Speakers
We are grateful for the speakers who have contributed to making the Post-Industrial Forum a unique venue for discussions and connections that have a real impact.
Dr. Julie Albright
Digital Sociologist
USC
Grant Allen
General Partner
SE Ventures
David Ross Beatty
David Ross Beatty, CEO, Beatinvest Ltd.
Anne Boysen
Founder and CEO
After the Millennials
Andrew Bright
Managing Director
Woodside Capital
Dr. Yaron Brook
Chairman
Ayn Rand Institute
Denyse Cardozo
Fmr. CEO
Silicon Valley Forum
Kumardev Chatterjee
Founder
Unmanned Life
Steve Ciesinski
Past President and Senior Advisor
SRI International
Jason Crawford
Author
The Roots of Progress
Tim M. Crawford
CIO, Strategy Advisor
AVOA
Helen Disney
Founder and CEO UnblockedEvents
Clara Durodié
AI Strategist & Board Director
Cognitive Finance
Nick Elverston
Partner
Ashurst
Yossi Feinberg
Prof. of Management and Economics
Stanford GSB
Shawn Fitzgerald
Research Director
IDC
Ken Gatz
Founder & CEO
Proseeder Technologies
Dr. Amber Ghaddar
Founder
AllianceBlock
Nick Giannakakis
CIO
Motor Oil (Hellas) SA
Rei Goffer
Co-Founder/CSO
Tomorrow.io
Dr. Suran Goonatilake
Visiting Professor
Computer Science
Univ. College London
Alan Grogan
Executive Partner
IBM Global Business Services
Dr. Daniel Yar Hamidi
Prof., Entrepreneurship
University of Borås
Amar Hanspal
CEO
Bright Machines
Barbara Holzapfel
VP Education
Microsoft
Alexandra Johnson
Managing Director
HEED Capital
Eythor Ivar Jonsson
VP of Research
Post-Industrial Institute
Rimas Kapeskas
Operating Partner
Cambridge Capital
Laureen Knudsen
Chief Transformation Officer
Broadcom
Yosuke Kogure
Executive Director
Future Innovation Group
Nomura Holding America
Àrmann Kojic
CEO
Nanom
Manish Kothari
Past President, SRI
Founding Partner
First Spark Ventures
Chris Kunstadter
Global Head of Space
AXA XL
Mark LaCour
Editor-in-Chief
Oil & Gas Global Network
Alan Laubsch
CEO
Generation Blue
Genevieve Leveille
Founder and CEO
AgriLedger
Jonathan Levi
CEO
HACERA
Toby Lewis
CEO
Novum Insights
Dr. Ulf Lindqvist
Senior Technical Director
Computer Science Lab.
SRI Internatinoal
Dr. Edwin Locke
Dean’s Professor Emer.
Leadership & Motivation
University of Maryland
Peter Löfgren
SVP Global Startup Collaborations
ABB
Deborah Magid
Director of Strategy
IBM Ventures
Utpal Mangla
VP and Senior Partner
IBM Global Business Services
Robert Massoudi
Founder and CEO
Nu Axiom
Blaine Mathieu
CEO
Pratexo
Sergei Mitrofanov
CMO
Post-Industrial Institute
Dr. C. Moha
Fellow
IBM Research
Sam Nagar
SVP Factory Automation
Siemens
Jill Nephew
CEO
Inqwire
Frode Odegard
Chairman and CEO
Post-Industrial Institute
Clay Phillips
Executive Advisor
SRI International
James J. Piacentino
Global VP, Digital Industry Solutions
SAP
Taavi Rõivas
Fmr. Prime Minister
Estonia
Dr. Cristián Saracco
Founding Partner
Allegro 234
Dr. Evangelos Simoudis
Managing Director
Synapse Partners
Dr. Jim Spohrer
Director of Cognitive Open Technologies
IBM
Peter Marcotullio
VP of Commercial R&D
SRI International
John Suh
VP & Founding Director
New Horizons Studio
Hyundai Motor Group
Pete Swabey
Editorial Director, EMEA
The Economist Intelligence Unit
Fred Thiel
Chairman and CEO
Marathon Digital Holdings
Dr. Hans van Ees
Prof., Corp. Governance and Institutions
University of Groningen
Keith Weiner
CEO
Monetary Metals
Scott Williams
Program Director, Space
SRI International
Patrick Suel
President
Diamond Edge Ventures
Bruce Pittman
VP of Development
Skycorp
Head BNP Paribas C.Lab America
BNP Paribas Group
VP Innovation and Technology
Swisscom Silcon Valley Outpost
President, Commercialization Group
SRI International
Karen Myers
Director, AI Center
SRI International
Mike Tung
CEO
Diffbot
Dr. Amit Mulgaoknar
Director, Global Partnerships
SRI International
Col. David Vernal, USAF (ret.)
Sloan Fellow, Stanford GSB, fmr. National Security Council
Dr. Kai Goebel,
VP, Director of Intelligent Systems Lab
Xerox PARC (now part of SRI)
Sarah Luger
Principal, Technology Group
Orange Silicon Valley
Partner
Finistere Ventures
Dr. Trond Arne Undheim
Research Scholar, Stanford Existential Risk Initiative (SERI)
Dr. Pandian Angaiyan
Chief Technology Officer
Tech Mahindra
Deepam Mishra
Generative AI Innovation Leader and Strategic Advisor
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jim Glasgow
Cofounder and CTO
Unseen Technologies