Antonio Yukio Ueta received his BSc in Physics from University of São Paulo (1978-1981), MSc in Plasma Physics from University of São Paulo (1982-1985), PhD in Semiconductor Physics from Johannes Kepler Universitaet-Linz, Austria (1993-1997). From July 1985 to May 2018 he was a federal civil servant of the National Institute for Space Research-INPE, where he had the opportunity to work in the areas of space technology, material research and management.

He was responsible for the implementation of the Chemical Contamination Analysis Laboratory of LIT/INPE (1985-1991); Senior Technologist at the Associated Laboratory of Materials and Sensors – LAS/INPE (1991-2003); Technical Assistant to the Director of INPE (2003-2006); Technical Advisor to the Director of INPE (2006-2016). During his career at INPE, he participated of training at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences-ISAS, Japan, from September to December 1989, having followed the final phase of integration of the MUSES-A micro satellite and the MUSES-A Lunar Orbiter. He was a participant of the Summer Space Program-SSP07 of the International Space University-ISU, China (2007), having participated in the “Space Traffic Management” team project. He also has an MBA-FGV in Strategic Management of S&T in Public Research Institutions-IPP’s (2008-2010).

He was Deputy Academic Coordinator of the Space Studies Program-SSP10/ISU, France (2010); Academic Coordinator of the Southern Hemisphere Space Studies Program-SHSSP/ISU, Australia, in 2011 and 2012 and Co-Chair of the Space Applications department of the SSP21/ISU, France (2021). He is an Adjunct Faculty at the International Space University. He was a member of the Organizing Committee and speaker of the 2018 and 2019 Winter Course of Introduction to Space Technologies at INPE. He gives lectures for students in elementary, middle and higher education, as well as the general public, on topics related to futures studies and space applications. He is a member of the World Futures Studies Federation and Association of Professional Futurists.

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Sesh Velamoor, recognized as a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, has had a unique and distinguished career in three different fields spanning over nearly 45 years: in business, as a member of boards, chief executive and consultant in the electromechanical manufacturing industry; as a lecturer in business administration at university level; and as a trustee and director of programs at the non-profit Foundation For the Future with responsibility for planning, designing, and conducting conferences, seminars, workshops and onstage interviews involving several hundred scholars of world renown, exploring the long term future of humanity on a wide array of themes such as climate change, energy, water, cultural evolution, future of humans in space, demographics, genetics and society, future humans, education etc.

He is a regularly invited panelist in global seminars and conferences, as a speaker at numerous global forums on aspects of the future. He has also published articles and essays in several different journals of Future Studies.

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Thomas Valone is a physicist and licensed professional engineer with 30 years professional experience, is a patent examiner, research engineer, instrumentation designer and also an author, lecturer, and consultant on future energy developments. He is President and founder of Integrity Research Institute and formerly a community college teacher and a Research Director for Scott Aviation-ATO, Inc.

He helped design the HullCom® for naval intraship communication, a 60 Hz gaussmeter , four bioelectric therapy devices, and an ionizer-precipitator. He is editor of Future Energy, Energetic Processes Vol. I & II, Turning the Corner: Energy Solutions for the 21st Century and a few conference proceedings, as well as author of The Future of Energy: An Emerging Science, Zero Point Energy: The Fuel of the Future, Harnessing the Wheelwork of Nature, Practical Conversion of Zero-Point Energy, Homopolar Handbook, Electrogravitics Vol. I & II, Bioelectromagnetic Healing, Bush-Cheney Energy Study, Clinton Administration Energy Study, Nikola Tesla’s Electricity Unplugged and about 100 published reports and articles.

He has also served as an expert witness, an expert declaration writer for court cases and appeared on CNN, A&E, and the Discovery Channels, besides a few commercial energy videos. He has been a keynote speaker for both the Earth Transformation and the Whole Person Healing Conferences. Currently, Dr. Valone is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the Bioelectromagnetics Society, the National Space Society and the Union of Concerned Scientists. He is also a Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation. His works have been published in German, French, Russian, Romanian, Korean and English.

Integrity Research Institute, 5020 Sunnyside Avenue, Suite 209, Beltsville MD 20705 at 301-220-0440 and www.IntegrityResearchInstitute.org

Specialties: popular scientific lectures on energy, propulsion, bioenergetics and modern meditation; book authoring

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I am a Professor (Research) at Vision Research Institute. After completing B.E. (Electrical Engg.) at M.A.C.T. Bhopal and Part I of M.Tech. at I.I.T. Kanpur in India, I moved to USA to do M.S. (Computer Science) at Iowa State University, Ph.D. (Biophysics) at University of Illinois, and postdoctoral fellowship in color vision psychophysics at University of Chicago.

Further researches in visual psychophysics, neuroscience, and fMRI were at York University (Canada), New England College of Optometry (Boston), and Harvard Medical Schools (Schepens Eye Research Institute and McLean Hospital).

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Dr. Karina Vissonova is the founding director of the Advanced Design Studies Institute and a researcher in design philosophy, specialising in future material wellbeing, sustainable societies, and the evolution of design education. With a Ph.D. in Design from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and over 25 years of experience in research and development, her work contributes to advancing design education through transdisciplinary frameworks. She currently lectures at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest and serves as a research fellow at the MOME Foundation, where she bridges futures studies and speculative design methodologies.

Dr. Vissonova curates interdisciplinary art-science exhibitions, and her publications include peer-reviewed papers, contributions to journal special issues on sustainable design futures, book chapters, and two books published through her institute. A member of the World Futures Studies Federation, she researches at the intersection of speculative design, sustainability studies, and design philosophy.

Physicist; ex-Netscaper;
Futurist, Strategic Foresight: Researcher, Analyst, Consultant, Educator, Speaker

Dr Joseph Voros holds a PhD in theoretical physics on mathematical extensions to the General Theory of Relativity (predominantly Einstein’s own ‘non-symmetric unified field theory’). He then spent several years in internet-related companies, including a stint at the legendary Netscape Communications Corporation in Silicon Valley, California, in the latter 1990s, and has been a professional futurist for over 25 years.

Dr Voros started at Swinburne in 2000 as a project consultant in the former Australian Foresight Institute. Then appointed as a strategic foresight analyst in a top-level strategic planning unit at Swinburne, he was involved in the building of an organisational strategic thinking capacity based on foresight concepts and methodologies, forming strong links with the strategic foresight teaching program, attending every class and providing a practitioner’s perspective in many invited lectures.

He is a member of the World Futures Studies Federation, and the Association of Professional Futurists, and was a founding member and former Board member (2012-2017) of the International Big History Association. He serves on the editorial boards of the UK journal Foresight, the European Journal of Futures Research, the Journal of Futures Studies, and the Journal of Big History.

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Julien Wacquez trained in cultural sociology and social studies of science at EHESS (M.A, Ph.D). During his PhD, he was appointed with 2 international fellowships: one at the Department of Sociology at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2015-2016), and another at the CEFRES in Prague, Czech Republic (2017-2019). He later worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratoire d’Excellence les passés dans le présent, the Université Paris Lumières, and Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University, Prague.

Currently, he conducts research within the Neurocybernetics Team of the ETIS Lab, under the AS3 project “Decision, Learning, and Social Interaction” of the PEPR O2R program. He collaborates closely with social anthropologist Joffrey Becker and contributes to the Maison des Humanités Potentielles.

Julien Wacquez has been a member of the World Futures Studies Federation since 2023, sits on the scientific committee of the journal Terrain, and has been editor-in-chief of Angle Mort, a science fiction magazine, since 2014. The magazine received the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire’s “Special Prize” in 2014 and was named “Best Science Fiction Magazine of the Year” by the European Science Fiction Society in 2018.

Source: ETIS page

Eleanor ‘Nell’ Watson, a trailblazer in emerging technologies such as machine vision and A.I. ethics, dedicates her work to protecting human rights and infusing ethics, safety, and values that elevate the human spirit into technologies like Artificial Intelligence.

As IEEE Ethics Maestro, Chair IEEE’s ECPAIS Transparency Experts Focus Group, and Vice Chair of P7001 Transparency of Autonomous Systems committee on A.I. Ethics & Safety, Nell is engineering mechanisms into A.I. to help safeguard algorithmic trust.

She also leads several prominent organizations such as EthicsNet.org, teaching machines prosocial behaviors, CulturalPeace.org, crafting Geneva Conventions-style rules for cultural conflict, Endohazard.org, a hazard symbol project for informing consumers of endocrine disruptors, and Pacha.org, connecting a network of service providers to help enable the automated accounting of externalities (shifted costs) such as pollution.

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Corporate Futurist residing in Brazil, expert in Futures Studies and Strategic Foresight (most influential reference in Foresight and Corporate Cases in Brazil).

Jaqueline’s vision is strategic, and the narrative connects multiple futures with different current realities, above all, it shows HOW leaders and professionals can drive change in the new century.

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David Weinberger (born 1950) is an American author, technologist, and speaker whose work explores how technology, particularly the internet and machine learning, shapes our ideas.

Trained as a philosopher with a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, Weinberger’s career has spanned academia, technology consulting, and writing. He taught philosophy before transitioning to the tech industry, where he held marketing and executive roles.

He is perhaps best known as a co-author of the influential Cluetrain Manifesto (2000), which offered early insights into the social nature of the internet.

Weinberger has been affiliated with Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society since 2004, holding positions as a Fellow, Senior Researcher, and member of the Fellows Advisory Board. He has also been involved with the Harvard Library Innovation Lab and the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy.

More recently, his work has focused on the philosophical and ethical implications of machine learning, resulting in his 2019 book, Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We’re Thriving in a New World of Possibility

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Paul Werbos is best known (and most cited) for the original discovery of backpropagation, and for the theorem establishing its validity, as part of his PhD thesis in Applied Mathematics for Harvard in 1974. Even before 1974, he had developed backpropagation as one element of a more general approach to reinforcement learning, which combined a new way to learn to approximate dynamic programming with key insights from Freud’s theory of how learning works in neurons of the brain.

He inaugurated the field which we now know of as RLADP, Reinforcement Learning and Approximate Dynamic Programming, building on this earlier work, his later papers, and on the research area of Adaptive and Intelligent Systems at NSF which he led from 1988 to 2015. This included neural networks, adaptive fuzzy logic, and a major paradigm shift in how to understand intelligence in the brain, which has passed tests on the best real-time brain data (Werbos and Davis 2016).

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Rabia is an expert on digital commerce and developing thought leadership relating to this dynamic and increasingly significant subject.

In addition to insights-based content, Rabia works as an internal expert on research design and innovation and has been global project lead for travel and digital consumer research, where she has crafted and managed various sector indices, ensured global data quality and driven thought leadership.

With experience in strategy, research, and insights, Rabia advises clients on digital commerce strategy across a wide range of industries, including retail, fmcg, travel and consumer finance. Her interest in digital technologies and innovation as a denominator to transform and accelerate wider industries enables her to offer cross-vertical strategic insight.

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Amy Zalman is an internationally recognized futurist, author, and educator who advises government and business leaders on anticipating and navigating future change.

Current Roles:

• Advisory Specialist Leader, Defense, Security and Justice at Deloitte: She helps defense and civilian clients develop strategies to thrive in the evolving global information environment.
• Founder and CEO of Prescient LLC: A foresight consultancy that assists Fortune 500 companies, governments, and non-profit organizations in preparing for the future.
• Founder and Director of the Foresight Sandbox: An executive education program providing strategic foresight training.
• Part-time Professor of Strategic Foresight at Georgetown University.

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Dr. Lior Zalmanson is a senior lecturer (assistant professor) at the Technology and Information Management Program, Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University.

His research interests include social media, user engagement, internet business models, human-AI interaction, and algorithmic management. His research has won awards and grants from Fulbright Foundation, GIF (German-Israeli Foundations), Grant for the Web, Dan David Prize, Google, Marketing Science Institute, Social Informatics SIG, among others. His works were published in top venues such as MIS Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management Information Systems, and MIT Sloan Review.

His studies were covered in The Times, Independent, HBR, PBS, Fast Company, including numerous mentions in the Israeli media. In 2021, he received the Association of Information Systems Researchers’ Early Career Award, acknowledging a combination of research, teaching, and service to the community. He also received multiple teaching awards for his experiential courses in user engagement and online communities. Formerly he was an assistant professor at the University of Haifa, a postdoctoral Fulbright fellow at NYU, and a research fellow at the Metropolitan Museum Media Lab. Lior is also the founder of the Print Screen Festival, Israel’s digital culture festival, which connects internet researchers, activists, and artists. Furthermore, he is a grant and award-winning digital artist, playwright, and screenwriter. His most recent VR work (about the bystander syndrome) debuted at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival.

Source: Coller webpage