines a soul" and that has led me to quite diverse array of projects, from space communications to writing a libretto for an opera.

Annelies Jansen

Curious and brave mind in the Multiverse. Traveled the world and the 7 seas to land 'at home' in LA.

Antoine Pin

I have worked for 20 years in the luxury industry, from watches and jewelry to fashion, and had the chance to live in multiple countries, from Switzerland to Japan and Chine. I am still eager to discover new horizons and hear about ways to build a bright future.

Beatriz Guerra Alvarez

Born in Spain, Beatriz studied Mathematics and Economics in Madrid and London, where she lived for 10 years working in start ups and the financial and legal industries. Currently a BD director in Madrid in an international law firm. A creative mind, she is a poetry writer. Enthusiastic and positive, Beatriz is an arts and photography lover also interested in science, technology, philosophy and Lacanian psychoanalysis. She is keen to embrace and contribute to all forms of innovative, irreverent thinking and challenging initiatives that may lead us to foster deeper self consciousness and responsible ways to create a better world. “We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are”

Bella Pollen

Writer / journalist Pollen has contributed to a variety of publications including American Vogue, the Economist and the Financial Times. Author of five novels on a broad spectrum of subjects from the Cold War to the immigration issues of the US/Mexican Border. Her memoir Meet Me In the In -Between was published in 2017. Pollen is one of the founders of Operaçion Michoacan, a non-profit organization bringing free health care to Mexico’s Purépecha Indians in Mexico and is involved with Marefat, a school for girls and boys in Afghanistan. Currently working on a story about the identification of missing migrants found in the desert. Curious about pretty much everything.

Bontle Senne

I am am author, activist, Agilist, and African. I currently lead Deutsche Bank's global Agile transformation in Corporate and Investment Banking. Prior to that, I spent 5 years at Mckinsey and Company Johannesburg where I left as the co-lead of Mckinsey Africa's Agile practice. Prior to that, I was the MD for an edtech NGO focussing on using technology to advance distribution of indigenous language children's books. I continue to work with various African education NGOs.

Bradford Richardson

I am a passionate builder of global business operations for US based companies - transforming culture, localizing brands, engaging cross border teams. I am committed to making a difference through philanthropic and artist engagement.

Brenda Asnicar

Argentinean artist, started working since the age of 11, I have worked as an actress, as a singer, fashion designing , styling homes, people and carnivals. Due to my profession I have lived in many countries like Mexico, US, Italy and now Colombia, making tours and working for Disney Channel on a TV show. The diversity of the experiences and places I’ve been, made me who I am, and make me understand that we are ONE. I think that humans should participate more in regenerating the Earth, instead of ruining it. Trying to find the way for empowering artists to follow their dreams. I love my profession because I discovered that I can connect souls and hearts for a good reason.

Carla Boeckman

I have worked with brilliant innovators in nanotechnology, biomedicine, engineering and neuroscience, translating ideas into action in Europe, the US and Australia. I am an alumni of the National Science Foundation, several startup companies and the World Economic Forum, where I developed the Technology Pioneers program in Davos. I studied mathematics, international economics and Latin America.

Caroline Daniel

Partner at Brunswick Group, covering all things AI, tech, museums, and strategic communications. Former journalist including Editor FT Weekend for six years and White House correspondent at the FT. Curious about where tech meets public policy. Used to read more books. Regret that, alas, I don't now.

Carolyn O Hare

Carolyn is passionate about increasing accessibility to nutritious and healthful foods for all. COO at Tiny Organics, alum of Beyond Meat and FIJI Water.

Catherine Carlton

An investor in impact technologies and an advisor for various international start-up companies, Catherine has served as a Menlo Park City Councilmember in Silicon Valley since 2012, elected as Mayor 2014 - 2015. Catherine worked in the TV and tech industries in the UK and Asia, helping found various international companies, including Digital Island, SearchBank, and Equant. In Silicon Valley, Catherine served as Vice President of CFLD, co-founded Peninsula Clean Energy, authored successful California State human trafficking bills, and sits on various corporate, non-profit and government boards of directors. Catherine has a BA from Tulane, MA from the University of Westminster, and MBA from the Cass Business School in London. She also has a parrot, dog, bearded dragon, three chickens and two children-- not necessarily in that order.

Cedric Mateosyan

Entrepreneur and investor focused on conscious innovation

Céline Godin

Ex Big data builder dpt at TF1 Group Phd Cognitive psychology applied to AI to become In between, I am a shaman from the dhakat tribe.

Chen Raviv

Chen Raviv, Partnerships and Marketing Lead at Digital Lift – monday.com‘s philanthropy arm. Chen has a vast experience in social entrepreneurship and tech, he is the co-founder of “Change a world” NGO in Israel that solves healthcare problems among underserved communities, he joined monday.com two years ago to build the social impact initiative of the company. He has led the company’s mission to Moldova, working with the UNDP and the local government to harness technology into good since the war in Ukraine started

Chris Paine

Chris is a filmmaker best known for his documentaries "Who Killed the Electric Car", "Revenge of the Electric Car" and most recently "Do You Trust this Computer?" about artificial intelligence. Chris serves on the board of the environmental/social justice organization Friends of the Earth, advises the blockchain startup Orchid Protocol, and is a longtime member of Impro Theater in Los Angeles.

Chris Wray

Chris is co-founder of legal-tech firm Mattereum, ophthalmic lens technology firm Adlens, and the Centre for Vision in the Developing World.

Claudia Bobadilla

Board director at energy, telecom and industrial companies in Chile and at scientific organisations in USA and Australia. Love poetry, travelling, cooking, dancing. Essentially life.

Claudia Olsson

Claudia Olsson is the CEO and Founder of Stellar Capacity, a global education company specialized in providing strategic advice, analysis and professional development related to digital transformation. Her work focuses on the impact of new technologies on citizens, society, leadership and global markets. She is a member of the High Level Industrial Roundtable "Industry 2030" at the European Commission, co-authoring the vision for Industry 2030 for the European Union. Claudia is also co-authoring the strategic innovation agenda for the Swedish Steel and Metal industry with a particular focus on the possibilities of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Claudia is a member of the Global Future Council on Values, Ethics and Innovation at the World Economic Forum. She has served as an Associate Faculty at Singularity University as well as a Senior Advisor to the Office of Strategic Analysis at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Sweden. She previously set up and managed the policy think-tank ACCESS Health International in Singapore, following her work for ACCESS in India and her assignment with the United Nations, Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in the USA. Claudia has been appointed a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum as well as a David Rockefeller Fellow at the Trilateral Commission and has been selected as one of the 40 under 40 European Young Leaders by Friends of Europe. Claudia authored the Sweden 2030 scenario for the Digitalization Commission of the Government of Sweden and she has also co-authored the report "Blockchain-decentralized trust". More information about Claudia's work is available on: www.claudiaolsson.com

Colin Payne

A highly experienced digital leader with an international, award-winning portfolio. Based on twenty five years at the leading edge of technology and change, I inspire teams with an open, dynamic style, motivating them to deliver world-class, innovative solutions. With a strong track-record of high profile success stories, I bring a unique blend of cross sector skills to focus on NextGen

Cynthia Hansen

Following a career in the private, and non-profit sectors, Cynthia Hansen joined the Adecco Group to head the new Adecco Group Foundation and spearhead thought leadership. Cynthia’s areas of expertise include strategy, change management, social impact and partnership. Prior to joining the Adecco Group, she spent nine years at the World Economic Forum, in leadership roles across Strategic Partnerships, Professional Services, Financial Services, Civil Society, and Content Strategy. Previous roles include Director of Management Consultancy at boutique consulting firm Action Planning, Director of the US State Department’s International Visitor program for the State of Washington under the World Affairs Council, and Head of Admissions for Amity Institute. Cynthia has served on a number of non-profit boards including the Center for Women and Democracy, EU Consult, and The Internationalist magazine. In addition, she was an official delegate of a Washington State women’s mission to Cuba, an election monitor in Jordan under the auspices of the National Democratic Institute, and a Global Leadership Fellow at the World Economic Forum. Cynthia holds an MSc in Management of NGOs from the London School of Economics, and a double BA (Hons) in Asian Studies and English/Literature from the University of Puget Sound.

Daniela Bartos

Daniela is a passionate educator, thinker, innovator and explorer. She started her project, hip.academy, in 2014, focused on designing and delivering innovative experiential programmes for (mostly creative) industry professionals, such as residential retreats (the first season was in Tuscany). Daniela is an accredited educational programme specialist, holding a BA and MA degree in continuing education science (alongside her other BA degree in communication policy), won several prestigious leadership scholarships and pursued a successful career in the media and communication field. Daniela has worked, internationally, as a journalist, media analyst, consultant, advisor and academic. Mostly based in London, she has lived in eight countries. She is currently lecturing communication, researching future of work, giving workshops on emotional intelligence and purposeful life, mentoring talented entrepreneurs, organizing retreats and advising on the socio-cultural innovation to organisations and ecosystem communities.

Danielle Yoo

Witty, World Explorer, and dare I say: Gen Z. An LGBTQIA/ BIPOC advocate, Danielle’s experience as an Asian American transgender woman of color lends herself to a calling larger than herself. Inclusivity is at the heart of her values, and thats exactly what drives her work at TikTok as Gen Z’s influence and dominance of this platform continues to drive and shape our rapidly expanding culture as we know it.

David Myatt

David is a brand expressionist. A business strategist. A storyteller. A graphic design craftsman. An idea generator. An iconsmith. A relationship builder. Some say dreamer; others, a problem solver. He loves crafting creative solutions to business and communications problems — the bigger and more complex the challenge, the more exciting he finds it. He has spent his career creating distinctive brands and communications for local, regional and global brands, including: Coast Casinos, DirectTV, Disney, Eat24, Exxon Mobil, Fair Trade USA, Geico, HP, Jack in the Box, Kaiser Permanente, Microsoft, Nike, Northrop Grumman, Reno Tahoe Nevada Tourism Board, San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Stanford University, The New School, Time Warner, WBros. His hand stretches across most of the mediums you can think of that play a role in effective, strategic brand development and communications. He loves shoes and lives with his wife Michele in San Francisco.

Despina Mouzaki

Despina Mouzaki is a Producer and Director of Films and Audiovisual Works, founder of the companies ALIPNOOS SA, BREAKING WAVE LTD, CINEGRAM SA, CINEGRAM CAIRO FILM & TV PRODUCTIONS. She is also a Professor at the Aristotle University’s School of Film, as well as the Dean of the School of Fine Arts at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She earned her BS in Chemistry at the University of Patras and her ΜS in Film Production at Boston University. She continued with postgraduate studies in Filmmaking under Richard Leacock and Interactive Technologies and Art at MIT’s Media Lab in Boston. She completed the Film Finance and Marketing Program at the Media Business School in Rhonda, Spain. In 1998, Despina Mouzaki was appointed to the post of Vice-President and Associate Director of the Greek Film Center. She was the Director of the Thessaloniki International Festival from 2005 to 2010. During her term, she established several innovative programs—the Crossroads Co-production Forum, the Agora Film Market, the Salonica Studio Training Workshop, the Digital Wave Competition Program, the SEE (South Eastern Europe) Cinema Network—and she also created the Masterclasses Section and TIFF’s Bilingual Publications with original texts by important filmmakers and cinema theorists. As the President of Aristotle University’s School of Film, she has signed collaboration agreements with CERN, UNHCR and several universities and international film schools.

Diana Saliceti

Edward Vessel

Dr. Vessel is a Senior Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA) in Frankfurt, Germany. His research group uses behavioral and brain imaging techniques to study the psychological and neural basis of aesthetic experiences, such as when a person is aesthetically “moved” by visual art, poetry, architecture, music, or natural landscapes. Through his work and service, Dr. Vessel aims to elevate the international profile of neuroaesthetics research: he is a board member of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, and recently hosted a conference on Visual Neuroaesthetics at the MPIEA. He received his PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Southern California and is former co-director of the New York University Artlab.

Edward Zaydelman

My Story: Grew up in New York, the son of Russian Immigrants with a thirst for philosophy and wisdom as well as experiential events. Later I moved to Costa Rica to open a Retreat Center & Community and now we are creating a network of 50 + Centers globally to help people connect to wisdom, to each other, to themselves. I've loved experiential events and learning whether 30 prs retreat or a 7000 event i organized in NYC, its always about the transformation experience.

Elena Alvarez Baron

Passionate about people and science. Neuroscientist by training, left the labs to join the biotech world where I have been working for the last 10 years as strategic consultant and medical affairs expert. Enjoy conversations where science becomes fiction and fiction becomes progress. Wine and food lover, I was born in Spain, lived in Germany and I am currently based in Switzerland.

Fanny Nusbaum

Doctor in Psychology, Associate Researcher in Psychology and Neuroscience at Lyon University, President of Centre PSYRENE and of the PSYRENE for Intelligence Endowment Fund, Artificial Intelligence training at MIT Management, Author of the book "Les Philo-cognitifs, Ils n'aiment que penser et penser autrement".

Federico Pistono

Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Author. Dancer, Burner. I invest in what can solve big problems quickly, and tell the story in books and TV.

Gabriel Jones

Gabriel leads Proprio, a breakthrough computer vision company leveraging mixed reality, robots, and AI to bring the future of medicine a little closer to today.

Gillian Ferrabee

Gillian began her career at 21 as a professional dancer and actor. For 20 years she toured Europe and North America on stage, as well as performing in TV series, movies and hundreds of commercials. In 2004, she joined Cirque du Soleil as a casting scout and advisor, working on productions such as ‘The Bealtes’ Love’. In 2012, she became the Creative Director of Cirque du Soleil Media, overseeing projects for film, television and VR/AR; including the Emmy-award winning VR short KURIOS, the Netflix show Luna Petunia and Movi Kanti Revo for google chrome. In 2018, Gillian founded the innovation agency Kite Parade with her husband, Erik Iversen.

Gregory Mihalcheon

Hedi Mardisoo

Founder and CEO of Cachet, a personalised insurance marketplace, and a wallet. Cachet is changing the traditional insurance model by putting the person to the center point. An entrepreneurial leader with more than a decade of experience at the intersection of technology, communication, and marketing. Fields of interests: data & people, resilience thinking and behavior psychology, how to engage people and build habits.

Helen Lõhmus

Multi-platform producer, designer, and creative director and mom of 2 boys.

Holly Morse

Holly Morse is a mother, author and entrepreneur born in Bangkok, Thailand and raised in Pebble Beach, California. She attended The American School in Switzerland and Wheaton College. Her great-grandfather S.F.B. Morse II was the founder of The Pebble Beach Company which developed and owned much of the Monterey Peninsula and launched Holly into her real estate career. For over a decade, Holly was one of the top commercial real estate brokers with Cushman & Wakefield, representing companies such as Disney Feature Animation, MTV and Miramax from coast to coast. When her sons were born, Holly authored a guide book for parents in the DC Metro Area, City Baby DC, which was published by Rizzoli & Random House and is now on its third edition. Off the success of her book, Holly wrote for The Washingtonian, DC Magazine and The Washington Post in addition to having a weekly segment on ABC7. Holly relocated to Austin in the Fall of 2015 with her husband Spencer Wells, and is Managing Director of Shambhala Expeditions, a luxury travel company. Holly is an avid traveler, loves to cook (and eat), and most importantly loves spending time with her family.

Irina Bolychevsky

A fan of later Wittgenstein, Iain McGilchrist and Oatly. Advocates for open digital infrastructure and decentralisation, consults as a digital strategist and expert on data, data trusts, identity, standards and privacy. Led the [ckan](http://ckan.org/) open source data platform to international adoption. On board of [Open Knowledge](https://okfn.org/). Developed the personal data infrastructure programme within the UK’s Government Digital Service. Wrote data policy and standards for cities and nation states.

John Clippinger

John Henry Clippinger is a co-founder of The Token Commons Foundation, and Research Scientist at the MIT Media Lab City Science Group. He was Co-Director of The Law Lab (www.lawlab.org) at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard Law School. Interested in decentralized governance and finance and micro-monetary policies. Dr. Clippinger is co-editor From Bitcoin to Burning Man and Beyond; The Quest for Identity and Autonomy in Digital Society, the author of A Crowd of One: The Future of Individual Identity (He has been a member of the World Economic Forum Global Advisory Council, Santa Fe Institute, Aspen Institute, Highlands Forum, Yale CEO Summit, Dubai Futures Forum, Aspen Italia, TII/Vanguard, and others. Dr. Clippinger is a graduate of Yale University and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.

John Marx

John Marx, AIA, is the founding design principal of Form4 Architecture in San Francisco, CA. He advocates for Philosophy, Art, and Poetry in the thoughtful making of place, using the compelling power of form, always aware that architecture is a balancing act between self expression and collaboration. In addition, John is a part time student of Absurdity, Paradox, and Kindness.

JP Rangaswami

Grandfather-in-training. Still learning about everything else while I do that.

Julia Barrett

I specialize in strategic growth and program management, currently working for the Republic of Estonia to help grow its e-Residency program. Other passions include adventure, social enterprise, emerging markets and ICT4D through IoT, 3D printing and solar technologies. I travel. I also like to walk across countries.

Karim Jalbout

Karim is a partner at Egon Zehnder in their Technology Practice. He advises Board/C-suite/founders on a range of leadership services. He also leads Egon Zehnder's internal machine learning platform. Prior he was Global Head of Propositions & Sales at Sony Ericsson Mobile, where he led early investments in the Android platform. Previously at Diageo across different marketing roles and markets. He is a frequent speaker at NOAH, CogX, Founders Forum on "human judgment & AI”, “leadership with purpose” and “the potential in entrepreneurs".

Kate Belew

Kate Belew is a Brooklyn Based poet and writer from the Midwest. She believes in Witches, Plants, Motorcycles and her Blue Heeler named Banjo.

Kathryn Myronuk

STEAM driven synthesist focused on science education, SDG startups, and failure modes of experts. Was founding team & mentor at SingularityU

Kenneth Chabert

Ted Talking, 3-mile running, mezcal drinking, Harvard educated, social entrepreneur. Coined the term, Powerful First Experiences™️, while living a life full of them.

Khaled Ben Jilani

I was a developper, now a VC investor. I like supporting companies that can change the future of Africa. I also advocate for more inclusiveness in Africa through better laws and better governance.

Klint Janulis

Klint is a former enlisted US Special Forces soldier, combat medic, and survival instructor with a background in Palaeoanthropology and geology. He is currently finishing his Doctoral research in prehistoric archaeology at the University of Oxford. Klint’s research blends experimental archaeology with cognitive studies to understand the evolution of human cognition and intelligence through an understanding of the tools early humans made and how they used them to hunt and trap. Klint has a talent for relaying the epic tale of human evolution in an accessible manner and has been interviewed by numerous media outlets and has hosted for both UK and US based television shows. In addition to his academic work he has recently written an informational children’s book on human prehistory for DK books and also contributed to their “Encyclopaedia of Everything”. Klint also works as a logistics and prehistoric technology consultant for media productions that focus on natural history and human evolution. His research takes him across the globe, which allows him to use his experience with remote fieldwork and photography in a number of different archaeological applications, but his passion is food origins. His side research is into the prehistory of the diverse palate of ingredients, techniques and recipes available to the modern cook on which he is currently writing a book.

Kristina Libby

Loves big ideas and big imaginations. Kristina Libby is a professor, business consultant, author, podcast host and researcher. Her career has spanned cybersecurity, AI, consumer tech, luxury goods, e-commerce, food aid and entrepreneurship. Currently she's producing and a hosting a podcast for Popular Mechanics on Cyberwarfar, teaching at NYU and launching a luxury consumer goods company.

Laurence Ainouz

Mirrors. Chocolate. Sourdough. Investor. Emergency medicine. Recovered corporate executive.

Leah Siegel

Artist

Maaike Engels

Creative director, video-artist & documentary maker. Currently at Rabobank, where I , as a program maker at Rabo Art Lab. A 'Free space' within the bank where we invite artists for a residency and explore societal transitions together. Art as knowledge, as a source of critical reflection and fundamental renewal in the day-to-day business of a large company... connecting those worlds.

Maria Tanjala

Maria Tanjala is an entrepreneur, filmmaker and sociologist. CEO of FilmChain, delivering real-time payments to the film and TV industry, secured by blockchain technology, she bridges an opaque and traditional industry with transparent fintech solutions.

Mel Rosenberg

Born in Canada, lives in Israel. Writes children's books. Invents things. Plays music and sings. Can't whistle or draw. Co-founder of www.ourboox.com, a self-publishing and author discovery platform

Michael Beneville

Michael Beneville is a storyteller. He works across all scales and is agnostic to medium. Michael and his Beneville Studios team specialize in realizing the visions and telling the stories of their clients, whether individuals, families or corporations. Michael Beneville is the Chief Creative Officer and visionary leader behind AREA15, a 250,000-square-foot reinvention of immersive art, entertainment, retail opening in Las Vegas in early 2020. Michael and the Beneville Studios team have been creative consultants for the award-winning New York City headquarters of iHeartMedia, the completely reimagined entrance to the Empire State Building Observatory, the lounges for BLADE helicopters in both New York and Miami, and the Warner Music Group offices in Los Angeles. Today, the firm’s purview includes millions of square feet of design and projects that span the globe.

Michele Anderson

Michele’s strongest business passions and contributions lie in scaling and pivoting businesses and driving growth. Over her career she has held executive positions in the Ecommerce, Technology, Media and Entertainment, and Wine sectors. She has also been an entrepreneur and worked in hospitality as a Sommelier. The hardest thing she has done to date is become a Master of Wine. She lives in San Francisco with her husband David

Natasha Tsakos

Natasha Tsakos is known for pioneering ways of integrating technology with live performance. She has produced and created nine multimedia shows, including two for the Discovery Channel, opened the G20 summit, Tribeca Film Festival, performed at the Super Bowl with Cirque du Soleil, is a Singularity University alumni, and has shared her vision at the TED Conference, IBM Summit, Google, the United Nations General Assembly, amongst others. She has written twelve scripts and plays including a full length cartoon for Nickelodeon and “COLOURS a nonsense” which won the Benjamin Franklin Digital Award. She is passionate about the language of interactivity between the imaginary and the real, and creating extraordinary experiences on Earth and beyond.

Nicolas Balbontin

Nicolas is a content creator with more than 10+ years experience creating purposeful, high-impact content across multiple platforms. [ Nicolas is a content creator with more than 10 years experience creating purposeful, high-impact content across multiple platforms.] Originally from Chile, Nicolas moved to New York to study business at Baruch College. [ Originally from Chile, Nicolas moved to New York to study business at Baruch College.] He worked for 7 years as a freelance Editor for Grey, BBDO, McGarrybowen and Publicis, where he made commercials for Discovery, History Channel, Blue Moon, and Nissan and other leading brands. Later Nicolas worked as Executive Producer and Editor for the comedy web series Gringolandia, which was sold to Netflix and currently reaches over 5 million views worldwide. After living 10 years in New York, Nicolas moved back to Chile and co-founded Nano, a digital agency focused on producing viral content for brands. For 3 years he directed, edited and produced more than 800 comedy videos. Today Nano has reached over 190 million views by creating content for more than 5 major brands in Latin-America: Sky Airlines, Happen, WOM, Escudo, and The National Bank

Nicole Büttner-Thiel

Nicole is an entrepreneur in the machine learning space and passionate about bringing digital technologies to serve companies, government and society.

Nikki Beach

Nicolette Beach was born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania and commenced formal art training at the San Francisco Art Institute where during the tumultuous social upheaval of the early 80s she held fast to her masterful representational painting style. Nicolette has established herself as a resourceful creative and innovative force as she is presently the proprietor of an exclusive architectural model building enterprise regarded by many as one of the best in the country. Nikki’s creativity is a point of social reference having been documented in publications around the world.

Pablo Lobo

Pablo Martins, CEO and founder of STHORM Human adVentures, is a radical entrepreneur dedicated to implementing far-reaching impact ventures by integrating technology and deep thinking with profound understanding of contemporary social-dynamics. With a professional background in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber-Ideologies, Entertainment and Cultural Studies, Martins keeps focused on the social aspect related to the progress & implementation of DLT and most importantly its applications for greater human impact and transformation.

Patrick Podejko

Geospatial Intelligence Analyst working across the globe in Uganda, UK, Poland, U.S., Middle East and Asia. Specializing in global affairs, remote sensing, data analysis, data visualization, GIS. Passionate about criminal justice, urban development, smart cities, current events and humanitarian efforts. A true adventurer at heart, always seeking new ways in which technology can help to better society. Recently spearheading NYC’s efforts to utilize data to reduce the number of fatalities due to traffic collisions. His team builds the visualization data infrastructure for the city of New York.

Peter Brady

Peter is the Business Director of GSMA and 4YFN, my passion is to build responsible, sustainable and impactful events in the world of TMT and entrepreneurship. Now living in Barcelona, prior to that in Hong Kong for 4 years with plenty of tie in Shanghai and Beijing, and before that in London. I have overseen or created events, forums and events in over 40 countries, welcoming in excess of 1 million attendees from across the technology ecosystem. Look forward to my second Kinnernet

Rae Richman

Rae is passionate about facilitating community-based transformative experiences to address the social challenges of our times. She is a cross-sector leader with twenty years of experience providing strategic consulting and facilitation services to organizations of all sizes, including family and corporate foundations, leading nonprofits and a wide range of Fortune 500 corporations. As the first Head of Global Citizenship of Airbnb, she was responsible for activating all of the company’s assets for social good and launched their Diversity and Inclusion work. Before joining Airbnb, she was the Vice President of the Bay Area office of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA). A twenty-three year Burner, Rae was a Board Member of the Black Rock Arts Foundation, a founding Board Member of the Burning Man Project and a consultant to the organization.

Rio Mohan Dluzak

I am an entrepreneur, a researcher, and a science literacy advocate. I work and play at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience, developmental psychology, education, and systems thinking. I believe that one of the single most valuable things we can do to improve human decision-making is to improve mental health functioning. Towards that end, my current focus is in investigating effective approaches in the early education environment to best prepare children for their own future. I’m also interested in connecting with people and learning about other approaches and ideas to transform the world.

Roderick van Nispen

Roderick van Nispen just finished his high school in Amsterdam. He will be studying International Business Administration at the Rotterdam School of Management after the summer. Roderick wants to become an entrepreneur and is looking very much forward meeting all of you in Avalon and helping out the Kinnernet team creating this fantastic event.

Sam Glassenberg

Building teams and companies that push the cutting-edge of video games - from Hollywood to healthcare. Former LucasFilm, Microsoft. Currently advancing the practice of medicine using video game technology and design.

Sara Roversi

Sara Roversi, is a serial entrepreneur and ecosystem builder; founder of the Future Food Network, operating globally in education, food sustainability, radical change and tangible impact driven innovation from farm to fork.

Shaukat Shamim

Shaukat Shamim is the founder & CEO of Youplus. Founded by team of serial entrepreneurs Youplus has created the world’s first “Video Opinion Search Engine”. Prior to Youplus, Shaukat was the founder and CEO of Buysight, a performance marketing company that was acquired by AOL. Prior to Buysight, Shaukat was the founder of Rhythm Newmedia, one of the first mobile advertising companies that merged with Blinx and subsequently went public as RhythmOne (RTHM:Lon). Shaukat was an early member of the Yahoo! team (from 1997, where he led the creation of one of the first messaging platforms, Yahoo messenger). Shaukat was also a partner at Neocarta Ventures, a $300m early stage venture fund based in Silicon Valley.

Shii Ann Huang

Shii Ann Huang is an entrepreneur, actor, artist and a former reality TV star. She funds her artistic interests and futurist curiosity by running a successful real estate team in New York City. Her passions run the gamut from costume design and immersive theater to the ethics and law in a future with sex robots and Crispr engineered humans.

Sophie Chretien

#PositiveParenting , #FutureOfEducation , #MakeItHappen , #SeeLifeInPink , #ConnectPeople , #HappyLife , #CosmeticsAddict

Sophie Lanoë

Curator, expert, mentor, author. ("un prix ça n'a pas de prix ! "decrypts awards of contemporary art). I like to imagine and create programs, cultural trainings to build bridges between the different interlocutors of the contemporary creation, through my platform , a new media of the Art, incubator of ideas and artistic projects.

Spencer Wells

Spencer Wells is a geneticist, anthropologist, author and entrepreneur. For over a decade he was an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society and Director of the Genographic Project, which collected and analyzed DNA samples from hundreds of thousands of people around the world in order to decipher how our ancestors populated the planet, in the process launching the consumer genomics industry. Wells graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Texas at Austin, received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and conducted postdoctoral work at Stanford and Oxford. He has appeared in numerous documentary films and is the author of three books, The Journey of Man, Deep Ancestry and Pandora's Seed. His work has taken him to more than 100 countries, where he has collaborated with everyone from heads of government and Fortune 500 corporations, to tribal chieftains eking out a precarious living in places as remote as Chad, Tajikistan and Papua New Guinea. He lives in Austin, Texas, where he is founder and CEO of consumer genomics startup Insitome, an adjunct Professor at the University of Texas and owner of the iconic blues club Antone’s.

Sumit Jamuar

Sumit S Jamuar is Chairman & CEO of Global Gene Corp (GGC), a genomics data, insights and applications company with a vision to democratise healthcare through genomics.  The company is creating representative genomics data and insights from under-explored populations in Asia, Middle East, LatAm and Africa to supplement the existing Caucasian data to apply in therapeutics development, discovery and patient stratification.  GGC has been profiled by BBC, "The power of a billion: India's genomic revolution", Financial Times, "When biased data holds a fatal flaw", MIT Technology Review "Taking Genomic Data Global" and selected as "The Next Big Thing" by Cambridge Network. Sumit previously served as a Managing Director and Global Head at Lloyds Bank and CEO at SBICAP (UK), the European Investment banking subsidiary of State Bank of India.  He has also served as a consultant with McKinsey and Company.  He is a Senior Associate at the Royal Society of Medicine, and has previously served as a Fellow of Institute of Directors, Member of BAFT-IFSA European Council and Board Director at GEFCO plc. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi and an MBA from INSEAD.

Tal Tochner

Tal is the Investment Director at PICO Venture Partners, an early stage fund operating in Israel and the US. At PICO, Tal leads investments across all software-enabled sectors, serves on several boards and supports portfolio companies on growth trajectory. Tal has been active in the startup ecosystem helping venture-backed companies scale globally and identify strategic opportunities for almost a decade. Prior to her role at PICO Venture Partners, Tal was one of the youngest Investment Partners at Tel Aviv Capital where she led the technology department and focused on direct, M&A and Secondary deals as well as corporate innovation for some of the world’s leading enterprises. She was also part of the Founding Team at WMN and held business development and operating roles at the Israel-Asia Center. Due to her strong passion for education and impacting the next generation of leaders, Tal pursued social-entrepreneurship initiatives. She co-founded two education and leadership platforms: The Women’s Parliament focused on advancing female leadership and KEN-S, a global education platform for interdisciplinary learning. Tal sits on the advisory board of AJC Access and Outbox and serves as a mentor to some is Israel’s leading entrepreneurship programs and accelerators. Tal has a B.A in International Relations and Asian Studies from Hebrew University in Jerusalem and was featured in Forbes 30under30 in 2017.

Tomas McCabe

Tomas is a art and community instigator a creative and strategic thinker working to be a catalyst for a more inspiring and just world.

Valmira Mavraj

Space Ambassador and Aviation enthusiast. Curator of highly immersive experiences.

Vincent Moon

Dubbed 'the re-inventor of the music video' by the New York Times, born in the digital and internet age, Vincent was the main director of the ‘Take Away Shows’ of La Blogothèque. The online project of music films on indie-rock band and other famous musicians, like R.E.M, Tom Jones or Arcade Fire, revolutionized the concept of music video and the way of filming music in the entire world. Since 2009, Moon dedicates himself to his nomadic label, la Collection Petites Planètes. Crossing the world, his camera and computer in his backpack, making ethnographic-experimental films in an independent way, recording traditional and sacred music, religious and shamanic rituals, then sharing it all for free on internet, under a Creative Commons licence. www.vincentmoon.com

Wendy Tahara

Wendy Tahara began classical piano lessons at age seven, eventually earning a performance degree from Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington, IN. Then, in 2007, she discovered an unexpected, profound love for the Celtic harp while going through a sort of spiritual awakening. She discovered kundalini yoga, which placed her on an amazing intuitive spiritual path which continues to guide her to this day. She has a deep passion for creating music which is empathetic and nurturing to the human spirit. Her angelic harp compositions, described as “soulful, evocative, heart-healing, compassionate, soothing, stirring, passionate, thrilling”, have often been used for yoga classes, meditations, sound baths, retreats, and spiritually conscious festivals. She has composed music and performed for the Croatian healing gazer Braco, toured with the artist Ashana, and provided meditation music for The Agape International Spiritual Center for Michael Bernard Beckwith. She has had the pleasure of playing with the Sound Healing Symphony at San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral. Wendy is also an accomplished dance musician, and has played for dancers and choreographers such as American Ballet Theatre's Amanda McKerrow, John Gardner, and the late David Howard. She is currently providing meditation music for MYNDFULL, as well as working on her latest project, Savasana Sound, to bring beautiful, calming, powerful yet peaceful sound journeys to the community in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and beyond.

Yusef Zaher

Born and raised in Nazareth, Israel, did my studies in Spain and China , and now i live in NYC working in the food business