Eric Schmidt, KBE, Chair and CEO of Relativity Space, is best known for his pivotal role in the growth of Google, where, as CEO and Chairman, he oversaw the company’s transformation from a small startup to one of the world’s most influential companies from 2001 to 2011. Under his leadership, alongside Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the company dramatically scaled its infrastructure and diversified its products, while maintaining a strong culture of innovation. Eric founded the Special Competitive Studies Project in 2021, a non-profit initiative focused on strengthening America’s long-term AI and technological competitiveness in national security, the economy, and society. Most recently in 2024, Eric and his wife Wendy co-founded Schmidt Sciences, a nonprofit organization working to advance science and technology that deepens human understanding of the natural world and develops solutions to global issues. He has written several acclaimed books, including his latest New York Times bestseller titled Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit (2024), co-written with the late Dr. Henry Kissinger and Craig Mundie, and is among the most prominent voices on technology, AI, business, and philanthropy.

Raj Gokal is the president of Solana Labs and co-founder of Solana, an open, interoperable and decentralized high performance blockchain network powering internet capital markets, payments, and crypto applications. Raj also serves on the board of the Solana Foundation. Prior to founding Solana, he focused on startups in behavioral health. Raj studied Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Peggy Johnson - Chief Executive Officer

As CEO, Johnson is leading Agility's next phase of growth, focusing on sales, strategic industry partnerships, future fundraising, and delivering robots at scale to meet overwhelming demand.

Before Agility, Johnson most recently served as CEO of spatial computing company Magic Leap, where she led the pivot from consumer to enterprise, reset and recapitalized the company, and launched Magic Leap 2, the leading AR headset for business. Previously, Johnson spent six years as Executive Vice President of Business Development at Microsoft, reporting directly to CEO Satya Nadella, where she was responsible for driving strategic partnerships and transactions to accelerate growth for the company and its customers. While at Microsoft, Johnson launched M12, the company's first corporate venture fund which in three years had added more than 80 companies to its portfolio. Prior to that, Johnson spent 24 years at Qualcomm, where she served as a member of the company's Executive Committee and held various leadership positions across engineering, sales, marketing, and business development. She was responsible for leading the Internet Services division, which launched the first mobile app downloading platform, BREW, in 2001. BREW enabled the download of billions of apps to mobile phones, which enhanced Qualcomm's chip sales and produced over $1B in revenue of app sales.

Dara Khosrowshahi is the CEO of Uber, where he has managed the company’s business in more than 70 countries around the world since 2017.

Dara was previously CEO of Expedia, which he grew into one of the world’s largest online travel companies. A seasoned executive with a background in both engineering and finance, Dara oversaw a number of acquisitions that bolstered Expedia’s offerings and aggressively invested in mobile, which now accounts for more than half of Expedia’s traffic. He was also beloved by Expedia’s employees and named one of the Highest Rated CEOs on Glassdoor. Dara was promoted to Expedia CEO after serving as the Chief Financial Officer of IAC Travel, a division of IAC, which purchased Expedia in 2002 and spun it off in 2005. He was also instrumental in the expansion of IAC’s portfolio of travel brands.

Before joining IAC, Dara served as Vice President of Allen & Company and spent a number of years as an analyst. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Expedia and Catalyst.org and was previously on the board of the New York Times Company. He’s a passionate advocate for refugees in crisis around the world, having himself left Iran during the Iranian Revolution at the age of 9.

Dara grew up in Tarrytown, New York, and received his bachelor’s degree in engineering from Brown University.

Kevin Weil is VP of OpenAI for Science, focused on building the next great scientific instrument: an AI-powered platform that accelerates scientific discovery. Previously, Kevin served as the Chief Product Officer at OpenAI, where he led the teams turning frontier models into products like ChatGPT, Codex, and the OpenAI API. 

Before joining OpenAI, Kevin was the President, Product and Business at Planet Labs. He was previously the co-founder of the Libra cryptocurrency and VP of Product for Novi at Facebook, VP of Product at Instagram and SVP of Product at Twitter. Earlier in his career, Kevin held software engineering and data science roles at Cooliris, Tropos Networks, Microsoft Research and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.

Kevin graduated summa cum laude in physics and mathematics from Harvard University and has an M.S. in physics from Stanford University. He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and serves on the boards of Cisco and The Nature Conservancy. In his spare time, he is an avid ultramarathon runner, racing distances up to 100 miles.

David A. Sinclair, A.O., Ph.D. is considered one of the world’s most influential scientists and a leading figure in the study of human longevity. He is a tenured Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA, USA) and Co-Founder & Co-Chief Editor of the scientific journal Aging.

Professor Sinclair’s pioneering work in genetics and aging biology has fundamentally shaped the world’s understanding of mechanisms of aging and age-related diseases. He is best known for his research on the molecular biology of aging, particularly the role of sirtuins, NAD+ metabolism, and epigenetic changes in regulating the aging process.

Professor Sinclair served as Founding Director of the Glenn Center for Biology of Aging Research at Harvard Medical School from 2005 – 2023 and has published over 400 articles that have been cited ~100,000 times. He is the inventor on more than 50 patents and has co-founded over a dozen successful companies.

Bernt has a Bachelor of Science degree focusing on Robotics and Nano Electronics from the University of Oslo. Bernt has several years of experience working on backend software systems for enterprises focusing on big data and customer predictions. Bernt then transitioned to work on embedded systems in everything from consumer electronics to medical systems.

In 1X, Bernt provides product leadership, as well as the technical direction of the company, in addition to company strategy and vision. Bernt balances his extensive technical knowledge with his user experience focus to direct the company to create safe, capable and affordable humanoid robots.

Tony Robbins is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and the world’s leading life and business strategist. For more than four decades, over 100 million people from 193 countries have experienced his live events, coaching, and personal development programs. He is the creator of the world’s most widely attended personal and professional development system.

Robbins is the author of eight internationally bestselling books, including four #1 New York Times bestsellers: Money: Master the Game, Unshakeable, Life Force, and The Holy Grail of Investing. He serves as chairman of a privately held holding company comprising more than 114 businesses with combined annual revenues exceeding $10 billion, and has been recognized by Fortune as the “CEO Whisperer.”

A trusted advisor to U.S. presidents, world-class athletes, entertainers, and billionaire entrepreneurs, Robbins is equally committed to global impact. Through his partnership with Feeding America and the 100 Billion Meals Challenge, he has helped deliver more than 62 billion meals to people in need. Through the Tony Robbins Foundation, he supports thousands of nonprofits, transforms lives through education and youth leadership programs, and provides daily access to clean water for hundreds of thousands of people in India.

David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc, is co-Founder & President of Every Cure and one of the youngest faculty members ever to receive tenure at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. A physician-scientist and patient battling a deadly disease, he discovered and repurposed a treatment that saved his own life—a story he chronicled in his national bestselling memoir Chasing My Cure, which is being adapted into a film by Forrest Gump producer Wendy Finerman. Dr. Fajgenbaum has since advanced 13 more repurposed treatments for cancers and rare diseases and co-founded Every Cure to unlock more hidden cures from existing medicines. Every Cure has received over $100M from ARPA-H and TED’s Audacious Project. He has been profiled by The New York Times, Good Morning America, TODAY, and Forbes 30 Under 30 and honored with awards including the Atlas Award alongside then VP Joe Biden, Philadelphia Citizen of the Year Award, and named to the 2025 TIME100 Health list of the world’s most influential people in health. Dr. Fajgenbaum earned a BS from Georgetown University, MSc from the University of Oxford, MD from the University of Pennsylvania, and MBA from Wharton.

Ben Lamm is the Co-Founder and CEO Of Colossal Biosciences, the world’s first de-extinction company. He is a serial technology entrepreneur driven to solve the most complex challenges facing our planet. For over two decades, Ben has built disruptive businesses that future-proof our world. In addition to leading and growing his own companies, he is passionate about emerging technology, science, space and climate change. Prior to Colossal, Ben served as the founder and CEO to a number of companies, including Hypergiant, an enterprise AI software company focused on critical infractures, space, and defense acquired by Trive Capital; Conversable, the leading conversational intelligence platform that helps brands reach customers through automated experiences acquired by LivePerson; and Chaotic Moon, a global creative technology powerhouse acquired by Accenture. He was also the Co-founder of Team Chaos, a consumer gaming company acquired by Zynga. Ben is a fellow and on the Board of Trustee at the Explorers Club, whose mission is to promote the scientific exploration of land, sea, air, and space by supporting research and education in the physical, natural, and biological sciences. He also serves as a Scientific Advisory Board member on the Planetary Society and sits on the Advisory Board for the Arch Mission.

Amjad Masad is a Jordanian American entrepreneur and engineer. He founded Replit, a cloud-based AI-powered software development platform, and one of the fastest growing developer communities in the world. Prior to his role at Replit, Amjad worked at Facebook, where he led the JavaScript infrastructure team and contributed to popular open-source developer tools. Additionally, he played a key role as a founding engineer at Codecademy, a prominent online coding school.

Dr. Amy B. Killen, M.D., is a leading physician, speaker, and entrepreneur on a mission to empower people to take control of how they age. Through her focus on longevity through the lens of reproductive aging, hormones, and sexual health, she illuminates the physiology that has historically been understudied and misunderstood - making complex science accessible and actionable.

A board-certified former emergency physician, Dr. Killen has dedicated the past 13 years to health optimization and regenerative medicine.  Dr. Killen is the co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Humanaut Health and the co-founder of the Human Optimization Project (HOP).   She and her colleague, Dr Harry Adelson, are the creators of the full-body stem cell makeover, the most comprehensive regenerative procedure available.  

Dr Killen lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with her family of five.

Andrew Yang is a serial entrepreneur who was a Democratic presidential candidate in 2020. He is the founder of Humanity Forward and Venture for America, and is also the CEO of Noble Mobile. His New York Times bestseller The War on Normal People helped introduce the idea of universal basic income into the mainstream, and his most recent book, Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy, became a national bestseller.

Van Jones is a U.S. media personality, entrepreneur and world-class changemaker. Jones has a rare track record of bringing people together to do hard things – in areas as diverse as clean energy solutions, criminal justice reform and racial inclusion in the tech sector. In 2007, Van was the primary champion of the Green Jobs Act, signed into law by George W. Bush. In 2009, he worked in the Obama White House as the Special Advisor for Green Jobs. In 2018, he helped pass the FIRST STEP Act, signed into law by Donald Trump; the New York Times calls that legislation the most substantial breakthrough in criminal justice in a generation. 

In 2021, Jones was the first recipient of Jeff Bezos’ Courage & Civility Award. He has since founded Dream Machine Innovation Lab and launched RAPPORT.co, which uses A.I. to increase firms’ EQ. A Yale Law School graduate, Van is a CNN host, an Emmy Award-winning producer, a 3X New York Times best-selling author and the creator of the Van Jones Substack.

Refik Anadol (b. 1985, Istanbul, Turkey) is an internationally renowned media artist, director, and pioneer in the aesthetics of data and machine intelligence. He is the Director and co-founder of Refik Anadol Studio in Los Angeles and teaches at UCLA’s Department of Design Media Arts from which he obtained a Master of Fine Arts. Refik Anadol Studio brings together a globally diverse team of designers, architects, data scientists, and researchers—originating from 10 countries and fluent in 15 languages—who share a deep commitment to inclusion, equity, and cross-cultural collaboration at every stage of artistic production. Anadol is also the co-founder of Dataland, the world’s first Museum of AI Arts.

Emad Mostaque is the founder and CEO of Intelligent Internet, where he is building an open agentic stack for sovereign AI. His team has released state-of-the-art reasoning datasets, medical models, and general-purpose agents as foundational building blocks for decentralized AI infrastructure. His work focuses on supporting society's transition to the Intelligence Age, when artificial intelligence surpasses human cognitive capabilities.

In his recent book, The Last Economy, Emad introduces Intelligent Economics, a comprehensive economic theory addressing value creation and human purpose in an era of cognitive abundance.

Previously, as founder of Stability AI, he led teams that developed groundbreaking generative AI models across image, video, 3D, and audio. These innovations, including the renowned Stable Diffusion, have been downloaded over 300 million times worldwide.

Before entering AI, Emad was a hedge fund manager specializing in global macro and emerging market strategies. He holds a degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Oxford University and serves on the advisory boards of EleutherAI and Render Network.

Nadia is the General Manager of Simulation & Optimization at SandboxAQ. Over her 15+ year career in biotech and regulatory affairs, she has led regulatory efforts obtaining, for both small and Fortune 100 companies, dozens of clearances in over 70 countries - including the CE mark for Google’s first ML/AI medical device. Nadia’s regulatory work intersects with a diverse background in life sciences product development, from combination devices at Johnson and Johnson to software as a medical device (SaMD) products at Google. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology from Rutgers University and a Master of Arts in Biotechnology from Columbia University.

Dhanush Radhakrishnan is a pioneering technology entrepreneur and scientist, best known for founding and leading Clone, the android company. As the CEO and Co-Founder of Clone, Radhakrishnan has played a critical role in advancing artificial muscle technology and creating the world’s first musculoskeletal androids.

Radhakrishnan fell in love with technology at a young age, and independently built a megawatt-scale plasma thruster when he was thirteen. As an undergraduate at NYU, he continued publishing plasma physics research in nuclear fusion before founding a Y Combinator-backed startup to make a deep learning-powered symptom checker.

Upon founding Clone in 2021, Dhanush began making progress toward his childhood dreams of lifelike androids and bladeless vertical takeoff and landing vehicle, and he has not looked back.

Alan Eustace retired as Senior Vice President of Knowledge in April 2015 after 13 years with Google.  His lifelong interest in flying, skydiving, and engineering led him to work with the world-class StratEx team to design, build, and fly, scuba-like system for the exploration of the Stratosphere.   In the final test of this system, Alan and the StratEX team set three new skydiving world records, including the highest exit altitude (135,899 feet, 41,422 meters).  Alan is currently the CEO of Aqua Satellite, a small company building constellations of low cost, long duration, intelligent, autonomous satellites for undersea research, exploration, and monitoring.

Anish Acharya is an entrepreneur and general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. At a16z, he focuses on consumer investing, including AI-native products and companies that will help usher in a new era of abundance. Anish first joined the firm in 2019 with a focus on fintech, often investing in B2C technologies. He currently serves on the boards of Clutch, Deel, HappyRobot, Mosaic, Method, The Coterie, and Titan. He is also a board observer at Arc, Carbonated, and [untitled]. 

Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, Anish founded and sold two consumer companies, successfully navigating multiple technology platform shifts.

Anish graduated from the University of Waterloo and lives in the Bay Area with his family. He has a passion for music and mixes tracks in his spare time.

Dr. Alexander D. Wissner-Gross is an award-winning computer scientist, entrepreneur, investor, and advisor. He serves as Founder and Managing Partner of Reified, and has taught at Harvard and MIT. He has received 128 major distinctions, authored 24 publications, been granted 26 issued, pending, and provisional patents, and founded, advised, and invested in more than 40 technology companies. In 1998 and 1999, respectively, he won the USA Computer Olympiad and the Intel Science Talent Search. In 2003, he became the last person in MIT history to earn a triple major, with bachelor's degrees in Physics, Electrical Science and Engineering, and Mathematics, and graduated first in his class from the MIT School of Engineering with a Marshall Scholarship. In 2007, he completed his Ph.D. in Physics at Harvard, where his research on neuromorphic computing, machine learning, and programmable matter was awarded the Hertz Foundation's Doctoral Thesis Prize.

A thought leader in artificial intelligence and cyber-physical systems, he co-hosts the Moonshots Podcast and is a contributing author of the New York Times Science Bestseller, This Idea Must Die, and the Amazon #1 New Release, What to Think About Machines That Think. A popular TED speaker, his talks have been viewed more than 2 million times and translated into 27 languages. His work has been featured in more than 200 press outlets worldwide, including The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, CNN, USA Today, and Wired.

Bill Gross is a lifelong entrepreneur who has founded over 150 companies in 50 years, with more than 50 achieving successful IPOs or acquisitions. He is known for pioneering the pay-per-click keyword model for online advertising, which became foundational for Google’s business model.

With over 100 patents to his name, Bill is currently focused on climate mitigation technologies and artificial intelligence. He serves on the Board of Trustees at Caltech, where he also leads the Technology Transfer and Innovation Committee.

A frequent speaker at TED, the World Economic Forum, and DLD in Munich, Bill teaches entrepreneurship classes and aims to address global challenges through technological innovation. His dream is to make a positive impact on pressing world issues by fostering innovation that spreads globally.

Jeremy is responsible for strategy, vision and operating execution at Circle. He brings more than two decades of experience building and leading global internet software platforms, including founder and CEO of Brightcove, technologist and entrepreneur in residence at General Catalyst, CTO of Macromedia, and co-founder and CTO of Allaire Corporation.

Ackels Chen is Co-founder of Unitree Robotics. He also serves as a member of the Emerging Technologies Advisory Committee at the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT), Vice President of the Zhejiang Provincial Human Resources and Social Security Association, and an Executive Member of the China Computer Federation Intelligent Robotics Professional Committee.

With years of experience in the intelligent hardware industry, he possesses extensive expertise in engineering development and product marketing. He received his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering and Automation from Zhejiang University of Science and Technology and his Master’s degree in Precision Machinery from Shanghai University. He won the Gold Award, the highest honor, at the 7th China International "Internet+" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition.

He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Zhejiang University. His research focuses on CAD geometry engines, physical simulation, and robot simulation training platforms.

Bob Mumgaard leads the strategic vision and direction of Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), the world’s leading and best-capitalized fusion energy company. Under his leadership, CFS is advancing the commercialization of clean, abundant fusion energy to accelerate the global energy transition.

A co-founder of CFS, Mumgaard has grown the company to more than 800 employees and raised over $2 billion from leading climate and strategic investors, including Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Khosla Ventures, The Engine, Eni, Equinor, Temasek, and Tiger Global. CFS is pioneering a high-field approach to fusion with the goal of delivering reliable, scalable fusion power.

Mumgaard completed his PhD at MIT, where his research focused on high-temperature superconducting tokamaks and fusion system design. As an MIT fellow, he worked at the intersection of entrepreneurship and fusion science, developing partnership and financing models that helped move fusion from the laboratory toward commercialization—efforts that directly led to the formation of Commonwealth Fusion Systems.

Jack Hidary leads SandboxAQ, which focuses on enterprise SaaS solutions at the convergence of AI and Quantum tech.

He is the author of Quantum Computing: An Applied Approach, published by Springer. This work, now in its Second Edition, is one of the leading textbooks in the field and is used both in undergraduate and PhD programs, as well as corporate training sessions. Hidary also co-authored a series of AI research papers with collaborators at MIT.

Jack is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of several tech companies, including EarthWeb/Dice (NYSE: DHX), which he led from its founding through IPO. He also co-founded Vista Research which was acquired by S&P/ McGraw-Hill. He is a trustee of the X Prize Foundation and has been a board member of Trickle Up, which helps thousands of entrepreneurs start small businesses each year.

Jack has been recognized for his leadership by organizations such as the World Economic Forum and is a member of YPO. He studied neuroscience at Columbia and subsequently received the Stanley Fellowship in Clinical Neuroscience at NIH, where he worked on functional brain imaging and artificial neural networks.

As a pioneering entrepreneur and investor, Dave Blundin has dedicated his career to advancing and commercializing artificial intelligence. He was the first at MIT to build large-scale neural networks and among the earliest globally to commercialize them. His early work led to his development of neural network quantization in 1992, making AI commercially viable. A 23-time serial entrepreneur, his first company, DataSage, which utilized this groundbreaking AI, was acquired in a deal valued at over $1 billion in today’s dollars.

Today, Dave is the Founder and Managing Partner of VC firm Link Ventures and its venture creation lab, Link Studio, fueling the next wave of AI innovation by investing in deep-tech companies such as Mercor and Farsight AI. Beyond business, he also shapes the next generation of future entrepreneurs as an instructor for MIT’s “Foundations of AI Ventures” course. Additionally, he serves on the board of the XPRIZE Foundation and co-hosts the Moonshots Podcast remaining an influential voice in the field he helped create.

Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author, an award-winning journalist, and the Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective. He is one of the world’s leading experts on human performance.

Bill Barhydt is an American entrepreneur, investor, and financial-technology executive best known as the founder and CEO of Abra, a global digital-asset bank and wealth management company. He founded Abra in 2014 to make open, borderless financial services accessible worldwide, spanning crypto trading, custody, lending, yield, and institutional solutions.

Before Abra, Barhydt held senior roles across technology and financial services, including early work in systems engineering and the emerging consumer Internet, with experience at firms such as Goldman Sachs, NASA and Netscape. He has been a longtime advocate for Bitcoin, decentralized finance, and monetary systems that expand individual freedom.

Barhydt is a frequent speaker and media commentator on crypto, Internet and AI software, macroeconomics, and the future of money, bringing a global perspective shaped by decades of building through multiple technology and market cycles.

Keith Ferrazzi is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and renowned global thought leader in the future of work and leadership. As Founder and Chairman of Ferrazzi Greenlight and its research institute Go Forward to Work, he works with some of the world's most prominent organizations to maximize team performance and achieve extraordinary outcomes. Formerly, he was the CMO of Deloitte and Starwood Hotels. 

Keith is a #1 New York Times best-selling author of Who’s Got Your Back, Never Eat Alone, and Leading Without Authority. His 20-year history of coaching c-suite executive teams has made him an agent of transformation and among the world’s greatest and most sought-after coaches.

Ramez Naam is a computer scientist, award-winning author of 5 books, startup investor, and expert on AI, disruption, and clean energy. Ramez is the founder of Planetary VC which invests in transformative companies in energy, AI, and other disruptive sectors. For the past 15 years, Ramez has been one of the most accurate forecasters of solar, batteries, electric vehicles, and other clean energy technologies. He’s spoken around the world on the future of energy and AI. He’s the author of the award-winning Nexus trilogy of science fiction novels as well as non-fiction books on human enhancement and climate and energy innovation. Earlier in his career, he spent 13 years at Microsoft, where he led teams working on search, AI, and cloud computing. He holds more than 20 patents, many of them co-authored with Bill Gates.

Steve Brown is a tech innovator, developer, and AI expert who has founded multiple successful startups that were acquired by global companies. As Chief AI Officer and product leader at The Great University, he leads the development of cutting-edge AI applications that transform education through adaptive, personalized learning. Previously, he served as Chief AI Officer at Abundance360, developing advanced AI tools focused on mindset growth and strategic planning. As founder and CEO of Ignite Channel, Steve produced award-winning documentaries that explore the intersection of technology, art, and society. Holding over 300 patents, his extensive career includes pioneering solutions in AI, media, and health technology, positioning him as a distinguished leader in these fields.