Kirk Wagar
Ambassador Kirk Wagar is a Co-Chair of Mercury and is based in its Singapore office. Wagar utilizes decades of experience at the intersection of public policy and business to solve complex problems for clients across the Asia-Pacific region. Prior to joining Mercury, Wagar served as the U.S. Ambassador to...
Joy Buolamwini
Joy Buolamwini is a poet of code who uses art and research to illuminate the social implications of artificial intelligence. She founded the Algorithmic Justice League to create a world with more ethical and inclusive technology. Her TED Featured Talk on algorithmic bias has over 1 million views. Her...
Garrett Reisman
Dr. Garrett Reisman was selected by NASA as a mission specialist Astronaut in 1998. His first mission was aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, in 2008, which dropped him off for a 95 day mission aboard the International Space Station after which he returned to Earth aboard the Space Shuttle...
Pritpal S Tamber
Dr Pritpal S Tamber is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bridging Health & Community, a Seattle-based nonprofit dedicated to transforming how we approach health so that it goes beyond health care and public health to include fostering the ‘agency’ of a community – its ability to make purposeful choices....
William Whitehorn
As Richard Branson’s right-hand man, William Whitehorn took the space tourism venture, Virgin Galactic, from a mere dream to a project with real spacecraft and its own spaceport. 2014 saw the first commercial flights one hundred miles above the Earth’s surface. Regulation dictated that he hand over to a...
Bruce Daisley
Bruce Daisley is a best selling author and technology leader from the UK. He spent 8 years as EMEA Vice President for Twitter having joined the company in 2012. Prior to this, Daisley ran YouTube UK at Google and he has also worked at Emap/Bauer and Capital Radio. Daisley...
Dr. Michael Gillam
Michael Gillam, MD, FACEP, is CEO of HealthLabs, a discovery automation company for “big data” and machine intelligence models. He has helped build and sell companies to WebMD and Microsoft and built a direct-to-consumer digital athletics company whose mobile app was called “game changing” by Apple and put in...
Jonathan Firth
Jonathan Firth has been directly involved in the development of the commercial space industry in the US since 2004, when ‘SpaceShipOne’ reached suborbital space and won the ‘Ansari X-Prize’. He was a member of the executive team that started up three space companies – Virgin Galactic, The Spaceship Company...
Dr. Mark van Rijmenam
Known as The Digital Speaker, Van Rijmenam is a strategic futurist who has significantly influenced the digital landscape. His pioneering efforts include the first TED talk in VR in 2020. In 2023, he further pushed boundaries when he delivered a TED talk in Athens with his digital twin, delving...
Scott Bales
A technology & innovation guru, Scott Bales is a global leader in the cutting edge arena known as “The Digital Shift”, encompassing innovation, culture, design, and mobility in a world gone digital. As a thought leader, Scott thrives on the intersection between cultural and behavioural changes in the face...
