• Journalist-founded digital media company exploring the ways technology is shaping–and is shaped by–our world.

• Partner at A24 Oscar-winning indie film studio and Founder of A24Labs

• Former Chief Product Officer at Adobe

• Author of Implications, a monthly newsletter exploring the latest advances in tech and shifts in culture

• Successful early stage investor/advisor

• Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington

• Author of The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want

• Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

• Co-author of Flash Teams: Leading the Future of AI-Enhanced, On-Demand Work

• FutureTech Expert 

• Bestselling and Award-Winning Author

• Author of Building a God: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and the Race to Control It (2025)

• Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR)

• Author of The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want

• Cybersecurity Expert & Ethical Hacker

• Tech CEO & Author of Supercharged Teams: Harnessing AI to Build High-Performing Teams

• Founder of Tug: creating an AI-assisted software construction system

• Former designer & engineer for Apple

• Author of the bestseller Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs

• Director of NextGen Learning Lab at Microsoft

• Professor of Frontier Learning for the Era of AI at University of Washington

• Tech journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Harper's, Wired, the Atlantic, the LA Times, the Guardian, Slate, VICE Magazine, Fast Company, Fortune, and beyond

• Author of The One Device and the acclaimed 2023 book, Blood in the Machine

• Futurist & author on how emerging technologies are shaping our future

• Chief Scientific Officer of Thorne HealthTech

• Co-Author of The Age of Scientific Wellness

• Generative A.I. and Metaverse Expert

• CEO of the game design firm Beamable 

• Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter, covering tech, formerly of the New York Times and Wired

• Author of 11 books, including AI Valley and The Godfather of Silicon Valley

• Founder & CEO of CX/Digital

• Author of The Digital-First Customer Experience: Seven Design Strategies from the World’s Leading Brands

• Author of PROXIMITY: How Coming Breakthroughs in Just-in-Time Transform Business, Society, and Daily Life (2024)

• A venture investor in more than 30 companies, many of which are leading the Proximity revolution

• Adjunct Professor of Innovation at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, and Adjunct Professor of Executive Education at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

• Global futurist & bestselling author

• Digital Strategy Advisor on Zohran Mamdani's 2025 NYC mayoral campaign

• A content creator in the pet niche, where she and her dog,  “Edna The Runt”  have hundreds of thousands of followers and reach tens of millions of people every month (@ednatherunt)