James Allen Dator is Professor Emeritus and former Director of the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies, Department of Political Science, and Adjunct Professor in the College of Architecture, of the University of Hawaii at Manoa; Co-Chair and Core Lecturer, Space Humanities, International Space University, Strasbourg, France; Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Futures Strategy, Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; Daejeon, Korea, and former President, World Futures Studies Federation.  He is editor-in-chief of the World Futures Review. He also taught at Rikkyo University (Tokyo, for six years), the University of Maryland, Virginia Tech, the University of Toronto, and the InterUniversity Consortium for Postgraduate Studies in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia.

He received a BA in Ancient and Medieval History and Philosophy from Stetson University, an MA in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD in Political Science from The American University. He did post-graduate work at Virginia Theological Seminary (Ethics and Church History), Yale University (Japanese Language), The University of Michigan (Linguistics and Quantitative Methods), Southern Methodist University (Mathematical Applications in Political Science).

Future human behaviour, leadership & business strategy

Thimon de Jong (1977) founded WHETSTON, a strategic foresight think tank based in Amsterdam. WHETSTON explores the future of human behaviour, societal trends and generational change. These insights are then applied to leadership and business strategy. Thimon is an experienced (virtual) keynote speaker and leadership trainer and has worked for clients like Morgan Stanley, Vodafone, IKEA, Novartis, Nike, Microsoft, Warner, Tetra Pak and L’Oréal. Thimon also lectures at the social psychology department of Utrecht University. He is a former insights & strategy director at TrendsActive, a researcher at FreedomLab Future Studies and editor-in-chief of RELOAD Magazine. His first book, Future Human Behavior – Understanding What People Are Going To Do Next was published in 2023 by Routledge.

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Nikola Danaylov is a Futurist Philosopher, Bestselling Author, and Keynote Speaker.

He translates complex technological trends into simple stories that help clients embrace rather than fear the future, deal with Accelerating Change – aka Future Shock, and give birth to their best ideas.

His Conversations with the Future is an International bestseller and his pioneering Singularity.FM podcast was the first in the world on topics such as AI, which is why Danaylov has been called the “Larry King of the Singularity.”

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Leading female Futurist & Ecocentrist, Author, Keynote, Adviser & Presenter

Renegade futurist and ecocentrist K D Adamson deconstructs the techno-optimist narrative, showing tomorrow isn’t a tech problem, it’s a value problem, and other futures are available.

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Mind Opener, Paradigm Shifter, Narrative therapist

Aline is a visionary thinker and innovator dedicated to fostering “Shifts in Minds for Shifts in Action.” With over 25 years of experience, she empowers individuals and organizations to rethink their mental maps and reshape their landscapes.

Aline’s unique approach equips people with the power and freedom to change how and what they think, thereby asserting their individual and collective agency over the Future. Her expertise lies in challenging commonly held beliefs and perceptions, encouraging the exploration of uncharted territories with imagination and vision.

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Jerome C. Glenn co-founded and directs The Millennium Project, a leading global participatory think tank supported by international organizations, governments, corporations, and NGOs, which produces the internationally recognized State of the Future annual reports for the past 16 years.

Jerome Glenn invented the “Futures Wheel”, a futures assessment technique; Futuristic Curriculum Development, and concepts such as conscious-technology, transinstitutions, tele-nations, management by understanding, feminine brain drain, just-in-time knowledge, feelysis, nodes as a management concept for interconnecting global and local views and actions, and definitions of environmental security, Collective Intelligence, and scenarios.

Leading Futurist, visionary and communicator

Liselotte Lyngsø possesses a unique ability to paint mental pictures of how megatrends will affect us. She is a sought-after speaker and strategic advisor worldwide. Host and organizer of the podcast “Supertrends,” where she explores the future technologies that will revolutionize our way of life.

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Ross Dawson is globally recognized as a leading futurist, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, strategy advisor, and bestselling author.

Strong demand for Ross’s expertise has seen him deliver keynote speeches and executive workshops in over 30 countries across six continents. Ross also consults leading organizations worldwide such as American Express, Citibank, Coca-Cola, Dubai Ministry of Finance, EY, Gartner, Google, Macquarie Bank, News Limited, Procter & Gamble, PwC, Star Alliance, Visa, and many other leading organizations.

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Patrick Dixon is Chairman of Global Change Ltd, author of 16 books on global trends including The Future of Almost Everything, and has been ranked as one of the 20 most influential business thinkers alive today (Thinkers 50).

Dr. Patrick Dixon has been ranked as one of the 20 most influential business thinkers alive today *. He has worked with or advised over 400 of the world’s largest corporations on strategy, global trends, innovation, and risk management.  More than 500,000 pages on tens of thousands of websites refer to his work. He is Chairman of Global Change Ltd, a growth strategy and forecasting company, and a physician by first training.

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Ralph Keeney specializes in the development, use, and dissemination of decision-making concepts and techniques that help policy makers, governments, businesses, and individuals facing important decisions to structure their decisions in a logical manner that will promote better decision-making.

Dr. Keeney has made significant contributions to the fields of decision analysis and value-focused thinking. He applies precepts from operations research, management science and the decision sciences to important and challenging decision problems. His work includes: theoretical, methodological, and procedural contributions to decision analysis, risk analysis, and value-focused thinking and their applications.

He promotes the decision sciences through education and speaking, and service.

Ralph Keeney is President of the consulting firm, U.S. Marketing and Decisions Group, Inc.,  Professor Emeritus at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business and Professor Emeritus of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California.

In 2009, Frank founded Kedge – a global foresight, innovation, and strategic design firm which pioneered TFSX. Throughout his career, Frank has worked  as a leadership coach and developer with entrepreneurs, social communities, networking initiatives, and SMEs, helping them in areas such as development, innovation, and networking.

He holds a Master of Arts in Strategic Foresight from Regent University. With a strong background in both business and academic foresight, Frank was the creator and lead instructor of The Futures Institute: Shaping The Future Now at Duke University’s Talent identification Program Institute, teaching students to use Futures Thinking and foresight to develop transformative solutions to grand challenges (2010, 2011).

He has worked on Strategic Foresight projects for companies such as Kraft, Mars, Marriott, and The Walt Disney Company. He is a prolific speaker, having delivered presentations to groups and conferences around the globe for over the last 20 years. Frank holds memberships in World Futures Society (WFS) and Association for Professional Futurists (APF).

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Prior to embarking on his career in academia, Jörn held senior leadership positions in a range of commercial enterprises. In these positions, he spearheaded major initiatives such as the formation of entrepreneurial and intrepreneurial business efforts, expansions of enterprise into new markets, and launches of innovative startup companies. His experience includes work with a range of global business icons, including Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Toyota, BMW, and Bang & Olufsen A/S. Working across multiple geographies and cultures has given Jörn a truly international perspective, which informs his thinking about research, process, and execution.

Jörn’s commercial background ensures that his efforts are rooted in human-centered, consumer-focused values and innovations. He has a specific interest in factors that drive new markets, focus on experiential memory constructs and consumption, and leverage co-creation concepts that include various stakeholders.

Dr. Bühring’s current research explores Design Foresight, Strategic Innovation, Vision, and Fiction, within the context of Strategic Design, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation Management. Since 2010, he has conducted several major studies in the sectors of luxury hospitality, omnichannel retailing, and financial services; this includes a series of futures studies in wealth management and private banking to the year 2030.

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Dr. Mara Di Berardo is a seasoned expert in futures studies, communication, and participatory methodologies. She serves as the Communication Director and Italy Node Co-Chair of The Millennium Project, a global think tank with over 70 Nodes dedicated to improving global foresight and collaborative intelligence. Mara has been a vital contributor to the organization since 2007, leading research, events, and communication initiatives.

A prominent voice in the field, Mara is also the Communication Officer for the Foresight Europe Network, where she connects foresight professionals across Europe through participatory vision-building and strategic action planning. Her research includes an analysis of global futures topics, notably as the Principal Investigator for the 2022 Third Futures Research Grant, resulting in the widely cited study on World Futures Day 2022.

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Tsvi Bisk is a futurist whose approach is historical and strategic –how to get from here to there in order to achieve “desired” futures.  His expertise ranges from specific Jewish issues, to global development and environmental issues, to the spiritual future of humanity in the space age.

Tsvi keynotes conferences and gatherings with the aim of clearing away the rubble of conventional thinking and ways of doing things. He creates workshops and seminars geared to releasing the creative energies inherent in organizations and individuals.

In collaborating with other futurists and consultants who wish to expand the services they provide to their clients, Tsvi can enrich their offerings in a variety of areas:

• Mitigating the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and its potential effect on the future of the Middle East:
  economically, culturally, socially and constitutionally.
• The future of Israeli-Diaspora relations and its potential impact on the Middle East as well as American
  and European politics.
• Why there are no limits to growth – how science and technology enable a world population of 12 billion
  to achieve an American standard of living with zero negative environ

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Professor Carmel teaches Information Technology (I.T.) at American University in Washington, DC. He is currently working on a number of research areas: Digital identity; Crypto ethics; Future of work.

He received his Ph.D., in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona; his MBA from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley.

Source: American University page

A graduate in political science and a doctor of sociology, I am director of the center for study, research and consulting in prospective, SAS proGective , and an associate of Yonders .

My main activity is to support decision-makers, both public and private, in their thinking, strategies and forward-looking approaches, in France and abroad.

To achieve this, I conduct prospective research on major topics relevant to evolution. As part of this, I develop and deliver lectures on the topics to which I devote my work. I also write and publish articles, books, and posts.

My passion is exploring uncharted territory. For over a decade, I’ve been working on the Great Transition we’re currently experiencing, and the chaotic, VUCA world it’s creating. Since 2018, I’ve been devoting my last decade of research to the emerging X.0 development model.

The COVID-19 pandemic has provided a tremendous springboard for the aspirations, creativity, and diverse awareness that have emerged. World X.0 has never seemed so close. I hope to make a significant contribution to its implementation.

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Professor Jennifer Gidley, PhD
Author, Climate Educator, Psychologist, Futures Researcher.
Forbes “World’s Top 50 Female Futurists” List.

Jennifer is a global thought leader and advocate for human-centred futures in an era of hi-tech hype.

She is unique in the Futures world for her exceptional scholarship, mature wisdom, and grounded understanding of people as they face an increasingly uncertain world. Her inspiring human-centred insights speak to all audiences and enable hopeful, yet practical, strategies for creating better futures.

Jennifer’s most recent project is the founding of Global Futures Education, as a platform to provide high-level online education for professionals and executives. Over several years she has created a series of executive-level online courses on ‘Grand Global Futures Challenges and Solutions’.

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Elizabeth Florescu is Director of Research of The Millennium Project. She has been with the Project since 1997.

Elizabeth is an economist and analyst-programmer with over 20 years of experience in futures research. She was also policy analyst at the European Commission (2016-2019) and has done extensive work in operational research (using fuzzy logic), foreign trade, diplomacy, and security-related domains.

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Luke established an independent strategic foresight practice in 2021, building on two decades of “been there, done that” service in the transport and agrifood domains of the Singapore public sector – across a breadth of leadership and foresight-focussed roles in policy, planning, international relations, national security, operations, infrastructure, risk management, corporate governance, strategic communications, and people development.

Luke’s work has involved engagement with a plethora of political, policy, enterprise, and civil society actors and organisations across Southeast Asia, Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Oceania, as well as at international bodies including the G20, UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, the UNDP, APEC, and ASEAN – imparting perspectives and experiences which have spurred his passion to advance international and cross-sectoral dialogue and collaboration for sustainable development.

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William R Kramer earned a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology, master’s in environmental policy and public administration, and doctorate in political science with an emphasis in outer space policy and futures studies.

He spent most of his career as a wildlife biologist with the Smithsonian Institution and the US Fish and Wildlife Service, where he spent nearly two decades working on endangered species conservation issues in Hawaii and the Pacific region. He retired as head of the US Endangered Species Recovery Program.

After his first retirement, he assisted the US Navy’s Pacific Fleet for 12 years as a senior environmental scientist, taught bioethics and biology at Hawaii Pacific University, and worked at HDR, Inc. as their extraterrestrial environmental analyst. His experiences include Mission Commander at the Mars Desert Research Station and ground support for the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation Facility.

Since 2013, William continues to lecture and lead workshops on outer space exploration and development issues related to futures studies, bioethics, and environmental ethics at the International Space University in Strasbourg, France, and other locations.

Source: Blackburn International

Psychologist · Futures Strategist · Cultural Innovator

I work at the intersection of systems thinking, ecological intelligence, and moral imagination—helping individuals, organizations, and creative teams design futures that support human and planetary flourishing through applied psychology.

My work bridges research, wellness, technology, and the arts. Whether I’m consulting with leaders on ethical innovation, guiding people into deeper relationship with the more-than-human world, or creating immersive story systems for social transformation, my purpose is the same:

To help us remember how to be fully human in an accelerating world.

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Dr. Peter C. Bishop is the Exec Director of Teach the Future, Inc., having retired as an Associate Professor of Strategic Foresight and Director of the graduate program in Foresight at the University of Houston in August 2013.

Before establishing Teach the Future, Dr. Bishop specialized in techniques for long term forecasting and planning, and he has published two books on the subject: Thinking about the Future (2007) and Teaching about the Future (2012), both with co-author Andy Hines.

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Robin L. Champ is a visionary leader in strategic foresight and strategy management, currently serving as the Vice President, Strategic Foresight at LBL Strategies and an instructor at Harvard Extension School. She is a Certified Strategy Management Professional (SMP) through the International Association for Strategy Professionals (IASP), where she also serves as Co-Chair of the Government Community of Practice (IASP-GovCoP). With a distinguished career spanning key roles in both the Department of Defense and the U.S. Secret Service, Robin brings unparalleled expertise to the table.

Retired as the Chief of the Enterprise Strategy Division at the United States Secret Service, Robin led the organization’s foresight and strategic planning efforts. Notably, she also co-chaired the Federal Foresight Community of Interest, showcasing her commitment to advancing foresight practices across government.

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Professor, Department of Sociology and social research at the UniTrento Digital University.

Expertise: Anticipation theory, Epistemology, Future studies, Innovation studies, Philosophy of science, Philosophy of the social sciences, Social sciences, Systems theory

B.A. in Sociology, with honours, at the University of Trento (1980).
Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Utrecht (Netherlands) in 2001.

Memberships in societies and scientific committees
AFI-Associazione dei Futuristi Italiani (President)
-skopìa (President)
Editor in chief of Axiomathes (Springer)
Member of the editorial advisory board of the journals Futures and European Journal of Futures Research
Editor of the series Anticipation Science (Springer)

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Emeritus Professor of Strategic Management, London South Bank University

Dr Bruce Lloyd,  Emeritus Professor of Strategic Management, spent over 20 years in industry and finance before joining the academic world twenty years ago to help establish the Management Centre at what is now London South Bank University. He has a Degree in Chemical Engineering; MSc (Economics) / MBA from the London Business School (1968) and a PhD (by published work) for his work on ‘The Future of Offices and Office Work: Implications for Organisational Strategy’.

Since the late 1960’s he has written extensively (about 200 published articles) on a wide range of strategy/futures related issues, including articles exploring the link between Leadership, Power and Responsibility and, more recently, the relationship between Leadership, Wisdom, Knowledge Management and Organisational Performance. He has undertaken over 30 interviews on leadership/management related issues for various journals. He was also the UK co-ordinator for ‘The Millennium Project’ 1999-2005.  Currently he works part-time for the University, particularly on PhD supervision.

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Timothy E. Dolan is principal of Policy Foresight and faculty at DMS Academy. He is an alumnus of the Manoa School of Futures Studies and contemporary of such prominent futurists as Sohail Inayathulla, Wendy Schultz, and Chris Jones.

He is the author of over 35 articles and book chapters on anticipatory public policy. His current project is a book on the biotech revolution and market-driven evolution. He has designed numerous graduate-level courses on various topics relating to foresight/futures studies.

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Dr Marcus Bussey is an educator and futurist with more than 40 years’ experience. He has taught widely throughout Australia having spent 5 years at a yoga based neohumanist school, 4 years in an urban community school run by a parent cooperative, 7 years in Montessori primary and high schools, and 20 years at USC where he currently teaches world history and the philosophy of history. He is also heavily involved with supervision of higher degree students and is deeply committed to the University’s goals of increased research capacity and quality research with high impact. Marcus is also the Deputy Head, UniSC Sustainability Research Centre where he is involved with a range of sustainability and environmental communication research projects.

In 2014 Marcus was awarded a Taiwan Fellowship for 2014. This fellowship allowed him to work with colleagues at Tamkang University and the National Taiwan University on developing futures thinking in undergraduate engineering students. The outcomes of this research engagement appeared in the research paper he publishes with Song, Mei Mei Song and Hsieh (Patrick) Shang-Hsien: Anticipatory Imagination as a Tool for Rethinking Engineering Education which appeared in the Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice.

His most recent article is entitled: Navigating the Ruins of the Future.

Source: University of the Sunshine Coast

Jonathan Haidt (pronounced “height”) is a social psychologist at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992.

Haidt’s research examines the intuitive foundations of morality, and how morality varies across cultural and political divisions. Haidt is the author of The Happiness Hypothesis (2006) and of the New York Times bestsellers The Righteous Mind (2012) and The Coddling of the American Mind (2018, with Greg Lukianoff). He has given four TED talks. In 2019 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Since 2018 he has been studying the contributions of social media to the decline of teen mental health and the rise of political dysfunction. His most recent book is the New York Times #1 bestseller The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness.

Avi Bar-Zeev has been a pioneer, architect and advisor in Spatial Computing (AR/VR/MR/XR) for nearly 30 years, behind the scenes in the world’s largest tech companies and at large.

In early 2010, he helped found and invent the HoloLens at Microsoft, developing the first prototypes, demos, patents, plans and UX concepts, sufficient to convince his leadership. At Bing, he built first prototypes for developer-facing aspects of AR, sometimes called the “AR cloud.” At Amazon, he helped create PrimeAir as well as Echo Frames. From 2016-2019, he helped Apple on undisclosed projects. In 1999-2001, he co-founded Keyhole, the company behind Google Earth, and helped define Second Life’s core technology. Back in the 1990s, he worked on novel VR experiences for Disney, including “Aladdin’s Magic Carpet” VR Ride, the “Virtual Jungle Cruise” and “Cyberspace Mountain.”

Source: Reality Prime website

John Linwood Battelle (born November 4, 1965)  is an entrepreneur, author and journalist. Best known for his work creating media properties, Battelle helped launch Wired in the 1990s and launched The Industry Standard during the dot-com boom. In 2005, he founded the online advertising network Federated Media Publishing. In January 2014, Battelle sold Federated Media Publishing’s direct sales business to LIN Media and relaunched the company’s programmatic advertising business from Lijit Networks to Sovrn Holdings. He later started NewCo Platform, an “inside out” events company that allowed attendees to visit “new kinds of companies” in more than a dozen cities around the world. In 2019, he co-founded The Recount, which was sold to The News Movement in 2023.

Battelle is the chairman of Sovrn Holdings as well as board director at LiveRamp. He taught at Columbia SIPA from 2018 to 2022, and is currently a Professor of Practice at Northeastern.

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Professor Victoria Baines FBCS is a leading authority in the field of online trust, safety and cybersecurity. She frequently contributes to major broadcast media outlets on digital ethics, cybercrime and the misuse of emerging technologies, including Extended Reality and Artificial Intelligence. Her areas of research include electronic surveillance, cybercrime futures, and the politics of security.

Victoria has published on cyberspace governance, online surveillance, the future of cybercrime, and the politics of security. Drawing on her Classical education, her book Rhetoric of Insecurity (Routledge, 2021) sheds light on 2000 years of security speak and is a toolkit for understanding why security issues always seem to be so novel, urgent and divisive. She also provides research expertise to a number of international organisations, including Interpol, UNICEF and the Council of Europe.

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Walid Al-Saqaf is a Senior Lecturer at Södertörn University in Stockholm where he specializes in the use of the Internet and media technology for journalism, access to information, freedom of expresssion and public good. As a dual Yemeni/Swedish citizen, his passion is in promoting a strong and open Internet that netizens can build bridges between cultures and promote democratization and free speech across the globe.

As a computer engineering undergraduate student in the mid 1990s at the Middle East Technical University in Turkey, Walid designed YemenTimes.com as the first news website in his home country Yemen. In 2007, he launched YemenPortal.net as the first news aggregator and search engine of its kind in the Arab world to provide Internet users with the ability to get a wide spectrum of perspectives from various news sources on Yemen in Arabic and English. When the website was blocked by the Yemeni government in 2008 due to its open platform that allowed dissident voices to be heard, he developed Alkasir website censorship mapping circumvention solution, which was initially used to access YemenPortal.net, but which soon became widely used by Internet users in many states such as Iran, Syria, China and Saudi Arabia to bypass website filtering in those countries.

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Dr Micah Altman is a social and information scientist at MIT’s Center for Research on Equitable and Open Scholarship. (Previously, he served as Director of Research for the MIT Libraries, Head/Scientist for the Program on Information Science, Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution; and at Harvard University as the Associate Director of the Harvard-MIT Data Center, Archival Director of the Henry A. Murray Archive, and Senior Research Scientist in the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences.)

Dr. Altman conducts research, provides public commentary, and collaborates in initiatives related to how information technologies change politics, society, and science. He is the author of over one hundred scientific and scholarly articles – as well as a spectrum of books, opinion pieces, databases and software packages. His recently published research establishes requirements for reliable information anonymization and privacy; evaluates the alignment of artificial intelligence and trustworthy science; examines bias in scholarly communication and peer review; critiques the evidence-base for open science; and examines the role of public participation and institutional design in constraining redistricting.

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Full member of the Club of Rome, President of the Copenhagen based think tank Nordic Bildung, and co-founder of the Global Bildung Network.

I am an economist, author, futurist, philosopher and bildung activist. After studying business economy for three years, I worked as a substitute teacher before I studied theology. During my studies, I wrote entertainment for Danish television until I decided to quit theology, become a fulltime writer and focus on technological development, big history and the future of humanity.

Since 2005, I have written 20 books and received two Danish democracy awards: Ebbe Kløvedal-Reich Democracy Baton (2007) and Døssing Prisen, the Danish librarians’ democracy prize (2012).

Among my books are The Nordic Secret (2017; new edition January 2024), Metamodernity (2019), relaunched 2023 as Polymodernity, Bildung (2020), What is Bildung? (2021), and Libertism (2022).

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Stephan Adelson is the president of Adelson Consulting Services. Based on his publications and presentations, he appears to be an expert in digital public health, particularly in the application of internet-based interventions for health promotion and disease prevention, including HIV and STDs.

He has also been involved in developing national guidelines and providing consultation to various health organizations.

Source: Gemini

Dr Greg Adamson is a global expert in the ethics of artificial intelligence, he researches eXplainable AI, and is an authority on Norbert Wiener, founder of cybernetics. As a health informatics specialist he is an honorary Associate Professor in the Nossal Institute for Global Health at the University of Melbourne. His day job at the Victorian Department of Transport and Planning is Chief Information Security Officer, a field he has worked in for more than three decades. His PhD from RMIT University was on Internet adoption.

He has a Master of Commercial Law from Melbourne Law School, and was an early pioneer in blockchain. He chairs the IEEE Standards Association initiative Dignity, Inclusion, Identity, Trust and Agency. His current projects include a committee on power relations and AI, health informatics, and writing a biography of Justice James Staples of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. He is the Technical Activities vice president of the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology.

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Peter H. Diamandis (/ˌdiːəˈmændɪs/ DEE-ə-MAN-diss; born May 20, 1961) is an American engineer, physician,and entrepreneur. He is best known as the founder and chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, and the cofounder and executive chairman of Singularity University.

He is also cofounder and former CEO of the Zero Gravity Corporation, cofounder and vice chairman of Space Adventures Ltd., founder and chairman of the Rocket Racing League, cofounder of the International Space University, cofounder of Planetary Resources, cofounder of Celularity, founder of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, and vice chairman and cofounder of Human Longevity, Inc.

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Lex Fridman (born 15 August 1983) is an American computer scientist and podcaster. Since 2018, he has hosted the Lex Fridman Podcast, where he interviews notable figures from various fields such as science, technology, sports, and politics.

Fridman rose to prominence in 2019 after Elon Musk praised a study Fridman authored at MIT, which concluded that drivers remained focused while using Tesla’s semi-autonomous driving system. The study was criticized by AI experts and was not peer-reviewed. That year Fridman transitioned to an unpaid role at MIT AgeLab, and since 2022 has worked as a research scientist at the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS).] As of February 2024, Fridman lives in Texas but is still paid by MIT and is on campus “regularly”.

What happened in tech that mattered, and what did it mean? Once a week, I send an email newsletter to close to 200,000 people – I pick out the changes and ideas you don’t want to miss in all the noise, and give them context and analysis.

What matters in tech? What’s going on, what might it mean, and what will happen next?

I’ve spent 20 years analysing mobile, media and technology, and worked in equity research, strategy, consulting and venture capital. I’m now an independent analyst. Mostly, that means trying to work out what questions to ask.

I write essays about things I’m trying to understand, and a weekly newsletter with 175,000 subscribers, and give presentations pulling together these ideas.

What happened in tech that mattered, and what did it mean? Once a week, I send an email newsletter to close to 200,000 people – I pick out the changes and ideas you don’t want to miss in all the noise, and give them context and analysis.

Source: Website

Ina Fried (born December 17, 1974), formerly Ian Fried, is an American journalist for Axios. Prior to that, she was senior editor for All Things Digital and a senior staff writer for CNET Network’s News.com, and worked for Re/code.

She is a frequent commenter on technology news on National Public Radio and local television news, and for other print and broadcast outlets.

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Yoshua Bengio OC FRS FRSC (born March 5, 1964) is a Canadian-French computer scientist, and a pioneer of artificial neural networks and deep learning. He is a professor at the Université de Montréal and scientific director of the AI institute MILA.

Bengio received the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award, often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of Computing”, together with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, for their foundational work on deep learning. Bengio, Hinton, and LeCun are sometimes referred to as the “Godfathers of AI”. Bengio is the most-cited computer scientist globally (by both total citations and by h-index), and the most-cited living scientist across all fields (by total citations). In 2024, TIME Magazine included Bengio in its yearly list of the world’s 100 most influential people.

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Mark Brakel is Future of Life’s Director of Policy, leading our advocacy and policy efforts globally. Previously, Mark was FLI’s regional director for European policy, and served in the Dutch diplomatic service where he was posted to The Netherlands’ Embassy in Iraq.

Mark also authors Not Another Big Tech Stack, a monthly perspective on AI policy (unaffiliated with any of the major AI companies).

Mark holds a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford, and master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He speaks Dutch, English, Arabic and a decent amount of French.

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Sangeet Paul Choudary is a business executive, advisor, and best-selling author. He is best known for his work on platform economics and network effects. He is the co-author of the international best-selling book Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy and How to Make Them Work for You.

Choudary’s work on platform economics has been featured on four occasions among Harvard Business Review’s top 10 management ideas. It is ranked among HBR’s top 10 strategy publications, alongside the works of Michael Porter, Clayton Christensen, A.G. Lafley, and others.

For his contributions to the field of platform economics, Choudary was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2017.

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Samuel Harris Altman (born April 22, 1985) is an American entrepreneur and investor best known as the chief executive officer of OpenAI since 2019 (he was briefly dismissed and reinstated in November 2023).  He is also the chairman of clean energy companies Oklo Inc. and Helion Energy.

Altman is considered to be one of the leading figures of the AI boom. He dropped out of Stanford University after two years and founded Loopt, a mobile social networking service, raising more than $30 million in venture capital. In 2011, Altman joined Y Combinator, a startup accelerator, and was its president from 2014 to 2019. Altman’s net worth was estimated at $1.1 billion in January 2025.

Ezra Klein (born May 10, 1984) is an American journalist, political analyst, New York Times columnist, and the host of The Ezra Klein Show podcast. He is a co-founder of Vox and formerly served as the website’s editor-at-large.

He has held editorial positions at The Washington Post and The American Prospect, and was a regular contributor to Bloomberg News and MSNBC. His first book, Why We’re Polarized, was published by Simon & Schuster in January 2020.