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 the CISO of KPN Telecom in the Netherlands.

She is recognized in 2017 as one of the top 100 CISO's globally. Jaya works with an amazing information security team of highly driven specialists. Working in the information security arena for the past 18 years, she has worked mostly for global telecommunications companies such as Verizon and France Telecom.

Jaya is also a frequent speaker at security conferences on subjects around lawful interception, mass surveillance, and cryptography.

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.

Aleksandra is a globally recognized geopolitical risk analyst specializing in emerging markets. She is Geopolitical Specialist and Member of Senior Staff with the Zurich Insurance Group and founder of Magpie Advisory, a geopolitical risk and global foresight company. Aleksandra is also Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council, a Washington D.C.-based think tank, and author and editor of the book Africa and China: How Africans and Their Governments are Shaping Relations with China.

Previously, Aleksandra was Senior Analyst and internal head of African markets with a leading Swiss asset manager. She has held senior-level advisory positions with global strategy firms Oxford Analytica and Control Risks, where she provided counsel to international government agencies and Fortune 500 companies on political and economic stability and operational risks in emerging markets. She has worked with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, the G8 Research Group, the United Nations Development Programme, and the Global Economic Governance Programme at the University of Oxford.
A frequent media commentator, Aleksandra's contributions often appear in CNNMoney Switzerland, The National Interest, China Review, RealClearWorld, and the Journal of Eastern African Studies, and have been cited in testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Her writings cover a broad range of topics including geopolitics, economic development, and the potential of disruptive technologies in emerging and frontier markets.
Aleksandra holds a PhD in politics from the University of Oxford, an MPhil in politics, also from the University of Oxford, and a BA (cum laude) from Northwestern University.

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.