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Blaise Agüera y Arcas is a principal scientist at Google, where he leads a team working on machine intelligence, computer vision, and computational photography.

Prof. Dr. Patrick Glauner is a full Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the Deggendorf Institute of Technology in Germany. He is teaching classes on AI, machine learning, quantum computing, foundations of computer science, and innovation management. He also manages joint university-industry R&D projects and is writing books.

Howard Rheingold is a social scientist, influential writer, thinker, educator and artist. He spent a lot of time on researching the socio-cultural and political impact of new technologies and on using them to support and improve communication. More information on his activities as an "explorer of mind amplifiers" can be found here.

Dr. Steffen Heinrich holds a PhD in computer science and robotics and has been developing algorithms and software components for self-driving cars since 2009. 

Markus Albers is a writer, consultant, and entrepreneur living in Berlin, Germany. He is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Rethink as well as Co-Founder of Neuwork.

Gesche Joost, Professor of Design Research at the Berlin University of the Arts, is a researcher, founder, political advisor, and tech consultant. She focuses her work on digital transformation and its implications on our society both in her research practice and on the policy level. She runs a research lab at the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence specialized in human-computer-interaction and wearable computing and is part of the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin.

Anja Hendel studied computer science and acquired several years’ experience at the European pharmaceutical wholesaler Celesio AG, now McKesson Europe, and IT consultancy Capgemini. Later she was director of the Innovation Management and Digital Transformations Finance department at Porsche AG and worked in Berlin as Director of Porsche Digital Labs. 

Dr. David Klett is a member of the Executive Board at Ernst Klett AG, one of the leading companies in the field of education in Germany. David studied economics and philosophy and earned his doctorate in sociology at the University of Witten/Herdecke. He shares very deep and holistic thoughts about how education, from primary to adult education, has to advance in current times of crisis and beyond.

Joana Breidenbach holds a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology, is a social entrepreneur, and author of numerous books. She is co-founder of betterplace.org and founder of the betterplace lab. As an advisor and investor, she supports many digital-social innovations, such as the ReDi School, Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, Clue, DeepL, or nebenan.de.

Maggie Johnson, the Vice President of Education and University Programs for Google, manages all technical education, content development, and information management programs for Google engineers and operations staff, as well as Google’s K16 educational programs in STEM and Computer science (CS). Maggie has worked to provide engaging, high-quality CS content to middle school students through CS First; modern digital skills and computational thinking to all students through Applied Digital Skills; and, she works closely with key partners in the community to make CS available to all K12 students. Prior to Google, Maggie was teaching faculty and Director of Ed...

Jens Bussmann is responsible for business development and partnerships with European automotive OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers for Android Auto, Android Automotive OS as well as Google Automotive Services, such as Google Play Store, Google Maps, Google Assistant, etc. Prior to Google, Jens worked at Cisco Systems as Collaboration Architect Sales.

Dr. Gérard Le Lann holds an M.S. in Applied Mathematics (University of Toulouse), an Engineering Degree in Computer Science (ENSEEIHT, Toulouse), and a Ph.D. in Computer Science (University of Rennes). He started his career at CERN, Geneva (Switzerland). At Stanford University (1973-74), working with Professor Vint Cerf, he was involved in the design of what became known as the Internet TCP/IP protocol. He has spent most of his professional career as a Research Director with IRIA (now INRIA).

J. Philipp Schmidt is Director of Digital Learning and Collaboration  at the MIT Media Lab, where he leads the Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio. He is also a co-founder and board member of Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU), a non-profit organization that provides access to online higher education through public libraries, and a board member of College Unbound. Philipp served on the founding board of the OpenCourseWare Consortium, co-authored the Cape Town Open Education Declaration, and is an advisor to a number of non-profit and for-profit education projects.