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The AI industry is standing on the brink of a seismic shift that threatens to shake the very foundation of our technological existence. Generative AI has unlocked the doors to an infinite realm of possibilities, giving machines the power to create, innovate and mimic human behaviour with startling accuracy.
However, the industry’s rapid development has led to a growing concern among experts. Thousands of the leading minds in AI have signed a call to pause all giant AI experiments until we can fully comprehend the potential risks and consequences. The future of AI is promising, but the stakes have never been higher. It’s imperative that we tread cautiously and with wisdom, for the path we choose today will shape the very course of our technological evolution tomorrow.
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New in 2023
The summit always covers ground-breaking stories of AI in Action, Deep-dive Tech Talks, Moonshots, Responsible AI, the Metaverse and more. We’re at an exciting inflection point for AI — at the tip of the iceberg for world-defining innovation! We’re going even BIGGER:
NEW! ChatGPT
NEW! Generative AI
NEW! AI at the Edge
NEW! Cyber Security
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EARLY PREVIEW: 2023 AI BRAINS

DIVYA CHANDER
NEUROSCIENTIST, FUTURIST, PHYSICIAN, CONSCIOUSNESS RESEARCHER

DIVYA CHANDER
NEUROSCIENTIST, FUTURIST, PHYSICIAN, CONSCIOUSNESS RESEARCHER
Dr. Chander is a physician, neuroscientist, and futurist who trained at Harvard, UCSD, UCSF, and the Salk Institute. She is Chair of Neuroscience and Faculty of Medicine at Singularity University, Visiting Scholar in Medicine at Stanford (where she was on faculty for 8 years), and Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Atlantic Council GeoTech Center. She has also co-founded and leads 2 companies during the pandemic – Lucidify, a tele-neuroICU platform, and Plexxus, a company building the world’s connected global immune system. Dr. Chander also serves on a NASA-White House task force for COVID19, and both co-chairs and directs the post-pandemic global health initiative for OneShared.World. Her research interests center around mapping human consciousness, how consciousness will be altered by human augmentation, and how mapping consciousness in humans may enable us to recognize it in non-human, intelligent beings (both on and off-planet). In 2004, she was a finalist for astronaut selection, and has since maintained a passion for building medical systems in space to sustain human exploration.

JAMIE METZL
LEADING TECH EXPERT AND HEALTHCARE FUTURIST
AUTHOR OF 'HACKING DARWIN'

JAMIE METZL
LEADING TECH EXPERT AND HEALTHCARE FUTURIST
AUTHOR OF 'HACKING DARWIN'

STEVE CHIEN
JPL Fellow, Senior Research Scientist, Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Systems
NASA


STEVE CHIEN
JPL Fellow, Senior Research Scientist, Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Systems
NASA

LARRY HECK
PROFESSOR OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
GEORGIA TECH


LARRY HECK
PROFESSOR OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
GEORGIA TECH

RENÉE CUMMINGS
AI ETHICIST, CRIMINOLOGIST, DATA ACTIVIST IN RESDIENCE & PROFESSOR OF DATA SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA


RENÉE CUMMINGS
AI ETHICIST, CRIMINOLOGIST, DATA ACTIVIST IN RESDIENCE & PROFESSOR OF DATA SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

SOL RASHIDI
FORMER CDAO OF ROYAL CARIBBEAN, SONY MUSIC, MERCK PHARMACEUTICALS
CAO
ESTÉE LAUDER


SOL RASHIDI
FORMER CDAO OF ROYAL CARIBBEAN, SONY MUSIC, MERCK PHARMACEUTICALS
CAO
ESTÉE LAUDER

ANGELINE VAN DIJK
INSPECTOR GENERAL
DUTCH AUTHORITY FOR DIGITAL INFASTRUCTURE (RDI)


ANGELINE VAN DIJK
INSPECTOR GENERAL
DUTCH AUTHORITY FOR DIGITAL INFASTRUCTURE (RDI)

HUUB JANSSEN
CHAIR OF DUTCH AND OF EUROPEAN WORKING GROUP OF COMPETENT AUTHORITIES ON AI
DUTCH AUTHORITY ON DIGITAL INFASTRUCTURE


HUUB JANSSEN
CHAIR OF DUTCH AND OF EUROPEAN WORKING GROUP OF COMPETENT AUTHORITIES ON AI
DUTCH AUTHORITY ON DIGITAL INFASTRUCTURE

GUSTAVO VIEIRA
CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER
VALE


GUSTAVO VIEIRA
CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER
VALE

ANITA SCHJØLL BREDE
CO-FOUNDER AND CEO
IRIS.AI


ANITA SCHJØLL BREDE
CO-FOUNDER AND CEO
IRIS.AI

NIALL FIRTH
EXECUTIVE EDITOR, NEWSROOM
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW


NIALL FIRTH
EXECUTIVE EDITOR, NEWSROOM
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW

SAEED CONTRACTOR
GLOBAL HEAD OF THE INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION COE
UBER


SAEED CONTRACTOR
GLOBAL HEAD OF THE INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION COE
UBER
Previous AI Brains

PETER NORVIG
Pioneer in AI, Author of best-selling textbook, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Distinguished Education Fellow
Google and Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence


PETER NORVIG
Pioneer in AI, Author of best-selling textbook, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Distinguished Education Fellow
Google and Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
Peter Norvig is a Distinguished Education Fellow at Stanford’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute and a researcher at Google Inc; previously he directed Google’s core search algorithms group and Google’s Research group.
He was head of NASA Ames’s Computational Sciences Division, where he was NASA’s senior computer scientist and a recipient of NASA’s Exceptional Achievement Award in 2001. He has taught at the University of Southern California, Stanford University, and the University of California at Berkeley, from which he received a Ph.D. in 1986 and the distinguished alumni award in 2006.
He was co-teacher of an Artificial Intelligence class that signed up 160,000 students, helping to kick off the current round of massive open online classes. His publications include the books Data Science in Context (to appear in 2022), Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (the leading textbook in the field), Paradigms of AI Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp, Verbmobil: A Translation System for Face-to-Face Dialog, and Intelligent Help Systems for UNIX. He is also the author of the Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation and the world’s longest palindromic sentence. He is a fellow of the AAAI, ACM, California Academy of Science and American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

VANDI VERMA
Chief Engineer of Robotic Operations - Mars 2020, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
NASA


VANDI VERMA
Chief Engineer of Robotic Operations - Mars 2020, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
NASA
Vandi Verma, Chief Engineer of Robotic Operations – Mars 2020, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA (USA)
Vandi Verma is the Chief Engineer for Robotic Operations for the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, and the Assistant Section Manager for Mobility and Robotics Systems at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She specializes in space robotics, autonomous robots and robotic operations. She has worked on a number of Space Robotics and Artificial Intelligence research and technology development tasks and has designed, developed, and operated rovers on Mars, the Arctic, Antarctica, and the Atacama Desert.
She has been working at NASA since graduating with a Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University. She works on new capabilities from early design, through development, testing and launch, to landing and surface operations. Since 2008 she has been driving rovers on Mars (Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity, and Perseverance) and operating the robotic arm and sampling system as a Rover Planner. She enjoys coding and has written flight software that runs onboard Curiosity and Perseverance, and simulation software used in operations.

JOELLE PINEAU
Co-Managing Director | Meta AI Research
Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar, School of Computer Science | McGill University


JOELLE PINEAU
Co-Managing Director | Meta AI Research
Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar, School of Computer Science | McGill University

MICHAEL KAGAN
CTO
NVIDIA


MICHAEL KAGAN
CTO
NVIDIA

COLIN MURDOCH
Director of Applied AI and Chief Business Officer
DeepMind


COLIN MURDOCH
Director of Applied AI and Chief Business Officer
DeepMind

RENÉE CUMMINGS
AI ETHICIST, CRIMINOLOGIST, DATA ACTIVIST IN RESDIENCE & PROFESSOR OF DATA SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA


RENÉE CUMMINGS
AI ETHICIST, CRIMINOLOGIST, DATA ACTIVIST IN RESDIENCE & PROFESSOR OF DATA SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

MICHAEL SPRANGER
COO
Sony AI


MICHAEL SPRANGER
COO
Sony AI
Michael Spranger is the COO of Sony AI Inc., Sony’s strategic research and development organization established April 2020. Sony AI’s mission is to “unleash human imagination and creativity with AI.” Michael is a roboticist by training with extensive research experience in different areas of AI including Natural Language Processing, robotics, and foundations of Artificial Intelligence. Concurrent to Sony AI, Michael also holds a Senior Researcher position at Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., and is actively contributing to Sony’s overall AI ethics strategy.

MICKY ADRIAANSENS
Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy
Government of the Netherlands


MICKY ADRIAANSENS
Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy
Government of the Netherlands

STEFANO LA ROVERE
Global Director of Robotics - Advanced Technology (AT)
Amazon


STEFANO LA ROVERE
Global Director of Robotics - Advanced Technology (AT)
Amazon
Stefano La Rovere is the Director of Amazon’s Worldwide Robotics Advanced Technology in Europe. He is responsible for the identification, development and implementation of next generation technologies in advanced mechatronics, directed towards safety and autonomy.
Prior to joining Amazon, Stefano worked in the Fast-Moving Consumer Good industry, where he held several positions within the Product Supply organization across Engineering, Manufacturing, Start-up and Logistics.

PROFESSOR FRANCESCA ROSSI
President | AAAI
Fellow and AI Ethics Global Leader | IBM


PROFESSOR FRANCESCA ROSSI
President | AAAI
Fellow and AI Ethics Global Leader | IBM
Francesca Rossi is an IBM Fellow and the IBM AI Ethics Global Leader.
She is based at the T.J. Watson IBM Research Lab, New York, USA, where she leads AI research projects.
Before joining IBM, she has been a professor of computer science at the University of Padova, Italy, for 20 years.
Her research interest span various areas of AI, from constraints to preferences, from graphical models to social choice, to neuro-symbolic AI.
She co-chairs the IBM AI Ethics board and she participates in many global multi-stakeholder initiatives on AI ethics, such as the Global Partnership on AI, of which both US and France are members.
She is the president of AAAI, the world-wide association of AI researchers.

MARK SURMAN
President and Chief Executive
Mozilla Foundation


MARK SURMAN
President and Chief Executive
Mozilla Foundation

KERSTI KALJULAID
Former President (2016-2021)
Estonia


KERSTI KALJULAID
Former President (2016-2021)
Estonia
Kersti Kaljulaid
- President of Estonia 2016-2021
- United Nations Secretary-General’s Global Advocate for Every Woman Every Child since 2021
- Mother of four and grandmother of four
- Speaks Estonian, English, French, Russian, Finnish
- Born in 1969 in Estonia
Kersti Kaljulaid served as the President of the Republic of Estonia from 2016-2021. During her time in office, she made her presence felt in both her homeland and the international arena.
Previously she had been serving as a Member of the European Court of Auditors, advising Prime Minister Mart Laar and holding diferent top level positions in energy, investment banking and telecom sector. Genetic engineer and economist by education, she has been a member of the Supervisory Board of the Estonian Genome Center and the Council Chair of the University of Tartu from 2012 to 2016.
In summer 2021, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appointed President Kaljulaid to the position of Global Advocate for the ‘Every Woman Every Child’ strategy on the health and well-being of women, children and adolescents around the world for the next two years. She was also the first Estonian to be featured in the Forbes World’s 100 Most Powerful Women.
Kersti Kaljulaid has become a sought-after speaker at high-level forums on digital, security and foreign-policy topics and more broadly for analysing and interpreting societal and economic change.
President Kaljulaid is a vocal advocate of human rights, rule of law, freedom of speech and democracy. One of the principles in the in office of president has been the one she set out upon her inauguration: “I am never silent when our security is in question, when our freedoms are at stake or when those weaker than us are treated unjustly.

MANISHA MISTRY
Chief Operating Officer - R² Factory
Rolls-Royce


MANISHA MISTRY
Chief Operating Officer - R² Factory
Rolls-Royce

IAN MCGILCHRIST
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
Author


IAN MCGILCHRIST
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
Author
Dr Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher and literary scholar. He is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and former Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director at the Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Hospital, London.
He has been a Research Fellow in neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore and a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Stellenbosch. He has published original articles and research papers in a wide range of publications on topics in literature, philosophy, medicine and psychiatry. He is the author of a number of books, but is best-known for The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (Yale 2009), In November 2021 his two-volume work The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World was published by Perspectiva Press.

PROFESSOR ANIL SETH
Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience
University of Sussex


PROFESSOR ANIL SETH
Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience
University of Sussex
Neuroscientist Anil Seth is interested in understanding the biological basis of conscious experience, a topic he considers one of the greatest challenges for 21st century science. His groundbreaking research provides fascinating insight into what this means for storytelling. His 2017 TED talk has been viewed over 5 million times.
Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex and Codirector of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science. He seeks to understand the biological basis of consciousness by bringing together research across neuroscience, mathematics, AI, computer science, psychology, philosophy and psychiatry. Key to his work is exploring the relationship between perception and hallucination, and how this applies to the experience of being a “self.” Seth is also Editor in Chief of the academic journal Neuroscience of Consciousness, a Senior Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and a Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellow. He was the 2017 President of the British Science Association (Psychology Section).

STEVE CHIEN
Head of Artificial Intelligence Group, JPL
NASA


STEVE CHIEN
Head of Artificial Intelligence Group, JPL
NASA
Dr. Steve Chien is Technical Group Supervisor of the Artificial Intelligence Group and Senior Research Scientist in the Mission Planning and Execution Section at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology where he leads efforts in automated planning and scheduling for space exploration. Dr. Chien is also Adjunct Faculty with the Department of Computer Science of the University of Southern California and previously was a Visiting Scholar with the Department of Computer Science of the University of California at Los Angeles. He holds a B.S. with Highest Honours in Computer Science, with minors in Mathematics and Economics, M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science, all from the University of Illinois.
Dr. Chien was a recipient of the 1995 Lew Allen Award for Excellence, JPLs highest award recognizing outstanding technical achievements by JPL personnel in the early years of their careers. In 1997, he received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal for his work in research and development of planning and scheduling systems for NASA. He is the Team Lead for the ASPEN Planning System , which received Honourable Mention in the 1999 Software of the Year Competition and was a contributor to the Remote Agent System which was a co-winner in the same 1999 competition. In 2000, he received the NASA Exceptional Service Medal for service and leadership in research and deployment of planning and scheduling systems for NASA. He is the Principal Investigator for the Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment which is a co-winner of the 2005 NASA Software of the Year Award. In 2007, he received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal for outstanding technical accomplishments in the development of the Autonomous Sciencecraft deployed on the Earth Observing One Mission and the development of the Earth Observing Sensorweb. In 2011 He was awarded the inaugural AIAA Intelligent Systems Award, for his contributions to Spacecraft Autonomy. In 2011, he was the team co-lead for the Sensorweb Toolbox team, which was awarded Honourable mention in the 2011 NASA Software of the Year Competition. In 2015 He was awarded a JPL Magellan Award as well as the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal for his contributions to automated science scheduling for ESA’s Rosetta mission.










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