Speakers bureau

Deep Tech Investor & Experience Economy Expert. Founder/CEO of MESMR. Singularity Group Expert. Board member, Beacon Media. Oxford MBA, LSE, Sciences Po. PhD Public Policy. US Dept. of Commerce Star Partner Award.

Climate tech expert, investor & entrepreneur. Co-founder of D3, world's largest climate tech accelerator. Founder of New Energy Network. Published author. Driving global clean energy innovation & transition.

Pioneering data economist & future synthesist, Dr. Sabine Seymour coined "Fashionable Technology" and leads MOONDIAL & PONY EARTH, driving regenerative finance, digital health, and biodiversity. Featured in Wired, Forbes & NYT.

Sahra-Josephine is an expert on converging technologies and how these are applied in learning contexts to design personalized and adaptive learning experiences that empower end-users to improve their lives. 

Co-founder & CEO of CanopyLAB, empowering 800K+ youths & 130K teachers globally. Obama Foundation Leader, Top 50 Keynote Speaker, and AI-driven edtech pioneer shaping the future of adaptive learning.

Futurist, inventor & educator Sally Dominguez drives moonshot thinking & resilience strategies. Creator of Adventurous Thinking™, she's trusted by NASA, SONY & IKEA. Faculty at Singularity University. Based in SF Bay Area.

Entrepreneur & innovator Samantha Snabes co-founded re:3D, advancing affordable 3D printing in 50+ countries. NASA alum, IEEE Global Chair, Air National Guard Reservist, firefighter & EMT-B driving tech, sustainability & global access.

Africa's top tech disruption thought leader. Columbia Law Dr., ex-Wall St. banker, 30+ yrs expertise. CDT co-founder, SuperSchool creator, UN advisor & WINDE director. Mission: improve 1B lives via disruptive tech.

Sharron is co-founder and executive director at The Centre for Disruptive Technologies which leverages an impressive Africa-wide and global network of experts in disruptive technologies to advise government and businesses on the implementation of digital transformation strategies. In addition, she is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer – Project Finance at the University of Cape Town – Graduate School of Business where she focusses on smart city technologies and sustainable, nexus investing for development. Sharron is also an enterprise development expert having launched some of the first impact investment funds in Africa. She is co-founder & shareholder of Women in Infrastructure Development & Energy (WINDE). WINDE is one of the largest and most impactful women’s infrastructure investment consortiums in Africa. She is also a founder of the Adventure Capitalists Network which invests in game changing ideas being developed by teens and university students.

Shuo Chen is a General Partner at IOVC, where she focuses on early stage venture investments in Silicon Valley with a focus on future of work and enterprise/SaaS. She is also Faculty at UC Berkeley and Singularity University. Shuo is appointed by California Governor Gavin Newson to serve as 1 of 13 voting members on California's Mental Health Commission (as the first Asian American Commissioner), which includes overseeing ~$2.6 billion annually in state budget and advising the Governor or the Legislature on mental health policy.

GP at IOVC backing future-of-work startups. Backed unicorns & exits to Goldman, Ford & Binance. Faculty at Berkeley & Stanford. CA Mental Health Commissioner. Ex-Goldman Sachs & PwC. Cambridge Press author.

Founder of HumAIn Capital, Simone has ~20 years investing in AI & Deep tech. Ex-Morgan Stanley banker, co-founded DARPA-tech startups backed by Microsoft & Intel. Faculty at Singularity University & AI & Quantum Venture Partner.