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Right to left: Mona Ismail, (Arca), Mitchell Baker, (Mozilla Foundation), Esther Dyson, (Wellville) and Fred Vogelstein (Crazy Stupid Tech) on stage at the DLD Munich Conference 2025.

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Mitchell Baker

Mozilla
Portrait image of Mitchell Baker, co-founder and Executive Chair of the Board of Mozilla, in front of a billboard showing the foundation’s core mission.

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.

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Esther Dyson

Wellville
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Esther Dyson (@edyson on twitter) is executive founder of Wellville, a nonprofit project dedicated to showing the value of investing in health. Wellville advises five communities in the U.S. on accelerating their own health initiatives. Dyson is actively involved in policy and fundraising for the project and spends her extra time nurturing start-ups, with a recent focus on health care.

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Mona Ismail

Arca
Photo of Mona Ismail, Co-founder and CEO of Arca, looking left, smiling.

Mona Ismail is Co-founder and CEO of Arca, a platform that innovates how users discover the Internet through generative AI. Ismail previously worked at Lifeline Ventures, early-stage investors in leading Finnish startups like Supercell, Wolt, and Aiven. She studied Computer Science at Aalto University and served as the President of the Aalto Entrepreneurship Society.

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Fred Vogelstein

Crazy Stupid Tech
Indoor headshot portrait of author and journalist Fred Vogelstein (Crazy Stupid Tech).

Author and investigative journalist Fred Vogelstein is the co-editor of the innovation newsletter Crazy Stupid Tech, along with VC/journalist Om Malik. For more than two decades Vogelstein has covered Silicon Valley for publications like WIRED, The New York Times Magazine and Fortune. His book Dogfight: How Apple and Google went to War and Started a Revolution was published in 17 countries to critical acclaim.

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