Carlos Moreira began his career as a UN expert on IT, eSecurity and Trust Models, working for ILO, UN, UNCTAD, ITC/WTO, World Bank, UNDP, ESCAP from 1983 to 1998. A recognized early stage pioneer in the field of digital identity, he was also Adjunct Professor of the Graduate School of Engineering Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology from 1995 to 1999 as well as Head of the Trade Efficiency Lab at the Graduate School of Engineering at RMIT.

In 1999, he founded the Geneva-based online data security firm WISeKey, where he currently serves as Chairman and CEO. Mr Moreira’s unique profile, which combines extensive high level international diplomacy experience and emerging technologies expertise, has positioned him as a distinctive authority, thought leader, and entrepreneurial force in today’s digital world where the acquisition and trusted protection of a digital identity has become an essential step for citizens and entities across the globe. He is a Member of the UN Global Compact, Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council, Founding Member World Economic Forum Global Growth Companies.

Renaud Deraison co-founded Tenable Network Security in 2002. As Chief Technology Officer, he drives product strategy and development. Before Tenable, Renaud was the primary author of the Nessus vulnerability scanner – releasing the first version of Nessus when he was 17. He worked for SolSoft and founded his own computing security consulting company, Nessus Consulting S.A.R.L.

Renaud continues to contribute to the global security community; he is author of three patents related to network scanning and security, and has published his work in books and magazines. He is a member of the editorial board for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Organization. In 2013, he received the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for defense and security, together with Ron Gula and Jack Huffard.

At Unisys, Tom Patterson is focused on extending trust and security to hundreds of global stakeholders including governments and critical infrastructure companies that rely on Unisys to protect national borders, transact trillions of dollars, deliver energy to millions, secure global air transit, provide healthcare to entire populations, and architect a safer tomorrow.

Tom has served on several public company boards, and advised the FBI, Secret Service, and White House on security issues. Tom also has been appointed to and currently serves as the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee’s (NSTAC) Cyber Moonshot Working Group co-lead. Prior to Unisys, Tom has run security services for Deloitte in EMEA, and was IBM’s Chief eCommerce Strategist. Tom has worked on security for the launch of a nuclear aircraft carrier and space shuttle as well as with the U.S. Government and businesses around the world.

Alissa Starzak is the Head of Public Policy at Cloudflare, a web performance and security company that is on a mission to help build a better Internet. Cloudflare protects and accelerates more than 20 million web properties worldwide, with customers ranging from individual blogs to small businesses to Fortune 500 companies.

Prior to joining Cloudflare, Alissa worked for the U.S government in a variety of national security positions. Most recently, she served as the 21st General Counsel of the Department of the Army, after confirmation by the Senate. Before her appointment as Army General Counsel, Alissa served as the Deputy General Counsel (Legislation) of the U.S. Department of Defense, advising on legal issues with a legislative or congressional component and managing an office of attorneys responsible for developing the Department of Defense legislative program. Prior to moving to the Department of Defense, she served as Counsel to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and as an Assistant General Counsel at the Central Intelligence Agency’s Office of General Counsel. She also worked in private practice in Washington, D.C., and clerked for The Honorable E. Grady Jolly, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She graduated from Amherst College and the University of Chicago Law School.

Amy Weaver leads the legal, compliance, internal audit, security and government affairs teams at Salesforce. She is a member of the company’s executive committee.

Prior to joining Salesforce, Weaver was executive vice president and general counsel of Univar Inc., where she was responsible globally for all legal and corporate affairs, governance, corporate transactions, compliance, litigation and employment law matters. Previously Weaver was senior vice president and deputy general counsel at Expedia, Inc. Weaver practiced law at Cravath, Swaine & Moore and at Perkins Coie LLP. Prior to entering private practice, she served as a legislative aide to a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council and as a clerk on the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Weaver has a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from Wellesley College.

Sanjay Poonen joined VMware in August 2013, and is responsible forworldwide sales, services, support, marketing and alliances. He is alsoresponsible for the Security products and strategy at VMware. Previously,Poonen held the role of executive vice president and general manager forthe End-User Computing business unit at VMware, where he ran thebusiness end-to-end – from engineering to sales.

Before VMware, Poonen was president of Platform Solutions at SAP AG.During his more than seven years at SAP, Poonen held several executive-level roles in product development and sales, including leading SAP’sAnalytics, Big Data, Mobile and all Industry Business Units, driving manysolutions to industry-leading market positions. Prior to SAP, Poonen heldexecutive roles at Symantec, VERITAS and Informatica, and he began hiscareer as a software engineer at Microsoft, followed by Apple.

Poonen serves on the Board of Directors of Infor and the Advisory Board of Docusign.

Carlos Moreira began his career as a UN expert on IT, eSecurity and Trust Models, working for ILO, UN, UNCTAD, ITC/WTO, World Bank, UNDP, ESCAP from 1983 to 1998. A recognized early stage pioneer in the field of digital identity, he was also Adjunct Professor of the Graduate School of Engineering Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology from 1995 to 1999 as well as Head of the Trade Efficiency Lab at the Graduate School of Engineering at RMIT.

In 1999, he founded the Geneva-based online data security firm WISeKey, where he currently serves as Chairman and CEO. Mr Moreira’s unique profile, which combines extensive high level international diplomacy experience and emerging technologies expertise, has positioned him as a distinctive authority, thought leader, and entrepreneurial force in today’s digital world where the acquisition and trusted protection of a digital identity has become an essential step for citizens and entities across the globe. He is a Member of the UN Global Compact, Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council, Founding Member World Economic Forum Global Growth Companies.

Most recently he was CEO and President of The M&A Advisor, where he led global think tank services: market intelligence publishing, media, event and consulting, for the firm’s constituency of over 350,000 finance industry professionals from their offices in New York and London.

Mr. Fergusson engages regularly with leading stalwarts in the finance industry, media, and government. He is a respected speaker on the subjects of financial services and corporate innovation at prominent educational institutions including Cambridge, Columbia, Harvard, MIT and Cornell; and leadership assemblies including the World Economic Forum at Davos, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund; a frequent contributor to major media organizations including CNBC – US, Europe, and Arabia, Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters and is the editor of 5 annual editions of “The Best Practices of The Best Dealmakers” series with a readership of more than 500,000 in over 60 countries. He is the co-creator and Editor At Large of “Out In Front”, a multi-media content hub for M&A professionals.

Prior to joining The M&A Advisor in 2010, he conducted over 25 acquisitions as an investor and was credited with executing some of the country’s top consolidations in transportation and recreational services. Mr. Fergusson is a Founding Member of the City of London’s Guild of Entrepreneurs, a member of British American Business and the Association of Corporate Growth (ACG). As an advocate for the advancement of the finance industry, in 2013 Mr. Fergusson led the formation of the global Emerging Leaders program. A pioneer in cross border mergers and acquisitions between the United States and China, he was recognized with the 2017 M&A Leadership Award from the China Mergers & Acquisitions Association and is Co-Chairman of the Asia Pacific M&A Council.

With Swiss technology pioneer, Carlos Moreira, he is the author of the book and forthcoming broadcast series – “The transHuman Code”. Recipient of the 2015 Albert Schweitzer Leadership Award for his work in youth leadership development, Mr. Fergusson is the Vice Chairman of Hugh O’Brien Youth Leadership (HOBY), the world’s largest social leadership foundation for high school students. Mr. Fergusson is a graduate of Kings College School and The University of Guelph.

Professor of Media Arts and Sciences

Toshiba Professor

Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program Director

Professor Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland directs the MIT Connection Science and Human Dynamics labs and previously helped create and direct the MIT Media Lab and the Media Lab Asia in India. He is one of the most-cited scientists in the world, and Forbes recently declared him one of the “7 most powerful data scientists in the world” along with Google founders and the Chief Technical Officer of the United States. He has received numerous awards and prizes such as the McKinsey Award from Harvard Business Review, the 40th Anniversary of the Internet from DARPA, and the Brandeis Award for work in privacy.

He is a founding member of advisory boards for Google, AT&T, Nissan, and the UN Secretary General, a serial entrepreneur who has co-founded more than a dozen companies including social enterprises such as the Data Transparency Lab, the Harvard-ODI-MIT DataPop Alliance and the Institute for Data Driven Design. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and leader within the World Economic Forum.

Over the years Sandy has advised more than 60 PhD students. Almost half are now tenured faculty at leading institutions, with another one-quarter leading industry research groups and a final quarter founders of their own companies. Together Sandy and his students have pioneered computational social science, organizational engineering, wearable computing (Google Glass), image understanding, and modern biometrics. His most recent books are Social Physics, published by Penguin Press, and Honest Signals, published by MIT Press.

Interesting experiences include dining with British Royalty and the President of India, staging fashion shows in Paris, Tokyo, and New York, and developing a method for counting beavers from space.

Mr. Wang has organized and supervised IPO underwritings for over 40 Chinese companies in both domestic and overseas markets. He is the financial consultant on restructuring, financing, M&A and IPO for many leading companies in China. He had worked in a number of international corporations including Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. in Tokyo, the World Bank in Washington D.C. and the Chase Bank in New York. Mr. Wang also serves as the economic advisor in several ministerial and provincial governments in China as well as independent director for several listed companies.

Mr. Wang received his bachelor’s degree in accounting and master’s degree in finance in China, a Ph.D. in economics from Fordham University in the United States. He is the author of many books and journal articles, also a well-known lecturer as he has given seminars and lectures in many universities including CEIBS and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business.

Mr. Wang has been named “Top Five Chinese investment Bankers” by Talents magazine in 2003, “The Most Influential Independent Director” by Directors & Boards magazine in 2006 and “The Most Influential Investment Banker” by China Finance Network in 2006. He was selected as a member of Shanghai Stock Exchange Corporate Governance Advisory Committee since 2007. He founded the Chinese Museum of Finance (Group) in 2010 and currently has 6 museums in Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Shenyang and Suzhou. Furthermore, he has received the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award from The M&A Advisor in New York, the 2013 Social Innovator Award from The Wall Street Journal, 2015 IFFM Financial Literacy Award and many others. He has successfully summited the Mount Everest in May 2013. He was elected as the Chairman of Asia Mergers & Acquisitions Association (AMAA) and Co-chairman of International Federation of Finance Museums (IFFM) in November 2015.

Fr. Philip Larrey is a Catholic priest who holds the Chair of Logic and Epistemology at the Pontifical Lateran University in the Vatican. He is the author of multiple books addressing the philosophy of knowledge and critical thinking. He has published several works concerning the effects of the new digital era on society including the notable publications, Futuro Ignoto and Connected World.

Most recently, he has been following the philosophical implications of the rapid development of artificial intelligence. With candor he challenges industry leaders he comes into contact with at the Vatican to discuss how technology is shaping the fabric of our society. His latest book, Artificial Humanity, delves into a more philosophical discussion of what AI research means for all of humanity.

Fr. Philip Larrey is proudly the chairman of Humanity 2.0, a vehicle for facilitating collaborative ventures between the traditionally siloed public, private and faith-bases sectors. Through this platform, his mission is to identify impediments to human progress and work collaboratively across sectors to remove them by sourcing and scaling bold and innovative solutions.

Don Tapscott, CEO of The Tapscott Group, is one of the world’s leading authorities on the impact of technology on business and society. He has authored over 15 books including Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything which has been translated into over 25 languages.

Don has been advancing ground-breaking concepts for over 3 decades. His 1992 bestseller Paradigm Shift helped coin the seminal management concept, and in 1995 his book The Digital Economy changed business thinking about the transformational nature of the Internet. Two years later he helped popularize the terms “Net Generation” and “the Digital Divide” in Growing Up Digital. His most recent book is the 20^th Anniversary Edition of The Digital Economy.

Don’s next and perhaps most ambitious book is co-authored with his son, startup CEO and bitcoin governance expert Alex Tapscott. Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology behind bitcoin is Changing Money, Business, and the World was published by Penguin Random House in 2016, and is now a bestseller, and is being translated into 12 languages.

In 2015, Don became a member of the Order of Canada, and was ranked the 4^th most important living business thinker in the world by Thinkers50. He is Adjunct Professor at the Rotman School of Management, a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University, and Chancellor of Trent University in Ontario.

It is hard to imagine anyone who has been more prolific, profound, and influential in explaining today’s technological revolutions and their impact on the world.

Beth is Cofounder and CEO of Riff Analytics, a scrappy AI startup out of MIT that measures conversational dynamics in order to help people build situational and social awareness, especially when they collaborate. Beth’s philosophy is that people learn best from each other, and learning fosters both personal growth and organizational innovation and change. She teaches IT Strategies to MBAs at Boston University, where her students work in small, peer learning groups throughout the course, and learning innovation in Media Ventures at the MIT Media Lab. Prior roles include VP Product for edX, VP Software Product Management for Pearson Education, and senior engineering and product management positions at Mathsoft and PTC. Through her consulting practice, Geeklight LLC, she also advises education, publishing, and technology clients on strategy, vision and execution for end-to-end online learning solutions that meet business needs.

“In 1981, The Soul of a New Machine lauded the obsessive pursuit of a technology innovation that highlighted the feverish dedication of a few bright minds. The transHumans Code reminds us that humans remain at the center of automation’s evolution, with a collective responsibility to bring our unique sensibilities to bear, whether we are technologists or not. The transHuman Code invites everyone to be a part of the conversation.”

holds the Tier I Canada Research Chair in Global Food Security in the Department of Geography

Evan Fraser did a PhD and post-doc at the University of British Columbia and worked at the University of
Leeds in the UK between 2003 and 2010. He is currently the director of the Arrell Food Institute, a
Professor of Geography and holds the Tier I Canada Research Chair in Global Food Security at the
University of Guelph.

He is also a fellow of Trudeau Foundation, the Royal Canadian Geographical
Society and an elected member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars. His work is on
challenges to food security over the next two generations, during which time population growth and
climate change threaten to make food harder to produce and more expensive to buy. He has worked
extensively with climate modelers, economists, ecologists, anthropologists, and journalists to explore
possible solutions to this global challenge. During his career he has played a leadership role in securing
over $100M in funding for topics related to food, agriculture, technology and sustainability including
being the scientific lead in the University of Guelph’s “Food from Thought” initiative, a $76.6M grant
from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund.

In addition to over 90 academic articles and book
chapters, he has written two popular books on food and sustainable agriculture and has had articles published by CNN.com, theguardian.com, ForeignAffairs.com, The Ottawa Citizen and the Walrus. His web video series on “feeding nine billion” has been watched over 425,000 times, he has self-published a graphic novel called #FoodCrisis about a fictitious food crisis that hits North America in the 2020s. Dr. Fraser has also created a card game about global food security. The videos, the graphic novel and the card game have been pulled together in a series of teacher-friendly high school lesson plans that are used in classrooms around the world.

Managing Director and Founder of Maqueveq & Co, a strategic and financial advisory for companies using Blockchain technology. represent the Blockchain Research Institute for Hispanic America and is an international speaker in this field. Maria is also a Board Director at Olidata S.p.A and Uno Pension Fund Administrator Company.

She advises public and private Latin American leaders on blockchain technology implementation and currently leads the academic group for the APEC Cross Border E-Commerce Training for Chile with China.

Throughout her career, Maria has been a valued contributor to The World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, Mutual Fund Chilean Association, and the American Chamber of Commerce in Chile among others.

As a philanthropist, she is also the Co-founder and Director of DreamTech, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to inspire young leaders on the use of technology for good. As an advocate for equality, Maria is also leading the Chilean chapter of the 30% club, an initiative focused on increasing the participation of women on the boards of leading corporations.

David Shrier is a globally recognized authority on financial innovation with a dual appointment at MIT and University of Oxford. He has founded or co-founded three MIT spinouts that leverage AI, and advises governments and corporations globally on fintech, AI, and blockchain. His books include Basic Blockchain (Little Brown, 2020), Trusted Data (MIT Press, 2019), New Solutions for Cybersecurity (MIT Press, 2018), and Frontiers of Financial Technology (2016). His online classes for MIT and Oxford have engaged more than 15,000 innovators in over 140 countries to take action.

Anitha is deeply engaged at the intersection of science, technology, innovation, and business that is driving automation and Fourth Industrial revolution. At CLC Global Advisors (CLC), an advisory firm with offices in New York City and Miami, she is part of the task force spearheading bringing impact investing, disruptive technologies, and philanthropic initiatives to smart city and sustainable development. With a guiding principle of “Capital with a Conscience”, CLC helps drive transformation to global institutions, foundations, family offices, funds, technology and development clients.

Named ‘Top Ten Frontier Women’ in connection with Decade of Women by United Nations-Fifth Element Group in partnership with Thomson Reuters & Morning Star. Anitha is also an exponential technologies advisor, founder of d.Cent Labs, an alumna of Singularity University (SU), and an ExO (Exponential Organization) Consultant. Previously she led India China America Institute, a research organization focused on the evolving tri-lateral relationship of the three largest economies and emerging markets. Her career spans a couple of decades with Fortune 100 corporate, 3 tech startups and management consulting in Financial Services, Technology & Non-Profit sectors in the US and India.

Anitha advises and mentors AI, Bio-Healthcare, Blockchain companies at SU Ventures, SU Smart City accelerator, California Life Sciences Institute, MIT Media Lab Emerging Worlds and GSV Labs. A global speaker and often invited to contribute on technology & innovation at UNGA, REDX, Geeks Without Frontiers, International Congress on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and HOPE Global Forum. She is a member of FinTech Core, an independent global group that advises state of Andhra Pradesh in India on Smart Cities, especially in fostering the city of Vizag to become a leading Fintech hub. Anitha serves on the Advisory board of Kalpana Chawla Scholarship for innovation, entrepreneurship & space at the ISU. Was nominated for ABC 40 under 40 and a recipient of Outstanding Leadership award from the World Affairs Council of Atlanta.

Kavita Gupta is a visiting scholar, lecturer and founding member of the Distributed Trust Initiative at Stanford University. She also leads investment committee for Katapult. AI – investing in AI & Blockchain. Previously, she was the Founding Managing Partner of the VC-hedge fund at ConsenSys Venture, investing in next-gen blockchain technologies. In 2015, she received the UN Social Finance Innovator Award for helping found the green bond team at The World Bank. She’s set up innovative investment funds across Africa, the Middle East, South Asia and the US for the past 16 years, and advises the Vatican impact investing community, MIT Solve, Dusk Foundation, and the Mandela Trust, among others.

Ben is a philanthropist, computer scientist and a co-founder of BitMEX, a derivatives trading platform for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

Ben began his career as a software engineer at IBM, where he was granted patents for several inventions. He then developed high-frequency trading systems at hedge funds and banks such as GSA Capital and J.P. Morgan. In 2018, when BitMEX became the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Ben became Britain’s youngest self-made billionaire.

Ben, a member of Effective Giving, has focused his philanthropy on reducing global catastrophic risks and safeguarding future generations.

In April 2019, Ben signed The Giving Pledge, an initiative created by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffet for billionaires who promise to donate the majority of their wealth to help address society’s most pressing problems.