Christine Carville
Christine Carville
Psychotherapist, professor, social entrepreneur in NYC
The 2025 edition will take place on June 26th, 27th, 28th and 29th. The Imagination Festival – Kinnernet-Europe, is a wild out of the box, irreverent, bottom-up innovation, creativity and cultural unconference created in 2013.The festival gathers each year 200 innovators and some of the most interesting people working in the media, art, technology or creative industries (science, business, technology, media, education, art, environment, social) and geographies (US, Europe, Israel and Asia).Our mission : meet, share our visions and invent desirable futures together. The festival mixes in depth conversations, debates, workshops, but also creative and artistics moments. All participants are equal and contributors and set up the programme by posting the topics on their minds on large wiki-boards. As a network of contributive people, the Festival has the ambition to create and develop each year innovative and contributive projects.Co-hosted by Yossi Vardi and Marc Goldberg, the festival is inspired by the Kinnernet unconference created in Israël in 2003 by Yossi, one of the major figures of the innovation eco-system in.We have created a unique global and diverse community of innovators that challenges conventional thinking, identifies new forms of creativity, and starts global conversations to foster desirable futures. The beauty of Kinnernet Europe is its vision of people, and thought leadership with no commercial agenda, beyond generating, spreading and turning into action great ideas that can bring the best people together.We have designed the 10 Kinnernet Europe Principles to structure how we behave in Avallon during the unconference and to guide the culture that we are creating within the Kinnernet community: 1 We all share a sense of civic responsibility to foster desirable futures 2 Immediacy (It’s happening here and now) 3 Radical participation (everybody contributes) 4 Radical self-expression (the event is your stage) 5 Have some sense of humour (or play to pretend that you do) 6 Kindness (practice kindness for 72 hours) 7 Listen, reflect, respect (don’t suck all the air) 8 Radical self-reliance (take care of yourself) 9 Leave no trace (respect the environment and the people hosting you) 10 Live beyond the event (there are many Kinnernet events and It’s not about being re-invited but about what you will do with the community…) |
HOTELS
You need to take care of your own sleeping arrangements as nights can be pretty cold in June…And we will not take care of it. Payment in advance – not refundable
You will be able to make a reservation at the following hotels or gîtes within few days…
HOTELS – Walking distance from Kinnernet Europe Event Location
House to Share *** Book a room here
Hôtel Avallon Vauban *** Book a room here
Hôtel De la Poste *** Book a room here
Hôtel Le Pub Vauban ** +33 6 79 31 31 85 / pubvauban@orange.fr (fully booked)
Gîte des Remparts Beautiful House to share (4 double rooms – 1 bathroom)
Book a room here
CHAMBRES D HOTES – Walking distance
Au Bel Air +33 6 86 76 02 99 ou 03 86 31 66 19 – bobinette4@wanadoo.fr
Nathalie Tarteret +33 6 70 12 50 65 – nathalie.tarteret@gmail.com
Lucette Hancke +33 3 86 34 22 48 – lucette.hancke@wanadoo.fr
HOTELS – Further away, 5 mins drive
DAK +33 3 86 31 63 20 / dakhotel@yahoo.fr
HOTELS – 5 kilometers – with a car – charming hotels
Auberge du relais Fleuri +33 3 86 34 02 85 / contact@hotel-relais-fleuri.com
Share a drive from the Airport to Avallon:
CLASS CEO – info@classceo.fr
Gregoire 06 15 10 10 48
SESSIONS |
WORKSHOPS |
ATTENDEES-GENERATE ART & ENTERTAINMENT |
In the morning and afternoon, guests will attend special sessions: interactive lectures or discussions that the attendees would like to share or discuss. | In the spirit of sharing and collaboration, we are going to run a track of workshops such as : *Internet *Innovation *Hack *Art *Culture : cooking, well-being | After dinner comes the play-time. Programs might include talent shows, giving attendees the opportunity to show off hidden creative talents. Guests are encouraged (and asked) to prepare something to share and play (concerts, lectures, gadget, video, regional food or any other unique talent). |
Suggest a session | Suggest a workshop | Suggest an entertainment |
Lectures, discussions, explanations
Lectures, discussions, explanations
Open concert with some of the best kinnerneter playing and signing.
Lectures, discussions, explanations
Lectures, discussions, explanations
Psychotherapist, professor, social entrepreneur in NYC
Founder Maslow Capital Partners Co-founder Kinnernet Europe
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With roots and upbringing spanning Yemen, Israel and the United States, Achinoam Nini aka Noa, is a singer, songwriter, poet, composer, percussionist, speaker and activist. Together with her longstanding musical collaborator Gil Dor, accomplished musician and co-founder of the Rimon School of music, Noa has released 15 international albums and graced many of the world’s most important and prestigious stages like Carnegie Hall and the White House and has performed for three Popes. She has been mentored by Pat Metheny and Quincy Jones and shared the stage with legends such as Stevie Wonder, Andrea Bocelli and Sting. In addition to her prolific musical activity, Noa is considered Israel’s most prominent cultural advocate of dialogue and co-existence, her “Voice of Peace”. Among her many awards is Commander of Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, one of Italy’s highest honors, Pilgrim of Peace from The Franciscan order in Assisi (awarded in the past to Bill Gates and Mother Theresa), and the Crystal Award from the World Economic Forum. Noa was Israel’s first ambassador to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and is active as board-member and public advocate of a score of Human Rights and Peace organizations in Israel and abroad. In 2021 Noa established “Noa’s Ark Foundation”, and Noa’s Ark Festival that took place in Arona, Italy in 2022+23. Together with marine biologist Prof. Maoz Fine, she has created an initiative titled “Reefs of Hope”, with the goal of securing UNESCO World Heritage status for the coral reefs of the northern red sea. Noa is married to Dr. Asher Barak. Together they have three children, Ayehli, Enea and Yum.
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Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie, an Israeli-born scholar, social activist and performance artist, is the Founding Spiritual Leader of Lab/Shul NYC and the creator of the ritual theater co. Storahtelling, Inc.
A seasoned CEO, entrepreneur & expert in AI, Cyber & FinTech. Founded & scaled 3 startups, two Unicorns to 9-figure rev. Find me @NY, TLV & Bman.
Amir Shevat is a General Partner at Darkmode Venture, previously Amira head executive positions in Google, Twitter, Microsoft, slack, twitch. Amir also authored two books, on conversation interfaces and building API that developers love.
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Dutch, since 33 years living in Chile. Introduced Dutch tulips to Chile, Chilean cherries to China, Chilean peonies to the US and a smile to people who received them all. MBA Thunderbird 1991, Conservationist, foodie and a pretty decent cook.
Andrew is an American entrepreneur and seasoned real estate investor.
Passionate about life, loves people & nature and believes on the power of human connection and creative thinking to make things happen
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As the head of the Innovate UK Immersive Tech Network, the UK government’s national network for immersive tech/spatial computing innovators, Asha has been helping to shape and build the sector’s ecosystem and drive government policy for the past 6 years. She also sits on the advisory boards of several companies and organisations, and is the co-founder of the XR Diversity Initiative.
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Assaf is an entrepreneur and tech executive. In 2013, he founded Superpedestrian, a company pioneering the decarbonization of transportation through machine learning and predictive networks. As CEO for over a decade, Assaf grew the company’s operations to 11 countries, leveraging its technologies across diverse industries, from commercial fleets to personal transportation. In 2003, he co-founded the MIT Senseable City Lab, which he co-directs today. The lab focuses on advancing the science and engineering of AI and analytics technologies to tackle the key challenges faced by cities, with particular emphasis on energy, transportation, and health.
Starting in the late 1970s, Barak perceived how personal technologies could connect individuals and organizations, putting the power of computers and networks in everyone's hands.
R&D leader and software engineer for more than 18 years, MBA from Technion, M.Sc. computer science - ML and data science. Working on my dream idea to change education systems in the world
Bella Pollen is a journalist, author of 6 books, an advocate for human rights and working actively in the field of education for Afghan women and girls. She is the co-founder of the 30 BIRDS, a foundation dedicated to forging opportunities for the 450 Afghans, predominantly schoolgirls, it evacuated from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and the thousands more left behind.
Bennett Lieberman is a poet and visual artist who has also worked in academia as a theoretical particle physicist, and in finance as a quantitative trader. The intertwining mysteries of nature and language, and a desire to engage in practices that dwell on them, has been a common thread in his research, his writing, and his studio practice. His visual art, often text-centered, explores the relationship between color, image, and language. Poems or fragments of language, when viewed as overlays to paintings, photos, and color fields or as collage elements in other fine-art objects, acquire physical characteristics. Conversely, the visual elements resonate with transient and oblique meanings evoked by the associated texts. Recent projects have explored art as a window onto consciousness.
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Psychotherapist, professor, social entrepreneur in NYC
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Craig Forman is an American entrepreneur, media executive, and former foreign correspondent who served as chief executive officer of The McClatchy Company. He previously worked at The Wall Street Journal. He is currently a partner at NextNews Ventures and is executive chair of The Center for News, Technology and Innovation.
Daniel Barcay is a technologist, focused on creating global-scale tech while driving wise and responsible practices around rollout
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Investor curious Run KNN Spain
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Hey everyone, I'm Deborah Laks! I've been on quite the rollercoaster ride in the tech world and as a brand ambassador for the Israeli innovation scene. From crafting partnerships to whipping up marketing campaigns, I've been knee-deep in it all. My journey? Well, it's been a wild one! Started off in Peru, then Costa Rica, and spent a good chunk of time soaking up the vibes in Israel before finding my groove in Madrid, where I'm now raising my adorable 2-year-old daughter. Along the way, I've had my fair share of adventures at companies like Google and Pentera, diving headfirst into both the corporate and startup worlds. Oh, and did I mention my little detour into the culinary arts? Yep, worked alongside some of Israel's finest chefs for a bit! Now, I'm diving into a new chapter, partnering with a Spanish scale-up in educational technology, helping shape the future of education in countries that have less access to digitalization. One of my most exciting projects was leading the Waze community of map editors in Latin America. Community building is my jam, which probably explains why I'm always up for jazzing up a scene or throwing a killer dinner party. Plus, I'm a sucker for exploring new culinary scenes in different cities around the globe. Need some restaurant recommendations? Just check out my profile on Google Maps!
Estonian-Israeli celeb….thats all, y’all…
I have extensive experience in all aspects of retail strategy and operations, in environment from start ups to large corporations. I have started my career working on strategic initiatives in London and Paris either as a consultant for Braxton / Deloitte or internally for PPR / Kering and Fnac. I then joined Franprix, a leading French grocery store as Deputy CEO. I am now based in NY and have been running the US activity of Bath Bazaar, a French high quality home furnishing company, and consulting for start-ups (in the food and beverage, tech and charity environment)
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Eitan is the Founder/CEO of Spatial Innovation Lab, where he leads a team focused on bringing new ideas to market, designing disruptive brands and growing existing innovative ventures.
Developing software, tweaking hardware, creating experiences, exploring humans, living in the start-up realms.
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Eugénia Carrara is renowned for her expertise in transforming the food sector through sustainability policies and initiatives. With over a decade of experience her career includes guiding top political figures, leading international organizations, mentoring startups, and serving on NGO boards.She has advised the Mayor of Paris and the Minister of Ecology, contributing significantly to food systems transformation with major international players. Having recently finished a mid-career at MIT she is consulting firms willing to use AI for good in strategy for innovation for a sustainable world. Eugénia's goal is to drive impactful changes in organizations committed to reach net-zero emissions, planetary health, and ultimately inclusive global wellbeing.
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Making easy random Kinnernet-style conversations available Worldwide, for everyone and the next person
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Lecturer at the School of Economic Warfare; Advisor to PwC on Cyberdefense. Fiction writer
Hadas Mor 46 years old Mother to Romi (he’s 9 YO) Owner and designer of hand made eco ethical lingerie brand , based in Israel
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Photographer and writer Heidi Lender is founder and Executive Director of CAMPO, a nonprofit creative institute in Pueblo Garzon, Uruguay. Born in New Haven, CT, Heidi served as Paris Fashion Director and Associate Bureau Chief of Women’s Wear Daily and W Magazine in her early twenties, and has contributed to international travel, shelter and fashion magazines. She lived part-time in India studying yoga, and ran a yoga studio in San Francisco. She rediscovered her creative self in photography a few years later. In 2010, on a whim, Heidi bought an 80-acre ranch in a tiny pueblo in Uruguay, where her photography career took off. In 2014, Kehrer Verlag published Grassland under Heidi’s pseudonym H. Lee, the first fine-art photography book on cannabis cultivation. CAMPO was born in 2018 to support international artists-as-changemakers and creative thinkers by offering transformative experiences through various programs under big Uruguayan skies.
Talk to me about biohacking, novel human-computer interfaces (Yes - reading the mind is fascinating), juicy exit stories
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Jack Saul, Ph.D. is a New York State licensed psychologist and family therapist providing therapeutic services for individuals, couples, and families in Manhattan. His family systems orientation emphasizes a narrative, dialogic, and resilience based approach. Dr. Saul is the director of the International Trauma Studies Program in New York City. As a psychologist he has created a number of psychosocial programs for people facing adversity in New York City and abroad. He is known for his innovative work with families and communities that integrates testimony, healing, media, and the performance arts.
15+ years in the space sector. Lead award winning programmes in fisheries, disaster response. Policy Fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP). Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. Apprentice mathematician.
Javier is an inventor and social entrepreneur, passionate about making technology humane and safe. He launched Europe's first Android phone in 2009, and has helped build additional ventures in cybersecurity, privacy, journalism, media, industrial IoT, and AI/NLP. His current project, Pandora's Way, reinvents the concept of rites of passage to provide parents with a better answer to the challenge of giving their kids their first phone. He is a fellow at Sesame Workshop and a former fellow at the Institute for Rebooting Social Media at Harvard's Berkman Center. In his free time, he builds interactive art experiences, incubates dreams, and crafts bedtime stories.
Born and raised in Nazareth, 28 years of age, with an optimistic take on life. Jawdat had acquired his LLB and LLM from Kingston and BPP Universities in London. Alongside being a trained solicitor, he is also an admitted Lawyer in the Israeli Bar Association, practicing Intellectual Property and Civil Litigation. In addition, Jawdat is an Arava Institute Alumni for Environmental and Political Studies. Yet, Jawdat holds a growing passion for building communities and cultures. He is the Co-founder of the FALLAHI project that harnessed skills of participatory leadership, dialogue, storytelling, and NVC for the purpose of creating a safe space for collective healing. “Forgiveness is when you know that people won’t understand your pain, and yet, you won’t wish it on others”
Franco-American tech entrepreneur inspired by intelligence from experts + AI to improve our lives and mitigate harms ????
PhD in chemistry, ETH Zürich. G. M. paper production and printing companies Man. Consulting, McKinsey Paris, Groupe Valeur Pr. Assoc. Justice
Jenn is known for her work as the Global Head of Innovation & New Initiatives at the Burning Man Nonprofit, where she significantly contributed to a decade of growth, notably during the era led by the late Larry Harvey. With over 18 years of experience in launching ventures across the hospitality, arts, and technology sectors, Jenn has passion for developing future community models and bottom up systems in tandem with real estate developments - that enhance startup and creative ecosystems. She is the founder of Creative Agency Play Atelier that provides independent research and advisory to shared value initiatives that involve human led - bottom up innovation design. Jenn is a Partner at Re:Imagine Group, a pioneering urban prototyping lab in San Francisco and serves as a Board Member / Advisor to many joint ventures. Jenn is committed to nurturing emerging innovations by leveraging her extensive experience to creatively tackle traditional challenges. She is a trained media expert ( once a publicist, always a publicist) and also manages a portfolio of real estate internationally. Previously, Jenn was a Partner at Agency RedRobin, an early-stage incubator in East London, founded in response to the 2009 recession. There, she refined her skills in platform and systems thinking, internet of things, the first digital pivot, the share economy and the started her path of popularizing entrepreneurial culture in a time of a changing social norms to that of the millennial mindset Additionally, she co-curated TEDxLondon from 2010 to 2012, fostering an environment for groundbreaking ideas to TED.com and Launched Vimeo across Pan Europe in 2010. Via Consultancy Play Atelier, Jenn takes a few select clients and can be an invaluable partner in driving bottom-up, open and regenerative projects.
Author, manager, Burner, and renegade marmalade maker, Jennifer navigates between the real and the sublime. She is the author of five books, including "Burning Man: Art on Fire," (also a documentary of the same name,) "In the Spirit of Napa Valley." and "Designing Retirement Communities for the Future," from her previous career owning luxury senior care homes. She is the Treasurer of Burning Man Project and serves on numerous nonprofit boards. She lives in San Francisco, New Orleans and frequently out of a suitcase.
Helping turn dreams into unicorns
Jeremie Kletzkine is an entrepreneur with technology expertise. Former VP at Startup Nation Central, he headed business development at Primesense (makers of Kinect, acquired by Apple), co-founded GameIS (the Israeli Video Game Industry Association), and co-founded several mobile game studios. In 2001 he founded the first semi-professional international eSport team in Israel. Jeremie also designed 7 physical board games published worldwide and sit on the board of various gaming and entertainment technology companies.
Social and cultural innovation -passionate with art and creation Before : Manager www.womens-forum.com, Co-founder : Young Mediterranean Leaders, Warner, Imagination Factory Now : Founder www.engage.world : stage direction and singing : www.pointdebascule.org and some other things... Make Desirable Futures Happen
Joanna runs JG Consulting, a strategic marketing boutique consultancy that advises companies on how to build their international footprint. She works with the management teams of Fortune 1000 companies to develop their World Economic Forum engagement strategy and to map key issues relevant to each company and executives. In 2017 she launched and ran for 3 years Transform.AI, a by invitation only conference in Europe focused on the business implications of artificial intelligence. Prior to starting JG Consulting, she served as director of Enterprise Strategy at Salesforce and prior to that, was head of the Information Technology Industry at the World Economic Forum.
Creative Technologists who can't decide whether to create interactive and immersive media or help develop technology to make said content. I have always been passionate about partners, collaboration, teaching and mentoring. I have been there, done that and ready to do it again.
John Gordon Is the founder of Xtreme Information, a Media Information company and Contagious, which monitors contagious ideas in media and culture. In 2002 he founded Intelligence Squared, a global forum for live debate on politics and culture and in 2012, the How To Academy, a live and online platform for talks. In addition he has launched Notting Hill Editions, a publishing company specializing in Essays and Globalista, a travel information company.
Iain Nash is a creative technologist and engineer. With a digital media and computer engineering, Iain now works for Zora building crypto protocols for creative projects and creators. Iain's custom electronics are used for lighting systems, including full designs for a 2023 Burning Man honorarium art project.
Jon Morris is the CEO/co-founder of NOWHERE & The Windmill Factory. He has helped pioneer immersive theatre, the experience economy, and the metaverse by creating award winning experiences at the intersection of art and technology that have excited audiences around the globe including collaborations with Cirque Du Soleil, NIN, Fuerzabruta, Burning Man, Red Bull, AWS, Google to name a few. linktr.ee/yojonmorris
Curious human who is grateful to be co-creating a more beautiful world during these transformational times. After 25 years in the business world, mostly in executive roles for disruptive health and wellness start-ups, I followed my calling and now serve as a life-coach and Vision Guide for mission-driven entrepreneurs and change agents. I am passionate about supporting people who want to connect to their true purpose and get into inspired action.
Digital & AI devices. Seeking new ways to humanize the digital world and add poetry. Seeks how to reconnect with the planet without any smart phones or screens. Loves chocolate and champagne, music and cakes.
Jörn is a director of corporate communication and innovation at heristo aktiengesellschaft, a leading food company. He has significant experience in digital transformation and innovation in digital tech, with a focus on mobile payments, financial solutions, and open banking. He is passionate about developing and implementing innovative strategies and products that enhance customer experience, increase revenue, and optimize operations. He has a strong track record of leading cross-functional teams, partnering with external stakeholders, and delivering high-quality results. He is also an author, TEDx-speaker and consultant.
EVERYTHING IS INTERCONNECTED "As a nomadic spirit I navigate from universe to universe I am enriched by travels and meetings what I do is not a job it's an endless search, it's looking for the beautiful in the sense noble of the term, it's sharing my vision that everything is interconnected, there is no limit..." Http://www.Judithdarmont.com
Jurgis Didžiulis (aka Jurgis DID) is a Colombian-Lithuanian with a unique talent for bringing people together through the magic of musical co-creation. Part speaker, activist, and performer, he has navigated the intersection of music and social transformation for 20 years with a focus on upgrading culture (beliefs and behaviors) through culture (creative expression).
Karina Zilberman, a recording artist and group facilitator, is dedicated to fostering community through inclusive experiences that promote spiritual and personal growth. With a passion for cultivating connections through play and embodiment practices, she creates transformative environments that resonate with a "playground mindset". Karina co-leads retreats in Costa Rica with her husband, seamlessly blending nature with immersive experiences to inspire profound personal evolution. Committed to empowering individuals to listen to their essence, she shares tools informed by psychotherapy, movement, play, and improvisation. Karina's mission centers on integrating authenticity into daily life, making fulfillment and joy guiding principles.
Keiera Douglas, ceo Scrol Agency.
Ken is the Founding Partner in memBrain - an entertainment marketing and strategy consulting firm that advises Fortune 500 companies, startup ventures, and everything in-between. memBrain also develops licensing programs and brand extension opportunities.
Kim has over 10 years of track record in design and engineering innovative stuff. Previously holding responsabilities for the large industry and startups in product design and digital transformation, he has been operationally involved in cutting edge innovation projects for over 10 years, in many different fields such as industrial fabrication, energy, healthcare, sustainable agriculture, hydrogen mobility, urban development and areospace. He runs expertises in complex system conception. Currently working for different institutions and large corporations such as the French Space Agency aka CNES.
Former IT & Innovation director at NY Times International, now breaking, building and creating new business models, services and products, both in media and out of media. The best bit is I get to work with large multinationals and small startups - the whole ecosystem is my playground! I'm also chairwoman of the US board of APOPO HeroRats where we blend the best of nature and tech to train rats to save lives by detecting land mines, TB and lots more using their amazing sense of smell. @daviskris10
Mirrors. Chocolate. Innovation advisor. Investor. Former dot com entrepreneur. Recovered C-Level corporate exec.
Musician, Singer, Writer, Performer, Creator of The SPAR Method for higher consciousness conflict/resolution, certified EFT Practitioner, lover of the healing arts, hardcore Meditator, Magic Maker, happily returning to the hearth of France.
Leor Roseman is a Senior Lecturer and Psychedelic Researcher at the University of Exeter, and the chair of RIPPLES, a non-profit for psychedelic peacebuilding.
Lily Safrani is a serial entrepreneur and investor who has launched successful start-ups in the educational, communication, and tech event spaces. She was an early contributor to the creation of the ExO companies. Her Massive Transformative Purpose is exponential empathy and emotional wellness for all.
For over 10 years, I’ve held leadership positions in varied behavioral healthcare settings from elite residential treatment programs to esteemed academic research hospitals to hypergrowth healthtech start-ups. At this point in my career, I have an intimate knowledge of the industry’s pain points and the drive to make a positive impact. Hope is the choice, cheers!
Lior Bitton (43, Tel Aviv) is an expert clinical psychologist passionate about innovation. Alongside his clinical practice, he has dedicated his career to promoting technological solutions, clinical methods, and commercial models designed to make therapy more accessible, affordable, and stigma-free. Lior co-founded and was the clinical director of Headspace Israel, an early intervention and prevention center for youth. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he co-founded ToTalk2, an early-stage startup established to provide mental health services through workplaces. He was then recruited by Femi Premium, Israel’s largest private healthcare services provider, to establish and head its mental health division. He built and managed tailored mental health solutions serving thousands of patients across various demographics. Lior is now the co-founder of corelate.ai, a tech startup focused on innovating in relationship therapy, and is an advisor to other startups innovating in mental health tech.
Split between Tel Aviv, Santa Teresa, CR and Oslo. I truly love my quite multifaceted life where time is split between working as a webmaster, front-end developer & designer and a social entrepreneur. As the founder of the Kos & Kaos, a Nordic network organizing intelectual events, think tanks and social activities with a focus on the current fight against antisemitism.
Virtual Film Production supervisor and script consultant for the application of technology in storytelling. Pioneer of practical AI in film.
Creative strategist spezialized in co-creating desirable sustainable futures
Reza is a general partner at Partech, based in the Paris office. In this role, Reza focuses primarily on the infrastructure, datacenter, cybersecurity and enterprise markets. Widely regarded as a transformational pioneer, Reza has built his career and reputation by joining early stage ventures and leading them to a successful exit, but also by working in large groups to help them transition to new business models.
I am passionate about immersive experiences and building community and cone-ction. I’m interested in new ways cities can be built without cars and built around joy and community.
Of French and Peruvian origin, Manuela fluently speaks French, English, and Spanish. Her journey as a dedicated lightworker takes her across continents, dividing her time between Europe and Costa Rica, where she hosts holistic retreats.
Specializing in transformational Bodywork, Sound Healing, and Yoga, Manuela intertwines ancient wisdom with contemporary healing modalities. Her approach is a blend of energetically attuned bodywork, immersive sound, and mindful movement, inviting participants on a profound healing journey.With reverence and respect, Manuela delicately weaves the wisdom of plant medicine into her offerings, providing a sacred space for self-exploration, inner harmony, and spiritual growth.
Through her practice, she serves as a compassionate guide, nurturing individuals toward a restored sense of peace, clarity, and fulfillment. Each encounter with Manuela is an invitation to realign, rejuvenate, and rediscover the innate balance of body, mind, and spirit.
Founder Maslow Capital Partners Co-founder Kinnernet Europe
From Telco and IT to craft Brewery
Founding Member SingularityNET, CEO & Founder SingularityDAO! Decentralized AI! Crytpo, and Blockchain!
Hi, I am Marcelo. I am Rabbi and Psychotherapist, I have dedicated my life to creating intentional communities. Ever since I can remember my passion has been to take people through immersive transformational experiences. With my wife Karina we live in an Eco Village in the Costa Rican Mountains and we co lead Spiritual Mindfulness retreats in nature. My work dwells in the intersection between Jewish wisdom, psychology and contemplative practices. As a therapist many times I define myself as a mentor and.I believe that my role as a mentor is to hold people’s aspirations with the compassion and the determination that is required to live a more integrated life.
Marcelo Valansi is an innovative entrepreneur who is dedicated to the design, development and implementation of self-sustaining regenerative projects and communities. Marcelo has extensive experience in developing residential and commercial projects of different scale in several countries. Its focus is how projects can be developed in a new way, where the site is regenerated, creating communities that can generate a positive impact, accessible, replicate and profitable, generating a regenerative and sustainable development model over time. The last project he developed in Costa Rica and where he currently lives with his family is called www.laecovilla.com a Permaculture ecovillage surrounded by nature, turning a cowfarm in a food forest regenerative community, where 45 families from 29 different countries, different background and ages live in harmony with nature. Where it is shown how it is possible to live in harmony with nature without leaving comfort aside. He also cofounded an innovative school www.ecovillaschool.com Marcelo travel around the world to learn what makes a community successful, sustainable and last for long time. Currently he is working on developing more regenative self sustainable communities, ecovillages, using permaculture principals, organic agriculture and the latest technology available to create the town and communities of tomorrow.
Sunny has been connecting remarkable people and projects to help them come to fruition in the world of technology. Life sciences , AI and arts and culture for o er 3@ years and she’s not stopping yet
Interdisciplinary participatory performance and installation, addressing environmental and socio-political issues. Integrating social media for direct participation and crowd-sourcing, Sound, text, video, photography, performance artifacts and sculptural items add layers to the installations. Ongoing projects reflect personal and social commentary, fostering universal thoughts, concerns, and hopes for positive change.
Founder of an association which invites the young generation to plant trees with and among farmers in their territories to take care of the Living things and of human relationships.
Music, art, strategic foresight, futurism, innovation, leadership, future of work and humanity
He is a passionate entrepreneur, been successfully involved in three major industries/sectors such as luxury, action sport and innovation technology. Curiosity driven and a keen observer to understand diversity in people's cultures and mindsets by the impact of new paradigms and generations shifts to strategize new paths of applications. Maurizio holds various roles and delegated in accordance with his skills and experience as CEO, Board Member, Creative Vision-Strategist, Investment Committee, Mentor, Stakeholder formation, Branding, Supervision, General Business Development. Maurizio's envision driving force is characterized by three elements that derive from his own experience, the influence of intangible values, gather likeminded communities. Convert intangible values into a tangible context. Foster a mindset and sense of belonging into a culture.
I've produced film scores for 20-somthing years and am the co-founder of the Arvo Pärt Centre in Estonia!
Entrepreneur connecting kids to wholesome foods, supplying 3000+ stores in Japan. We're launching our gourmet vegan butter with coconut worldwide in August, having moved our headquarters to America in June.
Multi disciplinary artist and activist. A storytelling consultant, helping individuals and organizations frame their authentic & unique stories.
New Space Business Development. Know to light a bonfire with one match. Love the Kinnernet family.
An economist and sociologist by training, I have worked for Ipsos, Danone and LVMH perfumes and cosmetics in qualitative research, innovation and creativity. In 2012 I set up Blossom id, a brand strategy, foresight and innovation consultancy specialising in luxury goods. At the same time, I'm a polymorphous artist, poet, embroiderer and ceramist... this year I'm publishing a collection of poems entitled "à l'ombre des chimères" (in the shadow of chimeras) and holding an exhibition of embroidered poems and ceramics... I've also made short fiction films and documentaries, and created a brand of textile jewellery called "symphonie animale" (animal symphony) and textile decoration called "amore amour"
Negar is a passionate philanthropic advocate supporting the global refugee response driven by her professional and personal experience with forced displacement. Across her work, Negar has centered on the rights and wellbeing of marginalized communities. From 2009 to 2015, Negar worked on 20 international development projects in 9 countries with UN agencies, governments, bilateral donors, and NGOs. Negar is a Women Moving Millions member and a certified leadership coach and organizational development advisor running her private practice Resonance Coaching and also teaches women on the frontlines Empowerment Self Defense.
Nicole Yershon is a dynamic force in the world of innovation and business transformation. With a career spanning three decades, she has been instrumental in driving change within multi-award-winning agencies. As a consultant, mentor, and best-selling author, Nicole has a passion for connecting expertise and creativity to deliver tangible results for the world's most adventurous companies and brands. She is a strong advocate for mentorship, particularly reverse mentorship, believing in the power of learning from the younger generation. Nicole's approach is grounded in truthfulness, self-confidence, and fearlessness, traits that have guided her through her remarkable journey. Her work is not just about business change, but also about cultivating emotional intelligence and leadership. Nicole's unique perspective and approach have made her a sought-after voice in the industry. However, she remains humble and is always eager to learn from her interactions, especially with the younger generation. Nicole is also the proud founder of the Rough Diamond program at Ogilvy, which has seen many of its participants rise to senior positions in global brands. Her book, "Rough Diamond", is a testament to her journey and the insights she has gained along the way.
AI Ethics Strategist, Professor & Author, Speaker & Troublemaker. Passionate about shaping tech with moral foresight
24 year old Chilean business student from Adolfo Inañez University. Soon to enter a masters in Global Management and International Trade in Erasmus Rotterdam.
Music maker and performer, the creator of a music production education software for kids - because Anyone Can Be a Music Maker! Obsessed with education, creativity and problem solving.
Book publisher. Amplifier of ideas and stories. Explorer of the human condition. Building a new kind of author-centered publishing company.
A digital experimentalist with a corporate job
Known as a Global Nomad: lived in Turkey, Iran, Israel, Italy & now NYC. Renaissance Man who loves visual, performing & literary arts on top of wonky subjects (econ, finance, geopol). Professor Emeritus at NYU. Balance brain left & right side. As comfy at Met Opera as at Burning Man. So love High & Low Brow. New book Megathreats https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/nouriel-roubini/megathreats/9780316284059/
I try to turn chaos into order, whether that's through teaching, starting companies, or making music.
Entrepreneur with a dedication to luxury fashion and lifestyle, created more than 20 companies globally. Passion for brands communication, e-commerce and new technologies. Love fashion and design
Based in NYC. Investor in deep tech startups. Bakes a fantastic chocolate cake. Physicist, Engineer.
I have worked as a reporter and an editor at The New York Times for more than 25 years, and spent the last nine covering the economy. But I have covered many other subjects, including politics, the courts, theater, the arts, families, fraud, education, military spending and the world of ideas. Before The Times, I worked at The Washington Post and Rolling Stone. I started my career at Newsday, where I covered City Hall and the federal courts. I was also political editor, editor of the Sunday opinion section, and an editorial writer. I’ve written a book, “In Our Prime: The Fascinating History and Promising Future of Middle Age.”
Professional dilettante; crisis manager in the public, non-profit and private sectors; mediator, passionate about bridging gaps and trying to talk to "the other side".
Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie is the founding spiritual leader of Lab/Shul NYC and the creator of Storahtelling, Inc. An Israeli-born Jewish educator, writer, and performance artist, he received his rabbinical ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 2016.
Powering & empowering media ecosystems in emerging markets @AlephGroup. Intrepid traveller, trivia nerd & movie buff.
I am a Paris-based writer, journalist and critic, a contributing writer for The Atlantic and a former Rome Bureau Chief and European Culture correspondent for The New York Times. I am also the incoming Curator of Programs at The American Library in Paris and write regularly for The New York Review of Books. I specialize in textured profiles and features at the intersection of culture and politics but another favorite form is the postcard. I have reported from more than two dozen countries and interviewed heads of state and cultural figures, including four Nobel Laureates in literature. I have also unraveled the mystery of Elena Ferrante’s identity, met two popes, taught journalism at Princeton, interviewed the Zelenskys in wartime Kyiv and directed an artist residency in Italy. I grew up in Vermont and have lived my adult life in New York, Rome and Paris. I spent much of the pandemic on a Greek island and emerged wiser.
Co-Funder, CTO Manager and Engineer with experience in various fields include SoS solutions. Passionate for technology, art and nature.
Founder, TWIN Global; Professor of Innovation, UofChicago & Northwestern; Author, speaker, active venture investor. BA, History; Ph.D., IE, Northwestern
I have focused on PE and VC investments since 1995. During this time I have worked closely with dozens of ventures in Europe, Israel, the US and Latin America. In 2011, I founded BAMCAP Ventures. We presently support a thriving portfolio of over 20 investments on both sides of the Atlantic. I am passionate about environmental conservation - and a proud Mamoní Valley Preserve board member. A Dartmouth College BA (Computer Science with Summa Cum Laude honors) and Harvard University MBA, I have been a YPO member since 1992. Since 2016, I have organized 7 Kinnernet-Unconference events (in LatAm & the Engadin Valley).
Rochelle is specialized in global brand strategy and marketing across consumer product, entertainment, retail and technology sectors. She has proven experience working with brands such as Activision (Franchise: Call of Duty), Quiksilver (Brands: DC Shoes, Quiksilver, Roxy), Apple (Product: iPhone), Visa, and Fisker Automotive. She is globally recognized for her record-breaking brand and product launches where she won media plan of the year. She has successfully led all global planning and execution of marketing activation initiatives in over 175 markets around the world. She eventually left corporate America to run her own marketing and business strategy consultancy, The Dialectic Compound, aiding start-ups with their growth strategy and execution. She felt that new ventures deserved an opportunity to succeed regardless of the fact that they were lacking resources. This led to her launching a start-up of her own, Optimist Made and Optimist Labs, which was born re-imagine how we think about consumerism in fashion and shrink the ongoing problem of over-production.
Partner and member of the Executive Committee of Image 7, leading independent communication consultancy in France. As a consultant, I cover all sectors of the economy but I have developed a high-level expertise in communications for tech players and fast-growing companies. Active in various associations, in 2009 I founded a group (La Bande à Bordel) with which I organized several high-profile events alongside cultural figures and associations, generating over 600k views on Youtube. In 2012, I joined the Global Shapers community, an international network created at the initiative of the World Economic Forum. Since 2020, I’ve been a mentor with SISTA, a group of women entrepreneurs and investors promoting greater diversity in the digital economy.
Saad is a musician who blends groove and world music. Born in Morocco, he travels to share his unconditional love for music.
I unleash videogame tech on unsuspecting industries: in healthcare, in space, in Hollywood. Former MSFT/LucasFilm. Built/sold multiple game companies
San Rahi is a leading brand innovation and design strategist with over 20 years of experience, earning accolades like an Emmy and the SXSW Innovation Award. Renowned for using business as a force for positive change, his work with brands such as adidas, Apple, BlackRock, ESPN, Hyundai, Intel, NASA, Samsung, Toyota, and the United Nations Development Program highlights his ability to drive global market influence and strategic growth. San excels at turning complex scenarios into actionable visions, integrating interdisciplinary approaches to create impactful human experiences. His expertise spans Automotive, Consumer Technology, Entertainment, Financial Services, Media, Sports, and Travel. San is Managing Partner of Roarcode, a design innovation consultancy, and a co-founder of 11VEN, an innovation collective for sustainable urban solutions. He advises C-Suite executives on innovation and growth strategies and collaborates with UN agencies to support the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
Publishing visionary and dreamer. Unreasonable Mentor (2024), Founder and publisher of Nowtilus Publishing (2002) and Argonowta Digital (2022). Cofounder of Plaza Digital ebook platform (2001), Cofounder and CEO of the Ecuality ecommerce venture (1999), General Manager at ANAYA MULTIMEDIA and ANAYA INTERACTIVA (1984, 1988). Experience in educational & trade publishing, media licensing, electronic publishing, consumer software & videogames, online marketing & ecommerce. Publisher of the “Psychonaut Guides” (www.psychonautguides.news). Committed and passionate about making the science of psychedelics accessible to all. Systematic psychonaut & vocational psychedelic guide. Ham Radio operator (NK2R/EB4B). Enthusiastic explorer & adventurer. Guided in life by science, curiosity and love.
Sarah's journey in technology began in her childhood, nurtured by her father, a signals intelligence engineer at GCHQ in the UK. Her early exposure to coding and building computers at home sparked a lifelong passion. Sarah leads KPMG Futures, an incubator for advanced technologies and new business models at KPMG. The team focuses on using emerging technologies such as blockchain and AI to spearhead innovative business solutions. KPMG Futures not only anticipates future opportunities but also creates game-changing solutions, ensuring that clients stay ahead in an ever-evolving market. Known for her ability to seamlessly bridge business and technology, Sarah fluently speaks both tech and commercial, empowering her teams to lead build new businesses, execute complex projects, and develop disruptive strategies. Her leadership style is marked by a blend of bravery and empathy, and she emphasises authentic leadership, believing it enhances team connection and effectiveness.
Economist and Financial expert, manager partner at a scaleup and trusted curator of new growth experiences. Host of unforgettabe Madrilian night fun. Passionate about biohacks and reggae
Purpose-driven entrepreneur in Healthcare, Education and Sustainability through our Family Office, Capital on a Mission. Happy father of 4 children, Sailor, Ironman, Philanthropist, Art Collector, fly-fisherman, diver, JS Bach aficionado.
More than 25 years of expertise in connecting people to brands in a strategic and meaningful way (Marketing, advertising, brand content, CRM, media...) on both agency and client side. Co-director of Cortex, the unique french crew of 40 strategic planners in brand, channel, media, data, insights, content and prospective of Havas. Born and raised in Paris.
Shii Ann Huang is an entrepreneur, artist, actor, and a former reality TV star. A graduate of UC Berkeley and NYU’s ITP graduate program, and Maggie Flanagan Studios, her academic and creative interests are wide-ranging. Currently, Shii Ann funds her artistic interests and futurist curiosity by running a successful real estate team at Compass in New York City. Her passions run the gamut from NFTs, costume design & immersive theater to ethics and law in a future with AI and Crispr engineered humans
CCO at the payment unicorn Rapyd and a Fellow at Harvard. Former Chair of Israel’s Financial Crime Agency & senior leader at FATF.
Sierra Campbell is a death doula, meditation and yoga instructor with more than 25 years of experience. She shares her work and online courses in elder and end of life care at ChooseNurture.com
Sofia Nordmann is an Argentinian-German visual artist living in Berlin, Co-Founder and CEO of BAAM, the Berlin Affordable Art Market and art-therapist.
Yes: A Digital Dunkirk I have been invited by Benoit to put together a slide presentation on the Future Brilliance Task Force and our successful efforts to evacuate several hundred Afghan women and their families from Afghanistan; reskill them in ICT, coding and robotics; prepare them for life in the West; and to secure asylum and flights to freedom.
Sridhar is the founder and CEO of Elemental Machines, makers of smart IoT products for the life sciences industry. He previously was a founder of Misfit who developed elegant wearable products, which was acquired by Fossil in 2015. Sridhar also founded AgaMatrix, a blood glucose monitoring company that made the world’s first medical device connecting directly to the iPhone.. He has been known to run 13.1 miles on occasion and has sometimes been spotted on stage behind a wall of drums.
Catalyzing everyting exciting between creativity, technology, innovation and venture capital. Dedicated 25+ years to #futureofcontent, past 8 with the Marche Du FIlm - Festival de Cannes, Storytek and Future Media Hubs. 10 + years in Asia, occasional horse whisperer to goverments and between the EU. Electronic musician, film producer, and volunteer emergency medic.
Fostering a Mensch Republic
Hi. I’m Steven. Originally from Colombia and now living in Portugal. In my past I was an entrepreneur (media/tech), angel investor and marketing/brand strategist. Gave all that up to pursue my mission and passion…learn and teach the best ways to tap innate mind/body/soul abilities for greater success and fulfilment in business and life.
Lifelong tech enthusiast, founded Wonderbly.com, built GoodDollar.org. Now aiding Israel's liberal fight building political technical systems.
Tali Orad is an engineer, TEDx speaker, and serial entrepreneur. She’s the founder of 1treellion, a global movement to mitigate climate change and support communities by planting trees.
Californian living in Portugal. Love playing in nature, developing deep connections and visiting new places. Curious about spirituality and leadership across cultures.
Brand strategist and digital creative with +30 years proven track record as Consultant, Expert in Business Transformation, Digital & Innovation, Omnichannel Marketing, Advertising, Events and holistic Customer Experience Management.
Tim leads the innovation studio “Audi Denkwerkstatt” in Berlin. Prior, he lived and worked in Tokyo, supporting international start-ups in business growth in Japan. Tim is an experienced innovation manager, forward thinker, open-minded collaborator, startup mentor & juror, drawing on 25 years of tech industry experience.
Former Digital & Innovations chief at Lufthansa, founder of the FlyingLab. As former social media trailblazer, survivor of shitstorms and ash clouds over Europe, crisis team member in the Germanwings crash. Former jury member of the German Marketing Award. Followed his entrepreneurial calling while transforming his curious soul from digital pioneer to digital advisor, coach & catalyst. Now, entrepreneur (e.g. computer vision in aviation) and happily interim manager for burning fires. Love for lecturing around business model innovation, new tech & desirable futures. EV enthusiast, gadget geek and secretly proud dad of two tough girls. Preferring good questions over good answers.
Architect, writer, painter of ink circles, founding partner of MKR architects in Tel Aviv, with my wife Ganit.
Obsessed with the Real. Pine trees, love, memory, straight or curved lines, motion and emotion, trauma, dreams, Hebrew words, and sounds are all source-materials for the on-going investigation of Specificity and Possibility.
Founder and slasher, Uriel lives and works in Paris.
I am a creative and sensitive person. My imagination and my curiosity are my main assets, they give me keys to play with the colors and textures of the world, make them mine and meet others along the way. I leverage that creative, inquisiitive and empathic side to provide coaching services to Executives, Founders, Individuals and Teams. I help people become fully aware of their strengths and take advantage of their own resources to understand and embrace change, make the most of challenging situations and transformations. I draw on a multi cultural background with french, and more particularly mediterranean roots as well as a strong californian inspiration.“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new” (Socrates)
I am passionate about bringing diverse people together to not only create diversity of thought, but also a better understanding between cultures and a sense of true community and belonging.
Anaesthesiologist and AI ninja. Bridging the worlds of medicine, pharmacology and technology to enhance the human experience.
PAiX (éXchange d'intelligence d'artiste protopien) is an organizing principle and growing, pro-social collective of global artists, entrepreneurs, impact investors, storytellers, bioregional catalysts, and pragmatic optimists who share a core passion and vision for regenerative futures.
William is an entrepreneur with a focus on AI. He is currently the founder and CEO of Unlikely AI. He previously founded voice assistant startup Evi which was acquired by Amazon and was then a key member of the team that defined, built and launched Alexa. William has been involved with many 100s of other startups as a mentor and angel investor. William also wrote the AI software that created the anagrams in the Da Vinci Code and once got lots of press for calculating that April 11th 1954 was the most boring day in history.
I am a visionary leader in the lifestyle beverage industry, dedicated to building strong and admirable love brands worldwide. My last role was 12 years as CMO of the Jägermeister brand, attracting a young global audience by expanding the marketing organization into 135 markets. Prior to that I played also a significant role building the Red Bull brand world wide with several international roles. It all started with a diploma in Political Science with focus on 'International Relations - Conflict Prevention'. Definitely a topic worth a deeper look again these days.
Consigliere to the at-risk, connoisseur of noodles, fine purveyor of the multi pass
Xander Bueno de Mesquita is the founding father of Treating Life Well©, a concept built on the sweet spot between three primary ideas: Circularity, Place-Making and Hospitality. All three concepts redefine how human beings interact with the world, and how that interaction can produce positivity and energy, instead of waste and isolation. The QO hotel in Amsterdam is a living manifestation of Xander’s vision and concept. The QO is Europe’s most sustainable hotel, and its first LEED Platinum-certified Living Building. By aiming to close the loops of water, energy, CO2 and waste, Xander proved that respect for humans and respect for planet can go hand in hand. And that a better society begins with a connected community. In everything he does, Xander heralds his core values: Good Energy, Humble Food, Fresh Thinking, Beautiful People and Local Creativity. These core values support his work and secure his legacy. His goal is to spread the Treating Life Well mantra to every project, community and city that aims to make more human connections with more respect for the planet. He aims to help others create legacies of their own.
Change agent for desirable and sustainable futures. Biarritz addict and food lover Taking time, making sense, with smile and optimism, what ever what.
Corporate and startup consultant (Innovation, Technology & Digital transformation). Formerly led innovation at Israel's largest healthcare system (Clalit) and co-founded three startups. Based in Tel Aviv, Big fan of unconferences.
An actor, a dancer, a puppeteer, a Theater director and a writer. He is a Palestinian-Israeli Immigrant. He studied social-theater in the University of Tel Aviv and worked with Arab and Jewish communities in mixed cities. He wrote and directed 6 different Theater pieces that were built from the personal stories of individuals in those communities. this work brought him to be one of the founders of the „Arab-Hebrew Theater“ in Jaffa. He was part of the Israeli National Theater ensemble and the Cameri Theater ensemble in tel Aviv, and soon enough he was part of the TV and film industry too. Today he lives Berlin. He worked in the Maxim Gorki Theater , and the Schaubühne, and the Burg Theater in Vienna. He acted in many international movies and series like “Unorthodox”, “woman of the dead” , “game of thrones” and more…
Banker and investor turned entrepreneur. On a mission to democratise retail finance through the education and empowerment of consumers.
Helping businesses exit with purpose into employee and shared ownership models. Interested in legal and financing structures that support a long term economy, new governance models, developmental psychology, migration and human rights.
Futurist, author, and entrepreneur, known for founding and organizing TEDxParis for over 15 years.
Dara known as the “MacGyver of Warzones,” combines her design strategy experience and rapid ethnographic assessment skills to empower others through technology. Dara is a pioneer in using design and exponential technologies to solve challenges in austere environments. She has studied, lived, and worked and in over 45 countries designing tangible solutions for vulnerable populations both on and off earth.
Adah Parris challenges individuals and organisations to think differently by asking, "What type of ancestor do you want to be?"
Technologist and humanist specialized in strategic partnerships between companies operating at a global scale.
A nomadic architect on a mission to create ‘the most inspiring places on earth’: transforming ideas into spaces, creating spaces that transform us.
AI and Data Science innovator - passionate about tech for good.
Alice Cabaret is the founder of The Street Society, an urban strategy agency based in Paris, and the co-founder of [S]CITY, a collective exploring the link between neurosciences and urban design.
Aussie/Spanish/Cuban/British entrepreneur living in Lisbon. Founded Skimlinks (exited) and now building FLOWN (virtual co-working for focus and flow).
Venture builder and tech enthusiast with a focus on longevity, improving the healthspan
A seasoned CEO, entrepreneur & expert in AI, Cyber & FinTech. Founded & scaled 3 startups, two Unicorns to 9-figure rev. Find me @NY, TLV & Bman.
Loves Food & Wine Acquired Over 1 Billion Users 4 Exits - Over $2 Billion
Committed to making a positive impact in the world and a dynamic force behind the scenes who connects people, projects and endless possibilities.
Tribal leader of the Smart Marketing Data elite. Scientist of life's finer moments.
On a mission to love people in radical way by empowering them to build and grow physical things. Living in Brooklyn after stints in LA, SF, Seattle and Heidelberg. Current CMO and Founder of Farmshelf - Smart indoor farms the size of a bookshelf. Alumni - Twitter, Pinterest, Wells Fargo and Pepperdine
Meet a Vancouver native who has called 10 countries home and now splits her time between Tel Aviv and Berlin. She's captivated by quantum computing and the eradication of rare diseases, while also dreaming of sailing the world's oceans. At IBM Healthcare, she dives into GenAi topics with hospitals in DACH and European Pharma companies. A 2x startup founder, she's pioneering surgeon training in the metaverse. With a background in medicine and Ai, she's become a very expensive translator between disciplines. Music and standup comedy was once her passion, but now she's pursuing her biggest dream: a pilot license (PPL). She loves creativity, ambition, dedication and glitter...
Mind body and connection. Exploring the cultivation of well-being through tech, research, design thinking, and desirability.
Mum, builder and awesome connecter. Very happy California resident. Lover of sunshine and friendship. Newsjunkie and digital entrepreneur
As the head of the Innovate UK Immersive Tech Network, the UK government’s national network for immersive tech/spatial computing innovators, Asha has been helping to shape and build the sector’s ecosystem and drive government policy for the past 6 years. She also sits on the advisory boards of several companies and organisations, and is the co-founder of the XR Diversity Initiative.
Assaf is an entrepreneur and tech executive. In 2013, he founded Superpedestrian, a company pioneering the decarbonization of transportation through machine learning and predictive networks. As CEO for over a decade, Assaf grew the company’s operations to 11 countries, leveraging its technologies across diverse industries, from commercial fleets to personal transportation. In 2003, he co-founded the MIT Senseable City Lab, which he co-directs today. The lab focuses on advancing the science and engineering of AI and analytics technologies to tackle the key challenges faced by cities, with particular emphasis on energy, transportation, and health.
Yona, a trained architect, runs the toi.lab studio for inventing smart toys. In 2013 he founded the Israeli Bitcoin embassy in Tel Aviv, a major hub for Bitcoin in Israel. Despite raising three kids, when he dances it seems like he still has wings.
Mental health entrepreneur and a language learning hobbyist. CEO at Myndlift, board member at several social impact non-profits.
Starting in the late 1970s, Barak perceived how personal technologies could connect individuals and organizations, putting the power of computers and networks in everyone's hands.
NHS Doctor. Leva clinic co-founder (digital clinic against pain). Humanitarian Dr in war zones (Syria), India, etc. Nez (olfactory expert).
I develop knowledge (AI), education (higher and executive), social connections (all around), and large burnable structures in the desert (Burning Man). President of myself (strategies.ai) and free spirit.
Advisor to Startups, Corporates, Investors & Gov't. Venture Partner at Molten Ventures. SVB, Microsoft & PwC alum, Tech, Innovation, Europe
Brad Templeton was chair for computing at Singularity U, Chairman Emeritus and Futurist at the EFF, and founded ClariNet, the world's first dot-com. He has advised on robocars and mobility for many leading players, including Waymo, and speaks globaly on the topics of the future of technolgy and transportation.
Curious by heart. Founder and Partner at Globeone - an international boutique consultancy focused on strategy, brand, communication. Empowering people and businesses.
Carlota Rodben, former prima ballerina, global nomad, two-time author, futures & innovation specialist, and entrepreneur, is trailblazing the future of luxury beauty, fashion and hospitality. She integrates innovation, technology, and societal trends to construct a more purpose-driven luxury industry.
Carolann Ransaw. Raised in Edmonton, Alberta Canada. Where I developed my cooking skills at a young age in my mother’s kitchen. Growing up as a vegetarian in the days when it was not so popular, I was very conscious of the food I consumed at a young age. In 2008 she moved to Italy for five years and studied Italian cuisine through private lessons and courses at a very famous Italian cooking school. I just returned to NYC to work as a private chef for a family and private parties for various clients.
Artist, with a deep interest in slow, mindful viewing.
Twenty years as a senior reporter, founder of a free school of journalism to promote diversity and I run an media group
Founder & CEO of Corelate.co, ex-Monday.com lead. Established Change a World NGO in Israel, enhancing community dental care.
Strategic foresight advisor. Special interest in synthetic biology, AI, and XR. Photographer and cineast.
Psychotherapist, professor, social entrepreneur in NYC
Executive coach, speaker and author, Trainer and Mindfulness instructor for companies and organizations My numerous coaching missions in Burma bring me closer to meditation; I trained at MBSR, mindfulness and leadership, emotion and conflict management (Conflict Dynamics Profile). I organized the biggest dinner in silence and in mindfulness of France, ( 400 Px) and wrote 3 books « the power of Mindfulness @work » Fayard « Everything is important, but nothing is serious » Fayard, and the last “ dare to disconnect to reconnect Dunod Recognize for my ability to mobilize many players from different sectors, I accompany leaders in search of connection, meaning and depth who understand that know-how is as important as being, in order to become a conscious leader. I am convinced that In the digital age, the Full Consciousness has its place.The digital revolution brings an anthropological revolution, that is why I built a Digital DETOX meditation programme for the app PETIT BAMBOU and the Digitaldetoxinstitute.com, another meditation programme about ecology, another about the power of silence, and the last one about sorority. Since 2 years lunch a start Up call BEGOOD.care in order to take care of the Body/ mind/Heart.
Craig Forman is an American entrepreneur, media executive, and former foreign correspondent who served as chief executive officer of The McClatchy Company. He previously worked at The Wall Street Journal. He is currently a partner at NextNews Ventures and is executive chair of The Center for News, Technology and Innovation.
Ex creative. Ex creative director. Ex Apple creative director. Consigliere. Entrepreneur in agro-business. Eseka. Cameroun.
Very entrepreneurial General Manager and Investor with long-term track record of running and advising high-growths businesses. Now building a sustainable business platform in Europe and the US. Domains: - Product Strategy, Digital Product Design, Software Development - Technology (SAAS/Marketplaces/ICT/Mobile/IoT) - Immersive Technology Platforms (AR/VR/Gaming) - Experience Design, Space Design, Future of Retail/Commerce/Brands - Real Estate & Retail Tech, Modular Structures - Consulting, Professional Services
Solving the crisis of trust leveraging collective energy and a bit of technology. President of XRPL Commons, an Open Source software foundation headquartered in Paris with a global impact.
Joker is a little fool. Not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. Interested in many things, in love with life. Believe the future is a mix between technology and spirituality. From AI, metaverse and constellations to death and horse constellations.
Investor curious Run KNN Spain
Story guy. Ran WIRED, got excited by purpose-driven founders, now invest in them and bring them together through the VOYAGERS community,
Estonian-Israeli celeb….thats all, y’all…
Grounded in banking, law, economics, and international politics, I've co-founded ventures, influenced media and policy, and initiated Europe's top social media award. Away from work, I appreciate the simplicity of a football game, the allure of Star Trek, the amazing taste of Greek cuisine, the comfort of sun and sea, and the wonderful company of my cherished family and friends
As a consigliere in Silicon Valley, I support founders and CEOs through their most complex and pivotal moments, navigating everything from acquisitions to co-founder disputes and boardroom challenges. I have also served as the first General Counsel for both LinkedIn and Nauto, Inc, as well as outside general counsel for several startups and as an investor and advisor. I am also deeply passionate about photography. As a former professional photographer, I continue to express my love for the art form by collecting contemporary fine art photography and through involvement with various museums in San Francisco.
An art curator turned media entrepreneur with a passion for digital arts and AI. Talks about AI ethics, generative AI, spirituality and philosophy.
I'm a doctor, engineer and scientist who works on human spaceflight as well as taking care of the poor. I enjoy making stained glass and playing the harmonica poorly. I think trying to understand risk is a fascinating pursuit.
I like to say I’m an artist living in a lawyer’s body and I’ve spent my career working at the intersection of content and technology. I’ve run content divisions at big companies, including Yahoo, Disney/Maker Studios and Verizon. Now I’ve founder and CEO of Give Mobile, an MVNO for influencers and creators. I love adventures of all kinds and I’m looking forward to our adventure in Hope this year.
Eugénia Carrara is renowned for her expertise in transforming the food sector through sustainability policies and initiatives. With over a decade of experience her career includes guiding top political figures, leading international organizations, mentoring startups, and serving on NGO boards.She has advised the Mayor of Paris and the Minister of Ecology, contributing significantly to food systems transformation with major international players. Having recently finished a mid-career at MIT she is consulting firms willing to use AI for good in strategy for innovation for a sustainable world. Eugénia's goal is to drive impactful changes in organizations committed to reach net-zero emissions, planetary health, and ultimately inclusive global wellbeing.
Florence is a law professor that focuses on the regulation of technology. She mostly works on EU and US regulations. She is now based in Paris but will soon move to the Bay Area.
CEO 18M.io, conseil marketing, technologies et sujets de société.
Making easy random Kinnernet-style conversations available Worldwide, for everyone and the next person
I am Kinnernet ‘s photographer :) I am your photographer www.geraldinearesteanu.com
Gil Golan was the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President, Global Research and Development for General Motors (GM) and President of GM Ventures (CVC), until December 2023. In these roles, Golan is responsible for innovation and technology roadmap for GM’s vehicles & digital services. Prior to that, Golan serves as Vice President, Technology Acceleration and Commercialization (TAC). He led an organization responsible for defining and implementing a comprehensive Corp strategy (decarbonization, battery technology, energy storage) to maintain GM’s leadership position. Before that, Golan was Managing Director of the General Motors Technical Center in Israel (~ 1000 scientists & engineers). Golan established the Tech Center Israel in 2008 and led the teams responsible for advanced technology development and product engineering in support of GM’s key autonomous, electric and connected vehicle programs. Golan earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, received his executive MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and completed executive education programs at Harvard Business School.
Guido van Nispen is CEO & Co-Founder of Insiber.com, the independent one-stop SaaS support platform empowering SME cybersafety and insurance. Guido has many years of executive management, advisory and supervisory experience in the technology, finance, and media sectors
Lecturer at the School of Economic Warfare; Advisor to PwC on Cyberdefense. Fiction writer
Talk to me about biohacking, novel human-computer interfaces (Yes - reading the mind is fascinating), juicy exit stories
Visual artist / Photographer, After making the black and white documentary photography book 'Silver' about the stigma of old age, especially for a woman,which was presented at Paris Photo in 2019, I started also working with other, less 'virtual' mediums like sculpture, collage and paper.
PhD in chemistry, ETH Zürich. G. M. paper production and printing companies Man. Consulting, McKinsey Paris, Groupe Valeur Pr. Assoc. Justice
A veteran technology journalist and media entrepreneur who has worked full-time, at various points in her career, for The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, International Herald Tribune, Red Herring, Businessweek, and Les Echos. Jennifer served as a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer judge for 20 years and was twice voted one of the 50 most inspiring women in technology in Europe. She is currently the founder and editor-in-chief of The Innovator (www.theinnovator.news)
My name is Dr. Jimmy Van. I am an Orthopedic Surgeon focused in foot and ankles with a sub specialty in pediatrics. I have my private practice based in New York City.
Joanna runs JG Consulting, a strategic marketing boutique consultancy that advises companies on how to build their international footprint. She works with the management teams of Fortune 1000 companies to develop their World Economic Forum engagement strategy and to map key issues relevant to each company and executives. In 2017 she launched and ran for 3 years Transform.AI, a by invitation only conference in Europe focused on the business implications of artificial intelligence. Prior to starting JG Consulting, she served as director of Enterprise Strategy at Salesforce and prior to that, was head of the Information Technology Industry at the World Economic Forum.
John Gordon Is the founder of Xtreme Information, a Media Information company and Contagious, which monitors contagious ideas in media and culture. In 2002 he founded Intelligence Squared, a global forum for live debate on politics and culture and in 2012, the How To Academy, a live and online platform for talks. In addition he has launched Notting Hill Editions, a publishing company specializing in Essays and Globalista, a travel information company.
Jon Morris is the CEO/co-founder of NOWHERE & The Windmill Factory. He has helped pioneer immersive theatre, the experience economy, and the metaverse by creating award winning experiences at the intersection of art and technology that have excited audiences around the globe including collaborations with Cirque Du Soleil, NIN, Fuerzabruta, Burning Man, Red Bull, AWS, Google to name a few. linktr.ee/yojonmorris
Digital & AI devices. Seeking new ways to humanize the digital world and add poetry. Seeks how to reconnect with the planet without any smart phones or screens. Loves chocolate and champagne, music and cakes.
Joséphine is the Founder and CEO of Sistech, a non-profit (previously known as Techfugees for Impact) empowering uprooted & displaced women in Europe through qualified and sustainable tech & digital jobs since 2018. As an expert on migrations and social innovation, she sits on the board of the Norwegian Refugee Council and acts as an informal expert for the European Commission. Nominated as one of the top “30 under 30 Social Entrepreneurs” by Forbes three times in a row, she has received many prizes and advocates for a more inclusive world in many high-level conferences such as SXSW, WebSummit, VivaTech as well as UNESCO’s annual meeting for education or UNHCR global compact.
EVERYTHING IS INTERCONNECTED "As a nomadic spirit I navigate from universe to universe I am enriched by travels and meetings what I do is not a job it's an endless search, it's looking for the beautiful in the sense noble of the term, it's sharing my vision that everything is interconnected, there is no limit..." Http://www.Judithdarmont.com
On a mission of regeneration. Empowering the creation of intentional and sustainable neighborhoods (regenerative communities) to co.create happier lives and drive the regenerative movement - for a smarter, more efficient, healthier & happier future.
Avec une expérience de plus de 15 ans dans les plus grandes rédactions en tant que journaliste (Elle, TF1, France 5) et rédactrice en chef (C8, M6), Julie crée Mamouz Prod en 2018, une société de production audiovisuelle à son image : positive, innovante et multi casquette. Julie est aussi une femme engagée qui met un point d’honneur à développer des projets avec des associations caritatives et des institutions culturelles qui lui sont chères, comme la Maison des Femmes, le Mémorial de la Shoah, Guerrières de la paix, Dysturb, Amis de la Terre, la Fondation des Femmes. Partenaire de l’EFAP depuis quatre ans, Julie dirige un MBA de production audiovisuelle qui forme les plus futures générations aux codes de la communication de demain. Julie est aussi plus connue sous le nom de @Mamouz (près de 140000 followers), un compte d’humour et de mèmes devenu incontournable. Auteure, elle a publié « P.T.D.R Pour une Thérapie du Rire » (Ed. Jouvence) et Hahaha! véritables manuels de bonne humeur, son 2e livre sortira en mai 2023. Depuis Julie est devenue professeure de yoga du rire et elle est invitée pour animer de nombreuses conférences et workshops sur les bienfaits du rire (Pinterest, Pop Women Festival, Salon Zen, TEDx…)
Jurgis Didžiulis (aka Jurgis DID) is a Colombian-Lithuanian with a unique talent for bringing people together through the magic of musical co-creation. Part speaker, activist, and performer, he has navigated the intersection of music and social transformation for 20 years with a focus on upgrading culture (beliefs and behaviors) through culture (creative expression).
Kadri Voorand, awarded as the Musician of the Year 2020 by Estonian Public Broadcasting and with The President’s Young Cultural Figure Award in 2019, is a vocalist, pianist and composer who creates music through strong emotional storytelling, combining catchy rhythms with a completely unique way of blending improvisational pop, jazz and folk elements. Kadri Voorand is a well-established vocalist whose original music and expression have brought her a number of prizes and performances in Estonia as well as abroad. She has toured in many countries and her latest album was released by legendary label ACT.
Kamin Mohammadi was born in Iran, moved to the UK in 1979. She is a prolific journalist and writer who has been nominated for an Amnesty Human Rights in Journalism award, and for a National Magazine Award by the American Society of Magazine Editors in the U.S. Kamin has authored two books: BELLA FIGURA: HOW TO LIVE, LOVE AND EAT THE ITALIAN WAY (published in 16 countries and in development as a tv series); and THE CYPRESS TREE: A LOVE LETTER TO IRAN
Persian. Nomad. On the path to spread love & happiness through unforgettable experiences and events. COO at I-COM Global.
STEAM-driven synthesist focused on science education, the future of work, failure modes of experts, and getting the SDGs done early.
Ted Talking, 3-mile running, mezcal drinking, Harvard educated, social entrepreneur. Coined the term, Powerful First Experiences™️, while living a life full of them.
Kim has over 10 years of track record in design and engineering innovative stuff. Previously holding responsabilities for the large industry and startups in product design and digital transformation, he has been operationally involved in cutting edge innovation projects for over 10 years, in many different fields such as industrial fabrication, energy, healthcare, sustainable agriculture, hydrogen mobility, urban development and areospace. He runs expertises in complex system conception. Currently working for different institutions and large corporations such as the French Space Agency aka CNES.
Kim Polese is Chairman of CrowdSmart, a new form of AI rooted in the laws of nature that integrates human collective intelligence to transform how groups of any size solve problems, predict, and make radically better decisions. Kim has helped bring several seminal technologies to the world. She led the launch of Java at Sun, and co-founded and served as CEO of Marimba, today one of the world’s most widely-used IoT platforms. Kim advises numerous technology startups and serves on boards including the Long Term Stock Exchange, the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, the Public Policy Institute of California and the Long Now Foundation. Kim received her Bachelor's degree in Biophysics from UC Berkeley, completed post-baccalaureate work in computer science at the University of Washington and is a Fellow at the Aspen Institute.
Former IT & Innovation director at NY Times International, now breaking, building and creating new business models, services and products, both in media and out of media. The best bit is I get to work with large multinationals and small startups - the whole ecosystem is my playground! I'm also chairwoman of the US board of APOPO HeroRats where we blend the best of nature and tech to train rats to save lives by detecting land mines, TB and lots more using their amazing sense of smell. @daviskris10
Mirrors. Chocolate. Innovation advisor. Investor. Former dot com entrepreneur. Recovered C-Level corporate exec.
My name is Lea and I've been an entrepreneur all my life ranging from selling chocolates in India to introducing AI into women's health to now providing companies with easier access to the creator community. My interests are wide, my love for new things, cultures, people and ways of seeing things is strong. I've been lucky enough to live in many different corners of this planet and travel to even more. When home, you'll find me happiest with a book or around the dinner table with friends.
Musician, Singer, Writer, Performer, Creator of The SPAR Method for higher consciousness conflict/resolution, certified EFT Practitioner, lover of the healing arts, hardcore Meditator, Magic Maker, happily returning to the hearth of France.
Based in Madrid, Lee Clancy is a product leader, GM, operating partner, and board director with a long career in both Silicon Valley and Europe. He is currently SVP Product & Growth at Prosus / Naspers, a global consumer Internet group and one of the largest technology investors in the world, with a portfolio of leading companies in online classifieds, food delivery, payments and fintech, and education technology. Prior to Prosus, Lee was VP Consumer Products at Trulia, at the vanguard of the US online real estate industry. During his tenure, Lee transformed Trulia’s product suite to drive mobile usage and monetization, doubled its user base, and served as a key executive through a successful IPO. Previously, Lee guided 3D metaverse company IMVU, birthplace of the Lean Startup movement, to profitability and 5x revenue growth as SVP of Product Management and GM of Direct Revenue. Fluent in 3 languages, Lee previously co-founded a digital music company and held product leadership roles at Yahoo! and noteworthy Silicon Valley startups.
A researcher at Haifa University on her path to becoming a clinical psychologist, Lihi actively works with patients and is interested in incorporating innovative technologies to enhance therapy.
A sociologist with comprehensive experience in engagement research.
I'm an entrepreneur who creates cultural bridges through type design and visual systems. I'm passionate about inspiring change in global communities and creative restructuring.
Ludovic Blecher is the head of Innovation for the Google News Initiative. He spent most of his career at the intersection of news and journalism, product, business innovation and change management. He led multiple global initiatives to stimulate and support the news-ecosystem.
Creative director, video-artist & documentary maker. Currently at Rabobank, where I , as a program maker at Rabo Art Lab. A 'Free space' within the bank where we invite artists for a residency and explore societal transitions together. Art as knowledge, as a source of critical reflection and fundamental renewal in the day-to-day business of a large company... connecting those worlds.
Creative strategist spezialized in co-creating desirable sustainable futures
Mar Michelle Hausler is the founder of the Aligned Money methodology and coaching programmes. After 5 years as a trader in London she shifted her life to bring about a new way for people to relate to money and connect to their passion, life purpose and personal wellbeing. Since 2016 after completing her Masters at Schumacher College, she has coached over 500 women in their relationship with money, to launch their "Soul Business" and to start investing in alignment with their values. She has also developed a regenerative way for women to run their projects and businesses aligned with their natural rhythms.
Founder Maslow Capital Partners Co-founder Kinnernet Europe
From Telco and IT to craft Brewery
I create partner ecosystems for a boutique accelerator DAO that grows early-stage blockchain startups with the top 1% resources, investors, and mentors to become the next elites of the industry.
Business development expert. 8+ years with tech companies, international network builder. Helps companies grow through non-obvious partnerships
Experienced Physician with a demonstrated history of working in the medical practice industry. Board-certified in rehabilitation, medicine, neurology, psychiatry, bariatric, medicine Skilled Psychiatrist with over 20 years in practice! over 17 years in community Psychiatry in Upper East Side , working with multidisciplinary team as a Medical Director. Years of experience working in Emergency room setting, as well as teaching medical students at New York Medical college. Treatment includes but not limited to Psychopharmacology, with combination of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.
Marius Veltman is a user experience designer and creative technologist from the Netherlands with over fifteen years of expertise in digital product and service design. Marius holds a profound knowledge of what is moving today's digital users. And has a Hypercreative, multi-faceted, one-trick pony.
Marjorie covers tech, politics, innovation and education at 360 degrees. She goes behind and beyond buzzwords.
Innovator, Design Thinker and Creative Leader in the marketing industry by day, DIY geek, music & tech nerd by night, Networker, Ambassador & Judge throughout the year. Creative by heart with a strong passion for technology and disruptive thinking. Proud father of two young leaders of tomorrow.
Marlon Huysmans (1976), she is founder of Fabuleux Destin and for 20 yrs active in city development. Big heart for sustainability, people, digitization, innovation and developing places of meaning. Currently she is also working on a new project called City of (be)longing, an inclusive event and network for a better future of our cities (start 2024). Brave hearted woman in a male dominated sector, trying to bring consciousness and positive change in the world of the built environment.
Music, art, strategic foresight, futurism, innovation, leadership, future of work and humanity
Michael Michael Breidenbrücker (born 6 January 1972) is an Austrian entrepreneur, artist and engineer. He is best known as the co-founder of Last.fm, a founder of RjDj and a partner at the venture firm Speedinvest. He has worked with musical artists such as Hans Zimmer, Imogen Heap, Air and Booka Shade. In 2011, he produced Inception The App with Christopher Nolan and Hans Zimmer, which reached number 5 in the US App Store charts.[1] Between 2000 and 2002, he headed the masters programme in interactive digital media at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication in London.[2] He studied digital art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna with Peter Weibel.[3]
Creative technologist, hacker, full time maker, entrepreneur. Passionate about turning software, electronics, wood, acrylic, 3d prints, LEDs, and sound - into fun and engaging art and tools that bring people closer together and pave a better future of work
Founder of Kenshō (mind avenue), a leadership development company offering a space for transformation by bridging the best of Buddhist psychology with wellbeing technology to help entrepreneurs, business leaders & impact investors thrive
Multi disciplinary artist and activist. A storytelling consultant, helping individuals and organizations frame their authentic & unique stories.
12+ years in BigTech; Wtech (non-profit women it tech community) ambassador. Moved from Kyiv to München in 2020 to launch startup segment and develop the ecosystem for AWS in Ukraine and CIS countries. Before - 10 years at Microsoft leading corporate business in Ukraine and Black Sea region
Described as endlessly optimistic, I’m a strategic futurist, gatherer, author, global keynote speaker, and passionate advocate for a safe + thriving future for us all. the world’s first TEDx licensee, i co-foundered the Femme Futurists Society and an annual "career fair of the future" event for college students. my experiences ranges from A.I. to frozen foods to reinventing the internet, and all projects have a key common denominator: transitioning away from the extractive operating systems and outdated business thinking that no longer hold up... to create the more sustainable, inclusive and dynamic solutions this “Exponential Productivity Transformation” deserves.
Co-founder of Tangible, a fintech making private markets 10x more liquid (launching in Q32023). Formerly, founding partner and operator at Sinaxia, a permanent capital private equity firm.
Cybersecurity expert and Academic Lead at Masterschool, Nativ is on a mission to enable anyone a start an inspiring tech career.
Music maker and performer, the creator of a music production education software for kids - because Anyone Can Be a Music Maker! Obsessed with education, creativity and problem solving.
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I am an international human rights lawyer, negotiator, arbitrator and mediator, and a convenor of Track II initiatives (backchannel diplomacy). Super-Passionate about peace and anything that will make the universe a healthier, happier, safer place for all loving creatures.
Known as a Global Nomad: lived in Turkey, Iran, Israel, Italy & now NYC. Renaissance Man who loves visual, performing & literary arts on top of wonky subjects (econ, finance, geopol). Professor Emeritus at NYU. Balance brain left & right side. As comfy at Met Opera as at Burning Man. So love High & Low Brow. New book Megathreats https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/nouriel-roubini/megathreats/9780316284059/
I believe in using business as a force for good. I am an award-winning entrepreneur and ethical investment champion who left the Corporate world to become a serial impact entrepreneur. I am driven by the desire to contribute to a world world where all businesses marry profit and purpose and inject optimism, curiosity and adaptability into everything I do. The roots of my work promote the spirit of entrepreneurship, the ability to navigate uncertainty and meaningful collaboration. These roots are increasingly fed by the constant wonders of learning from the systems of nature, to inspire better ways of working. In a world where increased uncertainty is the only certainty, we have a unique opportunity to see that the world is constantly evolving, not predictable; and our emotional reaction to this monumental shift can be fear, but can also be hope. I see hope as an active, moral choice which we can all cultivate. , I help purpose-driven leaders grow their companies - and associated positive impact - more easily through practical tools, complementary collaborations and the learned confidence to adapt in new ways to the growing challenges of a fast changing world.. Their ability to thrive in adversity means their hope of contributing to a better world through business is translated into a tangible reality.
Entrepreneur with a dedication to luxury fashion and lifestyle, created more than 20 companies globally. Passion for brands communication, e-commerce and new technologies. Love fashion and design
Experience maker and community builder
Based in NYC. Investor in deep tech startups. Bakes a fantastic chocolate cake. Physicist, Engineer.
Pablo Rodriguez is a creative entrepreneur, business executive, and computer scientist. He is recognised as a creative leader and visionary. He is currently a Director at the Office of the CTO with Google, bringing Google’s innovation to the world. He is passionate about responsible AI, technology and humans. Prior he was Ambassador to Google [X], and CEO of Telefonica Alpha where led the company’s development of experimental moonshot projects
Tech operator, scale-up pro & Web3 builder. Early Uber, WeWork, ConsenSys. I love plants, cities, and inclusion.
Arts, Tech and Urban Development obsessive. Founder, San Francisco's Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, Author "The Maker City" and "From Bitcoin to Burning Man." Early Apple. Serves on San Francisco's International economic development agency, where we cant take things for granted anymore!
Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie is the founding spiritual leader of Lab/Shul NYC and the creator of Storahtelling, Inc. An Israeli-born Jewish educator, writer, and performance artist, he received his rabbinical ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 2016.
Powering & empowering media ecosystems in emerging markets @AlephGroup. Intrepid traveller, trivia nerd & movie buff.
Founder, TWIN Global; Professor of Innovation, UofChicago & Northwestern; Author, speaker, active venture investor. BA, History; Ph.D., IE, Northwestern
Rodrigo is a serial entrepreneur and investor, having founded or co-founded 5 companies. He started his career as a management consultant.
I was born and raised in the beautiful region of Provence. While contemplating my higher education options, I made the decision to move to Paris to pursue an MBA. This experience opened doors for me to explore different parts of the world, including the USA, UK, Argentina, and more. During this time, I had the opportunity to work in finance for renowned luxury brands. However, as time went on, I felt a calling to make a significant change in my life. I made the courageous decision to leave behind my previous career and return to Provence. I embraced the opportunity to join my family's business, specializing in plant production. It has been a fulfilling journey to contribute to the growth and success of our family enterprise. In addition to my commitment to the family business, I am the President of the local business club, Round Table. Our main objective is to raise funds for children in need, while also fostering a sense of community and collaboration within the local area. It is a cause that holds great importance to me, and I find immense satisfaction in making a positive impact in the lives of others.
French 39 years old entrepreneur based in Lisbon. Author of the book ”Humain : du monde de la nuit à l’Amazonie” published last year at Éditions Eyrolles. Also speaker on the theme of ”Wisness” (the bridge between businees & Wisdom). Now organizing and facilitating ”L’Appel de la Forêt”, 17&18th of June 2023 in chateau de Millemont (45 min from Paris). I also host Men circle and singing circle in Lisbon.
Partner and member of the Executive Committee of Image 7, leading independent communication consultancy in France. As a consultant, I cover all sectors of the economy but I have developed a high-level expertise in communications for tech players and fast-growing companies. Active in various associations, in 2009 I founded a group (La Bande à Bordel) with which I organized several high-profile events alongside cultural figures and associations, generating over 600k views on Youtube. In 2012, I joined the Global Shapers community, an international network created at the initiative of the World Economic Forum. Since 2020, I’ve been a mentor with SISTA, a group of women entrepreneurs and investors promoting greater diversity in the digital economy.
I've worked on the BBC as a writer and performer for my own shows for 25 years. I'm an author of 7 books, comedian, writer and performer in 8 one-woman shows, OBE, Masters from Oxford in Mindfulness based, cognitive therapy. Tedtalk Global speaker and mental health campaigner.
Data economist, body sensorist, and extreme sports athlete. Always a decade too early :-) #tokenizing #regenerativeeconomy #AIforgood #biodiversitystandard #dataethics #digitalRWE
I unleash videogame tech on unsuspecting industries: in healthcare, in space, in Hollywood. Former MSFT/LucasFilm. Built/sold multiple game companies
Founder and Partner at Coalition Capital. Investor in the Future of Finance, Commerce and Work. Former head of strategy at Naspers / Prosus Group / ex-Bain
Managing Partner of restaurants Nomad and Plus61 in Marrakech, Morocco Raised in Mallorca, Spain Attended Art School in London Background in organic farming in Spain And Construction and design in New York
Serial entrepreneur and a geek, lived in 10 countries. Passionate about communities, music, sports, life and solving loneliness.
Writing-filming on ecology, politics and tattoos. Co-founder of Ekonavi, startup mapping and supporting agroforestry in Brazil. Organize Tattoo Planetarium (Paris tattoo convention).
Yes: A Digital Dunkirk I have been invited by Benoit to put together a slide presentation on the Future Brilliance Task Force and our successful efforts to evacuate several hundred Afghan women and their families from Afghanistan; reskill them in ICT, coding and robotics; prepare them for life in the West; and to secure asylum and flights to freedom.
Catalyzing everyting exciting between creativity, technology, innovation and venture capital. Dedicated 25+ years to #futureofcontent, past 8 with the Marche Du FIlm - Festival de Cannes, Storytek and Future Media Hubs. 10 + years in Asia, occasional horse whisperer to goverments and between the EU. Electronic musician, film producer, and volunteer emergency medic.
Fostering a Mensch Republic
Founder of RougeFrog, Interim CMO and advisory boutique agency focusing on accelerating small biz brands and growth. Former initial Skype team member. Supporting French red-head extinction, heavy practitioner of ubiquity and nomadism. Natural optimist with an open eye for photography (and fine food!)
Vysioneer™️… Lifestyle Entrepreneur - (Concepts, Development, Execution) - Emmy winning Producer - Purposeful Life Pro
Hi. I’m Steven. Originally from Colombia and now living in Portugal. In my past I was an entrepreneur (media/tech), angel investor and marketing/brand strategist. Gave all that up to pursue my mission and passion…learn and teach the best ways to tap innate mind/body/soul abilities for greater success and fulfilment in business and life.
Taiye Selasi is an authour, screenwriter and producer. Best known for her TED talk, watched by over 3 million viewers, Selasi is the authour of GHANA MUST GO, named one of the 10 best books of the year by both The Economist and The Wall Street Journal. A local of New York, Rome and Accra, she currently lives in Lisbon.
Lifelong tech enthusiast, founded Wonderbly.com, built GoodDollar.org. Now aiding Israel's liberal fight building political technical systems.
Tali Orad is an engineer, TEDx speaker, and serial entrepreneur. She’s the founder of 1treellion, a global movement to mitigate climate change and support communities by planting trees.
Evolutionary behavioural scientist studying humanity, looking 2 million years back and a 1000 forward.
A personable leader Tanja enjoys collaborating and empowering those around her to strive for a better financial system for people and the planet. With a drive for change and transition, guided by the mantra of “intra-preneurship”, Tanja has moved into ESG to build up her ESG Advisory team within Sustainable and Impact Banking. Backed by her wealth of experience in ESG and as a senior financial industry executive for over 18 years, she is a regular speaker at conferences. As a mentor with Unreasonable, Rise & various other places, Tanja has encouraged and supported women in Fintech and social entrepreneurs and fundraised for multiple charities, notably sponsoring a schoolgirl in Kenya. Tanja is passionate about constant personal and spiritual growth and you will see Tanja in her "happy place" either ski touring up a remote mountain or dancing the night away.
Founder, advisor, connector. Love problems, passionate about solutions and about building. Martial arts, music, outdoors, wildlife and mushroom nerd. LLM Intl Law, LLB Law & Economics (Durham)
Consumer technology, entertainment, video games, corporate communications
Tim Kolberg is the CTO at Miros.ai, a innovative AI Startup base in Tallinn Estonia.
Father of 6 girls. Firmly believes that effective communication in all its varied forms is a primordial component to find solutions for most, if not all, of humanity's problems. Founder of Hed Unity, the company that makes the first headphones that can stream high-definition, uncompressed audio wirelessly.
Timothy is a pioneer in the European start-up scene both as a serial entrepreneur, investor, business leader and educator. Over the past 10 years he managed over 20 international Accelerator Programs across multiple Industries (Food, Fashion, IoT, Blockchain, Wellness, EdTech…) that collaborated with 100’s of early-stage startups. He has also balanced his career from working as a successful Marketing Executive with global brands to founding, managing and exiting a number of innovative startups.
I am passionate about bringing diverse people together to not only create diversity of thought, but also a better understanding between cultures and a sense of true community and belonging.
Vincent Bruneau is the founder and CEO of Sparkup, a real-time engagement platform for live streams and hybrid events. With over 10 years as a professional illusionist and Mentalist for corporate events, Vincent masters the art of audience engagement. He combined his unique skills with an expertise in technology to build a next generation platform for real-time communication and audience participation. Sparkup is the result of years of expertise in live interaction and technology to bring a deeper engagement and a more immersive experience to attendees on all events
Violeta Stevens is a leading expert in sustainable value chains and Managing Director at Union Hand-Roasted Coffee, the leading UK speciality coffee brand and a B Corporation. Violeta has a strong background in developing sustainable business models, enhancing resilience across supply chains and building a culture of sustainability within a business. Additionally, she has knowledge on how to develop and lead the strategic business case for organisational change and how businesses can drive wider system-level change. Violeta is a coffee connoisseur; she is a certified Q grader (a similar accreditation to a Sommelier in wine). Violeta has travelled extensively to coffee, tea and cocoa growing countries and has developed a deep understanding of the key challenges smallholder producers face. Violeta is passionate about coffee, and it is dedicated to adding real value to people and businesses. Violeta holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainable Value Chains from the University of Cambridge, MBAe in LSE London and MSc in International Business and Marketing.
Currently I live in France, but my homeland is Ukraine, and most of my working activities are still connected with it. I started my career in the PR realm when I was 18. At 20 years old, I made my first project as an entrepreneur. Ukraine gave me lots of opportunities to boost my career path and improve my leadership skills, and thanks to the favorable environment, my agency still holds a firm position in the niche. As a women-entrepreneur in the tech industry, I regularly stumble on problems and stereotypes related to gender. Ambitious and empowered women face such issues like impostor syndrome and glass ceiling. That is why, my partner and I decided to help other women move forward in their careers, find role models and get mentoring whether it is needed. Originally we have started with the main goal of supporting women in a mainly male-dominated tech industry. After the full-fledged war in Ukraine started, we changed our focus to supporting women who were forced to flee and adapt to new countries and markets. We have a broad network of professionals worldwide that helped our members to integrate to new ecosystems. Currently, Wtech has more than 5 000 members and 50 volunteers within the community. Now we support female leaders in 20 countries
Anaesthesiologist and AI ninja. Bridging the worlds of medicine, pharmacology and technology to enhance the human experience.
Entrepreneur and intrepid innovator. Relentlessly curious about the world, people and technology
William is an entrepreneur with a focus on AI. He is currently the founder and CEO of Unlikely AI. He previously founded voice assistant startup Evi which was acquired by Amazon and was then a key member of the team that defined, built and launched Alexa. William has been involved with many 100s of other startups as a mentor and angel investor. William also wrote the AI software that created the anagrams in the Da Vinci Code and once got lots of press for calculating that April 11th 1954 was the most boring day in history.
Consigliere to the at-risk, connoisseur of noodles, fine purveyor of the multi pass
Xander Bueno de Mesquita is the founding father of Treating Life Well©, a concept built on the sweet spot between three primary ideas: Circularity, Place-Making and Hospitality. All three concepts redefine how human beings interact with the world, and how that interaction can produce positivity and energy, instead of waste and isolation. The QO hotel in Amsterdam is a living manifestation of Xander’s vision and concept. The QO is Europe’s most sustainable hotel, and its first LEED Platinum-certified Living Building. By aiming to close the loops of water, energy, CO2 and waste, Xander proved that respect for humans and respect for planet can go hand in hand. And that a better society begins with a connected community. In everything he does, Xander heralds his core values: Good Energy, Humble Food, Fresh Thinking, Beautiful People and Local Creativity. These core values support his work and secure his legacy. His goal is to spread the Treating Life Well mantra to every project, community and city that aims to make more human connections with more respect for the planet. He aims to help others create legacies of their own.
As an entrepreneur and high tech innovator, Yann Lechelle has founded, grown or sold a number of Yann Lechelle is an Entrepreneur & Tech Executive. For the past 3 years, he was CEO at Scaleway, a leading regional cloud infrastructure provider with unique European attributes and values. Previously, he has founded, grown and exited a total of 5 tech startups. Not long ago, as COO, he grew Snips.ai, a leading voice and AI deeptech startup from seed to exit in a trade sale to Nasdaq-listed Sonos. Yann is also founding member of France Digitale, HUB France AI (as well as board member), and co-founding member at GAIA-X. He gives back to the community as an angel investor, founder mentor and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at INSEAD.
Zane Giordano, an immersive experience designer from Austin, Texas, is passionate about the intersection of technology and design. As a futurist, he studies the future and encourages the embrace of technology as a tool for positive change, particularly through the lens of AR, VR, and artificial intelligence. A dedicated creator, Zane has built large-scale stage installations, developed augmented reality experiences, and designed live events for organizations like The Texas Immersive Institute and TEDxUTAustin. His wanderlust as an explorer fuels his creativity, with travels that have spanned Tokyo, Capetown, Queenstown, and Burning Man. All these elements combine to form a unique perspective that Zane brings to the realm of creative technology.
I’m a 2nd year student reading for dual degrees in Social Policy & Sociology. After completing my degrees at the University of Bristol, I intend on studying for a Law degree and eventually pursue a legal career with the intention of becoming a barrister. My parents reliably inform me that I have been traveling to far-off countries since I was 2 months old - certainly I do love traveling & have combined that with teaching English to village kids in Tamilnadu in India.
Adah Parris challenges individuals and organisations to think differently by asking, "What type of ancestor do you want to be?"
Alain is the Founder and CEO of SYLVAIN, a strategy and design consultancy that provokes progress for companies, people and society at large. Clients include Google, American Express, Spotify, Airbnb, Blackrock, Amazon, Diageo, GM, the NBA, UBER, New York Times, Nike, Apple and others. Founded in 2010, the company is headquartered in NYC, with offices in Amsterdam and Richmond, VA, and is a Certified B-Corporation. Alain is a partner and investor in several ventures, including Master + Dynamic, a design-driven, premium audio brand, Free Rain, a line of enhanced sparkling water, a mobile gaming company, Lilo, an açai bowl company, and PetMio, a smart pet food startup. He is on the board of Plus Pool, an ambitious project to build the world’s first floating, filtering swimming pool in NYC harbor, a Founding Member of Kindred, and a member of the New York City Mayor’s Creative Council. Alain is also an active contributor to various non-profit initiatives around the world including the Lower East Side Girls Club, The Bowery Mission and Anseye Pou Haiti.
AI and Data Science innovator - passionate about tech for good.
Alex Melnyk is the founder and president of The Futurists. Alex has a fierce passion for elevating the work of women entrepreneurs who are solving for a sustainable, equitable and just world. Over the years of leading different organizations, Alex has learned to focus on connecting people to their purpose and passion. Her purpose is fulfilled in her current feature length CauseUmentary, WeRiseUP which explores a new definition of success at the personal, collective and universal levels that places living your purpose and making a contribution to the world as the way to have a thriving future for humanity.
Grew up on a farm in France, now living in San Francisco where I’ve been doing startup stuff, and enjoying the great outdoors scene since 2006.
Aussie/Spanish/Cuban/British entrepreneur living in Lisbon. Founded Skimlinks (exited) and now building FLOWN (virtual co-working for focus and flow).
A seasoned CEO, entrepreneur & expert in AI, Cyber & FinTech. Founded & scaled 3 startups, two Unicorns to 9-figure rev. Find me @NY, TLV & Bman.
Tribal leader of the Smart Marketing Data elite. Scientist of life's finer moments.
Andrew, a psychologist and psychoanalyst, developed Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy (IHRP) and is Founder and Director of the Center for Optimal Living in NYC. His writing, teaching and leadership aim to promote a re-humanized view of problematic substance use and a harm reduction continuum of care that will extend help to everyone where ever they are ready to begin their positive change journeys.
Mostly an engineer, sometimes an artist. For most part of my life I have been "giving machines a soul" and that has led me to quite diverse array of projects, from space communications to writing a libretto for an opera.
Proud of my three passports - Italian, Brazilian and French. Living in Joigny, a small city in Northern Burgundy, after years of fluttering around the world. My thing is to make impactful ideas real and bring them to the next level.
Starting in the late 1970s, Barak perceived how personal technologies could connect individuals and organizations, putting the power of computers and networks in everyone's hands.
Founder of TPAMP, NGO against street harassment and sexism. 17.000+ children and students concerned. 500+ police men and women trained. Lobbying for political solutions. Founder of the Belgian edition of ELLE magazine, former editor in chief and editorial team director. Founder Beabee, women business club in Brussels. Journalist https://www.facebook.com/bea.ercolini.3 https://twitter.com/Bea_Ercolini https://www.linkedin.com/in/beaercolini/ http://www.instagram.com/Bea_Ercolini
I develop knowledge (AI), education (higher and executive), social connections (all around), and large burnable structures in the desert (Burning Man). President of myself (strategies.ai) and free spirit.
Producer and engineer working in art - science and space. Creator of sanctuaryproject.eu and historycube.com
Brad Templeton was chair for computing at Singularity U, Chairman Emeritus and Futurist at the EFF, and founded ClariNet, the world's first dot-com. He has advised on robocars and mobility for many leading players, including Waymo, and speaks globaly on the topics of the future of technolgy and transportation.
Retired global business executive with a focus on Asia. Active psychonaut deeply exploring the healing benefits of plant medicine. Working on establishment of silent retreat center with a Tibetan Buddhist monk based in Costa Rica.
Carine de Meyere is a Women’s advocate when it comes to creating equal opportunities and equal rights for Women. She was educated at Wells College – an all Women’s college and completed a Masters in Women’s Studies and Social Sciences at Harvard University. She has become an expert on diversity and inclusion and opens up a broader discussion on how to transform the old way of thinking to a new way of thinking! Diversity and Inclusion is all about raising consciousness!
banker turned cultural entrepreneur, after a long stint in the arts now I’m exploring the space between creativity, research and innovation
Artist, with a deep interest in slow, mindful viewing.
Twenty years as a senior reporter, founder of a free school of journalism to promote diversity and I run an media group
Founder & CEO of Corelate.co, ex-Monday.com lead. Established Change a World NGO in Israel, enhancing community dental care.
Christie Marchese is the founder and CEO of Kinema, a social cinema platform that empowers anyone, anywhere to show award winning films in creative spaces. She was previously the founder and CEO of impact agency Picture Motion, and spent time at film studio Participant Media and civic participation nonprofit Declare Yourself. Marchese holds a BA from SDSU, in both International Security and Conflict Resolution and Religious Studies, with a concentration in Arabic and the Middle East.
Psychotherapist, professor, social entrepreneur in NYC
Christophe has spent 20 years in Corporate & Investment Banking, both as a senior executive and as a serial private investor. Acting as senior advisor for some large corporations and developing a large network in the Tech space, he has launched the first regulated tokenised Venture Capital fund. Christophe runs the Singularity University Chapter in London and has a master degree in Computer Science and Mathematics.
Data-driven operator and inventor (IP) with deep expertise in AI, data, and machine learning. Entrepreneur's 50 Most Daring Entrepreneurs 2018. Cindy is the CEO of CLC Advisors and a founder of CLIPr. She is a data evaluator in frontier technologies with data, AI, machine learning, geospatial satellite technology, clean energy, and planetary defense focus areas. She is also a NASA Datanaut, a RSA Fellow, a visiting professor at FH Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, a mentor, advisor and board member to tech startups teams including Google’s for Startups Accelerator and Women Techmakers in North America as well as the AI Data Lab at Howard University.
Craig Forman is an American entrepreneur, media executive, and former foreign correspondent who served as chief executive officer of The McClatchy Company. He previously worked at The Wall Street Journal. He is currently a partner at NextNews Ventures and is executive chair of The Center for News, Technology and Innovation.
Daniel Barcay is a technologist, focused on creating global-scale tech while driving wise and responsible practices around rollout
Entrepreneur living in the UAE, love all things digital, negronis, burning man and scuba diving.
Witty, World Explorer, and dare I say: Gen Z. An LGBTQIA/ BIPOC advocate, Danielle’s experience as an Asian American transgender woman of color lends herself to a calling larger than herself. Inclusivity is at the heart of her values, and thats exactly what drives her work at TikTok as Gen Z’s influence and dominance of this platform continues to drive and shape our rapidly expanding culture as we know it.
Language, music, AI and cognition work enabling cultures to interrelate in creative ways; named Founding ACL Fellow for foundational contributions to Google/Yahoo/Microsoft/etc translators; named Debrett's 100 most influential figures of Hong Kong; founding Professor of AI at HKUST; Distinguished Research Scholar at Berkeley's ICSI; founder of transcultural music collective ReOrientate
Estonian-Israeli celeb….thats all, y’all…
Katerina Tarbo-Ignatenko is a producer of international feature and documentary films with a focus on co-production. She has created projects in USA, Georgia, Belgium, Belarus, Mexico, Estonia, Italy and Cyprus and has won over 20 international prizes. Her films have been contenders for the Golden Globes and Oscars.
Psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author Esther Perel is recognized as one of today’s most insightful and original voices on modern relationships. Fluent in nine languages, she helms a therapy practice in New York City and serves as an organizational consultant for Fortune 500 companies around the world. Her celebrated TED talks have garnered more than 40 million views and her international bestseller Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence became a global phenomenon translated into 31 languages. Her newest book is the New York Times bestseller The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity (HarperCollins). Esther is also an executive producer and host of the popular podcasts Where Should We Begin? and How’s Work? Her latest project is Where Should We Begin - A Game of Stories with Esther Perel. Learn more at EstherPerel.com or by following @EstherPerelOfficial on Instagram.
Rockin'1000 CEO and Founder I organize concerts where 1000 people perform all together
Fabrice Cavarretta is a Professor of Management at ESSEC Business School where he studies managerial paradigms, in particular in leadership and entrepreneurship contexts.
Fashion photographer
Making easy random Kinnernet-style conversations available Worldwide, for everyone and the next person
I am Kinnernet ‘s photographer :) I am your photographer www.geraldinearesteanu.com
Gil Golan was the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President, Global Research and Development for General Motors (GM) and President of GM Ventures (CVC), until December 2023. In these roles, Golan is responsible for innovation and technology roadmap for GM’s vehicles & digital services. Prior to that, Golan serves as Vice President, Technology Acceleration and Commercialization (TAC). He led an organization responsible for defining and implementing a comprehensive Corp strategy (decarbonization, battery technology, energy storage) to maintain GM’s leadership position. Before that, Golan was Managing Director of the General Motors Technical Center in Israel (~ 1000 scientists & engineers). Golan established the Tech Center Israel in 2008 and led the teams responsible for advanced technology development and product engineering in support of GM’s key autonomous, electric and connected vehicle programs. Golan earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, received his executive MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and completed executive education programs at Harvard Business School.
Guido van Nispen is CEO & Co-Founder of Insiber.com, the independent one-stop SaaS support platform empowering SME cybersafety and insurance. Guido has many years of executive management, advisory and supervisory experience in the technology, finance, and media sectors
Lecturer at the School of Economic Warfare; Advisor to PwC on Cyberdefense. Fiction writer
Talk to me about biohacking, novel human-computer interfaces (Yes - reading the mind is fascinating), juicy exit stories
Ida Benedetto is an experience strategist and researcher. She is recognized as an innovator in the field of experience design for creating transgressive adventures for major cultural icons and transformative strategy sessions for heads of industry. As a Director of Organizational Change at NOBL Collective, she leads clients in behavior change efforts that align company culture with business strategy. Ida's research on the design of transformative social experiences has been used in coursework at Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, and NYU. She’s been featured in Businessweek, Fast Company, NPR, and The New Yorker.
Visual artist / Photographer, After making the black and white documentary photography book 'Silver' about the stigma of old age, especially for a woman,which was presented at Paris Photo in 2019, I started also working with other, less 'virtual' mediums like sculpture, collage and paper.
Isabel Behncke (DPhil Oxford, MPhil Cambridge) is an applied primatologist who studies social behavior in animals including humans. For her PhD she followed wild bonobos in Congo researching their play behaviour. Isabel grew up at the foothills of the Andes mountains in Chile. She loves nature and wildness and culture and the arts. She is a Gruter Institute and TED Fellow, and recently Presidential advisor to Chile's government.
Jack Saul, Ph.D. is a New York State licensed psychologist and family therapist providing therapeutic services for individuals, couples, and families in Manhattan. His family systems orientation emphasizes a narrative, dialogic, and resilience based approach. Dr. Saul is the director of the International Trauma Studies Program in New York City. As a psychologist he has created a number of psychosocial programs for people facing adversity in New York City and abroad. He is known for his innovative work with families and communities that integrates testimony, healing, media, and the performance arts.
PhD in chemistry, ETH Zürich. G. M. paper production and printing companies Man. Consulting, McKinsey Paris, Groupe Valeur Pr. Assoc. Justice
Hi! I’m Yoshimi Iyadomi and I’m an entrepreneur/investor primarily focused on the Future of Work. I’m originally from Japan but I was educated and have worked in the US since 1990.
A veteran technology journalist and media entrepreneur who has worked full-time, at various points in her career, for The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, International Herald Tribune, Red Herring, Businessweek, and Les Echos. Jennifer served as a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer judge for 20 years and was twice voted one of the 50 most inspiring women in technology in Europe. She is currently the founder and editor-in-chief of The Innovator (www.theinnovator.news)
Joanna runs JG Consulting, a strategic marketing boutique consultancy that advises companies on how to build their international footprint. She works with the management teams of Fortune 1000 companies to develop their World Economic Forum engagement strategy and to map key issues relevant to each company and executives. In 2017 she launched and ran for 3 years Transform.AI, a by invitation only conference in Europe focused on the business implications of artificial intelligence. Prior to starting JG Consulting, she served as director of Enterprise Strategy at Salesforce and prior to that, was head of the Information Technology Industry at the World Economic Forum.
Tech Entrepreneur, building solutions to save the climate. Biodiversity, Climate Change, Sustainability, People. I love all kinds of trees.
Joe Marchese is the Executive Chairman and lead investor in Human Ventures. Joe serves as president of Advanced Advertising Products at Fox Networks Group, where he leads operations in non-linear advertising products and services for 21st Century Fox's global portfolio of channels. His amazing wife is filling out his registration form so this is all of the bio I feel like including :)
John Gordon Is the founder of Xtreme Information, a Media Information company and Contagious, which monitors contagious ideas in media and culture. In 2002 he founded Intelligence Squared, a global forum for live debate on politics and culture and in 2012, the How To Academy, a live and online platform for talks. In addition he has launched Notting Hill Editions, a publishing company specializing in Essays and Globalista, a travel information company.
Iain Nash is a creative technologist and engineer. With a digital media and computer engineering, Iain now works for Zora building crypto protocols for creative projects and creators. Iain's custom electronics are used for lighting systems, including full designs for a 2023 Burning Man honorarium art project.
Digital & AI devices. Seeking new ways to humanize the digital world and add poetry. Seeks how to reconnect with the planet without any smart phones or screens. Loves chocolate and champagne, music and cakes.
Joshua Keay is an artist and entrepreneur living in New York City. He’s the author of “Formal Notices from the Bureau of Communcation” and “Thinking with Paper.” He co-founded Vestwell and Magnetism Studios, who's clients include Apple, Airbnb and Instagram. He helped start the New York chapter of the BarCamp un-conference, and loves throwing sushi making parties on Sunday afternoons.
EVERYTHING IS INTERCONNECTED "As a nomadic spirit I navigate from universe to universe I am enriched by travels and meetings what I do is not a job it's an endless search, it's looking for the beautiful in the sense noble of the term, it's sharing my vision that everything is interconnected, there is no limit..." Http://www.Judithdarmont.com
Fondatrice de Joule studio casting studio international
Kahina BAHLOUL est juriste, islamologue, autrice et conférencière. Elle est diplômée en islamologie de l’Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes et prépare actuellement une thèse de doctorat sur le penseur Ibn ‘Arabî. Elle s’intéresse à l’universalité du message de l’Islam et à la diversité religieuse et plus particulièrement, à la question du ministère religieux féminin, au rôle des femmes dans les lieux de culte en Islam et dans le discours religieux. Elle a publié deux livres en 2021 : Mon islam, ma liberté, Ed Albin Michel Des femmes et des Dieux, Ed Les Arènes
Chief Impact Office at Contensquare and former Director of La French Tech
STEAM-driven synthesist focused on science education, the future of work, failure modes of experts, and getting the SDGs done early.
Ted Talking, 3-mile running, mezcal drinking, Harvard educated, social entrepreneur. Coined the term, Powerful First Experiences™️, while living a life full of them.
Khaled Ben Jilani is a Senior Partner and a member of the Executive Committee of AfricInvest. He leads VC and financial sector investments. Khaled is also an advocate for better laws and regulations to spur innovation in Africa. Khaled is also an innovation advocate and is one of the architects of the Startup Act and the Financial Inclusion law in Tunisia. Before joining AfricInvest, Khaled was successively an analyst at Barclays Bank, and a strategy consultant at Proxicom, a technology strategy firm.
Kim has over 10 years of track record in design and engineering innovative stuff. Previously holding responsabilities for the large industry and startups in product design and digital transformation, he has been operationally involved in cutting edge innovation projects for over 10 years, in many different fields such as industrial fabrication, energy, healthcare, sustainable agriculture, hydrogen mobility, urban development and areospace. He runs expertises in complex system conception. Currently working for different institutions and large corporations such as the French Space Agency aka CNES.
Former IT & Innovation director at NY Times International, now breaking, building and creating new business models, services and products, both in media and out of media. The best bit is I get to work with large multinationals and small startups - the whole ecosystem is my playground! I'm also chairwoman of the US board of APOPO HeroRats where we blend the best of nature and tech to train rats to save lives by detecting land mines, TB and lots more using their amazing sense of smell. @daviskris10
Laila Durrani is a recent graduate from Smith College, USA, where she studied Math and Government, and a Fulbright Scholar. She is passionate about educational access, specially for women, and has worked in various NGO's in the USA and abroad. Laila is deeply interested in the future of the global food system. She has been cooking since she was eleven and has apprenticed with Chef Roberto Rossi at Il Silence, his Michelin-starred restaurant in Tuscany, Italy, to understand food sustainability in context of climate change. In the future she hopes to work the intersection of policy and social change to address the big problems of our time.
As a figurative narrative artist Lauren Bergman creates stories in paint that reside at the juncture of myth and social realism. Through her personal language of symbols, the paintings explore both female identity and comment on our shifting political and cultural landscape. Beginning as a high school student, Lauren Bergman was involved in art classes at the Corcoran School of Art. Her talents and mature narratives quickly landed her gallery exhibitions in Washington, D.C. at Capricorn Gallery, exhibiting among renowned American realists, including Burton Silverman and Sondra Freckelton. Bergman’s work has been featured in publications ranging from The New York Times to Juxtapoz Magazine. She has had three solo exhibitions at the O.K. Harris Gallery in New York, which represented her for a decade. Other solo and two-person exhibitions include the Makor Gallery and Tria Gallery in New York and the Corey Helford Gallery in Los Angeles. Her many group shows include Plus One Gallery in London, Carl Hammer Gallery in Chicago, and Jonathan Levine Gallery and Claire Oliver Fine Art in New York. Bergman grew up in the Washington metro area, where she studied at the Corcoran School of Art. She earned her bachelor’s degree in fine arts and education from the Univeristy of Massachusets at Amherst, graduating summa cum laude, and her master’s degree at Smith College before relocating to Manhattan to study painting and design at FIT and The Art Students League. Bergman now lives and works in a barn in Saugerties, NY.
Mirrors. Chocolate. Innovation advisor. Investor. Former dot com entrepreneur. Recovered C-Level corporate exec.
Seasoned technologist entrepreneur with a passion to create startups that engage talented teams in transforming ideas into products and mind share. Limor is founder and CTO of MOV.AI, a VC funded company developing a robotics software engine. Limor also founded RoboSavvy, a company that distributes & develops robots and parts to make them (including TugBot.ai). Limor started companies in diverse areas such as Telecom Billing, Internet Security and Social Email Templating. He has been granted patents and is a regular speaker at tech events. Born in the UK, lived in Italy, USA, Israel and currently in Portugal. Served 3 years in the Israeli Army-Intelligence, studied Physics.
Creative strategist spezialized in co-creating desirable sustainable futures
Founder Maslow Capital Partners Co-founder Kinnernet Europe
From Telco and IT to craft Brewery
Mareme is the lead of Market Strategy, Africa. Previously, she was the head of international partnerships and relations at Draper University and an investor associate at Draper University Ventures. Originally from Senegal, Mareme is a strong advocate for technology and innovation in emerging markets, particularly in Africa where she led several initiatives to increase funding opportunities for startups on the continent. She has more than 5 years of experience in innovation and investment working previously as an investor associate, accelerator program manager, corporate innovation lead consultant and sitting as an advisor on the board of several startups. She also holds a strong background in education currently acting as a Trustee board member at Bennington College, one of the top American liberal Arts Colleges.
Sunny has been connecting remarkable people and projects to help them come to fruition in the world of technology. Life sciences , AI and arts and culture for o er 3@ years and she’s not stopping yet
Maria Tanjala is an entrepreneur, filmmaker and sociologist. CEO of FilmChain, delivering real-time payments to the film and TV industry, secured by blockchain technology, she bridges an opaque and traditional industry with transparent fintech solutions.
With over 13 years of experience in different areas of Financial Markets Equity Derivatives structuring, structured products sales, institutional coverage across different geographies Amsterdam, New York, Brussels and Paris, I am now leveraging my expertise and network to create new multidimensionnel return models that explicitly integrate human, social and natural capital into financial market valuations. Over the last two years, I have been conducting Research on ESG and transition factors integration in valuations. I faced many issues related to diversity of opinions, data inconsistencies. Addressing these, and as a first step, I launched Valuecometrics with the goal to bring more engagement between investors and companies and to federate the ESG community. My longer term vision is to build a decentralized collaborative intelligence that while embedded in CBDC, measures ESG of underlying operations. I love music and painting.
Marius Veltman is a user experience designer and creative technologist from the Netherlands with over fifteen years of expertise in digital product and service design. Marius holds a profound knowledge of what is moving today's digital users. And has a Hypercreative, multi-faceted, one-trick pony.
Marjorie covers tech, politics, innovation and education at 360 degrees. She goes behind and beyond buzzwords.
Music, art, strategic foresight, futurism, innovation, leadership, future of work and humanity
He is a passionate entrepreneur, been successfully involved in three major industries/sectors such as luxury, action sport and innovation technology. Curiosity driven and a keen observer to understand diversity in people's cultures and mindsets by the impact of new paradigms and generations shifts to strategize new paths of applications. Maurizio holds various roles and delegated in accordance with his skills and experience as CEO, Board Member, Creative Vision-Strategist, Investment Committee, Mentor, Stakeholder formation, Branding, Supervision, General Business Development. Maurizio's envision driving force is characterized by three elements that derive from his own experience, the influence of intangible values, gather likeminded communities. Convert intangible values into a tangible context. Foster a mindset and sense of belonging into a culture.
I want to make the world more beautiful, more connected and where ever I can try to support people and projects that do so as well. My background is in branding, marketing, advertising followed by the creation of Wisher.com - a gifting platform and launchpad for brands.
I am a world traveler, lifelong learner, and curator of arts and cultural experiences. Recent projects have included work for an international experimental film festival, and a festival based on Sinai/Egypt for which I am the Global Community Curator. I also love to sing and practice my French.
Michael Shaun Conaway is a Generative Futurist and an award winning film director. He purpose is to unleash greatness to bring about a thriving future. His mission is to empower and accelerate the redesign of our failing systems to create an anti-fragile, anti-rival world, one that works for all.
Founder of Kenshō (mind avenue), a leadership development company offering a space for transformation by bridging the best of Buddhist psychology with wellbeing technology to help entrepreneurs, business leaders & impact investors thrive
Multi disciplinary artist and activist. A storytelling consultant, helping individuals and organizations frame their authentic & unique stories.
With more than 20 years of experience in medicine, Naomi is highly qualified to take health care to new horizons. She passionately believes that medicine needs to be more accessible and hold higher technological standards. With modMD’s innovative services and products across the country she is not messing around. Naomi is the CEO and founder of modMD, an innovative healthcare movement providing premium service for on-site, on-demand COVID testing, lab analysis and personalized medical care. Her previous company was in the blockchain space. Naomi was a founder of shEOS, an all female block producer for EOS. She has practiced Emergency Medicine in large trauma centers for the past 20 years in NY, LA and SF.
Music maker and performer, the creator of a music production education software for kids - because Anyone Can Be a Music Maker! Obsessed with education, creativity and problem solving.
Nirit Harel is a US/Israeli/ Portuguese and global citizen committed to building alliances towards a better tomorrow, leveraging the best technology anywhere. She is a veteran of the Israeli start-up environment with 25+ years of turnaround, marketing and management experience positioning ventures for growth, public offering and acquisition, including MRV Communications which subsequently reached a valuation of $5B+ (NASDAQ MRVC). Ms. Harel has extensive experience negotiating partnerships with world leaders in the European Framework Program/ Horizon, winning and managing multi-year European Commission technology development bids for the world's most established and promising innovators. Instrumental in launching and establishing a diverse range of tech, impact and nonprofit ventures in 60+ countries, she is a frequent speaker on the subject of innovation, women's leadership/ gender equity and triple bottom line. Ms. Harel currently serves as Global Chair of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Network at YPO, where she was also selected as Regional Honoree and shortlisted as one of only two women nominated for the organization’s most prestigious Hickok Distinguished Service Award in 2020. She is particularly invested in verticals common to Israel & Portugal such as Med/HealthTech, Agritech and alternative energy. and is currently heavily involved in Ukraine venture relocation to Portugal, facilitating smooth and seamless integration of R&D and other operations for companies and their families.
I am an international human rights lawyer, negotiator, arbitrator and mediator, and a convenor of Track II initiatives (backchannel diplomacy). Super-Passionate about peace and anything that will make the universe a healthier, happier, safer place for all loving creatures.
Nusrat is a pioneering media executive, strategic advisor, and filmmaker. He worked at MTV for 20 years and founded MTV World, Viacom’s visionary global division. He is the creator of the award-winning “Rebel Music” and “The Music Experiment,” MTV’s first transmedia live music series. Nusrat was honored by President Barack Obama for his work and called “a sage when it comes to music and pop culture” by MTV founder Tom Freston. His new documentary, “An American Prayer,” recently premiered at the Black Nights Tallinn Film Festival, and will be released in 2022.
Living a Shrödinger cat life: General inspector of Finance (French Ministry of Economy), artist and writer.
Pablo Rodriguez is a creative entrepreneur, business executive, and computer scientist. He is recognised as a creative leader and visionary. He is currently a Director at the Office of the CTO with Google, bringing Google’s innovation to the world. He is passionate about responsible AI, technology and humans. Prior he was Ambassador to Google [X], and CEO of Telefonica Alpha where led the company’s development of experimental moonshot projects
Tech operator, scale-up pro & Web3 builder. Early Uber, WeWork, ConsenSys. I love plants, cities, and inclusion.
Blockchain Legal Scholar. Research Director at the CNRS and Faculty Associate at Harvard.
Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie is the founding spiritual leader of Lab/Shul NYC and the creator of Storahtelling, Inc. An Israeli-born Jewish educator, writer, and performance artist, he received his rabbinical ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 2016.
Powering & empowering media ecosystems in emerging markets @AlephGroup. Intrepid traveller, trivia nerd & movie buff.
Entrepreneur and investor in deeptech. CEO at Zama, previous CEO at Snips. Investor in 50+ companies in blockchain, AI, hardware, psychedelics and medtech. PhD in AI.
Co-founder & ex-CTO Eventbrite (NYSE: EB), angel investor, venture partner with Point Nine
Founder, TWIN Global; Professor of Innovation, UofChicago & Northwestern; Author, speaker, active venture investor. BA, History; Ph.D., IE, Northwestern
I unleash videogame tech on unsuspecting industries: in healthcare, in space, in Hollywood. Former MSFT/LucasFilm. Built/sold multiple game companies
I'm a mission-driven operator investor and strategic advisor passionate about supporting missions, causes and movements contributing to humanity's thriving and environmental stewardship. I personally invest and organize special purpose vehicles to co-deploy capital from my values-aligned and value-add network comprised of angels, family offices, funds, strategics, ultra-high-net-worth individuals. Recent opportunities I've been invited by founder partners to advise and invest in include biotech, crypto mining, crypto security, DeFi, DeSci, ESG investing, longevity, psychedelics, Web3. Please get in touch if you’re a founder or investor focused on these missions. samina@saminarind.com +1-954-591-9544
Publishing visionary and dreamer. Unreasonable Mentor (2024), Founder and publisher of Nowtilus Publishing (2002) and Argonowta Digital (2022). Cofounder of Plaza Digital ebook platform (2001), Cofounder and CEO of the Ecuality ecommerce venture (1999), General Manager at ANAYA MULTIMEDIA and ANAYA INTERACTIVA (1984, 1988). Experience in educational & trade publishing, media licensing, electronic publishing, consumer software & videogames, online marketing & ecommerce. Publisher of the “Psychonaut Guides” (www.psychonautguides.news). Committed and passionate about making the science of psychedelics accessible to all. Systematic psychonaut & vocational psychedelic guide. Ham Radio operator (NK2R/EB4B). Enthusiastic explorer & adventurer. Guided in life by science, curiosity and love.
Shii Ann Huang is an entrepreneur, artist, actor, and a former reality TV star. A graduate of UC Berkeley and NYU’s ITP graduate program, and Maggie Flanagan Studios, her academic and creative interests are wide-ranging. Currently, Shii Ann funds her artistic interests and futurist curiosity by running a successful real estate team at Compass in New York City. Her passions run the gamut from NFTs, costume design & immersive theater to ethics and law in a future with AI and Crispr engineered humans
Writing-filming on ecology, politics and tattoos. Co-founder of Ekonavi, startup mapping and supporting agroforestry in Brazil. Organize Tattoo Planetarium (Paris tattoo convention).
Catalyzing everyting exciting between creativity, technology, innovation and venture capital. Dedicated 25+ years to #futureofcontent, past 8 with the Marche Du FIlm - Festival de Cannes, Storytek and Future Media Hubs. 10 + years in Asia, occasional horse whisperer to goverments and between the EU. Electronic musician, film producer, and volunteer emergency medic.
Fostering a Mensch Republic
Taiye Selasi is an authour, screenwriter and producer. Best known for her TED talk, watched by over 3 million viewers, Selasi is the authour of GHANA MUST GO, named one of the 10 best books of the year by both The Economist and The Wall Street Journal. A local of New York, Rome and Accra, she currently lives in Lisbon.
Tali Orad is an engineer, TEDx speaker, and serial entrepreneur. She’s the founder of 1treellion, a global movement to mitigate climate change and support communities by planting trees.
Timothy is a pioneer in the European start-up scene both as a serial entrepreneur, investor, business leader and educator. Over the past 10 years he managed over 20 international Accelerator Programs across multiple Industries (Food, Fashion, IoT, Blockchain, Wellness, EdTech…) that collaborated with 100’s of early-stage startups. He has also balanced his career from working as a successful Marketing Executive with global brands to founding, managing and exiting a number of innovative startups.
Curious about the next curve! Focused on technology-driven economic, market and social change, Tracey helps leaders best leverage change for positive impact.
Vika Viktoria is a Ukrainian- American MOTH storyteller and speaker. Savors ballroom dancing, jiu-jitsu, and Taoism. Writing a book about men.
Anaesthesiologist and AI ninja. Bridging the worlds of medicine, pharmacology and technology to enhance the human experience.
I am a psychologist, a psychoanalyst, a couple's therapist and a sex therapist. I have a thriving private practice in NYC and I teach and train as well. Of particular interest to me is helping people in their quest to create connections that are vital, thriving and fluid and facilitate navigating the complicated task of being a deeply connected and sexually alive couple. I am an avid walker and composter. If I had another life, I might become a photo journalist.
Japan based ecosystem builder, New Zealand Edmund Hillary Fellow. Founding Board Venture Cafe @Cambridge Innovation Center Tokyo. Check out www.porrima.org and https://medium.com/pollica-2050/pollica-and-the-mediterranean-diet-bd60a91dd36f for two examples of portfolio of regenerative initiatives showing the world what is possible now....Look forward to being back together again in Avallon!
Consigliere to the at-risk, connoisseur of noodles, fine purveyor of the multi pass
Xander Bueno de Mesquita is the founding father of Treating Life Well©, a concept built on the sweet spot between three primary ideas: Circularity, Place-Making and Hospitality. All three concepts redefine how human beings interact with the world, and how that interaction can produce positivity and energy, instead of waste and isolation. The QO hotel in Amsterdam is a living manifestation of Xander’s vision and concept. The QO is Europe’s most sustainable hotel, and its first LEED Platinum-certified Living Building. By aiming to close the loops of water, energy, CO2 and waste, Xander proved that respect for humans and respect for planet can go hand in hand. And that a better society begins with a connected community. In everything he does, Xander heralds his core values: Good Energy, Humble Food, Fresh Thinking, Beautiful People and Local Creativity. These core values support his work and secure his legacy. His goal is to spread the Treating Life Well mantra to every project, community and city that aims to make more human connections with more respect for the planet. He aims to help others create legacies of their own.
Adah Parris challenges individuals and organisations to think differently by asking, "What type of ancestor do you want to be?"
I am a strategy scholar specialising in quantitative research of business ethics and corporate social responsibility at London Business School, with an emphasis on socio-political strategies. My research seeks to help stakeholders understand what drives bad behaviour in firms, and by firms so that the conditions leading to potential costly organizational misconduct can be avoided. I research a wide variety of settings ranging from stock option backdating and financial restatements, to student plagiarism violence in professional sports and violations of health standards in elderly care-homes. In a related research stream I examine how, in a politically polarized world, social mobilisation to support diversity, environmental sustainability and labour safety can in fact push some firms to pollute, discriminate and abuse labour even more. Before joining Academia, I served as the domestic policy advisor for FMP Benjamin Netanyahu (2005-2007) and the heads of the Economics and Government Oversight Committees in Israel.
Author of Natural Born Learners, Director of the Global Learning Lab at Teach For All
I am a software engineer at Korai and build high quality, secure, user friendly software. I live in Brooklyn, and love volleyball, rock climbing, and hiking.
CEO & Founder of Tastewise - AI for food innovation; formerly a Google exec - founder of Google Partners, World Economic Forum lead, and CMO Google Israel & Greece, always an LGBT activist.
Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie, an Israeli-born scholar, social activist and performance artist, is the Founding Spiritual Leader of Lab/Shul NYC and the creator of the ritual theater co. Storahtelling, Inc.
A seasoned CEO, entrepreneur & expert in AI, Cyber & FinTech. Founded & scaled 3 startups, two Unicorns to 9-figure rev. Find me @NY, TLV & Bman.
Loves Food & Wine Acquired Over 1 Billion Users 4 Exits - Over $2 Billion
Tribal leader of the Smart Marketing Data elite. Scientist of life's finer moments.
Passionate about life, loves people & nature and believes on the power of human connection and creative thinking to make things happen
Starting in the late 1970s, Barak perceived how personal technologies could connect individuals and organizations, putting the power of computers and networks in everyone's hands.
Barbara is an entrepreneur and investor, passionate about nature, science and space. She is currently founder and CEO at Interstellar Lab whose mission is to design and build bioregenerative habitats for humans to live sustainably on any planet.
Named Forbes 30 under 30 and BBC's 100 Most Inspiring Women, Betsy has a decade of experience as an inventor, product founder and CEO. Betsy serves on the Tufts School of Nutrition Innovation Council and her company, Tiny Organics, has been chosen by Michelle Obama’s Partnerships for a Healthier America for their baby food initiative to support veggie-forward early palate development across the nation. Betsy enjoys building great brands and has invented over 100 products and counting. She advises a number of consumer product and deep data startups as well as UNICEF Wearables for Good initiative. Betsy is a keynote speaker and has spoken at Google, CES, World Economic Forum, National Retail Federation among others. Betsy is the Co-Founder of Tiny Organics, delivering toddlers their first 100 flavors direct to their door through whole, palette expanding meals. Being a vegetarian for 14 years, Betsy aims to train the palette of a generation to desire savory forward, whole real foods and most importantly providing access for all.
Retired global business executive with a focus on Asia. Active psychonaut deeply exploring the healing benefits of plant medicine. Working on establishment of silent retreat center with a Tibetan Buddhist monk based in Costa Rica.
Artist, costume designer, visual experience creator
Carlos Toro is the founder of Steer, a multimedia studio specializing in cinematic video production. In 2015 he was awarded the Blue Ocean filmmaker of the year award, by Albert II, Prince of Monaco, for his short film The Edge, which explored humanity’s impact on the natural world. He’s directed and served as underwater cinematographer for several shows for Discovery channel and National Geographic around the issues of ocean health and conservation. His primary motivation has been to leverage the power of film, to bring issues to light around human rights, ocean health and planet sustainability. Carlos is currently executive producing a testimonial series with the United Nations Development Program, to promote the Lion’s Share program, which asks companies who use animal imagery in their marketing to contribute a very small portion of their media spend to worldwide conservation efforts.
Partner at Brunswick Group, covering all things AI, tech, museums, and strategic communications. Former journalist including Editor FT Weekend for six years and White House correspondent at the FT. Curious about where tech meets public policy. Used to read more books. Regret that, alas, I don't now.
Artist, with a deep interest in slow, mindful viewing.
Christopher Wink is the Co-Founder of Blue Man Group and Blue School, and is now the Director of Content and Cool Shit for AREA15, an immersive entertainment complex opening in Las Vegas in Early 2020.
Psychotherapist, professor, social entrepreneur in NYC
Christophe has spent 20 years in Corporate & Investment Banking, both as a senior executive and as a serial private investor. Acting as senior advisor for some large corporations and developing a large network in the Tech space, he has launched the first regulated tokenised Venture Capital fund. Christophe runs the Singularity University Chapter in London and has a master degree in Computer Science and Mathematics.
Craig Forman is an American entrepreneur, media executive, and former foreign correspondent who served as chief executive officer of The McClatchy Company. He previously worked at The Wall Street Journal. He is currently a partner at NextNews Ventures and is executive chair of The Center for News, Technology and Innovation.
Dan Guido is the CEO of Trail of Bits, a cybersecurity firm he founded in 2012 to address software security challenges with cutting-edge research.
Entrepreneur living in the UAE, love all things digital, negronis, burning man and scuba diving.
Witty, World Explorer, and dare I say: Gen Z. An LGBTQIA/ BIPOC advocate, Danielle’s experience as an Asian American transgender woman of color lends herself to a calling larger than herself. Inclusivity is at the heart of her values, and thats exactly what drives her work at TikTok as Gen Z’s influence and dominance of this platform continues to drive and shape our rapidly expanding culture as we know it.
Estonian-Israeli celeb….thats all, y’all…
Grounded in banking, law, economics, and international politics, I've co-founded ventures, influenced media and policy, and initiated Europe's top social media award. Away from work, I appreciate the simplicity of a football game, the allure of Star Trek, the amazing taste of Greek cuisine, the comfort of sun and sea, and the wonderful company of my cherished family and friends
Née à Anvers. A toujours chanté. A vécu en Israël, Amérique et est installée à Paris. Etudes de stylisme. Styliste free-lance, a voyagé partout pour la création de collections, Inde, Italie, Corée, Hong-Kong.... Création d'un spectacle musical en 2000 ; "ECLATS de MEMOIRE". Elle s'accompagne de l'accordéon. Elle chante en yiddish et raconte en français, des histoires drôles, des histoires vraies... Participe à de nombreux festivals en France et en Belgique. Création du groupe "HERSHEL ORKESTRA" en 2018. Yiddish plus rock avec son fils, chanteur guitariste et trompettiste. Un bassiste et un batteur. Faire de la musique, chanter et faire la fête, voilà son crédo.
I like to say I’m an artist living in a lawyer’s body and I’ve spent my career working at the intersection of content and technology. I’ve run content divisions at big companies, including Yahoo, Disney/Maker Studios and Verizon. Now I’ve founder and CEO of Give Mobile, an MVNO for influencers and creators. I love adventures of all kinds and I’m looking forward to our adventure in Hope this year.
Psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author Esther Perel is recognized as one of today’s most insightful and original voices on modern relationships. Fluent in nine languages, she helms a therapy practice in New York City and serves as an organizational consultant for Fortune 500 companies around the world. Her celebrated TED talks have garnered more than 40 million views and her international bestseller Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence became a global phenomenon translated into 31 languages. Her newest book is the New York Times bestseller The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity (HarperCollins). Esther is also an executive producer and host of the popular podcasts Where Should We Begin? and How’s Work? Her latest project is Where Should We Begin - A Game of Stories with Esther Perel. Learn more at EstherPerel.com or by following @EstherPerelOfficial on Instagram.
Ezra builds at the intersection of science and art. Her current creative endeavor is completion of an MPhil in Human Evolution.
Fabrice Cavarretta is a Professor of Management at ESSEC Business School where he studies managerial paradigms, in particular in leadership and entrepreneurship contexts.
I am Kinnernet ‘s photographer :) I am your photographer www.geraldinearesteanu.com
Co-founder of Frequency, a company intertwining technology and spirituality, Gio's role is capturing in VR the most significant hidden spiritual teachers on the planet. He travels the world as a DJ, he's a producer, an adventurer and a cultural entrepreneur (the founder of various festival's and the former VP of Midburn, the 3rd largest burning man affiliated event in the world). Gio is happily married to Cellist and musician Hadas Kleinman and lives in between New York and Tel Aviv.
Guido van Nispen is CEO & Co-Founder of Insiber.com, the independent one-stop SaaS support platform empowering SME cybersafety and insurance. Guido has many years of executive management, advisory and supervisory experience in the technology, finance, and media sectors
Lecturer at the School of Economic Warfare; Advisor to PwC on Cyberdefense. Fiction writer
An acclaimed Cellist and a successful Israeli singer songwriter. Hadas has been playing from the age of 8, Performing since the age of 19 and been touring around the world with the band she co-founded - ‘Asaf Avidan and the Mojos’. By the the age of 21 she had already performed some of the world's prestigious stages, including Carnegie hall, Cannes festival and China's forbidden city. Hadas escorts Israel top musicians as a singer and a cellist, and Currently working on her 3nd solo album and her international breakthrough. Hadas has performed in theater and movies. The theater show ‘To be Alexander Penn’ was written and inspired by her own personal story. In addition to her musical and acting career, Hadas is a certified Meditation instructor and been leading Meditation retreats around the world. She escorts fellow musicians and artists through creative and inner work processes and overcoming performance and creative barriers.
As an artist, I love capturing with a few essential lines people' emotions and motions. As a digital person, I love creating smart products for real humans.
Ingrid leads Global Strategic Partnership Marketing for PayPal’s global Digital Platforms including Facebook, Google, Uber and Airbnb. Her passion for Digital Transformation through change of human behavior have paved her way in executive roles at Universal Music and as co-founder in Digital Media and Publishing. The future of Commerce is collaborative!
Visual artist / Photographer, After making the black and white documentary photography book 'Silver' about the stigma of old age, especially for a woman,which was presented at Paris Photo in 2019, I started also working with other, less 'virtual' mediums like sculpture, collage and paper.
Entrepreneur, programmer, social hacker, performer, a clown
Jack Saul, Ph.D. is a New York State licensed psychologist and family therapist providing therapeutic services for individuals, couples, and families in Manhattan. His family systems orientation emphasizes a narrative, dialogic, and resilience based approach. Dr. Saul is the director of the International Trauma Studies Program in New York City. As a psychologist he has created a number of psychosocial programs for people facing adversity in New York City and abroad. He is known for his innovative work with families and communities that integrates testimony, healing, media, and the performance arts.
PhD in chemistry, ETH Zürich. G. M. paper production and printing companies Man. Consulting, McKinsey Paris, Groupe Valeur Pr. Assoc. Justice
A veteran technology journalist and media entrepreneur who has worked full-time, at various points in her career, for The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, International Herald Tribune, Red Herring, Businessweek, and Les Echos. Jennifer served as a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer judge for 20 years and was twice voted one of the 50 most inspiring women in technology in Europe. She is currently the founder and editor-in-chief of The Innovator (www.theinnovator.news)
Jessica Flore Angel is an architect of spaces and communities interested in alternative modes of living. She is the co-founder of Almost Studio, a design practice in NY and the CEO of the recently acquired Château du Feÿ, where she started a multi-disciplinary art festival called Feÿ.She holds a Master’s degree (M. Arch I) from Yale University and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).
Jessie Lam is a passionate and active tech investor internationally, with a focus on data-driven technologies. As Partner & COO of Parameter Ventures, a New York-based venture capital firm, she invests in early stage enterprise companies. Jessie has also been a featured speaker on venture capital at leading industry events including TEDx, Collision, and RISE.
Joanna runs JG Consulting, a strategic marketing boutique consultancy that advises companies on how to build their international footprint. She works with the management teams of Fortune 1000 companies to develop their World Economic Forum engagement strategy and to map key issues relevant to each company and executives. In 2017 she launched and ran for 3 years Transform.AI, a by invitation only conference in Europe focused on the business implications of artificial intelligence. Prior to starting JG Consulting, she served as director of Enterprise Strategy at Salesforce and prior to that, was head of the Information Technology Industry at the World Economic Forum.
John Gordon Is the founder of Xtreme Information, a Media Information company and Contagious, which monitors contagious ideas in media and culture. In 2002 he founded Intelligence Squared, a global forum for live debate on politics and culture and in 2012, the How To Academy, a live and online platform for talks. In addition he has launched Notting Hill Editions, a publishing company specializing in Essays and Globalista, a travel information company.
Iain Nash is a creative technologist and engineer. With a digital media and computer engineering, Iain now works for Zora building crypto protocols for creative projects and creators. Iain's custom electronics are used for lighting systems, including full designs for a 2023 Burning Man honorarium art project.
Jon Morris is the CEO/co-founder of NOWHERE & The Windmill Factory. He has helped pioneer immersive theatre, the experience economy, and the metaverse by creating award winning experiences at the intersection of art and technology that have excited audiences around the globe including collaborations with Cirque Du Soleil, NIN, Fuerzabruta, Burning Man, Red Bull, AWS, Google to name a few. linktr.ee/yojonmorris
EVERYTHING IS INTERCONNECTED "As a nomadic spirit I navigate from universe to universe I am enriched by travels and meetings what I do is not a job it's an endless search, it's looking for the beautiful in the sense noble of the term, it's sharing my vision that everything is interconnected, there is no limit..." Http://www.Judithdarmont.com
Jurgis Didžiulis (aka Jurgis DID) is a Colombian-Lithuanian with a unique talent for bringing people together through the magic of musical co-creation. Part speaker, activist, and performer, he has navigated the intersection of music and social transformation for 20 years with a focus on upgrading culture (beliefs and behaviors) through culture (creative expression).
Karim Hajjaji has an extensive experience and expertise in the financial and banking industry and had held executive roles in Europe, Asia and United States. He is currently the Global Chief Operating Officer and member of the Executive Committee of Santander Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB). Karim is also Chairman or Board Member of different companies of the Group. He is in charge to support the worldwide growth (products and geographies) of the CIB businesses and to lead its transformation (digital and innovation). Formerly, Karim was the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Société Générale Investment Services covering Brokerage, Asset Management, Private Banking and Securities Services. Previously he was Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Executive Committee of SG Americas covering Corporate and Investment Banking in USA, Canada and Latin Americas. Karim started his career in consulting, quantitative research and capital market activities. He is graduated in Engineering and Economics from ENSAE (France). Karim is currently living in London. He is passionate about painting, poetry and philosophy. He is involved in social accomplishments and entrepreneurship mentoring particularly in his country of origin, Tunisia.
Ted Talking, 3-mile running, mezcal drinking, Harvard educated, social entrepreneur. Coined the term, Powerful First Experiences™️, while living a life full of them.
KEVIN BALKTICK is a New York-based producer, creative director, and cultural entrepreneur focused on live experiences and hospitality. He is driven by a passion to create gatherings that bring inspiration and a touch of magic into the lives of their communities. Over the last fourteen years, his oeuvre has included parties, festivals, concerts, conferences, exhibitions, and experiences that defy description, in locations as varied as churches, warehouses, fortresses, libraries, mansions, prisons, universities, city streets, and the great outdoors. His work has been featured in The New York Times, National Public Radio, The New Yorker, Vogue, WWD, Vice, Hospitality Design, Wired, NHT (Japan), The Guardian (UK), Ha’aretz (Israel), and other publications.
Global user acquisition manager at Waze. Previously pastry chef in one of the most innovative Israeli restaurants of all times - Catit by chef Meir Adoni (a bit of a twist). Above all, I am a people's person. I love meeting new people and connecting with them, or connecting them to each other.
Former IT & Innovation director at NY Times International, now breaking, building and creating new business models, services and products, both in media and out of media. The best bit is I get to work with large multinationals and small startups - the whole ecosystem is my playground! I'm also chairwoman of the US board of APOPO HeroRats where we blend the best of nature and tech to train rats to save lives by detecting land mines, TB and lots more using their amazing sense of smell. @daviskris10
Mirrors. Chocolate. Innovation advisor. Investor. Former dot com entrepreneur. Recovered C-Level corporate exec.
Musician, Singer, Writer, Performer, Creator of The SPAR Method for higher consciousness conflict/resolution, certified EFT Practitioner, lover of the healing arts, hardcore Meditator, Magic Maker, happily returning to the hearth of France.
Lina is Emmy, Clio and Silver Lion awarded documentary filmmaker and cameraperson with work spanning commercials, portraits of interesting people, travel stories, branded and feature documentaries. Her passions are no-trash lifestyle, celebration of Earth through cultures and storytelling, and bringing about the gender equality in uplifting female experiences. Her passions reflect in her films and on the film sets, as she's championing green film movement.
Creative strategist spezialized in co-creating desirable sustainable futures
Founder Maslow Capital Partners Co-founder Kinnernet Europe
Marius Veltman is a user experience designer and creative technologist from the Netherlands with over fifteen years of expertise in digital product and service design. Marius holds a profound knowledge of what is moving today's digital users. And has a Hypercreative, multi-faceted, one-trick pony.
Music, art, strategic foresight, futurism, innovation, leadership, future of work and humanity
Multi disciplinary artist and activist. A storytelling consultant, helping individuals and organizations frame their authentic & unique stories.
I am a digital strategist, product manager and owner, and business person with a passion for mentoring and supporting young people. Having passions for art, science, technology and music, I have had a pretty varied career. Some of what I've done includes R&D on the database which powers the BBC i-player. Building Yahoo! Personals which is now Match.com and Meetic in France. Launching a digital business unit for adidas, building a consultancy withnin Adobe, and now advising & leading tech procurement on digital business transformation for corporate and non for profits. As well as launching a green tech business in Southern Africa.
Moran Cerf is a professor of neuroscience and business at the Kellogg School of Management.. Additionally, he is the Alfred P. Sloan screenwriting Professor at the American Film Institute. Prior to his academic career, professor Cerf worked as a hacker for nearly a decade, breaking into leading financial and government institutes to test and improve their security. His hacking background has led him to later pursue non-traditional ways to investigate the brain, using methods and techniques that benefit from heavy computational skills and novel research tools. Notably, he has been working with patients undergoing brain-surgery where he studies behavior, emotion, decision making and dreams by directly recording the activity of individual neurons using electrodes implanted in the patients' brain. He holds multiple patents and his work has been published in wide-circulation academic journals such as Nature, as well as popular science journals such as Scientific American Mind, Wired, New Scientist and more. Additionally, his work has been portrayed in numerous media outlets such as Time, CNN, BBC, Bloomberg, NPR, MSNBC and dozens of others. He has been featured in venues such as the Venice Art Biennial and China’s Art, Science and Technology conference, and has contributed to magazines such as Forbes, The Atlantic, Inc. and others. Professor Cerf has had short-lived careers as a furniture-designer, a pilot, a radio host, and a filmmaker, and he has served on the boards of pharmaceutical, telecom and fashion companies. He is a multiple-times national story-telling champion (’The Moth’), and his public talks at TED, Google Zeitgeist, PopTech, DLD and others have received millions of views and a large following. In addition to his academic career, professor Cerf is a science consultant for various Hollywood films and TV shows ('Bull', ‘Limitless’, ‘Falling Water’, and more). Recently, he was named one of the "40 leading professors below 40”. Most importantly, he is right handed.
Nicolas’ career began at J.P. Morgan in Investment Banking, followed by LabMorgan, J.P. Morgan’s e-finance incubator to transform the financial services industry. Now co-founder at Andurance Ventures he invests in early stage tech ventures focusing on media/education and blockchain related technologies.He's been active in the digital identity / data portability space and more recently in the ESG / Environmental tech space.
Nusrat is a pioneering media executive, strategic advisor, and filmmaker. He worked at MTV for 20 years and founded MTV World, Viacom’s visionary global division. He is the creator of the award-winning “Rebel Music” and “The Music Experiment,” MTV’s first transmedia live music series. Nusrat was honored by President Barack Obama for his work and called “a sage when it comes to music and pop culture” by MTV founder Tom Freston. His new documentary, “An American Prayer,” recently premiered at the Black Nights Tallinn Film Festival, and will be released in 2022.
Writer, scientist, lover of life in all its forms.
52, Napoleon's co-founder, danish mother, two kids, curious!
Experience maker and community builder
A tech-lawyer, data and tech compliance-by-design expert, running a consulting company in the space (www.entero.io), and sometimes writing about it in academic magazines. Also heading a strategic partnerships department for a cyber-security company, and part of the leadership of a non-profit alliance handling market self regulation for ad-tech and online monetization space (www.cleansoftware.net). I am passionate about technology, innovation, science, travels, cultures, art, food and photography and as part of my side gigs you can find: my travel & photography blog (www.fomoshi.com), Milk & Cookies friends meetups (https://sites.google.com/entero.io/mnc/home) and Artuality events (art-tech expositions).
Pablo Rodriguez is a creative entrepreneur, business executive, and computer scientist. He is recognised as a creative leader and visionary. He is currently a Director at the Office of the CTO with Google, bringing Google’s innovation to the world. He is passionate about responsible AI, technology and humans. Prior he was Ambassador to Google [X], and CEO of Telefonica Alpha where led the company’s development of experimental moonshot projects
Paula Rae Gibson is a photographer and musician from the UK. She has had three books published of her deeply personal work, exploring anguish, grief ,loss and beauty. She is also a singer -songwriter, renowned for her lyricism and ethereal work.She approaches both mediums with bold expressiveness. Paula lives in London with her daughter.
Peter Hirshberg is a provocateur and executive who builds organizations and movements and in self-organizing, distributed systems to effect change. Over a 30-year career he’s directed enterprise markets for Apple and led technology-based change initiatives for The White House, The United Nations, The World Economic Forum and multiple Silicon Valley companies. He’s author of the best-selling book on entrepreneurship and economic development: Maker City: A Practical Guide to Reinventing American Cities
Né à Paris. Etudes de théâtre à Vincennes. Passe 2 ans au Gabon, il comprend la force des marionnettes traditionnelles. Achète le Guignol des Champs-Elysées à la famille Guentleur, installée là depuis 1818. Nombreux festivals dans le monde entier avec son castelet portatif ; Australie, Inde, Japon, Egypte, Israël, Naples, Corée, Belgique etc.... Est nommé chevalier des Arts et Lettres Born in Paris, studied Theater, Philippe spent 2 years in Gabon. He understands the strength of traditional puppets. Bought the Guignol des Champs-Elysées from the Guentleur family, established there since 1818. Numerous festivals around the world with its portable castelet; Australia, India, Japan, Egypt, Israel, Naples, Korea, Belgium etc ... Awarded the title of Chevalier des Arts et des lettres
Trading of fixed income assets and global team management until 2012. 2015 : Design and Innovation Master (ENSCI France) 2018: Co-founder of Gebel Ltd. Digital assets trading
Powering & empowering media ecosystems in emerging markets @AlephGroup. Intrepid traveller, trivia nerd & movie buff.
Co-founder & ex-CTO Eventbrite (NYSE: EB), angel investor, venture partner with Point Nine
Founder, TWIN Global; Professor of Innovation, UofChicago & Northwestern; Author, speaker, active venture investor. BA, History; Ph.D., IE, Northwestern
Rodrigo is a serial entrepreneur and investor, having founded or co-founded 5 companies. He started his career as a management consultant.
I have a strong IT profile (from dev to architecture) in various domains. I'm very curious of new technologies in a "maker" mode. As such, I strongly support the maker approach to enable all the added-value of technology. By the way, I love chatting on any topic with others.
Shii Ann Huang is an entrepreneur, artist, actor, and a former reality TV star. A graduate of UC Berkeley and NYU’s ITP graduate program, and Maggie Flanagan Studios, her academic and creative interests are wide-ranging. Currently, Shii Ann funds her artistic interests and futurist curiosity by running a successful real estate team at Compass in New York City. Her passions run the gamut from NFTs, costume design & immersive theater to ethics and law in a future with AI and Crispr engineered humans
Writing-filming on ecology, politics and tattoos. Co-founder of Ekonavi, startup mapping and supporting agroforestry in Brazil. Organize Tattoo Planetarium (Paris tattoo convention).
Yes: A Digital Dunkirk I have been invited by Benoit to put together a slide presentation on the Future Brilliance Task Force and our successful efforts to evacuate several hundred Afghan women and their families from Afghanistan; reskill them in ICT, coding and robotics; prepare them for life in the West; and to secure asylum and flights to freedom.
Susan is the Founder of Posthoc. Posthoc hosts salons for curious people in NYC/LA/London and beyond. A salon is a curated gathering of people - food & drink, conversation and music.
Tali Orad is an engineer, TEDx speaker, and serial entrepreneur. She’s the founder of 1treellion, a global movement to mitigate climate change and support communities by planting trees.
Evolutionary behavioural scientist studying humanity, looking 2 million years back and a 1000 forward.
Consigliere to the at-risk, connoisseur of noodles, fine purveyor of the multi pass
Xander’s manifesto 'Treating Life Well' is a blueprint for creating human centered experiences for the 21st-century which combine hospitality with circularity and communities. Among other things Xander is the founder of QO hotel Amsterdam, one of the most sustainable hotels in the world and the first hotel being a fully circular building with a high-tech greenhouse on its rooftop to close the circles, including Hydro and Aquaponics. Xander Bueno de Mesquita develops future-proof places that bring a positive impact to the neighborhoods around them and the world as a whole.
Dara known as the “MacGyver of Warzones,” combines her design strategy experience and rapid ethnographic assessment skills to empower others through technology. Dara is a pioneer in using design and exponential technologies to solve challenges in austere environments. She has studied, lived, and worked and in over 45 countries designing tangible solutions for vulnerable populations both on and off earth.
Adah Parris challenges individuals and organisations to think differently by asking, "What type of ancestor do you want to be?"
After a film production school, he created his first advertising film and documentary production company in 1994. Five years later, he developed a business incubator for production companies in Paris. He created the ADN Group in 2009, publisher of the French innovation magazine L'ADN.
Afton Halloran has been working in the realm of food and sustainability for over 12 years. She has a PhD in Paediatric and International Nutrition with a specialization in Sustainable Food Systems. She is a freelance consultant and has been working on projects for governmental and international organizations. She is the author of three books on food policy and future foods. Afton is also a member of the Judging Panel of the World Restaurant Awards and Board Member of FunkisFabriken Centre for Research in Sustainability. Originally from Vancouver Island, Canada, Afton has been calling Copenhagen her home for over 9 years.
Colombian Civil Engineer, with studies in Finances, Strategy and Risk Management. I believe it’s time to build a better world and I want to be part of it
Alex Zhang is the artistic and creative director of Summit, a thriving community of multi-disciplinary leaders. Summit hosts events that bring together leaders in surreal environments designed to catalyze positive personal and collective growth. At Summit, Alex Zhang leads the creative production team in immersive event design and curates the Art program through both programming and site specific art installations. I In addition, Alex is also the curator for Powder Mountain, a ski resort and mountain town in Northern Utah centered around art, community, and culture.
I am a political analyst by training, a journalist by passion and a consultant in communication and strategy by curiosity. As an editorial consultant, I try to identify promising profiles, innovators and thinkers who can have a real impact on the world and help them present their ideas and actions. As a teacher at Sciences Po, I seek to share my passion for writing. As a journalist, I am co-editor in chief of Européens and I contribute to prospective magazines like Usbek & Rica and L'ADN. I believe in promoting new solutions and lasting positive change and that the best is yet to come !
Aussie/Spanish/Cuban/British entrepreneur living in Lisbon. Founded Skimlinks (exited) and now building FLOWN (virtual co-working for focus and flow).
CEO & Founder of Tastewise - AI for food innovation; formerly a Google exec - founder of Google Partners, World Economic Forum lead, and CMO Google Israel & Greece, always an LGBT activist.
I love reading, learning, sharing ideas, creativity sessions, discovering other people's life journeys, languages, tennis, surfing and wine. By day, Dean of Ecole des Ponts Business School and Prof. of Innovation. Extensive consulting and teaching experience, and over 20 years of founding, running or being involved in startups. As a professor, mentor, angel investor, trainer and consultant in innovation and entrepreneurship, this has taken me to Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and the Middle East. My academic hat includes research in areas like the wine ecosystem in the face of globalization (best research ever!), dynamic business modeling, entrepreneurial ecosystems, new business models, potential applications of circular economy models, social impact investing, inclusive business models and agile methods in management. By night, proud father of two and husband
Alyssa Petersel is the founder and CEO of My Wellbeing, which connects seekers who struggle to find appropriate mental health care with compatible providers.
Amandine Roche is a Human Right/Women empowerment expert with almost 20 years of experience with United Nations in conflict contexts. She is also an award winning author, a photographer, a yoga and mindfulness teacher specialist in emotional intelligence, meditation and conscious leadership. She is the founder of the Amanuddin Foundation in Afghanistan that develops the culture of peace and promote wellness to prisoners, women, soldiers, and kids. She is also created the Inner Peace Corps to implement in Middle East, the inner peace keeping program she has designed for humanitarians and refugees, suffering of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, burnout, depression and anxiety.
CEO & Co-Founder of content studio @VisualCountry. Single mom to Ben. World Traveler. Rollerblader. #NYC #LA
A seasoned CEO, entrepreneur & expert in AI, Cyber & FinTech. Founded & scaled 3 startups, two Unicorns to 9-figure rev. Find me @NY, TLV & Bman.
Loves Food & Wine Acquired Over 1 Billion Users 4 Exits - Over $2 Billion
Tribal leader of the Smart Marketing Data elite. Scientist of life's finer moments.
Founder & CEO re:publica
On a mission to love people in radical way by empowering them to build and grow physical things. Living in Brooklyn after stints in LA, SF, Seattle and Heidelberg. Current CMO and Founder of Farmshelf - Smart indoor farms the size of a bookshelf. Alumni - Twitter, Pinterest, Wells Fargo and Pepperdine
Mostly an engineer, sometimes an artist. For most part of my life I have been "giving machines a soul" and that has led me to quite diverse array of projects, from space communications to writing a libretto for an opera.
Passionate about life, loves people & nature and believes on the power of human connection and creative thinking to make things happen
Mum, builder and awesome connecter. Very happy California resident. Lover of sunshine and friendship. Newsjunkie and digital entrepreneur
I have worked for 20 years in the luxury industry, from watches and jewelry to fashion, and had the chance to live in multiple countries, from Switzerland to Japan and Chine. I am still eager to discover new horizons and hear about ways to build a bright future.
Opera singer and Architect
Assaf is an entrepreneur and tech executive. In 2013, he founded Superpedestrian, a company pioneering the decarbonization of transportation through machine learning and predictive networks. As CEO for over a decade, Assaf grew the company’s operations to 11 countries, leveraging its technologies across diverse industries, from commercial fleets to personal transportation. In 2003, he co-founded the MIT Senseable City Lab, which he co-directs today. The lab focuses on advancing the science and engineering of AI and analytics technologies to tackle the key challenges faced by cities, with particular emphasis on energy, transportation, and health.
Starting in the late 1970s, Barak perceived how personal technologies could connect individuals and organizations, putting the power of computers and networks in everyone's hands.
Barbara is an entrepreneur and investor, passionate about nature, science and space. She is currently founder and CEO at Interstellar Lab whose mission is to design and build bioregenerative habitats for humans to live sustainably on any planet.
Beatrice Sutter is the chief editor of L'ADN, a media (print and web) that talks about digital culture and innovation.
Born in Spain, Beatriz studied Mathematics and Economics in Madrid and London, where she lived for 10 years working in start ups and the financial and legal industries. Currently a BD director in Madrid in an international law firm. A creative mind, she is a poetry writer. Enthusiastic and positive, Beatriz is an arts and photography lover also interested in science, technology, philosophy and Lacanian psychoanalysis. She is keen to embrace and contribute to all forms of innovative, irreverent thinking and challenging initiatives that may lead us to foster deeper self consciousness and responsible ways to create a better world. “We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are”
Bella Pollen is a journalist, author of 6 books, an advocate for human rights and working actively in the field of education for Afghan women and girls. She is the co-founder of the 30 BIRDS, a foundation dedicated to forging opportunities for the 450 Afghans, predominantly schoolgirls, it evacuated from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and the thousands more left behind.
I develop knowledge (AI), education (higher and executive), social connections (all around), and large burnable structures in the desert (Burning Man). President of myself (strategies.ai) and free spirit.
Named Forbes 30 under 30 and BBC's 100 Most Inspiring Women, Betsy has a decade of experience as an inventor, product founder and CEO. Betsy serves on the Tufts School of Nutrition Innovation Council and her company, Tiny Organics, has been chosen by Michelle Obama’s Partnerships for a Healthier America for their baby food initiative to support veggie-forward early palate development across the nation. Betsy enjoys building great brands and has invented over 100 products and counting. She advises a number of consumer product and deep data startups as well as UNICEF Wearables for Good initiative. Betsy is a keynote speaker and has spoken at Google, CES, World Economic Forum, National Retail Federation among others. Betsy is the Co-Founder of Tiny Organics, delivering toddlers their first 100 flavors direct to their door through whole, palette expanding meals. Being a vegetarian for 14 years, Betsy aims to train the palette of a generation to desire savory forward, whole real foods and most importantly providing access for all.
Billie Whitehouse is the CEO, designer and director of Wearable X. The recent winner of the Design Technology Award from Fashion Group International New York, Billie specializes in the combination of hardware, software and apparel for wearable technology products. Known for her development of Nadi X, the first smart yoga experience with guidance on the body through smart textiles. Billie is invigorating the fashion industry and transforming it into a business focused on improving the quality of our lives. Billie is an aesthetic specialist with a naturally inquisitive nature towards technology and innovation. As a garment engineer she strongly believes people should not have to look like the technology that they have grown to love and depend on. Billie’s designs are sharp, experimental, naturally confident and subtly feminine in appearance integrated with the latest technology.
Advisor to Startups, Corporates, Investors & Gov't. Venture Partner at Molten Ventures. SVB, Microsoft & PwC alum, Tech, Innovation, Europe
I am am author, activist, Agilist, and African. I currently lead Deutsche Bank's global Agile transformation in Corporate and Investment Banking. Prior to that, I spent 5 years at Mckinsey and Company Johannesburg where I left as the co-lead of Mckinsey Africa's Agile practice. Prior to that, I was the MD for an edtech NGO focussing on using technology to advance distribution of indigenous language children's books. I continue to work with various African education NGOs.
Brad Templeton was chair for computing at Singularity U, Chairman Emeritus and Futurist at the EFF, and founded ClariNet, the world's first dot-com. He has advised on robocars and mobility for many leading players, including Waymo, and speaks globaly on the topics of the future of technolgy and transportation.
Retired global business executive with a focus on Asia. Active psychonaut deeply exploring the healing benefits of plant medicine. Working on establishment of silent retreat center with a Tibetan Buddhist monk based in Costa Rica.
Argentinean artist, started working since the age of 11, I have worked as an actress, as a singer, fashion designing , styling homes, people and carnivals. Due to my profession I have lived in many countries like Mexico, US, Italy and now Colombia, making tours and working for Disney Channel on a TV show. The diversity of the experiences and places I’ve been, made me who I am, and make me understand that we are ONE. I think that humans should participate more in regenerating the Earth, instead of ruining it. Trying to find the way for empowering artists to follow their dreams. I love my profession because I discovered that I can connect souls and hearts for a good reason.
Artist, costume designer, visual experience creator
After 4 years of running Futur.e.s Festivals, I am now Director of communities at Cap Digital, the leading digital cluster in Europe based in Paris. I have a passion for all transformative and ground-breaking experimentations which led me from the contemporary art world to the digital innovation scene. I love to lead projects that bring collaborative dynamics and foster dialogue between art and industry, tradition and modernity, research and market. I love to engage communities of creators, entrepreneurs, researchers, public policy-makers and corporates through platforms and events that provide visibility and support to start-up and creative projects.
Carine de Meyere is a Women’s advocate when it comes to creating equal opportunities and equal rights for Women. She was educated at Wells College – an all Women’s college and completed a Masters in Women’s Studies and Social Sciences at Harvard University. She has become an expert on diversity and inclusion and opens up a broader discussion on how to transform the old way of thinking to a new way of thinking! Diversity and Inclusion is all about raising consciousness!
I have worked with brilliant innovators in nanotechnology, biomedicine, engineering and neuroscience, translating ideas into action in Europe, the US and Australia. I am an alumni of the National Science Foundation, several startup companies and the World Economic Forum, where I developed the Technology Pioneers program in Davos. I studied mathematics, international economics and Latin America.
Partner at Brunswick Group, covering all things AI, tech, museums, and strategic communications. Former journalist including Editor FT Weekend for six years and White House correspondent at the FT. Curious about where tech meets public policy. Used to read more books. Regret that, alas, I don't now.
Carolyn is passionate about increasing accessibility to nutritious and healthful foods for all. COO at Tiny Organics, alum of Beyond Meat and FIJI Water.
An investor in impact technologies and an advisor for various international start-up companies, Catherine has served as a Menlo Park City Councilmember in Silicon Valley since 2012, elected as Mayor 2014 - 2015. Catherine worked in the TV and tech industries in the UK and Asia, helping found various international companies, including Digital Island, SearchBank, and Equant. In Silicon Valley, Catherine served as Vice President of CFLD, co-founded Peninsula Clean Energy, authored successful California State human trafficking bills, and sits on various corporate, non-profit and government boards of directors. Catherine has a BA from Tulane, MA from the University of Westminster, and MBA from the Cass Business School in London. She also has a parrot, dog, bearded dragon, three chickens and two children-- not necessarily in that order.
Artist, with a deep interest in slow, mindful viewing.
Twenty years as a senior reporter, founder of a free school of journalism to promote diversity and I run an media group
Entrepreneur and investor focused on conscious innovation
Ex Big data builder dpt at TF1 Group Phd Cognitive psychology applied to AI to become In between, I am a shaman from the dhakat tribe.
Founder & CEO of Corelate.co, ex-Monday.com lead. Established Change a World NGO in Israel, enhancing community dental care.
Chris is a filmmaker best known for his documentaries "Who Killed the Electric Car", "Revenge of the Electric Car" and most recently "Do You Trust this Computer?" about artificial intelligence. Chris serves on the board of the environmental/social justice organization Friends of the Earth, advises the blockchain startup Orchid Protocol, and is a longtime member of Impro Theater in Los Angeles.
Christopher Wink is the Co-Founder of Blue Man Group and Blue School, and is now the Director of Content and Cool Shit for AREA15, an immersive entertainment complex opening in Las Vegas in Early 2020.
Chris is co-founder of legal-tech firm Mattereum, ophthalmic lens technology firm Adlens, and the Centre for Vision in the Developing World.
Psychotherapist, professor, social entrepreneur in NYC
Christophe has spent 20 years in Corporate & Investment Banking, both as a senior executive and as a serial private investor. Acting as senior advisor for some large corporations and developing a large network in the Tech space, he has launched the first regulated tokenised Venture Capital fund. Christophe runs the Singularity University Chapter in London and has a master degree in Computer Science and Mathematics.
Board director at energy, telecom and industrial companies in Chile and at scientific organisations in USA and Australia. Love poetry, travelling, cooking, dancing. Essentially life.
Claudia Olsson is the CEO and Founder of Stellar Capacity, a global education company specialized in providing strategic advice, analysis and professional development related to digital transformation. Her work focuses on the impact of new technologies on citizens, society, leadership and global markets. She is a member of the High Level Industrial Roundtable "Industry 2030" at the European Commission, co-authoring the vision for Industry 2030 for the European Union. Claudia is also co-authoring the strategic innovation agenda for the Swedish Steel and Metal industry with a particular focus on the possibilities of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Claudia is a member of the Global Future Council on Values, Ethics and Innovation at the World Economic Forum. She has served as an Associate Faculty at Singularity University as well as a Senior Advisor to the Office of Strategic Analysis at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Sweden. She previously set up and managed the policy think-tank ACCESS Health International in Singapore, following her work for ACCESS in India and her assignment with the United Nations, Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in the USA. Claudia has been appointed a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum as well as a David Rockefeller Fellow at the Trilateral Commission and has been selected as one of the 40 under 40 European Young Leaders by Friends of Europe. Claudia authored the Sweden 2030 scenario for the Digitalization Commission of the Government of Sweden and she has also co-authored the report "Blockchain-decentralized trust". More information about Claudia's work is available on: www.claudiaolsson.com
A highly experienced digital leader with an international, award-winning portfolio. Based on twenty five years at the leading edge of technology and change, I inspire teams with an open, dynamic style, motivating them to deliver world-class, innovative solutions. With a strong track-record of high profile success stories, I bring a unique blend of cross sector skills to focus on NextGen
Craig Forman is an American entrepreneur, media executive, and former foreign correspondent who served as chief executive officer of The McClatchy Company. He previously worked at The Wall Street Journal. He is currently a partner at NextNews Ventures and is executive chair of The Center for News, Technology and Innovation.
Following a career in the private, and non-profit sectors, Cynthia Hansen joined the Adecco Group to head the new Adecco Group Foundation and spearhead thought leadership. Cynthia’s areas of expertise include strategy, change management, social impact and partnership. Prior to joining the Adecco Group, she spent nine years at the World Economic Forum, in leadership roles across Strategic Partnerships, Professional Services, Financial Services, Civil Society, and Content Strategy. Previous roles include Director of Management Consultancy at boutique consulting firm Action Planning, Director of the US State Department’s International Visitor program for the State of Washington under the World Affairs Council, and Head of Admissions for Amity Institute. Cynthia has served on a number of non-profit boards including the Center for Women and Democracy, EU Consult, and The Internationalist magazine. In addition, she was an official delegate of a Washington State women’s mission to Cuba, an election monitor in Jordan under the auspices of the National Democratic Institute, and a Global Leadership Fellow at the World Economic Forum. Cynthia holds an MSc in Management of NGOs from the London School of Economics, and a double BA (Hons) in Asian Studies and English/Literature from the University of Puget Sound.
Digital Interactive, Online, Education, Community, Investment, Social Entreprenuership, Global prosperity-ProsperityExchange, Planetary Insight Center, EDGEof
Daniela is a passionate educator, thinker, innovator and explorer. She started her project, hip.academy, in 2014, focused on designing and delivering innovative experiential programmes for (mostly creative) industry professionals, such as residential retreats (the first season was in Tuscany). Daniela is an accredited educational programme specialist, holding a BA and MA degree in continuing education science (alongside her other BA degree in communication policy), won several prestigious leadership scholarships and pursued a successful career in the media and communication field. Daniela has worked, internationally, as a journalist, media analyst, consultant, advisor and academic. Mostly based in London, she has lived in eight countries. She is currently lecturing communication, researching future of work, giving workshops on emotional intelligence and purposeful life, mentoring talented entrepreneurs, organizing retreats and advising on the socio-cultural innovation to organisations and ecosystem communities.
Witty, World Explorer, and dare I say: Gen Z. An LGBTQIA/ BIPOC advocate, Danielle’s experience as an Asian American transgender woman of color lends herself to a calling larger than herself. Inclusivity is at the heart of her values, and thats exactly what drives her work at TikTok as Gen Z’s influence and dominance of this platform continues to drive and shape our rapidly expanding culture as we know it.
Mr. André Grebler heads a family owned group of companies. Mr. Grebler graduated from the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne as an Electronics Engineer and graduated in Management by the University of Geneva.
David is a brand expressionist. A business strategist. A storyteller. A graphic design craftsman. An idea generator. An iconsmith. A relationship builder. Some say dreamer; others, a problem solver. He loves crafting creative solutions to business and communications problems — the bigger and more complex the challenge, the more exciting he finds it. He has spent his career creating distinctive brands and communications for local, regional and global brands, including: Coast Casinos, DirectTV, Disney, Eat24, Exxon Mobil, Fair Trade USA, Geico, HP, Jack in the Box, Kaiser Permanente, Microsoft, Nike, Northrop Grumman, Reno Tahoe Nevada Tourism Board, San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Stanford University, The New School, Time Warner, WBros. His hand stretches across most of the mediums you can think of that play a role in effective, strategic brand development and communications. He loves shoes and lives with his wife Michele in San Francisco.
Story guy. Ran WIRED, got excited by purpose-driven founders, now invest in them and bring them together through the VOYAGERS community,
Language, music, AI and cognition work enabling cultures to interrelate in creative ways; named Founding ACL Fellow for foundational contributions to Google/Yahoo/Microsoft/etc translators; named Debrett's 100 most influential figures of Hong Kong; founding Professor of AI at HKUST; Distinguished Research Scholar at Berkeley's ICSI; founder of transcultural music collective ReOrientate
Estonian-Israeli celeb….thats all, y’all…
Despina Mouzaki is a Producer and Director of Films and Audiovisual Works, founder of the companies ALIPNOOS SA, BREAKING WAVE LTD, CINEGRAM SA, CINEGRAM CAIRO FILM & TV PRODUCTIONS. She is also a Professor at the Aristotle University’s School of Film, as well as the Dean of the School of Fine Arts at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She earned her BS in Chemistry at the University of Patras and her ΜS in Film Production at Boston University. She continued with postgraduate studies in Filmmaking under Richard Leacock and Interactive Technologies and Art at MIT’s Media Lab in Boston. She completed the Film Finance and Marketing Program at the Media Business School in Rhonda, Spain. In 1998, Despina Mouzaki was appointed to the post of Vice-President and Associate Director of the Greek Film Center. She was the Director of the Thessaloniki International Festival from 2005 to 2010. During her term, she established several innovative programs—the Crossroads Co-production Forum, the Agora Film Market, the Salonica Studio Training Workshop, the Digital Wave Competition Program, the SEE (South Eastern Europe) Cinema Network—and she also created the Masterclasses Section and TIFF’s Bilingual Publications with original texts by important filmmakers and cinema theorists. As the President of Aristotle University’s School of Film, she has signed collaboration agreements with CERN, UNHCR and several universities and international film schools.
Diana is a lawyer, activist, keynote speaker & communication educator based in Frankfurt, Germany and New York. Diana Adams is Executive Director of Chosen Family Law Center, Inc, a nonprofit serving LGBTQ (lesbian gay bisexual transgender queer), polyamorous, platonic and non-nuclear families, and teaches innovative cultural competency trainings on serving these communities. https://chosenfamilylawcenter.org/ Diana is also Owner of Diana Adams Law & Mediation, PLLC, a boutique family law and mediation firm based in New York City and also serving Americans in Europe. www.DianaAdamsLaw.net Diana is Director of the Euro LGBT Family Law Institute, connecting top lawyers in LGBT family law and Assisted Reproductive Technology Law in Europe with top lawyers in this field worldwide, in an effort to create a worldwide legal support movement for these families. As a renowned mediator and conflict resolution coach, Diana also teaches workplaces how to use communication tools to transform difficult conversations and conflict into opportunities for personal and professional growth, and teaches weekend workshops on assertive communication for women to support women as bosses and leaders, such as at Omega Institute June 2019. www.CourageousConversations.Work
Co Founder of FIND.fashion - Revolutionising Fashion Discovery. Founding team @ Fits.me Rakuten & Retail Recharged; Senior positions @STYLEBOP, Poq Commerce Free spirit dancer
Grounded in banking, law, economics, and international politics, I've co-founded ventures, influenced media and policy, and initiated Europe's top social media award. Away from work, I appreciate the simplicity of a football game, the allure of Star Trek, the amazing taste of Greek cuisine, the comfort of sun and sea, and the wonderful company of my cherished family and friends
Dr. Vessel is a Senior Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA) in Frankfurt, Germany. His research group uses behavioral and brain imaging techniques to study the psychological and neural basis of aesthetic experiences, such as when a person is aesthetically “moved” by visual art, poetry, architecture, music, or natural landscapes. Through his work and service, Dr. Vessel aims to elevate the international profile of neuroaesthetics research: he is a board member of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, and recently hosted a conference on Visual Neuroaesthetics at the MPIEA. He received his PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Southern California and is former co-director of the New York University Artlab.
My Story: Grew up in New York, the son of Russian Immigrants with a thirst for philosophy and wisdom as well as experiential events. Later I moved to Costa Rica to open a Retreat Center & Community and now we are creating a network of 50 + Centers globally to help people connect to wisdom, to each other, to themselves. I've loved experiential events and learning whether 30 prs retreat or a 7000 event i organized in NYC, its always about the transformation experience.
Passionate about people and science. Neuroscientist by training, left the labs to join the biotech world where I have been working for the last 10 years as strategic consultant and medical affairs expert. Enjoy conversations where science becomes fiction and fiction becomes progress. Wine and food lover, I was born in Spain, lived in Germany and I am currently based in Switzerland.
I work behind the counter at the Internet. I can help with your domain name problems and am unnaturally obsessed with telecom. I am also a committed globalist!
I like to say I’m an artist living in a lawyer’s body and I’ve spent my career working at the intersection of content and technology. I’ve run content divisions at big companies, including Yahoo, Disney/Maker Studios and Verizon. Now I’ve founder and CEO of Give Mobile, an MVNO for influencers and creators. I love adventures of all kinds and I’m looking forward to our adventure in Hope this year.
Fabrice Cavarretta is a Professor of Management at ESSEC Business School where he studies managerial paradigms, in particular in leadership and entrepreneurship contexts.
Doctor in Psychology, Associate Researcher in Psychology and Neuroscience at Lyon University, President of Centre PSYRENE and of the PSYRENE for Intelligence Endowment Fund, Artificial Intelligence training at MIT Management, Author of the book "Les Philo-cognitifs, Ils n'aiment que penser et penser autrement".
Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Author. Dancer, Burner. I invest in what can solve big problems quickly, and tell the story in books and TV.
I speak, write & film. Formats may change, but not the intent: I work on the end of the world as we know it and what may come next. I questions the power of finance, technology and mediocrity on our lives. I wonder about our consents. MEETING SNOWDEN is my most recent work. I am preparing a book on the life and death of Internet activist Aaron Swartz.
CEO 18M.io, conseil marketing, technologies et sujets de société.
Gabriel leads Proprio, a breakthrough computer vision company leveraging mixed reality, robots, and AI to bring the future of medicine a little closer to today.
I am Kinnernet ‘s photographer :) I am your photographer www.geraldinearesteanu.com
Gillian began her career at 21 as a professional dancer and actor. For 20 years she toured Europe and North America on stage, as well as performing in TV series, movies and hundreds of commercials. In 2004, she joined Cirque du Soleil as a casting scout and advisor, working on productions such as ‘The Bealtes’ Love’. In 2012, she became the Creative Director of Cirque du Soleil Media, overseeing projects for film, television and VR/AR; including the Emmy-award winning VR short KURIOS, the Netflix show Luna Petunia and Movi Kanti Revo for google chrome. In 2018, Gillian founded the innovation agency Kite Parade with her husband, Erik Iversen.
Co-founder of Frequency, a company intertwining technology and spirituality, Gio's role is capturing in VR the most significant hidden spiritual teachers on the planet. He travels the world as a DJ, he's a producer, an adventurer and a cultural entrepreneur (the founder of various festival's and the former VP of Midburn, the 3rd largest burning man affiliated event in the world). Gio is happily married to Cellist and musician Hadas Kleinman and lives in between New York and Tel Aviv.
Guido van Nispen is CEO & Co-Founder of Insiber.com, the independent one-stop SaaS support platform empowering SME cybersafety and insurance. Guido has many years of executive management, advisory and supervisory experience in the technology, finance, and media sectors
Innovating in neuro-technology, we are gathering artists, neuro-scientists, game designers and psychologists to design the next Digital Therapeutics and support humans in facing the biggest challenges.
Lecturer at the School of Economic Warfare; Advisor to PwC on Cyberdefense. Fiction writer
An acclaimed Cellist and a successful Israeli singer songwriter. Hadas has been playing from the age of 8, Performing since the age of 19 and been touring around the world with the band she co-founded - ‘Asaf Avidan and the Mojos’. By the the age of 21 she had already performed some of the world's prestigious stages, including Carnegie hall, Cannes festival and China's forbidden city. Hadas escorts Israel top musicians as a singer and a cellist, and Currently working on her 3nd solo album and her international breakthrough. Hadas has performed in theater and movies. The theater show ‘To be Alexander Penn’ was written and inspired by her own personal story. In addition to her musical and acting career, Hadas is a certified Meditation instructor and been leading Meditation retreats around the world. She escorts fellow musicians and artists through creative and inner work processes and overcoming performance and creative barriers.
Haisong Tang is co-founder of Elite Educational Institute and Managing Director of Technology Reserve China. Haisong’s passion lies in technology and education. In 2013, he started Elite China aiming to grow China’s future leaders and thinkers. He also initiated Technology Reserve to help SMEs to secure technologies transfer from Fortune 100 companies. In 2009 Haisong was responsible for Intellectual Ventures’s Physical Science initiative in China help local inventors develop patents and license in the global market. In 1999 Haisong started his internet venture etang - a platform targeted the young Chinese generation. Haisong joined McKinsey and helped establish McKinsey China office in 1993. Haisong is an active member of China-France Foundation and Young Leaders’ Forum. He teaches “the military, the technology, and the finance” at Fudan Business School. A Shanghai native, Haisong studied Laser Physics at Fudan University and received his MBA degree from Harvard.
Founder and CEO of Cachet, a personalised insurance marketplace, and a wallet. Cachet is changing the traditional insurance model by putting the person to the center point. An entrepreneurial leader with more than a decade of experience at the intersection of technology, communication, and marketing. Fields of interests: data & people, resilience thinking and behavior psychology, how to engage people and build habits.
Talk to me about biohacking, novel human-computer interfaces (Yes - reading the mind is fascinating), juicy exit stories
Multi-platform producer, designer, and creative director and mom of 2 boys.
As an artist, I love capturing with a few essential lines people' emotions and motions. As a digital person, I love creating smart products for real humans.
Holly Morse is a mother, author and entrepreneur born in Bangkok, Thailand and raised in Pebble Beach, California. She attended The American School in Switzerland and Wheaton College. Her great-grandfather S.F.B. Morse II was the founder of The Pebble Beach Company which developed and owned much of the Monterey Peninsula and launched Holly into her real estate career. For over a decade, Holly was one of the top commercial real estate brokers with Cushman & Wakefield, representing companies such as Disney Feature Animation, MTV and Miramax from coast to coast. When her sons were born, Holly authored a guide book for parents in the DC Metro Area, City Baby DC, which was published by Rizzoli & Random House and is now on its third edition. Off the success of her book, Holly wrote for The Washingtonian, DC Magazine and The Washington Post in addition to having a weekly segment on ABC7. Holly relocated to Austin in the Fall of 2015 with her husband Spencer Wells, and is Managing Director of Shambhala Expeditions, a luxury travel company. Holly is an avid traveler, loves to cook (and eat), and most importantly loves spending time with her family.
Visual artist / Photographer, After making the black and white documentary photography book 'Silver' about the stigma of old age, especially for a woman,which was presented at Paris Photo in 2019, I started also working with other, less 'virtual' mediums like sculpture, collage and paper.
A fan of later Wittgenstein, Iain McGilchrist and Oatly. Advocates for open digital infrastructure and decentralisation, consults as a digital strategist and expert on data, data trusts, identity, standards and privacy. Led the [ckan](http://ckan.org/) open source data platform to international adoption. On board of [Open Knowledge](https://okfn.org/). Developed the personal data infrastructure programme within the UK’s Government Digital Service. Wrote data policy and standards for cities and nation states.
Isabel Behncke (DPhil Oxford, MPhil Cambridge) is an applied primatologist who studies social behavior in animals including humans. For her PhD she followed wild bonobos in Congo researching their play behaviour. Isabel grew up at the foothills of the Andes mountains in Chile. She loves nature and wildness and culture and the arts. She is a Gruter Institute and TED Fellow, and recently Presidential advisor to Chile's government.
Entrepreneur, programmer, social hacker, performer, a clown
PhD in chemistry, ETH Zürich. G. M. paper production and printing companies Man. Consulting, McKinsey Paris, Groupe Valeur Pr. Assoc. Justice
A veteran technology journalist and media entrepreneur who has worked full-time, at various points in her career, for The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, International Herald Tribune, Red Herring, Businessweek, and Les Echos. Jennifer served as a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer judge for 20 years and was twice voted one of the 50 most inspiring women in technology in Europe. She is currently the founder and editor-in-chief of The Innovator (www.theinnovator.news)
Investor in big ideas with potential for positive impact and exponential growth. Entrepreneur. Thinker. Reader. Long term analysis on AI, New Space and other new deep tech trends.
Jessica Flore Angel is an architect of spaces and communities interested in alternative modes of living. She is the co-founder of Almost Studio, a design practice in NY and the CEO of the recently acquired Château du Feÿ, where she started a multi-disciplinary art festival called Feÿ.She holds a Master’s degree (M. Arch I) from Yale University and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).
Joanna runs JG Consulting, a strategic marketing boutique consultancy that advises companies on how to build their international footprint. She works with the management teams of Fortune 1000 companies to develop their World Economic Forum engagement strategy and to map key issues relevant to each company and executives. In 2017 she launched and ran for 3 years Transform.AI, a by invitation only conference in Europe focused on the business implications of artificial intelligence. Prior to starting JG Consulting, she served as director of Enterprise Strategy at Salesforce and prior to that, was head of the Information Technology Industry at the World Economic Forum.
John Henry Clippinger is a co-founder of The Token Commons Foundation, and Research Scientist at the MIT Media Lab City Science Group. He was Co-Director of The Law Lab (www.lawlab.org) at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard Law School. Interested in decentralized governance and finance and micro-monetary policies. Dr. Clippinger is co-editor From Bitcoin to Burning Man and Beyond; The Quest for Identity and Autonomy in Digital Society, the author of A Crowd of One: The Future of Individual Identity (He has been a member of the World Economic Forum Global Advisory Council, Santa Fe Institute, Aspen Institute, Highlands Forum, Yale CEO Summit, Dubai Futures Forum, Aspen Italia, TII/Vanguard, and others. Dr. Clippinger is a graduate of Yale University and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
John Gordon Is the founder of Xtreme Information, a Media Information company and Contagious, which monitors contagious ideas in media and culture. In 2002 he founded Intelligence Squared, a global forum for live debate on politics and culture and in 2012, the How To Academy, a live and online platform for talks. In addition he has launched Notting Hill Editions, a publishing company specializing in Essays and Globalista, a travel information company.
John Marx, AIA, is the founding design principal of Form4 Architecture in San Francisco, CA. He advocates for Philosophy, Art, and Poetry in the thoughtful making of place, using the compelling power of form, always aware that architecture is a balancing act between self expression and collaboration. In addition, John is a part time student of Absurdity, Paradox, and Kindness.
Jon Morris is the CEO/co-founder of NOWHERE & The Windmill Factory. He has helped pioneer immersive theatre, the experience economy, and the metaverse by creating award winning experiences at the intersection of art and technology that have excited audiences around the globe including collaborations with Cirque Du Soleil, NIN, Fuerzabruta, Burning Man, Red Bull, AWS, Google to name a few. linktr.ee/yojonmorris
Grandfather-in-training. Still learning about everything else while I do that.
EVERYTHING IS INTERCONNECTED "As a nomadic spirit I navigate from universe to universe I am enriched by travels and meetings what I do is not a job it's an endless search, it's looking for the beautiful in the sense noble of the term, it's sharing my vision that everything is interconnected, there is no limit..." Http://www.Judithdarmont.com
I specialize in strategic growth and program management, currently working for the Republic of Estonia to help grow its e-Residency program. Other passions include adventure, social enterprise, emerging markets and ICT4D through IoT, 3D printing and solar technologies. I travel. I also like to walk across countries.
Jurgis Didžiulis (aka Jurgis DID) is a Colombian-Lithuanian with a unique talent for bringing people together through the magic of musical co-creation. Part speaker, activist, and performer, he has navigated the intersection of music and social transformation for 20 years with a focus on upgrading culture (beliefs and behaviors) through culture (creative expression).
An entrepreneurial strategy and innovation consultant with passion for growth, sustainability and future leadership. A curious soul. Helping to create markets that are not yet defined and sacrifice the existing business models in order to thrive in the future. Getting the shit done.
Karim is a partner at Egon Zehnder in their Technology Practice. He advises Board/C-suite/founders on a range of leadership services. He also leads Egon Zehnder's internal machine learning platform. Prior he was Global Head of Propositions & Sales at Sony Ericsson Mobile, where he led early investments in the Android platform. Previously at Diageo across different marketing roles and markets. He is a frequent speaker at NOAH, CogX, Founders Forum on "human judgment & AI”, “leadership with purpose” and “the potential in entrepreneurs".
Chief Impact Office at Contensquare and former Director of La French Tech
Kate Belew is a Brooklyn Based poet and writer from the Midwest. She believes in Witches, Plants, Motorcycles and her Blue Heeler named Banjo.
STEAM-driven synthesist focused on science education, the future of work, failure modes of experts, and getting the SDGs done early.
Ted Talking, 3-mile running, mezcal drinking, Harvard educated, social entrepreneur. Coined the term, Powerful First Experiences™️, while living a life full of them.
I was a developper, now a VC investor. I like supporting companies that can change the future of Africa. I also advocate for more inclusiveness in Africa through better laws and better governance.
Kim has over 10 years of track record in design and engineering innovative stuff. Previously holding responsabilities for the large industry and startups in product design and digital transformation, he has been operationally involved in cutting edge innovation projects for over 10 years, in many different fields such as industrial fabrication, energy, healthcare, sustainable agriculture, hydrogen mobility, urban development and areospace. He runs expertises in complex system conception. Currently working for different institutions and large corporations such as the French Space Agency aka CNES.
Klint is a former enlisted US Special Forces soldier, combat medic, and survival instructor with a background in Palaeoanthropology and geology. He is currently finishing his Doctoral research in prehistoric archaeology at the University of Oxford. Klint’s research blends experimental archaeology with cognitive studies to understand the evolution of human cognition and intelligence through an understanding of the tools early humans made and how they used them to hunt and trap. Klint has a talent for relaying the epic tale of human evolution in an accessible manner and has been interviewed by numerous media outlets and has hosted for both UK and US based television shows. In addition to his academic work he has recently written an informational children’s book on human prehistory for DK books and also contributed to their “Encyclopaedia of Everything”. Klint also works as a logistics and prehistoric technology consultant for media productions that focus on natural history and human evolution. His research takes him across the globe, which allows him to use his experience with remote fieldwork and photography in a number of different archaeological applications, but his passion is food origins. His side research is into the prehistory of the diverse palate of ingredients, techniques and recipes available to the modern cook on which he is currently writing a book.
Global user acquisition manager at Waze. Previously pastry chef in one of the most innovative Israeli restaurants of all times - Catit by chef Meir Adoni (a bit of a twist). Above all, I am a people's person. I love meeting new people and connecting with them, or connecting them to each other.
Former IT & Innovation director at NY Times International, now breaking, building and creating new business models, services and products, both in media and out of media. The best bit is I get to work with large multinationals and small startups - the whole ecosystem is my playground! I'm also chairwoman of the US board of APOPO HeroRats where we blend the best of nature and tech to train rats to save lives by detecting land mines, TB and lots more using their amazing sense of smell. @daviskris10
Loves big ideas and big imaginations. Kristina Libby is a professor, business consultant, author, podcast host and researcher. Her career has spanned cybersecurity, AI, consumer tech, luxury goods, e-commerce, food aid and entrepreneurship. Currently she's producing and a hosting a podcast for Popular Mechanics on Cyberwarfar, teaching at NYU and launching a luxury consumer goods company.
Mirrors. Chocolate. Innovation advisor. Investor. Former dot com entrepreneur. Recovered C-Level corporate exec.
Musician, Singer, Writer, Performer, Creator of The SPAR Method for higher consciousness conflict/resolution, certified EFT Practitioner, lover of the healing arts, hardcore Meditator, Magic Maker, happily returning to the hearth of France.
Leetha is a strategist intrigued by the power of collaboration as a tool for social change. She serves as the president of the PopTech Institute (www.poptech.org) where she oversees a portfolio focused on the global health, environment, social justice and the future of work. Her tenure at PopTech began with the establishment of the PopTech Social Innovation and Science Fellows programs, which are dedicated to identifying and training promising innovators and scientists. Much of PopTech’s work explores the leveraging of technology and other disruptive channels to mitigate challenges confronting humanity. Leetha has a deep and diverse background in strategic development, and has advised and served on the boards of numerous organizations and agencies. She lives on a small farm in Maine.
Split between Tel Aviv, Santa Teresa, CR and Oslo. I truly love my quite multifaceted life where time is split between working as a webmaster, front-end developer & designer and a social entrepreneur. As the founder of the Kos & Kaos, a Nordic network organizing intelectual events, think tanks and social activities with a focus on the current fight against antisemitism.
Creative director, video-artist & documentary maker. Currently at Rabobank, where I , as a program maker at Rabo Art Lab. A 'Free space' within the bank where we invite artists for a residency and explore societal transitions together. Art as knowledge, as a source of critical reflection and fundamental renewal in the day-to-day business of a large company... connecting those worlds.
Creative strategist spezialized in co-creating desirable sustainable futures
Founder Maslow Capital Partners Co-founder Kinnernet Europe
From Telco and IT to craft Brewery
Maria Tanjala is an entrepreneur, filmmaker and sociologist. CEO of FilmChain, delivering real-time payments to the film and TV industry, secured by blockchain technology, she bridges an opaque and traditional industry with transparent fintech solutions.
Marius Veltman is a user experience designer and creative technologist from the Netherlands with over fifteen years of expertise in digital product and service design. Marius holds a profound knowledge of what is moving today's digital users. And has a Hypercreative, multi-faceted, one-trick pony.
Marjorie covers tech, politics, innovation and education at 360 degrees. She goes behind and beyond buzzwords.
Music, art, strategic foresight, futurism, innovation, leadership, future of work and humanity
I want to make the world more beautiful, more connected and where ever I can try to support people and projects that do so as well. My background is in branding, marketing, advertising followed by the creation of Wisher.com - a gifting platform and launchpad for brands.
Born in Canada, lives in Israel. Writes children's books. Invents things. Plays music and sings. Can't whistle or draw. Co-founder of www.ourboox.com, a self-publishing and author discovery platform
Entrepreneur, passionate about nutrition and healthy food, I have founded a cold-press juice company in Paris offering 100% organic and vitamin-packed fruit and vegetables juices. I have a keen interest in spirituality and personal growth, spending a lot of my free time searching for what makes an authentic life, and how that relates to my role as an entrepreneur.
Michael Beneville is a storyteller. He works across all scales and is agnostic to medium. Michael and his Beneville Studios team specialize in realizing the visions and telling the stories of their clients, whether individuals, families or corporations. Michael Beneville is the Chief Creative Officer and visionary leader behind AREA15, a 250,000-square-foot reinvention of immersive art, entertainment, retail opening in Las Vegas in early 2020. Michael and the Beneville Studios team have been creative consultants for the award-winning New York City headquarters of iHeartMedia, the completely reimagined entrance to the Empire State Building Observatory, the lounges for BLADE helicopters in both New York and Miami, and the Warner Music Group offices in Los Angeles. Today, the firm’s purview includes millions of square feet of design and projects that span the globe.
Michele’s strongest business passions and contributions lie in scaling and pivoting businesses and driving growth. Over her career she has held executive positions in the Ecommerce, Technology, Media and Entertainment, and Wine sectors. She has also been an entrepreneur and worked in hospitality as a Sommelier. The hardest thing she has done to date is become a Master of Wine. She lives in San Francisco with her husband David
Multi disciplinary artist and activist. A storytelling consultant, helping individuals and organizations frame their authentic & unique stories.
Moran Cerf is a professor of neuroscience and business at the Kellogg School of Management.. Additionally, he is the Alfred P. Sloan screenwriting Professor at the American Film Institute. Prior to his academic career, professor Cerf worked as a hacker for nearly a decade, breaking into leading financial and government institutes to test and improve their security. His hacking background has led him to later pursue non-traditional ways to investigate the brain, using methods and techniques that benefit from heavy computational skills and novel research tools. Notably, he has been working with patients undergoing brain-surgery where he studies behavior, emotion, decision making and dreams by directly recording the activity of individual neurons using electrodes implanted in the patients' brain. He holds multiple patents and his work has been published in wide-circulation academic journals such as Nature, as well as popular science journals such as Scientific American Mind, Wired, New Scientist and more. Additionally, his work has been portrayed in numerous media outlets such as Time, CNN, BBC, Bloomberg, NPR, MSNBC and dozens of others. He has been featured in venues such as the Venice Art Biennial and China’s Art, Science and Technology conference, and has contributed to magazines such as Forbes, The Atlantic, Inc. and others. Professor Cerf has had short-lived careers as a furniture-designer, a pilot, a radio host, and a filmmaker, and he has served on the boards of pharmaceutical, telecom and fashion companies. He is a multiple-times national story-telling champion (’The Moth’), and his public talks at TED, Google Zeitgeist, PopTech, DLD and others have received millions of views and a large following. In addition to his academic career, professor Cerf is a science consultant for various Hollywood films and TV shows ('Bull', ‘Limitless’, ‘Falling Water’, and more). Recently, he was named one of the "40 leading professors below 40”. Most importantly, he is right handed.
New Space Business Development. Know to light a bonfire with one match. Love the Kinnernet family.
Earlier a software entrepreneur, now switched to education, opened several IT schools in Siberia, Russia to teach children IT skills. My new project is educational kits for children with experiments in various STEAM professions. My passion is to help children find their passion and true purpose in life.
Educator for troubled youth, costume designer and aesthetic aficionado, co-founder of EEVA, a wellness brand that’s in the business of ‘making the world better’.
Natasha Tsakos is known for pioneering ways of integrating technology with live performance. She has produced and created nine multimedia shows, including two for the Discovery Channel, opened the G20 summit, Tribeca Film Festival, performed at the Super Bowl with Cirque du Soleil, is a Singularity University alumni, and has shared her vision at the TED Conference, IBM Summit, Google, the United Nations General Assembly, amongst others. She has written twelve scripts and plays including a full length cartoon for Nickelodeon and “COLOURS a nonsense” which won the Benjamin Franklin Digital Award. She is passionate about the language of interactivity between the imaginary and the real, and creating extraordinary experiences on Earth and beyond.
Nicolas is a content creator with more than 10+ years experience creating purposeful, high-impact content across multiple platforms. [ Nicolas is a content creator with more than 10 years experience creating purposeful, high-impact content across multiple platforms.] Originally from Chile, Nicolas moved to New York to study business at Baruch College. [ Originally from Chile, Nicolas moved to New York to study business at Baruch College.] He worked for 7 years as a freelance Editor for Grey, BBDO, McGarrybowen and Publicis, where he made commercials for Discovery, History Channel, Blue Moon, and Nissan and other leading brands. Later Nicolas worked as Executive Producer and Editor for the comedy web series Gringolandia, which was sold to Netflix and currently reaches over 5 million views worldwide. After living 10 years in New York, Nicolas moved back to Chile and co-founded Nano, a digital agency focused on producing viral content for brands. For 3 years he directed, edited and produced more than 800 comedy videos. Today Nano has reached over 190 million views by creating content for more than 5 major brands in Latin-America: Sky Airlines, Happen, WOM, Escudo, and The National Bank
Nicolas’ career began at J.P. Morgan in Investment Banking, followed by LabMorgan, J.P. Morgan’s e-finance incubator to transform the financial services industry. Now co-founder at Andurance Ventures he invests in early stage tech ventures focusing on media/education and blockchain related technologies.He's been active in the digital identity / data portability space and more recently in the ESG / Environmental tech space.
Nicole is an entrepreneur in the machine learning space and passionate about bringing digital technologies to serve companies, government and society.
Nicolette Beach was born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania and commenced formal art training at the San Francisco Art Institute where during the tumultuous social upheaval of the early 80s she held fast to her masterful representational painting style. Nicolette has established herself as a resourceful creative and innovative force as she is presently the proprietor of an exclusive architectural model building enterprise regarded by many as one of the best in the country. Nikki’s creativity is a point of social reference having been documented in publications around the world.
Nusrat is a pioneering media executive, strategic advisor, and filmmaker. He worked at MTV for 20 years and founded MTV World, Viacom’s visionary global division. He is the creator of the award-winning “Rebel Music” and “The Music Experiment,” MTV’s first transmedia live music series. Nusrat was honored by President Barack Obama for his work and called “a sage when it comes to music and pop culture” by MTV founder Tom Freston. His new documentary, “An American Prayer,” recently premiered at the Black Nights Tallinn Film Festival, and will be released in 2022.
Entrepreneur with a dedication to luxury fashion and lifestyle, created more than 20 companies globally. Passion for brands communication, e-commerce and new technologies. Love fashion and design
Living a Shrödinger cat life: General inspector of Finance (French Ministry of Economy), artist and writer.
Pablo Martins, CEO and founder of STHORM Human adVentures, is a radical entrepreneur dedicated to implementing far-reaching impact ventures by integrating technology and deep thinking with profound understanding of contemporary social-dynamics. With a professional background in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber-Ideologies, Entertainment and Cultural Studies, Martins keeps focused on the social aspect related to the progress & implementation of DLT and most importantly its applications for greater human impact and transformation.
Geospatial Intelligence Analyst working across the globe in Uganda, UK, Poland, U.S., Middle East and Asia. Specializing in global affairs, remote sensing, data analysis, data visualization, GIS. Passionate about criminal justice, urban development, smart cities, current events and humanitarian efforts. A true adventurer at heart, always seeking new ways in which technology can help to better society. Recently spearheading NYC’s efforts to utilize data to reduce the number of fatalities due to traffic collisions. His team builds the visualization data infrastructure for the city of New York.
Patrycja Slawuta is Poland-born, New York City-based behavioral scientist. Patrycja stands for the upgrading of humanity. She believes we stand at a paramount period in history that is ripe for rewiring and reprogramming, at a species level. After a successful academic career, Patrycja founded SelfHackathon, a boutique consultancy that uses cutting edge scientific research for business innovation. With a network of 50+ scientists and domain experts, SelfHackathon helps high performing individuals, teams and companies hack, rewire and upgrade themselves. Their clients include some of the most exciting Silicon Valley startups as well as Fortune 50 enterprises. Her latest initiative is called PsychTech, the seamless fusion of psychology and technology to enhance and accelerate performance and results. As an expert on the complexity, nonlinearity and the messiness of the human nature, Patrycja lectures globally and works with some of the most exciting and disruptive businesses in the world. In her free time she runs marathons, reads scientific articles and meditates. In that particular order.
Peter is the Business Director of GSMA and 4YFN, my passion is to build responsible, sustainable and impactful events in the world of TMT and entrepreneurship. Now living in Barcelona, prior to that in Hong Kong for 4 years with plenty of tie in Shanghai and Beijing, and before that in London. I have overseen or created events, forums and events in over 40 countries, welcoming in excess of 1 million attendees from across the technology ecosystem. Look forward to my second Kinnernet
Peter Hirshberg is a provocateur and executive who builds organizations and movements and in self-organizing, distributed systems to effect change. Over a 30-year career he’s directed enterprise markets for Apple and led technology-based change initiatives for The White House, The United Nations, The World Economic Forum and multiple Silicon Valley companies. He’s author of the best-selling book on entrepreneurship and economic development: Maker City: A Practical Guide to Reinventing American Cities
Senior Banker at Société Générale during the week and gardener at Courterolles over the week-end. We transform this park establishing links between sculptures and a botanique collection, but preserving nature everywhere
Ceo Claranova
Blockchain Legal Scholar. Research Director at the CNRS and Faculty Associate at Harvard.
Powering & empowering media ecosystems in emerging markets @AlephGroup. Intrepid traveller, trivia nerd & movie buff.
Rae is passionate about facilitating community-based transformative experiences to address the social challenges of our times. She is a cross-sector leader with twenty years of experience providing strategic consulting and facilitation services to organizations of all sizes, including family and corporate foundations, leading nonprofits and a wide range of Fortune 500 corporations. As the first Head of Global Citizenship of Airbnb, she was responsible for activating all of the company’s assets for social good and launched their Diversity and Inclusion work. Before joining Airbnb, she was the Vice President of the Bay Area office of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA). A twenty-three year Burner, Rae was a Board Member of the Black Rock Arts Foundation, a founding Board Member of the Burning Man Project and a consultant to the organization.
Entrepreneur and investor in deeptech. CEO at Zama, previous CEO at Snips. Investor in 50+ companies in blockchain, AI, hardware, psychedelics and medtech. PhD in AI.
Co-founder & ex-CTO Eventbrite (NYSE: EB), angel investor, venture partner with Point Nine
CEO @Decode Media. FrenchWeb.fr The source for Internet news, startups, and tech trends in France.
I am an entrepreneur, a researcher, and a science literacy advocate. I work and play at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience, developmental psychology, education, and systems thinking. I believe that one of the single most valuable things we can do to improve human decision-making is to improve mental health functioning. Towards that end, my current focus is in investigating effective approaches in the early education environment to best prepare children for their own future. I’m also interested in connecting with people and learning about other approaches and ideas to transform the world.
Founder, TWIN Global; Professor of Innovation, UofChicago & Northwestern; Author, speaker, active venture investor. BA, History; Ph.D., IE, Northwestern
Working in the field of food innovation, challenging people taste buds, promoting food diversity and cultural difference. Fascinated by technology, art design.
Roderick van Nispen just finished his high school in Amsterdam. He will be studying International Business Administration at the Rotterdam School of Management after the summer. Roderick wants to become an entrepreneur and is looking very much forward meeting all of you in Avalon and helping out the Kinnernet team creating this fantastic event.
Rodrigo is a serial entrepreneur and investor, having founded or co-founded 5 companies. He started his career as a management consultant.
Inventor, creator & investor.
I unleash videogame tech on unsuspecting industries: in healthcare, in space, in Hollywood. Former MSFT/LucasFilm. Built/sold multiple game companies
Sara Roversi, is a serial entrepreneur and ecosystem builder; founder of the Future Food Network, operating globally in education, food sustainability, radical change and tangible impact driven innovation from farm to fork.
Digital strategic and creative director
Shaukat Shamim is the founder & CEO of Youplus. Founded by team of serial entrepreneurs Youplus has created the world’s first “Video Opinion Search Engine”. Prior to Youplus, Shaukat was the founder and CEO of Buysight, a performance marketing company that was acquired by AOL. Prior to Buysight, Shaukat was the founder of Rhythm Newmedia, one of the first mobile advertising companies that merged with Blinx and subsequently went public as RhythmOne (RTHM:Lon). Shaukat was an early member of the Yahoo! team (from 1997, where he led the creation of one of the first messaging platforms, Yahoo messenger). Shaukat was also a partner at Neocarta Ventures, a $300m early stage venture fund based in Silicon Valley.
Shii Ann Huang is an entrepreneur, actor, artist and a former reality TV star. She funds her artistic interests and futurist curiosity by running a successful real estate team in New York City. Her passions run the gamut from costume design and immersive theater to the ethics and law in a future with sex robots and Crispr engineered humans.
Yes: A Digital Dunkirk I have been invited by Benoit to put together a slide presentation on the Future Brilliance Task Force and our successful efforts to evacuate several hundred Afghan women and their families from Afghanistan; reskill them in ICT, coding and robotics; prepare them for life in the West; and to secure asylum and flights to freedom.
#PositiveParenting , #FutureOfEducation , #MakeItHappen , #SeeLifeInPink , #ConnectPeople , #HappyLife , #CosmeticsAddict
Curator, expert, mentor, author. ("un prix ça n'a pas de prix ! "decrypts awards of contemporary art). I like to imagine and create programs, cultural trainings to build bridges between the different interlocutors of the contemporary creation, through my platform , a new media of the Art, incubator of ideas and artistic projects.
Spencer Wells is a geneticist, anthropologist, author and entrepreneur. For over a decade he was an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society and Director of the Genographic Project, which collected and analyzed DNA samples from hundreds of thousands of people around the world in order to decipher how our ancestors populated the planet, in the process launching the consumer genomics industry. Wells graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Texas at Austin, received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and conducted postdoctoral work at Stanford and Oxford. He has appeared in numerous documentary films and is the author of three books, The Journey of Man, Deep Ancestry and Pandora's Seed. His work has taken him to more than 100 countries, where he has collaborated with everyone from heads of government and Fortune 500 corporations, to tribal chieftains eking out a precarious living in places as remote as Chad, Tajikistan and Papua New Guinea. He lives in Austin, Texas, where he is founder and CEO of consumer genomics startup Insitome, an adjunct Professor at the University of Texas and owner of the iconic blues club Antone’s.
Catalyzing everyting exciting between creativity, technology, innovation and venture capital. Dedicated 25+ years to #futureofcontent, past 8 with the Marche Du FIlm - Festival de Cannes, Storytek and Future Media Hubs. 10 + years in Asia, occasional horse whisperer to goverments and between the EU. Electronic musician, film producer, and volunteer emergency medic.
Fostering a Mensch Republic
"I throw people and ideas on stage"... Stephane works as Editorial Director & Event Architect with corporations, startups, government entities or NGO's to create content and advise on communication and events deployment. His portfolio includes clients such as VivaTechnology or Les Napoleons to name a few as well as Media Agencies or Corporates. Prior to this, he was part of Smadja & Associates, an advisory firm founded by former MD of the World Economic Forum. Based between Geneva and Paris and working around the globe, Stephane was a pro skier and is always ready for a new adventure. @sbmiam
Sumit S Jamuar is Chairman & CEO of Global Gene Corp (GGC), a genomics data, insights and applications company with a vision to democratise healthcare through genomics. The company is creating representative genomics data and insights from under-explored populations in Asia, Middle East, LatAm and Africa to supplement the existing Caucasian data to apply in therapeutics development, discovery and patient stratification. GGC has been profiled by BBC, "The power of a billion: India's genomic revolution", Financial Times, "When biased data holds a fatal flaw", MIT Technology Review "Taking Genomic Data Global" and selected as "The Next Big Thing" by Cambridge Network. Sumit previously served as a Managing Director and Global Head at Lloyds Bank and CEO at SBICAP (UK), the European Investment banking subsidiary of State Bank of India. He has also served as a consultant with McKinsey and Company. He is a Senior Associate at the Royal Society of Medicine, and has previously served as a Fellow of Institute of Directors, Member of BAFT-IFSA European Council and Board Director at GEFCO plc. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi and an MBA from INSEAD.
Tal is the Investment Director at PICO Venture Partners, an early stage fund operating in Israel and the US. At PICO, Tal leads investments across all software-enabled sectors, serves on several boards and supports portfolio companies on growth trajectory. Tal has been active in the startup ecosystem helping venture-backed companies scale globally and identify strategic opportunities for almost a decade. Prior to her role at PICO Venture Partners, Tal was one of the youngest Investment Partners at Tel Aviv Capital where she led the technology department and focused on direct, M&A and Secondary deals as well as corporate innovation for some of the world’s leading enterprises. She was also part of the Founding Team at WMN and held business development and operating roles at the Israel-Asia Center. Due to her strong passion for education and impacting the next generation of leaders, Tal pursued social-entrepreneurship initiatives. She co-founded two education and leadership platforms: The Women’s Parliament focused on advancing female leadership and KEN-S, a global education platform for interdisciplinary learning. Tal sits on the advisory board of AJC Access and Outbox and serves as a mentor to some is Israel’s leading entrepreneurship programs and accelerators. Tal has a B.A in International Relations and Asian Studies from Hebrew University in Jerusalem and was featured in Forbes 30under30 in 2017.
Tali Orad is an engineer, TEDx speaker, and serial entrepreneur. She’s the founder of 1treellion, a global movement to mitigate climate change and support communities by planting trees.
Evolutionary behavioural scientist studying humanity, looking 2 million years back and a 1000 forward.
Tomas is a art and community instigator a creative and strategic thinker working to be a catalyst for a more inspiring and just world.
Curious about the next curve! Focused on technology-driven economic, market and social change, Tracey helps leaders best leverage change for positive impact.
Space Ambassador and Aviation enthusiast. Curator of highly immersive experiences.
Dubbed 'the re-inventor of the music video' by the New York Times, born in the digital and internet age, Vincent was the main director of the ‘Take Away Shows’ of La Blogothèque. The online project of music films on indie-rock band and other famous musicians, like R.E.M, Tom Jones or Arcade Fire, revolutionized the concept of music video and the way of filming music in the entire world. Since 2009, Moon dedicates himself to his nomadic label, la Collection Petites Planètes. Crossing the world, his camera and computer in his backpack, making ethnographic-experimental films in an independent way, recording traditional and sacred music, religious and shamanic rituals, then sharing it all for free on internet, under a Creative Commons licence. www.vincentmoon.com
Anaesthesiologist and AI ninja. Bridging the worlds of medicine, pharmacology and technology to enhance the human experience.
Wendy Tahara began classical piano lessons at age seven, eventually earning a performance degree from Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington, IN. Then, in 2007, she discovered an unexpected, profound love for the Celtic harp while going through a sort of spiritual awakening. She discovered kundalini yoga, which placed her on an amazing intuitive spiritual path which continues to guide her to this day. She has a deep passion for creating music which is empathetic and nurturing to the human spirit. Her angelic harp compositions, described as “soulful, evocative, heart-healing, compassionate, soothing, stirring, passionate, thrilling”, have often been used for yoga classes, meditations, sound baths, retreats, and spiritually conscious festivals. She has composed music and performed for the Croatian healing gazer Braco, toured with the artist Ashana, and provided meditation music for The Agape International Spiritual Center for Michael Bernard Beckwith. She has had the pleasure of playing with the Sound Healing Symphony at San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral. Wendy is also an accomplished dance musician, and has played for dancers and choreographers such as American Ballet Theatre's Amanda McKerrow, John Gardner, and the late David Howard. She is currently providing meditation music for MYNDFULL, as well as working on her latest project, Savasana Sound, to bring beautiful, calming, powerful yet peaceful sound journeys to the community in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and beyond.
Japan based ecosystem builder, New Zealand Edmund Hillary Fellow. Founding Board Venture Cafe @Cambridge Innovation Center Tokyo. Check out www.porrima.org and https://medium.com/pollica-2050/pollica-and-the-mediterranean-diet-bd60a91dd36f for two examples of portfolio of regenerative initiatives showing the world what is possible now....Look forward to being back together again in Avallon!
Change agent for desirable and sustainable futures. Biarritz addict and food lover Taking time, making sense, with smile and optimism, what ever what.
Born and raised in Nazareth, Israel, did my studies in Spain and China , and now i live in NYC working in the food business
Former Creative Director for Saatchi&Saatchi and Arnold Worldwide. Now Painter, His works has been displayed at the Venice Biennale and in several solo exhibits in New York, LA, Milan, Rome, Florence, Singapore, Tel Aviv, Istanbul. Lives and works in Milan.
Afton Halloran has been working in the realm of food and sustainability for over 12 years. She has a PhD in Paediatric and International Nutrition with a specialization in Sustainable Food Systems. She is a freelance consultant and has been working on projects for governmental and international organizations. She is the author of three books on food policy and future foods. Afton is also a member of the Judging Panel of the World Restaurant Awards and Board Member of FunkisFabriken Centre for Research in Sustainability. Originally from Vancouver Island, Canada, Afton has been calling Copenhagen her home for over 9 years.
A seasoned CEO, entrepreneur & expert in AI, Cyber & FinTech. Founded & scaled 3 startups, two Unicorns to 9-figure rev. Find me @NY, TLV & Bman.
Amiram Ben Ginigr, serves as one of the Chief Executive Officer of Taya Investment Co. Ltd. and Taya Communication Ltd. (Taya Media) and one of the Owners of those companies. Mr. Giniger attended the Executive Program of Harvard Business School and upon his return to Israel in 1992 he gave up practicing law to establish Taya Communications, which invests in media and technology companies. Among Taya Media's largest holding is United Studios of Israel, a leading TV production and facilities company. United Studios produced over 10'000 of television and has 8 studios.
Passionate about life, loves people & nature and believes on the power of human connection and creative thinking to make things happen
Opera singer and Architect
Starting in the late 1970s, Barak perceived how personal technologies could connect individuals and organizations, putting the power of computers and networks in everyone's hands.
I develop knowledge (AI), education (higher and executive), social connections (all around), and large burnable structures in the desert (Burning Man). President of myself (strategies.ai) and free spirit.
Artist, costume designer, visual experience creator
Graduate of Sciences Po Paris and an Executive MBA at Stanford, Caroline Bouraine Le Bigot has decades of international experience in high tech. Having recently returned to France, she is currently assisting large French, US and Israeli companies in their development. Her passion for high tech and user interface design, her knowledge of software and hardware environments, and her expertise in international businesses and complex projects have benefited the accelerated development of Claranova.
Christopher Wink is the Co-Founder of Blue Man Group and Blue School, and is now the Director of Content and Cool Shit for AREA15, an immersive entertainment complex opening in Las Vegas in Early 2020.
Serial entrepreneur and owner of the Copenhagen based restaurants Il Buco & La Banchina, the specialty shop La Dispensa, an artisan bakery and an import of clean Italian wines and food. As a believer in organic produce and sustainability Christer is working hard every day to promote this throughout his businesses, trying to set an example in the food and service industry infusing quality, thought and love into everything he puts his hands on. Making money is simply not the point.
Psychotherapist, professor, social entrepreneur in NYC
Christophe has spent 20 years in Corporate & Investment Banking, both as a senior executive and as a serial private investor. Acting as senior advisor for some large corporations and developing a large network in the Tech space, he has launched the first regulated tokenised Venture Capital fund. Christophe runs the Singularity University Chapter in London and has a master degree in Computer Science and Mathematics.
Entrepreneur living in the UAE, love all things digital, negronis, burning man and scuba diving.
Co-founder of a social enterprise called Solvatten® - producer and creator of co-labs. Solvatten is a smart portable solar powered jerry cans for heating and treating water. Our projects are made to give long lasting help with clean water and improve hygiene to people in need, especially for women and children. With Solvatten technology we can address poverty-related health issues that are connected to energy scarcity and poor water quality. www.solvatten.org
Estonian-Israeli celeb….thats all, y’all…
An entrepreneurial management consultant with passion for innovation, sustainability and leadership. A curious soul that wants to make a positive impact on the World!
Grounded in banking, law, economics, and international politics, I've co-founded ventures, influenced media and policy, and initiated Europe's top social media award. Away from work, I appreciate the simplicity of a football game, the allure of Star Trek, the amazing taste of Greek cuisine, the comfort of sun and sea, and the wonderful company of my cherished family and friends
Ed Cooke is the co-founder of Memrise, a language-learning app with more than 35 million users, and a Grandmaster of Memory who can learn a 1000 digit number in an hour
Elisabeth Fullerton is an angel investor, mentor, entrepreneur and philanthropist for her family office and foundation.
I work behind the counter at the Internet. I can help with your domain name problems and am unnaturally obsessed with telecom. I am also a committed globalist!
Guido van Nispen is CEO & Co-Founder of Insiber.com, the independent one-stop SaaS support platform empowering SME cybersafety and insurance. Guido has many years of executive management, advisory and supervisory experience in the technology, finance, and media sectors
Lecturer at the School of Economic Warfare; Advisor to PwC on Cyberdefense. Fiction writer
Harald is passionate about meaning in technology, the future of exponential technologies and its opportunities for society, brands and entrepreneurs – especially in Europe. Harald is the Founder of Futur/io – the European Institute for Exponential Technologies & Desirable Futures with campus locations in Berlin, Salzburg, Venice & Paris. For MLOVE Harald created M, the MLOVE Forum, as an inspiring event series that brings together innovation leaders and startups in an inspiring format at amazing locations.
Talk to me about biohacking, novel human-computer interfaces (Yes - reading the mind is fascinating), juicy exit stories
As an artist, I love capturing with a few essential lines people' emotions and motions. As a digital person, I love creating smart products for real humans.
My biggest passion is being an activist in the areas of coexistence, reconciliation, and cultural bridge building. As an organizational system builder, I specialize in transforming communities by focusing on the individual’s experience through engagement and sense of contribution to society. Visioner and initiator of Jordan Project (inspired by Burning Man) aimed to create a bridge between hearts, between humans from the entire Middle East region, bringing us together through conscious encounters allowing participants to identify a different path of living together in oneness and love, and go through a transformative experience. In addition, I am a Sema Zen in the Sufi Mevlevi order, leading conciseness workshops around the world.
Visual artist / Photographer, After making the black and white documentary photography book 'Silver' about the stigma of old age, especially for a woman,which was presented at Paris Photo in 2019, I started also working with other, less 'virtual' mediums like sculpture, collage and paper.
Entrepreneur, programmer, social hacker, performer, a clown
Designer, serial collaborator and house cook. Jamie spent his early career in Japan, China and Hong Kong, practicing law and learning to see. Shifting from designing contacts to designing places, Jamie now designs houses, gardens, hospitality venues and immersive experiences. Before moving to Kåseholm in the summer of 2017, Jamie and his partner Joakim Silvandersson lanced Solliden in Northern California wine country, a bohemian inspired clamping resort.
Jessica Flore Angel is an architect of spaces and communities interested in alternative modes of living. She is the co-founder of Almost Studio, a design practice in NY and the CEO of the recently acquired Château du Feÿ, where she started a multi-disciplinary art festival called Feÿ.She holds a Master’s degree (M. Arch I) from Yale University and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).
Animal aficionado, prankster and mastery of ceremonies. Joakim first explored the world through the lens of hospitality, leading Scandinavian groups to Mediteranean, French Alps, and points beyond. Other ventures included founding a global network marketing company and specialty jewelry design business. Before moving to Kåseholm in the summer of 2017, Jamie and his partner Joakim Silvandersson lanced Solliden in Northern California wine country, a bohemian inspired clamping resort.
Joanna runs JG Consulting, a strategic marketing boutique consultancy that advises companies on how to build their international footprint. She works with the management teams of Fortune 1000 companies to develop their World Economic Forum engagement strategy and to map key issues relevant to each company and executives. In 2017 she launched and ran for 3 years Transform.AI, a by invitation only conference in Europe focused on the business implications of artificial intelligence. Prior to starting JG Consulting, she served as director of Enterprise Strategy at Salesforce and prior to that, was head of the Information Technology Industry at the World Economic Forum.
John Gordon Is the founder of Xtreme Information, a Media Information company and Contagious, which monitors contagious ideas in media and culture. In 2002 he founded Intelligence Squared, a global forum for live debate on politics and culture and in 2012, the How To Academy, a live and online platform for talks. In addition he has launched Notting Hill Editions, a publishing company specializing in Essays and Globalista, a travel information company.
An entrepreneurial strategy and innovation consultant with passion for growth, sustainability and future leadership. A curious soul. Helping to create markets that are not yet defined and sacrifice the existing business models in order to thrive in the future. Getting the shit done.
Kelli is a global brand strategist and social impact consultant and founder of The Change Project. Kelli has over 25 years of brand, marketing and development experience with F500, non-profit and NGO's. Kelli helps social entrepreneurs build brands at General Assembly and the Founder's Institute in San Francisco, and leads brand, innovation, mission, and transformation workshops all over the world.
Former IT & Innovation director at NY Times International, now breaking, building and creating new business models, services and products, both in media and out of media. The best bit is I get to work with large multinationals and small startups - the whole ecosystem is my playground! I'm also chairwoman of the US board of APOPO HeroRats where we blend the best of nature and tech to train rats to save lives by detecting land mines, TB and lots more using their amazing sense of smell. @daviskris10
Leetha is a strategist intrigued by the power of collaboration as a tool for social change. She serves as the president of the PopTech Institute (www.poptech.org) where she oversees a portfolio focused on the global health, environment, social justice and the future of work. Her tenure at PopTech began with the establishment of the PopTech Social Innovation and Science Fellows programs, which are dedicated to identifying and training promising innovators and scientists. Much of PopTech’s work explores the leveraging of technology and other disruptive channels to mitigate challenges confronting humanity. Leetha has a deep and diverse background in strategic development, and has advised and served on the boards of numerous organizations and agencies. She lives on a small farm in Maine.
Split between Tel Aviv, Santa Teresa, CR and Oslo. I truly love my quite multifaceted life where time is split between working as a webmaster, front-end developer & designer and a social entrepreneur. As the founder of the Kos & Kaos, a Nordic network organizing intelectual events, think tanks and social activities with a focus on the current fight against antisemitism.
Founder Maslow Capital Partners Co-founder Kinnernet Europe
Marius Veltman is a user experience designer and creative technologist from the Netherlands with over fifteen years of expertise in digital product and service design. Marius holds a profound knowledge of what is moving today's digital users. And has a Hypercreative, multi-faceted, one-trick pony.
Sailor, coach, sales guy exploring new ways of using technology for business innovation.
Music, art, strategic foresight, futurism, innovation, leadership, future of work and humanity
I want to make the world more beautiful, more connected and where ever I can try to support people and projects that do so as well. My background is in branding, marketing, advertising followed by the creation of Wisher.com - a gifting platform and launchpad for brands.
Earlier a software entrepreneur, now switched to education, opened several IT schools in Siberia, Russia to teach children IT skills. My new project is educational kits for children with experiments in various STEAM professions. My passion is to help children find their passion and true purpose in life.
Educator for troubled youth, costume designer and aesthetic aficionado, co-founder of EEVA, a wellness brand that’s in the business of ‘making the world better’.
Nicolas’ career began at J.P. Morgan in Investment Banking, followed by LabMorgan, J.P. Morgan’s e-finance incubator to transform the financial services industry. Now co-founder at Andurance Ventures he invests in early stage tech ventures focusing on media/education and blockchain related technologies.He's been active in the digital identity / data portability space and more recently in the ESG / Environmental tech space.
Nusrat is a pioneering media executive, strategic advisor, and filmmaker. He worked at MTV for 20 years and founded MTV World, Viacom’s visionary global division. He is the creator of the award-winning “Rebel Music” and “The Music Experiment,” MTV’s first transmedia live music series. Nusrat was honored by President Barack Obama for his work and called “a sage when it comes to music and pop culture” by MTV founder Tom Freston. His new documentary, “An American Prayer,” recently premiered at the Black Nights Tallinn Film Festival, and will be released in 2022.
Living a Shrödinger cat life: General inspector of Finance (French Ministry of Economy), artist and writer.
Hi My name is Petra and I live in south of Sweden. I am a freelancersinger. I teach singer and singer songwriters in the art of performing and interpretation. I am a breathingpedagog; conscious breathing and rebirthing. Vioce-yoga-teacher. Dramapedagog. I have been studying shamanism for the last 14 years. I am so looking forward to this weekend and to meet you all.
Blockchain Legal Scholar. Research Director at the CNRS and Faculty Associate at Harvard.
Powering & empowering media ecosystems in emerging markets @AlephGroup. Intrepid traveller, trivia nerd & movie buff.
CEO @Decode Media. FrenchWeb.fr The source for Internet news, startups, and tech trends in France.
Founder, TWIN Global; Professor of Innovation, UofChicago & Northwestern; Author, speaker, active venture investor. BA, History; Ph.D., IE, Northwestern
Working in the field of food innovation, challenging people taste buds, promoting food diversity and cultural difference. Fascinated by technology, art design.
I am an urban anthropologist, driven by the wish to improve the quality of urban places through understanding the human experience within the built form. I have a background social science research, sustainability science and socio-cultural complexities. Currently I’m sitting on the Innovation Team at Gehl Architects. Former coach of Crime City Rollers - Malmö’s roller derby team.
As a father of 4, I know that my future will be their past. Therefore I try to focus my present actions towards specific areas of interest such as new technologies business ethics and people relationships development through innovation, education, and cultural bridges. French and Swedish and ex-ABB/L'Oréal/Google/DassaultSystemes.
Catalyzing everyting exciting between creativity, technology, innovation and venture capital. Dedicated 25+ years to #futureofcontent, past 8 with the Marche Du FIlm - Festival de Cannes, Storytek and Future Media Hubs. 10 + years in Asia, occasional horse whisperer to goverments and between the EU. Electronic musician, film producer, and volunteer emergency medic.
Fostering a Mensch Republic
Tali Orad is an engineer, TEDx speaker, and serial entrepreneur. She’s the founder of 1treellion, a global movement to mitigate climate change and support communities by planting trees.
Anaesthesiologist and AI ninja. Bridging the worlds of medicine, pharmacology and technology to enhance the human experience.
Japan based ecosystem builder, New Zealand Edmund Hillary Fellow. Founding Board Venture Cafe @Cambridge Innovation Center Tokyo. Check out www.porrima.org and https://medium.com/pollica-2050/pollica-and-the-mediterranean-diet-bd60a91dd36f for two examples of portfolio of regenerative initiatives showing the world what is possible now....Look forward to being back together again in Avallon!
I’ve been reporting on lifestyle trends since 2004 while in the branding and storytelling industry and only here I’m sure we have a lot to talk about. However, I’d prefer if we dig deeper into the web of change, especially from a values and sociological perspective. Yet, what gets me going even more at this point is more within the realms of anthropology - shamanism and particularly shamanic states of consciousness, raising energetic levels beyond the ordinary. In my work life, I’m pretty good at grinding down highly complex brands into meaningful simplicity where organisation, ownership structures and/or wide scopes pose a major challenge to coherence and a common sense of purpose. I’ve done this with nations and several organisations with up to 24 000 employees.
Former Creative Director for Saatchi&Saatchi and Arnold Worldwide. Now Painter, His works has been displayed at the Venice Biennale and in several solo exhibits in New York, LA, Milan, Rome, Florence, Singapore, Tel Aviv, Istanbul. Lives and works in Milan.
Co-founder of the Existential Detectives Agency: the organization that isn’t. Investor, futurist, actual wizard, and former management consultant. To contact me, meditate deeply on my presence.
After a film production school, he created his first advertising film and documentary production company in 1994. Five years later, he developed a business incubator for production companies in Paris. He created the ADN Group in 2009, publisher of the French innovation magazine L'ADN.
Afton Halloran has been working in the realm of food and sustainability for over 12 years. She has a PhD in Paediatric and International Nutrition with a specialization in Sustainable Food Systems. She is a freelance consultant and has been working on projects for governmental and international organizations. She is the author of three books on food policy and future foods. Afton is also a member of the Judging Panel of the World Restaurant Awards and Board Member of FunkisFabriken Centre for Research in Sustainability. Originally from Vancouver Island, Canada, Afton has been calling Copenhagen her home for over 9 years.
Alexa paints on people and 3D objects in a way that makes them look like a 2D painting
Aussie/Spanish/Cuban/British entrepreneur living in Lisbon. Founded Skimlinks (exited) and now building FLOWN (virtual co-working for focus and flow).
CEO & Founder of Tastewise - AI for food innovation; formerly a Google exec - founder of Google Partners, World Economic Forum lead, and CMO Google Israel & Greece, always an LGBT activist.
Mathematical engineer, entrepreneur and writer. Founder and Director of RESITER, a Latinamerican group in the circular economy business.
Dr. Amanda Parkes is a fashion technologist and biomedia designer with over 10 years of experience in interaction design, wearable technology, and fashion innovation. She is the Chief of Technology and Research at Manufacture NY, a new hybrid fashion incubator/factory/research facility in Brooklyn NY. She teaches in the Columbia Univ. Dept of Architecture and holds a PhD & M.S. in Tangible Media from the MIT Media Lab and B.S. in Product Design from Stanford University. She was named to the Business of Fashion 500 People Shaping the Global Fashion Industry and as one of ‘8 Wildest Women of Silicon Valley’ by Vanity Fair.
Amiram Ben Ginigr, serves as one of the Chief Executive Officer of Taya Investment Co. Ltd. and Taya Communication Ltd. (Taya Media) and one of the Owners of those companies. Mr. Giniger attended the Executive Program of Harvard Business School and upon his return to Israel in 1992 he gave up practicing law to establish Taya Communications, which invests in media and technology companies. Among Taya Media's largest holding is United Studios of Israel, a leading TV production and facilities company. United Studios produced over 10'000 of television and has 8 studios.
Loves Food & Wine Acquired Over 1 Billion Users 4 Exits - Over $2 Billion
Committed to making a positive impact in the world and a dynamic force behind the scenes who connects people, projects and endless possibilities.
Creative arts meets practical science. Entrepreneur, educator, explorer.
I’m a data scientist-economist-banker-cyclist-climber. Both Canadian and French, but not French Canadian. Lived in Japan, Brazil, India. Rode a motorcycle across Latin America. I spend my free time studying all human knowledge, three months at a time.
Assaf is an entrepreneur and tech executive. In 2013, he founded Superpedestrian, a company pioneering the decarbonization of transportation through machine learning and predictive networks. As CEO for over a decade, Assaf grew the company’s operations to 11 countries, leveraging its technologies across diverse industries, from commercial fleets to personal transportation. In 2003, he co-founded the MIT Senseable City Lab, which he co-directs today. The lab focuses on advancing the science and engineering of AI and analytics technologies to tackle the key challenges faced by cities, with particular emphasis on energy, transportation, and health.
Managing Partner at iVentures Consulting Inc.(Management Consulting boutique specialized in transformation and innovative growth strategies in Fashion, Beauty and Retail) and Board Advisor for the emerging natural makeup brand Rituel de Fille and luxury streetwear label Icosae. Record collector, photography and pilates lover. Los Angeles based.
Obsessed by the need for individual and collective resilience in a word increasingly uncertain and complex. Very optimistic on the promises of digital transition to solve human problems.
Starting in the late 1970s, Barak perceived how personal technologies could connect individuals and organizations, putting the power of computers and networks in everyone's hands.
Barbara is an entrepreneur and investor, passionate about nature, science and space. She is currently founder and CEO at Interstellar Lab whose mission is to design and build bioregenerative habitats for humans to live sustainably on any planet.
Beatrice Sutter is the chief editor of L'ADN, a media (print and web) that talks about digital culture and innovation.
Neuroscientist of perception and a few other things ... I like to believe.
I develop knowledge (AI), education (higher and executive), social connections (all around), and large burnable structures in the desert (Burning Man). President of myself (strategies.ai) and free spirit.
Named Forbes 30 under 30 and BBC's 100 Most Inspiring Women, Betsy has a decade of experience as an inventor, product founder and CEO. Betsy serves on the Tufts School of Nutrition Innovation Council and her company, Tiny Organics, has been chosen by Michelle Obama’s Partnerships for a Healthier America for their baby food initiative to support veggie-forward early palate development across the nation. Betsy enjoys building great brands and has invented over 100 products and counting. She advises a number of consumer product and deep data startups as well as UNICEF Wearables for Good initiative. Betsy is a keynote speaker and has spoken at Google, CES, World Economic Forum, National Retail Federation among others. Betsy is the Co-Founder of Tiny Organics, delivering toddlers their first 100 flavors direct to their door through whole, palette expanding meals. Being a vegetarian for 14 years, Betsy aims to train the palette of a generation to desire savory forward, whole real foods and most importantly providing access for all.
Betty Kay is a fine artist living in Manhattan, New York. She is the co-creator of the international street art movement IN PURSUIT OF MAGIC.
Bill is an inventor and entrepreneur with 15 years of experience in the technology industry. He build the original iPhone cameras, helped build the first encrypted mobile card reader at Square, and designed the first 360° HD camera used in live TV.
Billy Naveed is the CEO & Founder of Young Founders School (YFS) which is a non-profit EdTech company that runs startup bootcamps for high school students, globally. They have taught over 700 students across China, Singapore and Hong Kong and are expanding across Asia. The programme is currently sponsored by Credit Suisse and Alibaba. Billy works at Credit Suisse where he runs Hedge Fund sales and advises large money money managers on technology investments in both public and privates markets. In this position he also works with startups and VCs from around the Asia region to connect them to Credit Suisse. Before Credit Suisse he spent 10 years at Morgan Stanley in London and Hong Kong. Prior to the world of finance Billy founded a couple of small startups in software development and interior design. He is very active in the startup scene in Hong Kong and South-East Asia and has invested in startups around the world. Billy read Economics at Warwick University and his Msc in Finance at Economics at Warwick business school under full scholarship.
Bonin Bough is one of the foremost-awarded marketing executives in his field, the producer and host of The Cleveland Hustles, and the author of TXT Me (646) 759-1837. Throughout his illustrious career as one of the youngest C-suite executives in a Fortune 50 company, Bonin has spearheaded some of the industry’s largest global marketing campaigns across digital, mobile, television, print, and experiential, including the premier of the first ever 3D printed food product, the customizable, real-time 3D printed Oreo at SXSW. Bonin’s prominence as a transformative activator has helped reinvigorate traditional marketing by combining innovative tech via breakthrough brand campaigns including Oreo, Honey Maid, Pepsi, Gatorade, and countless other billion dollar brands. He is seen as one of the top mobile marketers in the world, having been named “Mobile Marketer of the Year” by the MMA. In 2013, he was inducted into the American Advertising Federation’s Advertising Hall of Achievement and has been listed in Fortune Magazine’s “40 under 40”, Fast Company’s “100 Most Creative People in Business”, The Adweek 50 and PRWeek Power List.
Brad Templeton was chair for computing at Singularity U, Chairman Emeritus and Futurist at the EFF, and founded ClariNet, the world's first dot-com. He has advised on robocars and mobility for many leading players, including Waymo, and speaks globaly on the topics of the future of technolgy and transportation.
Artist, costume designer, visual experience creator
Brian Collins is Chief Creative Officer of COLLINS, an independent brand and experience design company in New York City and San Francisco.
Cameron has worked in community-led development and post-conflict and post-disaster reconstruction for the past two decades. He has built partnerships and construction teams for communities in 49 countries and has raised over $70M for social impact projects. Currently he leads social innovation at Airbnb, working on a range of projects from livelihoods for resettled refugees in Jordan, rural revitalization in Japan and developing addressing systems for nomadic populations in Mongolia. Last year, through his design studio, he designed a dozen schools in Jordan, providing access to education for 4000 refugee children.
Carine de Meyere is a Women’s advocate when it comes to creating equal opportunities and equal rights for Women. She was educated at Wells College – an all Women’s college and completed a Masters in Women’s Studies and Social Sciences at Harvard University. She has become an expert on diversity and inclusion and opens up a broader discussion on how to transform the old way of thinking to a new way of thinking! Diversity and Inclusion is all about raising consciousness!
As a researcher on social cognition and social behavior who directs a (Social) Complexity Center by the hills of the Mountain Andes, I am fascinated for the times we live in. The society keeps complexifying. Cross polliinization is not just a metaphor. The amount and richness of experimental and field data together with all the information that dan be gathered from our digital print gives us a sand box to play with hitherto unexplored aspects of crucial aspects of emergent properties of our social life such as cooperation, collective intelligence and diversity.
Content curator and Product Innovation at LinkedIn. Associate Professor in Marketing at Sciences Po Paris. Shakshuka and Stevie Wonder expert.
Computer Girl since 2K. Digital Strategy, innovation, specialized in media TV / Internet. Chief Content Officer @AdsVark Media
Artist, with a deep interest in slow, mindful viewing.
Twenty years as a senior reporter, founder of a free school of journalism to promote diversity and I run an media group
Charles Michel is a nomad philomath studying the convergence of art, science, multisensory aesthetics and human culture. Based at Oxford University between 2013 and 2016, he published over a dozen papers in scientific journals on crossmodal perception. He works as an experience designer in a variety of fields, and as an artist using food and the meal ritual as a medium. In recent years he has been working with in cutting-edge projects that innovate in community building, hospitality, and experiential art. At the intersection of science, art and entrepreneurship, Charles aims to inspire solutions for important challenges in the human/food/nature relationship.
Christopher Wink is the Co-Founder of Blue Man Group and Blue School, and is now the Director of Content and Cool Shit for AREA15, an immersive entertainment complex opening in Las Vegas in Early 2020.
Christie Nicholson is currently Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Citibank. She is also an award-winning science journalist, contributing editor at Scientific American and adjunct professor in entrepreneurship at New York University.
Psychotherapist, professor, social entrepreneur in NYC
Christophe has spent 20 years in Corporate & Investment Banking, both as a senior executive and as a serial private investor. Acting as senior advisor for some large corporations and developing a large network in the Tech space, he has launched the first regulated tokenised Venture Capital fund. Christophe runs the Singularity University Chapter in London and has a master degree in Computer Science and Mathematics.
Art Director for textile Design, and now for a needles manufacturer BOHIN FRANCE (La Manufacture Bohin, since 1833!)
Founder of RAD foundation (relations, awareness&dialogue) Board director member. Driver: exploration
Claudia Romo Edelman is a Special Adviser for UNICEF, and recently has been seconded to the Executive Office for International Migration. Previously, Claudia served as UNICEF’s Global Chief of Public Advocacy. She was seconded to the Executive Office of the Secretary General of the United Nations leading communications and advocacy for the Sustainable Development Goals and Climate Change for the Special Adviser on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. She has successfully led PR, branding, and marketing for some of the biggest global organizations such as the World Economic Forum, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), and the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB & Malaria. Claudia started her career as a journalist and press correspondent for Latin American media companies such as Notimex, Proceso, Infored Monitor. She holds degrees in Communications, Philosophy, and Photography as well as a Masters in Political Communications from the London School of Economics. Claudia is a frequent public speaker and speaks six languages.
Claudia SENIK is Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics and the University Paris-Sorbonne. She is also member of the IZA and of the Institut Universitaire de France. Educated at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, she received her PhD from EHESS. Her main research area is the Economics of Happiness, with a special interest in the relationship between income growth, income distribution and subjective well-being. She also works on political attitudes and post-transition economies, as well as the impact of institutions on gender norms.
Craig Forman is an American entrepreneur, media executive, and former foreign correspondent who served as chief executive officer of The McClatchy Company. He previously worked at The Wall Street Journal. He is currently a partner at NextNews Ventures and is executive chair of The Center for News, Technology and Innovation.
Digital Interactive, Online, Education, Community, Investment, Social Entreprenuership, Global prosperity-ProsperityExchange, Planetary Insight Center, EDGEof
Passionate about innovation, technology, digital, entrepreneurship and international business, Daniel provides high-end advice and assistance for structuring, financing, running international operations, assistance on securing investment or partnership opportunities (Europe, USA, Israel, China), and guidance on the impact of the technologies on our societies.
Entrepreneur living in the UAE, love all things digital, negronis, burning man and scuba diving.
Ever since a high school biology teacher informed Daphne Miller that clover produces a hormone similar to human estrogen, she has been fascinated by how our external ecosystem is linked to our internal one. Daphne is a practicing family physician and founder of Growing Health Collaborative which seeks to bridge the gaps between agriculture and medicine. She is a Clinical Professor at the University of California San Francisco and University of California Berkeley. Books include: Farmacology and the Jungle Effect. Movies include: In Search of Balance, Food for Thought, Goshen.
I'm passionate about using technology to shift from our ME-centered culture to create the Internet of WE. By working together we can evolve by choice not chance.
I am a Data Scientist/Developer/Innovator with a Ph.D. in quantum physics. I want to apply my creativity, advanced mathematics and full-stack coding skills to make AI/ML improve the world. In my present position at BOLD I report directly to the CEO, ideating and prototyping algorithms and applications beyond the company's regular scope. I believe that we can enter a new economic era by using AI/ML for leveraging peoples unique combinations of traits so that they become more valuable to each other. Among my many interests is the similarities between natural language and quantum physics, such as superposition (e.g. Schrödinger's Cat: the word "Jaguar" is a cat AND a car at the same time until someone 'opens the lid' and observes it in context), and I like applying physics thinking when I design natural language technology. My physics background is a combination of computational physics and spectroscopy, which both are applicable in data science. I'm a Co-founder of i4j Innovation for Jobs, alongside Vint Cerf. I served as Executive Director from 2011 to 2021, when the leadership of i4j was taken over by Guido van Nispen. I co-edited the i4j anthology 'The People-Centered Economy' and wrote the first chapter, presenting a model for a people-centered economy. With the introduction of Large Language Models, the required technology for this vision now exists, making it a tangible reality. Above all, I am a builder, and when I am not building prototypes at work I build road bikes, grow hops, brew beer, bake sourdough and many other things.
Language, music, AI and cognition work enabling cultures to interrelate in creative ways; named Founding ACL Fellow for foundational contributions to Google/Yahoo/Microsoft/etc translators; named Debrett's 100 most influential figures of Hong Kong; founding Professor of AI at HKUST; Distinguished Research Scholar at Berkeley's ICSI; founder of transcultural music collective ReOrientate
As an executive private chef, I spend my week creating cuisine inspired by the seasonal harvest in the San Francisco Bay Area and Napa Valley wine region of Northern California. My daily goals focus on transforming organic meats, poultry, seafood, fruits, vegetables, and grains into pleasing meals for those who consume the work of my knives and my knowledge of fire. The sound of “yum” filling my ears is one of my greatest job rewards. Being a conduit that brings people together to share a meal is another. Sourcing the freshest and most sustainable ingredients and supporting the local economy of farmers, ranchers, fisherman and other specialty purveyors is always my priority. My cooking style is heavily influenced by my two years of full-time study at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone in the Napa Valley AVA, California.
Estonian-Israeli celeb….thats all, y’all…
Co Founder of FIND.fashion - Revolutionising Fashion Discovery. Founding team @ Fits.me Rakuten & Retail Recharged; Senior positions @STYLEBOP, Poq Commerce Free spirit dancer
Grounded in banking, law, economics, and international politics, I've co-founded ventures, influenced media and policy, and initiated Europe's top social media award. Away from work, I appreciate the simplicity of a football game, the allure of Star Trek, the amazing taste of Greek cuisine, the comfort of sun and sea, and the wonderful company of my cherished family and friends
Ed is an innovator who builds digital businesses for good. He's been on the founding team of 6 pioneering startups: from global risk and emergency management, to agrifood systems, to digital democracy. He's deeply idealistic.
Elisabeth Fullerton is an angel investor, mentor, entrepreneur and philanthropist for her family office and foundation.
I love technology, challenges and new experiences. And most of all I love my job as UX designer. This year I will start a year of work&travel through Europe as a digital nomad in a wonderful french Oldtimer RV.
Student @Ecole 42UWC graduate, Student at school 42
For more than ten years, Emmanuelle has been active in digital media management, particularly in the luxury goods industry. She was responsible for digital marketing at Swiss watch brand Omega and also worked in Australia, where she handled digital communication projects for another global brand’s Asia Pacific region. Emmanuelle studied digital marketing in San Francisco, earning an MS in International Marketing. She also has an MBA from the Université Paris-Sorbonne. Born and raised in Paris, Emmanuelle has lived and worked in the United States, Australia, Spain, France and Switzerland.
Psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author Esther Perel is recognized as one of today’s most insightful and original voices on modern relationships. Fluent in nine languages, she helms a therapy practice in New York City and serves as an organizational consultant for Fortune 500 companies around the world. Her celebrated TED talks have garnered more than 40 million views and her international bestseller Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence became a global phenomenon translated into 31 languages. Her newest book is the New York Times bestseller The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity (HarperCollins). Esther is also an executive producer and host of the popular podcasts Where Should We Begin? and How’s Work? Her latest project is Where Should We Begin - A Game of Stories with Esther Perel. Learn more at EstherPerel.com or by following @EstherPerelOfficial on Instagram.
Fabrice Cavarretta is a Professor of Management at ESSEC Business School where he studies managerial paradigms, in particular in leadership and entrepreneurship contexts.
25 years banking, financial advisory and private equity experience in the sectors of energy, environment and infrastructure. Currently advising a fund in the sector of digital-based security technologies.
Evolutionary linguist in formation with a background in arts and literature. Mountain goat on weekends.
I speak, write & film. Formats may change, but not the intent: I work on the end of the world as we know it and what may come next. I questions the power of finance, technology and mediocrity on our lives. I wonder about our consents. MEETING SNOWDEN is my most recent work. I am preparing a book on the life and death of Internet activist Aaron Swartz.
Florence is a law professor that focuses on the regulation of technology. She mostly works on EU and US regulations. She is now based in Paris but will soon move to the Bay Area.
A kungfu player, an art lover, and a tea master
Gary is a former technology entrepreneur turned growth stage m&a and capital advisor and investor with a focus on the intersection of technology, media & telecom and the purpose economy (companies that are mission aligned and values oriented).
I am Kinnernet ‘s photographer :) I am your photographer www.geraldinearesteanu.com
Over 25 years of experience in international media and services business, my core themes have always been leadership, change, creativity and digital transition, now exploring new ventures outside restrictions of corporate environments
Co-founder of Frequency, a company intertwining technology and spirituality, Gio's role is capturing in VR the most significant hidden spiritual teachers on the planet. He travels the world as a DJ, he's a producer, an adventurer and a cultural entrepreneur (the founder of various festival's and the former VP of Midburn, the 3rd largest burning man affiliated event in the world). Gio is happily married to Cellist and musician Hadas Kleinman and lives in between New York and Tel Aviv.
Marketing Artisan in a digital age - Founder @lamercatique, speaker, author, advisor - PODCASTER: #VLAN - Founder of plink.studio
Guido van Nispen is CEO & Co-Founder of Insiber.com, the independent one-stop SaaS support platform empowering SME cybersafety and insurance. Guido has many years of executive management, advisory and supervisory experience in the technology, finance, and media sectors
Innovating in neuro-technology, we are gathering artists, neuro-scientists, game designers and psychologists to design the next Digital Therapeutics and support humans in facing the biggest challenges.
Lecturer at the School of Economic Warfare; Advisor to PwC on Cyberdefense. Fiction writer
An acclaimed Cellist and a successful Israeli singer songwriter. Hadas has been playing from the age of 8, Performing since the age of 19 and been touring around the world with the band she co-founded - ‘Asaf Avidan and the Mojos’. By the the age of 21 she had already performed some of the world's prestigious stages, including Carnegie hall, Cannes festival and China's forbidden city. Hadas escorts Israel top musicians as a singer and a cellist, and Currently working on her 3nd solo album and her international breakthrough. Hadas has performed in theater and movies. The theater show ‘To be Alexander Penn’ was written and inspired by her own personal story. In addition to her musical and acting career, Hadas is a certified Meditation instructor and been leading Meditation retreats around the world. She escorts fellow musicians and artists through creative and inner work processes and overcoming performance and creative barriers.
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Haisong Tang is co-founder of Elite Educational Institute and Managing Director of Technology Reserve China. Haisong’s passion lies in technology and education. In 2013, he started Elite China aiming to grow China’s future leaders and thinkers. He also initiated Technology Reserve to help SMEs to secure technologies transfer from Fortune 100 companies. In 2009 Haisong was responsible for Intellectual Ventures’s Physical Science initiative in China help local inventors develop patents and license in the global market. In 1999 Haisong started his internet venture etang - a platform targeted the young Chinese generation. Haisong joined McKinsey and helped establish McKinsey China office in 1993. Haisong is an active member of China-France Foundation and Young Leaders’ Forum. He teaches “the military, the technology, and the finance” at Fudan Business School. A Shanghai native, Haisong studied Laser Physics at Fudan University and received his MBA degree from Harvard.
Harald is passionate about meaning in technology, the future of exponential technologies and its opportunities for society, brands and entrepreneurs – especially in Europe. Harald is the Founder of Futur/io – the European Institute for Exponential Technologies & Desirable Futures with campus locations in Berlin, Salzburg, Venice & Paris. For MLOVE Harald created M, the MLOVE Forum, as an inspiring event series that brings together innovation leaders and startups in an inspiring format at amazing locations.
Born and raised in Estonia. Lived in between Paris, New York and tokyo between 1997-2003, studied graphic design in Paris, then shot and directed some short films as well fashion films and a documentary. Raising my daughter in Paris. Currently creating social media content for brands.
Designerly type, well versed in the art of strategery. Currently heading Brand Strategy & Design at Autodesk.
Talk to me about biohacking, novel human-computer interfaces (Yes - reading the mind is fascinating), juicy exit stories
As an artist, I love capturing with a few essential lines people' emotions and motions. As a digital person, I love creating smart products for real humans.
Ian Rogers joined LVMH as Group Chief Digital Officer in October 2015. As CDO Ian is responsible for building group-level digital excellence and accelerating digital transformation for LVMH maisons. A graduate in computer science from Indiana University, Ian Rogers started his career in 1993 as webmaster successively for Beastie Boys and at Winamp (sold to AOL in 1999). In 2001 he founded Mediacode, which was sold to Yahoo! in 2003 where he became VP and General Manager, Music. Ian joined Beats Music as CEO in 2013 and Apple as Senior Director after their acquisition of Beats. Ian contributed to the 2015 launch of Apple Music including Beats1, their digital streaming channel.
Cofounder of digital media Worldcrunch
Visual artist / Photographer, After making the black and white documentary photography book 'Silver' about the stigma of old age, especially for a woman,which was presented at Paris Photo in 2019, I started also working with other, less 'virtual' mediums like sculpture, collage and paper.
Isabel Behncke (DPhil Oxford, MPhil Cambridge) is an applied primatologist who studies social behavior in animals including humans. For her PhD she followed wild bonobos in Congo researching their play behaviour. Isabel grew up at the foothills of the Andes mountains in Chile. She loves nature and wildness and culture and the arts. She is a Gruter Institute and TED Fellow, and recently Presidential advisor to Chile's government.
Entrepreneur, programmer, social hacker, performer, a clown
Jack Saul, Ph.D. is a New York State licensed psychologist and family therapist providing therapeutic services for individuals, couples, and families in Manhattan. His family systems orientation emphasizes a narrative, dialogic, and resilience based approach. Dr. Saul is the director of the International Trauma Studies Program in New York City. As a psychologist he has created a number of psychosocial programs for people facing adversity in New York City and abroad. He is known for his innovative work with families and communities that integrates testimony, healing, media, and the performance arts.
PhD in chemistry, ETH Zürich. G. M. paper production and printing companies Man. Consulting, McKinsey Paris, Groupe Valeur Pr. Assoc. Justice
A veteran technology journalist and media entrepreneur who has worked full-time, at various points in her career, for The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, International Herald Tribune, Red Herring, Businessweek, and Les Echos. Jennifer served as a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer judge for 20 years and was twice voted one of the 50 most inspiring women in technology in Europe. She is currently the founder and editor-in-chief of The Innovator (www.theinnovator.news)
Investor in big ideas with potential for positive impact and exponential growth. Entrepreneur. Thinker. Reader. Long term analysis on AI, New Space and other new deep tech trends.
Jessica Flore Angel is an architect of spaces and communities interested in alternative modes of living. She is the co-founder of Almost Studio, a design practice in NY and the CEO of the recently acquired Château du Feÿ, where she started a multi-disciplinary art festival called Feÿ.She holds a Master’s degree (M. Arch I) from Yale University and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).
Jhilmil Breckenridge is a poet, writer and activist. She is the Founder of Bhor Foundation, a mental health charity. Her areas of work are mental health, domestic violence and trauma. Jhilmil is currently working on a PhD in the UK and her poetry and other writings have been widely published and anthologised. Her debut collection, Reclamation Song, was shortlisted for the prestigious RL Poetry India award in 2017 and will be released later this year. She tweets at jhilmilspirit.
Joanna runs JG Consulting, a strategic marketing boutique consultancy that advises companies on how to build their international footprint. She works with the management teams of Fortune 1000 companies to develop their World Economic Forum engagement strategy and to map key issues relevant to each company and executives. In 2017 she launched and ran for 3 years Transform.AI, a by invitation only conference in Europe focused on the business implications of artificial intelligence. Prior to starting JG Consulting, she served as director of Enterprise Strategy at Salesforce and prior to that, was head of the Information Technology Industry at the World Economic Forum.
I have the great pleasure to be part of the team organizing DARWIN'S CIRCLE out of Vienna, where we are bringing together decision makers across various industries to discuss the digital future of society.
John Gordon Is the founder of Xtreme Information, a Media Information company and Contagious, which monitors contagious ideas in media and culture. In 2002 he founded Intelligence Squared, a global forum for live debate on politics and culture and in 2012, the How To Academy, a live and online platform for talks. In addition he has launched Notting Hill Editions, a publishing company specializing in Essays and Globalista, a travel information company.
Mild mannered behavior scientist studying Influence and Adventure, author of The 2 am Principle, and in my free time I run The Influencers Dinner & Miror.
Jon Morris is the CEO/co-founder of NOWHERE & The Windmill Factory. He has helped pioneer immersive theatre, the experience economy, and the metaverse by creating award winning experiences at the intersection of art and technology that have excited audiences around the globe including collaborations with Cirque Du Soleil, NIN, Fuerzabruta, Burning Man, Red Bull, AWS, Google to name a few. linktr.ee/yojonmorris
EVERYTHING IS INTERCONNECTED "As a nomadic spirit I navigate from universe to universe I am enriched by travels and meetings what I do is not a job it's an endless search, it's looking for the beautiful in the sense noble of the term, it's sharing my vision that everything is interconnected, there is no limit..." Http://www.Judithdarmont.com
A results-oriented conscious business leader with more than 20 years experience in Silicon Valley, US and France. 10 years as a digital Start Up entrepreneur and 10 years working for Fortune 500 companies among these corporations: Carrefour, L’Oréal, Société Générale, and Estee Lauder, where I served as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Digital Officer. I am also Board Member of Science and Non-Duality, and a Kundalini Yoga Meditation teacher. And most of all a blessed mother.
Jurgis Didžiulis (aka Jurgis DID) is a Colombian-Lithuanian with a unique talent for bringing people together through the magic of musical co-creation. Part speaker, activist, and performer, he has navigated the intersection of music and social transformation for 20 years with a focus on upgrading culture (beliefs and behaviors) through culture (creative expression).
Chief Impact Office at Contensquare and former Director of La French Tech
STEAM-driven synthesist, climate change focus for eco-&-econ systems. Knowledge sommelier, ADA-AI, FutureEarth, Founding team SingularityU
Kendall is passionate about combining comfort, function and community into all of his designs. His sense of space comes from spending much of his free time outdoors, and thinking about how to make every environment feel organic and restorative. For over 10 years he's built relationships with fabricators, artists and clients from California to Australia. Residential and commercial clients include Minted.com and other private referrals. See his work at kendallermshar.io
Kenneth Lacovara has unearthed some of the largest dinosaurs ever to walk our planet, including the super-massive Dreadnoughtus, which at 65 tons weighs more than seven T. rex. Through his work, blending exploration with the latest techniques from medicine and engineering, Lacovara portrays dinosaurs as vigorous, competent creatures—the adaptable champions of an age. He has appeared in many television documentaries and his discoveries have landed him three times in Discover magazine’s 100 Top Science Stories of the year and in Time’s Top Stories of 2014. Lacovara was named by Men’s Journal as one of “The Next Generation of Explorers” and he is an elected fellow of the Explorers Club in New York. Dr. Lacovara is the founder and director of the Edelman Fossil Park of Rowan University in New Jersey.
Kim has over 10 years of track record in design and engineering innovative stuff. Previously holding responsabilities for the large industry and startups in product design and digital transformation, he has been operationally involved in cutting edge innovation projects for over 10 years, in many different fields such as industrial fabrication, energy, healthcare, sustainable agriculture, hydrogen mobility, urban development and areospace. He runs expertises in complex system conception. Currently working for different institutions and large corporations such as the French Space Agency aka CNES.
Global user acquisition manager at Waze. Previously pastry chef in one of the most innovative Israeli restaurants of all times - Catit by chef Meir Adoni (a bit of a twist). Above all, I am a people's person. I love meeting new people and connecting with them, or connecting them to each other.
Former IT & Innovation director at NY Times International, now breaking, building and creating new business models, services and products, both in media and out of media. The best bit is I get to work with large multinationals and small startups - the whole ecosystem is my playground! I'm also chairwoman of the US board of APOPO HeroRats where we blend the best of nature and tech to train rats to save lives by detecting land mines, TB and lots more using their amazing sense of smell. @daviskris10
Laetitia creates tailor-made empowerment programs and efficient, impactful visual tools.
Laura is launching New York City's first experiential art & innovation district on Canal Street this summer with 20 retail spaces dedicated to hosting short-term brand pop-ups, startups & tech-based art installations.
Lea is the Co-founder, President & COO of Averon, the world's safest and easiest mobile identity & payment platform.
Leetha is a strategist intrigued by the power of collaboration as a tool for social change. She serves as the president of the PopTech Institute (www.poptech.org) where she oversees a portfolio focused on the global health, environment, social justice and the future of work. Her tenure at PopTech began with the establishment of the PopTech Social Innovation and Science Fellows programs, which are dedicated to identifying and training promising innovators and scientists. Much of PopTech’s work explores the leveraging of technology and other disruptive channels to mitigate challenges confronting humanity. Leetha has a deep and diverse background in strategic development, and has advised and served on the boards of numerous organizations and agencies. She lives on a small farm in Maine.
Big challenges excite me. having worked in Finance, Fashion and Software Technology in pivotal positions with several Fortune 500 companies, I excel where others often fumble, turning around or driving challenging businesses.
Lior Shiff is a serial entrepreneur and an active angel investor. Lior is a co-founder and the CEO of Tripledot Studios, a London based mobile games company. Until December 2015, he was a co-founder and CEO of Product Madness, a leader in the Social Casino games market. Lior spearheaded the company’s revenues growth from $0 to $200m and led a staff of 160 professionals. Lior oversaw the successful sale of the company to Aristocrat at the end of 2012. Prior to establishing Product Madness, Lior worked at McKinsey & Co. and served in various roles in The Israeli NSA. Lior holds a BA degree in Computer Science, Accounting and an additional BA degree in Psychology all from the Tel Aviv University. He also holds an MBA from Stanford University.
Split between Tel Aviv, Santa Teresa, CR and Oslo. I truly love my quite multifaceted life where time is split between working as a webmaster, front-end developer & designer and a social entrepreneur. As the founder of the Kos & Kaos, a Nordic network organizing intelectual events, think tanks and social activities with a focus on the current fight against antisemitism.
Incentivising communities to transform our world
Creative strategist spezialized in co-creating desirable sustainable futures
I’m a chef from Paraná, Brazil. My only "son" is the Manu restaurant in Curitiba, and it is here that I cooks experiments with naturally Brazilian products, mostly from the region of Paraná. My products are carefully selected. Good taste and sophistication are keywords in my productions. The care and handling with the inputs is strict, for me, every detail counts. Urban garden and Manu Buffara Manu Buffara could not resist. Cried Before hundreds of people, when asked to talk about healthy eating, at the lunch that promoted on Sunday (24), in the Horta of Rio Bonito, in Campo de Santana, outskirts of Curitiba. She gets emotional even when she realizes that people around her are aware of what she says, about the best way to eat and enjoy food. And there were hundreds, all from the local community, from active families in the day-to-day community garden there - and a few others who came to see what was happening and stayed there, delighted by the good food and the proposal served. Lunch was her initiative, which dealt with everything from the meat (ribs) donated by organic producers - which she baked from yesterday, in her own restaurant - to the different draft of one of the many artisan producers in the surroundings of the city. He also made the pita bread, which he roasted at one of the barbecue grills installed on the spot. The mayonnaise had the beet root of the own vegetable garden, harvested at the time, as well as all the leaves that composed the salad that accompanied the meat in the bread. The lunch cost R $ 5 per dish, plus the same for the beer and all income was reversed in favor of the Association of Residents of Rio Bonito, which, through its president, Delso Moretti, manages and manages the urban vegetable garden that integrates the program of the Municipal Secretariat of Agriculture and Supply of the Municipality of Curitiba. Manu does an admirable job there, as admirable is practically everything that is around him. When the idea of launching the Chef's Horta project came up earlier this year, she was the first to join. More than that: it has practically become the leader of all, to suggest prices, values, form of harvest and other points to be observed. Chef's Vegetable Garden The urban vegetable garden had been around for quite some time, since 2011, Chef began to take over the work in 2013, but in 2016 she started bringing other chefs, cooks to a project drafted by her and the Department of Supply. The production was too large for the small local demand, since the consumption was practically of the relatives and friendly near the hortairs. The idea of joining the production tip with the outlet end, the restaurants, allowed the cooks to approach and practically interact with the producers, suggesting items to be planted and choosing the best time to harvest. Only with the contribution of the chefs in the purchase of the products, the association has already collected enough to guarantee more inputs for new plantations. Except that Manu Buffara could just pop in there, pick up the greens of desire, and leave. But she could not help herself, she wanted more. I wanted to teach the local villager the best way to enjoy every vegetable or vegetable. The stem of it, the leaf of the other, to the flower and the bark of some, why not? Then came the idea of promoting this lunch, which filled with emotion the Sunday in the garden. She and all those present who have felt how passionate she is for what she does and what is not for free the international recognition she has been getting in recent years since her restaurant was elected by two different publications (Quatro Rodas e Prazeres da Mesa ) as the best in Brazil, thereby opening the borders of the world. Manu Buffara is very big, for what he is and for what he does. Unfortunately, it just does not have the proper return in the city where it built all this pillar of success, since 75% of the visitors to its restaurant, the Manu, are customers from other cities. But one day she will certainly still have the same recognition among us. Who cooks with so much feeling and passes so much emotion thus to tell and to teach what it does, always deserves the best. Journalist: Luiz Augusto Xavier Besides being a journalist, he was part of the Chef project in 2016 and 2017, as a volunteer.
Founder Maslow Capital Partners Co-founder Kinnernet Europe
From Telco and IT to craft Brewery
As CEO of Dream University and Founder of The Meaning Instituie, Marcia has dedicated her life to visionary thinking with real results. Author of 15 books and assisted 3 US presidents. Lives in Rome.
Recognized as one of the leading women in technology by Forbes, Maria Sipka works closely with Linqia’s brand and agency customers and is one of the industry’s top experts on influencer and content marketing. Prior to founding Linqia, Maria was the founding COO at XING, Europe’s leading business network, where she led XING’s communities and premium group offerings, exiting shortly after its IPO. She also founded the content marketing agency Cherry Communications at age 18 and grew the agency to be one of the most respected consultancies in Australia, with a client list of over 100 brands.
As the organization’s recently named first CEO, Marian oversees Burning Man’s year-round staff of 70+ employees and its annual operating budget of approximately $30 million. Marian first attended Burning Man in 1995, and in 1997 was a co-founder of the management organization that eventually became Black Rock City, LLC, which produces the Burning Man event. Throughout her leadership in the Burning Man organization, she has been the Director of Business and Communications, and also oversaw the Black Rock City Department of Public Works. She has steered the development of the Burning Man Regional Network, which is now on six continents, with more than 250 representatives in 30 countries. Marian is a founding board member of the Burning Man Project, the Black Rock Arts Foundation, and Black Rock Solar. She is currently leading the organization’s efforts to facilitate and extend the Burning Man ethos globally. Marian holds a BA in Creative Writing from Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland and an MFA in photography from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She has worked in sales and public relations, and was a project manager for a software development firm when she first arrived as a participant at Burning Man in 1995.
Marius Veltman is a user experience designer and creative technologist from the Netherlands with over fifteen years of expertise in digital product and service design. Marius holds a profound knowledge of what is moving today's digital users. And has a Hypercreative, multi-faceted, one-trick pony.
Marjorie covers tech, politics, innovation and education at 360 degrees. She goes behind and beyond buzzwords.
I am a technologist with a long interest in innovation; what it is, how it works, and what it can do for society. I have worked in the tech industry for many years and am now embarking on the next phase of my life. I am exploring ways to apply what I have learned to help entrepreneurs and others.
An American entrepreneur currently based in Paris, France, Mark Curtis works as a speaker, an advisor to tech startups, and a coach for entrepreneurs both in Europe and the US. As one of the industry’s first social media marketers, Mark founded the award-winning agency, enter:newmedia. In 2010, the agency launched Branderati, one of the first social media advocacy platforms to the market. Branderati was acquired by Sprinklr in 2014.
Music, art, strategic foresight, futurism, innovation, leadership, future of work and humanity
I am a serial web, mobile and crypto entrepreneur (5 companies in total since 1995). I was born and raised in Paris but have been living in NYC for the past 9 years.
He is a passionate entrepreneur, been successfully involved in three major industries/sectors such as luxury, action sport and innovation technology. Curiosity driven and a keen observer to understand diversity in people's cultures and mindsets by the impact of new paradigms and generations shifts to strategize new paths of applications. Maurizio holds various roles and delegated in accordance with his skills and experience as CEO, Board Member, Creative Vision-Strategist, Investment Committee, Mentor, Stakeholder formation, Branding, Supervision, General Business Development. Maurizio's envision driving force is characterized by three elements that derive from his own experience, the influence of intangible values, gather likeminded communities. Convert intangible values into a tangible context. Foster a mindset and sense of belonging into a culture.
I want to make the world more beautiful, more connected and where ever I can try to support people and projects that do so as well. My background is in branding, marketing, advertising followed by the creation of Wisher.com - a gifting platform and launchpad for brands.
Entrepreneur, passionate about nutrition and healthy food, I have founded a cold-press juice company in Paris offering 100% organic and vitamin-packed fruit and vegetables juices. I have a keen interest in spirituality and personal growth, spending a lot of my free time searching for what makes an authentic life, and how that relates to my role as an entrepreneur.
Mickey is a research fellow in the Office of the CTO at Autodesk & Senior Advisor to BCG. He co-authored Trillions, holds 10 patents & is considered a pioneer in collaborative innovation, design thinking, education, and pervasive computing.
Creative and Brand executive, Ex-MTV and Person now leading the Creative, Interactive and Content team at Hopster, UK's #1 preschool learning and entertainment app. On a mission to help kids learn through the stories they love.
Multi disciplinary artist and activist. A storytelling consultant, helping individuals and organizations frame their authentic & unique stories.
Moran Cerf is a professor of neuroscience and business at the Kellogg School of Management.. Additionally, he is the Alfred P. Sloan screenwriting Professor at the American Film Institute. Prior to his academic career, professor Cerf worked as a hacker for nearly a decade, breaking into leading financial and government institutes to test and improve their security. His hacking background has led him to later pursue non-traditional ways to investigate the brain, using methods and techniques that benefit from heavy computational skills and novel research tools. Notably, he has been working with patients undergoing brain-surgery where he studies behavior, emotion, decision making and dreams by directly recording the activity of individual neurons using electrodes implanted in the patients' brain. He holds multiple patents and his work has been published in wide-circulation academic journals such as Nature, as well as popular science journals such as Scientific American Mind, Wired, New Scientist and more. Additionally, his work has been portrayed in numerous media outlets such as Time, CNN, BBC, Bloomberg, NPR, MSNBC and dozens of others. He has been featured in venues such as the Venice Art Biennial and China’s Art, Science and Technology conference, and has contributed to magazines such as Forbes, The Atlantic, Inc. and others. Professor Cerf has had short-lived careers as a furniture-designer, a pilot, a radio host, and a filmmaker, and he has served on the boards of pharmaceutical, telecom and fashion companies. He is a multiple-times national story-telling champion (’The Moth’), and his public talks at TED, Google Zeitgeist, PopTech, DLD and others have received millions of views and a large following. In addition to his academic career, professor Cerf is a science consultant for various Hollywood films and TV shows ('Bull', ‘Limitless’, ‘Falling Water’, and more). Recently, he was named one of the "40 leading professors below 40”. Most importantly, he is right handed.
Neil Carty has nearly 20 years of multi-disciplinary media/marketing experience. In his work with CMOs, he combines his knowledge of the emerging technology landscape with methodology that helps brands stay on top and ahead of marketing’s fast evolution. Carty has held roles in communications planning, content marketing, innovation and entertainment marketing. Some of the world’s biggest brands have relied on him for strategic guidance including American Express, Sprint, Unilever, Jaguar, and The Home Depot.
Nicolas’ career began at J.P. Morgan in Investment Banking, followed by LabMorgan, J.P. Morgan’s e-finance incubator to transform the financial services industry. Now co-founder at Andurance Ventures he invests in early stage tech ventures focusing on media/education and blockchain related technologies.He's been active in the digital identity / data portability space and more recently in the ESG / Environmental tech space.
Nicole Prause advocates for mental health treatments to have a basis in science, a movement broadly known as "clinical science". As a PhD neuroscientist and licensed psychologist studying human sexual motivation, she specifically focuses on the lack of scientific basis of "sex addiction" and "porn addiction" therapies that shame patients' sexuality.
Nusrat is a pioneering media executive, strategic advisor, and filmmaker. He worked at MTV for 20 years and founded MTV World, Viacom’s visionary global division. He is the creator of the award-winning “Rebel Music” and “The Music Experiment,” MTV’s first transmedia live music series. Nusrat was honored by President Barack Obama for his work and called “a sage when it comes to music and pop culture” by MTV founder Tom Freston. His new documentary, “An American Prayer,” recently premiered at the Black Nights Tallinn Film Festival, and will be released in 2022.
I'm a doctor and a gardener
Entrepreneur with a dedication to luxury fashion and lifestyle, created more than 20 companies globally. Passion for brands communication, e-commerce and new technologies. Love fashion and design
Innovation & Digital transformation leader at Air Liquide, my life is all about friendship, serendipity, cross-fertilization, jazz, the Basque Country and my little girl.
Experience maker and community builder
Oren Yakobovich is a social entrepreneur working at the intersection of human rights and film-making. He is a leading voice on how to use visual information to create sustainable, lasting positive change in areas of conflict. He co-founded Videre in 2008, an NGO equipping oppressed communities with customized technology to uncover information from places where media can't or won't go. Before founding Videre, Oren led the video department at the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem. At B’Tselem, he developed ‘Shooting Back,’ a video project that has trained hundreds of citizens in the West Bank that live in the most dangerous places to use cameras to fight for justice.
Living a Shrödinger cat life: General inspector of Finance (French Ministry of Economy), artist and writer.
COMMS 1 CSR EVP /BtoB & BtoC international companies: Retail, insurance, media, telecommunications Creation and management of commercial & corporate brands, internal and external digital and collaborative strategies, crisis and transformation program management Sustainable development strategy, Foundation creation, social business development, Open-Innovation program
Fashion designer, DJ, coach, consultant, webzine co-founder, teacher at The School Of Life, curator.
Serial creator of AI R&D centers and startups. - 1985 - Bull Cediag VP R&D: Lisp. Prolog and expert systems tools - 1987 - ILOG, CTO : ww leader in Business Rules and Optimization. Sold to IBM in 2009 - 2011 - IBM France Center for Advanced Studies - 2017 - HUB FranceIA, Waking up France and Europe on IA. Early crypto-economies enthousiast Musician, composer, writer, Chopper pilot and Compostella pilgrim
She was born in Morocco and is 75 years old. She is married to Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber with no children. She is the grandmother of 8 grandchildren. She has worked for 20 years in marketing and advertising for women’s magazines Elle and Marie-Claire. For the next 10 years, she published 3 essays and worked on creating cooking books, her passion. She then went back to working in the press for another 20 years, to revive and manage, with her husband Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber, the magazines Psychologies Magazines and then CLES. Today, Perla. Servan-Schreiber created studioperla, a studio that writes inspiring and engaging editorials for brands, companies and other medias. Perla Servan-Schreiber is the author of 6 books of which : - « La féminité, de la liberté au bonheur », Stock 1994 - « Le Bonheur de cuisiner » Editions Lamartinière, 2010 - « Ce que la vie m’a appris » Flammarion 2017 …. And creates innovative videos on Facebook, « la minute Perla », with the team of the very successful mylittleparis on the theme of heritage « ce que la vie m’a appris » [what life taught me].
Peter Hirshberg is a provocateur and executive who builds organizations and movements and in self-organizing, distributed systems to effect change. Over a 30-year career he’s directed enterprise markets for Apple and led technology-based change initiatives for The White House, The United Nations, The World Economic Forum and multiple Silicon Valley companies. He’s author of the best-selling book on entrepreneurship and economic development: Maker City: A Practical Guide to Reinventing American Cities
Philip B. Stark is Professor of Statistics, Associate Dean of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Director of the Statistical Computing Facility, and Director of Berkeley Open Source Food, all at the University of California, Berkeley. See www.stat.berkeley.edu/~stark and forage.berkeley.edu for more.
Philippe is a veteran entrepreneur. Since 2010, he is devoted to accompanying and accelerating cybersecurity startups and leads CyberD.
Senior Banker at Société Générale during the week and gardener at Courterolles over the week-end. We transform this park establishing links between sculptures and a botanique collection, but preserving nature everywhere
Philippe is a serial entrepreneur turned investor. He cofounded and ran a couple of US tech companies, in the marketing automation SaaS and mobile commerce spaces, which were respectively acquired by Acxiom and Connexity (formerly known as Shopzilla). Philippe is an active angel investor in tech startups. He's also a Venture Parter at Spider Capital, an early stage SaaS fund, on the Board of Advisors of numerous companies, and a mentor at various tech accelerators. Lastly, he's a real estate investor/developer mostly in Southern California and in France.
Pierre heads up the Business Development Practice and is the global lead for Insurance Practices. He brings more than 15 years of experience in consulting and insurance and has expertise in Business Development & Risk Management, Innovation & Fintech.
Cofounder and director of "Machines de l'île" (Nantes) and "L'Arbre aux Hérons"
Blockchain Legal Scholar. Research Director at the CNRS and Faculty Associate at Harvard.
Powering & empowering media ecosystems in emerging markets @AlephGroup. Intrepid traveller, trivia nerd & movie buff.
I am a Paris-based writer, journalist and critic, a contributing writer for The Atlantic and a former Rome Bureau Chief and European Culture correspondent for The New York Times. I am also the incoming Curator of Programs at The American Library in Paris and write regularly for The New York Review of Books. I specialize in textured profiles and features at the intersection of culture and politics but another favorite form is the postcard. I have reported from more than two dozen countries and interviewed heads of state and cultural figures, including four Nobel Laureates in literature. I have also unraveled the mystery of Elena Ferrante’s identity, met two popes, taught journalism at Princeton, interviewed the Zelenskys in wartime Kyiv and directed an artist residency in Italy. I grew up in Vermont and have lived my adult life in New York, Rome and Paris. I spent much of the pandemic on a Greek island and emerged wiser.
Entrepreneur and investor in deeptech. CEO at Zama, previous CEO at Snips. Investor in 50+ companies in blockchain, AI, hardware, psychedelics and medtech. PhD in AI.
Co-founder & ex-CTO Eventbrite (NYSE: EB), angel investor, venture partner with Point Nine
CEO @Decode Media. FrenchWeb.fr The source for Internet news, startups, and tech trends in France.
Absorbed by telling stories, the nature of human judgment and our emerging relationship with Artificial Intelligence. Have documentary making, feature film and multimedia in my background, a few books about history and the environment. Was lucky to have a company with the late great Douglas Adams of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fame.
Founder, TWIN Global; Professor of Innovation, UofChicago & Northwestern; Author, speaker, active venture investor. BA, History; Ph.D., IE, Northwestern
Working in the field of food innovation, challenging people taste buds, promoting food diversity and cultural difference. Fascinated by technology, art design.
Rodrigo is a serial entrepreneur and investor, having founded or co-founded 5 companies. He started his career as a management consultant.
Former Consul general of France in San Francisco, crossed the Rubicon to join the entrepreneurial community
I am part of a group of people envisioning and co-creating a new level of Integrated Cooperation, one that invites us to show up, design, improvise and learn together. We are asking each other to pause, absorb and internalize the painful reality of how our current siloed and unconscious drives are leading us toward an unsustainable future. We believe this moment is asking something new and outrageous from all of us: to embark on an uncharted path, filled with complex and moving variables, while supporting and caring for each other as we face the emotional, relational, economic, environmental and social challenges we are immersed in. As we remain steadfast, keeping our hearts on our values and our eyes on our vision, every situation, feeling, thought, and action becomes a mutual teaching moment and an integral part of our transformation.
Inventor, creator & investor.
Digital entrepreneur and consultant Co-founder and Managing Partner, Nunatak Group (2010-present) Active seed investor and expert in strategic management
Sara is American who was been living in Tel Aviv for the past 8 years. She's currently working on a new entrepreneurial venture and has nomadic tendencies.
Scott Goodstein, the founder and CEO of Revolution Messaging, has pioneered digital strategy and technology for the left’s top political campaigns and for progressive causes around the world. Goodstein’s firm helped Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign shatter all expectations to raise $220 million online, achieving new records in grassroots fundraising and young voter support. Revolution Messaging led Sanders’ online fundraising, digital advertising, email, website, mobile, video, photography, social media graphics and more. In 2008, Scott was External Online Director for Obama for America, creating the campaign’s groundbreaking social networking, mobile and lifestyle marketing strategies for what was widely seen as the biggest, most effective grassroots organizing campaign of modern times and a watershed moment for the use of digital technology in politics. Prior to his work for Obama, Scott worked for the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and managed over a dozen political campaigns. He co-founded Punkvoter.com and Rock Against Bush in 2004 which became a $4 million young voter mobilization effort. Most recently, Goodstein and his firm have built two new services to make progressive activism easier in the age of President Trump. WhiteHouseInc.org and DailyAction.org have connected over a million calls in protest of Trump policies. Under his leadership, Revolution Messaging was also recently awarded Digital Agency of the Year by the American Association of Political Consultants and Best Global Presidential Campaign by the European Association of Political Consultants. Goodstein has assisted national political campaign efforts in Aruba, Brazil, Canada and Mexico. He has given presentations at Columbia University, American University, George Washington University and Georgetown University. He has also been a featured panelist at South By SouthWest, PopTech, Brookings Institute, the Milken Institute and Personal Democracy Forum and sits on the advisory boards of The Arena Summit and Poptech.
Project Manager for the startup ecosystem, focusing on education in tech, startups and venture capital.
Sofia Laurell Co-Founder, Nostalgic Sofia is Co-Founder of Nostalgic, the new voice of millennial parenting. Before founding Nostalgic, she ran PR and marketing at Ascend Foundation helping elevate women and minorities onto U.S. corporate boards. Sofia is a public relations, branding and marketing veteran with vast PR, integrated marketing, and events management experience. Sofia is originally from Helsinki, Finland and lived in London for 6+ years before relocating to New York in 2010. Sofia graduated with a B.Sc. in Media and Communication Studies (minor in Political Science) from the University of Helsinki and a M.Sc. in Public Relations and Corporate Communication from New York University. She’s an expert on saunas.
Yes: A Digital Dunkirk I have been invited by Benoit to put together a slide presentation on the Future Brilliance Task Force and our successful efforts to evacuate several hundred Afghan women and their families from Afghanistan; reskill them in ICT, coding and robotics; prepare them for life in the West; and to secure asylum and flights to freedom.
Catalyzing everyting exciting between creativity, technology, innovation and venture capital. Dedicated 25+ years to #futureofcontent, past 8 with the Marche Du FIlm - Festival de Cannes, Storytek and Future Media Hubs. 10 + years in Asia, occasional horse whisperer to goverments and between the EU. Electronic musician, film producer, and volunteer emergency medic.
Fostering a Mensch Republic
"I throw people and ideas on stage"... Stephane works as Editorial Director & Event Architect with corporations, startups, government entities or NGO's to create content and advise on communication and events deployment. His portfolio includes clients such as VivaTechnology or Les Napoleons to name a few as well as Media Agencies or Corporates. Prior to this, he was part of Smadja & Associates, an advisory firm founded by former MD of the World Economic Forum. Based between Geneva and Paris and working around the globe, Stephane was a pro skier and is always ready for a new adventure. @sbmiam
Stéphane is a senior Partner and founder of CH&Cie, a management consulting firm dedicated to financial services (www.chappuishalder.com). He has launched two years ago with his partners a website dedicated to Fintech : www.fintank.net His key expertise is based on international projects on technical issues for which his drive, political ability and masterly knowledge help clients to achieve their objectives. He is more specifically skilled in Capital Market, Innovation and Growth Strategy. After a first experience within BNP Paribas, he joined Price Waterhouse Coopers where he was in charge of capital market practice. After seven years in PwC, he has decided to found CH&Cie, a consulting boutique (200 consultants, 32 million euros turn over in seven countries) with a very comprehensive international footprint (London, Geneva, New York, Montreal, Paris Hong Kong and Singapore). After spending three years in Hong Kong, now based in London, he is managing at a global level the international development of the firm. He is also CEO of Chappuis Halder.
Steve Monaghan is Chairman and CEO of GenLife, a Limited Partner and investment committee member in True Global Ventures, Vice Chairman of Borderless Healthcare Mobile China, Co-Chairman of HK HealthTech Association, Vice Chairman of the HK Israel Trade Association, a Board Member of Pulse Global and a private investor in Artificial Intelligence, Life Sciences, Healthtech, Fintech and ICO's.
Digital. Storytelling. Innovation. Food. Travel. Kindness. Swan Sit is the VP of Global Digital Marketing at Nike. She has spent the past decade transforming legacy companies into the digital age. As the head of digital at Revlon, Elizabeth Arden and Estee Lauder, Swan was passionate not only about modernizing brands but also using digital to democratize beauty beyond traditional norms to include any size, shape, color or orientation. Her work with unexpected influencers (including Chelsea Handler, Iris Apfel and Gigi Gorgeous) and successful business turnarounds won her the Glossy Awards, CGT Visionary, Brand Innovators 40 under 40 and Marketing Woman to Watch. Previously, Swan was a consultant at Bain and graduated with BA in Economics from Harvard and an MBA from Columbia. Swan advises startups and sits on the boards of a variety of industry and philanthropic organizations including a space think tank. Having traveled to 75 countries, her favorites include Antarctica, North Korea, Mongolia, Rwanda, Bhutan, Myanmar and climbing Kilimanjaro.
Tali Orad is an engineer, TEDx speaker, and serial entrepreneur. She’s the founder of 1treellion, a global movement to mitigate climate change and support communities by planting trees.
Evolutionary behavioural scientist studying humanity, looking 2 million years back and a 1000 forward.
Tariq KRIM is a tech entrepreneur and philosopher based in Paris with strong interest in art and social changes. As the founder of dissident.ai, he is also one of the main advocates of the Slow Web Movement A serial entrepreneur and angel investor, Tariq has a passion for building highly disruptive consumer products. Previously, he was the founder and CEO of Jolicloud, a pioneer in personal cloud computing. Prior to Jolicloud, Tariq founded Netvibes, the personal startpage used by millions of people around the world. Tariq was also an advisor on technology to the French Government. A thought leader and regular speaker at global technology and media conferences, he was recognized by MIT Technology Review as one of the world’s “Top Innovators Under 35” (2007), by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader (2008), and was honored by the President of France as “Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.” As a former journalist, Tariq has been a keen observer of the Web since its genesis. He graduated from University Paris VII Jussieu, ENST (Telecom ParisTech) and the Harvard Kennedy School.
Tia is an award-winning entrepreneur moderator, lecturer and author. She is the founder and director of Kansara Hackney Ltd. (KH), the first ISO quality-controlled sustainable lifestyle consultancy in the UK. Tia did her Ph.D. at the Bartlett, University College London on designing future cities and energy evaluation in the Gulf. Since then she has published several papers and has been invited to advise on sustainable cities with governments and the private sector as well as keynote speeches at conferences around the world, such as the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, BioTrade Initiative on sustainability. Her recent work involves providing city governments with her concept of Replenish, a per capita assessment of ecosystem services and publishing her book, Replenish.
Tobias is Head of Leadership 2020. He leads the company-wide initiative to change leadership and corporate culture at Daimler AG.
Tomiko is a freelance documentary filmmaker with over 8 years experience making films for the BBC, Panorama, HBO, C4 and Adam Curtis. Her work has taken her to over 67 countries and she's made documentaries on terrorism, Big Pharma, News International, human rights abuses, refugee migration and most recently for a BBC documentary she spent a year travelling across America following people who voted for Trump to understand why they voted for him see what they made of his first year.
Serial entrepreneur, innovator, venture capitalist and film producer, based in Hong Kong. Working on four major projects currently: 1) GreaterBay Ventures & Advisors: an integrated investment and consulting firm, specialized on modern urban development and smart cities, focusing on the Greater Bay Area, the biggest megacity in the world in Southern China. 2) Decentralized Institute: with the mission to demystify and apply decentralization, we've launched an education and training platform for that in Asia and preparing to roll out to different cities. 3) D Colony: a world within a world, a new social network to connect people around ideas, projects, values. It's for the connections we already have, but the connections we should have. 4) DreamON: a docu-reality to make the dream of underprivileged people come true and to highlight pressing social causes. I am a proud member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers community.
Curious about the next curve! Focused on technology-driven economic, market and social change, Tracey helps leaders best leverage change for positive impact.
Japan based ecosystem builder, New Zealand Edmund Hillary Fellow. Founding Board Venture Cafe @Cambridge Innovation Center Tokyo. Check out www.porrima.org and https://medium.com/pollica-2050/pollica-and-the-mediterranean-diet-bd60a91dd36f for two examples of portfolio of regenerative initiatives showing the world what is possible now....Look forward to being back together again in Avallon!
Medical doctor specialised in paediatric ophthalmology, member of the Science and Evolution Foundation and the Human Evolution and Behaviour Society
Change agent for desirable and sustainable futures. Biarritz addict and food lover Taking time, making sense, with smile and optimism, what ever what.
Rabbin au MJLF (Mouvement Juif Libéral de France), Yann Boissière a traduit et écrits plusieurs ouvrages dans le domaine du judaïsme et de la philosophie. Son dernier ouvrage : "Eloge de la Loi" (Editions du Cerf, 2017). Après avoir organisé « Les Voix de la Paix », journée inter-convictionnelle qui a réuni, en 2016, toutes les religions et des voix non-religieuses à la Mairie de Paris, il préside aujourd’hui l’association du même nom qui décline ses valeurs sur le terrain.
In the recent decade i have been either serving as the economic representative of Israel in European countries such as the Netherlands, Denmark, and now France, or5 negotiating free trade agreements at the WTO. Today, living in Paris, I am a facilitator, creating platforms that allow business people from Israel to meet their French counterparts, and in particular Israeli startups to meet the big companies of France. Before that i was a classical music critic, a long time student of History, and always an avid Jerusalemite.
Founder of: HATCH, connecting people to resources & a global network to activate solutions H360.ai platform to activate network of networks
Banker and investor turned entrepreneur. On a mission to democratise retail finance through the education and empowerment of consumers.
Afton Halloran has been working in the realm of food and sustainability for over 12 years. She has a PhD in Paediatric and International Nutrition with a specialization in Sustainable Food Systems. She is a freelance consultant and has been working on projects for governmental and international organizations. She is the author of three books on food policy and future foods. Afton is also a member of the Judging Panel of the World Restaurant Awards and Board Member of FunkisFabriken Centre for Research in Sustainability. Originally from Vancouver Island, Canada, Afton has been calling Copenhagen her home for over 9 years.
Strategy, Innovation and Business Development Director of Reed MIDEM, organiser of international conferences and trade shows in the TV (MIP brand), Music (Midem) and real estate (MIPIM, MAPIC brands) industries. Passionate about kitesurfing, running, meditation, psychology and tech !
Co-founder Future Positive Capital, Co-founder of Kukua (edtech), Harvard & Singularity U. grad
Amiram Ben Ginigr, serves as one of the Chief Executive Officer of Taya Investment Co. Ltd. and Taya Communication Ltd. (Taya Media) and one of the Owners of those companies. Mr. Giniger attended the Executive Program of Harvard Business School and upon his return to Israel in 1992 he gave up practicing law to establish Taya Communications, which invests in media and technology companies. Among Taya Media's largest holding is United Studios of Israel, a leading TV production and facilities company. United Studios produced over 10'000 of television and has 8 studios.
Loves Food & Wine Acquired Over 1 Billion Users 4 Exits - Over $2 Billion
Social scientist interested in how evolutionary processes shape contemporary lives. Couples, families, fertility behaviour including "baby fever". Also science journalist and non-fiction writer.
Anne-Claire Le Conte worked ten years in the movie industry for Pathé Distribution and The Walt Disney Company France. Also screenwriter, she founded in 2017 The Awesome Company, a marketing and communication agency through which she intervenes as a consultant and script doctor.
Founder and director of Syntopik Research, think tank for artist and scientists with the objective of a new paradigm in research and research methodology, transcending disciplines: www.syntopik.org
EMEA Business Development @Airbnb. Interested in #Tech #Web #GrowthHacking I like #DisruptiveBusinessModels #EntrepreneurStories
After many years in advertising technology, I´m now trying to make a difference in renewable energy
Obsessed by the need for individual and collective resilience in a word increasingly uncertain and complex. Very optimistic on the promises of digital transition to solve human problems.
Barbara is an entrepreneur and investor, passionate about nature, science and space. She is currently founder and CEO at Interstellar Lab whose mission is to design and build bioregenerative habitats for humans to live sustainably on any planet.
Beatrice Sutter is the chief editor of L'ADN, a media (print and web) that talks about digital culture and innovation.
I develop knowledge (AI), education (higher and executive), social connections (all around), and large burnable structures in the desert (Burning Man). President of myself (strategies.ai) and free spirit.
Father, Maker, Entrepreneur
Named Forbes 30 under 30 and BBC's 100 Most Inspiring Women, Betsy has a decade of experience as an inventor, product founder and CEO. Betsy serves on the Tufts School of Nutrition Innovation Council and her company, Tiny Organics, has been chosen by Michelle Obama’s Partnerships for a Healthier America for their baby food initiative to support veggie-forward early palate development across the nation. Betsy enjoys building great brands and has invented over 100 products and counting. She advises a number of consumer product and deep data startups as well as UNICEF Wearables for Good initiative. Betsy is a keynote speaker and has spoken at Google, CES, World Economic Forum, National Retail Federation among others. Betsy is the Co-Founder of Tiny Organics, delivering toddlers their first 100 flavors direct to their door through whole, palette expanding meals. Being a vegetarian for 14 years, Betsy aims to train the palette of a generation to desire savory forward, whole real foods and most importantly providing access for all.
Currently Professor of Developmental Psychology, University of Bristol. Previously Assoc Prof. Hard and Visiting Prof at MIT. Author, entrepreneur and tv presenter
After 4 years of running Futur.e.s Festivals, I am now Director of communities at Cap Digital, the leading digital cluster in Europe based in Paris. I have a passion for all transformative and ground-breaking experimentations which led me from the contemporary art world to the digital innovation scene. I love to lead projects that bring collaborative dynamics and foster dialogue between art and industry, tradition and modernity, research and market. I love to engage communities of creators, entrepreneurs, researchers, public policy-makers and corporates through platforms and events that provide visibility and support to start-up and creative projects.
Content curator and Product Innovation at LinkedIn. Associate Professor in Marketing at Sciences Po Paris. Shakshuka and Stevie Wonder expert.
Busy changing the world #WomeninTech #techforgood #localcommunities #startup #AlgorithmDiscrimination #civictech @siliconbeach #AI #womendriven @mixrsocial
Twenty years as a senior reporter, founder of a free school of journalism to promote diversity and I run an media group
Innovation Strategist - #Marketing #Digital #OpenInnovation #Engagement #IoT #Digitail
CEO & Founder For The Future @FTF_io, President AdaWeek @AdaWeek, Digital Expert, WomeninSTEM advocate
Psychotherapist, professor, social entrepreneur in NYC
Artist photograph and photograph of portraits and reportage. People are in the center of my priorities.
Passionate about photography and innovation, work at LUMA in Arles, a booming institution.
Entrepreneur living in the UAE, love all things digital, negronis, burning man and scuba diving.
Synthetic Biology and CRISPR, Pasteurien, Co-founder Eligo Bioscience
Story guy. Ran WIRED, got excited by purpose-driven founders, now invest in them and bring them together through the VOYAGERS community,
Estonian-Israeli celeb….thats all, y’all…
Raveneous reader and geek woman / love meeting and sharing with new people
Co Founder of FIND.fashion - Revolutionising Fashion Discovery. Founding team @ Fits.me Rakuten & Retail Recharged; Senior positions @STYLEBOP, Poq Commerce Free spirit dancer
Author ("Unit 8200"), journalist (Haaretz), contrarian (too many examples to list)
Elisabeth Fullerton is an angel investor, mentor, entrepreneur and philanthropist for her family office and foundation.
Student @Ecole 42UWC graduate, Student at school 42
Digital strategist with focus on media and sports, freelancing as "Technology is our friend" and co-founder of Mataracan Sports Marketing.
Fabrice Cavarretta is a Professor of Management at ESSEC Business School where he studies managerial paradigms, in particular in leadership and entrepreneurship contexts.
CEO 18M.io, conseil marketing, technologies et sujets de société.
Making easy random Kinnernet-style conversations available Worldwide, for everyone and the next person
Currently an undergraduate student at the University of Oxford reading French. Interested in fashion
I am Kinnernet ‘s photographer :) I am your photographer www.geraldinearesteanu.com
Tech, Data and mostly HR for social impact. CIO at the French Red Cross
Solar Impulse Managing Director
Guido van Nispen is CEO & Co-Founder of Insiber.com, the independent one-stop SaaS support platform empowering SME cybersafety and insurance. Guido has many years of executive management, advisory and supervisory experience in the technology, finance, and media sectors
Lecturer at the School of Economic Warfare; Advisor to PwC on Cyberdefense. Fiction writer
Haisong Tang is co-founder of Elite Educational Institute and Managing Director of Technology Reserve China. Haisong’s passion lies in technology and education. In 2013, he started Elite China aiming to grow China’s future leaders and thinkers. He also initiated Technology Reserve to help SMEs to secure technologies transfer from Fortune 100 companies. In 2009 Haisong was responsible for Intellectual Ventures’s Physical Science initiative in China help local inventors develop patents and license in the global market. In 1999 Haisong started his internet venture etang - a platform targeted the young Chinese generation. Haisong joined McKinsey and helped establish McKinsey China office in 1993. Haisong is an active member of China-France Foundation and Young Leaders’ Forum. He teaches “the military, the technology, and the finance” at Fudan Business School. A Shanghai native, Haisong studied Laser Physics at Fudan University and received his MBA degree from Harvard.
Talk to me about biohacking, novel human-computer interfaces (Yes - reading the mind is fascinating), juicy exit stories
As an artist, I love capturing with a few essential lines people' emotions and motions. As a digital person, I love creating smart products for real humans.
Ian Rogers joined LVMH as Group Chief Digital Officer in October 2015. As CDO Ian is responsible for building group-level digital excellence and accelerating digital transformation for LVMH maisons. A graduate in computer science from Indiana University, Ian Rogers started his career in 1993 as webmaster successively for Beastie Boys and at Winamp (sold to AOL in 1999). In 2001 he founded Mediacode, which was sold to Yahoo! in 2003 where he became VP and General Manager, Music. Ian joined Beats Music as CEO in 2013 and Apple as Senior Director after their acquisition of Beats. Ian contributed to the 2015 launch of Apple Music including Beats1, their digital streaming channel.
Cofounder of digital media Worldcrunch
Visual artist / Photographer, After making the black and white documentary photography book 'Silver' about the stigma of old age, especially for a woman,which was presented at Paris Photo in 2019, I started also working with other, less 'virtual' mediums like sculpture, collage and paper.
Directeur de la rédaction de Forbes France, Jean Rognetta est président de PMEfinance. Créé en 2010, ce « laboratoire d’idées pragmatiques » consacré au financement des entreprises est notamment à l’origine du PEA-PME, mais aussi de plusieurs autres mesures économiques, comme la faculté d’amortir le corporate venture et, pour une large part, la libéralisation du crowdfunding en France. Ses clubs Europe Entrepreneurs sont présents dans plusieurs régions françaises ainsi qu’à l’international. Ancien délégué général de l’association CroissancePlus, Jean continue avec Forbes une carrière de journaliste commencée en 1997 au sein du groupe Vivendi, comme responsable des lettres @Jour, avec un rôle d’observateur privilégié du début de la révolution numérique. De 2000 à 2016 il a ensuite collaboré régulièrement au groupe Les Echos, en gardant son orientation vers les technologies mais en se spécialisant dans le financement de l’innovation et des entreprises sur Capital Finance. Binational franco-italien, économiste de formation, Jean a co-écrit plusieurs livres, dont récemment La République des Réseaux (Fayard). |
The editorial director of Forbes France Jean Rognetta is the founder and president of the primary French think tank on the financing of independent businesses, SMEfinance.fr/. Its Europe Entrepreneurs clubs are active in various countries, including the US and China. Also a former General Delegate of CroissancePlus, an entrepreneurs group in Paris, Jean started his career in journalism in 1997 with Vivendi, as the editor of the professional letters @Jour. From 2000 to 2016 he wrote for Les Echos and Capital Finance, respectively France’s leading financial daily and private equity newsletter. An early observer and analyst of the digital revolution, he has written or co-authored several books, most recently La République des Réseaux (Fayard). |
Jennifer Dungs is working to create the digital lifestyle in and around premium mobility at Porsche Digital. Porsche Digital is embracing digital technologies to enable asset light and scalable business models that are exciting, aspirational, and intelligent along our customers journeys. She has worked over 16 years in the automotive industry, previously 10 years in Detroit at Ford Motor Company focusing on energy efficiency, air quality, and sustainability topics. She moved to Germany in 2010, working at BMW in Munich for research and development, and more recently as the Institute Director at Fraunhofer for mobility and smart cities. Dr. Dungs has both a M.S. Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. Chemistry. She is a global speaker on the topics of future mobility and smart cities and is passionate about playing a role in the revolution of the automotive industry. She is curious, spontaneous, and invested in learning, growing and changing. She enjoys skiing, biking, golfing and traveling.
PR professional, film lover, aspiring author.
A veteran technology journalist and media entrepreneur who has worked full-time, at various points in her career, for The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, International Herald Tribune, Red Herring, Businessweek, and Les Echos. Jennifer served as a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer judge for 20 years and was twice voted one of the 50 most inspiring women in technology in Europe. She is currently the founder and editor-in-chief of The Innovator (www.theinnovator.news)
Social and cultural innovation -passionate with art and creation Before : Manager www.womens-forum.com, Co-founder : Young Mediterranean Leaders, Warner, Imagination Factory Now : Founder www.engage.world : stage direction and singing : www.pointdebascule.org and some other things... Make Desirable Futures Happen
Âgé de 46 ans, Jérôme Toucheboeuf a débuté sa carrière en 1990 dans les filiales marketing du groupe Publicis en tant que directeur conseil et directeur du développement. Il a participé à la création de plusieurs agences digitales, Publicis Technology en 1995, Ogilvy Interactive en 1997. En 1998, avec 6 autres associés, il fonde FullSIX qui deviendra un groupe de communication digitale international de 900 collaborateurs avec 20 agences dans 10 pays, qui opère dans les métiers du web, des médias, de la publicité, de la data, et du développement informatique. En 2009, il crée et dirige le département des opérations du groupe au poste de Chief Operating Officer. En 2011, en tant que directeur général du groupe il lance l’activité Retail de FullSIX. Par ailleurs, entre 2009 et 2013, il a été élu à 2 reprises président de la délégation Customer Marketing de l’AACC (Association des Agences Conseil en Communication). Depuis septembre 2014, il est Directeur Général de Mediapost Communication filiale média et data au sein de la branche Numérique du groupe La Poste. Il préside les 7 entités de Mediapost Communication (Mediaprism, Mediapost Publicité, Cabstan, SDS, Vertical mail, et Adverline). Depuis juillet 2014 il est aussi Directeur de l’innovation de la Branche Numérique du groupe La Poste.
Investor in big ideas with potential for positive impact and exponential growth. Entrepreneur. Thinker. Reader. Long term analysis on AI, New Space and other new deep tech trends.
Joanna runs JG Consulting, a strategic marketing boutique consultancy that advises companies on how to build their international footprint. She works with the management teams of Fortune 1000 companies to develop their World Economic Forum engagement strategy and to map key issues relevant to each company and executives. In 2017 she launched and ran for 3 years Transform.AI, a by invitation only conference in Europe focused on the business implications of artificial intelligence. Prior to starting JG Consulting, she served as director of Enterprise Strategy at Salesforce and prior to that, was head of the Information Technology Industry at the World Economic Forum.
John Gordon Is the founder of Xtreme Information, a Media Information company and Contagious, which monitors contagious ideas in media and culture. In 2002 he founded Intelligence Squared, a global forum for live debate on politics and culture and in 2012, the How To Academy, a live and online platform for talks. In addition he has launched Notting Hill Editions, a publishing company specializing in Essays and Globalista, a travel information company.
EVERYTHING IS INTERCONNECTED "As a nomadic spirit I navigate from universe to universe I am enriched by travels and meetings what I do is not a job it's an endless search, it's looking for the beautiful in the sense noble of the term, it's sharing my vision that everything is interconnected, there is no limit..." Http://www.Judithdarmont.com
A results-oriented conscious business leader with more than 20 years experience in Silicon Valley, US and France. 10 years as a digital Start Up entrepreneur and 10 years working for Fortune 500 companies among these corporations: Carrefour, L’Oréal, Société Générale, and Estee Lauder, where I served as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Digital Officer. I am also Board Member of Science and Non-Duality, and a Kundalini Yoga Meditation teacher. And most of all a blessed mother.
Former IT & Innovation director at NY Times International, now breaking, building and creating new business models, services and products, both in media and out of media. The best bit is I get to work with large multinationals and small startups - the whole ecosystem is my playground! I'm also chairwoman of the US board of APOPO HeroRats where we blend the best of nature and tech to train rats to save lives by detecting land mines, TB and lots more using their amazing sense of smell. @daviskris10
Media and clean tech, passionate about big open data and accelerators
Seasoned technologist entrepreneur with a passion to create startups that engage talented teams in transforming ideas into products and mind share. Limor is founder and CTO of MOV.AI, a VC funded company developing a robotics software engine. Limor also founded RoboSavvy, a company that distributes & develops robots and parts to make them (including TugBot.ai). Limor started companies in diverse areas such as Telecom Billing, Internet Security and Social Email Templating. He has been granted patents and is a regular speaker at tech events. Born in the UK, lived in Italy, USA, Israel and currently in Portugal. Served 3 years in the Israeli Army-Intelligence, studied Physics.
L'Oréal
Innovator in India Market making impacting investments in lifestyle and digital markets, inclusive capitalism is the driver of my approach
Founder Maslow Capital Partners Co-founder Kinnernet Europe
Spent the past four years as a tech, privacy, and regulatory lawyer at Baker & McKenzie, Oxford, Berkeley and Assas Grad, next project: Le Wagon 2018.
Marius Veltman is a user experience designer and creative technologist from the Netherlands with over fifteen years of expertise in digital product and service design. Marius holds a profound knowledge of what is moving today's digital users. And has a Hypercreative, multi-faceted, one-trick pony.
Marjorie covers tech, politics, innovation and education at 360 degrees. She goes behind and beyond buzzwords.
Music, art, strategic foresight, futurism, innovation, leadership, future of work and humanity
Humanity is my drive. Curiosity is my process. I devote my job to make organizations better hoping it'll help make the world a better place
He is a passionate entrepreneur, been successfully involved in three major industries/sectors such as luxury, action sport and innovation technology. Curiosity driven and a keen observer to understand diversity in people's cultures and mindsets by the impact of new paradigms and generations shifts to strategize new paths of applications. Maurizio holds various roles and delegated in accordance with his skills and experience as CEO, Board Member, Creative Vision-Strategist, Investment Committee, Mentor, Stakeholder formation, Branding, Supervision, General Business Development. Maurizio's envision driving force is characterized by three elements that derive from his own experience, the influence of intangible values, gather likeminded communities. Convert intangible values into a tangible context. Foster a mindset and sense of belonging into a culture.
Seymour Projects is a non-profit organization committed to nurturing human consciousness in a world increasingly dominated by technology. We create innovative resources and frameworks that induce reflection and enable individuals to nurture meaningful connection with themselves and each other.
Serial entrepreneur and investor. #siliconvalley #france #israel
Early-stage fintech investor, corporate innovation advisor, traveler, foodie, #notmypresident
Researcher in AI, Entrepreneur, Head of Innovation for the Brussels Capital Region, Technology Transfer Manager. Last year, I was advisor for Innovation & AI of the Secretary of State for Digital Affairs, till I co-founded the Hub France Intelligence Artficielle.
Nicolas’ career began at J.P. Morgan in Investment Banking, followed by LabMorgan, J.P. Morgan’s e-finance incubator to transform the financial services industry. Now co-founder at Andurance Ventures he invests in early stage tech ventures focusing on media/education and blockchain related technologies.He's been active in the digital identity / data portability space and more recently in the ESG / Environmental tech space.
Swiss born to Hungarian parents studied in the US and UK resident. Background in distressed investing moving on to impact investing.
Nusrat is a pioneering media executive, strategic advisor, and filmmaker. He worked at MTV for 20 years and founded MTV World, Viacom’s visionary global division. He is the creator of the award-winning “Rebel Music” and “The Music Experiment,” MTV’s first transmedia live music series. Nusrat was honored by President Barack Obama for his work and called “a sage when it comes to music and pop culture” by MTV founder Tom Freston. His new documentary, “An American Prayer,” recently premiered at the Black Nights Tallinn Film Festival, and will be released in 2022.
Oliver Kamm is a leader writer and columnist for The Times
Entrepreneur with a dedication to luxury fashion and lifestyle, created more than 20 companies globally. Passion for brands communication, e-commerce and new technologies. Love fashion and design
Living a Shrödinger cat life: General inspector of Finance (French Ministry of Economy), artist and writer.
COMMS 1 CSR EVP /BtoB & BtoC international companies: Retail, insurance, media, telecommunications Creation and management of commercial & corporate brands, internal and external digital and collaborative strategies, crisis and transformation program management Sustainable development strategy, Foundation creation, social business development, Open-Innovation program
@pdewost @WeAreLeonard
Creative Director & Innovation Officer @Yellow Innovation by La Poste
Philippe is a serial entrepreneur turned investor. He cofounded and ran a couple of US tech companies, in the marketing automation SaaS and mobile commerce spaces, which were respectively acquired by Acxiom and Connexity (formerly known as Shopzilla). Philippe is an active angel investor in tech startups. He's also a Venture Parter at Spider Capital, an early stage SaaS fund, on the Board of Advisors of numerous companies, and a mentor at various tech accelerators. Lastly, he's a real estate investor/developer mostly in Southern California and in France.
Cofounder OpenClassrooms
From corporate VC to internet and hardware industry entrepreneur creating jobs is what drives me everyday
I am a Paris-based writer, journalist and critic, a contributing writer for The Atlantic and a former Rome Bureau Chief and European Culture correspondent for The New York Times. I am also the incoming Curator of Programs at The American Library in Paris and write regularly for The New York Review of Books. I specialize in textured profiles and features at the intersection of culture and politics but another favorite form is the postcard. I have reported from more than two dozen countries and interviewed heads of state and cultural figures, including four Nobel Laureates in literature. I have also unraveled the mystery of Elena Ferrante’s identity, met two popes, taught journalism at Princeton, interviewed the Zelenskys in wartime Kyiv and directed an artist residency in Italy. I grew up in Vermont and have lived my adult life in New York, Rome and Paris. I spent much of the pandemic on a Greek island and emerged wiser.
Entrepreneur and investor in deeptech. CEO at Zama, previous CEO at Snips. Investor in 50+ companies in blockchain, AI, hardware, psychedelics and medtech. PhD in AI.
Head of Research CNRS
Hands-on thought leader with 22 years of experience in leading exploration and development of innovative product/service/business processes. Aiming for a meaningful impact of emerging digital technologies, empowering experiences, developing autonomy, empathy, creativity and augment perception/expression/reflexivity. Thriving in multi-disciplinary environments where I can frame the collaboration between futurology, research, strategy, innovation, product management, engineering, design/user experience, business and branding. Track records in exploring new frontiers of technologies include designing with A. Tanaka (Apple/Ircam) one of the world’s first gesture interface making one’s body a music instrument, designing needle-less injection for laboratoires Fournier, contact-less pass for RATP with Roland Moreno Technology, world’s first mobile photo sharing, world’s first app based smartphone, big data music search engine, ephemeral communication (patent). Established design-led research, innovation and program units about big data (focus on context engine, tourism, health), personal data, VRM, artificial intelligence, smart coaches, mobile media, location services, inter-personal communication, sociable media. Established academic research lab on the future of mobile digital identity with collaborations with the MIT MediaLab, BellLabs.
Working in the field of food innovation, challenging people taste buds, promoting food diversity and cultural difference. Fascinated by technology, art design.
Rodrigo is a serial entrepreneur and investor, having founded or co-founded 5 companies. He started his career as a management consultant.
Orange
Physicien, théoricien du désordre, inventeur de la sociophysique
Start up lawyer Cofounder at 11.100.34 Law Firm
Yes: A Digital Dunkirk I have been invited by Benoit to put together a slide presentation on the Future Brilliance Task Force and our successful efforts to evacuate several hundred Afghan women and their families from Afghanistan; reskill them in ICT, coding and robotics; prepare them for life in the West; and to secure asylum and flights to freedom.
Catalyzing everyting exciting between creativity, technology, innovation and venture capital. Dedicated 25+ years to #futureofcontent, past 8 with the Marche Du FIlm - Festival de Cannes, Storytek and Future Media Hubs. 10 + years in Asia, occasional horse whisperer to goverments and between the EU. Electronic musician, film producer, and volunteer emergency medic.
Fostering a Mensch Republic
Evolutionary behavioural scientist studying humanity, looking 2 million years back and a 1000 forward.
Thalia heads the award-winning female-first media and entertainment company The Front. Previously Executive Creative Director at
Thomas Landrain is a researcher in synthetic biology who has become an entrepreneur to build ecosystems facilitating open, inclusive and collaborative science and innovation, convinced that there is no monopoly on great ideas. He is Co-Founder of the Just One Giant Lab (JOGL), first research and innovation laboratory operating as a distributed, open and massive mobilisation platform for volunteer-based, IP-free task solving. JOGL helps sync humanity onto solving our most urgent and important problems using Open Science, Responsible Innovation and Continuous Learning. Thomas also co-founded and directed for 6 years La Paillasse in Paris, one of the largest open community labs in the world providing ressources and opportunities to hundreds of change makers and indie scientists for free. He also co-founded and directed for 2 years PILI, a biotech startup making natural dyes using fermentation to create sustainable, renewable and scalable alternatives to petrochemical dyes in the industry. Recently Thomas has also joined the iGEM (international Genetically Engineered Machine competition) Foundation to help design and deploy new programs to explore how communities can create even more positive values and impact on the world using Synthetic Biology.
Disruption Counsel
Modern mom and Corporate Executive. AWS Head of Strategy France, Board member of Bollore Group and 2 startups. Cofounder of INSEAD Business Angels Club. Pro bono mentor. Former Orange and Accenture.
Fascinated by the connection economy, I seek the tools that empower humans to become better humans
As an entrepreneur and high tech innovator, Yann Lechelle has founded, grown or sold a number of Yann Lechelle is an Entrepreneur & Tech Executive. For the past 3 years, he was CEO at Scaleway, a leading regional cloud infrastructure provider with unique European attributes and values. Previously, he has founded, grown and exited a total of 5 tech startups. Not long ago, as COO, he grew Snips.ai, a leading voice and AI deeptech startup from seed to exit in a trade sale to Nasdaq-listed Sonos. Yann is also founding member of France Digitale, HUB France AI (as well as board member), and co-founding member at GAIA-X. He gives back to the community as an angel investor, founder mentor and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at INSEAD.
Yervand is an investor, advisor and tech entrepreneur based in London. He is a founding partner at Granatus Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm investing in tech startups in Europe, USA and Armenia and helping them to build engineering teams in Armenia. Yervand is also a co-founder of a digital product agency and an accelerator called Agnian, which has worked with clients like LBS, Publicis, Praemium, Mary Key, Level39 - Canary Wharf Group, and a number of start-ups helping to build digital experiences and launch new products. He has recently co-founded Artbeep.com, an online art platform with focus on bringing the best artists from emerging markets to the collectors worldwide. Yervand holds a Master in Finance with Distinction from London Business School and has degrees in math and computer science.
Banker and investor turned entrepreneur. On a mission to democratise retail finance through the education and empowerment of consumers.
Film director and producer: Clementine Tango, Gare au Male, Shem Theatre producer : Y, GRUBB Show Co-founder of HERA Entrepreneurial course at Imperial College for women who have suffered from trafficking and other violence and GRUBB, an educational and artistic programme for young Roma .
Alexa paints on people and 3D objects in a way that makes them look like a 2D painting
Aussie/Spanish/Cuban/British entrepreneur living in Lisbon. Founded Skimlinks (exited) and now building FLOWN (virtual co-working for focus and flow).
Background in integrative medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, primary healthcare physician, small business owner, critical access hospital governing board chair.
CEO & Founder of Tastewise - AI for food innovation; formerly a Google exec - founder of Google Partners, World Economic Forum lead, and CMO Google Israel & Greece, always an LGBT activist.
Dr. Amanda Parkes is a fashion technologist and biomedia designer with over 10 years of experience in interaction design, wearable technology, and fashion innovation. She is the Chief of Technology and Research at Manufacture NY, a new hybrid fashion incubator/factory/research facility in Brooklyn NY. She teaches in the Columbia Univ. Dept of Architecture and holds a PhD & M.S. in Tangible Media from the MIT Media Lab and B.S. in Product Design from Stanford University. She was named to the Business of Fashion 500 People Shaping the Global Fashion Industry and as one of ‘8 Wildest Women of Silicon Valley’ by Vanity Fair.
Loves Food & Wine Acquired Over 1 Billion Users 4 Exits - Over $2 Billion
Committed to making a positive impact in the world and a dynamic force behind the scenes who connects people, projects and endless possibilities.
Andrés Roemer (July 12, 1963-) Mexican diplomat, he was the UNESCO Mexico's Ambassador in Paris, France. Until May 31st, 2016 he served as General Consul of Mexico in San Francisco, California. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy, he is also an economist and lawyer.[1] Grandson of the orchestral conductor Ernesto Roemer, he grew up in Mexico City. He has received various cultural awards and prizes, and has created and produced several television programs.[2] Roemer is honorary curator and co-founder of Ciudad de las Ideas along with Grupo Salinas,[3] an annual festival in the Mexican state of Puebla, as well as the creator of "Rethinking G20: Designing the Future" pre-G20 of 2012 G-20 Los Cabos summit in 2012, of the "Mexiam" and co-funder of the Casa de la Música de Viena en Puebla.[4] Andrés Roemer has a Ph.D. in Public Policy (1991 to 1994) from the Goldman School of Public Policy of University of California at Berkeley, where he earned the Academic Distinction for his thesis regarding water Public Policies. He earned a master's in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He specialized on Cultural Policies, Law and Economics and Evolutionary Psychology. And member of several economic, public policy and cultural associations in the United States, Mexico, Latin-America and Europe. He is also author of 16 books and 2 plays that treat diverse topics. His works are characterized for his deep analysis of non-market activities through economic analysis of law such as: happiness, art, sexuality, love, water, soccer, law, economics, crime, evolutionary psychology, government y public policy.[5][6][7][8][9][10] The San Francisco Chronicle called him a "rare public figure who deserves to be called a Renaissance man."[11] He has also won several national and international awards, highlighting the prestigious Elise and Walter A. Haas International Award[12] from the University of California at Berkeley, obtained only by great personalities such as President of Ecuador, Galo Plaza; President of Pakistan, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto; UN Commissioner, Sadako Ogata; Hans Hollein the Pritzker Architecture Prize; President of Costa Rica, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez and Yuan Tseh "YT" Lee Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Also Microsoft Corporation created the Microsoft Award "Andres Roemer" for distinction in service to the community of scholars[13] (delivered since 2006 to date in 12 countries). He also won the Promotion of Science Award in 2010 from the Nobel Prize Mario Molina and the former President of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, Arturo Menchaca, and was awarded the National Theatre Award "Emilio Carballido" as best national author for his play The Other Einstein in 2009.
Author of: Cult of the Amateur, Digital Vertigo and The Internet Is Not The Answer. Producer of Futurecast and host of TechcrunchTV's Keen On show
Social scientist interested in how evolutionary processes shape contemporary lives. Couples, families, fertility behaviour including "baby fever". Also science journalist and non-fiction writer.
Passionate about technology, security and identity (of course), food, wine, opera and ski, not necessarily in this order. Previous lives: IT project manager for Telmex in Mexico, IT services business unit at Equant, EVP Mobile Services for Orange, Director General of GSMA, the global association of mobile operators, CEO of Morpho. Graduate of Ecole Normale Supérieure (mathematics), telecommunications engineering degree, PhD in computer science. Currently also a member of the Boards of Directors of Capgemini and Edenred.
EMEA Business Development @Airbnb. Interested in #Tech #Web #GrowthHacking I like #DisruptiveBusinessModels #EntrepreneurStories
Trying to contribute to build a more humane and sustainable world ! Currently communication & media director at thecamp European campus dedicated to emerging technology and social innovation.
Anton is an architect turned entrepreneur with a mission to transform the way we live and work. Over the past 10 years Anton has built and accelerated dozens of social and tech ventures and is the founder and CEO of Exponentials. Anton recently moved to Stockholm to work with Tech Farm (Swedish coliving) as Head of Product and is a co-founder of the Village 3.0 movement and a Food Tech startup called Urban Oasis. Anton's passion lies at the intersection of design, entrepreneurship, education, real-estate and sustainability.
Arabella Bartsch - Award winning director based in Berlin, her work focuses on some of the most exciting digital and branded films for companies such as Red Bull or VICE Media.
Dara holds a BS in Industrial Design with a minor in International Business from MSCD. Dara combines her design strategy experience and rapid ethnographic assessment to empower others through technology. With a focus on disrupting supply chains and “making” in austere environments she has co-founded Field Ready, focusing in on-demand manufacturing in post Disaster Zones. Recently in Haiti, Field Ready brought 3D printers to teach locals how to make needed medical supplies and replacement parts for rural clinics. In the Bay Area, Dara also works as Human Factors Lead for Made In Space, Inc., a company that built and operates the first gravity-independent 3D printer on the International Space Station. In her free time Dara flies drones and is attempting to break the space time continuum. Dara believes that 3D printing in space is just the beginning.
Askari Naqvi is an Indian Human Rights Lawyer, Artist, Vocalist & Performer. He is a student of North Indian Classical Music and is getting trained under Pandit Amit Mukerjee from Indore School Music. He specializes in Soz-Khwani a singing art form performed traditionally during the month of Muharram as per Urdu calendar in Awadh region of India. He also performs Dastangoi a type of storytelling in Urdu.
An entrepreneur and an investor that is interested to learn and exchange different points of view focusing on deep tech and scalable platform play
Obsessed by the need for individual and collective resilience in a word increasingly uncertain and complex. Very optimistic on the promises of digital transition to solve human problems.
Starting in the late 1970s, Barak perceived how personal technologies could connect individuals and organizations, putting the power of computers and networks in everyone's hands.
A futurist comedian, writer, and engaged citizen with journalistic tendencies who is well-practiced in the technological arts.
Barbara is an entrepreneur and investor, passionate about nature, science and space. She is currently founder and CEO at Interstellar Lab whose mission is to design and build bioregenerative habitats for humans to live sustainably on any planet.
Beatrice Sutter is the chief editor of L'ADN, a media (print and web) that talks about digital culture and innovation.
Neuroscientist of perception and a few other things ... I like to believe.
I develop knowledge (AI), education (higher and executive), social connections (all around), and large burnable structures in the desert (Burning Man). President of myself (strategies.ai) and free spirit.
Named Forbes 30 under 30 and BBC's 100 Most Inspiring Women, Betsy has a decade of experience as an inventor, product founder and CEO. Betsy serves on the Tufts School of Nutrition Innovation Council and her company, Tiny Organics, has been chosen by Michelle Obama’s Partnerships for a Healthier America for their baby food initiative to support veggie-forward early palate development across the nation. Betsy enjoys building great brands and has invented over 100 products and counting. She advises a number of consumer product and deep data startups as well as UNICEF Wearables for Good initiative. Betsy is a keynote speaker and has spoken at Google, CES, World Economic Forum, National Retail Federation among others. Betsy is the Co-Founder of Tiny Organics, delivering toddlers their first 100 flavors direct to their door through whole, palette expanding meals. Being a vegetarian for 14 years, Betsy aims to train the palette of a generation to desire savory forward, whole real foods and most importantly providing access for all.
Bruno Aïdan, 48 years old, is Group Data Officer at Air Liquide. Telecom Engineer, he is PhD in Computer Science, from the University Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris. Since 1994, he accumulates a strong professional experience in the innovation of digital products and services. He notably pioneered the mobile Internet wave. In 2007, he joined Bell Lab, setting up and leading international research teams in computer science, network science, design, prototyping, user interfaces, usability and innovation processes. In 2013, he joined AXA as director of the research & development at the Data Innovation Lab, a cutting-edge organization in data science and big data.
Serial Entrepreneur in the digital space, former sound engineer, first software startup created in 1984.
Founder & CEO of Haut et Court, a film production company based in Paris.
Computer Girl since 2K. Digital Strategy, innovation, specialized in media TV / Internet. Chief Content Officer @AdsVark Media
Producer and partner haut et court
Tech enthusiast (the ideas, not always the practicalities). Partner at Brunswick, and senior advisor to some of the world's biggest global compnaies, on complex problem solving/ comms strategy - after 20 years in journalism from the Financial Times to the Economist magazine; regular chair and attendee of tech conferences. Likes connecting people.
Caroline Guillaumin was appointed Head of Group Communication for Société Générale in January 2010 and is a member of the Group’s Executive Committee. She was previously the Head of Corporate Communication & Corporate Social Responsibility at Alcatel-Lucent (2003-2006) and has held the positions of Head of Internal & External Communication at SFR (2003-2006) and Alcatel (1999-2003). She holds a Master's degree in Political Sciences from the Université de Bordeaux I and a Master of Arts in International Relations from the University of Boston.
Clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst and family therapist. I coordinate the psychotherapy department of the Child and adolescent psychiatry at Hopital Pitié Salpetrière and work in private practice. I am interested in mental health problems having to do with societal issues ranging from "new family constellations" to "radicalism".
Twenty years as a senior reporter, founder of a free school of journalism to promote diversity and I run an media group
Innovation Strategist - #Marketing #Digital #OpenInnovation #Engagement #IoT #Digitail
Psychotherapist, professor, social entrepreneur in NYC
Artist photograph and photograph of portraits and reportage. People are in the center of my priorities.
She began her professional career at BNP Paribas as a banker specializing in international trade finance. Subsequently, she joined the Brand Communication and Quality Department where she was last Head of Advertising, Sponsoring, Brand Identity and Events. She is currently Head of Prospective and Brand Innovations.
Cyril Zimmermann is the founder and CEO of AdUX, a leading public company focusing on Advertising and User Experience. Cyril has founded other companies over the past 15 and acts as well as a business angel or an advisor in many startups. Besides it business focus, Cyril is involved in non for profit organizations
Daniel Barcay is a technologist, focused on creating global-scale tech while driving wise and responsible practices around rollout
Passionate about innovation, technology, digital, entrepreneurship and international business, Daniel provides high-end advice and assistance for structuring, financing, running international operations, assistance on securing investment or partnership opportunities (Europe, USA, Israel, China), and guidance on the impact of the technologies on our societies.
Entrepreneur living in the UAE, love all things digital, negronis, burning man and scuba diving.
Story guy. Ran WIRED, got excited by purpose-driven founders, now invest in them and bring them together through the VOYAGERS community,
As an executive private chef, I spend my week creating cuisine inspired by the seasonal harvest in the San Francisco Bay Area and Napa Valley wine region of Northern California. My daily goals focus on transforming organic meats, poultry, seafood, fruits, vegetables, and grains into pleasing meals for those who consume the work of my knives and my knowledge of fire. The sound of “yum” filling my ears is one of my greatest job rewards. Being a conduit that brings people together to share a meal is another. Sourcing the freshest and most sustainable ingredients and supporting the local economy of farmers, ranchers, fisherman and other specialty purveyors is always my priority. My cooking style is heavily influenced by my two years of full-time study at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone in the Napa Valley AVA, California.
Estonian-Israeli celeb….thats all, y’all…
I have extensive experience in all aspects of retail strategy and operations, in environment from start ups to large corporations. I have started my career working on strategic initiatives in London and Paris either as a consultant for Braxton / Deloitte or internally for PPR / Kering and Fnac. I then joined Franprix, a leading French grocery store as Deputy CEO. I am now based in NY and have been running the US activity of Bath Bazaar, a French high quality home furnishing company, and consulting for start-ups (in the food and beverage, tech and charity environment)
Diana is a lawyer, activist, keynote speaker & communication educator based in Frankfurt, Germany and New York. Diana Adams is Executive Director of Chosen Family Law Center, Inc, a nonprofit serving LGBTQ (lesbian gay bisexual transgender queer), polyamorous, platonic and non-nuclear families, and teaches innovative cultural competency trainings on serving these communities. https://chosenfamilylawcenter.org/ Diana is also Owner of Diana Adams Law & Mediation, PLLC, a boutique family law and mediation firm based in New York City and also serving Americans in Europe. www.DianaAdamsLaw.net Diana is Director of the Euro LGBT Family Law Institute, connecting top lawyers in LGBT family law and Assisted Reproductive Technology Law in Europe with top lawyers in this field worldwide, in an effort to create a worldwide legal support movement for these families. As a renowned mediator and conflict resolution coach, Diana also teaches workplaces how to use communication tools to transform difficult conversations and conflict into opportunities for personal and professional growth, and teaches weekend workshops on assertive communication for women to support women as bosses and leaders, such as at Omega Institute June 2019. www.CourageousConversations.Work
Co Founder of FIND.fashion - Revolutionising Fashion Discovery. Founding team @ Fits.me Rakuten & Retail Recharged; Senior positions @STYLEBOP, Poq Commerce Free spirit dancer
Author ("Unit 8200"), journalist (Haaretz), contrarian (too many examples to list)
Liz Heller is a recognized media innovator and entertainment industry pioneer, whose award-winning career spans film, music and technology. Consistently one of the first people in the entertainment industry to capitalize on the power of previously unexplored mediums such as visual media, Internet, and social media, Liz continues to raise the bar for next-generation product marketing and development. Liz has worked in the entertainment industry in multiple capacities, ranging from serving as Executive VP of Capitol Records, to producing “The Basketball Diaries.” She is the founder of Buzztone, an innovative marketing company dedicated to engaging consumers and designing brand-building experiences for clients.
As the chief “alchemist” of Buzztone, Liz enjoys tackling a wide variety of challenges in the constantly evolving digital sphere. Clients from global brands such as TOMS, Pepsi, and JoinRED, to early stage projects and companies such as Tim Kring's Conspiracy For Good, have all benefited from campaigns that organically weave brand into community, consciousness and influence consumer lifestyles. Liz’s vision drove the development of new technology to fill an engagement marketing void. The result is Vwalls™, which focuses and aggregates content including, text, images, audio, video, blogs, news and production from both traditional outlets to community-uploaded content. The interface-based experience is unique, user-friendly, fun and addictive. Vwalls™ is transforming user experiences for such high-profile clients as Oxfam America, Hallmark Channel, Veev Spirits and Monster.com
She currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband and, in her downtime, enjoys watching "Who Do You Think You Are" and planning her next social movement, “Women vs. Candy,” which chronicles day-to-day issues surrounding her lifelong struggle, deep love and global pursuit of candy.
Student @Ecole 42UWC graduate, Student at school 42
I like to say I’m an artist living in a lawyer’s body and I’ve spent my career working at the intersection of content and technology. I’ve run content divisions at big companies, including Yahoo, Disney/Maker Studios and Verizon. Now I’ve founder and CEO of Give Mobile, an MVNO for influencers and creators. I love adventures of all kinds and I’m looking forward to our adventure in Hope this year.
Psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author Esther Perel is recognized as one of today’s most insightful and original voices on modern relationships. Fluent in nine languages, she helms a therapy practice in New York City and serves as an organizational consultant for Fortune 500 companies around the world. Her celebrated TED talks have garnered more than 40 million views and her international bestseller Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence became a global phenomenon translated into 31 languages. Her newest book is the New York Times bestseller The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity (HarperCollins). Esther is also an executive producer and host of the popular podcasts Where Should We Begin? and How’s Work? Her latest project is Where Should We Begin - A Game of Stories with Esther Perel. Learn more at EstherPerel.com or by following @EstherPerelOfficial on Instagram.
Digital strategist with focus on media and sports, freelancing as "Technology is our friend" and co-founder of Mataracan Sports Marketing.
Fabrice Cavarretta is a Professor of Management at ESSEC Business School where he studies managerial paradigms, in particular in leadership and entrepreneurship contexts.
I'm the founder of My Little Paris. Starting from a group of fifty friends, the community has been growing ever since by word of mouth, to reach 3 millions users today. The concept has since then diversified by locations (My Litlte Lyon, My Little Marseille),by theme (kids and wedding), one targeting male readers (Merci Alfred) and one in subscription e-commerce (My Little Box). We began our international expansion 3 years ago in Japan, Germany, UK and US.
CEO & Co-Founder, SmartUp.io. Peer-to-peer micro-learning network used by corporates and Startups Partner at SparkLabs Group - Asia's biggest accelerator group, and Seed stage VC Previously on Boards of Spotify, Siri, Summly, Affectiva.
CEO 18M.io, conseil marketing, technologies et sujets de société.
I am Kinnernet ‘s photographer :) I am your photographer www.geraldinearesteanu.com
Tech, Data and mostly HR for social impact. CIO at the French Red Cross
Guido van Nispen is CEO & Co-Founder of Insiber.com, the independent one-stop SaaS support platform empowering SME cybersafety and insurance. Guido has many years of executive management, advisory and supervisory experience in the technology, finance, and media sectors
Guillaume spent years developing strategies, prospective and disruptive innovations in order to facilitate change across a wide variety of fields (health, mobility, collaborative economy, new value chains using IoT…). Recently, he joined thecamp (Erreur ! Référence de lien hypertexte non valide. in order to develop open innovation encompasses a wide spectrum of approaches, going from made-to-measure programs using specific methodologies (inclusive design thinking / design fiction / creative problem-solving / prototyping, etc.) to collaborative strategies on large-scale general interest projects and challenges.
Innovating in neuro-technology, we are gathering artists, neuro-scientists, game designers and psychologists to design the next Digital Therapeutics and support humans in facing the biggest challenges.
Lecturer at the School of Economic Warfare; Advisor to PwC on Cyberdefense. Fiction writer
Maxillofacial Surgeon, Professor at Collège de Médecine des Hôpitaux de Paris
Haisong Tang is co-founder of Elite Educational Institute and Managing Director of Technology Reserve China. Haisong’s passion lies in technology and education. In 2013, he started Elite China aiming to grow China’s future leaders and thinkers. He also initiated Technology Reserve to help SMEs to secure technologies transfer from Fortune 100 companies. In 2009 Haisong was responsible for Intellectual Ventures’s Physical Science initiative in China help local inventors develop patents and license in the global market. In 1999 Haisong started his internet venture etang - a platform targeted the young Chinese generation. Haisong joined McKinsey and helped establish McKinsey China office in 1993. Haisong is an active member of China-France Foundation and Young Leaders’ Forum. He teaches “the military, the technology, and the finance” at Fudan Business School. A Shanghai native, Haisong studied Laser Physics at Fudan University and received his MBA degree from Harvard.
Harald is passionate about meaning in technology, the future of exponential technologies and its opportunities for society, brands and entrepreneurs – especially in Europe. Harald is the Founder of Futur/io – the European Institute for Exponential Technologies & Desirable Futures with campus locations in Berlin, Salzburg, Venice & Paris. For MLOVE Harald created M, the MLOVE Forum, as an inspiring event series that brings together innovation leaders and startups in an inspiring format at amazing locations.
As an artist, I love capturing with a few essential lines people' emotions and motions. As a digital person, I love creating smart products for real humans.
My purpose is to help people reach their potential. My other passions include: coaching CEOs, practicing Karaté and Tantra. More on Herve.Com.
Program Designer @thecamp - imagine immersive experiences to transform people and organizations for positive impact Obsessions : collaborative intelligence, communities and change makers, human transformation, power of fiction to imagine the future #Connectpeople #positive #curious
Cofounder of digital media Worldcrunch
Isabel Behncke (DPhil Oxford, MPhil Cambridge) is an applied primatologist who studies social behavior in animals including humans. For her PhD she followed wild bonobos in Congo researching their play behaviour. Isabel grew up at the foothills of the Andes mountains in Chile. She loves nature and wildness and culture and the arts. She is a Gruter Institute and TED Fellow, and recently Presidential advisor to Chile's government.
Entrepreneur, programmer, social hacker, performer, a clown
Jack Saul, Ph.D. is a New York State licensed psychologist and family therapist providing therapeutic services for individuals, couples, and families in Manhattan. His family systems orientation emphasizes a narrative, dialogic, and resilience based approach. Dr. Saul is the director of the International Trauma Studies Program in New York City. As a psychologist he has created a number of psychosocial programs for people facing adversity in New York City and abroad. He is known for his innovative work with families and communities that integrates testimony, healing, media, and the performance arts.
PhD in chemistry, ETH Zürich. G. M. paper production and printing companies Man. Consulting, McKinsey Paris, Groupe Valeur Pr. Assoc. Justice
Directeur de la rédaction de Forbes France, Jean Rognetta est président de PMEfinance. Créé en 2010, ce « laboratoire d’idées pragmatiques » consacré au financement des entreprises est notamment à l’origine du PEA-PME, mais aussi de plusieurs autres mesures économiques, comme la faculté d’amortir le corporate venture et, pour une large part, la libéralisation du crowdfunding en France. Ses clubs Europe Entrepreneurs sont présents dans plusieurs régions françaises ainsi qu’à l’international. Ancien délégué général de l’association CroissancePlus, Jean continue avec Forbes une carrière de journaliste commencée en 1997 au sein du groupe Vivendi, comme responsable des lettres @Jour, avec un rôle d’observateur privilégié du début de la révolution numérique. De 2000 à 2016 il a ensuite collaboré régulièrement au groupe Les Echos, en gardant son orientation vers les technologies mais en se spécialisant dans le financement de l’innovation et des entreprises sur Capital Finance. Binational franco-italien, économiste de formation, Jean a co-écrit plusieurs livres, dont récemment La République des Réseaux (Fayard). |
The editorial director of Forbes France Jean Rognetta is the founder and president of the primary French think tank on the financing of independent businesses, SMEfinance.fr/. Its Europe Entrepreneurs clubs are active in various countries, including the US and China. Also a former General Delegate of CroissancePlus, an entrepreneurs group in Paris, Jean started his career in journalism in 1997 with Vivendi, as the editor of the professional letters @Jour. From 2000 to 2016 he wrote for Les Echos and Capital Finance, respectively France’s leading financial daily and private equity newsletter. An early observer and analyst of the digital revolution, he has written or co-authored several books, most recently La République des Réseaux (Fayard). |
Head of Digital at MCM
Jenn is known for her work as the Global Head of Innovation & New Initiatives at the Burning Man Nonprofit, where she significantly contributed to a decade of growth, notably during the era led by the late Larry Harvey. With over 18 years of experience in launching ventures across the hospitality, arts, and technology sectors, Jenn has passion for developing future community models and bottom up systems in tandem with real estate developments - that enhance startup and creative ecosystems. She is the founder of Creative Agency Play Atelier that provides independent research and advisory to shared value initiatives that involve human led - bottom up innovation design. Jenn is a Partner at Re:Imagine Group, a pioneering urban prototyping lab in San Francisco and serves as a Board Member / Advisor to many joint ventures. Jenn is committed to nurturing emerging innovations by leveraging her extensive experience to creatively tackle traditional challenges. She is a trained media expert ( once a publicist, always a publicist) and also manages a portfolio of real estate internationally. Previously, Jenn was a Partner at Agency RedRobin, an early-stage incubator in East London, founded in response to the 2009 recession. There, she refined her skills in platform and systems thinking, internet of things, the first digital pivot, the share economy and the started her path of popularizing entrepreneurial culture in a time of a changing social norms to that of the millennial mindset Additionally, she co-curated TEDxLondon from 2010 to 2012, fostering an environment for groundbreaking ideas to TED.com and Launched Vimeo across Pan Europe in 2010. Via Consultancy Play Atelier, Jenn takes a few select clients and can be an invaluable partner in driving bottom-up, open and regenerative projects.
Jennifer Dungs is working to create the digital lifestyle in and around premium mobility at Porsche Digital. Porsche Digital is embracing digital technologies to enable asset light and scalable business models that are exciting, aspirational, and intelligent along our customers journeys. She has worked over 16 years in the automotive industry, previously 10 years in Detroit at Ford Motor Company focusing on energy efficiency, air quality, and sustainability topics. She moved to Germany in 2010, working at BMW in Munich for research and development, and more recently as the Institute Director at Fraunhofer for mobility and smart cities. Dr. Dungs has both a M.S. Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. Chemistry. She is a global speaker on the topics of future mobility and smart cities and is passionate about playing a role in the revolution of the automotive industry. She is curious, spontaneous, and invested in learning, growing and changing. She enjoys skiing, biking, golfing and traveling.
For over 17 years, Jennifer Ok has been connecting influential thinkers and devising creative business development solutions. Her experience spans the startup, corporate investment and digital sectors, and she specializes in building multidisciplinary teams at global scale and producing story-building industry forums. Jennifer leverages her extensive network of cross-industry relationships as Chief Marketing Officer and Global Head of Venture Development at BCG Digital Ventures. In this role, she is responsible for commercializing ventures for marketing and PR across the firm’s core industries. Jennifer also oversees the firm’s global communications and marketing strategies, with a particular focus on brand reputation, corporate development and global initiatives. During her tenure at BCG Digital Ventures, Jennifer has built a team of veteran PR, marketing and communications specialists across three continents and is continually forming new platforms to connect leaders in the corporate investment and incubation sector.
Jeremie Kletzkine is an entrepreneur with technology expertise. Former VP at Startup Nation Central, he headed business development at Primesense (makers of Kinect, acquired by Apple), co-founded GameIS (the Israeli Video Game Industry Association), and co-founded several mobile game studios. In 2001 he founded the first semi-professional international eSport team in Israel. Jeremie also designed 7 physical board games published worldwide and sit on the board of various gaming and entertainment technology companies.
Social and cultural innovation -passionate with art and creation Before : Manager www.womens-forum.com, Co-founder : Young Mediterranean Leaders, Warner, Imagination Factory Now : Founder www.engage.world : stage direction and singing : www.pointdebascule.org and some other things... Make Desirable Futures Happen
Investor in big ideas with potential for positive impact and exponential growth. Entrepreneur. Thinker. Reader. Long term analysis on AI, New Space and other new deep tech trends.
Joana Seguro is an independent curator working in art and technology, with a growing interest and strong track record in linking disparate fields across art forms and disciplines. Projects range from conceiving, producing and developing her own events and exhibitions to curating international festivals, artist management, producing tours and one-off projects. Since 2001 working independently she has pursued partnerships with some of the major cultural institutions active in contemporary arts in the UK and Internationally. She regularly advises organisations of including PRS Foundation and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation amongst others. In 2006 she completed a Wellcome Trust funded Clore Leadership Fellowship on Arts Leadership. Joana was also Sound Producer for BAC/Punchdrunk¹s The Masque of Red Death, Culture Tutor of the IDE department at the Royal College of Art and executive producer for The Longplayer Trust and Music Curator of EVENTO-Bordeaux’s Art, Architecture Biennial and Deloitte:Ignite Just Tell The Truth Festival at Royal Opera House curated by Mike Figgis, Serpentine Gallery working on the Yoko Ono Into The Light Smile Installation. On a role with The Vinyl Factory, producing and curating all projects at Brewer Street Car Park in London, she worked with Bill Viola, Carsten Nicolai, Ryoji Ikeda, Ragnar Kjartansson and Doug Aitken. Her latest project was as Curator for the opening programme of Lisbon new cultural space MAAT - Museum of Art Architecture and Technology.
Joanna runs JG Consulting, a strategic marketing boutique consultancy that advises companies on how to build their international footprint. She works with the management teams of Fortune 1000 companies to develop their World Economic Forum engagement strategy and to map key issues relevant to each company and executives. In 2017 she launched and ran for 3 years Transform.AI, a by invitation only conference in Europe focused on the business implications of artificial intelligence. Prior to starting JG Consulting, she served as director of Enterprise Strategy at Salesforce and prior to that, was head of the Information Technology Industry at the World Economic Forum.
John Gordon Is the founder of Xtreme Information, a Media Information company and Contagious, which monitors contagious ideas in media and culture. In 2002 he founded Intelligence Squared, a global forum for live debate on politics and culture and in 2012, the How To Academy, a live and online platform for talks. In addition he has launched Notting Hill Editions, a publishing company specializing in Essays and Globalista, a travel information company.
Chairman SinoCare, hospital chain China. Excited by Health Care and FinTech. Chairman AML Analytics
As a starving engineer, I have dedicated my adult life to helping starving artists use technology to further their creative visions. Much of this has shown at Burning Man over the years including Marco Cochrane's Bliss Dance, Peter Hudson's Charon, The Windmill Factory's Pixel Forest, Robert Bose's Balloon Chain, and Aaron Taylor Kuffner's Gamelatron inside two temples. In recent years, the artists and projects that we support extend well beyond Burning Man and as such, some of our artist clientele are not as starving anymore. The Everbright wall - a giant redux of the childhood LiteBrite toy - by Alan Rory of Hero Design is a shining example of what we do. See www.everbright.io for a project that we enabled with affordable technology that scales. Next steps include a move to NYC to pursue artistic uses of VR and further work with existing and new clientele alike.
Jon Morris is the CEO/co-founder of NOWHERE & The Windmill Factory. He has helped pioneer immersive theatre, the experience economy, and the metaverse by creating award winning experiences at the intersection of art and technology that have excited audiences around the globe including collaborations with Cirque Du Soleil, NIN, Fuerzabruta, Burning Man, Red Bull, AWS, Google to name a few. linktr.ee/yojonmorris
EVERYTHING IS INTERCONNECTED "As a nomadic spirit I navigate from universe to universe I am enriched by travels and meetings what I do is not a job it's an endless search, it's looking for the beautiful in the sense noble of the term, it's sharing my vision that everything is interconnected, there is no limit..." Http://www.Judithdarmont.com
A results-oriented conscious business leader with more than 20 years experience in Silicon Valley, US and France. 10 years as a digital Start Up entrepreneur and 10 years working for Fortune 500 companies among these corporations: Carrefour, L’Oréal, Société Générale, and Estee Lauder, where I served as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Digital Officer. I am also Board Member of Science and Non-Duality, and a Kundalini Yoga Meditation teacher. And most of all a blessed mother.
Media artist and designer, working at ART+COM, UdK and RCA along with independent projects. Focus in embodied interaction, spatial media.
Ken is the Founding Partner in memBrain - an entertainment marketing and strategy consulting firm that advises Fortune 500 companies, startup ventures, and everything in-between. memBrain also develops licensing programs and brand extension opportunities.
Kendall is passionate about combining comfort, function and community into all of his designs. His sense of space comes from spending much of his free time outdoors, and thinking about how to make every environment feel organic and restorative. For over 10 years he's built relationships with fabricators, artists and clients from California to Australia. Residential and commercial clients include Minted.com and other private referrals. See his work at kendallermshar.io
Khaliya is a humanitarian, public health specialist and leading mental health advocate. Member: World Economic Forum's Expert Advisory Global Futures Council on the Future of Health & Healthcare. Recipient: Middelthon-Candler Peace Prize. Head of Strategic Partnerships: Guardian Circle. Co-Founder: Evolutionary Ventures. Founder: Tell Your Story, League of Extraordinary Minds. Advisory Committee: NeuroLaunch, Clinton Global Initiative LEAD program. Co-Executive Producer: Breadhead documentary. Board Member: Venture for America, Nexus Global Youth Summit, Charity Miles. Past work: Council of Foreign Relations, Peace Corps. Recent speaking: NOVUS Summit at the UN, TEDxBeaconStreet. Upcoming: WIRED Health. MA, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. @Khaliya
Kim has over 10 years of track record in design and engineering innovative stuff. Previously holding responsabilities for the large industry and startups in product design and digital transformation, he has been operationally involved in cutting edge innovation projects for over 10 years, in many different fields such as industrial fabrication, energy, healthcare, sustainable agriculture, hydrogen mobility, urban development and areospace. He runs expertises in complex system conception. Currently working for different institutions and large corporations such as the French Space Agency aka CNES.
Founder at MANA Community
Former IT & Innovation director at NY Times International, now breaking, building and creating new business models, services and products, both in media and out of media. The best bit is I get to work with large multinationals and small startups - the whole ecosystem is my playground! I'm also chairwoman of the US board of APOPO HeroRats where we blend the best of nature and tech to train rats to save lives by detecting land mines, TB and lots more using their amazing sense of smell. @daviskris10
Laura Kriefman is an Architectural Choreographer. She is a 2016 INK Fellow, 2015 WIRED Magazine/The Space Creative Fellow and a 2011-2012 Fellow of the Clore Cultural Leadership Programme. Her company Guerilla Dance Project www.guerilladanceproject.com have won multiple awards for digital innovation and specialise in Augmented Dance: the fusion between movement and technology. Resident at the Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol, they create interactive installations and spectacles that have been commissioned worldwide including USA, Brazil, Ireland, Croatia, Europe, India, and Indonesia. Laura recently closed TedXRoma with a talk about her work in Augmented Dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28ePdBRH6xA Laura opened TedXLondon with a talkon her project Mass Crane Dance: a spectacular meeting of music, light, and synchronised construction cranes dancing across the skylight at night. www.masscranedance.org https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh18FQs-NBc
Laura is launching New York City's first experiential art & innovation district on Canal Street this summer with 20 retail spaces dedicated to hosting short-term brand pop-ups, startups & tech-based art installations.
Playwright, director Playwright in residence Finnish National Theatre
Leetha is a strategist intrigued by the power of collaboration as a tool for social change. She serves as the president of the PopTech Institute (www.poptech.org) where she oversees a portfolio focused on the global health, environment, social justice and the future of work. Her tenure at PopTech began with the establishment of the PopTech Social Innovation and Science Fellows programs, which are dedicated to identifying and training promising innovators and scientists. Much of PopTech’s work explores the leveraging of technology and other disruptive channels to mitigate challenges confronting humanity. Leetha has a deep and diverse background in strategic development, and has advised and served on the boards of numerous organizations and agencies. She lives on a small farm in Maine.
An artist and a geek
A curious thinker, passionate about people and technology. Exploring how technology helps us develop as individuals and as a society.
I am a Harvard Professor of theoretical physics who studies elementary particles and cosmology. My most recent book is Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs.
Madhavi Kuckreja is an Indian Women's Rights Activist, Social Entrepreneur and Cultural Activist. She is the founder of Vanangana an NGO working on the issue violence against women, since 1995 in the district of Chitrakoot at Uttar Pradesh in India. She also started Sanatkada (weaves and crafts) a organization which is a center for cultural activism and also works for promoting the Handy crafts and Weaves from India
Creative strategist spezialized in co-creating desirable sustainable futures
Maître de conférence - Littérature comparée
Founder Maslow Capital Partners Co-founder Kinnernet Europe
A documentary filmmaker. A cheetah conservationist. A fine art photographer. Published in National Geographic. Studied with Werner Herzog. From the east coast to the west coast and most recently Berlin.
As the organization’s recently named first CEO, Marian oversees Burning Man’s year-round staff of 70+ employees and its annual operating budget of approximately $30 million. Marian first attended Burning Man in 1995, and in 1997 was a co-founder of the management organization that eventually became Black Rock City, LLC, which produces the Burning Man event. Throughout her leadership in the Burning Man organization, she has been the Director of Business and Communications, and also oversaw the Black Rock City Department of Public Works. She has steered the development of the Burning Man Regional Network, which is now on six continents, with more than 250 representatives in 30 countries. Marian is a founding board member of the Burning Man Project, the Black Rock Arts Foundation, and Black Rock Solar. She is currently leading the organization’s efforts to facilitate and extend the Burning Man ethos globally. Marian holds a BA in Creative Writing from Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland and an MFA in photography from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She has worked in sales and public relations, and was a project manager for a software development firm when she first arrived as a participant at Burning Man in 1995.
Marius Veltman is a user experience designer and creative technologist from the Netherlands with over fifteen years of expertise in digital product and service design. Marius holds a profound knowledge of what is moving today's digital users. And has a Hypercreative, multi-faceted, one-trick pony.
Music, art, strategic foresight, futurism, innovation, leadership, future of work and humanity
He is a passionate entrepreneur, been successfully involved in three major industries/sectors such as luxury, action sport and innovation technology. Curiosity driven and a keen observer to understand diversity in people's cultures and mindsets by the impact of new paradigms and generations shifts to strategize new paths of applications. Maurizio holds various roles and delegated in accordance with his skills and experience as CEO, Board Member, Creative Vision-Strategist, Investment Committee, Mentor, Stakeholder formation, Branding, Supervision, General Business Development. Maurizio's envision driving force is characterized by three elements that derive from his own experience, the influence of intangible values, gather likeminded communities. Convert intangible values into a tangible context. Foster a mindset and sense of belonging into a culture.
I want to make the world more beautiful, more connected and where ever I can try to support people and projects that do so as well. My background is in branding, marketing, advertising followed by the creation of Wisher.com - a gifting platform and launchpad for brands.
Seymour Projects is a non-profit organization committed to nurturing human consciousness in a world increasingly dominated by technology. We create innovative resources and frameworks that induce reflection and enable individuals to nurture meaningful connection with themselves and each other.
"Le respect pour l’alimentation et les produits sains ont été le socle de mon éducation familiale"
Je suis né dans un environnement où l’amour, le respect pour l’alimentation et les produits sains ont été le socle de mon éducation familiale. Enfant déjà, je passais beaucoup de temps en cuisine avec ma mère, tandis que mon père, un pionnier de « l’agriculture BIO », commençait à me transmettre les valeurs liées à la nature.
Né en Suisse et ayant grandi en Italie, c’est à l’âge de 17 ans après avoir fini l’école professionnelle hôtelière que j’acquiers ma première expérience professionnelle au sein de l’Hôtel Danieli de Venise. Durant une année, j’ai eu l’opportunité de travailler et d’apprendre aux côtés du chef Augusto Borghese, me permettant ainsi de découvrir les couleurs d’une cuisine raffinée.
Mon dévouement sincère, mon sérieux au travail et ma passion, furent gratifiés par le directeur du Hyde Park Hôtel à Londres, qui ne tarda pas à me propose un poste de commis de cuisine.
Cette étape marque un tournant de ma vie où s’en suit une série d’expériences professionnelles au niveau international. C’est alors que j’ai pu consacrer mes connaissances et confirmer ma passion pour les différentes cultures et traditions liées à l’alimentation et les produits régionaux.
Mes chemins professionnels et humains ont été particulièrement marqués ces dernières années par de grandes rencontres: celle avec Carlo Petrini, créateur de « Slow Food » et « Terra Madre », et sa conception humaniste de la nourriture ; et celle avec Massimo Bottura, élu meilleur chef et ayant le meilleur restaurant du monde.
Depuis 2010, nous vivons en famille avec ma femme et mes trois enfants dans un village au pied de la montagne de Sainte Victoire dans la ville de Trets, où je dirige une petite école de cuisine gastronomique. L’éducation que je transmets à mes étudiants se base sur la création journalière de plats de la meilleure cuisine méditerranéenne, revisités selon les valeurs « humanistes » et les principes du bio et du développement durable.
C’est avec un immense honneur que j’ai rejoint le chef Alain Ducasse le 1er octobre 2015, pour devenir chef instructeur au sein de son école dans le 16e arrondissement de Paris.
En 2016 je participe à l'ouverture de l'école de cuisine mode d'emploi à Marseille de Thierry Marx en m'occupant de ses cours de cuisine en tant que formateur chef de cuisine.
Debout 2017 je participe a la création du collective de l'Alliance Slow Food des Chefs en France avec des grands chefs étoilés : Michel Bras ,Xavier Hamon, Olivier Roellinger, etc...
Journalist and writer. Two kids.
Mickey is a research fellow in the Office of the CTO at Autodesk & Senior Advisor to BCG. He co-authored Trillions, holds 10 patents & is considered a pioneer in collaborative innovation, design thinking, education, and pervasive computing.
Dr. Mike North, host of Discovery/Science shows Prototype This!, In The Making, Outrageous Acts of Science, and the VR series Innovative Design; is crafting a narrative of embracing technology to create a world where people and planet thrive.
Creative and Brand executive, Ex-MTV and Person now leading the Creative, Interactive and Content team at Hopster, UK's #1 preschool learning and entertainment app. On a mission to help kids learn through the stories they love.
Moran Cerf is a professor of neuroscience and business at the Kellogg School of Management.. Additionally, he is the Alfred P. Sloan screenwriting Professor at the American Film Institute. Prior to his academic career, professor Cerf worked as a hacker for nearly a decade, breaking into leading financial and government institutes to test and improve their security. His hacking background has led him to later pursue non-traditional ways to investigate the brain, using methods and techniques that benefit from heavy computational skills and novel research tools. Notably, he has been working with patients undergoing brain-surgery where he studies behavior, emotion, decision making and dreams by directly recording the activity of individual neurons using electrodes implanted in the patients' brain. He holds multiple patents and his work has been published in wide-circulation academic journals such as Nature, as well as popular science journals such as Scientific American Mind, Wired, New Scientist and more. Additionally, his work has been portrayed in numerous media outlets such as Time, CNN, BBC, Bloomberg, NPR, MSNBC and dozens of others. He has been featured in venues such as the Venice Art Biennial and China’s Art, Science and Technology conference, and has contributed to magazines such as Forbes, The Atlantic, Inc. and others. Professor Cerf has had short-lived careers as a furniture-designer, a pilot, a radio host, and a filmmaker, and he has served on the boards of pharmaceutical, telecom and fashion companies. He is a multiple-times national story-telling champion (’The Moth’), and his public talks at TED, Google Zeitgeist, PopTech, DLD and others have received millions of views and a large following. In addition to his academic career, professor Cerf is a science consultant for various Hollywood films and TV shows ('Bull', ‘Limitless’, ‘Falling Water’, and more). Recently, he was named one of the "40 leading professors below 40”. Most importantly, he is right handed.
Moulla is a magician who brings a new dimension to magic by adding new technology to his shows.
Moulla is passionate about virtual reality and computer science in general. He is an engineer graduated from ESIEA . Moulla performs magic shows of a new kind : Augmented Magic shows – shows in which the virtual and the reality are completely connected. This new way of performing magic opens an infinite creation field because the impossible becomes possible. Moulla imagines, writes, creates and plays his show of Augmented Magic with his team around the world.
Nancy Fechnay is an accomplished founder, investor and mentor. Nancy is passionate about investing time and money into companies that are creating a more positive future.
Nikhil Velpanur is Associate director at Garage5B, a new ventures lab of Dr. Reddy's limited, exploring the idea of disruption. He comes with a background of 14 years as an entrepreneur, technologist, designer and maker. He has been recognised as a TED fellow and part of the founding team of the INK conference, having started the INK fellows program and developing the community. In his past he has run a media company publishing a 8000 copy/month magazine, launched India’s first indigenously developed 3D printer Brahma3, built a product that makes poems from random tweets, open source tools for wildlife to alleviate human-animal conflict, and involved in the founding and cofounding of multiple companies and nonprofits. He has lived and worked across South East Asia, being part of various efforts, movements, nonprofits and advises, mentors and angel invests in hard science and agriculture startups.
Nolwenn Godard is Director of Product in a Silicon Valley FinTech company. Because of her passion for gender diversity and inclusion, she also volunteers her time as the President of the company’s Women’s affinity group, serving 1,800 people globally. In that capacity, she partners with the senior leadership in its endeavor to promote a culture of inclusion and foster female leadership. She runs many programs that provide growth opportunities and help women have long lasting, fulfilling careers: Education, Mentorship, Executive Shadowing… She is co-chair and co-founder of the French American Women Executive Circle at the French American Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco, and a committee member of CLUBconnect – a program of The Women's CLUB of Silicon Valley.
Nusrat is a pioneering media executive, strategic advisor, and filmmaker. He worked at MTV for 20 years and founded MTV World, Viacom’s visionary global division. He is the creator of the award-winning “Rebel Music” and “The Music Experiment,” MTV’s first transmedia live music series. Nusrat was honored by President Barack Obama for his work and called “a sage when it comes to music and pop culture” by MTV founder Tom Freston. His new documentary, “An American Prayer,” recently premiered at the Black Nights Tallinn Film Festival, and will be released in 2022.
I'm a doctor and a gardener
Entrepreneur with a dedication to luxury fashion and lifestyle, created more than 20 companies globally. Passion for brands communication, e-commerce and new technologies. Love fashion and design
Innovation & Digital transformation leader at Air Liquide, my life is all about friendship, serendipity, cross-fertilization, jazz, the Basque Country and my little girl.
Experience maker and community builder
Oren Yakobovich is a social entrepreneur working at the intersection of human rights and film-making. He is a leading voice on how to use visual information to create sustainable, lasting positive change in areas of conflict. He co-founded Videre in 2008, an NGO equipping oppressed communities with customized technology to uncover information from places where media can't or won't go. Before founding Videre, Oren led the video department at the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem. At B’Tselem, he developed ‘Shooting Back,’ a video project that has trained hundreds of citizens in the West Bank that live in the most dangerous places to use cameras to fight for justice.
Living a Shrödinger cat life: General inspector of Finance (French Ministry of Economy), artist and writer.
I was born in Mexico, I am a journalist at Marie Claire which is one of the biggest group in Latin America. I do interviews to all kinds of people I like Arianna Huffington, Ingrid Betancourt and much more I write mostly about women all over the world
COMMS 1 CSR EVP /BtoB & BtoC international companies: Retail, insurance, media, telecommunications Creation and management of commercial & corporate brands, internal and external digital and collaborative strategies, crisis and transformation program management Sustainable development strategy, Foundation creation, social business development, Open-Innovation program
Product Designer with a background in film and psychology, bridging digital and human experience. Currently designing with the awesome team @ SmartRecruiters.
Patrycja Slawuta is Poland-born, New York City-based behavioral scientist. Patrycja stands for the upgrading of humanity. She believes we stand at a paramount period in history that is ripe for rewiring and reprogramming, at a species level. After a successful academic career, Patrycja founded SelfHackathon, a boutique consultancy that uses cutting edge scientific research for business innovation. With a network of 50+ scientists and domain experts, SelfHackathon helps high performing individuals, teams and companies hack, rewire and upgrade themselves. Their clients include some of the most exciting Silicon Valley startups as well as Fortune 50 enterprises. Her latest initiative is called PsychTech, the seamless fusion of psychology and technology to enhance and accelerate performance and results. As an expert on the complexity, nonlinearity and the messiness of the human nature, Patrycja lectures globally and works with some of the most exciting and disruptive businesses in the world. In her free time she runs marathons, reads scientific articles and meditates. In that particular order.
Peter Nelson serves as Executive Vice President of HBO Sports at Home Box Office, Inc.
@pdewost @WeAreLeonard
Senior Banker at Société Générale during the week and gardener at Courterolles over the week-end. We transform this park establishing links between sculptures and a botanique collection, but preserving nature everywhere
Henrietta is an alumna of Singularity University's Global Solutions Program and a firm believer that positive change starts from individuals. PHK is the Co-founder & CEO of Carbo Culture, making high-value carbon products while sequestering CO2. She's a board member of mehackit which she co-founded and Yeint (YLEPS Helsinki Omx). A Finnish sea scout captain, outdoors person, yogi.
Professionally a freelance HR Consultant, worked across various Asia Pacific countries. Traveler by passion and a Sitar enthusiast.
Supporting organizations and individuals to effectively undermine communication that divides us based on our identity. I use an interdisciplinary approach that supports local practitioners with insights from fields like marketing and cognitive neuroscience. I'm currently focused on Europe and the U.S. In the past worked mostly in Kenya and South Asia.
Entrepreneur and investor in deeptech. CEO at Zama, previous CEO at Snips. Investor in 50+ companies in blockchain, AI, hardware, psychedelics and medtech. PhD in AI.
Idea lover and associate of Codesign-it! in Paris, as a facilitator I conceive crazy ideation workshops based on collaborative intelligence and creative problem solving model everywhere in the World. I also run an Art gallery in Arles-Provence (where I live) and design arty experiences about creativity process and techniques. I love to share my passion about Cyrano de Bergerac and le Panache (so french).
Richard Chen is Founding Partner of Huangpu River Capital (Cross Border Growth Fund), Venture Partner of Ceyuan Ventures (one of the largest VC funds in China), and Venture Partner of Vitruvian Partners (one of the largest Tech PE funds in Europe). Richard Chen specializes in investing in top Western TMT companies and help them scale in China and round the world.
CEO @Decode Media. FrenchWeb.fr The source for Internet news, startups, and tech trends in France.
Founder, TWIN Global; Professor of Innovation, UofChicago & Northwestern; Author, speaker, active venture investor. BA, History; Ph.D., IE, Northwestern
Working in the field of food innovation, challenging people taste buds, promoting food diversity and cultural difference. Fascinated by technology, art design.
Digital entrepreneur and consultant Co-founder and Managing Partner, Nunatak Group (2010-present) Active seed investor and expert in strategic management
I work in public finance in East and West Africa, examining ways to avoid corruption, make government processes more efficient and focus resources on service delivery.
Start up lawyer Cofounder at 11.100.34 Law Firm
Over the past 8 years I have perfected the art of living as a digital nomad. As such, I have been able to provide service to a variety of clients while applying the principles of Design Thinking and Strategy to facilitate insights on brand, process, business and product development. I credit my organizational capacity, quick thinking and ability to gather community due to my work as a human and civil rights activist. Driven by a deep sense of justice, I strategize and work for companies and initiatives that value joy, human dignity and growth in balance with the gifts of our natural environment.
Shoma is an award winning journalist. She was managing editor of Tehelka, an investigative magazine. Currently is director of Algebra - the Arts and Ideas Club. In 2011, Newsweek picked her as one of 150 women "who shake the world".
Shri is an independent singer/songwriter, who extensively collaborates with electronic music producers from across the world. With years of training in Carnatic classical music, her outstanding ability to seamlessly blend classical and contemporary vocal elements in live and studio settings came into focus with her band Gods Robots. Shri's live set is a synthesis of global sounds, electronics and vocals meshing together to give the audience a unique sonic experience.
Siamak Hariri is a founding partner of Hariri Pontarini Architects, a 120-person practice based in Toronto. His portfolio of nationally and internationally recognized buildings has won more 60 awards including the Governor General's Medal in Architecture, and he's been celebrated as one of Canada's "artists who mattered most" by The Globe and Mail. With his partner David Pontarini, Hariri won the 2013 Royal Architectural Institute of Canada's Architectural Firm Award.
Smriti Keshari is an award-winning filmmaker, artist, and director. Her work explores under-represented perspectives and experiences outside the mainstream, which seek to inspire social change. She has a roster of highly notable projects. Keshari created the bomb alongside Eric Schlosser. the bomb is an immersive film and music experience that brings attention to the grave threat that nuclear weapons pose today. Keshari was a producer of Food Chains, a documentary that premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Festival in 2014. Narrated by Forest Whitaker and featuring commentary by Eva Longoria and Eric Schlosser, it examined the plight of migrant farm workers in the United States. The New York Times praised Food Chains, calling it “rousing...emphatic and empathetic." Keshari's work has been supported by The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation, Carnegie Corporation, Fledgling Fund, N Square, Ploughshares Fund + Compton Foundation + Panta Rhea Foundation + The Greater Houston Community Foundation + Made in NY Media Center by IFP.
Yes: A Digital Dunkirk I have been invited by Benoit to put together a slide presentation on the Future Brilliance Task Force and our successful efforts to evacuate several hundred Afghan women and their families from Afghanistan; reskill them in ICT, coding and robotics; prepare them for life in the West; and to secure asylum and flights to freedom.
Catalyzing everyting exciting between creativity, technology, innovation and venture capital. Dedicated 25+ years to #futureofcontent, past 8 with the Marche Du FIlm - Festival de Cannes, Storytek and Future Media Hubs. 10 + years in Asia, occasional horse whisperer to goverments and between the EU. Electronic musician, film producer, and volunteer emergency medic.
Fostering a Mensch Republic
Stephan is currently a fellow at Harvard University exploring ways to advance the optics of augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) headsets. Prior, Stephan conducted his PhD in nanotechnology both at ETH in Zurich and MIT in Cambridge. Throughout his career, Stephan has been a frequent and invited speaker at international scientific conferences and received among others the Willi-Studer-Prize, the ETH-medal and is supported by fellowships of the ETH-Foundation, the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Hans-Eggenberger-Foundation.
44 / Mum / / Slasheuse / // Content Writer & Editor . Project Coordinator / /// Customized Events Designer / //// Concept store Founder / ///// NIA Danse Trainer / ////// SISTER'S ACT Agency for innovative and creative solutions for meaningful communication strategies Enthusiastic, Curious, Engaged
Evolutionary behavioural scientist studying humanity, looking 2 million years back and a 1000 forward.
Tania is an acclaimed Australian soprano, award-winning social entrepreneur, creative innovation catalyst, global speaker and spiritual journeywoman. She is the Founder of Creative Universe, Creativity Australia, Creative Innovation Global, Dimension5 co-working hub, MTA Entertainment & Events, Pot-Pourri and The Song Room. Tania’s mission is to change the world, one voice at a time!
Thalia heads the award-winning female-first media and entertainment company The Front. Previously Executive Creative Director at
Open source Urbanist and technology futurist founder of the Machines Room Impact Fablab, Clear Village regeneration agency and the Linewharf cultural innovation complex in London. CGI fellow, WEF expert on future of cities and working with MIT Fabcity, NASA Innovation 4.4
Thomas Landrain is a researcher in synthetic biology who has become an entrepreneur to build ecosystems facilitating open, inclusive and collaborative science and innovation, convinced that there is no monopoly on great ideas. He is Co-Founder of the Just One Giant Lab (JOGL), first research and innovation laboratory operating as a distributed, open and massive mobilisation platform for volunteer-based, IP-free task solving. JOGL helps sync humanity onto solving our most urgent and important problems using Open Science, Responsible Innovation and Continuous Learning. Thomas also co-founded and directed for 6 years La Paillasse in Paris, one of the largest open community labs in the world providing ressources and opportunities to hundreds of change makers and indie scientists for free. He also co-founded and directed for 2 years PILI, a biotech startup making natural dyes using fermentation to create sustainable, renewable and scalable alternatives to petrochemical dyes in the industry. Recently Thomas has also joined the iGEM (international Genetically Engineered Machine competition) Foundation to help design and deploy new programs to explore how communities can create even more positive values and impact on the world using Synthetic Biology.
Serial entrepreneur, innovator, venture capitalist and film producer, based in Hong Kong. Working on four major projects currently: 1) GreaterBay Ventures & Advisors: an integrated investment and consulting firm, specialized on modern urban development and smart cities, focusing on the Greater Bay Area, the biggest megacity in the world in Southern China. 2) Decentralized Institute: with the mission to demystify and apply decentralization, we've launched an education and training platform for that in Asia and preparing to roll out to different cities. 3) D Colony: a world within a world, a new social network to connect people around ideas, projects, values. It's for the connections we already have, but the connections we should have. 4) DreamON: a docu-reality to make the dream of underprivileged people come true and to highlight pressing social causes. I am a proud member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers community.
Gamer. Game designer. Behavioral Economics student. Founder @ Captain Up
Challenging himself creatively and testing musical boundaries are characteristics that have defined Usher's career since he was first discovered twenty years ago on Star Search. Usher has been ranked by the Recording Industry Assn. of America as one of the best-selling artists in American music history, having sold over 65 million albums worldwide. He has won numerous awards including 8 Grammy Awards and was named the #1 Hot 100 artist of the 2000s decade. Billboard named him the second most successful artist of the 2000s decade, with his career-propelling 2004 album “Confessions” being ranked as the top solo album of the 2000s decade. Usher has attained nine Hot 100 #1 hits (all as a lead artist) and 18 Hot 100 top-10 singles. 2016 proved to be a big year for Usher not only in Music but also in Film and his philanthropic endeavors. Musically, Usher released his much anticipated 8th studio album entitled “Hard II Love” which has already spawned his 15 th N #1 single with the song “No Limit”. In Film, Usher garnered critical acclaim for his role as boxer Sugar Ray Leonard in “Hands of Stone,”. The film is a biopic of boxer Roberto Duran in which he co-starred opposite Robert DeNiro and Edgar Ramirez. Recently Usher finished his world tour entitled “The UR Experience”. Usher also completed 2 seasons as a coach on NBC's Emmy award winning hit TV show "The Voice" where he proved his top-notch coaching capability by becoming the champion of season 6. Realizing that with success comes responsibility. Usher has also proven to be a major philanthropic force. Founded in 1999, his New Look Foundation empowers youth from impoverished communities to become leaders. In recognition of his accomplishments, Usher has been honored by the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, the Trumpet Foundation, Do Something, the NAACP, and as the 2010 Ford Freedom Award Scholar. Usher's business ventures include a best-selling line of fragrances, and a business venture with RBMG (Raymond Braun Media Group).
Modern mom and Corporate Executive. AWS Head of Strategy France, Board member of Bollore Group and 2 startups. Cofounder of INSEAD Business Angels Club. Pro bono mentor. Former Orange and Accenture.
Post-reality. Minor emotions. Prose. Cannabliss.
Japan based ecosystem builder, New Zealand Edmund Hillary Fellow. Founding Board Venture Cafe @Cambridge Innovation Center Tokyo. Check out www.porrima.org and https://medium.com/pollica-2050/pollica-and-the-mediterranean-diet-bd60a91dd36f for two examples of portfolio of regenerative initiatives showing the world what is possible now....Look forward to being back together again in Avallon!
Change agent for desirable and sustainable futures. Biarritz addict and food lover Taking time, making sense, with smile and optimism, what ever what.
Internet junkie & music geek. Head of Investments @Orange Digital Investments & Orange Digital Ventures.
Yervand is an investor, advisor and tech entrepreneur based in London. He is a founding partner at Granatus Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm investing in tech startups in Europe, USA and Armenia and helping them to build engineering teams in Armenia. Yervand is also a co-founder of a digital product agency and an accelerator called Agnian, which has worked with clients like LBS, Publicis, Praemium, Mary Key, Level39 - Canary Wharf Group, and a number of start-ups helping to build digital experiences and launch new products. He has recently co-founded Artbeep.com, an online art platform with focus on bringing the best artists from emerging markets to the collectors worldwide. Yervand holds a Master in Finance with Distinction from London Business School and has degrees in math and computer science.
Co-Founder of Kano Computing, the maker of the award-winning computer kits and Kickstarter sensation, backed by Jim Breyer, Index Ventures, Saul & Robin Klein, Marc Benioff, Jim O'Neill and others.
A developer since the age of 11 when computers had 8 bits and less than 64k of memory. He has a hobby of making people look a bit silly using apps and extremely enjoys the art of talking to people. On the serious side he has a vast experience in building large scale solutions on different platforms and working with early stage companies to realise what can be done with cutting edge technologies. For the past 18 months Yosi is working on a stealth operation. Father of 4 girls and married to a PH.d which is way too smarter than I am.
Banker and investor turned entrepreneur. On a mission to democratise retail finance through the education and empowerment of consumers.
Co-Founder of The Kings Foundation, a non-profit that helps talented youth in applying to top universities globally. Social entrepreneur specializing in education management. She worked as public affairs and media relations manager for clients including the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office, Council of Europe, Polish central government authorities and the European Commission. In Boston, she worked on projects for government educational institutions across the US and helped manage the implementation of government consulting services in Europe. A graduate of University of Cambridge, École Normale Supérieure in Paris, Lancaster University and the Harvard University program in social entrepreneurship. In 2013, Zuzanna was selected as a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum. She is an MIT Technology Review Innovators under 35 Influencer for Poland. Zuzanna also runs international relations for the oldest Poland’s “Przekrój” magazine.
Dr. Amanda Parkes is a fashion technologist and biomedia designer with over 10 years of experience in interaction design, wearable technology, and fashion innovation. She is the Chief of Technology and Research at Manufacture NY, a new hybrid fashion incubator/factory/research facility in Brooklyn NY. She teaches in the Columbia Univ. Dept of Architecture and holds a PhD & M.S. in Tangible Media from the MIT Media Lab and B.S. in Product Design from Stanford University. She was named to the Business of Fashion 500 People Shaping the Global Fashion Industry and as one of ‘8 Wildest Women of Silicon Valley’ by Vanity Fair.
Andrés Roemer (July 12, 1963-) Mexican diplomat, he was the UNESCO Mexico's Ambassador in Paris, France. Until May 31st, 2016 he served as General Consul of Mexico in San Francisco, California. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy, he is also an economist and lawyer.[1] Grandson of the orchestral conductor Ernesto Roemer, he grew up in Mexico City. He has received various cultural awards and prizes, and has created and produced several television programs.[2] Roemer is honorary curator and co-founder of Ciudad de las Ideas along with Grupo Salinas,[3] an annual festival in the Mexican state of Puebla, as well as the creator of "Rethinking G20: Designing the Future" pre-G20 of 2012 G-20 Los Cabos summit in 2012, of the "Mexiam" and co-funder of the Casa de la Música de Viena en Puebla.[4] Andrés Roemer has a Ph.D. in Public Policy (1991 to 1994) from the Goldman School of Public Policy of University of California at Berkeley, where he earned the Academic Distinction for his thesis regarding water Public Policies. He earned a master's in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He specialized on Cultural Policies, Law and Economics and Evolutionary Psychology. And member of several economic, public policy and cultural associations in the United States, Mexico, Latin-America and Europe. He is also author of 16 books and 2 plays that treat diverse topics. His works are characterized for his deep analysis of non-market activities through economic analysis of law such as: happiness, art, sexuality, love, water, soccer, law, economics, crime, evolutionary psychology, government y public policy.[5][6][7][8][9][10] The San Francisco Chronicle called him a "rare public figure who deserves to be called a Renaissance man."[11] He has also won several national and international awards, highlighting the prestigious Elise and Walter A. Haas International Award[12] from the University of California at Berkeley, obtained only by great personalities such as President of Ecuador, Galo Plaza; President of Pakistan, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto; UN Commissioner, Sadako Ogata; Hans Hollein the Pritzker Architecture Prize; President of Costa Rica, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez and Yuan Tseh "YT" Lee Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Also Microsoft Corporation created the Microsoft Award "Andres Roemer" for distinction in service to the community of scholars[13] (delivered since 2006 to date in 12 countries). He also won the Promotion of Science Award in 2010 from the Nobel Prize Mario Molina and the former President of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, Arturo Menchaca, and was awarded the National Theatre Award "Emilio Carballido" as best national author for his play The Other Einstein in 2009.
After many years in advertising technology, I´m now trying to make a difference in renewable energy
Barbara is an entrepreneur and investor, passionate about nature, science and space. She is currently founder and CEO at Interstellar Lab whose mission is to design and build bioregenerative habitats for humans to live sustainably on any planet.
I develop knowledge (AI), education (higher and executive), social connections (all around), and large burnable structures in the desert (Burning Man). President of myself (strategies.ai) and free spirit.
Father, Maker, Entrepreneur
Named Forbes 30 under 30 and BBC's 100 Most Inspiring Women, Betsy has a decade of experience as an inventor, product founder and CEO. Betsy serves on the Tufts School of Nutrition Innovation Council and her company, Tiny Organics, has been chosen by Michelle Obama’s Partnerships for a Healthier America for their baby food initiative to support veggie-forward early palate development across the nation. Betsy enjoys building great brands and has invented over 100 products and counting. She advises a number of consumer product and deep data startups as well as UNICEF Wearables for Good initiative. Betsy is a keynote speaker and has spoken at Google, CES, World Economic Forum, National Retail Federation among others. Betsy is the Co-Founder of Tiny Organics, delivering toddlers their first 100 flavors direct to their door through whole, palette expanding meals. Being a vegetarian for 14 years, Betsy aims to train the palette of a generation to desire savory forward, whole real foods and most importantly providing access for all.
Serial Entrepreneur in the digital space, former sound engineer, first software startup created in 1984.
Journaliste, MagnétoProd. Ex France Europe Express, émission politique de France 3, Ex Responsable des coordinations AEFMonde.
Founder & CEO of Haut et Court, a film production company based in Paris.
Computer Girl since 2K. Digital Strategy, innovation, specialized in media TV / Internet. Chief Content Officer @AdsVark Media
Producer and partner haut et court
Caroline Guillaumin was appointed Head of Group Communication for Société Générale in January 2010 and is a member of the Group’s Executive Committee. She was previously the Head of Corporate Communication & Corporate Social Responsibility at Alcatel-Lucent (2003-2006) and has held the positions of Head of Internal & External Communication at SFR (2003-2006) and Alcatel (1999-2003). She holds a Master's degree in Political Sciences from the Université de Bordeaux I and a Master of Arts in International Relations from the University of Boston.
Clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst and family therapist. I coordinate the psychotherapy department of the Child and adolescent psychiatry at Hopital Pitié Salpetrière and work in private practice. I am interested in mental health problems having to do with societal issues ranging from "new family constellations" to "radicalism".
Twenty years as a senior reporter, founder of a free school of journalism to promote diversity and I run an media group
Innovation Strategist - #Marketing #Digital #OpenInnovation #Engagement #IoT #Digitail
Entrepreneur living in the UAE, love all things digital, negronis, burning man and scuba diving.
Mr. André Grebler heads a family owned group of companies. Mr. Grebler graduated from the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne as an Electronics Engineer and graduated in Management by the University of Geneva.
Story guy. Ran WIRED, got excited by purpose-driven founders, now invest in them and bring them together through the VOYAGERS community,
Estonian-Israeli celeb….thats all, y’all…
Co Founder of FIND.fashion - Revolutionising Fashion Discovery. Founding team @ Fits.me Rakuten & Retail Recharged; Senior positions @STYLEBOP, Poq Commerce Free spirit dancer
Author ("Unit 8200"), journalist (Haaretz), contrarian (too many examples to list)
Emma Lawton lives and works in London. She's Head of Creative at SPIXII (a pioneering chatbot led fintech startup), a Creative Consultant for the Digital Tourism Think Tank, owner/maker at online store 51Gladstone and freelance Creative Director. She also has Parkinson's and is an ambassador for both U.K. charities, regularly writing articles on the subject, telling her story at events and appearing in a tv documentary this December. She's a big fan of sequins.
Founder and CEO of Teletech International, one of the first french call center companies. Founder and Président of the European Social Label. Founder and member of the Board of the Foundation Morvan Terre de Vie Founder and President of the Nest Call Center network of south european call centers Founder and editor of Teletravail Magazine (terminated in 1996) Founder and CEO of eb-Lab (software for e-business)
I'm a digital entrepreneur, co-founder of several consumer facing services, games, apps, and chatbots. Now focused on Quiv.com trying to make a good impact.
I'm a 25-year veteran of digital media who has worked in New York, Silicon Valley and Europe. I am founder and managing partner of Atlantic Leap, a strategic consultancy that helps leading digital players to expand and grow internationally. I'm a long-time member of the UK chapter of the Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO). I was an early employee of Excite.com and later was managing director of Excite Europe. I also worked on some of the first online ventures for Newsday and News Corporation in the 1980s and 1990s. I co-founded SubHub, an early membership website platform. I am a graduate of ITP, the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. I'm a dual US/UK citizen, married father of two boys, and currently live in Bath, England.
Fabrice Cavarretta is a Professor of Management at ESSEC Business School where he studies managerial paradigms, in particular in leadership and entrepreneurship contexts.
The Camp
CEO 18M.io, conseil marketing, technologies et sujets de société.
Making easy random Kinnernet-style conversations available Worldwide, for everyone and the next person
I am Kinnernet ‘s photographer :) I am your photographer www.geraldinearesteanu.com
Guido van Nispen is CEO & Co-Founder of Insiber.com, the independent one-stop SaaS support platform empowering SME cybersafety and insurance. Guido has many years of executive management, advisory and supervisory experience in the technology, finance, and media sectors
Guillaume spent years developing strategies, prospective and disruptive innovations in order to facilitate change across a wide variety of fields (health, mobility, collaborative economy, new value chains using IoT…). Recently, he joined thecamp (www.thecamp.fr) in order to develop open innovation encompasses a wide spectrum of approaches, going from made-to-measure programs using specific methodologies (inclusive design thinking / design fiction / creative problem-solving / prototyping, etc.) to collaborative strategies on large-scale general interest projects and challenges.
Innovating in neuro-technology, we are gathering artists, neuro-scientists, game designers and psychologists to design the next Digital Therapeutics and support humans in facing the biggest challenges.
Lecturer at the School of Economic Warfare; Advisor to PwC on Cyberdefense. Fiction writer
Maxillofacial Surgeon, Professor at Collège de Médecine des Hôpitaux de Paris
Talk to me about biohacking, novel human-computer interfaces (Yes - reading the mind is fascinating), juicy exit stories
As an artist, I love capturing with a few essential lines people' emotions and motions. As a digital person, I love creating smart products for real humans.
Ian Rogers joined LVMH as Group Chief Digital Officer in October 2015. As CDO Ian is responsible for building group-level digital excellence and accelerating digital transformation for LVMH maisons. A graduate in computer science from Indiana University, Ian Rogers started his career in 1993 as webmaster successively for Beastie Boys and at Winamp (sold to AOL in 1999). In 2001 he founded Mediacode, which was sold to Yahoo! in 2003 where he became VP and General Manager, Music. Ian joined Beats Music as CEO in 2013 and Apple as Senior Director after their acquisition of Beats. Ian contributed to the 2015 launch of Apple Music including Beats1, their digital streaming channel.
Cofounder of digital media Worldcrunch
Entrepreneur, programmer, social hacker, performer, a clown
Entrepreneur and blogger, trying to understand how communities try to exist then scale. Tried to go further through various ventures, currntly exploring blockchain's potential
Directeur de la rédaction de Forbes France, Jean Rognetta est président de PMEfinance. Créé en 2010, ce « laboratoire d’idées pragmatiques » consacré au financement des entreprises est notamment à l’origine du PEA-PME, mais aussi de plusieurs autres mesures économiques, comme la faculté d’amortir le corporate venture et, pour une large part, la libéralisation du crowdfunding en France. Ses clubs Europe Entrepreneurs sont présents dans plusieurs régions françaises ainsi qu’à l’international. Ancien délégué général de l’association CroissancePlus, Jean continue avec Forbes une carrière de journaliste commencée en 1997 au sein du groupe Vivendi, comme responsable des lettres @Jour, avec un rôle d’observateur privilégié du début de la révolution numérique. De 2000 à 2016 il a ensuite collaboré régulièrement au groupe Les Echos, en gardant son orientation vers les technologies mais en se spécialisant dans le financement de l’innovation et des entreprises sur Capital Finance. Binational franco-italien, économiste de formation, Jean a co-écrit plusieurs livres, dont récemment La République des Réseaux (Fayard). |
The editorial director of Forbes France Jean Rognetta is the founder and president of the primary French think tank on the financing of independent businesses, SMEfinance.fr/. Its Europe Entrepreneurs clubs are active in various countries, including the US and China. Also a former General Delegate of CroissancePlus, an entrepreneurs group in Paris, Jean started his career in journalism in 1997 with Vivendi, as the editor of the professional letters @Jour. From 2000 to 2016 he wrote for Les Echos and Capital Finance, respectively France’s leading financial daily and private equity newsletter. An early observer and analyst of the digital revolution, he has written or co-authored several books, most recently La République des Réseaux (Fayard). |
For over 17 years, Jennifer Ok has been connecting influential thinkers and devising creative business development solutions. Her experience spans the startup, corporate investment and digital sectors, and she specializes in building multidisciplinary teams at global scale and producing story-building industry forums. Jennifer leverages her extensive network of cross-industry relationships as Chief Marketing Officer and Global Head of Venture Development at BCG Digital Ventures. In this role, she is responsible for commercializing ventures for marketing and PR across the firm’s core industries. Jennifer also oversees the firm’s global communications and marketing strategies, with a particular focus on brand reputation, corporate development and global initiatives. During her tenure at BCG Digital Ventures, Jennifer has built a team of veteran PR, marketing and communications specialists across three continents and is continually forming new platforms to connect leaders in the corporate investment and incubation sector.
A veteran technology journalist and media entrepreneur who has worked full-time, at various points in her career, for The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, International Herald Tribune, Red Herring, Businessweek, and Les Echos. Jennifer served as a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer judge for 20 years and was twice voted one of the 50 most inspiring women in technology in Europe. She is currently the founder and editor-in-chief of The Innovator (www.theinnovator.news)
Social and cultural innovation -passionate with art and creation Before : Manager www.womens-forum.com, Co-founder : Young Mediterranean Leaders, Warner, Imagination Factory Now : Founder www.engage.world : stage direction and singing : www.pointdebascule.org and some other things... Make Desirable Futures Happen
Joanna runs JG Consulting, a strategic marketing boutique consultancy that advises companies on how to build their international footprint. She works with the management teams of Fortune 1000 companies to develop their World Economic Forum engagement strategy and to map key issues relevant to each company and executives. In 2017 she launched and ran for 3 years Transform.AI, a by invitation only conference in Europe focused on the business implications of artificial intelligence. Prior to starting JG Consulting, she served as director of Enterprise Strategy at Salesforce and prior to that, was head of the Information Technology Industry at the World Economic Forum.
EVERYTHING IS INTERCONNECTED "As a nomadic spirit I navigate from universe to universe I am enriched by travels and meetings what I do is not a job it's an endless search, it's looking for the beautiful in the sense noble of the term, it's sharing my vision that everything is interconnected, there is no limit..." Http://www.Judithdarmont.com
A results-oriented conscious business leader with more than 20 years experience in Silicon Valley, US and France. 10 years as a digital Start Up entrepreneur and 10 years working for Fortune 500 companies among these corporations: Carrefour, L’Oréal, Société Générale, and Estee Lauder, where I served as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Digital Officer. I am also Board Member of Science and Non-Duality, and a Kundalini Yoga Meditation teacher. And most of all a blessed mother.
ORANGE - VP Orange Valley
Passion for life
Contrarian, power hippie, who enjoys leaning outside the system. Believer in self-management. X PRIZE designer. MacArthur Open Badger. Professional teller of the future of learning and work. Founder. Consultant. Burner. Medium blogger @YourHireSelf. Let’s meditate over it.
Chief Impact Office at Contensquare and former Director of La French Tech
A serial entrepreneur and Internet pioneer, Katz is CEO & Founder of Kiely & Co., a Transformation Agency that supports large organisations through transformation. Its SaaS platform, BEEP, will harness the potential of people while adding billions of dollars to the bottom line.
Katz has enabled social and organisational change for nearly 20 years. Whilst the organisations who have benefited from her work span sectors and continents, what unites them is Katz Kiely’s trademark people-centred approach. She is best known for a UN transformation project that saves millions, reached millions and connected 6,500 industry leaders with 10,000 children in schools across the world. She judges for innovation awards (including SXSW), writes for b2b publications, speaks at global conferences and was recently invited to deliver a talk on BBC Radio 4. She is an invited member of Vint Cerf’s I4J Global Forum. Follow her at @katzy
Former IT & Innovation director at NY Times International, now breaking, building and creating new business models, services and products, both in media and out of media. The best bit is I get to work with large multinationals and small startups - the whole ecosystem is my playground! I'm also chairwoman of the US board of APOPO HeroRats where we blend the best of nature and tech to train rats to save lives by detecting land mines, TB and lots more using their amazing sense of smell. @daviskris10
Krystyna Winckler has been working at the Caisse des Dépôts in Paris since 2008.
Régional contact France Burning Man
Seasoned technologist entrepreneur with a passion to create startups that engage talented teams in transforming ideas into products and mind share. Limor is founder and CTO of MOV.AI, a VC funded company developing a robotics software engine. Limor also founded RoboSavvy, a company that distributes & develops robots and parts to make them (including TugBot.ai). Limor started companies in diverse areas such as Telecom Billing, Internet Security and Social Email Templating. He has been granted patents and is a regular speaker at tech events. Born in the UK, lived in Italy, USA, Israel and currently in Portugal. Served 3 years in the Israeli Army-Intelligence, studied Physics.
Maître de conférence - Littérature comparée
EURAZEO
Founder Maslow Capital Partners Co-founder Kinnernet Europe
Spent the past four years as a tech, privacy, and regulatory lawyer at Baker & McKenzie, Oxford, Berkeley and Assas Grad, next project: Le Wagon 2018.
Marius Veltman is a user experience designer and creative technologist from the Netherlands with over fifteen years of expertise in digital product and service design. Marius holds a profound knowledge of what is moving today's digital users. And has a Hypercreative, multi-faceted, one-trick pony.
Music, art, strategic foresight, futurism, innovation, leadership, future of work and humanity
Humanity is my drive. Curiosity is my process. I devote my job to make organizations better hoping it'll help make the world a better place
Seymour Projects is a non-profit organization committed to nurturing human consciousness in a world increasingly dominated by technology. We create innovative resources and frameworks that induce reflection and enable individuals to nurture meaningful connection with themselves and each other.
Journalist and writer. Two kids.
Dr. Mike North, host of Discovery/Science shows Prototype This!, In The Making, Outrageous Acts of Science, and the VR series Innovative Design; is crafting a narrative of embracing technology to create a world where people and planet thrive.
Creative and Brand executive, Ex-MTV and Person now leading the Creative, Interactive and Content team at Hopster, UK's #1 preschool learning and entertainment app. On a mission to help kids learn through the stories they love.
Nancy Fechnay is an accomplished founder, investor and mentor. Nancy is passionate about investing time and money into companies that are creating a more positive future.
French-American from Geneva. Founded FRECIOUS in 2014 to create packaged foods that are pure, fresh and naturally beneficial. Former chocolate wizard and sushi chain operator. Management consultant at heart.
Entrepreneur with a dedication to luxury fashion and lifestyle, created more than 20 companies globally. Passion for brands communication, e-commerce and new technologies. Love fashion and design
Innovation & Digital transformation leader at Air Liquide, my life is all about friendship, serendipity, cross-fertilization, jazz, the Basque Country and my little girl.
Living a Shrödinger cat life: General inspector of Finance (French Ministry of Economy), artist and writer.
COMMS 1 CSR EVP /BtoB & BtoC international companies: Retail, insurance, media, telecommunications Creation and management of commercial & corporate brands, internal and external digital and collaborative strategies, crisis and transformation program management Sustainable development strategy, Foundation creation, social business development, Open-Innovation program
Paul Benney has produced a distinctive body of work in both the U.S. and U.K. and is represented in public and private collections around the world.
@pdewost @WeAreLeonard
Pierre Haski was born in Tunis (Tunisia) in 1953. He graduated from the Centre de Formation des Journalistes in Paris. He worked as a journalist at Agence France-Presse and at the French daily Libération , notably as a correspondent in Johannesburg, Jerusalem and Beijing, as well as Foreign Editor and Deputy Editor. In 2007 he cofounded the news website Rue89.com. Currently, international affairs columnist for the magazine L’Obs.
From corporate VC to internet and hardware industry entrepreneur creating jobs is what drives me everyday
Entrepreneur and investor in deeptech. CEO at Zama, previous CEO at Snips. Investor in 50+ companies in blockchain, AI, hardware, psychedelics and medtech. PhD in AI.
Artist and Writer
Co-founder & ex-CTO Eventbrite (NYSE: EB), angel investor, venture partner with Point Nine
CEO @Decode Media. FrenchWeb.fr The source for Internet news, startups, and tech trends in France.
Founder and CEO of Blink social media agency. Early adopter, late bloomer.
15 years in Insurance specialised in Finance&Maths/Sales/Claims
Start up lawyer Cofounder at 11.100.34 Law Firm
Yes: A Digital Dunkirk I have been invited by Benoit to put together a slide presentation on the Future Brilliance Task Force and our successful efforts to evacuate several hundred Afghan women and their families from Afghanistan; reskill them in ICT, coding and robotics; prepare them for life in the West; and to secure asylum and flights to freedom.
Catalyzing everyting exciting between creativity, technology, innovation and venture capital. Dedicated 25+ years to #futureofcontent, past 8 with the Marche Du FIlm - Festival de Cannes, Storytek and Future Media Hubs. 10 + years in Asia, occasional horse whisperer to goverments and between the EU. Electronic musician, film producer, and volunteer emergency medic.
Fostering a Mensch Republic
44 / Mum / / Slasheuse / // Content Writer & Editor . Project Coordinator / /// Customized Events Designer / //// Concept store Founder / ///// NIA Danse Trainer / ////// SISTER'S ACT Agency for innovative and creative solutions for meaningful communication strategies Enthusiastic, Curious, Engaged
Evolutionary behavioural scientist studying humanity, looking 2 million years back and a 1000 forward.
Thomas Landrain is a researcher in synthetic biology who has become an entrepreneur to build ecosystems facilitating open, inclusive and collaborative science and innovation, convinced that there is no monopoly on great ideas. He is Co-Founder of the Just One Giant Lab (JOGL), first research and innovation laboratory operating as a distributed, open and massive mobilisation platform for volunteer-based, IP-free task solving. JOGL helps sync humanity onto solving our most urgent and important problems using Open Science, Responsible Innovation and Continuous Learning. Thomas also co-founded and directed for 6 years La Paillasse in Paris, one of the largest open community labs in the world providing ressources and opportunities to hundreds of change makers and indie scientists for free. He also co-founded and directed for 2 years PILI, a biotech startup making natural dyes using fermentation to create sustainable, renewable and scalable alternatives to petrochemical dyes in the industry. Recently Thomas has also joined the iGEM (international Genetically Engineered Machine competition) Foundation to help design and deploy new programs to explore how communities can create even more positive values and impact on the world using Synthetic Biology.
Modern mom and Corporate Executive. AWS Head of Strategy France, Board member of Bollore Group and 2 startups. Cofounder of INSEAD Business Angels Club. Pro bono mentor. Former Orange and Accenture.
With experience in business, lobbying and politics both in France and abroad, Valérie Hoffenberg has developed a unique network of key opinion leaders and decision makers worldwide.
In 2011, after several years in politics as former French special envoy for the Peace Process in the Middle-East appointed by President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, and 5 years elected as Representative of Paris, she decides to put aside her political career and to use her vast and unique international network both at political and economic level to create “The Connecting Leaders Club”, a global consulting compagny for CEO, institution and countries and an international event organization compagny.
Following the success of the conferences in France, she decides in 2015 to expand her activities worldwide and she opened the israeli branch of the Connecting Leaders Club with Ayelet Gurman. Together they organised the economic event of the Herzlyia conference.
Change agent for desirable and sustainable futures. Biarritz addict and food lover Taking time, making sense, with smile and optimism, what ever what.
Fascinated by the connection economy, I seek the tools that empower humans to become better humans
Banker and investor turned entrepreneur. On a mission to democratise retail finance through the education and empowerment of consumers.
Co-Founder of The Kings Foundation, a non-profit that helps talented youth in applying to top universities globally. Social entrepreneur specializing in education management. She worked as public affairs and media relations manager for clients including the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office, Council of Europe, Polish central government authorities and the European Commission. In Boston, she worked on projects for government educational institutions across the US and helped manage the implementation of government consulting services in Europe. A graduate of University of Cambridge, École Normale Supérieure in Paris, Lancaster University and the Harvard University program in social entrepreneurship. In 2013, Zuzanna was selected as a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum. She is an MIT Technology Review Innovators under 35 Influencer for Poland. Zuzanna also runs international relations for the oldest Poland’s “Przekrój” magazine.
Strategy, Innovation and Business Development Director of Reed MIDEM, organiser of international conferences and trade shows in the TV (MIP brand), Music (Midem) and real estate (MIPIM, MAPIC brands) industries. Passionate about kitesurfing, running, meditation, psychology and tech !
Albertine Meunier has been practicing so-called digital art since 1998, and is particularly inclined to use the Internet as raw material. Her works question, both critically and playfully, big online players such as Google, Twitter and Facebook. In her research and in her artworks, she attempts to reveal the invisible poetry of all things digital.
Alexa paints on people and 3D objects in a way that makes them look like a 2D painting
Following 15 years of advocating & implementing corporate transformation as a Consultant, I am now part of Air Liquide Digital Transformation Team, with the ambition to embark everyone on the exciting - though sometimes challenging - industrial digital journey.
Dr. Amanda Parkes is a fashion technologist and biomedia designer with over 10 years of experience in interaction design, wearable technology, and fashion innovation. She is the Chief of Technology and Research at Manufacture NY, a new hybrid fashion incubator/factory/research facility in Brooklyn NY. She teaches in the Columbia Univ. Dept of Architecture and holds a PhD & M.S. in Tangible Media from the MIT Media Lab and B.S. in Product Design from Stanford University. She was named to the Business of Fashion 500 People Shaping the Global Fashion Industry and as one of ‘8 Wildest Women of Silicon Valley’ by Vanity Fair.
Amiram Ben Ginigr, serves as one of the Chief Executive Officer of Taya Investment Co. Ltd. and Taya Communication Ltd. (Taya Media) and one of the Owners of those companies. Mr. Giniger attended the Executive Program of Harvard Business School and upon his return to Israel in 1992 he gave up practicing law to establish Taya Communications, which invests in media and technology companies. Among Taya Media's largest holding is United Studios of Israel, a leading TV production and facilities company. United Studios produced over 10'000 of television and has 8 studios.
Loves Food & Wine Acquired Over 1 Billion Users 4 Exits - Over $2 Billion
Committed to making a positive impact in the world and a dynamic force behind the scenes who connects people, projects and endless possibilities.
Andrés Roemer (July 12, 1963-) Mexican diplomat, he was the UNESCO Mexico's Ambassador in Paris, France. Until May 31st, 2016 he served as General Consul of Mexico in San Francisco, California. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy, he is also an economist and lawyer.[1] Grandson of the orchestral conductor Ernesto Roemer, he grew up in Mexico City. He has received various cultural awards and prizes, and has created and produced several television programs.[2] Roemer is honorary curator and co-founder of Ciudad de las Ideas along with Grupo Salinas,[3] an annual festival in the Mexican state of Puebla, as well as the creator of "Rethinking G20: Designing the Future" pre-G20 of 2012 G-20 Los Cabos summit in 2012, of the "Mexiam" and co-funder of the Casa de la Música de Viena en Puebla.[4] Andrés Roemer has a Ph.D. in Public Policy (1991 to 1994) from the Goldman School of Public Policy of University of California at Berkeley, where he earned the Academic Distinction for his thesis regarding water Public Policies. He earned a master's in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He specialized on Cultural Policies, Law and Economics and Evolutionary Psychology. And member of several economic, public policy and cultural associations in the United States, Mexico, Latin-America and Europe. He is also author of 16 books and 2 plays that treat diverse topics. His works are characterized for his deep analysis of non-market activities through economic analysis of law such as: happiness, art, sexuality, love, water, soccer, law, economics, crime, evolutionary psychology, government y public policy.[5][6][7][8][9][10] The San Francisco Chronicle called him a "rare public figure who deserves to be called a Renaissance man."[11] He has also won several national and international awards, highlighting the prestigious Elise and Walter A. Haas International Award[12] from the University of California at Berkeley, obtained only by great personalities such as President of Ecuador, Galo Plaza; President of Pakistan, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto; UN Commissioner, Sadako Ogata; Hans Hollein the Pritzker Architecture Prize; President of Costa Rica, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez and Yuan Tseh "YT" Lee Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Also Microsoft Corporation created the Microsoft Award "Andres Roemer" for distinction in service to the community of scholars[13] (delivered since 2006 to date in 12 countries). He also won the Promotion of Science Award in 2010 from the Nobel Prize Mario Molina and the former President of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, Arturo Menchaca, and was awarded the National Theatre Award "Emilio Carballido" as best national author for his play The Other Einstein in 2009.
Author of: Cult of the Amateur, Digital Vertigo and The Internet Is Not The Answer. Producer of Futurecast and host of TechcrunchTV's Keen On show
Serial Entrepreneure, Anne-Cécile Worms is the founder and CEO of Art2M, Makery, the media for labs, and the new art marketplace ArtJaws.
Since 2007, Ariane Conrad, a freelance writer, editor, and coach known as the Book Doula, has collaboratively authored seven non-fiction books, including three New York Times bestsellers. Most recently she supported Kennedy Odede and Jessica Posner with Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss and Hope in an African Slum (Ecco, 2015). More about her collaborations, interviews, presentations and other adventures is available at arianeconrad.com.
After many years in advertising technology, I´m now trying to make a difference in renewable energy
Assaf is an entrepreneur and tech executive. In 2013, he founded Superpedestrian, a company pioneering the decarbonization of transportation through machine learning and predictive networks. As CEO for over a decade, Assaf grew the company’s operations to 11 countries, leveraging its technologies across diverse industries, from commercial fleets to personal transportation. In 2003, he co-founded the MIT Senseable City Lab, which he co-directs today. The lab focuses on advancing the science and engineering of AI and analytics technologies to tackle the key challenges faced by cities, with particular emphasis on energy, transportation, and health.
Working on what comes after the Internet. Ex Mozilla, Jawbone, Massive Health, Songza, Dark Matter Physicist. Ask about octonions & language
Starting in the late 1970s, Barak perceived how personal technologies could connect individuals and organizations, putting the power of computers and networks in everyone's hands.
Neuroscientist of perception and a few other things ... I like to believe.
Angel investor and huge football fan, serial entrepreneur since 1997 - Berlin, Germany
I develop knowledge (AI), education (higher and executive), social connections (all around), and large burnable structures in the desert (Burning Man). President of myself (strategies.ai) and free spirit.
Named Forbes 30 under 30 and BBC's 100 Most Inspiring Women, Betsy has a decade of experience as an inventor, product founder and CEO. Betsy serves on the Tufts School of Nutrition Innovation Council and her company, Tiny Organics, has been chosen by Michelle Obama’s Partnerships for a Healthier America for their baby food initiative to support veggie-forward early palate development across the nation. Betsy enjoys building great brands and has invented over 100 products and counting. She advises a number of consumer product and deep data startups as well as UNICEF Wearables for Good initiative. Betsy is a keynote speaker and has spoken at Google, CES, World Economic Forum, National Retail Federation among others. Betsy is the Co-Founder of Tiny Organics, delivering toddlers their first 100 flavors direct to their door through whole, palette expanding meals. Being a vegetarian for 14 years, Betsy aims to train the palette of a generation to desire savory forward, whole real foods and most importantly providing access for all.
Billie Whitehouse is the CEO, designer and director of Wearable X. The recent winner of the Design Technology Award from Fashion Group International New York, Billie specializes in the combination of hardware, software and apparel for wearable technology products. Known for her development of Nadi X, the first smart yoga experience with guidance on the body through smart textiles. Billie is invigorating the fashion industry and transforming it into a business focused on improving the quality of our lives. Billie is an aesthetic specialist with a naturally inquisitive nature towards technology and innovation. As a garment engineer she strongly believes people should not have to look like the technology that they have grown to love and depend on. Billie’s designs are sharp, experimental, naturally confident and subtly feminine in appearance integrated with the latest technology.
Advisor to Startups, Corporates, Investors & Gov't. Venture Partner at Molten Ventures. SVB, Microsoft & PwC alum, Tech, Innovation, Europe
Brian Collins is Chief Creative Officer of COLLINS, an independent brand and experience design company in New York City and San Francisco.
Founder & CEO of Haut et Court, a film production company based in Paris.
Producer and partner haut et court
Tech enthusiast (the ideas, not always the practicalities). Partner at Brunswick, and senior advisor to some of the world's biggest global compnaies, on complex problem solving/ comms strategy - after 20 years in journalism from the Financial Times to the Economist magazine; regular chair and attendee of tech conferences. Likes connecting people.
Clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst and family therapist. I coordinate the psychotherapy department of the Child and adolescent psychiatry at Hopital Pitié Salpetrière and work in private practice. I am interested in mental health problems having to do with societal issues ranging from "new family constellations" to "radicalism".
Raconteur and genetically-inclined connector who's gone to the dogs ... literally.
WPP Fellow. Digital, data, technology and art enthusiast.
Artist, with a deep interest in slow, mindful viewing.
Innovation Strategist - #Marketing #Digital #OpenInnovation #Engagement #IoT #Digitail
She began her professional career at BNP Paribas as a banker specializing in international trade finance. Subsequently, she joined the Brand Communication and Quality Department where she was last Head of Advertising, Sponsoring, Brand Identity and Events. She is currently Head of Prospective and Brand Innovations.
Founder of RAD foundation (relations, awareness&dialogue) Board director member. Driver: exploration
Senior advisor to numerous associations, foundations, and structures of the social economy, common good and general interest
Craig Forman is an American entrepreneur, media executive, and former foreign correspondent who served as chief executive officer of The McClatchy Company. He previously worked at The Wall Street Journal. He is currently a partner at NextNews Ventures and is executive chair of The Center for News, Technology and Innovation.
Entrepreneur living in the UAE, love all things digital, negronis, burning man and scuba diving.
Dave's an inventor, dreamer and builder of all things that require fuel or electricity. He started Make Magazine with friends in the early 2000's, built some of the first IoT devices before they were called that. He is currently channeling wisdom into his latest company, NewAer, to pioneer peer to peer messaging based upon proximity. His software-based proximity platform works inside of any applications to make them environmentally aware.
Story guy. Ran WIRED, got excited by purpose-driven founders, now invest in them and bring them together through the VOYAGERS community,
As an executive private chef, I spend my week creating cuisine inspired by the seasonal harvest in the San Francisco Bay Area and Napa Valley wine region of Northern California. My daily goals focus on transforming organic meats, poultry, seafood, fruits, vegetables, and grains into pleasing meals for those who consume the work of my knives and my knowledge of fire. The sound of “yum” filling my ears is one of my greatest job rewards. Being a conduit that brings people together to share a meal is another. Sourcing the freshest and most sustainable ingredients and supporting the local economy of farmers, ranchers, fisherman and other specialty purveyors is always my priority. My cooking style is heavily influenced by my two years of full-time study at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone in the Napa Valley AVA, California.
Estonian-Israeli celeb….thats all, y’all…
Co Founder of FIND.fashion - Revolutionising Fashion Discovery. Founding team @ Fits.me Rakuten & Retail Recharged; Senior positions @STYLEBOP, Poq Commerce Free spirit dancer
Strategic HR Leader in highly innovative global companies operating in fast-pace growth and multinational business context. Passionate by digital driven business transformations, Frenchtech conquest & disrupting HR. Fond of good music, dance, theatre, French fashion & gastronomy!
Author ("Unit 8200"), journalist (Haaretz), contrarian (too many examples to list)
Founder and CEO of Teletech International, one of the first french call center companies. Founder and Président of the European Social Label. Founder and member of the Board of the Foundation Morvan Terre de Vie Founder and President of the Nest Call Center network of south european call centers Founder and editor of Teletravail Magazine (terminated in 1996) Founder and CEO of eb-Lab (software for e-business)
Emmanuelle est une serial entrepreneuse passionnée. Après des études à rallonge (Droit, Sciences Po Paris, ESSEC, Bocconi) - génération Y oblige - ; elle fonde en 2011 WoMen'Up, 1ère association mêlant les thématiques de genre et de génération. Une ambition : mettre les jeunes et notamment les hommes au coeur des politiques de mixité. En 2013 elle lance The Boson Project, cabinet de conseil engagé, qui porte et apporte au fil des missions une réponse à la question suivante : et si le capital humain était un véritable trésor et le seul levier qui vaille pour transformer de manière pérenne les organisations ? En 2014 elle met son énergie et ses convictions au service de la Marine Nationale. Devenue Enseigne de Vaisseau; elle travaille à la création de ponts entre la société civile et le monde de la mer et des marins.
Eran Wagner is a General Partner at Gemini Israel Ventures. His areas of investment focus include enterprise software, telecommunications and security; he also has a keen interest in the juncture of sensor networks, robotics and real-world applications. Eran brings to Gemini over two decades of rich entrepreneurial experience and executive knowhow having developed and scaled businesses in the hi-tech industry from the earliest stages of team building, fundraising, product definition and go-to-market to executing successful exit strategies. He sits on the boards of Gemini portfolio companies Moovit, WalkMe, Weka, Totango, WatchDox, Cloudshare, ConteXtream and Implisit. Eran holds a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from Tel Aviv University and is a serial inventor with multiple granted patents. He is a co-founder of multiple companies as well as the IEFF (www.ieff.us) in the Silicon Valley, the Israel Conference (www.theisraelconference.org) in Los Angeles and the IoT Israel Summit in Tel Aviv (www.iotisrael.co.il). He is an active fellow of the Aspen Institute as part of the Middle East Leadership Initiative and is a board member the Technoda (www.technoda.org.il).
I'm a digital entrepreneur, co-founder of several consumer facing services, games, apps, and chatbots. Now focused on Quiv.com trying to make a good impact.
Psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author Esther Perel is recognized as one of today’s most insightful and original voices on modern relationships. Fluent in nine languages, she helms a therapy practice in New York City and serves as an organizational consultant for Fortune 500 companies around the world. Her celebrated TED talks have garnered more than 40 million views and her international bestseller Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence became a global phenomenon translated into 31 languages. Her newest book is the New York Times bestseller The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity (HarperCollins). Esther is also an executive producer and host of the popular podcasts Where Should We Begin? and How’s Work? Her latest project is Where Should We Begin - A Game of Stories with Esther Perel. Learn more at EstherPerel.com or by following @EstherPerelOfficial on Instagram.
I'm a 25-year veteran of digital media who has worked in New York, Silicon Valley and Europe. I am founder and managing partner of Atlantic Leap, a strategic consultancy that helps leading digital players to expand and grow internationally. I'm a long-time member of the UK chapter of the Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO). I was an early employee of Excite.com and later was managing director of Excite Europe. I also worked on some of the first online ventures for Newsday and News Corporation in the 1980s and 1990s. I co-founded SubHub, an early membership website platform. I am a graduate of ITP, the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. I'm a dual US/UK citizen, married father of two boys, and currently live in Bath, England.
Digital strategist with focus on media and sports, freelancing as "Technology is our friend" and co-founder of Mataracan Sports Marketing.
Founder TiberiumSun, amiando, IDnow. Host Bits & Pretzels. Advisor to German Government. Angel investor in 60+ European Startups. Pilot.
exec dir @youthonomics; ceo #mYgration; philosemitic Muslim; recovered PR hack; mullet connoisseur; taking myself less & less seriously 1 day @ a time
Managing Director SEMEA at RadiumOne, in charge of developing the adtech programmatic platform towards brands, advertisers, publishers, agencies & right-holders. Frédéric started his career in foreign exchange markets at JP Morgan & Lehman Brothers. In 1999, he co-develops a price comparison start-up acquired in 2000 by LibertySurf Group-Tiscali, where he ends leading the E-Commerce, Media & Business Development portal activity til end of 2006. In February 2007, he joins Dailymotion, the largest global independent video site, as Executive VP for Sales & Marketing driving growth in the nascent then booming video advertising market. After the turnaround of the SoLoMo startup Tellmewhere/Dismoioù, he joins in November 2011 The RadiumOne Project, to increase its European footprint, from France. RadiumOne provides a Marketing Operating System for marketers that automates media buying, makes data actionable in real-time and connects brands to their next customer. RadiumOne was founded in November 2010 by serial disruptive digital marketing experts and operates across the globe.
CEO 18M.io, conseil marketing, technologies et sujets de société.
Art Designer
Gary Lauder, Managing Partner, Lauder Partners, = Silicon Valley-based VC. VC since 1985, investing in > 80 private companies. Boards: Promptu, HeyWire ,ShotSpotter, Santa Clara University's Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation, Transportation Committee of the Town of Atherton, LGI Technology Advisory Board. Henry Crown Fellow of Aspen Institute. In 1980’s, @VC firms: Wolfensohn Associates and Aetna, Jacobs & Ramo Technology Ventures. BA in International Relations from U. of Pa.; BS in Econ. from Wharton; MBA from Stanford GSB. He is a co-inventor of 15 patents, and co-creator of the Aspen Institute’s Socrates Society w/wife, Laura.
CEO of the Events Technology company TAP, and Membership Director for The Curtain. I work on socially focused innovation and the use of technology to enhance real life experiences.
Making easy random Kinnernet-style conversations available Worldwide, for everyone and the next person
I am Kinnernet ‘s photographer :) I am your photographer www.geraldinearesteanu.com
Gilles Babinet is a French multi-entrepreneur, He is the Digital Champion for France, he therefore covers digital topics for France at the European Commission.
Home-brew playable creative human-loving laugh machine
Heretic, writer & broadcaster. 30 year career in the creative, digital & education sectors. Founder of Learning Without Frontiers, Education Design Labs & The Reimagine Institute. @GrahamBM
Guido van Nispen is CEO & Co-Founder of Insiber.com, the independent one-stop SaaS support platform empowering SME cybersafety and insurance. Guido has many years of executive management, advisory and supervisory experience in the technology, finance, and media sectors
Lecturer at the School of Economic Warfare; Advisor to PwC on Cyberdefense. Fiction writer
Harald is passionate about meaning in technology, the future of exponential technologies and its opportunities for society, brands and entrepreneurs – especially in Europe. Harald is the Founder of Futur/io – the European Institute for Exponential Technologies & Desirable Futures with campus locations in Berlin, Salzburg, Venice & Paris. For MLOVE Harald created M, the MLOVE Forum, as an inspiring event series that brings together innovation leaders and startups in an inspiring format at amazing locations.
Talk to me about biohacking, novel human-computer interfaces (Yes - reading the mind is fascinating), juicy exit stories
As an artist, I love capturing with a few essential lines people' emotions and motions. As a digital person, I love creating smart products for real humans.
Cofounder of digital media Worldcrunch
Isabel Behncke (DPhil Oxford, MPhil Cambridge) is an applied primatologist who studies social behavior in animals including humans. For her PhD she followed wild bonobos in Congo researching their play behaviour. Isabel grew up at the foothills of the Andes mountains in Chile. She loves nature and wildness and culture and the arts. She is a Gruter Institute and TED Fellow, and recently Presidential advisor to Chile's government.
Entrepreneur, programmer, social hacker, performer, a clown
Jack Saul, Ph.D. is a New York State licensed psychologist and family therapist providing therapeutic services for individuals, couples, and families in Manhattan. His family systems orientation emphasizes a narrative, dialogic, and resilience based approach. Dr. Saul is the director of the International Trauma Studies Program in New York City. As a psychologist he has created a number of psychosocial programs for people facing adversity in New York City and abroad. He is known for his innovative work with families and communities that integrates testimony, healing, media, and the performance arts.
Entrepreneur and blogger, trying to understand how communities try to exist then scale. Tried to go further through various ventures, currntly exploring blockchain's potential
PhD in chemistry, ETH Zürich. G. M. paper production and printing companies Man. Consulting, McKinsey Paris, Groupe Valeur Pr. Assoc. Justice
A veteran technology journalist and media entrepreneur who has worked full-time, at various points in her career, for The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, International Herald Tribune, Red Herring, Businessweek, and Les Echos. Jennifer served as a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer judge for 20 years and was twice voted one of the 50 most inspiring women in technology in Europe. She is currently the founder and editor-in-chief of The Innovator (www.theinnovator.news)
Jeremie Kletzkine is an entrepreneur with technology expertise. Former VP at Startup Nation Central, he headed business development at Primesense (makers of Kinect, acquired by Apple), co-founded GameIS (the Israeli Video Game Industry Association), and co-founded several mobile game studios. In 2001 he founded the first semi-professional international eSport team in Israel. Jeremie also designed 7 physical board games published worldwide and sit on the board of various gaming and entertainment technology companies.
Social and cultural innovation -passionate with art and creation Before : Manager www.womens-forum.com, Co-founder : Young Mediterranean Leaders, Warner, Imagination Factory Now : Founder www.engage.world : stage direction and singing : www.pointdebascule.org and some other things... Make Desirable Futures Happen
Investor in big ideas with potential for positive impact and exponential growth. Entrepreneur. Thinker. Reader. Long term analysis on AI, New Space and other new deep tech trends.
Joanna runs JG Consulting, a strategic marketing boutique consultancy that advises companies on how to build their international footprint. She works with the management teams of Fortune 1000 companies to develop their World Economic Forum engagement strategy and to map key issues relevant to each company and executives. In 2017 she launched and ran for 3 years Transform.AI, a by invitation only conference in Europe focused on the business implications of artificial intelligence. Prior to starting JG Consulting, she served as director of Enterprise Strategy at Salesforce and prior to that, was head of the Information Technology Industry at the World Economic Forum.
Entrepreneur and technologist taking practical steps to opening the solar system to humanity by making asteroids into refueling stations.
Co-chairman of Silicon Valley-based Deloitte Center for the Edge. Before joining Deloitte, was an independent consultant, prior to that a principal at McKinsey & Company. Served as senior vice president of strategy at Atari, Inc., founder of two Silicon Valley startups. Author of The Power of Pull; and a series of best-selling business books, Net Gain, Net Worth, Out of the Box, The Only Sustainable Edge. BA from Wesleyan University, B.Phil. from Oxford University; JD and MBA from Harvard University
Chairman SinoCare, hospital chain China. Excited by Health Care and FinTech. Chairman AML Analytics
Mild mannered behavior scientist studying Influence and Adventure, author of The 2 am Principle, and in my free time I run The Influencers Dinner & Miror.
Jon Morris is the CEO/co-founder of NOWHERE & The Windmill Factory. He has helped pioneer immersive theatre, the experience economy, and the metaverse by creating award winning experiences at the intersection of art and technology that have excited audiences around the globe including collaborations with Cirque Du Soleil, NIN, Fuerzabruta, Burning Man, Red Bull, AWS, Google to name a few. linktr.ee/yojonmorris
Dedicated to strategic organization and matchmaking for business firms with a presence in the U.S., Colombia, and Israel. BHYH Group supports organizations in funding, business development and development of technology. Industry areas include Energy (Oil & Gas, Renewable), Real Estate and High Tech.
EVERYTHING IS INTERCONNECTED "As a nomadic spirit I navigate from universe to universe I am enriched by travels and meetings what I do is not a job it's an endless search, it's looking for the beautiful in the sense noble of the term, it's sharing my vision that everything is interconnected, there is no limit..." Http://www.Judithdarmont.com
A results-oriented conscious business leader with more than 20 years experience in Silicon Valley, US and France. 10 years as a digital Start Up entrepreneur and 10 years working for Fortune 500 companies among these corporations: Carrefour, L’Oréal, Société Générale, and Estee Lauder, where I served as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Digital Officer. I am also Board Member of Science and Non-Duality, and a Kundalini Yoga Meditation teacher. And most of all a blessed mother.
Passion for life
Contrarian, power hippie, who enjoys leaning outside the system. Believer in self-management. X PRIZE designer. MacArthur Open Badger. Professional teller of the future of learning and work. Founder. Consultant. Burner. Medium blogger @YourHireSelf. Let’s meditate over it.
Producer | Editor TED Conferences
Chief Impact Office at Contensquare and former Director of La French Tech
Kelly is the Senior Engagement Leader for IBM Watson where she helps IBM's top clients define and build cognitive computing solutions. Previously she launched IBM Watson's business development unit in Silicon Valley. Prior to IBM, she helped Hungarian startup, Prezi grow to 60 million subscribers as their Head of Global Communications and also started Pumble, a public relations analytics company based in Serbia. As a hobby, Kelly also conducts interviews and writes feature stories for The Olympic Club, America's oldest athletic club. http://mentalityshift.com/speaking/
Kevin has enjoyed a fun and varied career in all facets of consumer marketing. He’s led teams and developed high-impact strategies in brand management, e-commerce, advertising, product design, web development, retail marketing, philanthropy, mass customization, direct response, promotions, company culture, and more. Now, I'm developing a social good accelerator and data-driven consulting firm
Former IT & Innovation director at NY Times International, now breaking, building and creating new business models, services and products, both in media and out of media. The best bit is I get to work with large multinationals and small startups - the whole ecosystem is my playground! I'm also chairwoman of the US board of APOPO HeroRats where we blend the best of nature and tech to train rats to save lives by detecting land mines, TB and lots more using their amazing sense of smell. @daviskris10
Media and clean tech, passionate about big open data and accelerators
Edutech founder, pianist, writer, passionate about disrupting education, empowering the young to become change makers, global nomad, out-of-the-box
Régional contact France Burning Man
I connect people and ideas. Entrepreneur, author, investor @Anthemis @BRCK @RingMD @Flyability @leade.rs, board @TawiPay, swiss correspondent @WiredUK
Leetha is a strategist intrigued by the power of collaboration as a tool for social change. She serves as the president of the PopTech Institute (www.poptech.org) where she oversees a portfolio focused on the global health, environment, social justice and the future of work. Her tenure at PopTech began with the establishment of the PopTech Social Innovation and Science Fellows programs, which are dedicated to identifying and training promising innovators and scientists. Much of PopTech’s work explores the leveraging of technology and other disruptive channels to mitigate challenges confronting humanity. Leetha has a deep and diverse background in strategic development, and has advised and served on the boards of numerous organizations and agencies. She lives on a small farm in Maine.
An artist and a geek
Seasoned technologist entrepreneur with a passion to create startups that engage talented teams in transforming ideas into products and mind share. Limor is founder and CTO of MOV.AI, a VC funded company developing a robotics software engine. Limor also founded RoboSavvy, a company that distributes & develops robots and parts to make them (including TugBot.ai). Limor started companies in diverse areas such as Telecom Billing, Internet Security and Social Email Templating. He has been granted patents and is a regular speaker at tech events. Born in the UK, lived in Italy, USA, Israel and currently in Portugal. Served 3 years in the Israeli Army-Intelligence, studied Physics.
Lisa Shufro is a speaker curator, ‘dot connector" and professional nomad. The talks she produced as Managing Editor of TEDMED have generated tens of millions of views on TED.com and other platforms. She now freelances as a conference designer, with a flair for linking technical verticals in science and business to the humanities and creative pursuits. Her most recent work has spanned urban revitalization projects, rock music festivals, what's next for the big food industry, and the quest for the Next Einstein to be raised and education in Africa. When she's not travelling, she's often walking her beagle, Roscoe, in Brooklyn, NY.
Liz Bacelar is an expert on fashion and retail innovation. She is the founder of Decoded Fashion (acquired in 2013) and Flow Journeys.
Owner and creative director ‘ Urbi et Orbi ’, an audio-visual company that provides concept design, content creation and technical production to a broad range of clients. Accounts in the field of brand-experiences, audiovisual performances, stagedesign,video- and installation art, documentary and motion-graphics. Currently mainly active as a documentary-maker
Creative strategist spezialized in co-creating desirable sustainable futures
Maître de conférence - Littérature comparée
Climate speaker & activist, Promethean, business speaker, entrepreneur, sustainable futurist, agriculturist, hydro/aeroponist, teacher, and ecopreneur by profession. Practicioner of an Adaptive Lifestyle of Health and Sustainability (ALOHAS). I love family, animals, playing polo, reading, playing chess, and living ALOHAS. I have the ability to see the unseen bigger picture - “The Overview Effect”. I am optimistic seeing the world not only as it is but as it could be and I know the power of Exponential Growth and Quantum Leaps.
Founder Maslow Capital Partners Co-founder Kinnernet Europe
As the organization’s recently named first CEO, Marian oversees Burning Man’s year-round staff of 70+ employees and its annual operating budget of approximately $30 million. Marian first attended Burning Man in 1995, and in 1997 was a co-founder of the management organization that eventually became Black Rock City, LLC, which produces the Burning Man event. Throughout her leadership in the Burning Man organization, she has been the Director of Business and Communications, and also oversaw the Black Rock City Department of Public Works. She has steered the development of the Burning Man Regional Network, which is now on six continents, with more than 250 representatives in 30 countries. Marian is a founding board member of the Burning Man Project, the Black Rock Arts Foundation, and Black Rock Solar. She is currently leading the organization’s efforts to facilitate and extend the Burning Man ethos globally. Marian holds a BA in Creative Writing from Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland and an MFA in photography from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She has worked in sales and public relations, and was a project manager for a software development firm when she first arrived as a participant at Burning Man in 1995.
Currently : entrepreneurial journalist. Future : chatbot poet.
Marius Veltman is a user experience designer and creative technologist from the Netherlands with over fifteen years of expertise in digital product and service design. Marius holds a profound knowledge of what is moving today's digital users. And has a Hypercreative, multi-faceted, one-trick pony.
Expert of SaaS, marketplaces, bitcoin and mobile.
Music, art, strategic foresight, futurism, innovation, leadership, future of work and humanity
Matthew Waldman is a NYC based designer, inventor, entrepreneur and thought leader on visual linguistics, branding, industrial, UX and graphic design. Best known for his revolutionary timepieces and his brand NOOKA, promoting a philosophy of universal language is the core to his practice.
He is a passionate entrepreneur, been successfully involved in three major industries/sectors such as luxury, action sport and innovation technology. Curiosity driven and a keen observer to understand diversity in people's cultures and mindsets by the impact of new paradigms and generations shifts to strategize new paths of applications. Maurizio holds various roles and delegated in accordance with his skills and experience as CEO, Board Member, Creative Vision-Strategist, Investment Committee, Mentor, Stakeholder formation, Branding, Supervision, General Business Development. Maurizio's envision driving force is characterized by three elements that derive from his own experience, the influence of intangible values, gather likeminded communities. Convert intangible values into a tangible context. Foster a mindset and sense of belonging into a culture.
Michael Michael Breidenbrücker (born 6 January 1972) is an Austrian entrepreneur, artist and engineer. He is best known as the co-founder of Last.fm, a founder of RjDj and a partner at the venture firm Speedinvest. He has worked with musical artists such as Hans Zimmer, Imogen Heap, Air and Booka Shade. In 2011, he produced Inception The App with Christopher Nolan and Hans Zimmer, which reached number 5 in the US App Store charts.[1] Between 2000 and 2002, he headed the masters programme in interactive digital media at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication in London.[2] He studied digital art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna with Peter Weibel.[3]
Creative and Brand executive, Ex-MTV and Person now leading the Creative, Interactive and Content team at Hopster, UK's #1 preschool learning and entertainment app. On a mission to help kids learn through the stories they love.
Head of MENA, Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum MA in International Studies, University of Reading, UK; Arabic Language Certificate, Kuwait University. 2005-07, Director, American Center, US Embassy, Prague, in charge of public information programs. 2007, Public Diplomacy Specialist, US Embassy in Baghdad, responsible for relations with Iraqi media and for a number of education and cultural projects. 2007, joined the Middle East and North Africa team, World Economic Forum, as a Global Leadership Fellow; since 2011, Head of Middle East and North Africa.
Degreed in Economics and in Political Sciences, Master in Business Administration and European Financial Advisor Chartered. Currently CFO in charge of the Executive Management of the Barcelona Mobile World Capital Foundation, the entity leading the digital transformation and fostering entrepreneur ecosystem in Barcelona. My career began in the financial sector where I acquired deep experience in private wealth management, portfolio investment and corporate international tax planning. After some years working in Andorra as Executive Director of a wealth company, moved to Barcelona and start up my own professional services firm on corporate finance, finance advisory and strategy consulting. More than 10 years as tutor and mentor of entrepreneurship programmes of the ESADE Entrepreneurship Institute.
Moran Cerf is a professor of neuroscience and business at the Kellogg School of Management.. Additionally, he is the Alfred P. Sloan screenwriting Professor at the American Film Institute. Prior to his academic career, professor Cerf worked as a hacker for nearly a decade, breaking into leading financial and government institutes to test and improve their security. His hacking background has led him to later pursue non-traditional ways to investigate the brain, using methods and techniques that benefit from heavy computational skills and novel research tools. Notably, he has been working with patients undergoing brain-surgery where he studies behavior, emotion, decision making and dreams by directly recording the activity of individual neurons using electrodes implanted in the patients' brain. He holds multiple patents and his work has been published in wide-circulation academic journals such as Nature, as well as popular science journals such as Scientific American Mind, Wired, New Scientist and more. Additionally, his work has been portrayed in numerous media outlets such as Time, CNN, BBC, Bloomberg, NPR, MSNBC and dozens of others. He has been featured in venues such as the Venice Art Biennial and China’s Art, Science and Technology conference, and has contributed to magazines such as Forbes, The Atlantic, Inc. and others. Professor Cerf has had short-lived careers as a furniture-designer, a pilot, a radio host, and a filmmaker, and he has served on the boards of pharmaceutical, telecom and fashion companies. He is a multiple-times national story-telling champion (’The Moth’), and his public talks at TED, Google Zeitgeist, PopTech, DLD and others have received millions of views and a large following. In addition to his academic career, professor Cerf is a science consultant for various Hollywood films and TV shows ('Bull', ‘Limitless’, ‘Falling Water’, and more). Recently, he was named one of the "40 leading professors below 40”. Most importantly, he is right handed.
New Space Business Development. Know to light a bonfire with one match. Love the Kinnernet family.
Nancy is Managing Partner at IXDS, Germany's leading design studio with a focus on connected hardware services. She was recognized as one of the "100 Women of the Future" by Deutschland – Land der Ideen, and chosen (together with Prof. Reto Wettach) as one of the "15 Thought Leaders & Innovators 2015" in Germany by WIRED magazine. She regularly takes on guest professorships and speaker engagements, mentors startups and founders and is very active in the service design community. Before joining IXDS in 2012 she established Fjord's German studio in 2007, grew it to a team of 50 in her role as MD and then took on a Group Director role to build Fjord's global Service Design Academy.
Nusrat is a pioneering media executive, strategic advisor, and filmmaker. He worked at MTV for 20 years and founded MTV World, Viacom’s visionary global division. He is the creator of the award-winning “Rebel Music” and “The Music Experiment,” MTV’s first transmedia live music series. Nusrat was honored by President Barack Obama for his work and called “a sage when it comes to music and pop culture” by MTV founder Tom Freston. His new documentary, “An American Prayer,” recently premiered at the Black Nights Tallinn Film Festival, and will be released in 2022.
Senior Market Development Manager at OpenMarket. Public speaker, board member, journalist, composer, DJ, top five UK marketer (LinkedIn).
Innovation & Digital transformation leader at Air Liquide, my life is all about friendship, serendipity, cross-fertilization, jazz, the Basque Country and my little girl.
Living a Shrödinger cat life: General inspector of Finance (French Ministry of Economy), artist and writer.
COMMS 1 CSR EVP /BtoB & BtoC international companies: Retail, insurance, media, telecommunications Creation and management of commercial & corporate brands, internal and external digital and collaborative strategies, crisis and transformation program management Sustainable development strategy, Foundation creation, social business development, Open-Innovation program
Patrycja Slawuta is Poland-born, New York City-based behavioral scientist. Patrycja stands for the upgrading of humanity. She believes we stand at a paramount period in history that is ripe for rewiring and reprogramming, at a species level. After a successful academic career, Patrycja founded SelfHackathon, a boutique consultancy that uses cutting edge scientific research for business innovation. With a network of 50+ scientists and domain experts, SelfHackathon helps high performing individuals, teams and companies hack, rewire and upgrade themselves. Their clients include some of the most exciting Silicon Valley startups as well as Fortune 50 enterprises. Her latest initiative is called PsychTech, the seamless fusion of psychology and technology to enhance and accelerate performance and results. As an expert on the complexity, nonlinearity and the messiness of the human nature, Patrycja lectures globally and works with some of the most exciting and disruptive businesses in the world. In her free time she runs marathons, reads scientific articles and meditates. In that particular order.
Paul Benney has produced a distinctive body of work in both the U.S. and U.K. and is represented in public and private collections around the world.
Henrietta is an alumna of Singularity University's Global Solutions Program and a firm believer that positive change starts from individuals. PHK is the Co-founder & CEO of Carbo Culture, making high-value carbon products while sequestering CO2. She's a board member of mehackit which she co-founded and Yeint (YLEPS Helsinki Omx). A Finnish sea scout captain, outdoors person, yogi.
Pierre Etienne Franc, VP advanced Business and Technologies at Air Liquide, the guy who tries to build bridges between today and tomorrow, public and private, politics and business, dreams and realities....
I belong to a family of Pioneers in Chile. On the 70’s my Grandfather founded CODELCO (the biggest Chilean state owned Copper mining Company). On the 80’s, my Father lead the proyect of the “Tree of Knowledge” with the world famous biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela. My sister, PhD. Isabel Behncke study the origin of play & lughter in Chimpanzees Bonobos in the wild Congo, supported by Oxford University, where I work as her research assistant for 6 month in the Jungle of Congo and colaborate with the software visualizations of social network analysis. As this ilussion of “Individual Ragnar Behncke” I create a new method of measure social interaction in Schools using high-tech. Then, I collaborate with Chilean Ministery of Education on the construction of a bridge between Research of Play Behavior and the importance of Play in Schools in nationwide, creating books, documentaries and Public Policies in Education. Since my 30’s I jump to entrepeneurship world to innovate in technologies for self-awarness and auto-organization (inspired on Cybersyn Proyect, Fernando Flores & Staffor Beer), creating an amazing bridge between cutting edge technology, education in adults and Organizational Development: Socialmap
Entrepreneur and investor in deeptech. CEO at Zama, previous CEO at Snips. Investor in 50+ companies in blockchain, AI, hardware, psychedelics and medtech. PhD in AI.
Clinical psychotherapist and counsellor focusing on early intervention with children & adolescents, & their families http://psykofa.com
Artist and Writer
Co-founder & ex-CTO Eventbrite (NYSE: EB), angel investor, venture partner with Point Nine
Richard Chen is Founding Partner of Huangpu River Capital (Cross Border Growth Fund), Venture Partner of Ceyuan Ventures (one of the largest VC funds in China), and Venture Partner of Vitruvian Partners (one of the largest Tech PE funds in Europe). Richard Chen specializes in investing in top Western TMT companies and help them scale in China and round the world.
CEO @Decode Media. FrenchWeb.fr The source for Internet news, startups, and tech trends in France.
Founder and CEO of Verisart, Blockchain application for art certification and verification
Rohan Silva is the co-founder of Second Home, the world's leading creative accelerator. Rohan was previously Senior Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister, where he worked across all areas of policy, but was particularly passionate about enterprise, innovation and technology. He was responsible for developing key policies to improve the environment for enterprise in the UK, such as the Entrepreneur Visa, Entrepreneur Relief, angel investment tax breaks, and the Government's Open Data agenda. In addition, Rohan created the Government's Tech City initiative, which supports the growth of the technology cluster in East London
Former Consul general of France in San Francisco, crossed the Rubicon to join the entrepreneurial community
7 x Grammy Nominated, 2 x Grammy Award Winner Composer/Vocal Percussion Virtuoso Beatbox Icon
Ruby Wax began her acting career with the Royal Shakespeare Company and went on to write and perform in her own hugely popular television programmes for the BBC and Channel 4. In recent years, Ruby has turned her attention to the study of psychotherapy and neuroscience, receiving her Master’s degree in Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy from Oxford University. She is the author of the best-selling book Sane New World. Described as a guide to saner living, Ruby explains how our minds can jeopardize our sanity and that to break the cycle, we need to understand how our brains work, rewire our thinking and find calm in a frenetic world. Her show of the same name, combines neuroscience, mindfulness and comedy, helping audiences to become the masters, not the slaves of their minds. She presented her TedTalk at TedGlobal 2012 “What’s So Funny about Mental Illness?” and was recently awarded an OBE for services to mental health. Ruby latest book, “A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled” is an outrageously witty, smart and accessible guide for using mindfulness to combat stress.
Digital entrepreneur and consultant Co-founder and Managing Partner, Nunatak Group (2010-present) Active seed investor and expert in strategic management
Founder and CEO of Blink social media agency. Early adopter, late bloomer.
Digital strategic and creative director
Sarah Hinawi is the co-founder and director of Purpl -- is a small business incubator that focuses on the person rather than the business. Her 20-year career in education and human development has been driven by a desire to help others find and develop ownership and self-direction. Her latest work examines what a new model of leadership development looks like in the gig economy and how fostering this model (both before and after entering the workforce) can address overwhelming and increasing issues of isolation and disengagement.
Start up lawyer Cofounder at 11.100.34 Law Firm
Founder and CEO of Youplus, a Consumer Lifestyle-Sponsoring Platform.
Yes: A Digital Dunkirk I have been invited by Benoit to put together a slide presentation on the Future Brilliance Task Force and our successful efforts to evacuate several hundred Afghan women and their families from Afghanistan; reskill them in ICT, coding and robotics; prepare them for life in the West; and to secure asylum and flights to freedom.
Catalyzing everyting exciting between creativity, technology, innovation and venture capital. Dedicated 25+ years to #futureofcontent, past 8 with the Marche Du FIlm - Festival de Cannes, Storytek and Future Media Hubs. 10 + years in Asia, occasional horse whisperer to goverments and between the EU. Electronic musician, film producer, and volunteer emergency medic.
Fostering a Mensch Republic
44 / Mum / / Slasheuse / // Content Writer & Editor . Project Coordinator / /// Customized Events Designer / //// Concept store Founder / ///// NIA Danse Trainer / ////// SISTER'S ACT Agency for innovative and creative solutions for meaningful communication strategies Enthusiastic, Curious, Engaged
I am a product girl at heart, having worked on various products i am now working for Clue, a cycle tracking app that helps people all round the world understanding female health. Super excited about the power of information and consciousness.
Stephie Knopel is the Co-Founder & CEO of PersonalHeroes. This is her 2nd venture: she previously founded Elaaastic, an innovation lab in Tel Aviv and was recently chosen as one of the top 100 young leaders in Chile. During her prior 12 years as a Creative Leader in Advertising, Stephie became a coolhunter expert, leading brands such as Adidas, BMW & AIG with forward thinking and disruption at TBWA and Grey. Born in Valdivia, Chile, she's lived in Barcelona, Tel Aviv and San Francisco. Art, design & dog lover. Stephie is dedicating her life to bring science to the conversation of kindness, so every human being will never leave this world not knowing what’s his positive impact legacy.
Evolutionary behavioural scientist studying humanity, looking 2 million years back and a 1000 forward.
Multimedia Artist with a particular interest in Video Projection
Ex investment banker, I'm now developing Havas innovation practices in the US, based in Los Angeles. A specialist of nothing but interested in everything. A big fan of Isaac Asimov AI-based sci-fi showing how everything is a complex dynamic equation mixed of short term trends and long term change vectors.
Thomas Landrain is a researcher in synthetic biology who has become an entrepreneur to build ecosystems facilitating open, inclusive and collaborative science and innovation, convinced that there is no monopoly on great ideas. He is Co-Founder of the Just One Giant Lab (JOGL), first research and innovation laboratory operating as a distributed, open and massive mobilisation platform for volunteer-based, IP-free task solving. JOGL helps sync humanity onto solving our most urgent and important problems using Open Science, Responsible Innovation and Continuous Learning. Thomas also co-founded and directed for 6 years La Paillasse in Paris, one of the largest open community labs in the world providing ressources and opportunities to hundreds of change makers and indie scientists for free. He also co-founded and directed for 2 years PILI, a biotech startup making natural dyes using fermentation to create sustainable, renewable and scalable alternatives to petrochemical dyes in the industry. Recently Thomas has also joined the iGEM (international Genetically Engineered Machine competition) Foundation to help design and deploy new programs to explore how communities can create even more positive values and impact on the world using Synthetic Biology.
Brand strategist and digital creative with +30 years proven track record as Consultant, Expert in Business Transformation, Digital & Innovation, Omnichannel Marketing, Advertising, Events and holistic Customer Experience Management.
Former Digital & Innovations chief at Lufthansa, founder of the FlyingLab. As former social media trailblazer, survivor of shitstorms and ash clouds over Europe, crisis team member in the Germanwings crash. Former jury member of the German Marketing Award. Followed his entrepreneurial calling while transforming his curious soul from digital pioneer to digital advisor, coach & catalyst. Now, entrepreneur (e.g. computer vision in aviation) and happily interim manager for burning fires. Love for lecturing around business model innovation, new tech & desirable futures. EV enthusiast, gadget geek and secretly proud dad of two tough girls. Preferring good questions over good answers.
Gamer. Game designer. Behavioral Economics student. Founder @ Captain Up
Post-reality. Minor emotions. Prose. Cannabliss.
Change agent for desirable and sustainable futures. Biarritz addict and food lover Taking time, making sense, with smile and optimism, what ever what.
Project Manager at Tel-Aviv municipality and Game Design Lecturer / Educational Consultant
Founder of Funtactix, a world leading developer of games based on Hollywood movies like Mission Impossible, Hunger Games etc'.
Innovation passionate & maker movement enthusiast @ Air Liquide i-Lab I get excited about art, learning all kind or things, running & cookies.
A developer since the age of 11 when computers had 8 bits and less than 64k of memory. He has a hobby of making people look a bit silly using apps and extremely enjoys the art of talking to people. On the serious side he has a vast experience in building large scale solutions on different platforms and working with early stage companies to realise what can be done with cutting edge technologies. For the past 18 months Yosi is working on a stealth operation. Father of 4 girls and married to a PH.d which is way too smarter than I am.
Banker and investor turned entrepreneur. On a mission to democratise retail finance through the education and empowerment of consumers.
XYO - CEO
Co-Founder of The Kings Foundation, a non-profit that helps talented youth in applying to top universities globally. Social entrepreneur specializing in education management. She worked as public affairs and media relations manager for clients including the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office, Council of Europe, Polish central government authorities and the European Commission. In Boston, she worked on projects for government educational institutions across the US and helped manage the implementation of government consulting services in Europe. A graduate of University of Cambridge, École Normale Supérieure in Paris, Lancaster University and the Harvard University program in social entrepreneurship. In 2013, Zuzanna was selected as a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum. She is an MIT Technology Review Innovators under 35 Influencer for Poland. Zuzanna also runs international relations for the oldest Poland’s “Przekrój” magazine.
Strategy, Innovation and Business Development Director of Reed MIDEM, organiser of international conferences and trade shows in the TV (MIP brand), Music (Midem) and real estate (MIPIM, MAPIC brands) industries. Passionate about kitesurfing, running, meditation, psychology and tech !
Director of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at @MWC_Barcelona and Director of @4YFN_MWC Math Digital Passion
Alexa paints on people and 3D objects in a way that makes them look like a 2D painting
International entrepreneur, board member of Cyprus Development Bank. Lector in several universities. Former International Master of Rhythmic Gymnastic.
Loves Food & Wine Acquired Over 1 Billion Users 4 Exits - Over $2 Billion
Committed to making a positive impact in the world and a dynamic force behind the scenes who connects people, projects and endless possibilities.
Obsessed w/the way we learn. Love helping others find their sense of belonging + community into rituals,
Program manager at Orange Fab Israel, which is a 3-month accelerator program searching for Israeli based startups with existing products who are looking for growth and distribution opportunities.
Passionate about technology, security and identity (of course), food, wine, opera and ski, not necessarily in this order. Previous lives: IT project manager for Telmex in Mexico, IT services business unit at Equant, EVP Mobile Services for Orange, Director General of GSMA, the global association of mobile operators, CEO of Morpho. Graduate of Ecole Normale Supérieure (mathematics), telecommunications engineering degree, PhD in computer science. Currently also a member of the Boards of Directors of Capgemini and Edenred.
Entrepreneur in different countries (India/China/Italy...).
Head of digital news development at l'Obs - ex- Citizenside ex TV reporter at LCI.
Research in neurosciences (pervasive developmental disorders such as autism). Phenomenology, neuroscience and education.
Neuroscientist of perception and a few other things ... I like to believe.
I develop knowledge (AI), education (higher and executive), social connections (all around), and large burnable structures in the desert (Burning Man). President of myself (strategies.ai) and free spirit.
CEO of a make-up company, manager of a young SME in smart grid business, and private equity investor.
Deputy MD, Ipsos Connect, a global specialized business to coordinate Ipsos’ services in the domains of Brand Communication, Advertising and Media.
Founder & captain of Balmoral Active, which is promoting & facilitating conscious leadership + innovative new Business schemes for Media brands.
Journaliste, MagnétoProd. Ex France Europe Express, émission politique de France 3, Ex Responsable des coordinations AEFMonde.
Founder & CEO of Haut et Court, a film production company based in Paris.
Producer and partner haut et court
Tech enthusiast (the ideas, not always the practicalities). Partner at Brunswick, and senior advisor to some of the world's biggest global compnaies, on complex problem solving/ comms strategy - after 20 years in journalism from the Financial Times to the Economist magazine; regular chair and attendee of tech conferences. Likes connecting people.
Busy changing the world #WomeninTech #techforgood #localcommunities #startup #AlgorithmDiscrimination #civictech @siliconbeach #AI #womendriven @mixrsocial
Twenty years as a senior reporter, founder of a free school of journalism to promote diversity and I run an media group
Expert in climate science popularization, CEO of The Shift Project, Geek, Sex addict and Wine lover. Inspiration, willingness, patience
Chris is the Founder and CEO of a stealth space start-up and was the former CTO of NASA where he co-founded OpenStack, the largest and fastest growing open source project in history. Kemp has been recognized in the 2014 CNBC Disruptor 50 list, the Silicon Valley Business Journal "40 under 40," and received the prestigious "Federal 100" award for his service at NASA. Entrepreneur Space Pioneer
Innovation Strategist - #Marketing #Digital #OpenInnovation #Engagement #IoT #Digitail
Craig Forman is an American entrepreneur, media executive, and former foreign correspondent who served as chief executive officer of The McClatchy Company. He previously worked at The Wall Street Journal. He is currently a partner at NextNews Ventures and is executive chair of The Center for News, Technology and Innovation.
Dan Feld is leading Google's Developer Relations Ecosystem activities in the US. Before that, Dan served as the Head of Enterprise Solutions for Google Cloud Platform and as the Regional Sales Manager, EEMEA for Amazon.com, responsible for helping customers and partners take advantage of on-demand technology infrastructure. Dan has more than 20 years of business and IT experience around advanced technologies, business and IT Infrastructures. Dan has built and led global Sales, Business Development and IT teams for public traded companies such as Google (GOOG), Amazon.com (AMZN), Clicksoftware (CKSW), Creo (Creo) and Scitex (SCIX) and has worked on leading edge IT projects such as applying open source technologies within global corporate environments. Dan has an MBA from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Engage with People
Daniel S. Recanati is the Founder and CEO of Rhodium, a private investment firm whose mission is to identify the most promising entrepreneurs and help them build thriving companies. Rhodium focuses on high growth and cutting-edge opportunities in the fields of Internet, new-media, mobile, and new technologies in general. Rhodium supports entrepreneurs and strengthens their ventures with its resources: funding, broad management expertise, and a valuable and extensive network of business contacts around the globe. Rhodium vision is to partner with talented entrepreneurs to turn their ideas into industry-leading companies that will make an impact on our world. Looking to take an active role in its portfolio companies, Rhodium strategically invests in a number of promising startups each year and creates the optimal environment for them to successfully transform into world-class business ventures. Rhodium's specialties include Internet, new media, and mobile. More information can be found at www.rhodium.co.il. Daniel S. Recanati is involved in many community organizations such as The Israel National Museum of Science Technology and Space (MadaTech), The Yahel Foundation and Apple Seeds Academy (Tapuah) - The Israeli Society for the Advancement of the Information Age.
Entrepreneur living in the UAE, love all things digital, negronis, burning man and scuba diving.
Ironically - given I design structures that enclose people - I constantly seek the outdoors. I have an entrepreneurial spirit and too many balls in the air at once. I've finally stopped feeling bad about this. I also finally stopped expecting more than 4 hours of sleep a night. I've launched 4 companies, 2 in design and 2 in technology. I might have ADD but probably just need to do more yoga and meditation. Given I can't know for sure if there's any existence after this life, I'd hate to think I wasted this one -- I like to say yes to things, especially experiences. And I like people who make me laugh, think, dream and explore.
Dave's an inventor, dreamer and builder of all things that require fuel or electricity. He started Make Magazine with friends in the early 2000's, built some of the first IoT devices before they were called that. He is currently channeling wisdom into his latest company, NewAer, to pioneer peer to peer messaging based upon proximity. His software-based proximity platform works inside of any applications to make them environmentally aware.
Story guy. Ran WIRED, got excited by purpose-driven founders, now invest in them and bring them together through the VOYAGERS community,
Debbie: a humanoid robot that fights ignorance, pseudoscience and fashion disasters. Designed to be hyperactive and funny. PHYSICS, LOGIC, DANCE
Raveneous reader and geek woman / love meeting and sharing with new people
I have extensive experience in all aspects of retail strategy and operations, in environment from start ups to large corporations. I have started my career working on strategic initiatives in London and Paris either as a consultant for Braxton / Deloitte or internally for PPR / Kering and Fnac. I then joined Franprix, a leading French grocery store as Deputy CEO. I am now based in NY and have been running the US activity of Bath Bazaar, a French high quality home furnishing company, and consulting for start-ups (in the food and beverage, tech and charity environment)
Dirk Schart heads the corporate communications and marketing department at technology company RE'FLEKT in Munich. As a blogger and author, he writes about digital technology, wearables and interactive media. He is currently writing a book about Augmented Reality that will be released in July 2015. In lectures and workshops Dirk Schart shares his knowledge on Augmented and Virtual Reality, wearables and digital marketing. He studied communications science, marketing and business administration and was in 2014 awarded with the Corporate Media Award Digital Marketing Technologist
Air Liquide - communication Director
Managing Director of Ipsos in France. Experienced in marketing, media, customer experience. Curious, curious, curious
Founder and CEO of Teletech International, one of the first french call center companies. Founder and Président of the European Social Label. Founder and member of the Board of the Foundation Morvan Terre de Vie Founder and President of the Nest Call Center network of south european call centers Founder and editor of Teletravail Magazine (terminated in 1996) Founder and CEO of eb-Lab (software for e-business)
Art & science behind collective intelligence.
Tech and content marketer
Early stage tech VC based in London.
artists - http://www.eyalgever.com/
I speak, write & film. Formats may change, but not the intent: I work on the end of the world as we know it and what may come next. I questions the power of finance, technology and mediocrity on our lives. I wonder about our consents. MEETING SNOWDEN is my most recent work. I am preparing a book on the life and death of Internet activist Aaron Swartz.
co-founder SynLab - education innovator
After 15 years covering ICT in SF Bay Area I did a world tour of innovation (45 cities, 32 countries) & I am preparing a world tour of smart cities
Managing Director SEMEA at RadiumOne, in charge of developing the adtech programmatic platform towards brands, advertisers, publishers, agencies & right-holders. Frédéric started his career in foreign exchange markets at JP Morgan & Lehman Brothers. In 1999, he co-develops a price comparison start-up acquired in 2000 by LibertySurf Group-Tiscali, where he ends leading the E-Commerce, Media & Business Development portal activity til end of 2006. In February 2007, he joins Dailymotion, the largest global independent video site, as Executive VP for Sales & Marketing driving growth in the nascent then booming video advertising market. After the turnaround of the SoLoMo startup Tellmewhere/Dismoioù, he joins in November 2011 The RadiumOne Project, to increase its European footprint, from France. RadiumOne provides a Marketing Operating System for marketers that automates media buying, makes data actionable in real-time and connects brands to their next customer. RadiumOne was founded in November 2010 by serial disruptive digital marketing experts and operates across the globe.
Managing Director at Mediolanum Asset Management Ltd. and Mediolanum International Funds Ltd., Chairman of the Board of the Irish Association of Investment Managers.
Art Designer
Teaches people how to solve problems with games and enjoy making video art.
Making easy random Kinnernet-style conversations available Worldwide, for everyone and the next person
I am Kinnernet ‘s photographer :) I am your photographer www.geraldinearesteanu.com
Gilles Babinet is a French multi-entrepreneur, He is the Digital Champion for France, he therefore covers digital topics for France at the European Commission.
Solar Impulse Managing Director
Guido van Nispen is CEO & Co-Founder of Insiber.com, the independent one-stop SaaS support platform empowering SME cybersafety and insurance. Guido has many years of executive management, advisory and supervisory experience in the technology, finance, and media sectors
Startup guy trapped in a corporate world and trying to startupize it.
Lecturer at the School of Economic Warfare; Advisor to PwC on Cyberdefense. Fiction writer
Maxillofacial Surgeon, Professor at Collège de Médecine des Hôpitaux de Paris
Harald is passionate about meaning in technology, the future of exponential technologies and its opportunities for society, brands and entrepreneurs – especially in Europe. Harald is the Founder of Futur/io – the European Institute for Exponential Technologies & Desirable Futures with campus locations in Berlin, Salzburg, Venice & Paris. For MLOVE Harald created M, the MLOVE Forum, as an inspiring event series that brings together innovation leaders and startups in an inspiring format at amazing locations.
Talk to me about biohacking, novel human-computer interfaces (Yes - reading the mind is fascinating), juicy exit stories
Independent art curator and artist consultant.
As an artist, I love capturing with a few essential lines people' emotions and motions. As a digital person, I love creating smart products for real humans.
Host and sheriff of ICUC, a conference with Yossi Vardi in Jackson, WY.
Cofounder of digital media Worldcrunch
Isabel Behncke (DPhil Oxford, MPhil Cambridge) is an applied primatologist who studies social behavior in animals including humans. For her PhD she followed wild bonobos in Congo researching their play behaviour. Isabel grew up at the foothills of the Andes mountains in Chile. She loves nature and wildness and culture and the arts. She is a Gruter Institute and TED Fellow, and recently Presidential advisor to Chile's government.
Entrepreneur, programmer, social hacker, performer, a clown
Mobile product manager.
Dr. Jack Kreindler is a physician, physiologist and entrepreneur. Since 1997, Jack has been instrumental in the design, architecture and leadership of many innovative technology ventures in health care and the social web. Whilst practicing as an Emergency Physician from 2002 to 2006, Jack’s incubator BlueOrange Technologies developed the core technology platform for enterprises and high growth start-ups. In 2007 he founded the Center for Health and Human Performance (CHHP), renowned for its work with athletes, complex cases and celebrities taking on extreme challenges. The concept for Sentrian came out of CHHP’s work tackling complex chronic disease combining world experts, the latest biosensor technology and physiological modelling techniques from the worlds of medicine and elite sport science. Jack lectures internationally on the future of medicine and is a guest expert presenter for CNBC, Sky Sport, BT Sport and the BBC. jkprivateoffice@gmail.com
Entrepreneur, founder of Join Capital, a VC firm that invests in global Software companies that are born in Europe.
PhD in chemistry, ETH Zürich. G. M. paper production and printing companies Man. Consulting, McKinsey Paris, Groupe Valeur Pr. Assoc. Justice
Jenn is known for her work as the Global Head of Innovation & New Initiatives at the Burning Man Nonprofit, where she significantly contributed to a decade of growth, notably during the era led by the late Larry Harvey. With over 18 years of experience in launching ventures across the hospitality, arts, and technology sectors, Jenn has passion for developing future community models and bottom up systems in tandem with real estate developments - that enhance startup and creative ecosystems. She is the founder of Creative Agency Play Atelier that provides independent research and advisory to shared value initiatives that involve human led - bottom up innovation design. Jenn is a Partner at Re:Imagine Group, a pioneering urban prototyping lab in San Francisco and serves as a Board Member / Advisor to many joint ventures. Jenn is committed to nurturing emerging innovations by leveraging her extensive experience to creatively tackle traditional challenges. She is a trained media expert ( once a publicist, always a publicist) and also manages a portfolio of real estate internationally. Previously, Jenn was a Partner at Agency RedRobin, an early-stage incubator in East London, founded in response to the 2009 recession. There, she refined her skills in platform and systems thinking, internet of things, the first digital pivot, the share economy and the started her path of popularizing entrepreneurial culture in a time of a changing social norms to that of the millennial mindset Additionally, she co-curated TEDxLondon from 2010 to 2012, fostering an environment for groundbreaking ideas to TED.com and Launched Vimeo across Pan Europe in 2010. Via Consultancy Play Atelier, Jenn takes a few select clients and can be an invaluable partner in driving bottom-up, open and regenerative projects.
A veteran technology journalist and media entrepreneur who has worked full-time, at various points in her career, for The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, International Herald Tribune, Red Herring, Businessweek, and Les Echos. Jennifer served as a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer judge for 20 years and was twice voted one of the 50 most inspiring women in technology in Europe. She is currently the founder and editor-in-chief of The Innovator (www.theinnovator.news)
CEO - co-founder at TheGreenData.
Social and cultural innovation -passionate with art and creation Before : Manager www.womens-forum.com, Co-founder : Young Mediterranean Leaders, Warner, Imagination Factory Now : Founder www.engage.world : stage direction and singing : www.pointdebascule.org and some other things... Make Desirable Futures Happen
Investor in big ideas with potential for positive impact and exponential growth. Entrepreneur. Thinker. Reader. Long term analysis on AI, New Space and other new deep tech trends.
Joanna runs JG Consulting, a strategic marketing boutique consultancy that advises companies on how to build their international footprint. She works with the management teams of Fortune 1000 companies to develop their World Economic Forum engagement strategy and to map key issues relevant to each company and executives. In 2017 she launched and ran for 3 years Transform.AI, a by invitation only conference in Europe focused on the business implications of artificial intelligence. Prior to starting JG Consulting, she served as director of Enterprise Strategy at Salesforce and prior to that, was head of the Information Technology Industry at the World Economic Forum.
Political and institutional strategist, Joe Ross is a specialist in macro-level strategic innovation and positioning. He has worked in the capacity of Chief of Policy and Senior Advisor to several prominent institutions, foundations, and governments – among them: the City of San Diego, CA, the John F. Kennedy Center, the Tallberg Foundation, and most recently, PlaNet Finance. He has extensive know-how in situational analysis and campaign development along with years of experience in strategic capacity building and positioning for non-profits, foundations, and NGO’s. He has designed successful strategies for institutional growth and increased mission effectiveness which permit organizations to evolve and better serve their core mission while adjusting and communicating to the changing marketplace of action and thought. He is also a highly published and internationally recognized poet.
Management consultant, author, speaker and entrepreneur, co-chairman of the Silicon Valley-based Deloitte LLP Center for the Edge.
Co-chairman of Silicon Valley-based Deloitte Center for the Edge. Before joining Deloitte, was an independent consultant, prior to that a principal at McKinsey & Company. Served as senior vice president of strategy at Atari, Inc., founder of two Silicon Valley startups. Author of The Power of Pull; and a series of best-selling business books, Net Gain, Net Worth, Out of the Box, The Only Sustainable Edge. BA from Wesleyan University, B.Phil. from Oxford University; JD and MBA from Harvard University
Creative engineer, he has invented a bunch of products like my-Ditto (CES Innovation award 2010) and participated in many others (like the Zpen, an electronic pen, some GPS apps....). He now runs RoomChecking, a very innovative suite of tools to help hotels run their hotels smoothly.
I am an experienced mobile product manager having helped many companies across different industries to successfully deliver high quality products
EVERYTHING IS INTERCONNECTED "As a nomadic spirit I navigate from universe to universe I am enriched by travels and meetings what I do is not a job it's an endless search, it's looking for the beautiful in the sense noble of the term, it's sharing my vision that everything is interconnected, there is no limit..." Http://www.Judithdarmont.com
In charge of research activities for Immersion (French SME), I am involved in collaborative projects. I am curious about user's experiences... needs, wishes, emotions.
ORANGE - VP Orange Valley
Currently with the Berlin based company builder FoundFair as an innovation manager and analyst, preparing her own start up ideas.
Jazz/blues-saturated writer guy whose roots entangle Chicago-Texas-NYC-London-Paris; most happy poised with knife in front of cutting board.
Leetha is a strategist intrigued by the power of collaboration as a tool for social change. She serves as the president of the PopTech Institute (www.poptech.org) where she oversees a portfolio focused on the global health, environment, social justice and the future of work. Her tenure at PopTech began with the establishment of the PopTech Social Innovation and Science Fellows programs, which are dedicated to identifying and training promising innovators and scientists. Much of PopTech’s work explores the leveraging of technology and other disruptive channels to mitigate challenges confronting humanity. Leetha has a deep and diverse background in strategic development, and has advised and served on the boards of numerous organizations and agencies. She lives on a small farm in Maine.
An artist and a geek
Seasoned technologist entrepreneur with a passion to create startups that engage talented teams in transforming ideas into products and mind share. Limor is founder and CTO of MOV.AI, a VC funded company developing a robotics software engine. Limor also founded RoboSavvy, a company that distributes & develops robots and parts to make them (including TugBot.ai). Limor started companies in diverse areas such as Telecom Billing, Internet Security and Social Email Templating. He has been granted patents and is a regular speaker at tech events. Born in the UK, lived in Italy, USA, Israel and currently in Portugal. Served 3 years in the Israeli Army-Intelligence, studied Physics.
Co-founder of product design company Barron Gould (Camden Town London).
ALB Antiquités
Lecturer, Institut Français de la Mode. Former journalist with "Le Monde".
Designer, founder of the MediaGroup Berlin in 2000, which was to become the headstone of C3 Creative Code and Content. Personal Content: to make stories look good.
Owner and creative director ‘ Urbi et Orbi ’, an audio-visual company that provides concept design, content creation and technical production to a broad range of clients. Accounts in the field of brand-experiences, audiovisual performances, stagedesign,video- and installation art, documentary and motion-graphics. Currently mainly active as a documentary-maker
Creative strategist spezialized in co-creating desirable sustainable futures
Maître de conférence - Littérature comparée
Founder Maslow Capital Partners Co-founder Kinnernet Europe
As the organization’s recently named first CEO, Marian oversees Burning Man’s year-round staff of 70+ employees and its annual operating budget of approximately $30 million. Marian first attended Burning Man in 1995, and in 1997 was a co-founder of the management organization that eventually became Black Rock City, LLC, which produces the Burning Man event. Throughout her leadership in the Burning Man organization, she has been the Director of Business and Communications, and also oversaw the Black Rock City Department of Public Works. She has steered the development of the Burning Man Regional Network, which is now on six continents, with more than 250 representatives in 30 countries. Marian is a founding board member of the Burning Man Project, the Black Rock Arts Foundation, and Black Rock Solar. She is currently leading the organization’s efforts to facilitate and extend the Burning Man ethos globally. Marian holds a BA in Creative Writing from Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland and an MFA in photography from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She has worked in sales and public relations, and was a project manager for a software development firm when she first arrived as a participant at Burning Man in 1995.
Marius Veltman is a user experience designer and creative technologist from the Netherlands with over fifteen years of expertise in digital product and service design. Marius holds a profound knowledge of what is moving today's digital users. And has a Hypercreative, multi-faceted, one-trick pony.
Expert of SaaS, marketplaces, bitcoin and mobile.
Customer Intelligence & international entrepreneur. Founder/CEO @Nextuser
He is a passionate entrepreneur, been successfully involved in three major industries/sectors such as luxury, action sport and innovation technology. Curiosity driven and a keen observer to understand diversity in people's cultures and mindsets by the impact of new paradigms and generations shifts to strategize new paths of applications. Maurizio holds various roles and delegated in accordance with his skills and experience as CEO, Board Member, Creative Vision-Strategist, Investment Committee, Mentor, Stakeholder formation, Branding, Supervision, General Business Development. Maurizio's envision driving force is characterized by three elements that derive from his own experience, the influence of intangible values, gather likeminded communities. Convert intangible values into a tangible context. Foster a mindset and sense of belonging into a culture.
Chief Marketing Officer for the GSMA, formerly General Manager for Marketing and Industry Management within the Communications Sector at Microsoft.
Journalist and writer. Two kids.
Moran Cerf is a professor of neuroscience and business at the Kellogg School of Management.. Additionally, he is the Alfred P. Sloan screenwriting Professor at the American Film Institute. Prior to his academic career, professor Cerf worked as a hacker for nearly a decade, breaking into leading financial and government institutes to test and improve their security. His hacking background has led him to later pursue non-traditional ways to investigate the brain, using methods and techniques that benefit from heavy computational skills and novel research tools. Notably, he has been working with patients undergoing brain-surgery where he studies behavior, emotion, decision making and dreams by directly recording the activity of individual neurons using electrodes implanted in the patients' brain. He holds multiple patents and his work has been published in wide-circulation academic journals such as Nature, as well as popular science journals such as Scientific American Mind, Wired, New Scientist and more. Additionally, his work has been portrayed in numerous media outlets such as Time, CNN, BBC, Bloomberg, NPR, MSNBC and dozens of others. He has been featured in venues such as the Venice Art Biennial and China’s Art, Science and Technology conference, and has contributed to magazines such as Forbes, The Atlantic, Inc. and others. Professor Cerf has had short-lived careers as a furniture-designer, a pilot, a radio host, and a filmmaker, and he has served on the boards of pharmaceutical, telecom and fashion companies. He is a multiple-times national story-telling champion (’The Moth’), and his public talks at TED, Google Zeitgeist, PopTech, DLD and others have received millions of views and a large following. In addition to his academic career, professor Cerf is a science consultant for various Hollywood films and TV shows ('Bull', ‘Limitless’, ‘Falling Water’, and more). Recently, he was named one of the "40 leading professors below 40”. Most importantly, he is right handed.
Regional Sales Director at Reed Midem.
Artist and architect whose unique work merges space, imagery and technological innovation to create artistic experiences that show that we can live in harmony with nature and technology. innovation, heart, nature
Video producer & engagement designer, co-founder of TheGamers.TV, which can be described as a production studio, specializing in games and technology videos.
Musician
Nusrat is a pioneering media executive, strategic advisor, and filmmaker. He worked at MTV for 20 years and founded MTV World, Viacom’s visionary global division. He is the creator of the award-winning “Rebel Music” and “The Music Experiment,” MTV’s first transmedia live music series. Nusrat was honored by President Barack Obama for his work and called “a sage when it comes to music and pop culture” by MTV founder Tom Freston. His new documentary, “An American Prayer,” recently premiered at the Black Nights Tallinn Film Festival, and will be released in 2022.
Olivier develops since 1994 a strong editorial expertise across a wide range of media and creates international programmes linking innovation, learning and other societal issues. Curator Kinnernet Europe
Innovation & Digital transformation leader at Air Liquide, my life is all about friendship, serendipity, cross-fertilization, jazz, the Basque Country and my little girl.
Danone Open innovation Social innovation
Living a Shrödinger cat life: General inspector of Finance (French Ministry of Economy), artist and writer.
Based in San Francisco, Phil Jeudy is a lobbyist for the French Tech in the Silicon Valley.
@pdewost @WeAreLeonard
Entrepreneur since 1983 - New passion for the las 6 years: Cyber Defense! Entrepreneur CyberD Rugby
Philippe Lukacs is teaching Innovation Management at Ecole Centrale de Paris. He is leading a consultancy which helps companies develop innovations with potential for a desirable future
Pierre Etienne Franc, VP advanced Business and Technologies at Air Liquide, the guy who tries to build bridges between today and tomorrow, public and private, politics and business, dreams and realities....
Former social entrepreneur, now freelance consultant, blogger, photographer and film maker. Moreover : globe-trotter and life lover.
CEO @Decode Media. FrenchWeb.fr The source for Internet news, startups, and tech trends in France.
Entrepreneur, globetrotter, appreciator of life and all its wonders & passionate about making a difference.
Social entrepreneur in 'do good' crowdfunding and incubation. 1%Club, THNK, Crowdsuing, City Changemaker, 7scenes, Waag Society.
Mainly a film producer....
Digital entrepreneur and consultant Co-founder and Managing Partner, Nunatak Group (2010-present) Active seed investor and expert in strategic management
Digital strategic and creative director
Founder and CEO of Youplus, a Consumer Lifestyle-Sponsoring Platform.
London-based novelist, science writer and agnotologist, now editing the culture pages of New Scientist magazine.
Yes: A Digital Dunkirk I have been invited by Benoit to put together a slide presentation on the Future Brilliance Task Force and our successful efforts to evacuate several hundred Afghan women and their families from Afghanistan; reskill them in ICT, coding and robotics; prepare them for life in the West; and to secure asylum and flights to freedom.
44 / Mum / / Slasheuse / // Content Writer & Editor . Project Coordinator / /// Customized Events Designer / //// Concept store Founder / ///// NIA Danse Trainer / ////// SISTER'S ACT Agency for innovative and creative solutions for meaningful communication strategies Enthusiastic, Curious, Engaged
Management student at Institut Français de la Mode
Evolutionary behavioural scientist studying humanity, looking 2 million years back and a 1000 forward.
Multimedia Artist with a particular interest in Video Projection
Former Digital & Innovations chief at Lufthansa, founder of the FlyingLab. As former social media trailblazer, survivor of shitstorms and ash clouds over Europe, crisis team member in the Germanwings crash. Former jury member of the German Marketing Award. Followed his entrepreneurial calling while transforming his curious soul from digital pioneer to digital advisor, coach & catalyst. Now, entrepreneur (e.g. computer vision in aviation) and happily interim manager for burning fires. Love for lecturing around business model innovation, new tech & desirable futures. EV enthusiast, gadget geek and secretly proud dad of two tough girls. Preferring good questions over good answers.
Founder and slasher, Uriel lives and works in Paris.
Senior Director of Development & Outreach for Human Rights Watch in Paris.
Total New Energies I am passionate about the impact of a broad range of technologies on society, and I enjoy vibrant interfaces. I started off in theoretical computer science, co-founded a biotechnology startup, founded a government research lab in computational biology, started biotechnology at oil major Total, then developed its cleantech R&D into an open-innovation organization, a network of partnerships with startups and academic labs in the US and Europe.
Startup & cooking girl - Innovation facilitator, founder of La Tortue Collective intelligence, open business, multidisciplinary approaches.
A developer since the age of 11 when computers had 8 bits and less than 64k of memory. He has a hobby of making people look a bit silly using apps and extremely enjoys the art of talking to people. On the serious side he has a vast experience in building large scale solutions on different platforms and working with early stage companies to realise what can be done with cutting edge technologies. For the past 18 months Yosi is working on a stealth operation. Father of 4 girls and married to a PH.d which is way too smarter than I am.
Co-Founder of The Kings Foundation, a non-profit that helps talented youth in applying to top universities globally. Social entrepreneur specializing in education management. She worked as public affairs and media relations manager for clients including the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office, Council of Europe, Polish central government authorities and the European Commission. In Boston, she worked on projects for government educational institutions across the US and helped manage the implementation of government consulting services in Europe. A graduate of University of Cambridge, École Normale Supérieure in Paris, Lancaster University and the Harvard University program in social entrepreneurship. In 2013, Zuzanna was selected as a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum. She is an MIT Technology Review Innovators under 35 Influencer for Poland. Zuzanna also runs international relations for the oldest Poland’s “Przekrój” magazine.
Béatrice is the founder and CEO of Green Evénements and www.3-0.fr. She currently works with the French government on making COP21 a sustainable event.
Les Argonautes
Strategy, Innovation and Business Development Director of Reed MIDEM, organiser of international conferences and trade shows in the TV (MIP brand), Music (Midem) and real estate (MIPIM, MAPIC brands) industries. Passionate about kitesurfing, running, meditation, psychology and tech !
Neocase Software
Passionate about AI and focused on its positive development and adoption.
co-founder, Faction Skis.
Artist
Alexa paints on people and 3D objects in a way that makes them look like a 2D painting
Internet as a tool for spreading knowledge - Science - Digital Libraries - Books, too (science | anti-science radicalities) www.moatti.net
BERG "Alice Bartlett is a Creative Technologist at BERG. In 2009, she graduated from the University of York with a BSc in Computer Science. Between 2006 and 2009 she did various student placements at IBM, working in their Hursley labs teams including Java Test, CICS, Pervasive messaging and Emerging Technology Services. Upon graduating, Alice joined Assanka, where she worked on various projects including the Financial Times Android app, blogs platform and HTML5 app. Alice now works at BERG building their platform for connected products for the home, BERG Cloud."
Loves Food & Wine Acquired Over 1 Billion Users 4 Exits - Over $2 Billion
Committed to making a positive impact in the world and a dynamic force behind the scenes who connects people, projects and endless possibilities.
Anna-Katharina Gerson has a Masters of Arts degree with a specialty in Media and Film. She currently is in charge of all national and international activities and programming of the B3 Biennial of the Moving Image in Frankfurt. As well, she also serves as a consultant for the Frankfurt Book Fair and other companies. Anna-Katharina Gerson worked for more then 12 years for the Frankfurt Book Fair, where she produced the concept for its Film section (Forum Film & TV), including managing the ongoing expansion of the section. Her responsibilities also included the partnership with the Berlin International Film Festival (specially its Co-Production Market). Anna-Katharina Gerson lives in Berlin. Additionally, Anna-Katharina Gerson has also built up a wide range of international contacts in the film and diverse media industries. Communicative, straight and mostly positive
Passionate about technology, security and identity (of course), food, wine, opera and ski, not necessarily in this order. Previous lives: IT project manager for Telmex in Mexico, IT services business unit at Equant, EVP Mobile Services for Orange, Director General of GSMA, the global association of mobile operators, CEO of Morpho. Graduate of Ecole Normale Supérieure (mathematics), telecommunications engineering degree, PhD in computer science. Currently also a member of the Boards of Directors of Capgemini and Edenred.
Chief Operating Officer, AcreWhite
uture is my country, would like to understand it as much as I can…And then co-contribute to transform it, based on more human interactions #Barbares #H2H
Founder, TEVA Motors
Journalist, co-founder and editor in chief of Le Plus-nouvel Obs, the participative and debate section of Le Nouvel Observateur (2,3 unique visitors / month). Also author and founder of the blog resto-de-paris.com, about restaurants in Paris.
“Curious & tech-savvy frenchie with an eye for design and a touch of pragmatism. Corp dev @ Criteo (CRTO).
Starting in the late 1970s, Barak perceived how personal technologies could connect individuals and organizations, putting the power of computers and networks in everyone's hands.
Neuroscientist of perception and a few other things ... I like to believe.
change.org, Campaigns Director Empowering people through Change.org. I'm made of philosophy, politics, arts, music, my loving family and friends.
CEO of Trendsboard : a community matcher tool for content creators full of big data, semantic and social network analysis. Also editorial strategist for many medias and brands in France and UK. Blogs : "La Social Newsroom'" (french) / Forbes Magazine (english)
Cellist Bertrand Raynaud a étudié le violoncelle au CNSMDP de 1988 à 1993 (cycle de perfectionnement avec Philippe Muller), puis au Conservatoire Tschaïkovsky de Moscou. Il s’est ensuite perfectionné dans le cadre de Master-Classes internationales, auprès de Janos Starker, David Geringas, Lynn Harrell. Titulaire de 3 Prix Internationaux, il s’est produit en soliste et musique de chambre dans toute l’Europe, aux Etats-Unis, en Russie et au Japon, dans le cadre de Festivals importants. Il pratique également l’improvisation. Bertrand Raynaud enseigne, depuis 2000, le Violoncelle et la Musique de Chambre au CRR-Pôle Supérieur de Paris-Boulogne et il est également écrivain.
Named Forbes 30 under 30 and BBC's 100 Most Inspiring Women, Betsy has a decade of experience as an inventor, product founder and CEO. Betsy serves on the Tufts School of Nutrition Innovation Council and her company, Tiny Organics, has been chosen by Michelle Obama’s Partnerships for a Healthier America for their baby food initiative to support veggie-forward early palate development across the nation. Betsy enjoys building great brands and has invented over 100 products and counting. She advises a number of consumer product and deep data startups as well as UNICEF Wearables for Good initiative. Betsy is a keynote speaker and has spoken at Google, CES, World Economic Forum, National Retail Federation among others. Betsy is the Co-Founder of Tiny Organics, delivering toddlers their first 100 flavors direct to their door through whole, palette expanding meals. Being a vegetarian for 14 years, Betsy aims to train the palette of a generation to desire savory forward, whole real foods and most importantly providing access for all.
Co-founder in 2011 of Psychosocionomie SAS, dedicated to helping clients improve economic and human performance by transforming their organization in order to fully release human talent and energy at all levels.
Founder & CEO of Haut et Court, a film production company based in Paris.
Producer and partner haut et court
Tech enthusiast (the ideas, not always the practicalities). Partner at Brunswick, and senior advisor to some of the world's biggest global compnaies, on complex problem solving/ comms strategy - after 20 years in journalism from the Financial Times to the Economist magazine; regular chair and attendee of tech conferences. Likes connecting people.
Innovation Strategist - #Marketing #Digital #OpenInnovation #Engagement #IoT #Digitail
H-Farm Ventures
Director-If-Book; blog on www.bookfutures.com
She began her professional career at BNP Paribas as a banker specializing in international trade finance. Subsequently, she joined the Brand Communication and Quality Department where she was last Head of Advertising, Sponsoring, Brand Identity and Events. She is currently Head of Prospective and Brand Innovations.
JWT - CEO
Co-founder, Synbiota INC
Founder, Audience io
www.danielerasmus.com scenario thinking
Daniel Landau is an artist, educator and media researcher. He is leading the Media & Art studies at the Midrasha Faculty of the Arts, Beit Berel Academic College. He recently founded ‘Information & Mind’ a company set to address the social & psycho-cognitive impact of the hyper-connected human.
Entrepreneur living in the UAE, love all things digital, negronis, burning man and scuba diving.
Mr. André Grebler heads a family owned group of companies. Mr. Grebler graduated from the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne as an Electronics Engineer and graduated in Management by the University of Geneva.
Creative Technologist, Head of Ogilvy Digital LabOgilvy
Story guy. Ran WIRED, got excited by purpose-driven founders, now invest in them and bring them together through the VOYAGERS community,
Dominique began his career in 1994 as Assistant Editor-in-Chief for M6 Lyon and then as Editor-in-Chief for M6 Lille. In 1996 he was hired as Editor-in-Chief for M6 National and from 1996 to 2000 managed its “6 Minutes” program and news magazines. In April 2000 he joined Streampower, a cross-media production company, and served as its CEO. In 2003, Dominique launched a daily program at Canal Plus, “Merci pour l’Info.” In 2004 he co-produced France 5’s C.U.L.T., an interactive TV show about urban culture. Then, after taking part in the launch of Direct 8, from 2006 to 2008 Dominique Delport hosted that channel’s weekly “8-FI,” a show about new media. He joined Havas Media (formerly known as MPG) on February 1st 2006 as General Manager while maintaining his CEO position at Streampower. In June 2006 he became CEO of Havas Media France and in February 2007 he was appointed CEO of Havas Media Group France. In addition, Dominique Delport taught at the Political Science Institute at I.E.P. Paris, where he was in charge of the “Médias 2.0” course program (2008-2009). In February 2009 he was elected to a two-year term as President and CEO of UDECAM (Union Des Entreprises de Conseil et Achat Média) which brings together all French media agencies. In November 2012 he was appointed Global Managing Director for Havas Media Group. As a member of the Havas Media Group executive committee he now oversees all brands, all commercial activity and all research and intelligence for the group’s 126 markets.
Air Liquide - communication Director
Opengov.me
Founder - officience
artists - http://www.eyalgever.com/
Founder TiberiumSun, amiando, IDnow. Host Bits & Pretzels. Advisor to German Government. Angel investor in 60+ European Startups. Pilot.
co-founder SynLab - education innovator
After 15 years covering ICT in SF Bay Area I did a world tour of innovation (45 cities, 32 countries) & I am preparing a world tour of smart cities
Excelerance
Nature boy turned international errand at the digital age.
CEO 18M.io, conseil marketing, technologies et sujets de société.
Art Designer
Making easy random Kinnernet-style conversations available Worldwide, for everyone and the next person
I am Kinnernet ‘s photographer :) I am your photographer www.geraldinearesteanu.com
Bertelsmann SE
Heretic, writer & broadcaster. 30 year career in the creative, digital & education sectors. Founder of Learning Without Frontiers, Education Design Labs & The Reimagine Institute. @GrahamBM
Solar Impulse Managing Director
Guido van Nispen is CEO & Co-Founder of Insiber.com, the independent one-stop SaaS support platform empowering SME cybersafety and insurance. Guido has many years of executive management, advisory and supervisory experience in the technology, finance, and media sectors
Lecturer at the School of Economic Warfare; Advisor to PwC on Cyberdefense. Fiction writer
Founder Slate Science
Harald is passionate about meaning in technology, the future of exponential technologies and its opportunities for society, brands and entrepreneurs – especially in Europe. Harald is the Founder of Futur/io – the European Institute for Exponential Technologies & Desirable Futures with campus locations in Berlin, Salzburg, Venice & Paris. For MLOVE Harald created M, the MLOVE Forum, as an inspiring event series that brings together innovation leaders and startups in an inspiring format at amazing locations.
As an artist, I love capturing with a few essential lines people' emotions and motions. As a digital person, I love creating smart products for real humans.
Director, Casa Cresques
Cofounder of digital media Worldcrunch
Co-founder Poivrer saler Artist, Writer.
Artist - http://cementeclipses.com/
Entrepreneur, programmer, social hacker, performer, a clown
TELEFONICA "Javier Santiso, PhD, MBA. Javier Santiso is Global Affairs and New Ventures Director in Telefonica, S.A. previously Managing Director of the Telefónica Europe Chairman & CEO’s Office. Before that he was Director of the Innovation Funds of Telefónica. He is the Founder of Amerigo, the venture capital funds network for Latin America and Europe powered by Telefónica. From 1996 to 2001 he has been Managing Director of Indosuez (Cédit Agricole Investment Bank now) working with Middle East and Asian emerging markets. In 2001 he joined BBVA as managing Director and Chief Economist for Emerging Markets based, covering Latin America and Asia. In 2005 he became Director General of the OECD and Chief Economist of the OECD Development Centre, in charge of emerging markets (Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America). He increased the Board members from 20 to 45 (25 emerging countries joined the Board including Poland, Brazil, South Africa and India among others). In 2010 he joined Telefónica as Director in Telefónica International Chairman’s Office. He has been also in Advisory Board for Emerging Markets of Pfizer (New York), of Lazard Frères Gestion (Paris), and consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank (Washington), Exane BNP Paribas, Société Générale and Suez GDF (all in Paris), among other institutions. He participated in board meetings and annual conferences of Holcim (Zurich), Investec Asset Management (Cape Town and London), the IMF (Washington). He is professor of ESADE Business Scholl, founder of Startup Spain and Member of ESADE BAN board (ESADE Business Angels Network). He published half a dozen of books on international economics and finance in emerging markets with MIT Press, Oxford University Press, Columbia University Press, and Cambridge University Press. He studied in Paris, Oxford and Boston at Sciences Po and HEC School of Management, Oxford University and Harvard University. In 2009 he has been awarded as one of the Young Global Leaders by the World Economic Forum (Davos). In 2011 Foreign nominated Javier Santiso as one of the most influential ibero-american thinkers. He is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Councils and of the Aspen Institute."
BCG
Canopé
A veteran technology journalist and media entrepreneur who has worked full-time, at various points in her career, for The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, International Herald Tribune, Red Herring, Businessweek, and Les Echos. Jennifer served as a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer judge for 20 years and was twice voted one of the 50 most inspiring women in technology in Europe. She is currently the founder and editor-in-chief of The Innovator (www.theinnovator.news)
Social and cultural innovation -passionate with art and creation Before : Manager www.womens-forum.com, Co-founder : Young Mediterranean Leaders, Warner, Imagination Factory Now : Founder www.engage.world : stage direction and singing : www.pointdebascule.org and some other things... Make Desirable Futures Happen
Investor in big ideas with potential for positive impact and exponential growth. Entrepreneur. Thinker. Reader. Long term analysis on AI, New Space and other new deep tech trends.
Political and institutional strategist, Joe Ross is a specialist in macro-level strategic innovation and positioning. He has worked in the capacity of Chief of Policy and Senior Advisor to several prominent institutions, foundations, and governments – among them: the City of San Diego, CA, the John F. Kennedy Center, the Tallberg Foundation, and most recently, PlaNet Finance. He has extensive know-how in situational analysis and campaign development along with years of experience in strategic capacity building and positioning for non-profits, foundations, and NGO’s. He has designed successful strategies for institutional growth and increased mission effectiveness which permit organizations to evolve and better serve their core mission while adjusting and communicating to the changing marketplace of action and thought. He is also a highly published and internationally recognized poet.
CEO ID3(www.idcubed.org),serial entrap. author, MIT ML
EVERYTHING IS INTERCONNECTED "As a nomadic spirit I navigate from universe to universe I am enriched by travels and meetings what I do is not a job it's an endless search, it's looking for the beautiful in the sense noble of the term, it's sharing my vision that everything is interconnected, there is no limit..." Http://www.Judithdarmont.com
SNCF
Krystyna Winckler has been working at the Caisse des Dépôts in Paris since 2008.
Good Futur
start-up innovation specialist
Seasoned technologist entrepreneur with a passion to create startups that engage talented teams in transforming ideas into products and mind share. Limor is founder and CTO of MOV.AI, a VC funded company developing a robotics software engine. Limor also founded RoboSavvy, a company that distributes & develops robots and parts to make them (including TugBot.ai). Limor started companies in diverse areas such as Telecom Billing, Internet Security and Social Email Templating. He has been granted patents and is a regular speaker at tech events. Born in the UK, lived in Italy, USA, Israel and currently in Portugal. Served 3 years in the Israeli Army-Intelligence, studied Physics.
ALB Antiquités
Orange
Reza is a general partner at Partech, based in the Paris office. In this role, Reza focuses primarily on the infrastructure, datacenter, cybersecurity and enterprise markets. Widely regarded as a transformational pioneer, Reza has built his career and reputation by joining early stage ventures and leading them to a successful exit, but also by working in large groups to help them transition to new business models.
Maître de conférence - Littérature comparée
Founder Maslow Capital Partners Co-founder Kinnernet Europe
Marius Veltman is a user experience designer and creative technologist from the Netherlands with over fifteen years of expertise in digital product and service design. Marius holds a profound knowledge of what is moving today's digital users. And has a Hypercreative, multi-faceted, one-trick pony.
Matthias Metternich is a German-American entrepreneur based in London and the Co-Founder and CEO of Believe.in, a start-up focused on disrupting the $460Bn non-profit sector through SaaS technology. Backed by Index Ventures, Greylock Partners and The Cabinet Office, Believe.in is headquartered in London and available to non-profits of all shapes and sizes in 5 countries. Prior to Believe.in, Matthias worked to invent new products and services for global brands including Barclays, L'Oreal, Skype, Microsoft and Turkcell as both AKQA's youngest client partner and as the Founder and Managing Partner of Poke in Istanbul. Raised across 12 countries, Matthias is passionate about open data, philanthro-capitalism and marrying design and technology to affect large-scale societal change using scalable models.
He is a passionate entrepreneur, been successfully involved in three major industries/sectors such as luxury, action sport and innovation technology. Curiosity driven and a keen observer to understand diversity in people's cultures and mindsets by the impact of new paradigms and generations shifts to strategize new paths of applications. Maurizio holds various roles and delegated in accordance with his skills and experience as CEO, Board Member, Creative Vision-Strategist, Investment Committee, Mentor, Stakeholder formation, Branding, Supervision, General Business Development. Maurizio's envision driving force is characterized by three elements that derive from his own experience, the influence of intangible values, gather likeminded communities. Convert intangible values into a tangible context. Foster a mindset and sense of belonging into a culture.
efarmer.mobi
Managing Director - Femis
Journalist and writer. Two kids.
Miquel Lacasta Codorniu Ph.D architect at ESARQ-UIC, Master in Biodigital Architecture at ESARQ-UIC and architect at ETSAB. Cofounder of Archikubik, an architectural firm based in Barcelona, and @kubik, for small and very small companies, the oldest co-working space in town (1994). Founder of Axonometrica, blog about urban theory. He is interested in projects and research focused on the paradigm of complexity that architecture and urbanism are based on. www.archikubik.com www.kubiknet.com www.axonometrica.wordpress.com
ORANGE - SVP Innovation
Natalie Klym is Executive Director and Research Associate with the MIT Communications Futures Program (CFP). Her focus is on the transformation of media, particularly music and television, exploring the intersection of technology, business, policy, and cultural practice.
DN Capital Managing Partner
http://about.me/nargues
Nemo Power Tools
Mechanical Engineer & Entrepreneur
Musician
Media EMEA
Investor
Olivier develops since 1994 a strong editorial expertise across a wide range of media and creates international programmes linking innovation, learning and other societal issues. Curator Kinnernet Europe
SUITCASE - CEO unGuru-like innovation consultant with a sincere passion for brands & people and a keen interest for what changes and what never will
Danone Open innovation Social innovation
Head of the Investments for the Future Program, Caisse des Depôts
Havas
@pdewost @WeAreLeonard
Philippe Lukacs teachs Innovation Management, published “Stratégie pour un futur souhaitable”, and leads CATALYSER which helps companies develop innovations with potential for a desirable future
Philippe Lukacs is teaching Innovation Management at Ecole Centrale de Paris. He published “Stratégie pour un futur souhaitable”, with introductions written by Pascal Lamy, the WTO General Director and Bernard Ramanantsoa, the General Director of HEC, and is leading CATALYSER, a consultancy which helps companies develop innovations with potential for a desirable future
Education
Ceo Claranova
Pierre Etienne Franc, VP advanced Business and Technologies at Air Liquide, the guy who tries to build bridges between today and tomorrow, public and private, politics and business, dreams and realities....
Infantile. Survivor of curiosity. Worshiper of talent&creativity which I am dedicated to scout find&develop in corporate environments.
Digital strategic and creative director
Shoma Chaudhury is an award-winning journalist. Has been managing editor and one of the founders of Tehelka, an iconic investigative and public interest magazine in India. Also founder and editor-in-chief of Catch, a digital news platform. Has been director and host of THiNK, a cutting edge ideas festival. Been picked by Newsweek as "one of 150 women who shake the world". Is crazy about rivers and forests. And planet earth in general.
Pianist
FABERNOVEL - Founding CEO Stéphane Distinguin is the founder and CEO of faberNovel, chairman of Cap Digital and member of the French Digital Council.
Venture consultant
Founder of One Ragtime, a global technology venture fund and advisory. Prior to this, Stephanie was the Executive Vice President of Orange Digital, Audience and Advertising.
I am a product girl at heart, having worked on various products i am now working for Clue, a cycle tracking app that helps people all round the world understanding female health. Super excited about the power of information and consciousness.
BURDA - Geschäftsführerin bei DLD Media
The Kings Foundation
Ministry of finance
Tessa McWatt is the author of five novels and There's No Place Like...a novella for young adults. Her second novel, Dragons Cry, was shortlisted for the City of Toronto Book Awards and the Governor General Awards of Canada. Her other novels include This Body (HarperCollins 2004 and Macmillan Caribbean 2005), Step Closer (HarperCollins 2009), and Vital Signs (Random House Canada, 2011 and William Heinemann 2012), which was nominated for the 2012 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. She teaches creative writing at the University of East London, where she leads the MA Writing: Imaginative Practice. She has recently had a best-selling Kindle Singles on Amazon entitled The Taste of Marmalade.
Ex investment banker, I'm now developing Havas innovation practices in the US, based in Los Angeles. A specialist of nothing but interested in everything. A big fan of Isaac Asimov AI-based sci-fi showing how everything is a complex dynamic equation mixed of short term trends and long term change vectors.
Co-founder of JAGShaw Baker, law firm focusing on high growth companies and venture capital ecosystem, and singer/songwriter.
Strategic Communications Consultant www.whitewhale.de Freelance Consultant, explaining the internet to companies since 2009. Establishing online communication and crowdsourcing strategies. Working for nugg.ad, Mayflower and Lufthansa Systems in various sales, marketing and communications positions before. Co-Founder Berlin Web Week. Press spokesmen for the first Social Media Week Berlin 2010 & Campus Party Europe in Berlin 2012.
Director, Utopia Festival
Founder and slasher, Uriel lives and works in Paris.
Total New Energies I am passionate about the impact of a broad range of technologies on society, and I enjoy vibrant interfaces. I started off in theoretical computer science, co-founded a biotechnology startup, founded a government research lab in computational biology, started biotechnology at oil major Total, then developed its cleantech R&D into an open-innovation organization, a network of partnerships with startups and academic labs in the US and Europe.
Yalda Alaoui is an entrepreneur, celebrity nutritionist, and Founder and CEO of Eat Burn Sleep. Her groundbreaking research into the fields of chronic inflammation and gut health has earned her the reputation of being a globally recognized Anti-inflammation Pioneer. An animated speaker, Yalda's passion is to inspire and educate others so that we all live our best lives, with more autonomy over our diet and lifestyle choices, for long-term physical and psychological benefits. She works with the NHS and other medical professionals, well-being hospitality groups, corporation fitness programs, celebrities, and sports professionals worldwide. Yalda regularly appears on TV, including BBC World, in major publications like The Times, Telegraph, Daily Mail, Sunday Express, Harpers Bazaar, Forbes, Hello!, Glamour, and Woman&Home.
Fascinated by the connection economy, I seek the tools that empower humans to become better humans
I am passionate about startups and innovations related to financial services. Work with @anthemis to change financial services for the 21st century.
A developer since the age of 11 when computers had 8 bits and less than 64k of memory. He has a hobby of making people look a bit silly using apps and extremely enjoys the art of talking to people. On the serious side he has a vast experience in building large scale solutions on different platforms and working with early stage companies to realise what can be done with cutting edge technologies. For the past 18 months Yosi is working on a stealth operation. Father of 4 girls and married to a PH.d which is way too smarter than I am.
Biologist + MBA, lived 15 years in FMCG from my MIND . 2 years ago I became Startup entrepreneur commited to live the next 15 from my HEART
Architect, painter http://www.b-nt.biz/fr/
Internet as a tool for spreading knowledge - Science - Digital Libraries - Books, too (science | anti-science radicalities) www.moatti.net
Aussie/Spanish/Cuban/British entrepreneur living in Lisbon. Founded Skimlinks (exited) and now building FLOWN (virtual co-working for focus and flow).
Loves Food & Wine Acquired Over 1 Billion Users 4 Exits - Over $2 Billion
GOOGLE - Google Zeitzgeist Texan in love with London. Google's Head of Events - I hope to create inspiration, collaboration, fun! Theatre junkie, film fan and runner.
Committed to making a positive impact in the world and a dynamic force behind the scenes who connects people, projects and endless possibilities.
SUP - CEO Digital Media player, built businesses in several markets. `Believes in content and advertising,
Starting in the late 1970s, Barak perceived how personal technologies could connect individuals and organizations, putting the power of computers and networks in everyone's hands.
LAGARDERE - SVP Strategy and M&A
Founder & CEO of Haut et Court, a film production company based in Paris.
Content curator and Product Innovation at LinkedIn. Associate Professor in Marketing at Sciences Po Paris. Shakshuka and Stevie Wonder expert.
Producer and partner haut et court
ETSY Head of Brand Communications, International
From litterature to political sciences - now a lawyer in the field of new energies
European Venture Capital investor and lapsed programmer
Director-If-Book; blog on www.bookfutures.com
Founder Make Sense
Claudia Romo Edelman is a Special Adviser for UNICEF, and recently has been seconded to the Executive Office for International Migration. Previously, Claudia served as UNICEF’s Global Chief of Public Advocacy. She was seconded to the Executive Office of the Secretary General of the United Nations leading communications and advocacy for the Sustainable Development Goals and Climate Change for the Special Adviser on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. She has successfully led PR, branding, and marketing for some of the biggest global organizations such as the World Economic Forum, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), and the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB & Malaria. Claudia started her career as a journalist and press correspondent for Latin American media companies such as Notimex, Proceso, Infored Monitor. She holds degrees in Communications, Philosophy, and Photography as well as a Masters in Political Communications from the London School of Economics. Claudia is a frequent public speaker and speaks six languages.
Since 2009, Clément Saccomani has been working for Magnum Photos. He became Editorial Director in 2011 and has realized many Editorial and Social projects, for Corporate Clients (BNP PARIBAS-NINTENDO-SONY-PANASONIC), International Organizations (UNHCR-UNICEF-UNV-UNFPA-UNEP-Global Fund), and NGO’s (MSF- OXFAM – MDM - GREENPEACE). Clément is now working within a global landscape and is particularly focused on developing non profit partnerships as well as Editorial Opportunities and new ways for Story-Telling for over 60 photographs around the world.
Senior Vice President R&D Disruptive Essilor International
Design Thinking - Thalès Innovator // Business Modeller // Design Thinker ... loving Food & Cooking
Air Liquide - communication Director
3X Entrepreneur and Investor
Head of Campus Campus London Head of Campus, Google's new startup space in East London. Experienced product manager and startup mentor, Founder of Techbikers and VC Cafe
I speak, write & film. Formats may change, but not the intent: I work on the end of the world as we know it and what may come next. I questions the power of finance, technology and mediocrity on our lives. I wonder about our consents. MEETING SNOWDEN is my most recent work. I am preparing a book on the life and death of Internet activist Aaron Swartz.
After 15 years covering ICT in SF Bay Area I did a world tour of innovation (45 cities, 32 countries) & I am preparing a world tour of smart cities
Founder and CEO Moo Founder & CEO of moo.com: beautiful design and print for the Fortune 5m.
Art Designer
Hallo
Making easy random Kinnernet-style conversations available Worldwide, for everyone and the next person
Solar Impulse Managing Director
Guido van Nispen is CEO & Co-Founder of Insiber.com, the independent one-stop SaaS support platform empowering SME cybersafety and insurance. Guido has many years of executive management, advisory and supervisory experience in the technology, finance, and media sectors
Lecturer at the School of Economic Warfare; Advisor to PwC on Cyberdefense. Fiction writer
Founder Slate Science
As an artist, I love capturing with a few essential lines people' emotions and motions. As a digital person, I love creating smart products for real humans.
Design and technology lead at movie making startup Plotagon. Also creator of independent art games.
Cofounder of digital media Worldcrunch
Entrepreneur, programmer, social hacker, performer, a clown
Orange
Social and cultural innovation -passionate with art and creation Before : Manager www.womens-forum.com, Co-founder : Young Mediterranean Leaders, Warner, Imagination Factory Now : Founder www.engage.world : stage direction and singing : www.pointdebascule.org and some other things... Make Desirable Futures Happen
Joanna runs JG Consulting, a strategic marketing boutique consultancy that advises companies on how to build their international footprint. She works with the management teams of Fortune 1000 companies to develop their World Economic Forum engagement strategy and to map key issues relevant to each company and executives. In 2017 she launched and ran for 3 years Transform.AI, a by invitation only conference in Europe focused on the business implications of artificial intelligence. Prior to starting JG Consulting, she served as director of Enterprise Strategy at Salesforce and prior to that, was head of the Information Technology Industry at the World Economic Forum.
ID3 - MIT Media Lab CEO ID3 (www.idcubed.org),serial entrap. author, MIT ML
José A. del Moral is an angel investor with positions in 5 startups in Spain (Chicisimo, Alianzo, Mapalia, AgoraNews and iBotanika), all of them in the social networking and analytics field. He also was a founding partner of Ya.com, a Spanish startup later sold to Deutsche Telekom for €540 M. Before, he was head of Internet contents for Vocento, the main Spanish media group. He also created the Startup 2.0 competition back in 2007. He graduated in Law and Economics at the University of Deusto (Spain), has a master's degree in Telecommunications from the University of Namur (Belgium) and specialized in Internet Politics at Stanford University (USA). He's written several books about social media and, according to the daily El Mundo, is considered one of the 25 most influential Spanish people on the Internet.
ORANGE - VP Orange Valley
YANDEX
IEG - MD MD and Co-Leader of Digital & Technology Desk at IEG - Investment Banking Group, focused on M&A, Financing & Financial Strategy.
I connect people and ideas. Entrepreneur, author, investor @Anthemis @BRCK @RingMD @Flyability @leade.rs, board @TawiPay, swiss correspondent @WiredUK
An artist and a geek
Seasoned technologist entrepreneur with a passion to create startups that engage talented teams in transforming ideas into products and mind share. Limor is founder and CTO of MOV.AI, a VC funded company developing a robotics software engine. Limor also founded RoboSavvy, a company that distributes & develops robots and parts to make them (including TugBot.ai). Limor started companies in diverse areas such as Telecom Billing, Internet Security and Social Email Templating. He has been granted patents and is a regular speaker at tech events. Born in the UK, lived in Italy, USA, Israel and currently in Portugal. Served 3 years in the Israeli Army-Intelligence, studied Physics.
Liz Bacelar is an expert on fashion and retail innovation. She is the founder of Decoded Fashion (acquired in 2013) and Flow Journeys.
L'Oréal
Orange
Maître de conférence - Littérature comparée
Founder Maslow Capital Partners Co-founder Kinnernet Europe
Marius Veltman is a user experience designer and creative technologist from the Netherlands with over fifteen years of expertise in digital product and service design. Marius holds a profound knowledge of what is moving today's digital users. And has a Hypercreative, multi-faceted, one-trick pony.
WPP - CEO WPP Digital
He is a passionate entrepreneur, been successfully involved in three major industries/sectors such as luxury, action sport and innovation technology. Curiosity driven and a keen observer to understand diversity in people's cultures and mindsets by the impact of new paradigms and generations shifts to strategize new paths of applications. Maurizio holds various roles and delegated in accordance with his skills and experience as CEO, Board Member, Creative Vision-Strategist, Investment Committee, Mentor, Stakeholder formation, Branding, Supervision, General Business Development. Maurizio's envision driving force is characterized by three elements that derive from his own experience, the influence of intangible values, gather likeminded communities. Convert intangible values into a tangible context. Foster a mindset and sense of belonging into a culture.
Bongiorno
Miquel Lacasta Codorniu Ph.D architect at ESARQ-UIC, Master in Biodigital Architecture at ESARQ-UIC and architect at ETSAB. Cofounder of Archikubik, an architectural firm based in Barcelona, and @kubik, for small and very small companies, the oldest co-working space in town (1994). Founder of Axonometrica, blog about urban theory. He is interested in projects and research focused on the paradigm of complexity that architecture and urbanism are based on. www.archikubik.com www.kubiknet.com www.axonometrica.wordpress.com
http://about.me/nargues
Violonist - www.nicolasdautricourt.com Voted « ADAMI Classical Discovery of the Year » at the Midem in Cannes, Sacem « Georges Enesco » Prize, Nicolas Dautricourt is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant and engaging French violinists of his generation. Invited in 2012 to join the prestigious Chamber Music Society Two of Lincoln Center in New York, he appears at major venues around the world (Washington Kennedy Center, New York Alice Tully Hall, London Wigmore Hall, Moscow Tchaikovsky Hall, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Boston Gardner Museum, Teatro Nacional de Belém, Copenhagen Concert Hall, Ongakudo Hall Kanazawa, Nagoya Shirakawa Hall, Sendai city Hall... ), in France (Salle Pleyel, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Cité de la Musique, Metz Arsenal, Musée d’Orsay, Opéra du Rhin, Grand Théâtre de Provence, etc.), and he is invited to many artistic events, including La Chaise-Dieu, La Roque d’Antheron, Printemps des Arts (Monaco), Festival de l’Orangerie (Sceaux), Parc Floral (Vincennes), Folles Journées de Nantes, Rencontres Musicales de La Baule, Flâneries musicales de Reims, Deauville Easter Festival, Les Arcs, Périgord Noir, Auvers-sur-Oise, Musique à l’Empéri. He also takes part in festivals abroad, such as Lockenhaus (Austria), Ravinia (Usa), Sintra (Portugal), Davos (Switzerland), and has performed as a soloist with the Orchestre National de France, Sinfonia Varsovia, Mexico Philharmonic, NHK Tokyo Chamber Orchestra, Belgrade Radio Orchestra, Kiev Philharmonic, Nice Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Orchestre National de Lorraine, Orchestre des Pays de Savoie, Orchestre d’Auvergne, Orchestre Français des Jeunes, Orchestre de l’Opéra de Toulon, Baltic Chamber Orchestra, Novossibirsk Chamber Orchestra, European Camerata, the chamber orchestra of La Scala de Milan, the Yokohama Sinfonietta, the Kanazawa Orchestral Ensemble, the Sendai Strings Ensemble, Caen Symphony orchestra, Orchestre Pasdeloup, under conductors Yuri Bashmet, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Dennis Russell Davies, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Mishiyoshi Inoue, Kazuki Yamada, Jacques Mercier, Fabien Gabel, Faycal Karoui, Vahan Mardirossian, Stanislas Lefort, Mark Foster, Arie Van Beek and others. Nicolas Dautricourt, who is appreciated for his « sensitivity and passionate manner », is particularly fond of chamber music, which he plays with Yuri Bashmet, Léon Fleisher, Augustin Dumay, Gérard Caussé, Michel Dalberto, Gary Hoffman, Anne Gastinel, Giovanni Bellucci, Dana Ciocarlie, Bertrand Chamayou, the Psophos and Parisii Quartets, the Wanderer Trio. Keenly interested in jazz, he works regularly with top players such as Jean-Marie Ecay, Nelson Veras, Jean-Philippe Viret, Jean-Marc Jafet, Antoine Hervé, Dominique Fillon, Pascal Schumacher, and the accordionist Richard Galliano as a member of the Tangaria Quartet the Piazzolla Forever project, in such festivals as Jazz à Vienne, Marciac, Sud-Tyroler Jazz Festival, San Javier, Copenhagen, Athens... Finalist and prize-winner of numerous international violin competitions, such as the Henryk Wieniawski Competition in Poznan, the Jeunesses Musicales Competition in Belgrade, the Rodolfo Lipizer in Gorizia and the Gian-Battista Viotti in Vercelli Competitions, he has studied with Philip Hirschhorn, Miriam Fried, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Gérard Poulet and Jean Mouillère among others, and became in 2007 artistic director of « Les Moments Musicaux de Gerberoy». He currently plays a magnificent instrument by Sanctus Seraphin (Venice, 1735), on loan from the association Zilber.
CEO - Shore.li Architect and Internet innovator in love with new ideas, discussing them and getting them real (web, socialmedia, game, society).
Entrepreneur, amateur and of beautiful things such as politics, wine, design. Into understanding the future and making it happen.
Partner, JVP
Mechanical Engineer & Entrepreneur
Investor
Olivier develops since 1994 a strong editorial expertise across a wide range of media and creates international programmes linking innovation, learning and other societal issues. Curator Kinnernet Europe
Innovation & Digital transformation leader at Air Liquide, my life is all about friendship, serendipity, cross-fertilization, jazz, the Basque Country and my little girl.
Head of GroupM InteractionGroupM
Ceo of SimilarGroup
Co-founder, State of the net
Pierre Etienne Franc, VP advanced Business and Technologies at Air Liquide, the guy who tries to build bridges between today and tomorrow, public and private, politics and business, dreams and realities....
CEO @Decode Media. FrenchWeb.fr The source for Internet news, startups, and tech trends in France.
Infantile. Survivor of curiosity. Worshiper of talent&creativity which I am dedicated to scout find&develop in corporate environments.
Orange
Internet Entrepreneur From 1991 to 1994, Sonia Rameau organized & commercialized new contract catering concepts at Eurest France in Paris & Eurest Intl in London. After completing her MBA, she joined an internet start-up, BusinessMeetings.com, as Biz Dev Director. She created SRNet Consulting in 1998 in order to help Internet start-ups defining & applying their marketing and biz dev strategy. As an early investor in the company, she joined Notrefamille.com in 200, an internet portal specialized in genealogy (genealogie.com), family roots and personalized products (cadeaux.com) where she became fully operational as Deputy GM from 2005 to 2009. She co-founded & invested in Youscribe, a digital document distribution platform, & was in charge of content and biz dev until summer 2011. She is currently launching a new internet venture dedicated to promoting & selling artist pieces of art online: Artistics.com. As a Business Angel she is analyzing new business opportunities. She is a member of the board of the entrepreneur’s network Croissance +. Sonia holds an MBA from Cranfield (UK) & Cesma (France), & a Bachelor of Science in International Hospitality Management from Lausanne Hotel School.
Pianist
IEG - MD Founder, MD and Global Head of Digital & Technology Desk at IEG - Investment Banking Group, focused on M&A, Financing & Financial Strategy.
Rightster co-founder and marketing director
Reverso Founder entrepreneur at the crossroads of tech/mktg and language
Thomas Landrain is a researcher in synthetic biology who has become an entrepreneur to build ecosystems facilitating open, inclusive and collaborative science and innovation, convinced that there is no monopoly on great ideas. He is Co-Founder of the Just One Giant Lab (JOGL), first research and innovation laboratory operating as a distributed, open and massive mobilisation platform for volunteer-based, IP-free task solving. JOGL helps sync humanity onto solving our most urgent and important problems using Open Science, Responsible Innovation and Continuous Learning. Thomas also co-founded and directed for 6 years La Paillasse in Paris, one of the largest open community labs in the world providing ressources and opportunities to hundreds of change makers and indie scientists for free. He also co-founded and directed for 2 years PILI, a biotech startup making natural dyes using fermentation to create sustainable, renewable and scalable alternatives to petrochemical dyes in the industry. Recently Thomas has also joined the iGEM (international Genetically Engineered Machine competition) Foundation to help design and deploy new programs to explore how communities can create even more positive values and impact on the world using Synthetic Biology.
i start things, i design things, i bring people together around things
Gamer. Game designer. Behavioral Economics student. Founder @ Captain Up
A developer since the age of 11 when computers had 8 bits and less than 64k of memory. He has a hobby of making people look a bit silly using apps and extremely enjoys the art of talking to people. On the serious side he has a vast experience in building large scale solutions on different platforms and working with early stage companies to realise what can be done with cutting edge technologies. For the past 18 months Yosi is working on a stealth operation. Father of 4 girls and married to a PH.d which is way too smarter than I am.
XYO - CEO
The 2025 director team that will make Kinnernet Europe possible is comprised of…
Yossi Vardi Co-Host
Marc Goldberg Co-Host
Muriel Sergent Head of Getting Things Done
Everything you need to know about Kinnernet EuropeWhat is an Un-Conference?Unconferences are unusual. There is no formal agenda, speeches or PowerPoint presentations. Instead everyone who is invited is expected to get involved. Kinnernet Europe was framed after Tim O’Reilly’s famous Foo Camp. Foo Camp, an annual event hosted by O’Reilly Media, is described as “the wiki of conferences” because the attendees design and alter the program via big whiteboard schedules that allow for overwriting and rewriting. Foo Camp was intended to reach out to people who can enhance the company’s technological intelligence as well as open the door for opportunities and cross-fertilization between people, disciplines, etc. What should I bring?Kinnernet Europe will be casual, with any attire acceptable from hiking clothes to jeans. Many activities are outdoor, including workshops and meals. Avallon can get hot during the day (25-30 degrees Celcius) and colder at night (around 10-15 degrees Celcius). While the climate is very dry, attendees should prepare for fluctuating temperatures. Layers are strongly recommended. Write your 140 character biographyKinnernet Europe is attended by 200 people. The fastest way to get to know everyone before you even arrive is to complete your 140 character biography. Suggest a discussion topicWe will have over 80+ discussions at Kinnernet Europe, and all of them will be suggested by you. Each discussion lasts about one hour. To suggest a discussion doesn’t mean you have to have the answer, you just need to lead the conversation. You can just send us your own idea. See what else you can do at KinnernetDiscussions are the heart and soul of Kinnernet Europe, but there are also cooking, Ignite talks, sport, health or meditation, games, music and artistic performances. Come prepared! You can read more and sign up for the activities here. Act fast! Ignite talks and Midnight Cooking Madness are always popular. |
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