Sam Gregory is an internationally recognized, award-winning human rights advocate and technologist and expert on smartphone witnessing, deepfakes, media authenticity and generative AI. He has over twenty years experience at the forefront of practices, impact and innovations in video, technology, human rights, civic participation and media.

In 2018, Sam initiated the first globally focused effort to 'Prepare, Don't Panic' (gen-ai.witness.org) around deepfakes and generative AI images/video and is widely known and consulted as an advocate, researcher and speaker on deepfakes, Generative AI's promise and perils, innovation in how to understand media authenticity and provenance, and emerging forms of mis/disinformation.

Sam specializes in foresight and strategic innovation with a track record in anticipating and proactively responding to pivotal shifts in use of cellphones and social media, citizen journalism, live-streaming, and AI. For the past twelve years he has worked on emerging technologies as they impact grassroots media and democratic accountability.

He is currently the Executive Director of WITNESS, a global human rights and civic journalism network which helps people use video and technology to defend human right. As an organizational leader he has overall responsibility for a team of 50 and over $6million budget. He has successfully led WITNESS through a series of strategic shifts and major growth in staff and budget.

Sam has testified to the US Senate on AI, spoken at Davos and the White House and was a 2012-17 Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. From 2018-21 he co-chaired the Partnership on AI’s Expert Group on AI and the Media. Sam has served on the Technology Advisory Board of the International Criminal Court, Twitter Trust & Safety Council and led the Threats and Harms Taskforce within the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA). Among other fellowships/affiliations are Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Resident and IFTF Future for Good Fellow.

Quoted regularly in major media worldwide, he has written for WIRED and The Hill and been interviewed by NPR, BBC, Al-Jazeera, The New York Times, Washington Post, MIT Tech Review, and The Economist, among other media. Sam was the lead editor of Video for Change: A Guide for Advocacy and Activism (Pluto Press).

An experienced trainer and facilitator, Sam has led workshops around the globe, worked with community-based human rights groups on campaigns in Asia and Latin America. From 2010-2018 Sam taught the first graduate level course at Harvard on participatory media and human rights.

Sam has co-produced a wide range of advocacy videos with WITNESS partners and supported more than 20 impact campaigns that have screened at the UN, US Congress, and UK Parliament, and which have secured advocacy goals in multiple countries and policy contexts. He helped co-found the global field-building Video for Change network and collaborated with colleagues to initiate WITNESS’ work on the emerging field of citizen media as evidence.

Sam has co-created pioneering and innovative approaches for how technology can better serve activists including the curation of civilian witnessing efforts through the YouTube Human Rights Channel and the WITNESS Media Lab, and the award-winning ObscuraCam and ProofMode projects with the Guardian Project. These efforts have contributed to impactful outcomes such as the introduction of a ‘visual anonymity and blurring’ function on YouTube and the development of responsible standards for media authenticity at the C2PA.

He ​has published in Journalism, Journal of Human Rights Practice, Information, Communication and Society, Fiber Culture, NECSUS and American Anthropologist. A current PhD student at the University of Westminster, he is a graduate of Oxford University and the Harvard Kennedy School.

Kristin Groos Richmond founded Revolution Foods in 2005 with Kirsten Tobey to transform the way we feed our students. Kristin continues to lead the growth of the company, which now serves over one million freshly prepared meals every week, across the country and recently, into grocery stores. Prior to founding Revolution Foods, Kristin’s career spanned from corporate finance to education reform including co-founding the Kenya Community Center for Learning and serving as Vice President at RISE. Kristin was on the White House Council for Community Solutions and is an Aspen Institute Entrepreneurial Leaders In Public Education Fellow, an Education Pioneers Fellow and an Ashoka Fellow. She is a board member of Lighthouse Community Charter School and UC Berkeley’s Global Social Venture Competition. Kristin was named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and, with Kirsten, is one of Time Magazine's Education Activists of 2011.

Fernando Grostein Andrade is a Brazilian filmmaker that directed “Abe”, starring Noah Schnapp (Stranger Things), Seu Jorge (City of God) and Mark Margolis (Breaking Bad). “Abe” has been accepted into 27 festivals, premiering at Sundance and won the Children Jury Award at the 31st Kinder Film Festival in Vienna and the Audience Award for Best Narrative at the Washington Jewish Film Festival. The film will be theatrically released in 38 countries in 2020. Fernando has moved to Los Angeles and is represented by Untitled Entertainment. Fernando created and directed Quebrando o Tabu, a film that discusses alternative solutions to the war on drugs featuring 6 chiefs of state, including Jimmy Carter and Fernando Henrique Cardoso. The film was distributed in 22 countries and became a 2 season 10-episode TV series, show-run by Fernando and received the Mipcom Diversify TV Excellence Award in Cannes. “Quebrando o Tabu” also spun off into an online media channel with 10 million followers becoming the major human rights internet outlet in Brazil with the biggest engagement rate on facebook among all Brazilian media. Fernando was also one of the idealizers of Carcereiros, a 2017 MIPTV drama award-winning TV series, of which he directed 5 episodes. Fernando was a member of the jury of “É Tudo Verdade" as well as the Netflix Prize for Brazilian cinema. He reactivated a theater group formed by inmates inside a maximum-security penitentiary called “Do Lado de Ca”, later cast in many productions. Fernando co founded “Mapa Educação”, a youth movement that advocates for quality in public education in Brasil and directed the documentary “Wandering Heart”, with Caetano Veloso and special appearances of Almodóvar, Antonioni and Giselle Bündchen. With a growing online presence, Fernando coming out video on YouTube had 250k views and started an online debate about acceptance in Brazil.

Informed by his twenty-five years of experience in turnarounds, restructuring and capital formation in Fortune 50 and Forbes 50 contexts, Sanjay provides thought-provoking insight on matters of finance, strategy and governance across a range of disciplines, including family office, private equity, venture capital, corporate development, governance, and business ethics,

Sanjay earned his AB in Philosophy from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and his MBA from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. He also studied Global Leadership and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Leadership at the Darden School of Business, Venture Capital, Private Equity and Strategic Financial Analysis at Harvard Business School, and Sustainability Studies at Stanford University.

2016, elected Lieutenant Governor, at the age of 35. Had previously served in the State House of Representatives and the State Senate, as Democratic Whip and a member of the Democratic leadership team. As Lt. Governor, he is President of the State Senate, serves as Acting Governor whenever the governor leaves the state, and oversees an agency whose key issues include economic development, trade, and higher education. Currently, Co-Chair of the Democratic Lieutenant Governors Association. A three-time cancer survivor, has been fully blind since age eight. Parents immigrated to the US from Iran; the first and only Iranian-American to hold statewide elected office in the United States. Graduate, Columbia University, Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and Yale Law School. Former Editor, Yale Law Journal. Practiced law at Perkins Coie and served as Distinguished Lawmaker in Residence at Seattle University Law School. Truman Scholar, Soros Fellow, and member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Habib is a tech entrepreneur, currently CEO of Wamda who aims to inspire, connect and empower entrepreneurs in the MENASA region. He is also the founder of Yamli.com a startup empowering the Arabic language on the web and YallaStartup an NGO that fosters early stage entrepreneurship in the MENA region. In 2009, the World Economic Forum recognized Habib as a Young Global Leader and the ArabianBusiness named him one of the most influential Arabs under 30. He currently serves on the Global Agenda Council on fostering entrepreneurship. During the July of 2006 war he started Relief Lebanon to support relief operations in Lebanon an effort that raised more than US$ 2 million in individual donations. Habib also co-founded INLET to leverage the North American expat community to give back to entrepreneurship in the Arab world. Habib is an adviser to several startups and non-profits and often speaks about early stage development and entrepreneurship. He holds a Bachelor of Computer and Communication Engineering from the American University in Beirut and a Master's in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.

CEO of Nonviolent Initiative for Democracy Inc. (NID)
Dr. Fatemeh Haghighatjoo an expert in Iran’s internal affairs and an advocate of human rights, women’s rights, and democracy in Iran, was a member of Iran’s reformist parliament from 2000-2004. Her current project is women for public office.

Kim Hallwood is a sustainability professional who is passionate about using business as a catalyst for positive, long-lasting change. As a member of HSBC Bank Canada’s Executive Committee and HSBC’s global Corporate Sustainability Executive Committee, Kim shapes the development and leads the local execution of a sustainability strategy for one of the world's largest banking and financial services organizations. Under her leadership, the bank has been consistently recognized as one of Canada’s best corporate citizens and is actively managing the risks and opportunities presented by the transition to a low carbon economy. Kim has served as Director on the HSBC Global Asset Management (Canada) Board since 2020.
Kim is a World Economic Forum (WEF) Young Global Leader. Kim has been recognized among BIV’s 500 most influential business leaders in British Columbia, WXN’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada and Canada's Clean50 Emerging Leaders. She is Executive Sponsor of the bank’s national Balance Network which supports the recruitment, development, advancement and engagement of a gender-balanced workforce. Kim holds an MBA (Distinction) and various professional sustainability certifications.

Senior Director, Office of Strategic Affairs, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Court. Role includes analysis of social and economic developments globally and locally and drafting of publications and white papers to influence policy making. manages philanthropic initiatives addressing global health and human development issues. Prior to joining the Crown Prince Court, worked at Booz and Company as part of the public sector practice team focusing on a wide range of public policy issues. Also worked as an economist with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). Has authored and co-authored several papers, including an IMF paper on the determinants of public-private partnerships. Author of books: ?Looking Ahead: The 50 Trends that Matter?; "Looking Ahead: The Sustainable Global Agenda"; and ?The Giving World: How maximizing three financial forces could revolutionize global development?. PhD in Development Studies, University of Oxford; MPA in International Development, Harvard Kennedy School. World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a board member on uniting to combat NTDs

Bicheng Han is the founder and CEO of BrainCo. He is dedicated in the research and application using the technology of non-invasive brain-computer interface (BCI). Bicheng found BrainCo in 2015, while he was pursuing his PhD degree at Harvard Center for Brain Science. The company has now grown into a world-leading brain-computer interface (BCI) company and the first unicorn among all BCI companies in the world. Their technology has been applied in multiple fields to help people with different needs, from neurological diseases like ADHD, Alzheimers, and Autism, to prostheses that help people with disabilities regain control over their body. For his work in BCI, he was awarded the “MIT Tech Review China 35 Innovators under 35”. Their product was selected as “Best inventions of the year” by TIME magazine.

Mark Hanis is a serial social entrepreneur. He is co-founding two startups: Inclusive America (a nonprofit to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in government) and Progressive Shopper (a technology company to harness conscious consumption). Mark is also serving as an Associate Fellow at the European campus of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS Europe) and as a Senior Lang Fellow at Swarthmore College.

Previously, Mark has helped found several social impact organizations: the Beeck Center for Social Impact & Innovation at Georgetown University to engage global leaders to drive social change at scale; the Organ Alliance (now Organize) to address the unnecessary deaths due to a shortage of transplantable organs; and United to End Genocide to empower citizens and communities with the tools to prevent and stop genocide.

Mark also served as a White House Fellow working in the Office of Vice President Joe Biden as the National Security Affairs Special Advisor for South America, Africa, and Human Rights. He also served as a Research Fellow with Stanford University's Center for Human Rights and International Justice.

Mark has been awarded several fellowships for social entrepreneurship, including Ashoka, Echoing Green, Draper Richards Kaplan, and Hunt Alternatives Prime Movers. He was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

Hanis graduated from Swarthmore College with a degree in Political Science and a minor in Public Policy. He is the grandchild of four Holocaust survivors and was raised in Quito, Ecuador.

Dave is founder and CEO of Tomorrow, a financial services app that aims to bring economic security to millions by empowering anyone to make a plan, receive free estate planning, and receive recommendations for financial products.

Previously, Dave founded Banyan Branch (acquired by Deloitte, 2013), a leading social media marketing agency that propelled blue-chip companies into the new world of engaging customers on social platforms.

Dave’s love of music and technology positioned him to lead product development for the Rhapsody Music Service, where he helped bring the service natively to the web, then to a multitude of social sites.

Dave along with Rhapsody colleagues built a social network for readers called Shelfari. Shelfari grew rapidly through solely social and viral marketing—reaching millions of members within 18 months—and was acquired by Amazon.com.

Dave’s entrepreneurial efforts in microcredit banking include founding and editing the first academic journal and the largest conference on the subject, advising education microloan innovator Vittana, and authoring *Grameen Reference* while a Fulbright scholar with Muhammad Yunus at Grameen Bank.