Futurist, Business Strategist, Public Speaker, Businessman and Entrepreneur

Anton is a Co-Founder of FutureWorld International – having joined the global FutureWorld network in 1991.

His passion is to engage senior executives in challenging debates about the many forces, technologies, and market dynamics driving future business success. Few leave Anton’s sessions thinking about anything similarly; instead, they are fuelled with new, exciting, action-shifting insights.

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Professor of Economics at University of Nairobi

Leopold P. Mureithi is co-chair of The Millennium Project (TMP) Kenya Node, a consultant on technology, employment, and related development matters, and a member of World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF). A long-time Professor of Economics at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, he has been on fixed-term assignments of limited duration (ALD) as Policy and an issues analyst at UNDP’s African Futures (AF) regional project  to promote long term perspectives thinking in Africa, based in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.

Lweopold has carried out research at the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), and served as a founding team leader, for the Policy Analysis Support Unit (PASU) of the Organization of African Unity (OAU/AU) to build capacity for the African Economic Community, based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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c3’s Founder and Executive Director, Producer, Writer

“Over 35 years of professional experience in the the arts and the entertainment industries together with a deep interest and study of human potential, consciousness research and future studies has been my inspiration for the creation of c3: Center for Conscious Creativity and the mission we seek to accomplish.

I hold an MA in Consciousness Studies and have been a student and practitioner of creativity, future trends in the arts and media, and meditation for over 40 years.  As an artist, I work as a producer and content creator in a variety of mediums, am a writer, musician, and photographer.”

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Educational background:
Engineering on Industrial electronics and electricity, Engineering on energy resources

Work Experience:
30+ Years Technical trainer, nearly 25 Years Industrial robotics engineer, 25+ years technical translator, 20+ years investigating on future of technology and its integration on society. Further experience on Solar power, Laser technology, Industrial electronics.

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Joseph N. Pelton, Ph.D., is the Chairman of the Board of the Alliance for Collaboration in the Exploration of Space (ACES Worldwide). He is the Dean emeritus and former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the International Space University. He is the Founder of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation and the founding President of the Society of Satellite Professionals International—now known as the Space and Satellite Professionals International (SSPI).

Dr. Pelton currently serves on the Executive Board of the International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety. He is the Director Emeritus of the Space and Advanced Communications Research Institute (SACRI) at George Washington University, where he also served as Director of the Accelerated Masters’ Program in Telecommunications and Computers from 1998 to 2004.

Chief Communications Officer, onAir Networks

Public Policy for Digital Technology, Internet & Telecommunications, Innovation and Technological Emergence

My goal is to help shape policies and strategies around information technologies that empower people throughout the world. My interests include information and communications technologies, Internet & telecommunications policy, technology innovation policy and technology forecasting. I am also interested in spiritual development, electronic art and music, and video games. Technology can bring both great promise and peril, and I thrive in expanding the former and minimizing the latte

Gary Marcus is a leading voice in artificial intelligence. He is a scientist, best-selling author, and serial entrepreneur (Founder of Robust.AI and Geometric.AI, acquired by Uber). He is well-known for his challenges to contemporary AI, anticipating many of the current limitations decades in advance, and for his research in human language development and cognitive neuroscience.

An Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at NYU, he is the author of five books, including, The Algebraic Mind, Kluge, The Birth of the Mind, and the New York Times Bestseller Guitar Zero. He has often contributed to The New Yorker, Wired, and The New York Times. His most recent book, Rebooting AI, with Ernest Davis, is one of Forbes’s 7 Must Read Books in AI.

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