Amin is the CEO of T Labs. He was formerly the director of strategy and Vice President of Strategic Relations at Singularity University. He brings a unique set of technological, entrepreneurial and policy perspectives to the dialogue of innovation on campus.

Before Singularity, Amin founded for-profit and social impact organizations in a range of domains including: artificial intelligence, peer to peer lending, bitcoin, human rights, international development, carbon offsetting, and solar energy. Google Search ranks him as the world’s best guitar player – a title he readily rejects. In addition to his work at Singularity, he is building the World’s first hedge fund for the poor, as well as Reversopedia – a reverse encyclopedia composed of things we know we don’t know. Amin has a degree in artificial intelligence from the University of British Columbia, an MBA from Stanford, and an MPA in economic policy from Harvard. He attended Harvard and Stanford concurrently and graduated an Arjay Miller Scholar.

Anita is the CEO and Co-Founder of Iris.ai; one of the 10 most innovative artificial intelligence startups in 2017 according to Fast Company. Iris.ai is an AI Science assistant, able to read, digest and connect scientific knowledge that will grow up to be the world’s first AI Researcher within a decade. Set out to democratize access to science, Iris.ai can reduce R&D departments’ time to map out existing research by 95% and remove current requirements of having deep domain expertise involved in the process, thus allowing more people to solve more problems that are difficult.

Anita is a highly sought after public speaker, one of Inspiring Fifty Nordic’s most inspiring women in tech, twice TEDx speaker and 500 startups, SU Global Grand Challenges Awards and TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield alumni. Anita is also the first Norwegian to attend Singularity University’s Global Solution Program in 2015 – and she put on the first Global Impact Challenge Norway in 2016.
Anita has never had what she refers to as “a real job” and Iris.ai is her fourth own startup. The past 10 years of her career have spanned over 9 industries including developing an e-learning tool in Silicon Valley, performing theatre for babies, reducing energy consumption in the process industry through heat exchanger network optimization, getting 30 (mainly middle-age, male) engineers to dance to ABBA in front of their co-workers, facilitating solar light business creation in Kenya, being in the centre of several startups crashing and burning, organizing entrepreneurial conferences and trying to disrupt the recruitment industry. She also dropped by six universities on the way. In addition, built a race car.

Patrick van der Pijl is a Designer, Strategic smart ass and Creator. Patrick is the founder and CEO of Business Models Inc, a global design company on strategy and innovation.

Patrick helps multinational corporations, governmental agencies, NGOs, and startups understand, design, prototype and scale new business models for exponential growth and impact. Patrick is the coauthor of Design a Better Business: New Mindset, Skills and Tools for Innovation and Strategy and producer of the worldwide bestseller book Business Model Generation. His company Business Models Inc. is the proud winner of the Australian Good Design Pioneer Award and American Design Management Institute award.

Jaya Baloo, currently Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Avast Software, has worked in the cybersecurity area for nearly 20 years.

She won the Cyber Security Executive of the year award in 2015 and is one of the top 100 influencers in the field. Jaya frequently speaks at security conferences on subjects around lawful interception, mass surveillance, cryptography. She is a faculty member of the Singularity University and a member of various infosec boards. Expert on quantum computing, Jaya is a quantum ambassador of KPN Telecom and a Vice Chair of the Quantum Flagship Strategic Advisory Board of the EU Commission..

Will is an Executive Director at SU and runs the Global Summit, Industry Summits, and International Summits. He is passionate about people and ideas and has spent his life working to bring them together to help curate great opportunities and experiences.

Will’s background leading, investing in, and advising technology and consumer product companies has enabled him to acquire a unique blend of operational, investment and entrepreneurial experience. He has previously been a venture capitalist at Foundation Capital and Maveron, an operator at Intuit and World Wrapps and is an active investor having been involved with companies such as SuccessFactors, OpenTable, and Zappos among others. Among his most unusual accomplishments is that Will created and popularized the wrap, yes, the burrito like thing at a 30 unit restaurant chain he founded called World Wrapps.

Will received his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and has a BA from University of California at Santa Barbara.

Kris Østergaard is the co-founder and Chief Learning & Innovation Officer of SingularityU Nordic, a country partner of Singularity University, as well as a faculty member of Singularity University.

As the Chief Learning & Innovation Officer of SingularityU Nordic, Kris is responsible for designing and running education and innovation programs for organizations as well as startups in SingularityU Nordic’s +7,000 square meter innovation campus based in Copenhagen.

Kris is the author of Transforming Legacy Organizations: Turn Your Established Business into an Innovation Champion to Win the Future; translator of the best-selling business book Exponential Organizations into Danish; and also the co-author of The Fundamental 4s: How to Design Extraordinary Customer Experiences in an Exponential World. He is also a Certified Experience Economy Expert and the first recipient of the prestigious Experience Management Achievement Award outside of the US.

Together with his partner Laila Pawlak, Kris launched thinkubator – a corporate, crowd funded incubator that supports corporates to work with entrepreneurs and establish their own incubator to kick start innovation, leverage technology, and deep dive into the exponential mindset.

Kris co-founded the innovation hub DARE2mansion – a Professional Playground in Copenhagen, which serves as an incubator and co-working and event space where entrepreneurs, corporates, and academia can come together to create disruptive businesses.

He has more than 15 years of research experience with a primary specialization in qualitative methodologies and gaining insights into the foundation of strategy building, designing extraordinary customer experiences, and affecting human behavior in a positive way.

Kris is a sought-after speaker and facilitator primarily around corporate innovation, exponential organizations and innovation in legacy organizations. He is also an advisor, board member and investor to a number of startups, certified coach, NLP Business Practitioner, LEGO Serious Play facilitator, and frequent writer and blogger on disruptive business, innovating on the edges, exponential organizations, innovation in legacy organizations and customer experiences. He is currently writing a book on innovation in legacy organizations.

Evelyne is Partner, co-Founder and Managing Partner at The Singularity Group. Previously, she was Portfolio Manager of the Energy Fund and active manager of various mandates in Natural Resources at GAM Investment Management in Zurich. Prior to this, Evelyne was a Portfolio Manager and Analyst at Capital Research Global Investors in London. She began her career at The Capital Group in Los Angeles, California.

Evelyne holds a Masters degree in Engineering from ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology with concentrations in Food Science, Biochemistry and Biotechnology. Evelyne's established investment track record and expertise over the past decade has pushed boundaries for new successful investment opportunities. She is a recognized authority on markets and investing, including alternative investments in liquid and illiquid new products, and has often presented at conferences and special events. Publicly, she has presented as an expert on major international televised networks and is often quoted in the press.

Daniel Gasteiger is an entrepreneur with over 20 years of practical managing director level banking experience at Credit Suisse and UBS covering various disciplines in Investment Banking and Corporate Center (trading, sales, product-, project-, programme- and general management/strategic advisory) both out of Zurich and London HQs.

In 2015, he co-founded Nexussquared, Switzerland’s first dedicated blockchain business and start-up platform which runs regular events targeting corporate executives, blockchain start-ups and students interested in the opportunities that come with blockchain technology.
In 2016, he also founded Procivis AG, an ‘e-governement-as-a-service’ start-up leveraging smartphone and blockchain technology to deliver citizen centric services based on government-approved digital identities.

Laurenz Apiarius is Founder and Managing Partner of Blockwall, the first regulatory and legally compliant German crypto asset fund on investments in Distributed Ledger/Blockchain technologies offering Institutional Investors, Family Offices and the UHNW community access to this asset class.

In this function, he also advises the OECD as an industry expert on policy making for crypto assets and blockchain technology.
Laurenz is also non-executive director in two family businesses in high-performance polymer production and a manufacturing of rheological testing devices and is both an active and passive investor in various PE and VC investments.
He is a graduate of EBS University in Germany, University of Stellenbosch in South Africa, and University of St. Andrews in Scotland where he is a member of the EO.

Alexander is Head of Consulting at CID, a technology firm and innovator focused on Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Management.

In his almost 20 years with CID, Alexander has developed proprietary technological solutions for web crawling, natural language processing, trend detection, and semantic graphs to support efficient information exploration, signals detection, and insights generation to benefit clients in the automotive, insurance, financial services, healthcare, and professional services industries. His background combines technological expertise with business-oriented approaches to Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Analytics.
In 2008, he co-founded CID’s consulting practice embedded into the enterprise software solutions company to support global enterprises establish innovative, AI-driven business models, provide next generation customer experience, and unlock data potential to better leverage market insight, increase risk awareness, and identify business opportunities.

He is CEO and Founder of SUSI Partners AG, a 1 bn FINMA regulated asset manager in Zug/Zürich.

Since 2009, he has built up the company to become a leading financing partner for sustainable infrastructure projects globally. He is also Director of Sustainable Sarl, a Luxembourg based infrastructure investment manager and Chairman and co-Founder of Crypto Finance AG.
Prior to these endeavours, Tobias was Strategy Consultant at Boston Consulting Group and completed a PhD at the European Business School. He holds a Masters degree in International Management (CEMS) as well as a Master of Science in Business Administration from the University of St. Gallen.
In March 2016, Tobias completed the Executive Program at Singularity University, Palo Alto (USA).

Eric has a 30 year track record in Banking at Morgan Stanley, Pictet & Cie, Citibank, and most recently Bank Sarasin (Today Bank J. Safra Sarasin).

At Bank Sarasin he held various senior leadership positions across many business lines and developed the formerly family-owned bank into one of the leading private banks of Switzerland, culminating in his role as Group Deputy CEO.
Eric is on the Board of several privately held companies and investment firms. He is on the board of 1875 Finance, Benpac AG and Chair of TIGER21 Switzerland, a selective peer membership organization for specially qualified entrepreneurs, CEOs and investors.
During his career, Eric held many public, non private and cultural leadership roles including 12 years as the President of the Swiss-German Chamber of Commerce, and serves on the executive Board of the Cancer League of Basel, Animal Hospital Basel, Gertrude von Meissner Foundation, SwissPeace, the Paul Jenni Foundation, Maurice E. Muller Foundation, Race for Water, as well as leadership and participation in NGOs including Human Rights Watch. He is an avid investor and active philanthropist.

Eric is a Regenerative Entrepreneur. His purpose is to accelerate the evolution of business paradigms, in order to create a shared and durable prosperity. Cofounder and Evolution Officer of Nativa, the first Benefit Corporation and Certified B Corp® in Europe. President of The Natural Step Italy and Chairman of The Natural Step International 2015-2017.

Most Valuable Player 2016 of the global B Corp movement for introducing the legal form Società Benefit. Advisor to the G7 on people-centered technological innovation. Eric and the Nativa team leverage first principles design to create regenerative and resilient organizations. He advises and coaches leadership in corporations, NGOs, and the public sector to design economic activities that have a positive impact on people, and biosphere. Stanford, Singularity University, and Bocconi Alumnus. Ski mountaineer, trail runner & long-distance triathlete.

Marc P. Bernegger is a web entrepreneur and Fintech-Investor. He cofounded the party-platform usgang.ch in his twenties and sold it later to Axel Springer Media.

He is co-founder of amiando, a ticketing-platform, which was bought by Xing and has been awarded by WEF as a “Global Technology Pioneer”. Marc has been active as a fintech investor since 2010. He is on the advisory board of FinLeap, co-founder of Finance 2.0 and he is a Board Member of Falcon Private Bank, Crypto Finance Group, Crypto Finance Conference and Greater Zurich Area. Marc bought his first bitcoins in 2012 and is fascinated by the opportunities this new asset class has to offer.

Kris graduated magna cum laude as a medical doctor from the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Kris is a researcher at the Center Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary Studies (CLEA) at the Free University Brussels (VUB) and a member of the Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group at the Free University of Brussels.

Kris’ fields of research are aging, nutrition, metabolism, preventive medicine and health. In this context, he created a new scientific discipline, called 'nutrigerontology', which studies the impact of nutrition on the aging process and aging-related diseases. Besides medicine, Kris has a keen interest in evolution, the origin and complexity of life, and neuroscience (consciousness, neurotheology, neuroesthetics, theory of mind and the origins of creativity).

At the age of 25, he was the author of 3 science books. His books got many reprints and nominations. He wrote his first book at the age of 16, making him the youngest author of a science book in Europe. This book was nominated for the Eureka Science Prize.In his second book, that Kris wrote at the age of 21, he draws on recent scientific discoveries and insights to answer age-old philosophical questions about the origin and evolution of life, human nature and consciousness. The book got 7 reprints and was also nominated for theEureka Science Prize.
In his third book The food hourglass Kris writes about a subject that is a strong interest of his: the aging process. In this book he uses the latest scientific insights to explain how different kind of foods and food patterns can slow down or speed up the aging process.
Kris wrote articles for various newspapers and appeared in radio and television shows. He regularly gives lectures on medicine, health, aging and science. Eric Ezechieli Sustainability Co-founder of Nativa, the first B Corp in Europe, Eric is a Regenerative Entrepreneur. His purpose is to accelerate the evolution of business paradigms, in order to create a shared and durable prosperity.

Andra Keay is the Managing Director of Silicon Valley Robotics, non-profit industry group supporting innovation and commercialization of robotics technologies. Andra is also founder of the Robot Launch global startup competition and a mentor, investor and advisor to startups, accelerators and think tanks, with a strong interest in commercializing socially positive robotics and AI, shared on “The Robot State” site.

Andra cofounded Robohub, the global robotics research news site, building on her background in film, television and media production, internet and computing technologies, with degrees in Interaction, Communication and Human/Robot Cultural Studies. Andra also cofounded Robot Garden, a robotics makerspace and teaches Interaction Design and Theory. Andra has a particular interest in understanding diversity and representation in robotics and AI and started the Women in Robotics community. Andra speaks regularly to international audiences on robotics/AI ethics, innovation, commercialization and interaction. Fun fact: Andra used to play in early Australian punk rock bands.

Fabian is Professor for Distributed Ledger Technology/Fintech at the Faculty of Business and Economics. In addition, he is the Managing Director of the Center for Innovative Finance at the University of Basel and board member of the "Swiss Blockchain Federation" (Bundesrats Taskforce).

His research focus is on interdisciplinary analyses of Smart Contracts, asset tokenization and Blockchain applications. He has a PhD in Cryptoassets and Blockchain Technology and co-authored several publications including the bestselling book "Bitcoin, Blockchain and Cryptoassets" and several scientific articles, some of them published in the prestigious Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review. He is the organizer of the "Blockchain Symposium", the "Blockchain Challenge", member of the organizing committee of a conference with the Swiss National Bank and co-initiator of a project to secure academic credentials on a Blockchain. In addition, he is a board member of Crypto Fund AG, the first FINMA regulated crypto asset manager, an advisor of Vision& and Smart Containers, teaches at various universities and at Deutsche Börse and is an invited speaker at numerous conferences, including the G20 Global Financial Stability Conference. Prior to that, he worked as a consultant in various positions at banks and bank-related companies.

Lars is an author on subjects of science and technology as well as Head of Alternative Risk Premia at GAM. Prior to his post at GAM he was the Founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Alternative Beta Partners AG in Baar, Switzerland, from 2010 to 2015. He had served Partners Group AG as a Partner since January 2002 where he built the alternative beta business and the hedge fund risk management infrastructure.

Prior to joining Partners Group, he co-founded saisGroup, a hedge funds asset management firm established by the former alternative investment strategies team at Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM), where he was responsible for risk management. Lars started his finance career in 1997 at the quantitative research firm Olsen & Associates AG in Zurich after his post doctorate research in theoretical physics. Lars is the author of numerous books on hedge funds and a frequent speaker at industry conferences and an author of research articles in leading academic journals. He studied physics and philosophy at the University of Bonn in Germany and Ecole Polytechnique, in Paris and holds a doctorate degree in theoretical physics from the Max-Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, where he further performed post doctoral studies, and a master's degree in physics from the University of Bonn. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Financial Risk Manager (FRM) designations.

Daniel studied economics at the University of St. Gallen HSG and has a Ph.D. in "Virtual Communities". In 1997 he won the European Honeywell Futurist Award and his book "Virtual Triad: Cyberspace, Cyborgs and Artificial Intelligence" was published in 2002.

As an entrepreneur and founder, he worked in the field of internet-based early warning systems. Since 2005, he has been advising banks, corporates and regulators across Europe and the Middle East on strategy, digitisation, fintech and distributed ledger technology. He also acts as the PwC Head of Blockchain EMEA and works closely on topics such as blockchain, crypto and tokenization. Daniel is co-founder of Swiss Finance + Technology Association and Crypto Valley Association, member of fintechrockers.com, angel investor and is closely associated with the international fintech and blockchain community.

Carlo van de Weijer has a Master degree in Mechanical Engineering from the TU Eindhoven and a PhD degree with honors from TU in Graz. He carries a broad experience in the automotive industry with a.o. executive positions at Siemens and TomTom.

Currently he is director of the Strategic Area Smart Mobility at Eindhoven University of Technology. He advises ministries and industries around the world on the future of mobility and is a member of the supervisory board of several high-tech companies and start-ups. He is an international speaker on exponential technology and the future of high-tech, amongst others as a faculty member of Silicon Valley based Singularity University.

Massimo Pellegrino is a member of the Global Responsible Artificial Intelligence Leadership Team at PwC, as well as the Head of New Ventures - the Business Unit focused on innovation - at PwC Italy. The attention to human-machine interaction, training programs and the experimentation of innovative machine-learning techniques represent the pillars of Massimo’s approach to innovation.

The integration of technological solutions and the necessary cultural shift represents the core of Massimo’s work at PwC. He supports companies and organizations implementing innovation programs whose goal is to foster business growth through the creation of an effective open innovation ecosystem.
The attention to human-machine interaction, training programs and the experimentation of innovative machine-learning techniques represent the pillars of Massimo’s approach to innovation.

Chelsea Rustrum explores shared ownership and value distribution through the lens of the sharing economy and blockchain technology. She’s the author of “It’s a Shareable Life", the founder of Blockchain for Good, a social and educational series for elevating social good initiatives that utilize blockchain and the co-founder of Instigation Protocol, which sits at the intersection of cities, emerging technology companies, and enterprise.

She works with systems, structures, and financial models that reinforce our interdependence. To that end, she is working on a collaborative Blockchain Code of Ethics to program the future with collectively aligned values. She has also advised dozens of marketplaces and speaks to corporate audiences such as PwC and J&J, helping organizations understand the changing, often disruptive nature of ‘new economy’ principles in business. She’s also contributed to articles in Inc. Magazine, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Wired, Forbes, and The Economist.