Gary Marcus is a leading voice in artificial intelligence. He is a scientist, best-selling author, and serial entrepreneur (Founder of Robust.AI and Geometric.AI, acquired by Uber). He is well-known for his challenges to contemporary AI, anticipating many of the current limitations decades in advance, and for his research in human language development and cognitive neuroscience.

An Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at NYU, he is the author of five books, including, The Algebraic Mind, Kluge, The Birth of the Mind, and the New York Times Bestseller Guitar Zero. He has often contributed to The New Yorker, Wired, and The New York Times. His most recent book, Rebooting AI, with Ernest Davis, is one of Forbes’s 7 Must Read Books in AI.

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Manager of the Public Service Broadcasting and Media with 30 years’ experience in the news, sport and international relations sectors. Trained as a journalist, with a great deal of experience in international companies and organizations (RAI, Euronews, Eurosport, and since 2002, at EBU European Broadcasting Union member of the WBU World Broadcasting Union).

Has worked for all traditional media (press, radio, general interest TV) but also new media (all-news channels, Internet portals). Expert in European and multilateral negotiations.

Jerry Michalski is an American technology consultant, futurist, and thought leader known for his work on the impact of technology on society and business, particularly in the areas of trust and relationships.

In essence, Jerry Michalski is a visionary who explores the profound ways technology shapes human interactions and societal structures. He challenges conventional thinking about consumers and trust, advocating for a future where relationships and genuine connections are central to a thriving economy and society.

Source: Gemini

Danil Mikhailov, Ph.D. is a computer scientist and social scientist and a world-leading expert in the application of technology and data innovation for social impact. Danil’s main research interests are in Science and Technology Studies, including social media, AI, and misinformation; technology and AI ethics, particularly where informed by non-western cultural context; development of methodologies of responsible data science and AI programs, particularly in lower-and-middle-income countries and settings; and the anthropology of interdisciplinary science and technology teams. A second, unrelated area of research interest is the history, philosophy, and practice of traditional Chinese martial arts.

In parallel to his research Danil serves as the Executive Director of data.org, where Danil launched global data for social impact programs in climate, health, and financial inclusion to build digital public goods, train a new generation of purpose-driven data practitioners, and design sustainable data ecosystems in Latin America, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the US.

Source: Data.org webpage

c3’s Founder and Executive Director, Producer, Writer

“Over 35 years of professional experience in the the arts and the entertainment industries together with a deep interest and study of human potential, consciousness research and future studies has been my inspiration for the creation of c3: Center for Conscious Creativity and the mission we seek to accomplish.

I hold an MA in Consciousness Studies and have been a student and practitioner of creativity, future trends in the arts and media, and meditation for over 40 years.  As an artist, I work as a producer and content creator in a variety of mediums, am a writer, musician, and photographer.”

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Dr. Thomas Mengel, APF
Retired Professor of Leadership Studies, Renaissance College (RC), University of New Brunswick, Canada

Thomas is a professional futurist, a writer, and a scholar of leadership studies. He has been facilitating learning around leadership and project management for over 30 years. His degrees are in theology, adult education and psychology, history, and computer science (minor in business administration).
Before joining academia, Thomas has held project management and leadership positions in Europe and North America. He is particularly interested in the connections between futures studies and leadership education. As an active member of the International Leadership Association (ILA), the World Future Society (WFS), the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF), and the Association of Professional Futurists (APF), Thomas tried to imagine and conceptualize what implications learning about the futures might have on learning about and preparing for leadership processes and positions.

At RC, Thomas had included futures perspectives and futures-oriented learning opportunities into his leadership courses. For example, in addition to imagining what leadership in the future might look like, learners engage in questioning their assumptions about the future and in creating personal and professional alternative scenarios.

After his recent retirement from the University of New Brunswick, Thomas co-founded the Killick Coast North Seniors Co-operative and the Sunrise Funeral Co-operative, thereby actively contributing to the implementation of futures-oriented community designs that he continues to reflect and write about.

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Professor of Economics at University of Nairobi

Leopold P. Mureithi is co-chair of The Millennium Project (TMP) Kenya Node, a consultant on technology, employment, and related development matters, and a member of World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF). A long-time Professor of Economics at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, he has been on fixed-term assignments of limited duration (ALD) as Policy and an issues analyst at UNDP’s African Futures (AF) regional project  to promote long term perspectives thinking in Africa, based in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.

Lweopold has carried out research at the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), and served as a founding team leader, for the Policy Analysis Support Unit (PASU) of the Organization of African Unity (OAU/AU) to build capacity for the African Economic Community, based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Source: Fast Future

Futurist, Business Strategist, Public Speaker, Businessman and Entrepreneur

Anton is a Co-Founder of FutureWorld International – having joined the global FutureWorld network in 1991.

His passion is to engage senior executives in challenging debates about the many forces, technologies, and market dynamics driving future business success. Few leave Anton’s sessions thinking about anything similarly; instead, they are fuelled with new, exciting, action-shifting insights.

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Joseph N. Pelton, Ph.D., is the Chairman of the Board of the Alliance for Collaboration in the Exploration of Space (ACES Worldwide). He is the Dean emeritus and former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the International Space University. He is the Founder of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation and the founding President of the Society of Satellite Professionals International—now known as the Space and Satellite Professionals International (SSPI).

Dr. Pelton currently serves on the Executive Board of the International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety. He is the Director Emeritus of the Space and Advanced Communications Research Institute (SACRI) at George Washington University, where he also served as Director of the Accelerated Masters’ Program in Telecommunications and Computers from 1998 to 2004.

Chief Communications Officer, onAir Networks

Public Policy for Digital Technology, Internet & Telecommunications, Innovation and Technological Emergence

My goal is to help shape policies and strategies around information technologies that empower people throughout the world. My interests include information and communications technologies, Internet & telecommunications policy, technology innovation policy and technology forecasting. I am also interested in spiritual development, electronic art and music, and video games. Technology can bring both great promise and peril, and I thrive in expanding the former and minimizing the latte

Educational background:
Engineering on Industrial electronics and electricity, Engineering on energy resources

Work Experience:
30+ Years Technical trainer, nearly 25 Years Industrial robotics engineer, 25+ years technical translator, 20+ years investigating on future of technology and its integration on society. Further experience on Solar power, Laser technology, Industrial electronics.

Source: British Interplanetary Society

Professor, Department of Sociology and social research at the UniTrento Digital University.

Expertise: Anticipation theory, Epistemology, Future studies, Innovation studies, Philosophy of science, Philosophy of the social sciences, Social sciences, Systems theory

B.A. in Sociology, with honours, at the University of Trento (1980).
Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Utrecht (Netherlands) in 2001.

Memberships in societies and scientific committees
AFI-Associazione dei Futuristi Italiani (President)
-skopìa (President)
Editor in chief of Axiomathes (Springer)
Member of the editorial advisory board of the journals Futures and European Journal of Futures Research
Editor of the series Anticipation Science (Springer)

Source: UniTrento Digital University

Founder, Modern Polymaths Institute, Polymath’s Place, and Prison Transparency Project,
Author, Coach, Consultant
Ed.D George Washington University 
School of Education and Human Development  2015 – 2018

Dr. Angela Meyers is an internationally recognised as the creator of Modern Polymathy studies, at the core of my work is a deep-seated desire to reduce human suffering by enhancing human thriving. To me the key to that freedom is through actualising our innate human polymathy.

Through my career, which spans professional roles at the Executive Office of the President and managing educational programs and organizational development interventions for leaders from across the federal government, I have been fortunate to blend my passion for leadership, learning, innovation, and interdisciplinary thinking.

Having built an extensive network across government, academia, and among the world’s polymaths has allows me to engage with many of the world’s brightest minds.