Dr. Astro Teller oversees Alphabet’s moonshot factory X, which has spawned Waymo autonomous car, Verily Life Sciences, Google Brain and Wing delivery drones. Before joining Google’s parent company Alphabet, Astro was the co-founding CEO of Cerebellum Capital and the co-founding CEO of BodyMedia, a pioneer of wearable body monitoring systems.

Meredith Whittaker is the President of the Signal Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to secure global communication best known for its popular Signal Messenger app. Previously the co-founder of the AI Now Institute, Whittaker has advised many governments and civil society organizations on artificial intelligence, Internet policy, privacy and security.

Dr. Robert Habeck is a prominent German politician who currently serves as Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action. He entered politics in 2002 when he joined the the Green party (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen). From 2018-2022, he was a co-leader of his party. (Photo: Dominik Butzmann)

A globally respected thought leader on the intersection of technology and humanity, Tristan Harris is co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, a non-profit that focuses on transforming the incentives that drive technology. He was featured in the Emmy-winning Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma and regularly briefs heads of state, technology CEOs, and US Congress members. 

Greg Lavender is Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Intel Corporation. As CTO, he is responsible for advancing Intel’s future technical innovation through his leadership of Intel Labs and Information Technology. Prior to joining the tech industry, Lavender was on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin for 14 years.

As co-founder of the Mozilla Project, Mitchell Baker has been a driving force in promoting an open, innovative web accessible to all. She represents Mozilla – maker of the Firefox browser and other popular apps – in public, focusing on policy, open source, and community. Baker has received numerous awards, including being named one of TIME Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People” and receiving the Webby Lifetime Achievement Award.

Legendary musician and producer Nile Rodgers is the Co-Founder & Chairman of the We Are Family Foundation (WAFF), a non-profit dedicated to the vision of a global family by creating and supporting programs that promote cultural diversity. Rodgers has received numerous accolades for his contributions to music and social causes, including a Lifetime Achievement Grammy award in 2023.

Azeem Azhar writes the popular Exponential View newsletter, which explains how society and the political economy are changing under the force of technology. He’s also the author of Exponential: How to Bridge the Gap Between Technology and Society and serves on the board of the Ada Lovelace Institute.