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Sir Richard Dearlove
Chief, MI6 (fmr.)
Andy Hickl
CTO, Allen Institute
Amory Lovins
Co-Founder & Chair Emeritus, Rocky Mountain Institute
Nicoletta Giordani
Director, Global Investment & Economic Security, Office of the Secretary of Defense, US Department of Defense
Pradeep Khosla
Chancellor & Distinguished Professor, UC San Diego
Gabriela Cowperthwaite
Director (The Grab)
Ed Mehr
Co-Founder & CEO, Machina Labs
Christo Grozev
Lead Russian Investigator, The Insider/Der Spiegel
Daniella Taveau
President, Bold Text Strategies
Bill McAleer
Managing Director,
Voyager Capital
Esther Dyson
Angel Investor & Founder, Wellville
Ariel Ganz
Founder & General Partner, Arben Ventures
John Mattison
Scholar-in-Residence, AI & Advanced Technologies, Center for Healthcare Design, UC San Diego
Travis DeMeester
Program Manager, Defense
Innovation Unit
Emre Izat
Documentary Filmmaker &
Co-Founder,
Blue Gray Films
Marc Raimondi
Chief of Staff to the Executive Chair, Silverado Policy Accelerator & Founder, LexStrat LLC
Rick Bourke
Founder & CEO, Immunolight
Berit Anderson
COO, Future
in Review
Mark Listes
CEO & Co-Founder, Pendulum Intelligence
Sarah Keo
Filmmaker
(Chasing Time)
Tatyana Kanzaveli
Founder & CEO, Open Health Network
Nate Halverson
Senior Reporter & Producer, Center for Investigative Journalism | Reporter & Producer
(The Grab)
Pablo Breuer
President, Orthogonal Insights
Mark Anderson
CEO, Pattern |
Chair & CEO, Future in Review
Jason Huang
Co-Founder & CEO, TS Conductor
Cynthia Figge
CEO & Co-Founder, CSRHub
Evan Anderson
Head of Programs, Future in Review
Jennifer (Jenn) Byrne
General Partner, Grit Capital Partners
Sharon
Anderson
Morris
CEO, FiReFilms
Kate Bradbury
Documentary Film Producer & Director | Co-Founder, Blue Gray Films
Ben Abbott
Executive Director, Grow the Flow
Marco Terruzzin
Chief Commercial & Product Officer, Energy Vault
Nathan McDonald
Managing Partner, Ecosystem Venture Group | Managing Partner & CEO,
Keiretsu Capital
Leroy (Lee) Hood
CEO,
Phenome Health
Jody Westby
CEO, Global
Cyber Risk
Mike Steep
Founder & Executive Director (fmr.), Stanford Engineering Program for Disruptive Technology & Digital Cities | SVP (fmr.), Global Business Operations,
PARC Xerox
Molly Peterson
Climate Journalist | Correspondent, Public Health Watch
Ilkay Altintas
Chief Data Science Officer, UC San Diego
Andrew Himes
Director, Collective Impact, Carbon Leadership Forum
Johno Niles
Vice President, Science & Conservation, San Diego Natural History Museum
David Brin
Author, Futurist & Public Speaker
Karen Boyd
Director, Product Sustainability,
World Energy
Tom Mitchell
CFO & COO, Membrion Inc.
Quinn Li
SVP & Global Head, Qualcomm Ventures
Stuart Sandin
Professor, Scripps Institute of Oceanography| Director, Center for Marine Biodiversity
& Conservation
Ilya Levtov
Founder & CEO, Craft
Syndey House
ESG Product Lead, Certa
Wilfred Audley
Renewable Development Associate, Invenergy
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