A leading voice in artificial intelligence, Gary Marcus 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.

In addition to being Amazon’s Chief Technology Officer, Werner Vogels is an engineer, architect, scientist, programmer, product guy, executive, disruptor, investor, mentor, advisor, analyst, academic, sales guy, entrepreneur, data analyst, system administrator, evangelist, debater, father, musician and biker. 

Matthew Prince is co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare, which runs one of the world’s largest networks to increase the security and performance of its customers’ websites and services. Matthew is a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a winner of the 2011 Tech Fellow Awards.

Award-winning economist Moritz Schularick is President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and Professor of Economics at Sciences Po. His research spans macroeconomics, finance, international economics and economic history and has been published in many economic journals.

A Professor at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose in London, Francesca Bria is an innovation economist working at the intersection of technology, geopolitics, economy, cities and society. Formerly the Chief Digital Technology Officer for the City of Barcelona, Bria is a member of the EU’s New European Bauhaus Roundtable and was President of CDP Venture Capital, the Italian National Innovation Fund.

Marietje Schaake is international policy director at Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center, as well international policy fellow at the University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. Between 2009 and 2019, she served as a Member of European Parliament.

Jaya Baloo is a globally recognized cybersecurity leader. Formerly the CISO at Rapid7 and Avast, she currently serves as a Contributing Expert in Quantum and Cybersecurity for the World Economic Forum and advises Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3). Baloo also lectures as a faculty member at Singularity University.

Venture investor Steve Jurvetson is a co-founder of Future Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson who has led early investments in several industry-redefining companies, representing $800 billion of aggregate value creation. He has served on the board of directors of Planet Labs, SpaceX and Tesla.