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Okan Dursun
SDG Young Leader at the Office
United Nations Office of the Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth
Jasper Verbunt
CEO and Founder
Redkiwi
Diana Baicu
Co-Founder and Lead Robotics Engineer
Adapta Robotics
Joachim Denzler
Professor of Computer Vision
University of Jena
Alessandra Sala
Sr. Director of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science
Shutterstock
Ai-Da Robot
World’s first ultra-realistic humanoid robot artist
Aidan Meller
Jasper
Your everyday personal chef
Jasper
Roboclette
First robot making raclette
Workshop 4.0
Poldi Heidrich
Business Development Manager Automotive
KUKA
Kyoung-Soo Eom
Chief of UN Geospatial Information Section
United Nations
Arunima Sarkar
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Lead
World Economic Forum (WEF)
Hannah Stuart
Don M. Cunningham Assistant Professor
University of California at Berkeley
Nadine
One of the most realistic humanoid social robots
University of Geneva - MIRALab
Nadia Magnenat Thalmann
Professor and Director
410Labs
Yanu
World's first contactless robot bar
Yanu Robotics
Alan Adojaan
CEO
Yanu Robotics
Geminoid
Tele-operated android
Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories
Grace
World's foremost nursing assistant robot
SingularityNET
Sophia
Most advanced human-like robot
Hanson Robotics
Youichi Nonaka
Senior Chief Researcher
Center for Technology Innovation
Chansung Park
Researcher
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)
Kirk McKinzie 
President
MCKINZIE Smart Technologies
Ryan Wang
Co-Founder and General Partner
Outpost Capital
4NE-1
One of its kind
Neura Robotics
MIRA Robot
Inspection robot for the accelerator ring at CERN
CERN
CERNBot
Robot for complex interventions in harsh environments
CERN
Darrell Etherington
Managing Editor
TechCrunch
Hiroshi Ishiguro
Professor of Department of Systems Innovation, Visiting director of ATR Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories
Osaka University
Marek Cygan
CTO and Co-Founder
Nomagic
Matt Simon
Science Journalist
Wired
Aleksandra Faust
Senior Staff Research Scientist and Autonomous Agents Research Lead
Google AI
Yanbin Dai
OSS Solution MKT Director
ZTE
Yongsheng Liu
Senior researcher, ITU-T Focus Group Autonomous Network WG1 chair
China Unicom’s Research Institute
Jinghua Kuang
Senior Researcher, Department of Wireless and Terminal Technology
China Mobile Research Institute
Le Zhang
Research and Practice of Autonomous Telecom Operation and Management
China Telecom Research Institute
Kelly Chen
Partner
DCVC
Andrew Gardner
Vice President of Research & AI
Avast
Jaya Baloo
Chief Information Security Officer
Avast
Sophia Kianni
Founder & Executive Director of Climate Cardinals & United Nations Youth Advisor
Stanford University
Sylvia Poll
Head, Digital Society Division
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Iadine Chades
Activity Leader, Principal Research Scientist
CSIRO
John Cook
Climate Change Communication Research Hub
Monash University
Bernd Meyer
Associate Dean, Sustainability, Faculty of Information Technology
Monash Data Futures Institute
Tanya Berger-Wolf
Co-founder and Director
Wild Me
María Cecilia Londoño
Senior Researcher, Biodiversity Assessment and Monitoring Program
Humboldt Institute
Mike Gill
Director
NatureServe’s Biodiversity Indicators Program
Wade White
Assistant Chief
Los Angeles City Fire Department
David Reger
CEO and Founder
Sylvain Calinon
Senior Research Scientist
Patrick Thévoz
CEO and Co-Founder
Flyability
Alex Roy
Co-host of The Autonocast and /DRIVE, author of The Driver, endurance driving records in EV and Semi-Autonomous Classes
Cityfi
Jamie Paik
Professor and Director and Founder of Reconfigurable Robotics Lab
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Samantha Maloney
Best-selling, Musician, Song-writer, Producer
The Surfrajettes
Sophia Kianni
Founder & Executive Director of Climate Cardinals & United Nations Youth Advisor
Stanford University
David Reger
CEO and Founder
NEURA Robotics
Ekow Duker
Co-Founder
Zindi Africa
Werner Vogels
Chief Technology Officer and Vice President
Amazon
Uwe Baeder
Director International Relations
Rohde & Schwarz
Will Jackson
CEO and Founder at Engineered Arts
Ameca
Moriba Jah
Founder & Chief Scientist
Privateer
George Hripcsak
Chair and Vivian Beaumont Allen Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Columbia University
Barbara Mazzolai
Associate Professor for Robotics
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia - IIT
Cecilia Laschi
Professor of Robotics
National University of Singapore
Robert Katzschmann
Assistant Professor of Robotics
ETH Zurich
Deniz Susar
Governance and Public Administration Officer
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)
Judy Backhouse
Senior Academic Fellow
United Nations University - Centre for Policy Research
Gitta Kutyniok
Bavarian AI Chair for Mathematical Foundations of AI
Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München
Jacob Bieker
Machine Learning Researcher
Open Climate Fix
Blue Sea Robotics
Campbell Watson
Senior Research Scientist
IBM
Bart Slager
CEO
Perspective Robotics
Olivier Francon
Chief architect of Evolutionary AI
Cognizant
Jennifer Stave
Launch Director, Digital, Data & Design Institute
Harvard University
H.E. Jan Christian Vestre
Minister of Trade and Industry
Norway
Joel Mills
CEO OSC and Augmentcity, Guest Lecture Harvard, Vice Chairman UN focus Group, Board member
Andrew Thut
Sales Engineer
IBM
Aditya Khosla
Principal Product Manager
IBM
Jing Fang
Research expert
Shanghai Fudata Technology Co., Ltd.
Xuhong Li
Researcher
Baidu
Kewen Wang
AI senior algorithm engineer
ZTE
Laurel Patterson
Head of the SDG Integration team
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
John Walsh
Founder and CEO
Red Summit
Energy Robotics
Audite Robotics
Earth Rover
Restful Robotics
Nicolina Lindblad
Energy Specialist, Sustainable Energy for All
SEforALL
Michael Jacobs
Sustainability and Social Innovation Leader
IBM
Charlotte Kan
Freelance journalist
Journalist
Alisdair McLean
Executive Director
Net Zero Atlantic
Sandra Skaff
Senior Alliances and Ecosystem Manager
NVIDIA
Hiroaki Kitano
CEO
Sony AI
Diakhère Gueye
Intern
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Steven L. Brunton
Professor
University of Washington
Ria Persad
Founder and Chair of StatWeather and Chief Scientific Officer
NatureAlpha
Alook Johnson
Founding member
ShagowAskee
Manon Vermenouze
Director of Communications, Public Affairs and CSR
Shark Robotics
Laura Boccanfuso
CEO
Van Robotics
Punit Santani
COE Lead, Sustainability Data Hub
Capgemini
Camille Clavie
Product Owner
Capgeminii
Marcus Norrgren
Account Manager, Geospatial Intelligence
Sogeti
Sugu Thuraisamy
Stewardship & Sustainability
Capgeminii
Kait Creamer
Senior Marketing Manager
Overstory
Maria Piles
Senior Researcher
Universitat de València
University of Valencia
Eirini Ntoutsi
Professor for Open Source Intelligence
Bundeswehr University  Munich
Tim Lichti
CEO and Co-Founder
Swap Robotics
Beomni
World’s first fully functional general-purpose humanoid
Beyond Imagination
drozBot
The Portraitist Robot
Sylvain Calinon
Sylvain Calinon
Head of the Robot Learning & Interaction group
Idiap Research Institute
Elios 3
Drones digitizing the inaccessible
Flyability
Patrick Thévoz
CEO
Flyability
Alhussein Fawzi
Staff Research Scientist
DeepMind
Jay Lee
Professor, Founding director
National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC)
Stéphane Mermoz
CEO & Research Scientist
GlobEO
Tadhg S. O’Donovan
Deputy Vice Principal
Heriot-Watt University – Dubai Campus
Yuval Noah Harari
Historian, philosopher, and best-selling author of 'Sapiens' and 'Homo Deus'
Sapienship
Harry Kloor
CEO and Co-Founder
Beyond Imagination
Jojo Mayer
Internationally Renowned Drummer
NERVE
Benjamin Clarke
Business Analyst
SolarPower Europe
Ilene Locker Carpenter
Earth Sciences segment manager
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)