Sundeep Waslekar  President, Strategic Foresight Group. Author: A World without War. Peace policy concepts discussed at UN Security Council.

Thomas Vander Wal Advisor and strategist for systems and software. Created concepts “folksonomy”, “model of attraction”.

David Weinberger Author: Everyday Chaos, Too Big to Know, Everything Is Miscellaneous, Small Pieces Loosely Joined, and co-author of  Cluetrain Manifesto (1999).

Jillian Reilly  Author: The Ten Permissions: Redefining the Rules of Adulting in the 21st Century.  Shame: Confessions of an Aid Worker in Africa.

Joachim Stroh  Specialist in (D)AOs Decentralised Autonomous Organizations and AOs Adaptable Organizations). Founder of Hypha.

Pieter Franken  Fintech. Safecast (Fukushima), most successful citizen science initiative in the world. Founder:  Synfindo,  nonprofit to accelerate digital transformation across Asia.

Martynas Kairys  Based in Lithuania,  vibe coding expert, Director of AI Strategy and Development at Shift4, a company redefining commerce by simplifying complex payments ecosystems across the world.

Bill Fisher  MIT Senior Lecturer, IMD Professor Emeritus of Innovation Management. Co-author Reinventing Giants (about Haier), The Idea Hunter and Virtuoso Teams.

Sohail Inayatullah  First UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies for Sustainability and Humanity, IIUM, Malaysia. Developed futures technique of causal layered analysis (CLA).

Rita McGrath  Colombia Business School, Thinkers 50 Top 10.  Author: Seeing Around Corners, The End of Competitive Advantage. Creator Learning Hub Valize.com.

Janka Krings-Klebe  Co-author: The Antifragile Organization: From Hierarchies to Ecosystems. Founding member of Business Ecosystem Alliance.

Michelle Manafy Editorial Director @ Digital Content Next. Media Industry & Content Strategy Expert: AI & Media. Focused on building a strong, healthy, trusted media ecosystem.

Gargi Mishra  long-time expert in the mining industry. Tracker of mining trends, including forces influencing sustainability, society, power, and value creation.

Sci-Fi: Fiction or Vision

Stanley Chan Qiufan  Leading Chinese writer and visionary. Co-author AI 2041: Ten Visions for our Future. Author: Waste Tide. Many works. Translated into multiple languages.

Wole Talabi  Engineer, writer, and editor. Author: Shigidi And The Brass Head Of Obalufon (best books of 2023 by The Washington Post), Incomplete Solutions and Convergence Problems.

Debbie Urbanski  Author: Portalmania and After World. Great transition and a new awakening? Short story among many: “An Incomplete Timeline of What We Tried”.

AI and VR: Ours to Shape

Cortney Harding  AI and VR expert. Founder: Friends With Holograms. Top 100 Global Woman in AI. The Spatial Race on spatial computing and AI (out soon).

Art Kleiner  Writer, editor, entrepreneur. Co-author: The AI Dilemma, The Wise Advocate, The Age of Heretics, The Fifth Discipline. Kleiner Powell International.

Mark Gröb  Building Next Gen Products for UPS Enterprise. Applications in Training, Real-Time Data Visualization and Emerging Innovation Sectors.

Henrique Dias  Founder and CEO of NoHarm, A nonprofit startup in Brazil that develops AI-based tools to improve patient safety in the public healthcare system.

Learning Beyond Schools

Sachin Joshi  Creator: Espalier Experimental School, “Education on Wheels” mobile school (became AI on Wheels). First Indian to speak on “Education and Democracy” at EU Council.

Agatha Rachael Akullu  “Read us Africa”, literacy program in Africa.  SDG-4 Global Youth Ambassador with Their World.  Global Peace Ambassador. UNICEF Youth Innovation Winner.

Sugata Mitra  Creator: “Hole in the Wall” experiment  leading to School in the Cloud and  Self-Organized Learning Environments. Winner of one million dollar TED prize in 2013.

Florence Devouard   1st President of Wikimedia Foundation after Jimmy Wales. Wikimedia in Residence (WIPO). Wiki Loves Africa, Ecoles d’Afrique. many more initiatives.

Mandar Apte  Educator and Executive Director at Cities4Peace. Program and documentary “From India With Love”, workshops for LAPD, creator of Shell’s GameChanger social innovation program.

Vanessa Nakate  Founder of Rise up Movement. Environmentalist. UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. Malala Fund. Global Witness Board Member.

Nirere Sadrach  Founder of “End Plastic Pollution”, youth-led organization and Project Kollekt, model for how local communities can deal with people learning about plastic.

Robin Vincent-Smith MSF (Doctors without Borders). Front lines in Africa. Then central Learning Officer: climate and environment. “Striving for freedom from a job description”.

Alex Prate  Co-founder of Hypha DAO, Hypha Energy, co-creator of SEEDS,  contributor to the Regenerative Economy and CEO of Realifex (well being intelligence).

Joyce Kimutae Doctor of Philosophy, Researcher at U of Cape Town, Investigates Extreme Weather and Climate Events. Bridges the gap between legal practice and science.

Chris Luebkeman and Jonelle Simunich  Chris is at the Strategic Foresight Hub, Office of the President, ETH-Zürich. Jonelle is a futurist and civic designer with a background in architecture, foresight, and cultural systems. Together they founded [y]our2040: “Co-creating the world we want”.

Nicholas Omonuk  Climate advocate from pastoral tribe in eastern Uganda. Represented Most Affected People and Areas (MAPA) at COP27. Founded End Fossil Occupy Uganda.