Future of Technology

Why organisations work with Audrey Tang She has run the experiment that most boards are still debating: AI governance, digital deliberation, and disinformation defence deployed at national scale, with measurable outcomes during a pandemic and a presidential election. She offers a working alternative to the binary of techno-libertarianism and centralised AI control, set out in “Plurality” with E. Glen Weyl and tested inside Taiwan’s government. She built the civic infrastructure she talks about. g0v, the Mask Map, vTaiwan, and Join.gov.tw are operational systems, not concepts, and have been adopted in Japan, the EU, and the United States. Her authority is rare in this category: a TIME100 AI honoree and Foreign Policy Top 100 Global Thinker who has signed off on policy decisions, not just commented on them. Biography highlights First Minister of Digital Affairs of Taiwan, 2022 to 2024; Digital Minister from 2016. Co-author with E. Glen Weyl of “Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy”. TIME100 Most Influential People in AI, 2023. Foreign Policy Top 100 Global Thinkers, 2019. Co-founder of g0v and architect of Taiwan’s open-data COVID-19 response, including the Mask Map. Ambassador-at-large, University of Oxford Accelerator Fellowship Programme. Biography Most governments responded to COVID-19 with top-down distribution and mandates. Taiwan ran an open-data Mask Map built with civic coders, a participatory platform called vTaiwan, and a disinformation playbook with a 20-minute response window. The minister responsible was Audrey Tang. Tang served as Taiwan’s first Digital Minister from 2016, and as the first Minister of Digital Affairs from 2022 to 2024. Before government, she was a Silicon Valley engineer and a core contributor to Perl and Haskell. She joined the g0v civic-tech community in its early years and helped shape the open-government practices that later became state policy. Her book with E. Glen Weyl, “Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy”, argues that AI and digital tools can be designed to widen democratic participation rather than narrow it. The book was written openly on GitHub, translated by volunteers into more than a dozen languages, and released into the public domain. It draws directly on what Taiwan built and ran. She has been named to TIME100 AI, Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers, and serves as an ambassador-at-large in the University of Oxford’s Accelerator Fellowship Programme. For a senior audience weighing how to govern AI inside a regulated organisation, she offers something most speakers in this category cannot: a record of decisions made in office, with results visible in pandemic outcomes and election integrity. Key speaking topics Digital democracy and participatory governance AI ethics and trustworthy AI design Plurality and collaborative technology Disinformation defence and election integrity Open-source civic infrastructure Public trust in technology Cybersecurity as democratic resilience Ideal for Boards and executive committees setting AI governance and risk policy Chief Digital, Data, and AI Officers designing deployment frameworks Public-sector and regulated-industry leaders facing trust and legitimacy questions CISOs and risk leads responsible for disinformation, election, or platform integrity Audience outcomes A working mental model for AI governance grounded in a national case, not a thought experiment. A clear view of what participatory and open-source approaches add to organisational decision-making, and where they break. Specific tactics for disinformation response, drawn from Taiwan’s 2-2-2 playbook. A vocabulary for “Plurality” that gives leaders an alternative to the techno-libertarian and centralised-control framings of AI.

Why organisations work with Parag Khanna A trilogy of books on global order, connectivity and the Asian century gives clients a coherent thesis on where capital, people and supply chains are moving, not a topical scan of headlines. Founder of AlphaGeo, which operationalises his frameworks as geospatial risk analytics for institutional investors, so the work in the room connects to a product used inside investment processes. Advised US Special Operations Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and the US National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends programme, which sharpens the briefing for boards weighing political risk and sanctions exposure. Sits inside the Gulf and Asian capital-allocation conversation through the UAE Ministry of Economy’s International Advisory Council and a senior advisory role at Gulf Capital, giving Western audiences access to perspectives they rarely hear directly. Multi-pillar fluency on geopolitics, climate adaptation and demographic mobility means a single keynote can reframe the same investment committee on country risk, supply chain and talent strategy. Biography highlights Founder and CEO, AlphaGeo, an AI-powered geospatial analytics platform for institutional investors. Author of seven books including Connectography, The Future is Asian and MOVE, published by Random House, Simon and Schuster and W&N. PhD in International Relations, London School of Economics; BSc and MA, Georgetown School of Foreign Service. Senior Geopolitical Adviser to US Special Operations Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan (2007); adviser to the US National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends programme. Named Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and one of Esquire’s “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century”. Visiting Senior Fellow, LSE Data Science Institute (2025-27); member, UAE Ministry of Economy International Advisory Council. Biography The argument that capital follows borders has stopped working. Supply chains, energy flows, migration and digital infrastructure now describe the world more accurately than the political map, and Parag Khanna has spent two decades building the data and the language to read it. His trilogy Connectography, The Future is Asian and MOVE traces that shift from theory through to the operating reality facing investment committees and corporate boards. The work sits on serious institutional ground. A PhD from the London School of Economics, two degrees from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service, and senior research posts at Brookings, the New America Foundation and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore. He has advised US Special Operations Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and the US National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends programme, work that informs how he handles questions on sanctions, China exposure and political risk in front of senior audiences. What separates the speaking work from the wider geopolitics circuit is that he runs the product. AlphaGeo, the company he founded and leads as CEO, turns the same geospatial and scenario frameworks into analytics used by sovereign wealth funds, pension plans and asset managers. The result is a keynote that connects a global thesis to the country, sector and asset-level decisions a board is already wrestling with. He also sits inside the conversations Western audiences rarely access directly. A seat on the UAE Ministry of Economy’s International Advisory Council, a senior advisory role at Gulf Capital, and a long working relationship with Asian governments and family offices give him a view of where Gulf and Asian capital is actually being committed, and why. Key speaking topics Geopolitical risk and the new global macro Asia, the Gulf and shifting capital flows Supply chain restructuring and connectivity Climate-driven migration and demographic mobility Country risk for institutional investors AI-powered geospatial analytics for decision-making Scenario planning and strategic foresight Ideal for Boards and investment committees of asset managers, pension funds and sovereign wealth funds reweighting country and sector exposure CEOs and CSOs of multinationals revising supply chain, China and Gulf strategy Heads of strategy, risk and policy in financial services, energy and infrastructure Family office principals and private equity partners pricing geopolitical and climate risk into capital decisions Audience outcomes A working thesis on where capital, people and supply chains are moving over the next decade, anchored to named regions and corridors A clearer read on China exposure, sanctions risk and the Gulf and Asian counter-cycle for committee-level conversations Practical framing for how climate-driven migration and demographic shifts intersect with country risk Exposure to how leading sovereign and institutional investors are using geospatial analytics inside live investment processes

Why organisations work with Tyler Cohen Wood She brings the threat picture a board actually needs: thirteen years inside the Department of Defense, including roles as Deputy Cyber Division Chief at the DIA and the Directorate’s named Cyber Subject Matter Expert, translated into language a non-technical executive can act on. She has run cyber risk at commercial scale. As Director of Cyber Risk Management at AT&T she built defences across one of the largest customer bases in the world, so her advice maps onto P&L decisions, not just policy. She is operator, not pundit. As co-founder of Dark Cryptonite (patent-pending zero-trust encryption) and CEO of MyConnectedHealth (AI in clinical diagnostics), she is currently building in the two domains she speaks on. Her work on social engineering and deepfakes draws on a digital forensics career at NASA’s Office of Inspector General and the DoD Cyber Crime Center, where she investigated major crimes and intrusions. That gives the deepfake material specific case grounding rather than headline commentary. She holds multiple US provisional patents for cyber capabilities and is a regular expert voice on Good Morning America, CNN, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg, so she lands in front of executive audiences who recognise her from crisis coverage. Biography highlights Former Senior Intelligence Officer and Deputy Cyber Division Chief, Special Communications Division, US Defense Intelligence Agency. Former Director of Cyber Risk Management, AT&T. Co-founder, Dark Cryptonite (patent-pending zero-trust encryption); Founder and CEO, MyConnectedHealth Inc. Author of Catching the Catfishers (Career Press); co-author of Alternate Data Storage Forensics (Syngress). Holder of multiple US provisional patents for cyber capabilities. Regular commentator for Good Morning America, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and GovInfoSecurity. Biography The cyber threat picture has changed shape. Adversaries now use generative AI to scale phishing, clone executive voices and produce convincing video. The defensive vocabulary that worked in 2018, perimeter, patch, password, no longer covers the surface area a modern board is responsible for. Tyler Cohen Wood spent thirteen years inside the US Department of Defense working on exactly that surface area. At the Defense Intelligence Agency she served as Senior Intelligence Officer and Deputy Cyber Division Chief in the Special Communications Division, and was designated the Cyber Subject Matter Expert for the DIA Science and Technologies Directorate. Her remit covered the White House, the DoD, federal law enforcement and the wider intelligence community. Before that, as a digital forensic examiner at NASA’s Office of Inspector General and the DoD Cyber Crime Center, she worked intrusion and major-crimes cases at evidentiary level. She then took that fluency into the commercial world as Director of Cyber Risk Management at AT&T, where the question shifts from intelligence reporting to defending revenue, customers and brand at scale. She now co-leads Dark Cryptonite, a venture building patent-pending zero-trust encryption for governments and enterprises, and is founder and CEO of MyConnectedHealth, an AI platform for clinical diagnosis. She holds multiple US provisional patents in cyber. What that combination gives an executive audience is a speaker who is currently building the technology she discusses, has carried the threat picture at state level, and has owned commercial cyber accountability inside a Fortune 10 business. Her writing reflects the same range: Catching the Catfishers on social engineering and online identity, and the co-authored Alternate Data Storage Forensics textbook used inside the forensics community. Key speaking topics Cybersecurity as a board-level risk AI and deepfake-driven social engineering Emerging technology strategy for executives Digital transformation and cyber risk management The innovation mindset for technical and non-technical leaders AI in healthcare and connected health Women in technology and senior leadership Ideal for Boards and executive committees treating cyber as a strategic, not IT, agenda item CISOs, CIOs and CTOs briefing non-technical leadership on AI-era threat posture Risk, audit and compliance leaders preparing for AI-driven fraud and identity attacks Industry conferences in financial services, healthcare, defence and critical infrastructure Audience outcomes A clearer board-level model for where cyber risk now sits in the operating model Specific examples of how AI is changing social engineering, deepfakes and intrusion tactics A grounded view of what zero-trust and encryption actually mean for procurement and architecture decisions A working understanding of how AI is being deployed in regulated environments such as healthcare Confidence to ask sharper questions of internal security leaders and external vendors

Why organisations work with Yonah Welker Direct line into the European policy machinery shaping AI rules, through working group contributions to the EU AI Code of Practice, DG CNECT’s digital and critical infrastructure work, and EU ICT and standardisation programmes. Published, citable expertise on how AI systems treat disability, neurodiversity, and other designated groups, with frameworks and a MOOC catalogued by OECD.AI, a specialism few governance advisers can match. Cross-institutional fluency across OECD, UN, UNESCO, and WHO governance processes, useful for organisations whose AI strategy now has to answer to several overlapping frameworks at once. Practical command of how governance applies to AI in physical and public deployment, including robotics and assistive systems, where compliance obligations under the EU AI Act and emerging harmonised standards are least settled. A practitioner-policy bridge rather than a pure academic, with hands-on evaluator and rapporteur roles across EU Horizon and EIT/EIC programmes, which is the lane most boards and compliance leads now need filled. Biography highlights AI expert listed in the OECD.AI community directory; visiting lecturer and evaluator affiliated with MIT collaborative work, and contributor to OECD.AI’s Wonk blog. Contributor to the EU AI Code of Practice (working Groups 2 and 3), DG CNECT digital and critical infrastructure programmes, and EU ICT standardisation work. Contributor of input to OECD (G7 Hiroshima AI Process), UN (ITU and IGF), UNESCO, NIST (Risk Management Framework), and White House PCAST processes. Lead author and coordinator on the forthcoming UNESCO/UN AI Science Report, and co-author of the MIT AI Safety Repository. Evaluator, rapporteur, and quality controller across EU Horizon, StandICT, and EIT Health, Deeptech, and Creativity programmes; member of the EDPB expert pool on embodied AI privacy. Former curator of the Global AI Summit and adviser to a national data and AI authority in the EMEA region; speaker at the AI Action Summit (Paris/Sorbonne), Sciences Po, Technical University of Munich, AI Safety Korea, and the Delphi Economic Forum; jury and peer reviewer for the MIT Global Competition, NeurIPS, and IEEE journals. Biography The EU AI Act, the OECD framework, UNESCO’s ethics recommendation, and the G7 Hiroshima Process now govern the same operating decisions, and they do not line up neatly. The people who work inside several of these processes at once, rather than reading them from outside, are few. Welker is one of them. He has contributed to the EU AI Code of Practice working groups and to DG CNECT’s critical infrastructure work. He sits on the EDPB expert pool examining embodied AI privacy, and is lead author and coordinator on the forthcoming UNESCO/UN AI Science Report. His input has also fed NIST and White House PCAST processes, and he has advised a national data and AI authority in the EMEA region alongside his EU Commission work. His distinctive angle is a lens few governance specialists share. His work centres on how AI systems treat designated groups: people with disabilities, neurodivergent users, and others where an algorithm can quietly grant or deny access. That question is now moving into robotics, assistive systems, and AI that acts in public space, where the frameworks are thinnest. The disability-centred AI MOOC catalogued in the OECD.AI tools repository is one concrete marker of it. For senior leaders, the value is operational. He can set out what an EU AI Act audit will actually examine, and what a defensible accessibility claim looks like in a deployed system. He can also show how the OECD, UN, and EU layers connect to a decision a general counsel or risk committee faces next quarter. Key speaking topics AI governance and the EU AI Act Algorithmic accountability and AI audit Disability-centred and accessibility AI policy Neurodiversity and inclusive AI design Sovereign AI and critical digital infrastructure AI safety and responsible deployment Public sector AI and citizen-facing systems Ideal for General counsel, chief compliance officers and CTOs preparing for EU AI Act enforcement Heads of AI, responsible AI leads and digital ethics committees Public sector and intergovernmental bodies designing AI policy Boards reviewing AI risk exposure across accessibility, bias and public-trust dimensions Audience outcomes A clearer map of how the EU AI Act, OECD framework and UN/UNESCO instruments interlock for their organisation Specific questions to put to vendors, internal teams and audit committees on algorithmic accountability A working definition of what disability-centred and accessibility AI obligations look like operationally Sharper instinct for where reputational and regulatory risk concentrates in current AI deployments A view of where European AI policy is heading next, drawn from inside the working groups shaping it

Why organisations work with Paddy Lowe He has industrialised winning at three Formula 1 constructors and can show, from inside the engineering room, how a championship operation actually allocates capital, talent and risk. He runs Zero Petroleum, the company behind the Guinness-verified first flight on 100 percent synthetic fuel, which gives him a working answer to the question of how aviation and motorsport decarbonise without waiting for batteries. His authority on energy transition is operational, not advocacy: a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering speaking from a fuel plant, not a policy podium. He bridges the two conversations that boards now run in parallel, hard-edged engineering performance under pressure and the capital reality of net zero, which most speakers handle separately. Biography highlights 32 years in Formula 1 across Williams, McLaren and Mercedes; technical leadership behind cars that won 12 World Championships and 158 Grands Prix. Technical Director at McLaren, then Executive Director (Technical) at Mercedes during the team’s 2014 to 2016 dominance with Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg. Co-founder and CEO of Zero Petroleum, a UK synthetic fuel company producing fossil-free drop-in fuels from atmospheric CO2 and renewable hydrogen. Holder of the Guinness World Record with the Royal Air Force for the first aircraft flight powered entirely by synthetic fuel, achieved at Cotswold Airport in November 2021. Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, elected 2015. Engineering graduate of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and Honorary Fellow of the College. Biography Mercedes won 51 of 59 Grands Prix between 2014 and 2016. Paddy Lowe was the Executive Director responsible for the technical organisation that made that possible, after a decade as Technical Director at McLaren and an earlier career at Williams developing the active suspension that delivered the 1992 titles. Three constructors, twelve World Championships, one common pattern: an engineering culture built to convert money and time into measurable performance under public scrutiny. That track record is the credential. The substantive work he now talks to boards about is different. In 2020 he co-founded Zero Petroleum, a synthetic fuel company that combines atmospheric carbon dioxide with renewable hydrogen to produce fossil-free, drop-in liquid fuels. The point is not laboratory novelty. The point is that aviation, motorsport, shipping and the global classic vehicle base will run on hydrocarbons for decades, and decarbonising them needs molecules, not only electrons. The proof exists. In November 2021, Zero Petroleum and the Royal Air Force flew an aircraft on 100 percent synthetic fuel and were awarded a Guinness World Record for the first such flight. Formula 1 has since committed to fully sustainable fuels, and Lowe has been a public technical voice in the policy conversation around how that transition is engineered and financed. For a senior buyer, the value is operational specificity. He explains how engineering organisations win against deadlines, how data and simulation reshape decision-making at the top of an organisation, and what it actually takes, in capital, regulation and supply, to move a heavy industry off fossil fuel. Key speaking topics Synthetic fuels and the energy transition in aviation, motorsport and heavy transport Net zero strategy beyond electrification Engineering performance under competitive pressure Data-led decision making in high-stakes operations Innovation and R&D leadership in regulated industries Lessons from Formula 1 championship organisations Ideal for Boards and executive teams in aviation, automotive, energy and industrial groups facing a credible decarbonisation deadline CTOs, Chief Sustainability Officers and Heads of R&D scoping practical low-carbon liquid fuel pathways Strategy and transformation leads benchmarking high-performance engineering cultures Investor days, supplier summits and policy forums where the audience needs a working voice on the energy transition Audience outcomes A clearer view of how aviation, motorsport and other liquid-fuel sectors can decarbonise without waiting for full electrification A working sense of how a Formula 1 technical organisation converts data, simulation and capital into repeatable performance A sharper read on which net zero claims are engineered and financed, and which are still rhetorical Specific examples of what it takes, in regulation, supply chain and certification, to move a synthetic fuel from prototype to commercial flight

Why organisations work with Angela Oguntala Her Futurecasting process is a replicable leadership methodology for distinguishing structural change from cyclical noise, giving strategy teams something to use after the keynote, not just a perspective to carry home. She brings a practitioner’s decade-long track record: foresight and innovation work with Google, IKEA, the World Economic Forum, the World Trade Organization, Microsoft, and Deloitte, across sectors from healthcare to luxury to financial services. Her background spans foresight research and business strategy, which lets her connect technology shifts and the changing nature of work in a single frame that sector specialists rarely produce. She was named a Future Innovator by the United Nations, a designation that extends her credibility beyond the speaking circuit into formal expert recognition. Her central argument, that the future is not predictable but can be actively shaped, moves executive audiences from defensive risk-management to purposeful strategic action. Biography highlights Spent a decade as founding partner of Greyspace, a foresight and innovation consultancy Named a Future Innovator by the United Nations Salzburg Global Fellow for leaders challenged to shape a better world Advisory and keynote engagements with Google, IKEA, Microsoft, the World Economic Forum, the World Trade Organization, Heineken, and Deloitte, across healthcare, technology, luxury, and financial services TED talk, Re-imagine the future, on how the assumptions we hold about what is possible either constrain or expand the strategies we are willing to pursue Featured as a strategic foresight expert on outlets including NPR and Sky Biography The hardest thing about strategy is not analysing the present. It is imagining a future that does not yet exist, and committing resources to it before certainty arrives. Angela Oguntala built her career around exactly this problem. She spent a decade as a founding partner of Greyspace, a foresight and innovation consultancy, working across industries from healthcare and financial services to luxury and technology. The work was consistent: helping leadership teams read structural change and identify where to innovate. She now advises companies, governments, and senior leaders worldwide on strategic foresight and innovation. Her clients include Google, IKEA, Microsoft, the World Economic Forum, the World Trade Organization, Heineken, and Deloitte. Her named methodology, Futurecasting, is a structured process for mapping the forces reshaping an organisation’s context, surfacing risks and opportunities across a range of possible outcomes, and building strategy around where and how to act, giving leadership teams the capacity to navigate complexity and innovate, not just respond. Named a Future Innovator by the United Nations, and a Salzburg Global Fellow, Oguntala speaks on the TED platform and has been featured as a strategic foresight expert on outlets including NPR and Sky. Her TED talk, Re-imagine the future, addresses the blindspots that prevent organisations and individuals from seeing the full range of what is genuinely possible, and acting on it. Key speaking topics Strategic foresight and Futurecasting Innovation under uncertainty Emerging technology impacts Leadership and organisational foresight Sustainability and resilience Future of work Ideal for Chief Strategy Officers and strategy leadership teams whose planning models cannot keep pace with compounding change CEOs and executive boards making high-stakes bets as technology, consumer behaviour, and market structure shift simultaneously Chief Innovation Officers and heads of transformation identifying where real innovation opportunity lies amid constant noise Government and institutional leaders working on long-horizon policy and societal change Audience outcomes A clearer distinction between structural change and cyclical noise, and an understanding of how to act on that distinction at leadership level Practical familiarity with the Futurecasting methodology as a replicable process for strategic decision-making under uncertainty A more integrated view of how emerging technologies, global uncertainty, and shifting social expectations interact, rather than treating each as a separate workstream A reframed relationship with uncertainty: from something to manage defensively to something that can be met with intention Approaches to building organisations that can generate and act on genuinely new ideas rather than optimise existing ones

Why organisations work with Elena García Armada She has done what most deep-tech founders only describe: taken a robotics breakthrough from CSIC laboratory bench into certified clinical use, through a company she still runs. Her European Inventor Award Popular Prize from the European Patent Office gives her a credential most innovation speakers cannot match, anchored in a specific patented invention, not a body of opinion. She speaks fluently across two worlds that rarely meet on the same stage: tenured senior scientist at CSIC and CEO of a regulated medical device company, with operational responsibility for staff, capital, and clinical outcomes. Her work sits at the intersection of robotics, AI-driven control, and biomedical engineering, which makes her credible on the practical question of how emerging technologies translate into products under real regulatory and commercial constraints. Biography highlights CEO and co-founder of Marsi Bionics, the CSIC-UPM spin-off that brought paediatric exoskeletons to clinical use. Senior tenured scientist at the Centre for Automation and Robotics (CAR), CSIC-UPM, leading research on legged robots and exoskeletons. PhD in robotic engineering, Polytechnic University of Madrid; postdoctoral training at MIT’s Leg Laboratory. European Inventor Award Popular Prize 2022, European Patent Office; finalist EU Women Innovators Award 2021; Gold Medal of the Spanish Red Cross 2022. Author of “Los robots y sus capacidades” and “Robots” (Catarata / Editorial CSIC). Doctor honoris causa, Miguel de Cervantes European University, 2023; Premio Nacional Reina Letizia for Research and Innovation, 2023. Biography Most exoskeletons in research labs do not fit children. The mechanics, the weight, the control systems, and the regulatory pathway for a paediatric medical device are harder than the adult equivalents, and the commercial incentives to solve them are weaker. ATLAS 2030, the world’s first adaptable paediatric exoskeleton, exists because Elena García Armada chose to work on the harder version of the problem. The technical work began at the Centre for Automation and Robotics, the joint CSIC and Polytechnic University of Madrid centre where she is a senior tenured scientist. The commercial work began in 2013, when she co-founded Marsi Bionics as a CSIC spin-off to take the technology out of the lab and into rehabilitation centres and hospitals. Her credentials sit on both sides of that journey. Postdoctoral training at MIT’s Leg Laboratory on the research side; CEO of a regulated medical device company on the commercial side. The European Patent Office awarded her the Popular Prize of the 2022 European Inventor Award for the underlying invention, and the Spanish state has recognised the social impact with the Premio Nacional Reina Letizia and the Red Cross Gold Medal. What is unusual is not the recognition. It is that the same person holds the patent, runs the company, and answers for the clinical outcomes. That combination is rare in deep-tech innovation, and it is what makes her useful to boards thinking about how science-led ventures actually become businesses. Key speaking topics Deep-tech commercialisation Robotics and exoskeleton technology Biomedical engineering and assistive devices Innovation in regulated industries Science-led entrepreneurship AI-driven control systems in robotics Women in STEM and inclusive innovation Ideal for Boards and executive teams investing in or running deep-tech and medtech ventures Innovation, R&D and CTO functions seeking credible perspective on lab-to-market translation Healthcare and life-sciences leaders working on assistive and rehabilitation technology Audiences focused on STEM talent strategy and women in engineering Audience outcomes A concrete view of what it takes to move a robotics breakthrough from research into a regulated, commercial product A sharper sense of how academic science, patents, and venture-building reinforce one another when handled by the same hand Direct exposure to a working case of paediatric exoskeleton design, with the engineering, clinical, and commercial choices made visible A grounded perspective on the role of women in technical leadership of European deep-tech

Why organisations work with Aaron Frank As one of only two lead facilitators of Singularity University’s flagship five-day Executive Program, he translates emerging technology trajectories into specific decisions a senior team can make this quarter, not abstract futures. He has taught the same material to the United States Marine Corps, the Central Bank of Denmark, Ernst & Young, FC Barcelona, GE, and The Economist Group, which means his frame is tested across regulators, militaries, sports bodies, and Fortune 500 operators. He guest lectures inside Oxford’s Saïd Business School Digital Transformation course, evidence that his content survives peer scrutiny in a serious executive-education environment. He writes a steady stream of analysis for Singularity Hub, Wired, Forbes, Vice, and VentureBeat, and authored Singularity’s 2026 executive briefing on Physical AI, so audiences get a speaker whose arguments are already pressure-tested in print. His current research focus is the convergence of generative AI, spatial computing, 3D simulation, and physical AI, a frame that gives him a concrete read on where the next wave of enterprise infrastructure is heading. Biography highlights Principal Faculty, Singularity University, and one of only two lead facilitators of its flagship five-day Executive Program. MBA, University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School, where he also guest lectures on the Digital Transformation course. Bylines in Vice, Wired, Forbes, VentureBeat, and Singularity Hub. Author of A Business Leader’s Introduction to Physical AI (Singularity, 2026). Has spoken to or advised the United States Marine Corps, the CIA, the Department of Defense, the Central Bank of Denmark, Ernst & Young, GE, The Economist Group, Coca-Cola, Under Armour, FC Barcelona, the NBA, Sony, and Honeywell. Board member, Saint Francis Living Room, a community kitchen in San Francisco’s Tenderloin. Biography Generative AI is now familiar territory for most senior leaders. What comes after is the harder question: which emerging shifts genuinely reshape an industry, and where capital should actually move. That interpretive read is what Aaron Frank does for a living. He is one of only two lead facilitators of Singularity University’s flagship Executive Program. The five-day intensive puts him in a room with around a hundred senior leaders, working through emerging technology trajectories as a structured curriculum. Few speakers test their arguments against a senior audience that often. His range covers rapid technological change, spatial computing and 3D simulation, digital twins as enterprise infrastructure, and the move toward physical AI. He has taught that material to the United States Marine Corps, the Central Bank of Denmark, Ernst & Young, FC Barcelona, and GE. His bylines appear in Wired, Forbes, Vice, VentureBeat, and Singularity Hub. Outside Singularity, he holds an MBA from Oxford’s Saïd Business School and guest lectures on its Digital Transformation course. He also sits on the board of Saint Francis Living Room, a community kitchen in San Francisco’s Tenderloin. His current research focus is the rise of physical AI, set out for Singularity in a 2026 executive briefing on the convergence of robotics, simulation, and spatial intelligence. Key speaking topics Exponential technology trajectories and leadership decisions Innovation strategy under technology acceleration Spatial computing, 3D simulation, and digital twins Physical AI and robotics Ideal for Boards and executive teams setting AI and emerging technology investment direction CTO, CIO and head of digital transformation audiences Industrial, manufacturing, defence and supply chain leadership planning around physical AI and digital twins Strategy and innovation leads in financial services, sport, media and government Audience outcomes A clearer read on which emerging technology shifts actually reshape their industry, and which are noise. A working vocabulary for generative AI, spatial computing, digital twins, and physical AI that a senior team can use in the same conversation. Specific examples of how regulators, militaries, sports bodies, and Fortune 500 operators are deploying these technologies today. A view on the next two to five years of enterprise AI infrastructure beyond the chatbot, drawn from operating deployments.

Why organisations work with Robert Tercek He has run the digital businesses he now advises on. President of Digital Media at OWN, first SVP of Digital Media at Sony Pictures, Creative Director at MTV. That operating record gives his framing weight that pure analysts cannot match. Vaporized won the 2016 International Book of the Year at the Frankfurt Book Fair from a field of 10,000 titles. The thesis, that whole categories of physical product and intermediary dissolve into software, has held up across a decade of platform and AI shifts. He works in long horizons. General Creativity, his advisory firm, is built around scenario work and ten-year strategic planning, not next-quarter trend commentary, which suits boards making capital-allocation decisions on AI, metaverse and infrastructure. He treats emerging technology as a governance problem, not a hype cycle. His current speaking on the industrial metaverse, digital twins and platform power foregrounds the questions executives and policymakers actually have to answer. Biography highlights Author of Vaporized: Solid Strategies for Success in a Dematerialized World, named 2016 International Book of the Year by getAbstract at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Former President of Digital Media, OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network. Sony Pictures Entertainment’s first Senior Vice President of Digital Media. Creative Director at MTV, where he helped launch the network across more than 20 international markets. Founder and CEO of General Creativity, advising Fortune 500 clients including AT&T, IBM, Microsoft, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and NBC Universal. Strategic Advisor to the Johnny Carson Foundation and the Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; taught the first interactive media course at USC School of Cinematic Arts. Biography Whole categories of business have already been replaced by software, and most boards still treat that as a channel question. Retail shelves, classroom hours, hotel desks, broadcast schedules, payment rails: each one has been thinned out or absorbed into a platform layer. The pattern Tercek named “dematerialisation” in 2015 is the same pattern now driving the AI and platform conversation in 2026. That naming is documented. Vaporized: Solid Strategies for Success in a Dematerialized World won the 2016 International Book of the Year at the Frankfurt Book Fair, selected by getAbstract editors from a field of 10,000 business titles. A decade on, the book reads less like prediction and more like a manual that incumbents wish they had taken seriously when it landed. The credibility comes from operating, not commentary. Tercek was Creative Director at MTV when the network launched into more than 20 international markets, Sony Pictures Entertainment’s first SVP of Digital Media when multiplayer games first ran in a browser, and President of Digital Media at OWN when Oprah Winfrey’s 2009 webcasts pulled the largest live online education audience on record. He now runs General Creativity, advising Fortune 500 clients on digital transformation and long-horizon strategy. His current work focuses on the industrial metaverse, digital twins and the governance questions sitting underneath platform power: who owns the rules, who carries the risk, and what serious organisations should be building rather than buying. He is also a Strategic Advisor to the Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and holds, with collaborators, 12 US patents covering decentralised entertainment and cryptocurrency systems. Key speaking topics Dematerialisation and the virtual economy Industrial metaverse and digital twins Digital transformation strategy Platform power and technology governance AI, automation and the future of work Long-range scenario planning under exponential change Decentralised systems and Web3 Ideal for Boards and CEOs setting ten-year capital allocation against AI, platform and infrastructure shifts Chief Strategy Officers, Chief Digital Officers and transformation leads in incumbent industries facing software-driven disruption Industrial, energy and infrastructure leaders evaluating digital twin and industrial metaverse investments Policy, regulatory and public-sector audiences working on platform governance and technology risk Audience outcomes A working model for spotting which parts of a business are most exposed to dematerialisation, and on what time horizon A clear read on where the industrial metaverse and digital twins create real operating advantage, and where they do not A sharper framework for ten-year scenario planning that survives short-term hype cycles Specific reference points from MTV, Sony, OWN and current Fortune 500 advisory work, not generic futurist commentary

Why organisations work with Jason Bradbury Twelve years presenting The Gadget Show on Channel 5 trained him to make emerging technology legible to a general audience without diluting the substance. Boards get the same treatment. His 2026 keynote The AI Advantage introduces a “6 Degrees of AI” framework that maps AI impact across sectors, giving audiences a structured way to read their own industry rather than a generic overview. He completed MIT’s Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy programme, anchoring the keynote content in a formal commercial-AI curriculum rather than vendor marketing. He combines keynote and host roles in the same booking. For technology summits and innovation days that need a credible anchor across the whole programme, this removes a casting decision. Biography highlights Presented Channel 5’s The Gadget Show from launch in 2004 to 2016, twelve years of prime-time technology broadcasting. Multiple Guinness World Records set on the programme, including fastest jet-powered street luge at 186.41 km/h. Author of the Dot Robot techno-thriller series for Penguin Random House: Dot Robot, Atomic Swarm, Cyber Gold. Completed MIT Sloan’s Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy programme. Has sat on judging panels for the BAFTA Video Games Awards and the Media Guardian Innovation Awards. Keynote and hosting work with Vodafone, Samsung, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, Sony, Audi, BMW, BP, Disney, Porsche, Salesforce, Royal Caribbean and BT. Biography Twelve years on Channel 5’s The Gadget Show is, among other things, twelve years of explaining emerging technology to an audience that did not study engineering. Jason Bradbury presented the programme from its 2004 launch through 2016, by which point he had also set multiple Guinness World Records on air, the most cited being a jet-powered street luge clocked at 186.41 km/h on the show’s 200th episode. The broadcasting work sits alongside a second strand of authorship. The Dot Robot series for Penguin Random House (Dot Robot, Atomic Swarm, Cyber Gold) is technology fiction for younger readers, and the same instinct runs through his keynote work: take a complicated technical subject, find the human stakes, hold attention. The keynote material has tightened as AI has moved up the boardroom agenda. Bradbury completed MIT Sloan’s Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy course, and his 2026 talk The AI Advantage introduces a “6 Degrees of AI” framework intended to give business audiences a structured way to read AI impact in their own sector rather than a generic horizon scan. He is most commonly booked by organisations that want a single credible figure to anchor a technology day, keynote on AI in the morning, host panels in the afternoon, hold the room. Clients across that work include Vodafone, Samsung, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, BMW, BP, Porsche, Disney and Salesforce. Key speaking topics Artificial intelligence for business audiences Sector impact of generative AI Future of work and automation Emerging consumer technology Robotics and autonomous systems Innovation and product disruption Technology event hosting and moderation Ideal for Technology summits and innovation days that need a single anchor across keynote and host roles Sales kick-offs and customer conferences using AI as the headline theme Boards and executive offsites looking for an accessible read on AI sector impact Awards ceremonies and brand events with a technology adjacency Audience outcomes A working mental model of where AI is heading across the next decade, mapped to the audience’s own sector Sharper questions to ask vendors, internal teams and consultants about AI claims A concrete sense of which AI use cases are credible now versus speculative Reduced sense that AI is a single undifferentiated wave, replaced with a structured view of where it lands

Why organisations work with Andrew Trask He has built the working infrastructure for privacy-preserving AI, not just written about it. PySyft, the open-source framework he created through OpenMined, is used by researchers and engineers to train models on data they never directly see. He sits inside one of the most consequential AI research labs in the world, DeepMind, while also leading an 18,000-strong community of privacy-preserving AI engineers. Few speakers operate credibly in both rooms. His agenda is structured transparency: making it possible for institutions to collaborate on AI without surrendering the underlying data. That is the exact tension a regulated industry leader is now trying to solve. He teaches the material rather than narrates it. Grokking Deep Learning and his Udacity courses have introduced tens of thousands of practitioners to neural networks and to private AI, which is why technical audiences find him credible rather than performative. Biography highlights Senior Research Scientist, Google DeepMind, working on privacy, federated learning, differential privacy, and secure computation. Founder of OpenMined, an open-source community of more than 18,000 researchers and engineers building privacy-preserving AI tools. Creator of PySyft, the open-source framework for training machine learning models on data the model owner cannot see. PhD candidate, University of Oxford, on the Oxford-DeepMind Graduate Scholarship; affiliated with the Future of Humanity Institute and the Centre for Governance of AI. Author of Grokking Deep Learning, Manning Publications, and instructor on Udacity’s Secure and Private AI and Deep Learning Nanodegree courses. Term Member, Council on Foreign Relations. Biography The hardest problem in applied AI is not modelling. It is access. The data that would make a healthcare model genuinely useful sits inside hospital systems that cannot legally share it. The data that would make a financial crime model work is split across banks that compete with each other. The default response has been to do less. Trask has spent the last decade building the technical answer to that problem. Through OpenMined, the open-source community he founded, he created PySyft, a framework that lets engineers train models on data they never directly see. The underlying methods, federated learning, differential privacy, secure multi-party computation, homomorphic encryption, are what serious AI governance now relies on. He calls the broader agenda structured transparency, and it is becoming the operating vocabulary for AI deployment in regulated settings. The institutional positioning matters. He is a Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind and a PhD candidate at Oxford, funded by the Oxford-DeepMind Graduate Scholarship and affiliated with the Future of Humanity Institute and the Centre for Governance of AI. He is also a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. That combination puts him inside the frontier AI conversation and inside the AI governance conversation at the same time, which is unusual. The teaching record is the test of whether his ideas travel. Grokking Deep Learning, published by Manning, taught a generation of engineers how neural networks actually work. His Udacity courses on secure and private AI did the same for the privacy-preserving stack. The reason senior technical audiences treat him as a primary source rather than a commentator is that they have already worked through his material. Key speaking topics Privacy-preserving artificial intelligence Federated learning and secure computation AI governance and structured transparency Differential privacy in practice AI safety and responsible deployment The future of data infrastructure for AI Foundations of deep learning for non-specialists Ideal for Chief AI officers, CTOs, and chief data officers in regulated industries (healthcare, financial services, government) deciding how to deploy AI on sensitive data. Boards and audit committees pressure-tested on AI governance, data risk, and the gap between AI ambition and AI infrastructure. Heads of research, innovation, and product engineering teams building the next generation of AI products. Policy and public-sector leaders responsible for AI standards, data sharing, and international AI governance. Audience outcomes A working mental model of the privacy-preserving AI stack, named technique by named technique, instead of the usual abstractions. A clearer view of which AI use cases are unlocked by federated learning and secure computation, and which remain blocked by data access. A grounded read on where AI governance is heading, from someone inside both DeepMind and the Oxford AI governance ecosystem. A direct sense of how to move from AI pilots to deployments that survive regulatory and reputational scrutiny.

Why organisations work with Glen Weyl He is the working bridge between three of the people who matter most in this debate: Vitalik Buterin on Ethereum and Web3, Jaron Lanier on AI and data, and Audrey Tang on civic technology. Senior teams get one room with the network, not three separate conversations. He co-invented Quadratic Voting and Quadratic Funding, mechanisms now used inside crypto ecosystems, civic budgets, and corporate innovation funds. Boards looking at participatory capital allocation are looking at his work, often without knowing it. He led Microsoft’s Office of the CTO work on the OpenAI relationship and now runs Microsoft Research’s Plural Technology Collaboratory. He has seen the inside of how the largest AI partnership in the world is governed, and can talk about it candidly. His book Radical Markets, written with University of Chicago law professor Eric Posner, was named an Economist Book of the Year in 2018 and changed how serious economists discuss property, voting, and antitrust in a digital economy. He works in the same language as policymakers in Taiwan, the EU, and the US Treasury, which makes him unusually useful to organisations whose AI exposure is also a regulatory exposure. Biography highlights Founder and Research Lead, Plural Technology Collaboratory, Microsoft Research. Former Political Economist and Social Technologist, Microsoft Office of the CTO, including the leadership team for the OpenAI relationship. Co-author, Radical Markets, Princeton University Press, 2018; an Economist Book of the Year. Co-author with Audrey Tang of Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy, 2024. Founder, RadicalxChange Foundation; co-founder and chair, Plurality Institute; co-founder, Harvard GETTING-Plurality Research Network. Named by CoinDesk, WIRED, and Bloomberg Businessweek on their respective lists of most influential people in technology, 2018. Biography Most institutions designed for the industrial economy do not have a good answer to generative AI. Voting systems, ownership rules, antitrust law, and corporate governance were all written for a world where the most powerful entities in a room were human. Glen Weyl’s career has been a sustained attempt to redesign those institutions for a world where they are not. His 2018 book with Eric Posner, Radical Markets, was an Economist Book of the Year and forced a new conversation about property, voting, and antitrust inside serious policy circles. Out of that work came Quadratic Voting and, with Vitalik Buterin, Quadratic Funding. Both are now in operational use in civic budgets and Web3 ecosystems, including projects funded by Ethereum. At Microsoft, he sat inside the Office of the CTO during the period when the company’s relationship with OpenAI became one of the most consequential commercial arrangements in technology. He now runs the Plural Technology Collaboratory, Microsoft Research’s special project on how democratic societies function under generative AI, working with Taiwan’s Audrey Tang, with Harvard, and with civil society groups including the Collective Intelligence Project. His 2024 book with Tang, Plurality, was written openly on GitHub and translated by volunteers into more than a dozen languages, an unusual proof point that the governance ideas in it actually work in practice. For a board trying to decide what AI legitimacy means inside its own organisation, that record makes him one of the few people in the world worth bringing into the room. Key speaking topics Generative AI and democratic institutions Plurality and collaborative technology Quadratic Voting and Quadratic Funding Web3, decentralised identity, and digital ownership Antitrust and platform competition Data as labour and the economics of AI training Ideal for Boards and CEOs setting AI governance and partnership strategy Government, regulator, and central bank audiences on AI and digital policy CTOs and Chief AI Officers working on legitimacy and deployment frameworks Foundations, philanthropic capital allocators, and corporate venture funds rethinking how they fund collective goods Audience outcomes A clearer view of how AI partnerships at the scale of Microsoft and OpenAI are actually governed. A working vocabulary for Quadratic Voting, Quadratic Funding, and Plurality, with concrete examples of where each is operating. A sharper sense of where current antitrust, data, and AI regulation is heading in the US, EU, and Asia. Specific design ideas for participatory decision-making inside large organisations, not generic engagement theory.