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.