Emad Yaghmaei is a Senior Researcher at Delft University of Technology and Managing Director of YAGHMA B.V. He studies how innovation intersects with technology and society, with a focus on emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence and their social impacts.

Megan is the Director and CEO at EnergyLab - Australia and New Zealand's largest climate tech startup accelerator and innovation network dedicated to reaching net zero emissions. EnergyLab supports talented founders in clean energy and climate tech and connects them to the mentors, advisors, partners, peers, and investors they need to succeed.

Charlie Macdonald is an Investment Manager at Giant Leap, an impact venture capital fund backing mission-driven founders addressing our most pressing challenges. Here, he is responsible for running the investment process, producing useful tools for impact founders, and impact measurement. Previously, Charlie helped early-stage founders find their first customers at Playbook Media and completed an MBA at Melbourne Business School.

Josh Ross is the Co-CEO and Founder of Humanitix.

Prior to co-founding Humanitix, Josh spent 7 years in the investment team at one of Sydney’s leading hedge funds where he was offered a partnership at the age of 26. Whilst in funds management Josh became a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and managed a range of public investments across multiple industries. Josh left funds management at the age of 27 to start Humanitix with his best friend Adam.

Monika Jiang is the Head of Curation and Community at the House of Beautiful Business (HOBB), a global community to make business more beautiful.

A highly intuitive, fantastical soul, temporarily unfinished and forever wanting to play, she reaches to the margins, asks essential questions, and gently steps into the reality of others to make more feelings known, more faces seen, more voices heard. Because another world is not only possible—it exists.

Andrew Maynard is a professor in the Arizona State University School for the Future of Innovation in Society and Director of the ASU Risk Innovation Lab.

Since 2008 he has also worked closely with the World Economic Forum in a number of capacities, including chairing and serving on Global Agenda Councils/Global Future Councils and contributing to the WEF annual list of top ten emerging Technologies.

Dr Dr.Phil. René von Schomberg is a philosopher and an STS scholar. He graduated as an agricultural scientist from Wageningen University, was a European Union Fellow at George Mason University (USA) in 2007, and was with the European Commission from 1998 to 2021. René is currently a senior research fellow at the Kate Hamburger Kolleg, International Centre for advanced studies: Cultures of Research, RWTH university of Aachen, Germany. He is also a Guest Professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt.

Ms Engstam serves as Non-Executive Chair and Board Director at four listed companies (TietoEvry, Zalaris, Transtema Group, and Cint Group), at two private companies (Ografy and BoardClic), and as a board member at the Climate Governance Initiative in collaboration with World Economic Forum, and as Chair of the Nordic Chapter; Boards Impact Forum.

She is a founder of the Think Tank Digoshen and engages in academic research, insight development, hosting board networks and advising on modern leadership and board practices.

Vincent Blok (1970) is a Dutch philosopher working as an associate professor at Wageningen University (The Netherlands). He is also the director of the 4TU.Ethics Graduate School in The Netherlands.

Fern is currently a professor at the Arctic University of Norway. At the time of this interview, Fern was the Scientific Secretary of NAMMCO (the North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission) - an intergovernmental organisation that provides advice on the conservation and management of whales and seals. Previously, she has worked as a Research Professor of environmental governance, leading a group on the sustainable and responsible development of emerging technologies (i.e., biotechnologies and nanotechnologies).

Dr. Mario Pansera’s work focuses on Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and Innovation for Sustainability. He is a Distinguished Researcher at the University of Vigo (UVIGO) in Spain, Honorary Research Fellow of the University of Bristol, visiting researcher at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and international faculty at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Cape Town in South Africa where he teaches Responsible Innovation in the ExeMBA.

In episode 6, René von Schomberg (Brussels, Belgium) kindly shares his experience and the latest on innovation policies and programmes designed to improve the quality of our innovation systems and encourage us to become agents of socially desirable change.

Professor Dr. Ibo van de Poel is an Anthoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor in Ethics and Technology at TU Delft, the Netherlands. Ibo has published various works covering engineering ethics, moral acceptability of technological risks, design for values, responsible innovation, moral responsibility in research networks, ethics of newly emerging technologies, and the idea of new technology as social experiment. For three years (2016- 2019), Ibo led a Horizon 2020 project called PRISMA where he worked with eight businesses to integrate responsible innovation into daily business innovation activities.

Dr. Miltos Ladikas is a senior researcher at the Institute of Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. He advises the European Commission, the European Research Council, the European & Developing Countries Clinical Countries Partnership, and a number of National Research Funds on social-ethical issues in research. Here we discuss global technology assessment, responsible innovation & S&T development.

Whether a project, business, career or life, the key to success is about making the best decisions we can over time. In this episode of Future Up Close, Associate Professor Dr Erik Fisher walks us through "STIR" (Socio-Technical Integration Research), a practical, effective and adaptive process he helped develop to boost our human capacity to make better decisions while we work.

Technology Assessment (TA) is one of the key roots of Responsible Innovation (RI). So, what is TA and how can we use it to improve our innovation success? Professor Dr. Armin Grunwald from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, takes us on a journey from Technology Assessment to Responsible Innovation.

What is Responsible Innovation and why should business leaders and innovators care about it? What does Responsible Innovation mean in practice?

Professor Dr. Tsjalling Swierstra provides an overview of Responsible Research and Innovation.

On 25 September 2015, UN’s 193 Member States gathered in New York City and signed the historic 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development encompassing 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Why does the SDGs matter and how does Responsible Innovation help to achieve them?