Anya Kaspersen is a strategy professional, geopolitics and international security expert and practitioner. Her former positions include a career with the Norwegian Government and the UN (peacekeeping), research and academia, serving in different capacities in the private sector and for various multilateral organizations in the field and at headquarters. She joined the the World Economic Forum in 2014, spearheading the Forum’s work on geopolitics and international security and how to catalyse responses to global, regional and industry challenges.

She has published widely on geopolitics, international security affairs and global governance issues. Regular commentator and lecturer. Visiting Scholar, Law of Armed Conflict, Harvard University.

Bachelor’s in Strategic Studies, International Law, South East Asia, International Business and Anthropology, University of Oslo/University of Indonesia and London School of Economics; MSc in International Politics, International Security and International Law, University of Copenhagen (China) and London School of Economics and Political Science.

Dame Wendy Hall, DBE, FRS, FREng is Regius Professor of Computer Science, Associate Vice President (International), and is the Executive Director of the Web Science Institute at the University of Southampton. Dame Wendy was co-Chair of the UK government’s AI Review, which was published in October 2017, and has recently been announced by the UK government as the first Skills Champion for AI in the UK.

With Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Nigel Shadbolt she co-founded the Web Science Research Initiative in 2006 and is the Managing Director of the Web Science Trust, which has a global mission to support the development of research, education and thought leadership in Web Science.

She became a Dame Commander of the British Empire in the 2009 UK New Year’s Honours list, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society.

She has previously been President of the ACM, Senior Vice President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a member of the UK Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology, was a founding member of the European Research Council and Chair of the European Commission’s ISTAG 2010-2012, was a member of the Global Commission on Internet Governance, and until June 2018, was a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council on the Digital Economy.

Amelia Kallman is a leading London futurist, speaker and author. As an innovation and technology communicator, Amelia regularly consults brands, agencies, and governments on the impact of new technologies on the future of business and our lives. She forecasts global trends and behaviours, helping clients navigate innovation, build strategies and deliver industry leading initiatives. She specialises in the emerging opportunities – as well as the risks – of machine learning and AI, big data, IOT, and the New Realities (XR: VR-AR-MR), and is currently speaking on Security, Health & Experience Tech in the Aftermath of COVID-19, as well as the Future of Social Interaction & Social Media.

Originally from a theatrical background, Amelia started her tech career by chance in 2013 at a creative technology agency where she worked her way up to become their Global Head of Innovation. She’s opened, operated and curated pop-up and permanent tech labs in London, Scotland and Dubai, working with clients including Accenture, PWC, WIRED, and EY.

Carl Benedikt Frey is Oxford Martin Citi Fellow at the University of Oxford where he directs the programme on the Future of Work at the Oxford Martin School.

After studying economics, history and management at Lund University, Frey completed his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in 2011. He subsequently joined the Oxford Martin School where he founded the programme on the Future of Work with support from Citigroup. Between 2012 and 2014, he taught at the Department of Economic History at Lund University.

In 2012, Frey became an Economics Associate of Nuffield College and Senior Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, both at the University of Oxford. He remains a Senior Fellow of the Department of Economic History at Lund University, and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). In 2019, he joined the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the New Economic Agenda, as well as the Bretton Woods Committee.

In 2013, Frey co-authored “The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerization?”, estimating that 47% of jobs are at risk of automation. With over 5000 academic citations, the study’s methodology has been used by President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors, the Bank of England, the World Bank, as well as a popular risk-prediction tool by the BBC. In 2019, the paper was debated on the Last Week Tonight Show with John Oliver.

Frey has served as an advisor and consultant to international organisations, think tanks, government and business, including the G20, the OECD, the European Commission, the United Nations, and several Fortune 500 companies. He is also an op-ed contributor to the Financial Times, Scientific American, and the Wall Street Journal, where he has written on the economics of artificial intelligence, the history of technology, and the future of work.

His academic work has featured in over 100 media outlets, including The Economist, Foreign Affairs, New York Times, Time Magazine, Le Monde, and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. In addition, he has frequently appeared international broadcast media such as CNN, BBC, PBS News Hour, Al Jazeera, and Sky News.

His most recent book, The Technology Trap, was selected a Financial Times Best Books of the Year in 2019.

As a Media and Communications Specialist, Nazareen Ebrahim has consulted on, experienced and directed the workings of online and corporate communications and marketing across a variety of industries over the last 15 years. Clients have been predominantly within the technology, education, agriculture and retail spaces. Consulting services are provided under Naz Consulting – Corporate.Media.Academia founded in 2010. This is a Level 1 BEE, Woman-owned South African business.

As of March 2020, her journey of training as an AI Ethics Officer began. This is in preparation to strengthen the AI Africa Report research team at tech social enterprise Socially Acceptable, of which she is the CEO and Founder.

In addition to her extensive portfolio of consulting work, Nazareen provides face-to-face training and entrepreneurial mentorship on projects with institutions like Johannesburg’s Tshimologong Precinct, Durban’s Innovate Durban and business incubator Black Umbrellas. The team that Nazareen mentored last year on the Conlog project with Tshimologong was awarded their first contract with the company at the start of 2020. Proud mentor parent!

Having an acute and intuitive sense of communications has certainly helped the television and radio business shows Nazareen has produced and anchored in the last few years. Over the last decade, her broadcast portfolio has grown with interviews across local and national radio stations in South Africa. Currently, Nazareen has a weekly guest tech slot with Lester Kiewet on Cape Talk.

Evert is a senior manager with a keen focus on the development of AI-enabled solutions, and a member of Deloitte’s AI Center of Excellence. He has extensive experience applying AI techniques in a variety of public and private sector domains. Evert has been active as researcher, consultant and entrepreneur in artificial intelligence, machine learning and data mining for over 25 years. He was one of the founders of the data mining practice in Cap Gemini in the 1990s and was CTO of a successful AI startup. Evert also was an assistant professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and he holds a PhD in AI from that institution.

Lavina is passionate about humanity,  technology, economics and dance. Besides the 20 years experience in technology, she holds added knowledge in fields of psychology and artificial intelligence.

AIEthics mentor and supporter of Africa’s artificial intelligence potential. Mission includes creating meaningful innovative solutions to help shape the african continent. Huge supporter of technology for good in under developed countries.

She plays in sunny fields of across Africa’s landscape. In emerging technology spaces which includes agritech, fintech, healthtech, lawtech, retailtech and growing.

Marcin Detyniecki is Head of Research and Group Chief Data Scientist at AXA Group. He leads innovation projects – with a strong focus on advanced analytics – in conjunction with AXA’s operational business entities while providing strong technical insights. Marcin also plays a key role in animating and leveraging the academic community as well as defining the research strategy for AXA.

Additionally, he is a professor at the Polish Academy of Science (IBS PAN) and associate researcher at the computer science laboratory LIP6 of Sorbonne University.

Currently, his research focuses on humanizing Artificial Intelligence to foster technology adoption. On Machine Learning interpretability, his work has been to propose better interpretability approaches and to provide actionable tools such as library and tutorials to bring transparency to Machine Learning models. On developing a fair and regulated Machine Learning, he has investigated the mitigation of the usage of sensitive information in ML models for bias-free predictions. This will lead to developing fairness measures useful in AXA’s operational context.

Marcin Detyniecki studied mathematics, physics and computer science at the University Pierre and Marie Curie (UPMC) in Paris. In 2000 he obtained his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the same university. Between 2001 and 2014, he was a research scientist of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). He has been a researcher at the University of California at Berkeley and at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He has been visiting researcher at the University of Florence and at British Telecom Research Labs. He was a member of the research and academic council of UPMC University, member of the executive board of laboratory SMART, an elected member of the LIP6 laboratory council, and member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems (IJFUKS). Dr. Detyniecki has over 100 publications in journals and conference proceedings.

Michael Musandu holds an MSc in Artificial Intelligence and BSc in Computer Science. A science communicator whose research won Utrecht Universities Breaking Science 2019. He is the Co-Founder & CEO of Lalaland, an Amsterdam based start-up that uses generative adversarial networks to generate artificial human models, photorealistic yet nonexisting people. Helping fashion brands appeal to customers with virtual models that represent the incredible diversity of humankind.

Vishal Chatrath is CEO and Co-Founder of Secondmind, a decision making platform (DMP) that will simplify the future. Secondminds’s team of Cambridge-based, world-class researchers creates Machine Learning technologies to help you understand, guide and optimise the millions of micro-decisions that occur in complex, dynamic environments. Its platform will transform fields like systems engineering, autonomous vehicles, game design and smart city planning. Vishal was previously head of automotive at Nokia, founder of Chleon Automotive and Chief Business Officer of VocalIQ, which was acquired by Apple in 2015.

Nush founded Naaut which provides a 360 approach to innovation strategy to space agencies, startups, academia, AI accelerators, primes, and tech companies. As well as Naaut, Nush co-founded the London Space Network (LSN) in Jan 2019, the London Space Network organises monthly networking events across London to build and strengthen the UK space community. Recognised as one of the Top 100 most influential BAME tech leaders in the UK. – Financial Times. Nush has been active in the tech ecosystem across the UK, Europe, and the USA. Nush has championed diversity across the global space and tech ecosystem. She was appointed POC tech community ambassador for Google for Startup Campus and has been a key figure across the ecosystem connecting people to networks. She champions diversity of perspectives to drive and foster collaboration to drive innovation as we take our steps to go back to the Moon, Mars and beyond. Nush is and Advisory Board member of YSYS -Your Startup, Your Story is a startup community for founders, developers, creatives, investors and more on a mission to make a difference.

Sennay Ghebreab received his M.Sc. degree in Information systems in 1996, and PhD degree in Medical Imaging in 2001, both from the University of Amsterdam, where he currently is an associate professor. He investigates mechanisms of information processing in artificial, neural and social systems. Ghebreab is also chairman of BOOST, a foundation that helps refugees integrate into Amsterdam, and a board member of the Civic foundation, which is committed to a better integration policy in the Netherlands. His scientific work and social engagement come together in his Civic AI Lab, a lab for civic-centered and community-minded AI design development and deployment.

Meredith Whittaker is the Minderoo Research Professor at New York University and the founder of Google’s Open Research group.

Her research and advocacy focus on the social implications of artificial intelligence and the tech industry responsible for it, with a particular emphasis on power and the political economy driving the commercialization of computational technology. Prior to NYU, she worked at Google for over a decade, where she led product and engineering teams, founded Google’s Open Research Group, and co-founded M-Lab, a globally distributed network measurement platform that now provides the world’s largest source of open data on internet performance. She also worked extensively on issues of privacy and security, helping provide funding, strategy, and support for efforts dedicated to providing privacy from governments and large tech corporations. As a long-time tech worker, she also helped lead labor organizing at Google. She was one of the core organizers pushing back against Google’s military contracts, the company’s insufficient response to concerns about AI and its harms, and was a central organizer of the Google Walkout. She continues to work in solidarity with organizers in tech, driven by the belief that worker power and collective action are necessary to ensure meaningful tech accountability, especially in the context of concentrated industrial power. She has advised the White House, the FCC, the City of New York, the European Parliament, and many other governments and civil society organizations on artificial intelligence, internet policy, measurement, privacy, and security.

Alex is the founder of Big Technology, an independent publication that covers the inner workings of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. His email newsletter goes out to thousands of Silicon Valley decision-makers each week.

Alex’s first book, Always Day One, debuted in 2020. The book is a reported deep dive on the tech giants’ work cultures, featuring more than 130 interviews with insiders from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to front line workers. Inc. named Always Day One a Business Book You Have to Read in 2020.

Prior to founding Big Technology, Alex was a Senior Technology Reporter at BuzzFeed News. In 2019, he won a Mirror Award as part of a BuzzFeed team recognized for reporting on “Social Media in the Crosshairs.” Before BuzzFeed, Alex was a staff reporter at Advertising Age. He began his career buying ads and selling ad-tech software in New York.

Alex lives in San Francisco. He is a graduate of Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

Gary Marcus, scientist, bestselling author, and entrepreneur, was CEO and Founder of the machine-learning startup Geometric Intelligence, recently acquired by Uber, and is known for his provocative and bold claims in artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and cognitive science. Trained by Steven Pinker, he received his PhD at MIT at age 23. His professional research, published in leading journals such as Science, Nature, Cognition, and Artificial Intelligence, has focused on the foundations of cognition in humans, animals and machines, spanning fields from developmental psychology to neuroscience to genetics to artificial intelligence. A special interest has been on the challenge of endowing machines with common sense.

He is also well-known for his writing for the general public, including frequent essays and op-eds for The New Yorker and The New York Times. His books include The Algebraic Mind, The Birth of the Mind, Kluge: The Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mind, The New York Times Bestseller, Guitar Zero and The Future of the Brain: Essays By The World’s Leading Neuroscientists.

In a 2012 essay for The New Yorker, he was perhaps the first person to publicly criticize deep learning, drawing on arguments he developed in his 2001 technical book The Algebraic Mind. More recently, in a 2018 arXiv article, Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal, he asked whether deep learning might be “approaching a wall.” The challenges he laid out there were covered everywhere from The
New York Times to Wired to The Financial Times and Wall Street Journal.

In another provocative 2012 essay, Moral Machines, Marcus was the first to adapt “trolley problems” to driverless cars, anticipating much recent research on the ethics of AI. His next book, REBOOT: Getting to AI We Can Trust, to be published by Pantheon in Fall 2019, co-authored with Ernie Davis, calls for a fundamental rethinking of current approaches to artificial intelligence.

Notorious for his energetic, bold, witty and purposeful personality, driven to solve the world’s biggest challenges through social innovation. Igor Beuker is known for his radical vision on trends and technologies that impact business, economy, and society. In the spotlights, Igor delivered 2,500+ international talks in 20 years live on stage, being a headliner act speaker or host. Behind the scenes, Igor is a social entrepreneur with 5 exits and an angel investor in 24 social start-ups, and a futurist for Fortune 500s, WEF and the EU. Meet a misfit on a mission www.igorbeuker.com

Malak Trabelsi Loeb is an entrepreneur, futurist, strategist, and senior legal associate specializing in International Business Law and International Space Law, and International Commercial Arbitrator. Mrs. Loeb is a Lecturer in International Relations and Diplomacy, a multidisciplinary academic researcher, a writer and public speaker, and a Ph.D. Candidate in International Space Law.

Mrs. Loeb is advocating for Sustainable Space For Humanity, addressing the complex Space socioeconomic and environmental interrelated dimensions. “Sustainable Space For Humanity” advocacy aims to keep the peaceful use of outer space while ensuring socioeconomic development for the present and future generations without deteriorating the outer space environment.

Hassan Al Hilou is a strategic advisor, keynote speaker and author, Hassan is one of the sought-after leaders on radical diversity, inclusive innovation and society (public sector) transformation and the impact of it in different sectors, his strongest focus is people experiences, communication and service/product development and HR.

Ramon Rahangmetan began his career in the hospitality service industry at the age of 12 years old, few years later he studied Hospitality Management and Entrepreneurship in Wageningen, where he was the Chairman of the Student Council Board for two years, after this accomplishment he studied Sustainable Urban Development part e-learning at Wageningen University and Delft University of Technology.

Ramon has a broad interest in lifelong-learning, world-history, youth-empowerment and upcoming future technological trends. He uses this approach in his writing, working in a team, moderating a roundtable, speaking engagements, moderating, and speaking with people from various backgrounds. Adaptive learning, networking and cultural understanding are his driving principles.

Virginia Dignum is co-founder and board member of ALLAI. Virginia Dignum is Professor of Ethical and Social Artificial Intelligence at Umea University in Sweden, where she is scientific lead of the WASP-HS program. She was a member of the High Level Expert Group on AI. She is a member of the Global Partnership on AI and expert advisor on AI & Children for UNICEF. Virginia is the scientific lead of the Responsible AI & Corona project.

Frank Dignum is Wallenberg chair in AI at Umeå University in Sweden, has an affiliation to Utrecht University and he is an honorary principal research fellow of the University of Melbourne. He is well known for his theory of social agents and social simulations to support policymaking. He presented the results of a social simulation of the effects of the Dutch Corona-app during an expert session of the Dutch Healthcouncil. Frank is a member of the expert pool of the Responsible AI & Corona project.

Nathalie Smuha is a researcher at the KU Leuven Faculty of Law and the Leuven.AI Institute, where she examines ethical and legal questions around Artificial Intelligence and other technologies. In the context of her research, Nathalie also worked at the European Commission (DG Connect) where she coordinated the work of the High-Level Expert Group on AI and contributed to EU policy-making on AI. Nathalie is a member of the expert pool of the Responsible AI & Corona Project.

Bart Geerts is anaesthetist and CEO and founder of Healthplus AI, a company that builds, validates and scales machine-learning alogritms to transform data into insights for patients and health care providers to be better informed and proactive in their decision making. Bart is a member of the expert pool of the Responsible AI & Corona Project.

Catelijne Muller is President of ALLAI, a foundation that promotes Responsible AI, and a member of the High-Level Expert Group on AI for the European Commission. The spearhead of her work is the impact of artificial intelligence on society. She is the author of the Artificial Intelligence & Society report of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) of 31 May 2017 and Chair of the EESC Permanent Study Group on AI. Catelijne studied Dutch Law and worked as a lawyer at Allen & Overy (a.o.) from 1997-2012, after which she switched to “Europe”.

Guillaume has an extensive background in technology companies. In the past six years, he has been a business consultant in strategy and innovation-driven growth, having consulted for large and medium-sized companies in various sectors. He is the Chairman of the Board of CTS Santé, the most active accelerator for medical technologies and devices in Canada and the Chairman of the Board of CM Labs, a Montreal high-tech software company offering simulators and simulation software for vehicles, the defense industry, robotics, construction and port operations around the globe. He is an active mentor and coach with tech start-ups at FounderFuel, TechStars, District 3, CTS Santé, and the Business Families Foundation. Previously, Mr. Hervé was a senior executive at CAE Inc. where he held several key positions. He was the founder and CEO of CAE Healthcare which leveraged simulation, haptics and virtual reality technologies and best practices in aviation simulation to offer surgical simulators, integrated simulation-based training solutions, and patient simulators to medical schools, hospitals and defence organizations worldwide. The company grew to $50M in revenues by year 3. He was also President & CEO of Presagis, specializing in delivering high fidelity, physics-based simulation and graphics software to defense and aeronautics organizations worldwide. Prior to this, he was an Executive VP in CAE Inc.’s core business. Some of his responsibilities included VP Global Operations and Technology for Commercial Aviation Training, VP Aviation for Americas and Asia, and Head of Engineering. Prior to CAE, Mr. Hervé was an officer in the Canadian Air Force. He completed an M.Sc. degree in business from the State University of New York, a Bachelor of Engineering in aerospace from the Royal Military College of Canada, and a Master degree in Program Management from the Canadian Forces School of Aerospace Studies.

Master of Computer Science from Sydney University, lecturer at Huawei HDD Conference, and years of experience in AI projects as senior product expert.