Roger Spitz

Roger Spitz is a visionary futurist and venture capitalist. Before founding the influential Disruptive Futures Institute in San Francisco, he served as Global Head of Technology M&A at a major investment bank, advising on transactions totaling over $25 billion.

As President of Techistential, the preeminent foresight practice, Roger advises CEOs and boards on strategy under uncertainty, the future of leadership, and sustainable value creation. A top-ranked futurist speaker, Roger is an award-winning author of five bestselling books and his frameworks are widely adopted by leading organizations worldwide.

Building on his bestselling books and global recognition as the leading authority on systemic disruption and uncertainty, Roger Spitz is famous for his unique keynotes drawn from his extensive real-world boardroom experience.

At the heart of Roger’s transformative keynotes is the power of agency and informed optimism in shaping our futures, even in the face of unpredictability.

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Todd Gillette

Todd Gillette currently serves as a Staff Software Engineer at Northrop Grumman Corporation’s Mission Systems as well as Director of onAir Tech, a startup building an innovative open knowledge network platform. Todd earned his PhD in Neuroscience in 2015 from George Mason University, having researched informatics and data analytics methods applied to neuronal morphology and function. He holds a BS in Engineering and BA in Computer Science from Swarthmore College.

Along with his many years working with software, Todd’s experience includes mission engineering and systems engineering, determining and documenting the key problems to be solved, deriving requirements, architecting and evaluating candidate solutions, and verifying designs and implementations. He has worked with cyber systems and software engineers to address anti-tamper and unintended emissions concerns and to integrate defensive and offensive cyber capabilities. Todd has also studied and applied artificial intelligence, including machine learning and logical ontology-based techniques. The intersections of AI and biological brains, and how to leverage them to enhance human capabilities in an ethical and human-centered manner, continue to be one of Todd’s primary interests.

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