Dr. Kirk Borne is the Chief Science Officer at DataPrime, Inc.  He is a sought-after global speaker on topics ranging from data mining, data management, big data analytics, data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, internet of things, data-driven decision-making, modeling & simulation of dynamic systems to emerging technologies, future of work, education, and science.

Prior to this role, he was the Principal Data Scientist, Executive Advisor and the first Data Science Fellow at Booz Allen.

Kirk is also Founder and Owner, Data Leadership Group LLC.

Yann André Le Cun is a French-American computer scientist working primarily in the fields of machine learning, computer vision, mobile robotics and computational neuroscience. He is the Silver Professor of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University and Vice President, Chief AI Scientist at Meta.

He is well known for his work on optical character recognition and computer vision using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). He is also one of the main creators of the DjVu image compression technology (together with Léon Bottou and Patrick Haffner). He co-developed the Lush programming language with Léon Bottou.

In 2018, LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, and Geoffrey Hinton, received the Turing Award for their work on deep learning. The three are sometimes referred to as the “Godfathers of AI” and “Godfathers of Deep Learning”.

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Geoffrey Everest Hinton (born 6 December 1947) is a British-Canadian computer scientist, cognitive scientist, cognitive psychologist, and Nobel laureate in physics, known for his work on artificial neural networks, which earned him the title “the Godfather of AI”.

Hinton is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto. From 2013 to 2023, he divided his time working for Google (Google Brain) and the University of Toronto before publicly announcing his departure from Google in May 2023, citing concerns about the many risks of artificial intelligence (AI) technology.  In 2017, he co-founded and became the chief scientific advisor of the Vector Institute in Toronto.

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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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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.

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.

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Dr. Wojtusiak, Professor of Health Informatics and Director of the Machine Learning and Inference Laboratory, has expertise that spans machine learning, health informatics, artificial intelligence in clinical decision support and knowledge discovery in medical data, and a wide range of applications of these fields in health care. His particular area of interest is in developing algorithms that derive simple, transparent and usable models from complex health data to predict patient and population outcomes. He studies how to create and evaluate reproducible, unbiased and trustworthy algorithms and models.

Dr. Wojtusiak serves as the Division Director for Health Informatics in the Department of Health Administration and Policy. He oversees undergraduate, master’s and doctoral programs in health informatics. Dr. Wojtusiak teaches several courses focused on machine learning, data mining, artificial intelligence and computing applied in medicine, healthcare and individual/population health.

He authored or co-authored over 100 research publications and presentations and continues to collaborate with multiple national and international institutions.

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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Jonathan Haidt (pronounced “height”) is a social psychologist at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992.

Haidt’s research examines the intuitive foundations of morality, and how morality varies across cultural and political divisions. Haidt is the author of The Happiness Hypothesis (2006) and of the New York Times bestsellers The Righteous Mind (2012) and The Coddling of the American Mind (2018, with Greg Lukianoff). He has given four TED talks. In 2019 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Since 2018 he has been studying the contributions of social media to the decline of teen mental health and the rise of political dysfunction. His most recent book is the New York Times #1 bestseller The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness.