Paolo Pirjanian is a luminary roboticist and former CTO of iRobot (acquired by Amazon). Paolo is the founding CEO of Embodied and creator of Moxie companion robots.
Embodied is a breakthrough technology company leading the next wave of robotics to transform behavioral and mental health with its proprietary Social-Emotional AI platform, SocialX. In 2021 the company released SocialX and the first AI Friend, Moxie, to about 5,000 users for children’s behavioral and mental health. Moxie had phenomenal success with the children, their parents and many organizations ranging from hospitals to clinics and trauma centers.
Ilana Wisby is a deep tech entrepreneur, a champion for women in technology and leadership and advisor to the WEF's new Future Council on Quantum.
Ilana's vision is a brighter future that includes everyone. She and her team believe that the key to solving our most pressing challenges is to put their quantum computers in the hands of humanity and at the fingertips of our most brilliant minds.
Ilana is the CEO of Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), the UK's premier player in the quantum revolution. From enabling life-changing drug discoveries to unbreakable cryptography, from unleashing the full potential of AI to unlocking nature's best-kept design secrets, OQC uses the power of quantum to develop technology that will change the world.
Angela is a creative and curious entrepreneur focused on increasing agricultural productivity and sustainability, finding innovative ways to solve the challenges farmers are facing. She co-founded FungiAlert (now known as FA-Bio) in 2015 whilst completing her PhD studies at Imperial College London.
Angela completed a PhD in Chemical Biology of Crop Protection and Sustainability at Imperial College London in 2016, which followed an MRes at Imperial College London. Previously she obtained a BSc and MSc in Biotechnology at the School of Agricultural Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain.
Pablos is a hacker, inventor and technology futurist with a unique ability to distill complex technology into practical tools. Pablos helped start the Intellectual Ventures Lab for Nathan Myhrvold to support a wide range of invention projects, including a brain surgery tool; a machine to suppress hurricanes; a nuclear reactor powered by nuclear waste; and a machine that can shoot mosquitoes out of the sky with lasers - part of an impact invention effort to eradicate malaria with Bill Gates.
