Jim Stolze is the founder of Aigency, a platform that enables Artificial Intelligence experiments for corporates, using algorithms and software created by PHD's, hackers and startups.

After studying at VU University Amsterdam, Stolze earned his MBA from the Lemniscaat Business School. The master's thesis in which he researched the relationship between Internet Usage and Well-being caught international attention and was featured on CNN.

After a visit to the TED conference in 2008 Jim Stolze became an active leader in the TEDx community. Under his leadership dozens of events have taken place under the brand of TEDxAmsterdam with an international cast of speakers and innovative ad campaigns. He also played an active part in TEDxBinnenhof, TEDxAruba, TEDxMaastricht, TEDxMuscat and many TEDxYouth events. In 2012 he moved for five months to Doha (Qatar) to work for TED and the Doha Film Institute and help set up an organization that fosters TED's mission of 'ideas worth spreading'.

In 2016 -together with his team- he organized the biggest match making event for startups, investors, corporates and developers. Startup Fest Europe took place between 24 - 28 May 2016 and featured speakers like Tim Cook (Apple), Eric Schmidt (Alphabet), Travis Kalanick (Uber) and Nathan Blecharczyk (AirBnB).

Since 2017 he also teaches Entrepreneurship in Data Science at the University of Amsterdam (Uva) and JADS in Tilburg.

Jim serves as a speaker and moderator in Singularity University. At the Program he will guide us through Exponentials, Singularity University tools and frameworks, and will be the engaging moderator of the first 2 days.

Jaya Baloo, currently Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Avast Software, has worked in the cybersecurity area for nearly 20 years.

She won the Cyber Security Executive of the year award in 2015 and is one of the top 100 influencers in the field. Jaya frequently speaks at security conferences on subjects around lawful interception, mass surveillance, cryptography. She is a faculty member of the Singularity University and a member of various infosec boards. Expert on quantum computing, Jaya is a quantum ambassador of KPN Telecom and a Vice Chair of the Quantum Flagship Strategic Advisory Board of the EU Commission.

Patrick van der Pijl is a Designer, Strategic smart ass and Creator. Patrick is the founder and CEO of Business Models Inc, a global design company on strategy and innovation.

Patrick helps multinational corporations, governmental agencies, NGOs, and startups understand, design, prototype and scale new business models for exponential growth and impact. Patrick is the coauthor of Design a Better Business: New Mindset, Skills and Tools for Innovation and Strategy and producer of the worldwide bestseller book Business Model Generation. His company Business Models Inc. is the proud winner of the Australian Good Design Pioneer Award and American Design Management Institute award.

Nadine is a synthetic biologist and passionate about designing life through genetic engineering. She received her Master Degree in Life Science & Technology from Delft University of Technology and is currently pursuing her PhD at INSERM in Paris where she works on drug discovery for tuberculosis.

In parallel to her scientific work, she is actively bridging the world of science with the business and society. In 2011, she co-founded the science communication agency Science Matters to support scientific institutions with the communication of their research to the public and develop education to enthuse both children and adults about science. More recently, she serves as Vice President of Hello Tomorrow, a Paris-based non-profit organization that helps science entrepreneurs in their journey to bringing laboratory inventions to the market.

Amin is the CEO of T Labs. He was formerly the director of strategy and Vice President of Strategic Relations at Singularity University. He brings a unique set of technological, entrepreneurial and policy perspectives to the dialogue of innovation on campus.

Before Singularity, Amin founded for-profit and social impact organizations in a range of domains including: artificial intelligence, peer to peer lending, bitcoin, human rights, international development, carbon offsetting, and solar energy. Google Search ranks him as the world’s best guitar player – a title he readily rejects. In addition to his work at Singularity, he is building the World’s first hedge fund for the poor, as well as Reversopedia – a reverse encyclopedia composed of things we know we don’t know. Amin has a degree in artificial intelligence from the University of British Columbia, an MBA from Stanford, and an MPA in economic policy from Harvard. He attended Harvard and Stanford concurrently and graduated an Arjay Miller Scholar.

Fabio is the country manager for Microsoft Consulting & Services in Italy. In these years, he led a profound business transformation for several large customers, centered on Artificial Intelligence and Data-driven business models. Thanks to this, his team won for two consecutive years the EMEA Award for Digital Transformation.

Before arriving in Microsoft, Fabio was Vice President at Capgemini, where he led Capgemini Digital and M2M. In addition, Fabio was part of Capgemini Global Experts on Artificial Intelligence and IoT. Previously, he was an Associate at McKinsey & Co, where he mainly worked on Business Digital Transformations. Fabio professional career started in Ericsson as Account Executive and as Project Manager for 16 different markets in three different continents.
Fabio has an Engineering Degree in Information Technology from Milan and a Telecommunications Engineering degree from Stockholm, as well as several professional certifications. He worked for several years in Scandinavia, North & Central Europe, United States and Canada. He is an Extended Faculty at MIP Politecnico di Milano and frequent speaker at business and technology conferences, where he addresses opportunities & challenges raised by Artificial Intelligence and exponential technologies, including societal and ethical perspectives.

Nicola is the Director of UK's National Innovation Centre for Ageing (NICA) a world-leading organisation, created with a £40 million investment from UK Government and Newcastle University, to help create a world in which we all live better, for longer. Before he was the AI Ethics Lead at MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab and Aging & Longevity SME in IBM Research in Cambridge (USA).

Nicola is an author, teacher, applied research scientist and TEDx speaker. Trained in social studies and business communication, he holds a decade of experience in research on supporting older adults’ autonomy and independence. Before then, he served as creative director launching, among others, the Tin.it brand and caring for the whole communication spectrum of Microsoft Italia. As Director of the IBM Human Centric Solution Center he and his team delivered several digital innovation projects at global level. Before moving to the US, he contributed to the launch of Tinaba.com and has been one of the co-founders of TAG Innovation School. He is the author of “Immortali”, “Le Infiltrate”, “Boomerang”, and “Lavorare o Collaborare” all published by Egea.

Carlo van de Weijer (1966) has a Master degree in Mechanical Engineering from the TU Eindhoven and a PhD degree with honours from Technical University in Graz. He carries a broad experience in the automotive industry with a.o. executive positions at Siemens and TomTom.

Currently he is director of the Strategic Area Smart Mobility at Eindhoven University of Technology. He advises ministries and industries around the world on future mobility policy and he is a member of the supervisory board of several high-tech companies (NXP semiconductors, Prodrive technologies, VADO group) and start-ups (a.o. driveamber.com, spike.global and lightyear.one). He is a weekly columnist in a leading financial newspaper and an international speaker on exponential technology and the future of high-tech.

Sara is an experienced entrepreneur, thought leader and disrupter in the food ecosystem and security programs. As a seasoned growth expert, she works with globally recognized high-profile think tanks on setting the agenda for the sustainable food industry.

Described as a game-changer who knows how to apply radical change tactics for outstanding results, she has a flair for exploration and creative solutions.

She’s often a sparring partner of key decision-makers in business and government institutions.

For the last 10 years, Sara’s focused on inspiring and empowering creative and responsible food entrepreneurs through educational programs and disruptive innovation experiences.

She is the founder and director of Future Food: a for-purpose organization facilitating evolving positive change in life on earth, promoting food innovation as a strategic element to achieve sustainable and impactful growth. Her mission is to take food system leaders, youth and purpose driven entrepreneurs to the next level of achievement through education, research projects, and disruptive innovation experiences.

Lars is an author on subjects of science and technology as well as Head of Alternative Risk Premia at GAM. Prior to his post at GAM he was the Founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Alternative Beta Partners AG in Baar, Switzerland, from 2010 to 2015. He had served Partners Group AG as a Partner since January 2002 where he built the alternative beta business and the hedge fund risk management infrastructure.

Prior to joining Partners Group, he co-founded saisGroup, a hedge funds asset management firm established by the former alternative investment strategies team at Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM), where he was responsible for risk management. Lars started his finance career in 1997 at the quantitative research firm Olsen & Associates AG in Zurich after his post doctorate research in theoretical physics. Lars is the author of numerous books on hedge funds and a frequent speaker at industry conferences and an author of research articles in leading academic journals. He studied physics and philosophy at the University of Bonn in Germany and Ecole Polytechnique, in Paris and holds a doctorate degree in theoretical physics from the Max-Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, where he further performed post doctoral studies, and a master's degree in physics from the University of Bonn. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Financial Risk Manager (FRM) designations.

Arash Aazami (1977) is the founder of the Internet of Energy Initiative, and mentors in social entrepreneurship at INSEAD Business School in Paris. He pioneered in online tech since the ‘90s, was the founder of the world’s first energy company to accept digital currencies as a form of payment, and his “Path to Zero” business model was awarded by MIT in 2014.

What Arash dreams, he develops into realities. Touring as a musician, pioneering in online tech, hitting rock bottom, and climbing back up again. Arash’ life journey gave him an uncanny ability to rethink, re-invent, disrupt even himself, and turn crises into opportunities. Arash lives by his personal motto: dream.develop.do.

Laila Pawlak is the co-founder & CEO of SingularityU Nordic as well as a faculty member and moderator at Singularity University. As the CEO of SingularityU Nordic, Laila heads up the +7,000 square meter SingularityU Nordic innovation campus based in Copenhagen that offers a variety of education programs, accelerators, a makerspace, tech lab, bio lab, as well as a co-working space for both startups and corporates leveraging exponential technologies for positive impact.

Laila is passionate about innovation through human-centered design. Along with her partner Kris Østergaard, she is the author of The Fundamental 4s: How to Design Extraordinary Customer Experiences in an Exponential World as well as the Danish version of the bestseller Exponential Organizations. Laila has also founded the highly successful accelerator thinkubator, a corporate, crowdfunded accelerator program that supports corporates to work with entrepreneurs and establish their own incubator to kickstart innovation, leverage technology, and deep dive into the exponential mindset.

Similarly, she co-founded the award-winning innovation hub DARE2mansion; a professional playground in Copenhagen, which serves as an incubator, co-working, and event space where entrepreneurs, companies, and academia come together to create disruptive businesses and scale positive impact. Laila has been awarded the prestigious Experience Management Achievement Award, has been recognized as one of the top 100 most talented business executives in Denmark, and has been nominated for Female Entrepreneur of the Year twice. She is an active angel investor, board member and advisor to politicians and organizations.

Kris Østergaard is the co-founder and Chief Learning & Innovation Officer of SingularityU Nordic, a country partner of Singularity University, as well as a faculty member of Singularity University. Kris is the author of the business book Transforming Legacy Organizations and also the co-author of The Fundamental 4s: How to Design Extraordinary Customer Experiences in an Exponential World. He is also a Certified Experience Economy Expert and the first recipient of the prestigious Experience Management Achievement Award outside of the US.

Together with his partner Laila Pawlak, Kris launched thinkubator – a corporate, crowd funded incubator that supports corporates to work with entrepreneurs and establish their own incubator to kick start innovation, leverage technology, and deep dive into the exponential mindset. He has more than 15 years of research experience with a primary specialization in qualitative methodologies and gaining insights into the foundation of strategy building, designing extraordinary customer experiences, and affecting human behavior in a positive way.

Kris is a sought-after speaker and facilitator primarily around corporate innovation, exponential organizations and innovation in legacy organizations. He is also an advisor, board member and investor to a number of startups, certified coach, NLP Business Practitioner, LEGO Serious Play facilitator, and frequent writer and blogger on disruptive business, innovating on the edges, exponential organizations, innovation in legacy organizations and customer experiences.