Cecilia Kang is a technology reporter at The New York Times, where she covers the intersection of technology, policy, and politics, including AI regulation, antitrust efforts, and U.S.-China tech relations. She coauthored the acclaimed book An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination and has received George Polk and Loeb awards for her work. https://www.nytimes.com/by/cecilia-kang

Patrick Achi is the Former Prime Minister of the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire. Patrick Achi was appointed Prime Minister, Chief of Government, from March 2021 to October 2023. From January 2017 to March 2021, he was Secretary General of the Presidency and Executive Secretary of the National Council for Economic Policy, in charge of preparing the Vision 2030 Strategic Development Plan of the country, with key emphasis on growth, food security, youth employment, human resources, and environment. During the preceding 17 years, from 2000 to 2017, he was Minister of Economic Infrastructure in charge of roads, water infrastructures, ports, airports, and railways development. He developed close ties with key DFI’s and implemented major PPP projects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Achi

Franklin Keller is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Talos Asset Management, a Technology-focused hedge fund. Prior to founding Talos, he was Investment Director for the CHIPS Program Office (CPO) within the Department of Commerce – a $53bn grant and $75bn loan authority created by the bipartisan CHIPS Act of 2022 to bring semiconductor manufacturing back to America. Before joining the CPO, Mr. Keller was Associate Portfolio Manager at Ashler Capital (a Citadel business) focused on technology, a role he served from 2019-23. He was the Semiconductor Sector Head at Millennium Management from 2016-18 and started his investing career as an analyst at Balyasny Asset Management, where he worked from 2014-16. Prior to joining the buyside, he worked in sell-side equity research at Morgan Stanley from 2013-14 and Lehman Brothers / Barclays from 2008-13, covering semiconductors. https://jrc.princeton.edu/speakers/franklin-keller

Happy Buzaaba is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University's Center for Digital Humanities, focusing on developing technologies for low-resource African languages.He earned his Ph.D. in Systems and Information Engineering from the University of Tsukuba, where he specialized in machine learning and computational linguistics. https://buzaabah.github.io/

Noah Broestl is a Partner and Associate Director of Responsible AI at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), focusing on implementing ethical AI frameworks across various industries. Prior to joining BCG, he spent 13 years at Google, contributing to projects in vendor management, infrastructure engineering, abuse response, and artificial intelligence. Academically, Noah holds a Master's in Practical Ethics from the University of Oxford, where he explored topics including climate ethics. He is also a member of the Green Software Foundation's Steering Committee, contributing to sustainable software development practices. https://github.com/orgs/Green-Software-Foundation/discussions/135

Joshua New is the Director of Policy for SeedAI, responsible for SeedAI’s public policy thought leadership. Previously, Joshua led the public policy portfolio for generative AI and AI safety, open innovation, and other technology and science policy issues at IBM. At IBM, Joshua helped launch the AI Alliance, an international community focused on developing AI collaboratively, transparently, and with a focus on safety, ethics, and the greater good, and served as co-chair of the AI Alliance’s policy working group. Prior to IBM, Joshua was a Senior Policy Analyst at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation’s (ITIF) Center for Data Innovation, where he focused on AI, emerging data-driven technologies, and open innovation.

Luke Chan is the Chief of Staff at Cofactor, which builds AI to be healthcare's first true financial intelligence layer. They help providers tackle their most complex denials so that they can focus on what really matters. https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukemchan/

Gabriel Daly is a legal advisor and Associate General Counsel at the United States Department of Energy. His speciality lies at the intersection of law, energy systems, and power-hungry AI, where he focuses on the challenge of supplying modern AI technologies with the resources they need to function while making these systems more energy efficient overall. https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabriel-daly-0527b423/

Akash Kapur is an academic and writer specializing in data policy, Internet governance, digital public infrastructure, and digital inclusion. He is a senior fellow at The GovLab at NYU and a founding member of the Academic Advisory Council for Krea University in Chennai. Kapur has consulted for organizations including UNDP and the Markle Foundation, bringing expertise in technology policy and governance. A former columnist for The New York Times, he contributes regularly to The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and The Economist. He is the author of Better to Have Gone and India Becoming, both named New York Times Editor’s Choices. Kapur holds a B.A. in Social Anthropology from Harvard and a D.Phil. in Law from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. https://cgi.princeton.edu/people/akash-kapur