Featured Speaker Bios
Phillip Beesley
Architect and Installation Artist, University of Waterloo
Shima Beigi
CEO and Founder of Triple AI Therapeutics for Mindful Smart Cities and Senior Scientist at Human Energy
Jonathan Blake
Associate Director of Programs at the Berggruen Institute; directs the research projects and wider research agenda for the Planetary Program
Johan Bollen
Professor of Informatics and Cognitive Science, Indiana University Bloomington
Bob Chapman
Chairman and CEO of Barry Wehmiller
Anne Clin
Wikipedia editor and administrator (as "Risker")
John Cressler
Electrical and Computer Engineer, and Author, Georgia Institute of Technology
Ilia Delio
Theologian, Villanova University, Doctorate in Pharmacology, Founder and CEO of the Center for Christogenesis
Jacob Foster
Associate Professor of sociology at UCLA and co-Director of the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute
Zann Gill
A founder of GAIL (Generative AI Lab & Library). Former Research Scientist/ Program Developer at NASA.
John Haught
Theologian, Georgetown University
Sheila Hassell Hughes
Professor of English and former Dean of Liberal Arts at Saint Mary’s College of California
Michael Jacob
Assistant Professor at UCSF, Psychiatrist at the SFVA Hospital, and Researcher at Human Energy
Jay Jakub
Chief of Staff, Economics of Mutuality (EoM) and Executive Director, EoM Foundation
Robert Lawrence Kuhn
Public Intellectual, Author, and International Corporate Strategist; Creator, Writer and Host of Closer To Truth (PBS),
Elizabeth Lee
Vice President for Programs and Development at CyArk
Marta Lenartowicz
Cognitive-social scientist, Senior researcher at Centre Leo Apostel of the Free University of Brussels (CLEA-VUB), Contributor to Human Energy
Raphael Liogier
Sociologist and Philosopher, Institut d'Études Politiques d'Aix-en-Provence
Manasvi Lingam
Assistant Professor in Aerospace, Physics, and Space Sciences; Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the Florida Institute of Technology, and an affiliate Research Fellow at UT Austin
Wolfgang Leidhold
Political Scientist, Philosopher and Artist, University of Cologne
Kieth Lemna
Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology
Jennifer Morgan
President and founder of the Deeptime Network, award-winning author, storyteller, and educator
Parham Pourdavood
Cognitive Data Scientist and Researcher at Human Energy
Ellen Rigsby
Professor of Communication, Saint Mary's College of California
Louis Savary
Former Jesuit, Author, and Expert on the Spirituality of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Jeffrey Schloss
Distinguished Professor Biology and Walker Chair of Natural & Behavioral Sciences at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California, and Senior Scholar of BioLogos
Boris Shoshitaishvili
USC-Berggruen Fellow with a background in evolutionary biology, comparative literature, and classical studies
Gregory Stock
CEO, Socratic Sciences; Founding Co-Director, Precision Wellness Center, Icahn School of Medicine; Founding CEO Signum Biosciences; Best-Selling Author, HE advisor.
Chia-Hsiung Tze
Emeritus Professor of Physics in residence at Virginia Tech, and former Professor of Physics at Yale University
Clément Vidal
Author and Philosopher, Free University of Brussels and Human Energy
Claire Isabel Webb
Director of the Berggruen Institute’s Future Humans program
Robert Wright
Renowned journalist and author on evolution, society, philosophy, and religion. Founder and President of the NonZero Foundation and Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Blogginheads.tv