Cathie Wood founded ARK Investment Management LLC in 2014, focusing on disruptive innovations like genome sequencing, robotics, AI, energy storage, and blockchain. Prior to ARK, she spent 12 years at AllianceBernstein as Chief Investment Officer of Global Thematic Strategies, managing over $5 billion. Cathie also co-founded Tupelo Capital Management, a hedge fund managing $800 million, and worked at Jennison Associates for 18 years in various roles, including Chief Economist and Portfolio Manager. She began her career at The Capital Group as an Assistant Economist. Cathie holds a summa cum laude Bachelor of Science in Finance and Economics from USC.

Cathie was named to Bloomberg's 2018 Bloomberg 50 list and was included in Fortune’s 2019 Investors Guide. She received the “Women in Finance – Outstanding Contribution Award” from Market Media in 2016, and has been a speaker at prestigious events such as the World Economic Forum (2016-2017) and the World Strategic Forum (2017).

Vinod Khosla is an entrepreneur, investor, and technology fan. He is the founder of Khosla Ventures, focused on impactful technology investments in software, AI, robotics, 3D printing, healthcare and more. Vinod was a co-founder of Daisy systems and founding CEO of Sun Microsystems where he pioneered open systems and commercial RISC processors. One of Vinod’s greatest passions is being a mentor to entrepreneurs, assisting entrepreneurs and helping them build technology-based businesses. ​He is driven by the desire to make a positive impact through technology to reinvent societal infrastructure and multiply resources. He is also passionate about Social Entrepreneurship.

Vinod holds a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from IIT, New Delhi, a Master's in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Bill Gross is a lifelong entrepreneur who has founded over 150 companies in 50 years, with more than 50 achieving successful IPOs or acquisitions. He is known for pioneering the pay-per-click keyword model for online advertising, which became foundational for Google’s business model.

With over 100 patents to his name, Bill is currently focused on climate mitigation technologies and artificial intelligence. He serves on the Board of Trustees at Caltech, where he also leads the Technology Transfer and Innovation Committee.

A frequent speaker at TED, the World Economic Forum, and DLD in Munich, Bill teaches entrepreneurship classes and aims to address global challenges through technological innovation. His dream is to make a positive impact on pressing world issues by fostering innovation that spreads globally.

Arianna Huffington is the founder and CEO of Thrive Global, the founder of The Huffington Post, and the author of 15 books, including Thrive and The Sleep Revolution. In 2016, she launched Thrive Global, a behavior change technology company with the mission of improving productivity and health outcomes.

She has been named to Time Magazine's list of the world’s 100 most influential people and the Forbes Most Powerful Women list. Originally from Greece, she moved to England when she was 16 and graduated from Cambridge University with an M.A. in economics. At 21, she became president of the famed debating society, the Cambridge Union.

Her last two books, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder and The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night At A Time, both became instant international bestsellers.

Anthony Scaramucci is the founder and managing partner of SkyBridge, a global alternative investment firm, and the founder and chairman of SALT, a global thought leadership forum. Before establishing SkyBridge in 2005, he co-founded Oscar Capital Management, sold to Neuberger Berman in 2001, and worked in Private Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs.

In 2022, Anthony ranked #47 in Cointelegraph’s Top 100 Influencers in Crypto and Blockchain. Previously, he was named #85 in Worth Magazine’s Power 100 in 2016 and received the Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” Award in 2011. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the board of the Federal Enforcement Homeland Security Foundation. Anthony has authored five books.

He was part of President Donald J. Trump’s Presidential Transition Team and briefly served as Chief Strategy Officer of the Export-Import Bank and White House Communications Director in 2017. A Long Island native, Anthony holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Tufts University and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.

Jared Kaplan is the Chief Science Officer and Co-Founder of Anthropic, an AI lab whose research and products put safety at the frontier. Jared’s research on scaling laws revolutionized the industry by providing a framework for understanding and predicting the behavior of advanced AI systems, guiding resource allocation, and shaping transformative technologies. Jared also helped pioneer Constitutional AI, an approach to developing AI systems that are constrained by and aligned with a set of predetermined principles and values. He spent the first 15 years of his career as a theoretical physicist in academia, and prior to co-founding Anthropic, Jared was instrumental in building GPT-3 and Codex at OpenAI. 

Jared is also an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University, where he has taught courses on the foundations of deep learning. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University and a bachelor's degree in physics and mathematics from Stanford University.

Adam Woodworth is the CEO of Wing Aviation, LLC. He previously served for four years as Wing’s CTO before being appointed to run the company in 2022. Adam joined Wing in 2014 as a hardware engineer and has seen tremendous growth in the organization, managing production and engineering teams along the way.

Bill Barhydt is a serial entrepreneur and Internet technology pioneer with over 30 years of experience. He is the founder and CEO of Abra, a leading investment platform for high-net-worth individuals and institutions, offering trading, custody, high-yield interest accounts, and borrowing/lending services.

Prior to Abra, Bill worked on mobile money and financial inclusion projects worldwide, consulting with governments, telecoms, and aid agencies. He founded Boom Financial (now part of Digicel) to expand mobile banking and microfinance globally, which led him to discover Bitcoin in 2011.

Bill began his career in R&D at the CIA and NASA and later worked at Goldman Sachs in bond trading and Fixed Income. As an early team member at Netscape, he contributed to the infrastructure that helped shape the consumer Internet.

A recognized expert in Internet and mobile technologies, Bill has spoken at over 100 major conferences, including the World Economic Forum, the US State Department, Mobile World Congress, and TED, where he gave the first-ever TED Talk on Bitcoin in 2011 when it was valued at $3.

Brett Adcock is an American technology entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Figure AI, an AI startup working on a general-purpose humanoid robot. In 2018, Adcock founded Archer Aviation, five years after he started Vettery.

Josh currently leads Google Labs. He's an early stage leader who co-founded Google's Next Billion Users effort and helped create Chromebooks. His work has focused on making technology more accessible to everyone. He holds degrees from the University of Oklahoma and Oxford University.

Divya Chander, MD, PhD is an anesthesiologist, neuroscientist, futurist, and entrepreneur. Divya specializes in the convergence of brain health, technology, AI, and bioethics. She is Founder/CEO of Lucidify, a neurotechnology company that uses brain-computer interfaces (BCI) and edge-based ML algorithms to detect brain failure, in order to preserve life, mental health, and cognitive longevity. Prior to this, her research at Stanford University pioneered the automated tracking of brain state transitions and led to new theories of consciousness, presented on prominent stages like TED-NYC and the UN. Her work includes the consideration of human augmentation and its effect on consciousness and human evolution, and the potential to recognize consciousness in non-human entities. She has also been modeling the effect of AI and embodied AI in the consciousness space, defining its risk landscape and strategies to mitigate risk.

Divya is the former Neuroscience Chair of the Singularity Group, and tracks neuro and medical technology's exponential growth and its implications for governance, startups, and the global economy. She is also part of the Health and Space Brain Trusts at XPRIZE, and is a fierce advocate for data and biometric rights. She has leveraged her roles as a Stimson Loomis Innovation Fellow and former Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council to help governments and companies with policy. Her strongest advocacy has been to protect neurorights, and she has advised and collaborated with organizations like the UN, XRSI, and the Australian Human Rights Commission to ensure these rights are considered as human rights, while developing frameworks for digital identity and biometric data protection.

Divya's experience also spans space life sciences. A finalist for astronaut selection and an alumnus of the International Space University, she has performed remote simulations of trauma rescues, anesthesia and surgery in Mars analogue settings. She is currently designing BCIs to diagnose and treat astronaut brain health, as well as medical systems to support human exploration of space.

Matthew Walker, PhD, is Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at UC Berkeley and founder and director of the school's Center for Human Sleep Science. Matthew is the author of the New York Times and International bestseller, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams. His TED talk, "Sleep is your superpower," has garnered over 20 million views to date. He has received numerous funding awards from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health and is a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences. His research examines the impact of sleep on human health and disease. He has been featured on numerous television and radio outlets, including CBS 60 Minutes, National Geographic Channel, NOVA Science, NRP, and the BBC. He is also the host of the celebrated Matt Walker Podcast and the founder and director of the Global Sleep Education Foundation, which can be found at whywesleep.org.

Francis Pedraza founded Invisible as a 28 year old in 2015, coming from a family that valued entrepreneurial spirit and hard work. It was this upbringing, where he was encouraged to read, that led him to first immerse himself in the Western classics and, following the failure of his first company, delve into the Eastern classics. This literary journey profoundly shaped his philosophical approach to business. The experience of his first company's failure fortified Francis for the initial challenging four years at Invisible, laying the groundwork for its subsequent four years of success.

Invisible is The Operations Innovation Company, running & automating business processes for the Fortune 100, and powering AI Training for all the leading Generative AI companies. With the company now scaling profitably, Francis has expanded his focus to include an Incubator called Infinity and a Venture Fund called Visionary Ventures, while returning excess capital to shareholders via buybacks, secondaries and someday - dividends. Francis's unique business philosophy, 'The Sovereignty Game,' underscores his contrarian approach to business strategy and can be explored in more detail at: www.visionary.vc

Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen is CEO and Founder of Openwater, a breakthrough medical technology company in diagnostics and therapeutics. She has been named as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine (“Time 100”), Forbes 50 over 50, and to CNN’s top 10 thinkers in science and technology. She has ~300 patents published or issued to her name. Previously, Dr. Jepsen served as the Executive Director of Engineering at Facebook & Oculus and prior to a similar role at Google. Prior to this, Dr. Jepsen was a professor at MIT and co-founded the nonprofit organization "One Laptop per Child," for which she served as CTO and architect of the famed $100 laptop.

Ramez Naam is an award winning author, computer scientist, and investor. He's the founder and Managing Partner of Planetary VC, which invests in startups for human and planetary flourishing, across energy, climate, and AI. Ramez served for more than a decade as the Co-Chair for Energy and Environment at Singularity University. He’s also the award-winning author of 5 books, including the Nexus trilogy of science fiction novels. Ramez spent 13 years at Microsoft, leading teams working on email, internet search, and AI. He’s the author of more than 20 patents, several co-invented with Bill Gates.

Dr. Hans Keirstead is a renowned stem cell expert and entrepreneur, known for pioneering therapies in cancer, immune disorders, spinal cord injury and motor neuron diseases. He founded several biotech firms which were sold to major pharmaceutical companies, yielding returns of 2.5X-9.5X to investors. Dr. Keirstead currently holds leadership positions at AIVITA Biomedical, Immunis, and the Human Immunome Project. During his 15-year tenure at the University of California Irvine, Dr. Keirstead mentored >100 students, published >150 manuscripts, and was granted >20 patents. Recognized as one of Discover Magazine’s top 100 scientists, he has been featured in major publications like Newsweek, WIRED, and The New York Times. His accolades include being named one of the “Top 20 Canadians” by the Consul General of Canada, receiving the Cameron Award for the top PhD thesis in the country, and receiving the NIH’s Solowey award for the most promising researcher in the USA.

Dr. Helen Messier has dedicated most of her career to harnessing data to bridge the translational gap in medicine. She has cultivated a unique expertise in seamlessly integrating multi-omic data and digital health technologies into real-world clinical care, to enable patients to realize the beneficial potential of biomedical technologies. Dr. Messier holds a Bachelor of Science with Honors in Genetics and a Ph.D. in Molecular Immunology from the University of Alberta. Following her doctoral studies, she completed post-doctoral studies at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology in San Diego, CA, and received her MD from the University of Calgary. She is certified in family medicine. Beyond clinical practice, Dr. Messier has left an indelible mark as a notable innovator and healthcare entrepreneur. Alongside her roles on various medical and scientific advisory boards, she founded a national network of concierge medical practices in Canada, served as the Medical Director of Genomics at Human Longevity Inc, and played a pivotal role as the inaugural Chief Medical Officer of Viome. In her current role as the Chief Medical and Science Officer at Fountain Life, Dr. Messier brings her extensive experience and profound knowledge to further advance her mission in expanding proactive and preventative medicine. In addition to leading the company’s clinical and scientific programs, Dr Messier is establishing Fountain Life University, to train Fountain Life certified practitioners and lead the effort to gain insights and publish findings from Fountain Life’s vast amount of data.

Jeff is co-founder and CEO of Apptronik. He is a serial entrepreneur on a mission to bring the groundbreaking advancements in humanoid robotics into the real world.

Under Jeff’s leadership, Apptronik has built some of the most advanced robots in the world, spanning from exoskeletons to humanoid torsos, biped mobility platforms, and unique robotic arms that lift more than they weigh. The experience and learning from all this work led to the development of Apollo, the world’s most advanced humanoid robot. He believes that it is not man vs. machine, but man AND machine that will take humanity into the next stage of evolution.

A native of Texas, Jeff holds a BS in Business and a MS in Technology Commercialization from the University of Texas at Austin.

Joshua Xu is the CEO and Co-Founder of HeyGen, an AI-powered video creation platform transforming how businesses and individuals craft videos. Driven by a mission to replace the traditional camera and make visual storytelling accessible to all, Joshua leads HeyGen in redefining video production with cutting-edge AI technologies, including realistic avatars, text-to-video generation, and multilingual content creation.

With a strong technical foundation, Joshua earned a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Tongji University and a Master’s in Computer Science. He further honed his expertise with an MS in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, where he developed a passion for artificial intelligence and robotics.

Recognized as a thought leader in AI video generation, Joshua has shared his insights on prominent podcasts, including No Priors and Unsupervised Learning, where he discussed advancements in generative AI, trust, and the potential of interactive AI avatars. His vision for HeyGen reflects his belief that creating professional-quality videos should be as simple as writing a script. By bridging technology and creativity, Joshua Xu is paving the way for a future where video storytelling is effortless, scalable, and universally accessible