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Brad Templeton
Brad Templeton Brad Templeton founded ClariNet Communications Corp., the first internet-based content company. (Sold to Individual Inc/Newsedge Corp.) ClariNet published an online electronic newspaper delivered for live reading on subscribers machines. He has been active in the internet community since 1979, participated in the building and growth of USENET from its earliest days and in 1987 he founded and edited rec.humor.funny, the world's most widely read computerized conference on that network, and today the world's longest running blog. He has founded 2 software companies and is the author of a dozen packaged microcomputer software products.
He is Chairman Emeritus of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the leading civil rights advocacy group for cyberspace, and working on its new futures project. He is founding computing faculty at Singularity University, a new multi-discliplanary school of rapidly changing technology, and was chair for computing from 2010-2017 while they had that title. He writes and researches the future of automated transportation at Robocars.com and worked for two years on Google's team building these cars. He is also on the board of the Foresight Institute (A nonprofit Nanotech think-tank) and technical advisor to delivery robot company Starship Technologies, BitTorrent, NewAer, and Quanergy. -
Danny Kennedy
Danny Kennedy
Danny Kennedy leads the California Clean Energy Fund, connecting entrepreneurs everywhere to capital to build an abundant clean energy economy that benefits all. He is also the President of CalCharge, a public-private partnership with the National Labs and universities of California, unions and companies, working to advance energy storage. Kennedy co-founded Sungevity, the company that created remote solar design, and Powerhouse, solar’s premier incubator and accelerator. He was the original backer of Mosaic, the $1 billion solar loan provider, and remains on the Board of Powerhive, a solar mini-utility in Kenya and Sunergis, a solar-as-a-service business out of Fiji and EnergyL abAustralia. He is also Director of nonprofits VoteSolar and the Solar Foundation in Washington DC. Kennedy authored the book Rooftop Revolution : How Solar Power Can Save Our Economy-and Our Planet- from Dirty Energy in 2012. Prior to Sungevity, he worked at Greenpeace and other groups.
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Jose Luis Cordeiro
Jose Luis Cordeiro
Jose Luis Cordeiro, is an independent consultant, writer, researcher, professor and “tireless traveler”. he is chair of the Venezuelan Node of the Millennium Project, visiting Scholar in IDE-JETRO in Japan and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in Russia. He is a Ph.D., studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, USA, where he received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering. He started his doctoral degree at MIT, which he continued later in Tokyo, Japan, and finally received his Ph.D at Universidad Simón Bolívar (USB) in Caracas, Venezuela. Recently, he has been fascinated in exploring the possibilities to extend human lifespan extension indefinitely. Cryopreservation is a part of the issue. He has received the 2016 Spanish Health Award for promoting research in longevity extension.
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Alex Zhavoronkov
Alex Zhavoronkov
Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD is the co-founder and CEO of Insilico Medicine, a bioinformatics company located at the Emerging Technology Centers of the Johns Hopkins University Eastern campus, Baltimore, US. The company is applying the latest advances in artificial intelligence to drug discovery, biomarker development and aging research. The Phamaceutical AI developed by his group is an intelligent system that can generate new molecular structures with specified properties that kill certain cancer cells and combat other age-related diseases. His Pharma.AI drug discovery and biomarker development pipelines are already transforming the time-consuming and high-risk pharmaceutical research and development processes. The phama. AI team at Insilico Medicine discovered more than 800 drug candidates, and demonstrated multiple applications of AI to areas beyond pharmaceuticals including regenerative medicine and skin care. He earned two bachelor's degree at Queen's University in computer science and commerce. He has a master's degree in biotechnology from Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D in physics and mathematics from Moscow State University.
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Sven Clemann
Sven Clemann
Sven Clemann is a Senior Scientist and Teamleader for the Department of Applied Biophysics from one of the leading skin care companies Beiersdorf R&D (NIVEA, Eucerin). Before joining Beiersdorf with a degree in Applied Physics he gathered engineering experience at companies like Vattenfall, Shell and Philips.With nearly 20 years of R&D experience and seeing a lot of trend come and go, his team focus on Artificial Intelligence, eTextiles and IoT as one of the most promising new technologies that will disrupt the future, being closer to consumers daily life and more important to his individual needs as a personal companion. For solving these challenges, classical engineering team setups had been broken off to bring a high diversity in terms of cultural and scientifically background together from different areas like astrophysics, theoretical physics, biology, chemistry, computer science and engineering in the daily work. Connecting them with external partners, especially from the borderless and worldwide startup community to solve things together hand-in-hand.
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이언 Uhn Lee
Uhn Lee
Doctor Uhn Lee works as the professor of Neurosurgery Department at Gachon University Gil Medical Center in Incheon, South Korea. He earned the bachelors’, master’s and Doctoral degree in medicine at HanYang University in Seoul. As the Director of AI based Precision Medicine center, he played the key roles in adopting IBM Watson for Oncology at the medical center. It is the first ever deployment of the technology in Korea. The Watson for oncology, cloud-based system equipped with the vast amounts of data, quickly analyzes informations relevant to patients’ individual health, identify treatment options best applicable to patients and offer them to physicians. He believe that the Watson for oncology, just started its service to its cancer patients, will shrpen its medical competitiveness by enhancing physicians’ capabilities significantly to treat their patients.
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TaeJin Kang
TaeJin Kang CEO of Insignary Inc.
TaeJin Kang is working as the president & CEO of Insignary Inc., start-up specialized in computing security solutions. In 1999, he moved to Silicon Valley and co-founded ThinkFree with the mission of delivering desktop software as a free Internet service. In a 2001 magazine interview, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer mentioned ThinkFree as a potential threat to his company second only to Linux. Leaving behind twenty five years of life in startups, he went on to serve as the head of the Service Incubation Office at Korea Telecom and then as the head of Media Service Team at Samsung Electronics before joining CJ Group in 2015, where he helped the group formulate digital transformation strategy. He received an M.A. degree in cognitive psychology and a B.Sc. degree in psychology from the University of Toronto.