Peter is a serial entrepreneur, Forbes contributor, LinkedIn Influencer, best-selling author and one of the most sought-after thought leaders on organizing for the Day After Tomorrow, radical innovation, leadership and the impact of all things digital on society and business.

Pieter Abbeel received a BS/MS in Electrical Engineering from KU Leuven (Belgium) and received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2008.

He joined the faculty at UC Berkeley in Fall 2008, with an appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. He has won various awards, including best paper awards at ICML and ICRA, the Sloan Fellowship, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program (AFOSR-YIP) award, the Okawa Foundation award, and the 2011's TR35.

Walter De Brouwer is cofounder and CEO of the Palo-Alto based computational linguistics company doc.ai. Doc.ai is building a robo-doctor, via medical dialog systems for personalized healthcare, a conversational AI that follows biological blood markers across the phenome and the genome.

Sam is cofounder and Chief Operating Officer at doc.ai , a computational linguistics company focused on building medical dialogue systems and intelligent conversational agents for the next-generation personalized healthcare. Before that she cofounded Scanadu Inc. in 2011 and served as its VP of communications until April 2016. Scanadu is a venture backed company developing consumer facing mobile medical devices.

Sam started her entrepreneurial career in 1996 with the Starlab research lab where she ran the business development department. It was her first experience with the MIT MediaLab, which specialized in blue sky research deep future research, and BANG (Bits, Atoms, Neurons and Genes) research. Starlab produced generic patents that were later sold to Philips.

In 1999, Sam started one of the first employment websites for Benelux, called Jobscape, which merged with eight similar sites to make up Stepstone, and went public on the London Stock Exchange.
From 2001 until 2004, Sam founded the National Institute for Telework in Europe, which designed pilot micro-entrepreneurship workshops, together with the University of Antwerp and the European Social Fund. In 2008, Sam served as advocacy director of NGO One Laptop Per Child, the European/African branch of One Laptop per Child foundation which was located at the global headquarters of The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) near Brussels. With the European team they secured funding for the deployment of laptops and training for more than 50.000 kids in more than 10 countries (Rwanda, Paraguay, Peru, Nepal, Madagascar, Tanzania...)

Mr. Marc Vanlerberghe has been Chief Marketing Officer at Medallia, Inc. since October 27, 2016. Mr. Vanlerberghe co-founded eWingz Systems, Inc. (also known as Quios, Inc.) in 2001 and also served as Chief Executive Officer from March 2001 to October 2007. Prior to joining Medallia, he served as Vice President of Marketing for Access and Energy at Google and served as an Advisor to Google Capital. He also led marketing for Android, Google Play and Google's hardware and retail organizations. He has been an active player in the mobile industry for over 20 years. He has developed some of the most widely recognized brands in the world, turning Android from a novelty into the world's most popular mobile operating system. He made his name at Google launching and building the Android brand and has over 17 years of executive marketing experience. Prior to founding Quios, he was Director of Business Development at Proximus, a joint venture between Airtouch & Belgacom, where he was responsible for their Internet and Roaming business units. As a Consultant for McKinsey, he worked on operational excellence projects in the telecom industry. From 1988 to 1995 he held several technical, sales, marketing and management positions at IBM. Mr. Vanlerberghe received his M.B.A from Stanford University and an M.S. degree in engineering from the University of Ghent, Belgium.

Jarad is the Senior Project Engineer at Gigster, which connects you with Silicon Valley based product managers and top 1% software developers from our vetted talent pool. It empower teams with their smart work platform, which uses artificial intelligence to help them work faster and deliver high quality work reliably and efficiently.

Benny Du is Partnership Coordinator at Gigster, which is the easiest way to build custom software, combining the world’s best developers, product visionaries, and industry-leading tools into a single, powerful platform.

Gigster is an AI-enabled, on-demand software development platform powered by a fast growing network of 1000+ top quality freelance developers, engineers, designers and product managers. 

Anyone can hire a full development team in minutes, and work with the top 1% of talent from Silicon Valley, with a fixed price and guaranteed quality.

Robert Scoble is an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. He is best known for his popular blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at Microsoft.

Scoble joined Microsoft in 2003, and although he often promoted Microsoft products like Tablet PCs and Windows Vista, he also frequently criticized his own employer and praised its competitors like Apple and Google.

Scoble is the author of Naked Conversations, a book on how blogs are changing the way companies interact with customers, and is currently working on his new project building43 as an employee of Rackspace Hosting.

Shel writes and speaks about technology’s impact on business and life. He has been a keynote speaker on all continents not covered by ice.

Currently, He is co-authoring a book: Beyond Mobile: Life After Smartphones, with Robert Scoble about AR/VR, Digital Genies, Autonomous Cars and Robots. Two of their previous books, Naked Conversations and Age of Context, written with Robert Scoble, were critically acclaimed best selling business-technology books.

He has contributed to many publications including Forbes, FastCompany, BusinessWeek, BusinessInsider, Dow Jones & Conferenza Premium Reports.

Alexander has been called a renaissance man. He has to admit that he loves that title. Alexander is a renaissance man in the eyes of most, perhaps since he seems unsettled: He has studied philosophy, law, business and even know how to code a bit. When he was 15 his dad suggested he should work at a fast food restaurant to "learn life skills". At the time, cooking chicken and manning the cash register seemed trivial but they were the building blocks to his core: he loves business. Not in the Wall Street power-suit sense. Rather, he loves innovation and self-actualization. Alexander is fortunate enough to be a part of a generation of people who believe that we can change how things are done and question everything at every step.

Providing the technology and the platform for holographic communication. Davy captures real people in 3D using depth sensors and stream them in low-latency for tele-presence applications.

Stephen got his undergraduate degree at UC Berkeley, then started his PhD at Stanford, and is currently on extended leave from the PhD program to co-found Fyusion. Based in San Francisco, Fyusion is on a mission to fundamentally change the definition of photography. The company's breakthrough technology generates deeply immersive "surround view" images that fuse the capabilities of a traditional photo, a panorama, motion capture and 3D to create a more complete, captivating photography experience. Fyusion was co-founded by a team of leading PhD experts in computer vision, robotics and machine learning. Fyusion has released its first commercial application, Fyuse, on iOS and Android.

Dave Jackson is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Avametric where he oversees the engineering and science teams. Dave was inspired to create Avametric when he was unable to find correctly sized clothes. Discussing this problem with friends, it became clear that many types of garments had no consistent sizing between brands or styles - it was impossible to know how anything would fit. Tthis problem affects everyone when shopping online. 

At that time, he was a PhD Student in Stanford’s Computer Science department, working on self driving cars and computer vision. He recognized how the same algorithms that allow a robotic car to understand it’s 3D environment can be used understand the shape of a human being, which serves as a starting point to accurately simulating how a garment will fit. After being interested in this problem for several years, he took leave from Stanford and founded Avametric in 2012. Dave has a physics degree from Brown and is an experienced sailor.

Peter is a serial entrepreneur, Forbes contributor, LinkedIn Influencer, best-selling author and one of the most sought-after thought leaders on organizing for the Day After Tomorrow, radical innovation, leadership and the impact of all things digital on society and business. He has given numerous keynote speeches around the world, among which those for Google Think Performance, Nimbus Ninety, Gartner, NEXT Berlin, Tedx, PayPal, MasterCard, Microsoft, CIO City, SAS, Accenture and Apple. He lectures at renowned business schools like the London Business School, the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Paul Merage School of Business at UC Irvine. 

Christopher Allen works at Blockstream and is an entrepreneur, technologist, and educator who specializes in collaboration, security, and trust. As a pioneer in internet cryptography, he’s initiated cross-industry collaborations and created industry standards that influence the entire internet. Though he’s worked within numerous privacy and security sectors, Christopher’s recent emphasis has been on engines of trust such as blockchain, smart contracts, and smart signatures, in particular decentralized self-sovereign identity.

Sam Rosenblum is Director of Business Development at Coinbase, which was founded in 2012. Coinbase is a platform where merchants, consumers and traders can transact with digital currency. In January 2015, Coinbase completed Series C to a total of 106M.enblum is Director of Business Development at Coinbase, which was founded in 2012. Coinbase is a platform where merchants, consumers and traders can transact with digital currency. In January 2015, Coinbase completed Series C to a total of 106M.

Alessandro Voto is a West Coast Regional Director for Consensys, a Brooklyn-based blockchain technology venture studio. 

Alessandro connects organizations and social entrepreneurs with the San Francisco Bay Area blockchain community to build decentralized applications and services.

His focus lies at the intersection of economic design, peer-to-peer technology, and social change.

At Verity, we're creating a whole new way for websites to identify, reward, and motivate their best users. I steer the ship and help us find customers.

Caterina Rindi comes from a background in education and non-profits; through her efforts developing more scalable opportunities and tapping existing resources via peer-to-peer technologies, she became involved in the bitcoin and blockchain ecosystem in 2013.

Piet Goddaer is a Belgian musician, better known by his stage name Ozark Henry. One of the first artists using 3D audio-technology.

Mickey McManus is a pioneer in the field of collaborative innovation, pervasive computing, human-centered design and education. He holds ten patents in the areas of connected products, vehicles, and services.

Mickey co-authored Trillions: Thriving in the Emerging Information Ecology (Wiley 2012). The book is a field guide to the future, where computing will cease to be confined to any particular "box," but instead be freely accessible in the ambient environment. John C. Abell, former New York Bureau Chief of Wired and founding editor of Reuter.com noted that, “With Trillions authors Lucas, Ballay and McManus belly up to the bar alongside futurists Alvin Toffler, Kevin Kelly and Arthur C. Clark, offering a vision so compellingly argued you’ll only be surprised if it doesn’t happen.” David Brin, physicist, futurist, and author of Earth, The Postman, and The Transparent Society said, “Trillions is bold, unabashed, ingenious, and absolutely fizzing with insights about the new-modern process of blending design, high-tech, and commerce.” 

Trillions was awarded the Axiom Gold Award in 2013 for best business book about technology and the 2013 Carnegie Science Award in the Science Communicator category.

During Mickey’s tenure as CEO at MAYA the company won numerous Consumer Electronic Association (CEA) awards for product innovation, was selected multiple times as a top 20 “best small company to work for” in America by Fortune, Inc, and Entrepreneur magazines and spun-out, launched, or incubated five new MAYA organizations.

Nick got his PHD in Machine Learning & Signal Processing at the University of Oxford in the UK. He moved to San Francisco for a position as a Postdoctoral Scholar. Advised by Timothy Chou, lecturer at Stanford he founded Lecida.

Hans Danneels founded Byteflies, which helps you reshape healthcare and improve patient outcomes. They are making the development of health wearables quick and painless by introducing a complete platform for medical research and pharmaceutical applications. Their combination of medical expertise, in-house wearable technologies, and cloud infrastructure will allow you to rapidly explore, validate, and scale a solution tailored to your unique application. From raw signals to meaningful insights, Byteflies is with you every step of the way.

Jake is working on the intersection of robotics, artificial intelligence, and food. Advised by Professor Sebastian Thrun.

As coach, educator, & entrepreneur Yeshua empowers leaders evolve their life & business.

He uses his eclectic experience developing thriving organizations to enable others do the same. Projects he has built positively touch Millions globally within business, non-profit, and government in the arts, media, education, health, environment, food, water, mobility, energy, governance, and peace. He has an interdisciplinary background; as a U.S. Marine Staff Sergeant, U.S. Department of State diplomat, touring musician, urban monk, movement builder, community organizer, conference host, technologist, and founder of social ventures and non-profits. Yeshua is pioneering a new field at the leading edge of social innovation integrating biomimicry, regenerative development, and mindfulness.

Umesh Virkumar Vazirani is the Roger A. Strauch Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and the director of the Berkeley Quantum Computation Center. His research interests lie primarily in quantum computing. He is also the author of a textbook on algorithms.