Nicklas Bergman has more than 25 years of experience as a serial entrepreneur, technology investor and futurist. He currently manages about 15 direct and indirect investments and focuses primarily on investments and business development in emerging markets, web services, nanotechnology, computing, new materials and new media art. He delivers lectures on how to survive and navigate the techstorm as well as how people and... read full bio
Leading futurist and innovation strategist Nikki Greenberg works to get businesses ready for a tech-enabled future. In order to match their companies with the increasingly digital manner that people live, work, and interact today, she assists CEOs in reimagining their industries. She has worked for Fortune 500 companies in senior roles. Most recently, she was the Head of Technology Strategy... read full bio
Niklas Zennstrom is a leading tech entrepreneur, most notably founding numerous high-profile online ventures with Janus Friis, such as Skype and Kazaa. He recently founded the technology investment firm Atomico, which has invested in over fifty companies on three continents. Zennstrom also co-founded the nonprofit organization Zennstrom Philanthropies, which aims to support climate change, human rights and social entrepreneurship. He... read full bio
A well-known futurist, researcher and media personality, Nikolas Badminton is the team leader at Exponential Minds, a company that provides expert advice to organizations, billion-dollar corporations, progressive governments and the entertainment industry. The end result is a future that is more resilient, with empowered workers, fresh, inventive goods and amazing growth. United Nations, NASA, UK Home Office, Government of Canada, United Way, Google, Microsoft, Rolls... read full bio
Nina is a renowned strategic counselor who trains forward-thinking executives to take advantage of artificial intelligence's enormous potential. Her talks give ambitious changemakers and C-suite executives a mindset that is ready for the AI-driven future. Alongside Sam Altman (Open AI), Demis Hassabis (Google Deepmind), and Geoffrey Hinton (The "Godfather of AI"), she has been listed as one of the top 20 AI... read full bio
Nina Tandon is a biotech specialist. She is the CEO and co-founder of EpiBone, a “grow your own bone,” bone reconstruction company. Utilizing patient stem cells, EpiBone is able to reconstruct and repair bone-related injury. Apart from her work with EpiBone, Tandon is a professor of Electrical Engineering at the Cooper Union and an electrical and biomedical engineer at Columbia... read full bio
Nir Eyal writes, consults, and teaches about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. He is the author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. Nir founded two tech companies and has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford. Nir is also an advisor to several Bay Area start-ups, venture... read full bio
This entrepreneur and American engineer founded companies like Atari Corporation and Chuck E. Cheese Pizza Time Theatre. Nolan Bushnell is an innovator of his time. Starting his engineering background from the University of Utah College of engineering where he gained his degree in electrical engineering. With colleague Ted Dabney, they were able to build the very popular arcade games. The... read full bio
Noramay Cadena is a former nonprofit leader, engineer, investor, and entrepreneur. She works as a managing partner at Supply Change Capital, a venture capital business that makes investments at the nexus of technology, culture, and food. Noramay is also a managing partner of MiLA Capital, a Los Angeles-based venture capital firm that makes technological investments. Noramay led sizable teams developing novel,... read full bio
Oona Horx-Strathern is an international speaker, author, trend expert and consultant and futurist. Horx-Strathern found her love of the future during her childhood trip to India where she visited Chandigarh and the Taj Mahal. She went on to study at the Holland Park Comprehensive School before going on to earn her B.A. in Human Geography from Bristol University. While earning... read full bio
Uber Co-Founder, Oscar Salazar is also a founder of the medical start-up Pager, and VP of Technology at the tech start-up, Ride. He has raised more than $25 million in funding for current ventures. Ride is a carpooling app, which companies sign up for to advertise to their employees. This revolutionary ride-sharing app uses algorithms to group employees together based... read full bio
Pablos has significantly advanced technology as a hacker, inventor, and futurist. He has created useful tools that are influencing the future thanks to his amazing ability to make complicated technological concepts simple. Pablos has been at the forefront of ground-breaking projects all throughout his career. He invented cryptocurrency use in the 1990s, recognizing its potential years before it became widely accepted. He... read full bio
"Technology industry veteran Pat Gelsinger is a businessman in the technology industry who serves as the CEO of VMWare. Prior to his time at VMWare, Pat was president and COO of EMC’s Infrastructure Products, and he worked for Intel for 30 years and served as the company’s first CTO, helping develop crucial technology such as Wi-Fi and USB connection. Pat... read full bio
Patrick Collison is an Irish entrepreneur, who co-founded Stripe, The Paypal of the Mobile Era", with his younger brother, John. The brothers are now worth at least $1.1 billion each after Stripe raised $150 million, funded by the likes of Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and Sequoia Capital. Patrick attended MIT for some time, before establishing the software company Shuppa, with... read full bio
Patrick Lee is a serial entrepreneur who has founded multiple companies and startups. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Rotten Tomatoes, an extremely popular entertainment site that largely focuses on movie reviews; it is one of the top 600 most trafficked sites in the world. He has also co-founded Hobo Labs, a creator of casual mobile games. He... read full bio
Patrick Schwerdtfeger is a distinguished futurist and expert on technology trends including big data, artificial intelligence and social media. Through his work, Patrick strives to provide insight into the technological forces driving the transformation of businesses around the globe. Hes the CEO & Founder of Trend Mastery, a strategic consulting agency where he helps his clients identify groundbreaking business opportunities.... read full bio
Paul Hill was the Director of Mission Operations at the NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. Hill obtained his Master of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering, worked in military satellite operations in the Air Force, and achieved the rank of Captain in the force. Hills job duties included monitoring mobile satellite communications, providing missile launch and nuclear detonation detection, and... read full bio
At UC Santa Barbara, Paul Leonardi, Ph.D., serves as both the department chair and the Duca Family Professor of Technology Management. He is employed by the Department of Communication and the Department of Technology Management. The goal of Dr. Leonardi's research, instruction, and consultancy is to assist businesses in more efficiently producing and disseminating knowledge. He is curious about how businesses... read full bio
Paulina Bozek started her career in video games in public relations at Ubisoft after being born in Poland and reared in Canada. She transitioned into project management in 1999 and began working for Gameloft, a company that at the time was only focused on online multiplayer. After leaving the business to travel throughout Europe, she traveled to London to get... read full bio
Pedro Domingos, author of 2040 and The Master Algorithm, is an emeritus professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington. Two of the greatest accolades in data science and artificial intelligence, the SIGKDD Innovation Award and the IJCAI John McCarthy Award, have been given to him. In addition to becoming a Fellow of the AAAS and AAAI,... read full bio
