Frédéric C. Baitinger is a French psychoanalyst, philosopher, and researcher whose work focuses on psychoanalysis, gender studies, and post-colonial theory. He earned his Ph.D. in French Studies from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), where his dissertation, The Subject of Jouissance: The Late Lacan and Gender and Queer Theories, examined the intersections of Lacanian psychoanalysis with contemporary gender and queer studies. Dr. Baitinger is a research associate at the Chaire de Philosophie à l'Hôpital, GHU Sainte-Anne, Paris - Psychiatrie & Neurosciences, where he coordinates two major research seminars: Décoloniser l’inconscient and Créoliser l’inconscient. He is also a member of the Association pour le Soin Queer et Féministe (ASQF) and the Collectif de Pantin, reflecting his active engagement in applying psychoanalytic frameworks to pressing social issues. His scholarly contributions include articles in journals such as The Lacanian Review and chapters in edited volumes within the Palgrave Lacan Series. An active speaker, he has presented at numerous international conferences, including Eros and Thanatos in a Time of Plague at Dartmouth College (2021) and Psychanalyse et Incertitude at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) in Paris (2022). In his clinical practice in Paris, Dr. Baitinger focuses on addressing issues related to gender, sexuality, and cultural identity, bridging theoretical psychoanalysis with practical applications to contemporary societal challenges.

Dr Shima Beigi earned a BSc, two MSc degrees, and a PhD from the University of Bristol and the University of Oxford. Her area of expertise is the resilience of complex systems and smart city design. She is a research resident at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) at UM6P, working on smart cities and generative technologies, a senior scientist at Human Energy, working on techno-social dilemmas, a visiting researcher at VUB Brussels and CEO and Founder of Triple AI Therapeutics for Mindful Smart Cities.

Dr. Amine Belemlih is a transformational leadership expert and Associate Professor at the Africa Business School, University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P), where he also heads the LTA (Leading Transformations in Africa) Center. His work centers on fostering dialogic, systemic, and human-centered approaches to organizational and societal change, with a particular emphasis on the Global South. Dr. Belemlih’s expertise spans open strategy, adaptive leadership, and the development of resilient, learning-oriented organizations. With an executive doctorate from Université Dauphine PSL and an Executive MBA from ESCP Business School, he combines academic rigor with extensive consulting experience across Africa and Europe, positioning him as a key voice in advancing innovative models of collective impact and sustainable transformation.

Johan Bollen is a Professor of Informatics and Cognitive Science and Chair of the Informatic Department at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. He is the Director of the Center for Biomedical and Social Complexity. He was formerly a staff scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 2005-2009, and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science of Old Dominion University from 2002 to 2005. He obtained his PhD in Experimental Psychology from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in 2001. He has published more than 150 articles on mental health, social media, computational social science, and informetrics. His research has been funded by the NIH, NSF, DARPA, IARPA, EDA, NASA, and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Nawal CHRAIBI quickly rose to the role of Senior Consultant in Business Support within the Consolidation division. She then served as a Project Manager for renowned consulting firms such as ARTHUR ANDERSEN, ERNST & YOUNG, and MAZARS & GUERARD in Paris from 2000 to 2007. In 2007, she made the decision to return to Morocco and joined Alcatel Lucent's Rabat subsidiary as Deputy CFO and Project Financial Controller. Later, in December 2009, she became the Support Director at the MAScIR Foundation, overseeing finance and administration, human resources, and information systems.

From December 2016 to December 2018, Nawal CHRAIBI assumed the role of Acting General Manager at MAScIR. Since December 2018, she has been serving as the General Manager of MAScIR. In 2022, she joined UM6P's Institute for Advanced Studies as the Executive Director. With an experience of 23 years in finance and administration, she has gained valuable expertise in financial analysis, project management, and overall management.

Boris Cyrulnik is a renowned French neuropsychiatrist, ethologist, and author, widely recognized for his work on psychological resilience. He has made significant contributions to the fields of psychiatry and psychology, particularly in understanding how individuals recover from trauma. Cyrulnik is a professor at the University of the South, Toulon-Var, and has been involved in various research initiatives exploring the intersections of ethology, psychiatry, and human behavior. He has authored numerous influential books, including “The Whispering of Ghosts: Trauma and Resilience” and “Talking of Love on the Edge of a Precipice.” Cyrulnik’s interdisciplinary approach and ability to communicate complex psychological concepts to a broad audience have earned him international acclaim. His work continues to shape the public’s understanding of mental health and the human capacity to overcome adversity.

Dr. Seren Dalkiran is versatile researcher, complexity scientist, innovator and leadership educator who builds bridges between theory and practice at the nexus of science and society. Seren conducted her innovative Ph.D. research at the University of Notre Dame Australia, Utrecht University and Varna University of Management on the search for new leadership paradigms for social and sustainable change and the role, worldviews and value-orientations of a new generation of leaders worldwide. She initiated a wide range of projects, organizations and networks in leadership and talent development, lifelong learning, intergenerational cooperation and cultural change exploring new paradigms responsive to tackling pressing global challenges. Dr. Seren Dalkiran is the originator & founder of Synergized Earth Network (SEN), which is a global value-driven network uniting leaders across generations, disciplines and sectors to tackle the most pressing challenges of the 21st century. She is also the founder of the Millennial Leadership Lab (MLL), a data-driven knowledge platform for and around the next generation workforce and consults organizations and companies around young talent management and anticipating the future of education and work in the digital age. Seren won numerous (inter)national awards for her leadership, academic and societal undertakings over the years. Her focus is on equipping the next generation of leadership as architects and collaborators in the future prospects of our world. She is driving 21st century leadership innovation in scientific research and applies it to inform policy and practice by experimenting with new forms of learning, leading, cooperating and designing organizations. Her aim is to prepare individuals and organizations for the future by developing social technology innovations that enhance human and planetary flourishing.

Dr Terrence Deacon obtained his PhD from Harvard University in 1984. Since then he has held faculty positions at Harvard University, Boston University, and the University of California Berkeley. He was also a Research Associate at McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr Deacon's research ranges from laboratory neuroscience to evolutionary anthropology. Besides over 100 journal articles and book chapters, he has published two widely cited award winning books. The Symbolic Species: The Coevolution of Language and the Human Brain (1997), which was awarded the J. I. Staley Prize in 2005 (considered the "Pulitzer Prize of Anthropology") and Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter (2011) which was listed as the Forbes Non-fiction Book of the Year in 2012. He is currently completing a third book, tentatively titled Falling Up: How Inverse Darwinism Catalyzes Evolution that addresses the processes at all levels of evolution that catalyze the transition to higher levels of organism individuality, such as are involved in the evolution of the noosphere.

Isabelle Delannoy is an agricultural engineer and strategic advisor, engaged in ecological issues for over 30 years. She wrote the film Home in 2009 and The Symbiotic Economy in 2017, which highlights the global emergence of a regenerative economy for living and social ecosystems, and defines its principles and laws. She is a co-founder of L’entreprise symbiotique, an organization dedicated to accelerating the transition to a regenerative economy through training, action research, and the development of tools and communication strategies adapted to ecological, economic, and social regeneration. Isabelle is a professor of regenerative economics at CNAM (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers) and initiated the first normative text for regenerative economics, L’AFNOR spec Economie régénérative, published in September 2024.

Ilia Delio, OSF holds the Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Christian Theology at Villanova University. She is the author of twenty-four books, including The Hours of the Universe: Reflections on God, Science and the Human Journey which won a 2022 Gold Nautilus Book Award, Making All Things New: Catholicity, Cosmology and Consciousness, a finalist for the 2019 Michael Ramsey Prize and The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution and the Power of Love, for which she won the 2014 Silver Nautilus Book Award and a 2014 Catholic Press Association Book Award in Faith and Science. She is founder of the Center for Christogenesis, an online educational resource based on the vision of Teilhard de Chardin and, more broadly, the integration of science, religion and culture in the 21^st century.

Souleymane Bachir Diagne is a professor in the departments of French and of Philosophy at Columbia University. His areas of research and publication include History of Philosophy, History of Logic and Mathematics, Islamic Philosophy, African Philosophy and Literature. His latest publications in English include: Open to Reason. Muslim philosophers in conversation with Western tradition, New York, Columbia University Press, 2018 ; Postcolonial Bergson, Fordham University Press, New York, 2019 ; In Search of Africa(s). Universalism and Decolonial Thought, (Dialogue with Jean-Loup Amselle), Polity Press, 2020; African art as philosophy. Senghor, Bergson, and the idea of Negritude, The Other Press, 2023. Souleymane Bachir Diagne is a member of the Royal Academy of Morocco.

Abre G. Fournier, PhD, is a science-based philosopher of consciousness with a focus on mind transformation, bridging the advancements of contemporary cognitive sciences with teachings and practices from Asian philosophies centered on states of awakened awareness. Her work synthesizes insights from evolutionary biology, dynamical systems, embodied cognition, and advanced intelligence to articulate the rise of a new dimension of global consciousness. Her international work in facilitating consciousness evolution offers vital insights for philosophers and scientists investigating the complexities and transformation of human consciousness, as well as for professionals and practitioners engaged in transformative practices. She has also been active in the arts and higher education, with academic and executive roles at the State University of New York (SUNY). Her work as a practicing artist in films and new-media collaborations with musicians and composers has been shown in art museums and galleries, film festivals, and live concerts in the US and abroad. Originally from France, Abre currently lives in New York.

Dr. Frewert is a Senior Director in Oracle’s Supply Chain Management (SCM) Center of Excellence. She has pioneered a number of sustaining programs both in the workplace and in her community. She believes in the power of positivity, maintains that Optimism is contagious, and human energy can fuel transformative change. She is a passionate leader, mentor and coach. Her extensive non-profit work includes leadership and board positions for organizations that have increased access and advanced programming for youth, civil society, no-kill animal shelters, and Indigenous American Peoples. She is the Governor of the Pacific Central District of Optimist International, is a Vice President in the Sierra Nevada Chapter of the Society of Women Engineers, is the Board Secretary for FIRST Nevada, and has key roles in several other community organizations. She is deeply committed to expanding the education of youth and amplifying their voice in society. Dr. Frewert has interest in digital equity and Ai for social good and supports a number of projects that enable people to participate in meaningful change such as SOLVECC and For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST).

Dr. Frewert leads with optimism and creativity, but it is her can-do attitude and tenacity that make her fearless in taking on challenges. She received the distinguished 212 Degree Award from Optimist International. She was recognized by SWE for modeling the qualities of an Engaged Advocate, was honored as a Women of Achievement by Nevada Women's Fund, and recently named among top Women We Admire. Dr. Frewert earned her Education Doctorate degree from Drexel, Masters from Lesley University, and her Bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. She resides in the Lake Tahoe area.

Bruno holds a master’s degree in agricultural engineering from the Université Catholique de Louvain (1986), a master’s degree in irrigation engineering from Utah State University (1990), and a PhD in agronomy from the University of Hohenheim (2000).

His academic journey laid the groundwork for his career in research and leadership within the CGIAR system. Bruno began his CGIAR career at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Niger, where he worked from 1991 to 2008 on soil fertility, risk management, and dryland farming systems. In 2008, he joined the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Ethiopia, coordinating the system-wide livestock program to enhance collaboration across CGIAR centers and advance integrated research on smallholder crop-livestock systems. From 2011 to 2021, he was Director of the Sustainable Intensification Program at the International Maize and Wheat
Improvement Center (CIMMYT), steering research to boost productivity and resilience in maize and wheat-based systems across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

At UM6P, Bruno has been pivotal in developing innovative research programs, strengthening international partnerships, and mentoring emerging scientists. His leadership has helped position UM6P as a regional and global leader in sustainability-focused education and research. Bruno has authored or co-authored 82 peer-reviewed scientific publications, reflecting his commitment to advancing knowledge and practice in agriculture and environmental sciences.

A Professor of English and former Dean of Liberal Arts at Saint Mary’s College of California, Sheila Hassell Hughes serves on the Human Energy Advisory Board, chairs the organization’s Education Steering Committee, and co-chaired the first N2 Conference in 2023. Since February 2024, she has served as Human Energy’s first Chief Operating Officer. Sheila is a scholar, teacher, leader, and poet whose personal and professional mission is to “see, speak, and stitch connections.” Her research focuses on the intersections of Indigenous American literature, gender, and religion and on holistic, transformative education. She holds a BA (UBC) and MA (University of Toronto) in English and was one of the first to earn an interdisciplinary PhD in Women’s Studies (Emory University).

Francis Heylighen is a professor at the Free University of Brussels (VUB), where he directs the research of the Center Leo Apostel for transdisciplinary studies. With a Ph.D. in mathematical physics, he investigates how complex adaptive systems, and in particular the brain, society and technology, evolve toward higher forms of organization and intelligence. His pioneering work on the Global Brain examines how the internet enables humanity to function as a distributed intelligence. As a founding advisor to Human Energy, Heylighen contributes vital insights into collective intelligence and self-organization, helping illuminate how technological and social evolution may be giving rise to a planetary consciousness.

Michael Jacob, MD, PhD, is a neurobiologist and psychiatrist whose work weaves interdisciplinary threads to understand how experience comes to life in biology, the mind, and the noosphere. He is an Assistant Professor at UCSF, Director of the Psychosis and Metabolic Mental Health Clinics at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, and researcher with Human Energy. His work employs theoretical, computational, and experimental approaches, including neurophysiology and the neuroimaging of brain metabolism. He leads an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Research Group to foster collaborative studies of the brain and society, drawing from the humanities, semiotic, and dynamical systems theories. Michael is particularly interested in experiential meaning-making and in moving from computational frameworks of the brain and noosphere, to the living heart of biological systems. As both a scientist and a clinician, he guides individuals to find their calling in life and the noosphere, an approach that relies as much on narrativity, music, and poetry, as it does on the science of life.

Dr. Marouane Jaouat is a postdoctoral researcher within the Chair of Transitions at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) of Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. With a doctorate in sociology, he has devoted seven years to studying transhumanism. Formerly a Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Caen Normandy, he contributed to a report for the French Ministry of Justice on "Transhumanism(s) and Law(s)" (2021) and to the book "Regards Croisés sur les Transhumanismes" (2022). He also co-authored the White Paper of Transitions (2024) with Prof. Raphaël Liogier for the Chair of Transitions. His current research focuses on transhumanism and longtermism.

Yassine LAGHZIOUI is a serial entrepreneur and a venture capitalist. Within the startup ecosystem, he is renowned for mentoring high-potential entrepreneurs in the MEA region. Currently, he holds the position of CEO at UM6P Ventures, a deeptech venture capital firm, in addition to serving as the Director of Entrepreneurship and Venturing at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.

Yassine is also the founder of Phova Technology, a leading hard-tech startup headquartered in Morocco. He holds a master’s degree in industrial engineering from ENSAM and a master’s degree in management science from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Professor at Sciences Po Aix-en-Provence, at the University Paris-Nanterre and at the UM6P (Morocco), and Chair of Transitions and Scientific Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies (UM6P), Raphaël Liogier ran the Observatoire du religieux from 2006 to 2014, the main institution to have studied the new groups of young people using Islam as an anti-social flag to justify violent behaviours. He was the first expert to be interviewed by the French Parliament after the January 2015 Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack. He has been visiting professor in European, American and Australian universities, and has written numerous books on the mutation of beliefs and paradigms, on transnational identities and on the need for metaphysics. His recent research focuses on the impact of new technoscience, specifically AI, on human narratives. His last book, Khaos: The Betrayed Promise of Modernity, raises the question of the meaning and necessity of trans-cendence in our present world, radically renewing the old debate between faith and knowledge.

Lorenzo Marsili is an Italian philosopher, political activist, and social entrepreneur. Marsili is the founder of the transnational political NGO European Alternatives and the cultural institution Fondazione Rizoma. He co-initiated the pan-European movement DiEM25 alongside Yanis Varoufakis in 2016. In 2023, Marsili became the founding director of the Berggruen Institute Europe Center, headquartered at Casa dei Tre Oci in Venice, Italy. The Berggruen Institute focuses on developing ideas and shaping political and social institutions for the 21st century. Marsili’s role involves leading initiatives that challenge and inspire communities to redefine Europe’s role as a laboratory for new planetary politics. Marsili has authored several books, including “Il Terzo Spazio” (2017), “Citizens of Nowhere” (2018), “La tua patria è il mondo intero” (2019), and “Planetary Politics” (2020). He is a regular public speaker and media commentator, contributing to various European newspapers and appearing on international TV channels

Dr. Youssef Moulane is a Research Scientist in Astrophysics at the Institute of Applied Physics (IAP) at UM6P. He previously worked as a Postdoc at Auburn University in the United States. His research focuses on the study of the physical and chemical properties of small bodies of the solar system, including comets and asteroids. He holds a Ph.D. in Astronomy and Space Science from Cadi Ayyad University in Morocco and the University of Liège in Belgium in 2021. He has previously worked as a visiting researcher at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile between 2019-2021. In addition to his academic work, he is also interested in outreach and educational activities in the field of astronomy for the public and general audience.

Dr. Michael A. Pirson is a Full Professor of Management at Fordham University's Gabelli School of Business, where he leads the Center for Humanistic Management and holds the James F. Stoner Endowed Chair in Global Sustainability . He completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Organizational Behavior (2009) at Harvard University. and holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior (2007) from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. His research reimagines business and economics through the lens of human dignity and wellbeing. His groundbreaking work on humanistic management has helped establish a new paradigm for organizational design that prioritizes human flourishing over pure profit maximization. As a member of Human Energy's Research & Development Team, Pirson contributes vital insights into how business can evolve beyond traditional capitalism to support the emergence of more conscious forms of economic organization.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Parham Pourdavood is a cognitive scientist with a background in computer science and artificial intelligence research. He completed his undergraduate studies at University of California, Berkeley, where he engaged in theoretical neuroscience and AI research. Currently, He is a research assistant at a neuroscience lab at University of California, San Francisco, focusing on dynamical systems modeling of brain and physiological signals. He also serves as a data scientist and researcher at Human Energy, working on projects centered around AI, as well as modeling and visualization of planetary intelligence. His research aims to uncover how geometric patterns of communication and their energetics give rise to meaning in biological organisms and societal systems.

Montassir Sakhi is an anthropologist, Resident at the Institute for Advanced Studies (UM6P). Associate researcher at KU Leuven (Belgium). He wrote his PhD thesis at the University of Vincennes Paris 8 on "The Syrian Revolution, the Islamic State in Iraq and counter-terrorism in France". He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Turkey on the Syrian border with rebels, in Iraq in camps for displaced persons, and in Europe with migrants for jihad and their families. He published "La révolution et le Djihad" (La Découverte, 2023). Since 2020, his work has focused on border studies, with fieldwork in Europe and the southern Mediterranean (Tunisia and Morocco) on the impact of border closures on societies in the global South.

Olivier Servais (PhD, 2003) is a historian and anthropologist. He is full professor at the University of Louvain in Belgium and the current Dean of the Faculty of Economic, Social, Political and Communication Sciences. He teaches the anthropology of symbolic systems and their relationship to the so-called "natural" or "artificial" environment. He also teaches at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD). He has taught at various universities in Asia, Africa and the Americas, including the University of California. He currently chair of the SHS3 Panel « Advanced », at the European Research Council. In his present research, he analyses the imaginary of virtual universes, video-games, online sociability, youth socialisation, the organisation of digital groups at the margins and online religion.

His latest books include: Servais O., Dans la peau des Gamers, Paris, Karthala 2020, Servais O., Jeux video, nouvel opium du peuple? Karthala, Paris, 2020; Servais O., Douyere D., Catelanni A., Religious and the digital: New conceptualizations in the French-speaking world, Social Compass, vol. 67, Issue 4, December 2020; Simon L., Servais O., Disasters, Karthala, 2024; Hermesse J., Servais O., Déconfiner l’Europe, Karthala, 2024.

Boris Shoshitaishvili is a USC-Berggruen Fellow with a background in evolutionary biology, comparative literature, and classical studies. His research focuses on interconnections among the Earth sciences, globalization, and collective identity. He has published academic and public-facing articles on planetary thought in Anthropocene, The Anthropocene Review, Earth’s Future, and Noema, and co-authored scientific papers in Ageing Research Reviews and The Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. His chapter on Homeric epic and the origins of the Greek philosophical tradition is forthcoming in Sublime Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity: Intersections of Myth, Science and History (Bloomsbury Academic Publishing). He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in UC Berkeley’s Anthropology Department after earning his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Stanford University, M.A. in Classics from the University of Arizona, and Sc.B. in Biology and A.B. in Classics from Brown University. He currently heads an interdisciplinary project on “planetary metaphysics” for the Berggruen Institute.

Dr. Stock is the founder and CEO of Socratic Sciences which has a question-centered communications platform to catalyze understanding, community and social connection at scale. He’s an adjunct Professor, Dept of Genetics and Genomic Sciences at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, where he co-founded the Harris Center for Precision Wellness. He founded the Program on Medicine, Technology, and Society at UCLA’s School of Medicine, started and led two biotech companies, is the author of eight books including Redesigning Humans (winner of the Kistler Science Prize) and The Book of Questions, the first in a series on ethics and values that has sold 5 million copies, been translated into 25 languages, and is powering Socratic Sciences. He has 1,000+ media appearances, including Nova, PBS, NPR, Larry King, and Oprah, and multiple broadcasted one-on-one policy debates with figures such as Ray Kurzweil, Jeremy Rifkin, Daniel Callahan, and Francis Fukuyama about emergent technology and the human future. He has a PhD in Biophysics from Johns Hopkins and an MBA from Harvard.

Sadie Stock is an undergraduate student studying Computational Neuroscience and Business at the University of Southern California (USC). She serves as Chair of the Human Energy Youth Advisory Board, and is spearheading the university launch of Socratic Sciences' proprietary Fathm app. Sadie presented on attitudes and perspectives of faculty and students on AI and the human future at the first N2 Conference.

Brian Thomas Swimme is Director of the Third Story of the Universe at Human Energy, a public benefit non-profit that focuses on scientific and interdisciplinary research on the future of human collective consciousness. Swimme did his doctoral work in gravitational dynamics at the University of Oregon. He is the host of the Emmy-award winning PBS special "Journey of the Universe," written with Mary Evelyn Tucker (www.journeyoftheuniverse.org). His most recent media work is the 35-part video series "The Story of the Noosphere," created with Devin O'Dea and Monica DeRaspe-Bolles (humanenergy.io). Swimme's Cosmogenesis: An Unveiling of the Expanding Universe is an early example of the autocosmology genre combining contemporary science and cosmological phenomenology (starborne.substack.com). His recent book, written with Monica DeRaspe-Bolles, illustrated by Sebastian Swimme, and commissioned by Human Energy, is companion to the series with the same title, The Story of the Noosphere.

Head of Open Minds Art and Culture Department of the UM6P

Steering committee of the IAS

Member of the President's office

Anthropology lecturer at the school of medicine and the school of architecture

Tomas Veloz has a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies and an MSc in computer sciences, with majors in mathematics and physics. His research focuses on interdisciplinary mathematical modeling. His main research areas are Chemical Organization theory, where he has proven mathematical results such as the decomposition theorem and the existence of quantum-like organizational structures, and quantum cognition, where he has developed methods to represent collections of concepts in a Hilbert Space, and has shown that various cognitive and language phenomena exhibit quantum structures.

Additionally, Tomas Veloz is the founder and director of the Foundation for Interdisciplinary Development of Science, Technology and Arts (www.dicta.cl), a Chilean foundation which collaborates with CLEA and several other institutions worldwide to generate and disseminate integrated knowledge, and to develop projects with social impact.

Dr. Clément Vidal is a philosopher with a background in logic and cognitive sciences. He has published on topics such as the noosphere, ethics, and the search for technosignatures. He is involved in several research projects for Human Energy. In 2014, he authored The Beginning and the End: The Meaning of Life in a Cosmological Perspective and he is always eager to tackle big questions, bringing together areas of knowledge such as cosmology, physics, astrobiology, complexity science or evolutionary theory.

Dr. Natasha Vita-More is an Award Winning creative and futurist. She achieved a scientific discovery in the field of cryobiology, innovated the first AI-nanorobot body prototype, and co-pioneered a philosophical worldview. She is currently faculty, Geneva College Longevity Science, Distinguished Senior Fellow Center for Future Mind. A former Filmmaker-in-Residence, University of Colorado, she has been recognized by Brooks Museum and was awarded Space Camp Wings, U.S. Space & Rocket Center. She is featured in numerous televised documentaries and magazines on the ethical use of technology and evidence-based science in the field of healthy longevity and AI. Her work continues to develop themes for healthy longevity and social issues of humanity's future through NVM Productions, which she founded in 2024.