As CEO of Octopus Energy Germany, Bastian Gierull has given himself the mission to revolutionize the German energy market by bringing greener, fairer, and more affordable energy to all. He has been with Octopus Energy since its German market entry in 2020.

Benedikt Franke is Vice-Chairman and CEO of the Munich Security Conference. Previously he worked as Special Assistant for the former Secretary-General of the United Nations and Nobel Laureate, Kofi Annan. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge.

Bill Gross is Founder & Chairman of Idealab, one of the first technology incubators which he launched in 1996. He is also a pioneering renewable energy entrepreneur who has created more than 150 companies with more than 50 IPOs and acquisitions over the past 30 years.

A renowned researcher and entrepreneur in the field of digital health, Björn M. Eskofier heads the Machine Learning and Data Analytics Lab at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuernberg (FAU). He has made significant contributions to the development of a “Digital Health Ecosystem” that connects patients with stakeholders through digital support tools.

Björn Ommer is a full professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He heads the Computer Vision and Learning Research Group which developed the AI model Stable Diffusion. Previously a professor Heidelberg University, Ommer received his diploma in computer science from University of Bonn and his PhD from ETH Zurich.

As the CEO of DexMat, Bryan Guido Hassin is leading the scaleup of carbon-negative materials like Galvorn to render steel, aluminum, and copper obsolete and prevent gigatons of future greenhouse emissions. Prior to DexMat, he was co-founder and CEO of Third Derivative, the world’s largest climate-tech innovation ecosystem.

An architect and engineer by training, Carlo Ratti leads the CRA design and innovation practice in New York and Torino, Italy, and directs the MIT Senseable City Lab. He holds several patents and has co-authored over 500 publications, including The City of Tomorrow (with Matthew Claudel).

Artist, robotics engineer and creative technologist Chloë Ryan is the founder and CEO of Acrylic Robotics, a tech startup on a mission to widen access to the $70B fine art market. Her robots have been on tour across three continents, including as part of Adobe’s “Future of Art” exhibit at Art Basel and the Canadian National Exhibition.