Joy Ajlouny
Businesswoman, serial entrepreneur and advisor, Joy Ajlouny is a flash-bang grenade thrown into the Middle East. Born and raised in California to Palestinian refugees, Ajlouny has built a reputation for her success in startups and ventures worldwide, all the while disrupting the status quo of women in business. Belonging...
Denis Rivin
Denis Rivin is a Futurist, art historian and entrepreneur. He is an associate partner at DareDisrupt, Nordic ambassador of EthicsNET, founder of public education platform Of Course Off Course and co-founder of think tank Nordic Bildung. Denis does keynotes on Exponential Mindset, Future of Education, Mass Collaboration and Critical...
Lucy Hawking
Lucy Hawking uses story-telling to help audiences understand and engage with science. Lucy is the creator of the George Greenby books, a series of adventure stories which use dramatic story-telling to explain complex science to young audiences. Lucy has collaborated with several distinguished scientists on the George Greenby series,...
Ian Russell
Ian Russell was CEO of BCX, South Africa’s largest technology company, with a turnover of $2bn, and an employee base of 10,000. Russell’s tenure saw a focused re-engineering of the company, simplifying the core of the business, creating new technology capabilities, and a massive shift of the brand towards...
Mike Massimino
Mike Massimino, former NASA astronaut, and the senior advisor for space programs at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. Massimino has a team record for the number of hours spacewalking in a single space shuttle mission and was also the first person to tweet from space. He is...
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...
