Steve Schwarzman is Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of Blackstone, one of the world’s largest alternative investment firms with over $1 trillion AUM. Schwarzman has been involved in all phases of Blackstone’s development since its founding in 1985. Schwarzman is also a champion in AI education and research, and is an active philanthropist.

An industry-leading tech and Fortune 50 Chairman and CEO, Hans is the architect of Verizon’s “one network for all” 5G strategy. Verizon powers more than 140 million retail wireless connections, generating annual revenue of more than $130 billion dollars. Under Hans’ leadership, Verizon was first in the world to 5G and 5G Mobile Edge Compute.

Leading one of the largest VC firm in the world, Scott has led investments in industry-transforming biz, including Bloom, Cloudflare, Robinhood, Salesforce, Tableau, and Workday. Scott is actively involved with National Venture Capital Association, and is also an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford for principled entrepreneurship.

Turing Award Winner; Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto; VP Engineering fellow at Google and Chief Scientific Adviser at the Vector Institute. He is known to have introduced the backpropagation algorithm and the first to use backpropagation for learning word embeddings.

Turing award winner; Professor at University of Montreal, Founder & Scientific Director of Mila – Quebec AI Institute; Most known for his pioneering work in deep learning. He co-directs the CIFAR Learning in Machines & Brains program as Senior Fellow and acts as Scientific Director of IVADO.

Turing award winner; Professor of Data Science, Computer Science, Neural Science, and Electrical Engineering at NYU; Chief AI Scientist at Meta; affiliated with the NYU Center for Data Science, the Courant Institute of Mathematical Science, the Center for Neural Science, and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.

Turing Award winner for leading the invention, standardization, and commercialization of Ethernet local-area networking technology. Metcalfe is Emeritus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at The University of Texas at Austin; a Research Affiliate at MIT CSAIL.

Fei-Fei Li is a computer scientist, known for establishing ImageNet, the dataset that enabled rapid advances in computer vision. She is Sequoia Capital professor of computer science at Stanford, co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and a co-director of the Stanford Vision and Learning Lab.

Russell is the Professor of Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley, and Smith-Zadeh Professor in Engineering, Computational Precision Health, Professor of Cognitive Science, and Honorary Fellow of Wadham College at Oxford.

Sam Altman is an American entrepreneur and investor best known as the CEO of OpenAI since 2019. Altman is considered to be one of the leading figures of the AI boom, esp in generative AI. Since 2011 Altman joined Y Combinator, a startup accelerator, and was its president from 2014 to 2019.

Chief Privacy & Trust Officer for IBM, overseeing the company’s privacy program, compliance and strategy on a global basis, and directing all aspects of IBM’s privacy policies. Chair, IBM’s AI Ethics Board; a member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce AI Commission.

Dario is co-founder & CEO at Anthropic, an AI safety and research company working to build reliable, interpretable and steerable AI systems. Previously Dario was VP of research at OpenAI, during which he set the overall research direction at the organization, led the efforts to build GPT-2 and GPT-3 etc.

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT. Rus’s research interests are in robotics, mobile computing, and data science.