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Irving Wladawsky-Berger, PhD, is an MIT researcher, technology strategist, and former IBM executive who has helped lead major shifts in enterprise computing, including the Internet, supercomputing, Linux, and digital transformation. His work focuses on how emerging technologies become scalable, interoperable, and economically consequential enterprise systems..
Nicklas Bergman is Founder and CEO of Intergalactic Industries and a veteran deep-tech entrepreneur, investor, and futurist. His work focuses on identifying, evaluating, and investing in emerging technologies with the potential to reshape industries, markets, and society.
Phaedra Boinodiris is a global AI-governance leader at IBM Consulting whose work focuses on trustworthy AI, responsible deployment, risk management, and organizational accountability. She helps enterprises establish the governance structures, operating models, and controls required to use increasingly capable AI systems safely and responsibly at scale.
Chuck Brooks is a cybersecurity executive, strategist, and educator whose work spans cyber risk, critical infrastructure, emerging technology, and national security. As President of Brooks Consulting International and an adjunct lecturer at Georgetown University, he brings extensive experience across government, defense, and enterprise cybersecurity.
Vint Cerf, Ph.D., is Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google and one of the foundational architects of the Internet. As co-designer of TCP/IP, his career has centered on building open, interoperable systems that can operate reliably across heterogeneous networks at global scale.
Calum Chace is an author and AI commentator focused on the economic and societal consequences of advanced artificial intelligence. His work examines technological unemployment, artificial general intelligence, and how increasingly capable autonomous systems could reshape organizations, labor markets, and society.
Dan Conway, PhD, is a professor, researcher, and technology strategist whose work spans AI, quantum information systems, cybersecurity, blockchain, analytics, and technical standards. His career combines academic research with enterprise and government advisory work focused on complex data architectures, interoperability, and emerging digital infrastructure.
Francesco Corea, PhD, is a complexity scientist, investor, and AI strategist whose work combines artificial intelligence, applied mathematics, data science, and venture investing. He has led data and research functions at major venture firms and focuses on using AI and quantitative methods to understand complex systems, evaluate emerging technologies, and inform high-stakes investment decisions.
Ekta Dang, PhD, is Founder and CEO of U First Capital and a Silicon Valley venture investor with deep experience across AI, semiconductors, cybersecurity, IoT, and enterprise technology. A physicist by training and former Intel executive, she combines technical expertise with venture investing, corporate innovation, and emerging-technology strategy.
Sanjit Singh Dang, PhD, is Co-Founder and Chairman of U First Capital and a veteran Silicon Valley venture investor with deep experience in AI, enterprise software, emerging technologies, and corporate innovation. A former Intel Capital investor and technology executive, he combines technical training with venture investing, board leadership, and strategic insight into high-growth technology markets.
Tom Davenport, PhD, is President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, co-founder of the International Institute for Analytics, a Fellow of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, and a Senior Advisor to Deloitte. A leading authority on analytics, artificial intelligence, and digital transformation, he pioneered the concept of “competing on analytics” and has authored or edited more than 25 books on data, AI, knowledge management, and enterprise technology.
Haluk Demirkan, PhD, is Milgard Endowed Distinguished Chair Professor at the University of Washington Tacoma and a scientist with Amazon Devices and Services. His work focuses on artificial intelligence, business analytics, service innovation, digital transformation, and complex decision systems, combining academic research with extensive industry collaboration.
Sameer Dhanrajani is Co-Founder and CEO of AIQRATE and CEO of 3AI, with more than two decades of experience in artificial intelligence, analytics, strategy, and enterprise transformation. He has held senior leadership roles at Fractal Analytics, Cognizant, Fidelity, and Genpact, and is widely known for advising enterprises on AI-led business transformation and innovation.
Aparna Dhinakaran is Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Arize AI, a company focused on AI and agent observability, evaluation, and reliability. Previously, she worked in machine learning at Uber, Apple, and TubeMogul, and helped build core ML infrastructure at Uber. She studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley and has conducted research in computer vision and AI. arize.com
Chetan Dube is the Founder and CEO of Amelia, an enterprise AI company focused on conversational AI, automation, and digital employees. A former New York University mathematics professor, he has spent more than two decades developing AI systems for enterprise use and is known for advancing the concept of intelligent virtual agents that can automate complex business interactions and workflows.
Seth Earley is Founder and CEO of Earley Information Science, a consulting firm specializing in information architecture, knowledge management, taxonomy, search, and AI readiness. He has spent more than two decades helping enterprises organize and govern information so that analytics, automation, and AI systems can operate effectively, and is the author of The AI-Powered Enterprise.
Ahmed El Adl, PhD, is an AI and robotics expert with more than two decades of experience in intelligent systems, digital twins, industrial AI, and enterprise transformation. He is known for advancing the concept of the Cognitive Digital Twin and has worked across AI/ML, smart automation, Industry 4.0/X.0, and cognitive industrial systems.
Ken Elefant is a Partner at Sorenson Capital and co-founder of the firm’s Ventures practice, where he leads early-stage technology investing. Previously, he was Managing Director at Intel Capital and Vice President at Intel, leading investments in software and cybersecurity. He has more than 25 years of venture and operating experience and has backed companies including DocuSign, Forescout, AlienVault, and Venafi.
Ryohei Fujimaki, PhD, is Founder and CEO of dotData, an enterprise AI company focused on automating data science and feature engineering. Previously, he was the youngest Research Fellow in NEC’s history, where he led advanced machine-learning research and enterprise analytics initiatives. He holds a PhD from the University of Tokyo in machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Shar Govindan is Director of Water Solutions at Bentley Systems, where he focuses on digital twins, water modeling, infrastructure technology, and utility modernization. He is a TEDx speaker, author, and industry educator who has helped advance the use of digital engineering and AI-enabled infrastructure solutions for water systems worldwide.
Melvin Greer, PhD, is an AI and data science leader with more than three decades of experience across industry, government, and academia. A retired Intel Fellow and former Chief Data Scientist at Intel, his work spans artificial intelligence, machine learning, neuromorphic computing, data strategy, and advanced analytics. He is also an educator, inventor, author, and advisor, with patented work in cloud computing, synthetic biology, and IoT biosensors.
Pradeep Gulipalli is Co-Founder and Chief Executive – India at Tiger Analytics, a global AI and advanced analytics firm. A data scientist and technologist by training, he has helped build Tiger Analytics’ AI capabilities, teams, and delivery organization, working with enterprises to apply machine learning and advanced analytics to complex business decisions. He holds an MS from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.Tech. from IIT Madras.
Christine Heckart is Founder and CEO of Xapa, an AI-powered platform focused on workforce development, leadership, and organizational change. A veteran technology executive, she has held senior roles at Cisco, Microsoft, NetApp, and Juniper Networks, and previously served as CEO of Scalyr through its acquisition by SentinelOne. She also brings extensive public and private company board experience across the technology sector.
Stephen Ibaraki is Chairman and Managing General Partner of REDDS Capital, a venture investor, futurist, and technology strategist focused on AI, quantum technologies, and emerging innovation. He is also the founder of the UN ITU’s AI for Good initiative and has held leadership and advisory roles across major global technology, scientific, financial, and standards organizations.
Hessie Jones is a Venture Partner at MATR Ventures, as well as a strategist, investor, journalist, and advocate for human-centered AI and data rights. Her work focuses on responsible AI, privacy, ethical technology, and investing in underestimated founders, and she is also a co-founder of the Personally Identifiable Information Standards Architecture (PIISA).
Setrag Khoshafian, PhD is Principal and Chief Scientist at Khosh Consultinghas been a senior executive in the software industry where he innovated, architected, and led the development of several software products, services, and solutions.
Gerd Leonhard is a globally recognized futurist, author, and public thinker focused on the human implications of artificial intelligence and exponential technological change. His work examines how organizations and societies can harness increasingly powerful AI while preserving human agency, accountability, ethics, and meaningful control over technology.
Nella Ludlow, PhD, is Director of Quantum Computing Initiatives and Research Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Wright State University. Her work spans quantum algorithms, quantum error correction, artificial intelligence, and defense-oriented quantum research, with a particular focus on translating quantum computing advances into practical research, education, and government applications.
Utpal Mangla is an IBM Vice President and senior global technology executive whose work spans AI, cloud, telecommunications, edge computing, and large-scale enterprise transformation. He has led global practices and innovation initiatives focused on turning emerging technologies into operational, enterprise-grade systems and business outcomes.
Mark Minevich is a globally recognized AI strategist, investor, and advisor focused on AI-first transformation, emerging technology, and global competitiveness. He is President of Going Global Ventures and works with enterprises, investors, governments, and international institutions on the strategic adoption and governance of artificial intelligence.
Steve Omohundro, PhD is CEO at Beneficial AI Research. Steve has been a scientist, professor, author, software architect, and entrepreneur and is working to ensure that advanced AI is beneficial, aligned, and safe. He is formerly a Research Scientist at Meta in the Probability Org and worked on differentiable programming, probabilistic programming and AI-based simulation.
Ganesh Padmanabhan is CEO and Co-Founder of Autonomize AI, a veteran enterprise-AI executive focused on bringing governed, context-aware AI into high-stakes healthcare operations. His work centers on moving AI beyond individual model outputs toward accountable, evidence-grounded systems that can operate across complex enterprise workflows.
Nathaniel Palmer is Director, Business Architecture at Serco, Inc., and a recognized authority on business process management, decision automation, and enterprise transformation. His work focuses on architecting large-scale operational systems in which automation, decision logic, governance, and accountability must function together reliably.
Jayshree Pandya, PhD, is Founder and CEO of Risk Group LLC and a strategic-security researcher focused on the risks created by emerging and converging technologies. Her work examines how AI, quantum computing, biotechnology, cybersecurity, and other disruptive technologies alter institutional resilience, decision-making, and risk governance at enterprise and national scale.
Carole Piovesan is Managing Partner and Co-Founder of INQ Law and a leading Canadian lawyer in AI governance, privacy, cybersecurity, and data governance. Her work focuses on translating emerging AI capabilities into legally defensible, accountable, and operationally responsible systems—bridging technology, regulation, risk, and enterprise governance.
Bruce Richardson is a veteran enterprise technology strategist who served for 14 years as Chief Enterprise Strategist at Salesforce, advising executives on enterprise applications, cloud computing, digital transformation, and the future of work. Earlier, he spent nearly 20 years as Chief Research Officer at AMR Research and later served as Chief Strategy Officer at Infor, giving him more than four decades of experience analyzing and shaping enterprise technology markets.
Paul Roma is a healthcare technology executive and investor with more than two decades of experience applying AI, analytics, and data technologies to healthcare. He formerly served as General Manager of IBM Watson Health and CEO of Ciox Health, and currently holds leadership and advisory roles across healthcare AI, biotechnology, and technology investment organizations.
Rajeev Ronanki is currently the founder of Signal Labs, where he is building enterprise AI infrastructure focused on institutional world models, sovereign AI, and systems that help organizations direct human and machine attention toward consequential decisions. He previously served as CEO of Lyric and as Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Officer at Elevance Health, leading major AI, digital, and transformation initiatives across healthcare.
Prof. Dr. Doreen Rosenstrauch is Founder and CEO of DrDoRo®Institute and a healthcare executive, physician-scientist, registered nurse, educator, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience across medicine, healthcare administration, science, and education. She also teaches in areas including artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and healthcare, with a particular focus on responsible AI and technology-enabled healthcare.
Beth Rudden is Founder and CEO of Bast AI, where she builds explainable AI infrastructure designed for auditable, high-integrity use in healthcare and other consequential settings. A former IBM Distinguished Engineer and Chief Data Officer, she has more than 25 years of experience in AI, data science, ontology systems, and enterprise transformation, and is also an inventor, author, and board-level advisor on trustworthy AI.
Neil Sahota is CEO of ACSI Labs, a United Nations AI Advisor, IBM Master Inventor, and professor at UC Irvine. He has more than two decades of experience in artificial intelligence, emerging technology, business strategy, and innovation, and is a co-founder of the UN’s AI for Good initiative. He is also the author of Own the A.I. Revolution and advises organizations, investors, and startups on AI adoption and next-generation technologies. AI for Good
Manoj Saxena is Founder and CEO of Trustwise, an enterprise AI company focused on trustworthy, compliant, and controllable AI systems. He previously served as the first General Manager of IBM Watson and has founded and scaled multiple technology companies. His work spans enterprise AI, responsible AI, agentic systems, and the commercialization of advanced AI technologies.
Ron Schmelzer is Founder of Scalebrate, where he focuses on AI-era scaling, “microteams,” automation, and how small teams can achieve outsized results using AI-native workflows. He previously co-founded Cognilytica, which was acquired by the Project Management Institute in 2024, and is a longtime AI analyst, entrepreneur, Forbes contributor, and host of the Small Team Big Scale podcast.
Thomas Seoh, JD, is CEO of Kinexum and Executive Vice President of the Kitalys Institute, with three decades of leadership experience across pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies. His work focuses on regulatory strategy, clinical development, healthy longevity, and translating emerging science into approvable products. He previously served as CEO of Faust Pharmaceuticals and as SVP of Corporate and Commercial Development at Guilford Pharmaceuticals.
Tarry Singh is an entrepreneur, technologist, and AI strategist with more than 30 years of experience across artificial intelligence, deep tech, and enterprise transformation. He is Founder and CEO of Real AI and EarthScan, where he focuses on production AI systems, model risk, AI sovereignty, and applied AI for the energy sector. He also contributes to European responsible-AI education initiatives and advises organizations on AI strategy and deployment.
Jim Sinur is CEO of Flueresque and an independent technology thought leader specializing in intelligent business processes, business process management, automation, decision management, AI, and digital transformation. He previously spent 20 years at Gartner, where he helped create the Hype Cycle and Maturity Model frameworks, and later served as Vice President and Research Fellow at Aragon Research.
Manu Sharma is an enterprise technology leader and AI strategist with more than two decades of experience across artificial intelligence, cloud, analytics, and digital transformation. He has led technology and business initiatives spanning enterprise AI adoption, product strategy, data-driven transformation, and large-scale modernization programs, with a focus on translating emerging technologies into measurable business outcomes.
Andrew Spanyi is Editor in Chief at Cognitive World, and founder and President of Spanyi International Inc. He is an internationally recognized expert in business process management, operational leadership, and process transformation, and has authored three books and more than 100 articles. His work spans process redesign, customer-focused operations, AI-enabled transformation, and large-scale improvement initiatives across industries including healthcare, financial services, aerospace, and telecommunications.
Maureen Doyle-Spare is an enterprise governance architect in agentic AI whose work focuses on controlling the reasoning layer before autonomous systems are permitted to act. She originated the Semantic Control Plane and a connected runtime-governance architecture designed to preserve meaning, detect semantic deviation, gate execution deterministically, and create reconstructable evidence for autonomous decisions.
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Jim Spohrer, PhD, is a pioneering computer scientist and service-science leader whose work has focused on AI, complex service systems, enterprise innovation, and the interaction of technology, organizations, and human decision-making. A retired IBM executive and former Apple Distinguished Engineer Scientist Technologist, he has spent decades studying how intelligent systems can be designed to improve value creation across interconnected enterprises and institutions.
Sheridan Tatsuno is a Silicon Valley strategist, entrepreneur, and technology analyst with decades of experience advising global technology companies on breakthrough markets, emerging technologies, and long-range strategy. His work spans AI, semiconductors, urban systems, sustainability, and the broader economic and societal implications of technological change.
Marco Tavora, PhD, is a theoretical physicist and researcher specializing in quantum many-body systems, quantum dynamics, and mathematical physics. His work examines how complex quantum systems evolve, thermalize, and exhibit universal behavior, with particular expertise in nonequilibrium quantum mechanics, quantum chaos, and quantum field theory.
Jessica Taylor is Founder of Reality of Win Strategies and a sales and marketing leader focused on customer advocacy, sales enablement, and go-to-market alignment. She has held senior roles at Dell, Rackspace, Nortel Networks, and Diversified, and brings more than two decades of experience connecting customer strategy, marketing, and sales to drive growth and stronger enterprise relationships. linkedin.com
Andy Thurai is a technology strategist, advisor, and writer focused on artificial intelligence, cloud, observability, cybersecurity, and enterprise transformation. He has held senior roles at companies including IBM and Intel and is known for translating complex emerging technologies into practical enterprise strategies, particularly around AI operations, resilience, security, and large-scale digital infrastructure.
Alan Trefler is Founder and CEO of Pegasystems, which he established in 1983 and has grown into a global enterprise software company focused on AI-powered decisioning, workflow automation, and digital transformation. A software engineer and former competitive chess master, he has spent more than four decades developing technology for complex enterprise operations and is the author of Build for Change.
Atul Vashistha is Founder and CEO of Aokah, an AI-enabled platform focused on helping enterprises build, scale, and govern Global Capability Centers. He previously founded Neo Group and Supply Wisdom and is widely recognized for his work in globalization, sourcing, governance, and enterprise risk. He also served on the U.S. Department of Defense Business Board and has advised major global companies on complex international operations and transformation.
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Peter Voss is Founder, CEO, and Chief Scientist of Aigo.ai and Founder and CEO of AGI Innovations. A longtime AI entrepreneur and cognitive-AI researcher, he was among the researchers who coined the term “Artificial General Intelligence” in the early 2000s. His work focuses on cognitive architectures, natural-language intelligence, reasoning, memory, and machine learning systems designed to move beyond conventional narrow AI.
Vivek Wadhwa is a technology entrepreneur, academic, author, and innovation strategist whose work focuses on artificial intelligence, emerging technologies, entrepreneurship, and the societal impact of rapid technological change. He has held academic and research roles at institutions including Duke University, Stanford, and Carnegie Mellon, and has advised governments, companies, and investors on innovation, technology policy, and the future of work.
Kathleen Walch is Director of AI Engagement and Community at the Project Management Institute (PMI), where she focuses on practical and responsible AI adoption across the project management profession. She previously co-founded Cognilytica and co-developed the CPMAI methodology for managing AI and advanced data projects, which is used by enterprises, government agencies, and NGOs.
Tiffany Xingyu Wang is Founder and CEO of Songsheet, an AI lab focused on building trusted knowledge infrastructure for the AI era. She is also President and Co-Founder of the Oasis Consortium, a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Atlantic Council. Previously, she held senior leadership roles at OpenWeb and Spectrum Labs, where she focused on digital trust, safety, and AI.
Fabian J. G. Westerheide is an entrepreneur, investor, and AI strategist focused on artificial intelligence, emerging technologies, and Europe’s innovation ecosystem. He is the founder of Asgard Capital, an investment firm specializing in AI companies, and has been an active advocate for strengthening European AI capabilities, entrepreneurship, and technology sovereignty.
Laurence “Lars” Wood is a physicist, inventor, and technology architect whose work spans quantum artificial intelligence, quantum computing, complex systems, and life sciences. He is the inventor and architect of QAINET® and has led development of technologies for deterministic autonomy, quantum search and decision, molecular design, and other high-complexity applications.
Lisa Wood is an entrepreneur and technology commercialization executive focused on turning advanced scientific and engineering breakthroughs into investable companies and market-ready assets. She is CEO and Co-Founder of Cognitive World, Analog Physics and ReMatrix Bio, She leads strategy, commercialization, partnerships, capital acquisition, and company development across media, AI, quantum technologies, autonomy, and life sciences.
Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD, is Founder, Chairman, Co-CEO, and Chief Business Officer of Insilico Medicine, a clinical-stage biotechnology company using generative AI for drug discovery and biomarker development. His work spans AI-driven target discovery, molecular design, aging research, and drug development, and he has authored hundreds of scientific papers at the intersection of biomedicine and computational technology.
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Michael Ashley is the Owner and Creative Content Specialist at Michael Ashley Publishing. He is a screenwriting professor at Chapman University. He has written over twenty books on numerous subjects, including four bestsellers. He recently co-authored Own the A.I. Revolution: Unlock Your Artificial Intelligence Strategy to Disrupt Your Competition
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Kurt Cagle is the managing editor of Data Science Central, the largest community of data science practitioners on the Internet, and the publisher and editor of The Cagle Report.
Gurnoor Singh Dang is a speaker, writer, and CEO. He has been awarded the Medal of Honor by Keith Krach, former US Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment, for his work towards youth empowerment.
Taarini Kaur Dang, a student and mentor in Silicon Valley, and Forbes contributor, founded her own Venture Capital firm, Brave14 Capital, for which she has raised funding from top Venture Capitalists and Institutional Investors in the US.
Naveen Joshi is Founder and CEO of Allerin, which develops engineering and technology solutions focused on optimal customer experiences. Naveen works in AI, Big Data, IoT and Blockchain.
Annette White-Klososky is the Founding Partner of Future Point of View
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computer science professor and an affiliate at Data and Society. She is a researcher interested in supporting the rights of individuals in a world of automation.
Martine Paris is a Trending Reporter, US Consumer, and reports on what’s trending with snappy, high-traffic stories across the global business economy, consumer, retail, food, fashion, luxury, lifestyle, culture, entertainment, sports, and tech for Bloomberg News, TV, Radio, Businessweek magazine, and QuickTake TikTok-Twitter-Instagram, with syndication in leading publications around the world.
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Craig Smith is the Founder of Eye on A.I., an artificial intelligence-focused podcast and newsletter; He is a special Government employee for the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence.
Nisha Talagala, PhD., is the CEO & Co-founder of Pyxeda AI and AIClub
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Mathis Joffre, co-founder of Blaxel, is an expert in infrastructure for AI agents and general AI models. He spent 3 years at OVHcloud, the largest cloud provider in Europe, working in research and development for the AI and data sectors.
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