Lee Rainie is a prominent researcher who has extensively studied the social impact of the internet and technology.

He is the Director of the Imagining the Digital Future Center at Elon University (since early 2024). In this role, he leads an initiative focused on exploring the future impacts of digital change.

For 24 years, he was the founding director of Internet and Technology Research at the Pew Research Center. During his tenure, his team produced over 850 reports on the social, political, and economic effects of the internet, mobile connectivity, social media, and artificial intelligence revolutions.

I am a passionate futurist. My mission is to help us better understand our future.

As President of Swissfuture (Swiss Association for Futures Studies), I am also committed to futures studies as a discipline.

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Paul is a forecaster with over three decades experience exploring the dynamics of large-scale, long-term change. He teaches forecasting at Stanford University and advises organizations worldwide. Paul is also a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and a Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. Paul serves on a variety of not-for-profit boards including the Long Now Foundation, and the Millennium Project.

Paul’s essays have appeared in a wide range of publications including The Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Foreign Policy, Wired, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, The New York Times, and the Washington Post. Paul holds degrees from Harvard College, Cambridge University and Stanford University.

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Alexandra Samuel is an authority on the digital workplace. A speaker and data journalist, she is the co-author of Remote, Inc: How To Thrive at Work….Wherever You Are (Harper Business, 2021) and the author of Work Smarter with Social Media (Harvard Business Review Press, 2015).

Alex’s keynotes and trainings help organizations navigate the transition to the new hybrid workplace, which combines remote + office, and humans + AI.  Her writing on the workplace, business and technology appears frequently in The Wall Street Journal and The Harvard Business Review, and she is the AI columnist for JSTOR Daily.

The co-founder of groundbreaking digital agency Social Signal, Samuel creates data-driven flagship reports and workshops for companies like Google, Discovery and Sprinklr. She holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University, and works remotely from Vancouver, Canada.

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Eric Saund is a researcher in Cognitive Science and a consultant in AI and Machine Learning.

Previously, Eric spent nearly 30 years working at Xerox PARC as a senior researcher and is an expert in natural language processing and cognitive architecture.

Eric has a degree from CalTech, and a PhD from the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department at MIT.

My mission is to advance the science of consciousness, and to use its insights for the benefit of society, technology, and medicine.

I am Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, where I am also Director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science. I am also Co-Director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Program on Brain, Mind, and Consciousness.

I  was the founding Editor-in-Chief of Neuroscience of Consciousness (Oxford University Press), a role I served from 2014-2024. I currently serve on the Editorial Board of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B and on the Advisory Committee for 1907 Research and for Chile’s Congreso Futuro. I was Conference Chair for the 16th Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC16, 2012) and was an ASSC ‘member at large’ from 2014-2022.  I previously co-directed the Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship Programme: From Sensation and Perception to Awareness, and I was an Engagement Fellow with the Wellcome Trust (2016-2020).

My research has been supported by the EPSRC (Leadership Fellowship), the European Research Council (ERC, Advanced Investigator Grant), the Wellcome Trust, and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR).  Check out these profiles of me and my research in The Observer, The New Statesman, and Quanta.

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Futurist, Prospectivist, Atemporalist. Mentor, Business Consultant, and Educator.
Prospective Human Talent Management.
Training Conscious Leaders, Bearers of the Future.
Transpersonal Development – TRANSNOIA Method

With over 40 years of personal development and spiritual experiences in countries across Asia, Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Latin America, he holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration and Management (MBA) from the University of Santiago de Chile – USACH. Professor and Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the National University of Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina. Director of TransformAcción – Center for Human Development. Founder and Director of the Center for Prospective Studies of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the National University of Cuyo. President of the Cuyo Center for Prospective Studies Civil Association. Member of the Scientific Council of the Alternative Planetary Futures Institute.

Creator of the TRANSNOIA Self-Transformation Method: A Practical Path to Personal Realization for the 21st Century. Guide through disruptive and liberating experiences that impede Transpersonal Development and the encounter with Witness Consciousness.

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Randall Rollinson is the Founder and President of LBL Strategies, a federally-certified veteran-owned business and nationally-recognized leader in the practical application of strategic management principles, tools and techniques. LBL Strategies is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Since 1985, Randall has served more than 3000 organizations across sectors with a targeted set of strategic management education, training, consulting and certification preparation services. He has a special interest in governmental agencies, nonprofit associations, and other “mission driven” organizations where governance and strategy execution issues are often a major consideration.

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Dawn Song is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley. Her research interest lies in deep learning and security. She has studied diverse security and privacy issues in computer systems and networks, including areas ranging from software security, networking security, database security, distributed systems security, applied cryptography, to the intersection of machine learning and security.

She is the recipient of various awards including the MacArthur Fellowship, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the NSF CAREER Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the MIT Technology Review TR-35 Award, the George Tallman Ladd Research Award, the Okawa Foundation Research Award, the Li Ka Shing Foundation Women in Science Distinguished Lecture Series Award, the Faculty Research Award from IBM, Google and other major tech companies, and Best Paper Awards from top conferences. She obtained her Ph.D. degree from UC Berkeley. Prior to joining UC Berkeley as a faculty, she was an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University from 2002 to 2007.

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Dr. Evelyne Tauchnitz’s expertise focuses on how digital technologies can be employed to build, support, and maintain peace through non-violent methods of conflict transformation. She is employed as a Senior Researcher Fellow (Post-Doc) at the Lucerne Graduate School in Ethics (LGSE), University of Lucerne, where she is writing her ‘Habilitation’ on PeaceTech – exploring the impact of the digital transformation on peace & war from an ethical and human rights point of view.

Evelyne is also a Research Associate at the Centre for Technology and Global Affairs (CTGA), University of Oxford, where she is co-coordinating the Global PeaceTech project. She holds a PhD in International Relations with a specialization in Political Science from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva and was a Visiting Fellow (Post-Doc) at the Department of Political and Social Sciences (SPS), European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy, where she conducted research on international norms and negotiation strategies.

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Luke established an independent strategic foresight practice in 2021, building on two decades of “been there, done that” service in the transport and agrifood domains of the Singapore public sector – across a breadth of leadership and foresight-focussed roles in policy, planning, international relations, national security, operations, infrastructure, risk management, corporate governance, strategic communications, and people development.

Luke’s work has involved engagement with a plethora of political, policy, enterprise, and civil society actors and organisations across Southeast Asia, Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Oceania, as well as at international bodies including the G20, UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, the UNDP, APEC, and ASEAN – imparting perspectives and experiences which have spurred his passion to advance international and cross-sectoral dialogue and collaboration for sustainable development.

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Max Erik Tegmark (born 5 May 1967) is a Swedish-American physicist, machine learning researcher and author.

He is best known for his book Life 3.0 about what the world might look like as artificial intelligence continues to improve. Tegmark is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the president of the Future of Life Institute.