Host: Pete Erickson

AI Ecosystem Builder, Modev, Ecosystem Partners

Pete Erickson is a technology ecosystem builder, founder, and executive producer focused on how AI is reshaping enterprise decision-making, markets, and society. He is the Founder and CEO of Ecosystem Partners, Inc. and the creator of Trust Driven Growth, a framework used to design high-trust, high-impact business ecosystems across AI, enterprise technology, and public-sector innovation.

With more than two decades of experience building ecosystems, convening senior leaders, buyers, builders, and policymakers, Pete has built and produced influential platforms including CES AI House, AGENTIC AI Davos, and GovAI Summit—bringing together global enterprises, venture-backed innovators, and government leaders to move beyond AI hype toward real-world execution.

Pete’s work sits at the intersection of AI strategy, ecosystem economics, and trust, helping organizations understand not just how to deploy AI—but how to do so responsibly, competitively, and at scale. He is known for translating complex technological shifts into clear, actionable insights for executive audiences.

At CES AI House 2026, Pete frames the week’s core thesis: AI is no longer a tool—it is an operating model, and the organizations that win will be those that build trusted ecosystems around it.

will.i.am

Founder & CEO, UN Goodwill Ambassador, AI Skills Coalition, FYI.AI

As a creative artist, tech entrepreneur, the Founder & CEO of FYI.AI, a Goodwill Ambassador, AI
Skills Coalition for the United Nations International Telecommunications Union, and Professor of
Practice in the GAME School at Arizona State University, will.i.am has been recognized by a CLIO
Award, an Emmy Award, nine Grammy Awards, the James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award, a
TIME 100 Impact Award, the World Economic Forum’s Crystal Award, and an Honorary Fellowship by
the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET - UK).
He is simultaneously a creative innovation advisor, futurist, multi-platinum Grammy-winning music
artist, producer, entertainer and a tech entrepreneur as part of his cross-disciplinary career. He invests in
and develops businesses in a range of sectors including the FYI Web 3.0 creativity & productivity tool,
automotive, consumer-tech, fashion, food & beverage, software (AI, Natural Language Understanding,
Voice Computing) and telecom.
His early work as Futurist and market opportunity spotter was with Beats Electronics. As a founding
equity stakeholder in the company, will.i.am was instrumental in helping to transform Beats By Dre™
into a global consumer electronics brand. Beats Electronics was purchased by Apple in 2014 for US$3
billion.
will.i.am teams with the world’s leading companies helping them to embrace future technologies, what’s
next in cultural trends and to develop new business initiatives. A sampling of multinational
organizations he has collaborated with include Apple, Arizona State University, Coca-Cola, Deutsche
Telekom, Formula 1, Honeywell, Intel, LG, Marvel Comics, Mercedes-AMG, Microsoft, NVIDIA,
Qualcomm, Pepsi, Salesforce, SiriusXM and UPROXX Studios.
In philanthropy will.i.am established his i.am Angel Foundation in 2009 to transform lives through
education, inspiration and opportunity incorporating STEAM (science, tech, engineering, arts and
mathematics) education resources and robotics clubs in schools. i.am Angel Foundation programs also
include after-school tutoring and scholarship aid for university-bound students in underserved areas.
With a 99% graduation rate, participating students are often the first in their families to attend a four-
year college or university.
Through a private-public partnership with Los Angeles Unified schools, the foundation has helped
establish hundreds of after-school robotics clubs in high schools across the city. In collaboration with
Arizona State University, his FYI.AI platform is being adapted to EDU.FYI to offer university-level
courses, tutoring tools and student life resources. As a Professor of Practice at the GAME School at
ASU, he will be teaching a course, “The Agentic Self”, starting in January 2026. Course students will
use EDU.FYI and GPU technology provided by NVIDIA to build and maintain their personal AI agents.
As an education advocate, will.i.am serves on the boards of advisors and directors of College Track,
FIRST Global (student robotics), Smithsonian Science Education Center Advisory Committee, and the
Iovine-Young Academy at University of Southern California. In recognition of his work in Artificial
Intelligence and education, will.i.am was appointed Goodwill Ambassador, AI Skills Coalition, United
Nations International Telecommunications Union in 2025.

Apl de ap

Musician, Co-Founder, Black Eyed Peas, Earth Sama

Apl.de.Ap is a founding member of the Black Eyed Peas and a global artist whose work now extends deeply into climate action, agricultural resilience, and inclusive technology.

He is the co-founder of OMTSE, a social enterprise focused on restoring and future-proofing the agricultural economy of the Philippines. Central to this work is Earth Sama, an AI-powered, fully voice-operated platform developed by Uynghiem Ngo that enables farmers to map their land, track tree planting, and implement regenerative practices regardless of literacy level.

Earth Sama supports the 100 Million Coconut Trees for the Climate initiative, addressing soil degradation while creating long-term economic independence for farming communities. Using artificial intelligence, the platform guides farmers on intercropping strategies and logs verifiable proof of work—turning regenerative agriculture into an investable, data-backed climate asset. The initiative also incorporates biochar produced from coconut-based biowaste, closing the loop between climate restoration and local economic value creation.

At AGENTIC AI Davos, Apl.de.Ap brings a real-world perspective on how autonomous, human-centered AI can scale climate impact, empower underserved communities, and align technology with dignity, access, and long-term sustainability.

Shekhar Natarajan

AI Founder, Global Leader, Artist, OrchestroAI & Angelic Intelligence

Shekhar Natarajan is the Founder and CEO of Orchestro.AI, where he is shaping the future of logistics through agentic systems, connected over-the-top platforms, and the democratization of deep parcel-industry intelligence.

Across senior leadership roles at American Eagle, Walmart, and Target, Natarajan has architected some of the most advanced supply chain and fulfillment systems in global retail. He is the co-founder of Quiet Platforms, holds more than 150 patents, and is widely recognized as a pioneer in large-scale operational and decision intelligence.

He is also the host of Tomorrow, Today, currently ranked as the #4 podcast on Spotify, where he explores how emerging technologies are reshaping business, leadership, and society.

At AGENTIC AI Davos, Natarajan brings forward his vision for Angelic Intelligence—a human-centered evolution of autonomous AI designed to augment judgment, ethics, and decision-making rather than replace them. His work focuses on building AI agents that operate as trusted collaborators, aligning autonomy with transparency, accountability, and human values.

Outside of work, he practices meditation, paints, and prioritizes time with family.

Co-host: Sandy Carter

Author, Forbes 50 over 50, AI First, Human Always

Sandy Carter has had a distinguished career, holding leadership positions as Chief Operations Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Sales Officer, Channel Chief, and Chief Product Officer, working for two Fortune 100 companies – AWS and IBM. Her background is unique, as very few executives have experience working in such diverse C-level roles. At IBM, she was a pioneer in AI innovation, contributing to the development of the Watson ecosystem, including Cloud, AI, and IoT, and playing a pivotal role in introducing the industry's first business model for the AI ecosystem.

Sandy's passion for collaborating with partners and delivering value to customers was further demonstrated during her tenure as a top executive at AWS, where she worked closely with C-level customers and partners to address their Cloud, AI, and tech challenges. She credits her teams for their success, acknowledging that while she provides the direction and strategy, they drive the innovations and breakthroughs in AI and emerging technologies. She has also held Board of Director positions, currently serving on the Altair Board, and has been recognized with numerous awards, including AI Executive Champion of the Year, Business Transformational Leader of the Year, and CNN's Top 10 Women in Tech.

Anat Bar-Gara

Investor and Member, World Economic Forum’s AI and Impact Council, World Economic Forum

Anat Bar-Gera is a technology investor, board member, and serial entrepreneur operating at the intersection of innovation, governance, and global scale. She is an active member of the World Economic Forum’s AI and Impact Council and European Digital Leaders community, and serves on the Steering Committee of digitalswitzerland, contributing to Europe’s digital and AI competitiveness agenda.

Anat is the co-founder of multiple international telecom and internet companies, achieving four successful exits, including Wimax Telecom (acquired by NextWave), SurfEU (acquired by Tiscali), RSL Communications, and Airpage (acquired by Telenor). These ventures helped shape early internet and mobile infrastructure across Europe and global markets.

As an investor, Anat has backed several category-defining technology companies, including unicorns Revolut, Fireblocks, Tomorrow.io, and BigID. Her portfolio also includes notable exits such as CyberX (acquired by Microsoft), IntSights (acquired by Rapid7), and Ermetic (acquired by Tenable).

Across her work as an entrepreneur, investor, and board director, Anat focuses on building and scaling technologies that underpin the agentic era—secure digital infrastructure, trustworthy AI, and platforms capable of operating responsibly at global scale. Her perspective bridges capital, governance, and execution at a time when autonomous technologies are reshaping markets, institutions, and economic power worldwide.

Co-host: Susan Sly

Founder & CEO, The Pause

Susan Sly has been voted as one of the top female entrepreneurs in Artificial Intelligence in 2023. She is the CEO and founder of ThePause.AI, former Co-CEO and Co-Founder of an AI-driven retail and healthcare computer vision company, a tech investor, and podcast host of the highly acclaimed show - Raw and Real Entrepreneurship. She has appeared on CNN, CNBC, Fox, Lifetime Television, The CBN, The Morning Show in Australia and has been quoted in MarketWatch, Yahoo Finance, Forbes, and more. She is a graduate of MIT Sloan.

As a highly acclaimed keynote speaker, Susan has spoken for MIT, NVIDIA, HPE, Intel, Lenovo, and shared the stage with Tony Robbins, Jack Canfield, Robert Kiosaki, and more. Susan has served as a distinguished guest speaker at prominent events such as the National Restaurant Association, MIT Sloan, Executive Next Practices Institute, Forbes Roundtable, Corenet Global, The Big Data and AI Summit, HPE Discover, The Edge AI Summit, and various others.

In 2022, Susan was honored to receive the Rosalind Franklin Society Award in Science and a nomination for the Rising Star in AI from Venture Beat.

Ray Wang

Founder & Chairman, Constellation Research

R “Ray” Wang (pronounced WAHNG) is the Founder, Chairman and Principal Analyst of Silicon Valley based Constellation Research Inc., He co-hosts DisrupTV, a weekly enterprise tech and leadership webcast that averages 50,000 views per episode and authors a business strategy and technology blog that has received millions of page views per month.  Ray coined the term "Metaverse Economy" in 2020 and is a leading authority on AI an AI policy. Wang also serves as an advisor to the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdueand is on the board of various exponential startups.

Since 2003, Ray has delivered thousands of live and virtual keynotes around the world that are inspiring and legendary. Wang has spoken at almost every major tech conference. His ground-breaking best selling book on digital transformation, Disrupting Digital Business, was published by Harvard Business Review Press in 2015.  Ray's new best-selling book about Digital Giants and the future of business titled, Everybody Wants to Rule The World was released July 2021 by Harper Collins Leadership.

Wang is well quoted and frequently interviewed in media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Fox Business News, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, BBC, Bloomberg, Tech Crunch, ZDNet, Forbes, and Fortune.  He is one of the top technology analysts in the world.

Nacho De Marco

Co-founder & General Partner, BDev Ventures

In 2009, Nacho founded BairesDev with a single laptop and no outside funding. Sixteen years later, BairesDev has grown into the world’s largest fully bootstrapped technology services company, with more than 4,000 engineers, 500+ clients, and 1,200+ projects delivered globally.

Built without venture capital, the company’s growth was shaped by necessity and discipline. Every client had to be earned, every engineer retained, and every engagement delivered successfully. That operating reality produced measurable results: a 9.1/10 customer satisfaction score and an industry-leading Net Promoter Score, driven by execution rather than marketing.

Today, BairesDev partners with Fortune 500 enterprises and high-growth startups that require engineering teams capable of operating as a true extension of their internal organizations—not as vendors, but as integrated collaborators delivering at scale.

He is a contributor to Forbes, where he writes on bootstrapped growth and scaling distributed engineering teams, and has spoken at leading global forums including Davos, Stanford University, Harvard Business School, SXSW, and Web Summit Rio on the future of software development.

In 2021, he launched BDev Ventures, a venture capital fund that applies private equity discipline to early- and growth-stage B2B technology companies. With more than 70 investments to date, the fund combines capital with proprietary growth systems that have helped founders scale from seed stage to tens of millions in revenue.

Across entrepreneurship, investing, and thought leadership, his work focuses on building durable companies, scaling elite engineering organizations, and redefining how global software teams operate in a distributed world.

Kate Hancock

Best Selling Author, Founder, Global AI Council

Kate Hancock, dubbed the “Trailblazer of Tech” by Forbes, is a self-made entrepreneur, global speaker, and co-author of Unlimited Possibilities: How to Live Life Without Limits (Penguin Random House, 2025). Starting with just $20, she built and scaled multiple ventures to eight-figure success across eCommerce, hospitality, and emerging tech—leveraging predictive AI in eCommerce as early as 2014.

A two-time TEDx speaker featured on TED.com, Kate is the founder of the Global AI Council, a nonprofit advancing AI literacy and ethical tech adoption worldwide. She is a Harvard Business School Web3.0 speaker, a Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, and recognized as one of the Top 100 Women of the Future.

Uynghiem Ngo

CEO, Earth Sama

Uynghiem Ngo is the CEO of Earth Sama, a climate-finance and ecosystem restoration Web3 platform where field-based AI connects farmers and frontline communities directly to global capital, enabling the regeneration of forests, mangroves, and degraded land through verifiable carbon and nature-based assets; born in Ottawa to Vietnamese refugee parents and raised in social housing, he witnessed how broken financial and environmental systems trap families and communities, a reality that carried him from early work with institutions like Oxford and NYU through Kivuto and Microsoft to a transformative moment in the Amazon, after which he became Executive Director leading go-to-market for a computer-vision AI platform used in hazardous industries, before a later mangrove fire in the Caribbean—caused by communities forced to destroy their own ecosystems to survive—became the catalyst for founding Earth Sama to align economic survival with ecological recovery at scale.

Camila Clarke

Founder & CEO, Clarke Capital Advisors

Camila Clarke is Founder and CEO of Clarke Capital Advisors LLC (“CCA”), an independent financial and strategic advisory firm. A senior Investment Banking and Capital Markets professional, Camila has over 20 years of investment banking experience working at bulge bracket international banks, including Deutsche Bank, Barclays, Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs. Camila has extensive experience advising global clients across industries, including tech, consumer, FIG, industrials, healthcare and more. Most recently, Camila has advised tech companies from early stage to Fortune 500 across sub-specialties including e-commerce, internet, fintech, proptech, healthtech, edtech and more. Camila holds an MBA from The Wharton School, Masters degrees in Finance and Development Economics from the University of Cambridge, and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania. Camila is native fluent in English and Spanish. Camila Clarke is a Registered Representative of Finalis Securities LLC Member FINRA / SIPC.

Janna Salokangas

Co-founder & CEO, Mia AI

Janna is Co-founder and CEO of Mia AI redefining how people and businesses unlock their full potential with AI. Mia AI delivers cutting-edge AI training, talent upskilling, and custom AI solutions that transform workflows, accelerate growth at scale, and future-proof organizations.

Under her leadership, Mia AI has trained 10,000+ professionals globally, working with leading institutions, while fostering a growing learning community spanning 65+ countries.

Wayne Liu

Chief Growth Officer, PerfectCorp.com

Wayne Liu is the Chief Growth Officer at Perfect Corp. He has been in his current position since June 2015. He has built the groundwork for Perfect by recruiting key talent and establishing partnerships with beauty brands and retailers such as L’Oréal, Estee Lauder, Target and other highly influential organizations.

Prior to Perfect Corp, Mr. Liu joined Perfect’s parent company CyberLink in 2009. He was responsible for key partner development, sales strategy and business growth. He grew several multi-million-dollar global accounts and managed heavy weight industrial partners such as Lenovo, Intel, Qualcomm, Time Warner., Comcast, and DirecTV.

Mr. Liu has worked in various engineering and marketing management positions at Intel, Broadcom and NVIDIA before joining Cyberlink.

Mr. Liu graduated from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan in June 1992 with a Bachelor of Science degree. He completed his Master of Science degree from Case Western Reserve University in June 1994. He then continued pursuing advanced studies by attending the Electrical Engineering Ph.D. program at the University of Southern California. Later, he earned his MBA Degree in Finance from Santa Clara University in June 2011.

Sol Rashidi

Chief Strategy Officer, AI & Data, Cyera

Sol is the world's 1st Chief AI Officer appointed in 2016. With 10 patents, a best-selling author on AI, and a former Amazon & C-Suite Exec (5x), she was named FORBES “AI Maverick & Visionary of the 21st Century” in 2023, and FORBES 'Top 5 People Taking AI To Market' in 2025. Sol has also earned accolades like Top ‘100 AI Thought Leaders’, ‘Top 50 Women in Tech' and LinkedIn’s 2025 AI Influencer. Sol started her AI career in 2011 when she helped IBM launch Watson. Her job is not just to create capabilities & deploy programs, but to help educate and advise  on 1) Workforce preparation & human relevance in the age of AI 2) Data security & AI Governance. What sets Sol apart is she is a practitioner and an operator. She’s built these capabilities from scratch and has over 200+ deployments - so her conversations are deeply rooted in experience. Sol is the inventor of The Human Amplification Index , a platform that measures how well we’re strengthening both the business and the workforce through AI to ensure you have both financial and human capital ROI

Ashish Madan

Managing Partner, CTO, Head of Technology Services, Germany, KPMG

Ashish Madan is Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer, and Head of Technology Services at KPMG in Germany, where he shapes the firm’s technology strategy to better meet customer needs and consistently link technology across all services with our expertise and ranges of services. He has been a Partner in Consulting, Technology Strategy & Operations, since 2016 and serves as Head of Life Sciences and Chemical Consulting in Germany. In this role, he led multiple digital strategy projects for multinational companies, like DAX40 corporations, and large family businesses. His focus lies on the development of IT target operating models, refining technology strategies, and optimizing IT spending, among other technology topics.

Co-host: Mellini Monique

Founder & CEO, Voxversa

Mellini Monique is a Voice Futurist and the founder of the Vocal Intelligence Atelier, Voxversa, a burgeoning global ecosystem exploring how human and artificial voices shape the future of communication, culture, and consciousness.

Her work is rooted in the ethos that Human Voice Is The Original Technology™—the sound that creates connection, carries cultures, and grafts genius into the physical world. In this age of human-machine interaction, she firmly believes that the human voice is the signal that teaches machines to serve us ethically and empathetically. 

Through Mellin Monique’s work, she amplifies intentional vocal expression as a catalyst for wellness, innovation, and conscious leadership, tuning the world to the frequency of YOU.

Greg Matusky

Founder & CEO, GregoryFCA

Greg Matusky is President and founder of Gregory FCA, the region’s largest integrated public relations and investor relations firm, serving private and publicly traded companies throughout the country. A former business writer, whose work has appeared in Inc., Forbes, and Newsweek magazines, Mr. Matusky built the firm through an intense understanding of the media and how strategic media relations impacts the value of an enterprise. Under his direction, his firm has managed the strategic communications campaigns for CA Technologies, Kimco Realty, Safeguard Scientifics, Schott, Yoh, Mitsubishi Electric, and others.

With a long tradition of working closely with national media, Mr. Matusky has secured coverage for his clients in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, Businessweek, Time, Newsweek, Investor’s Business Daily, USA Today, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, as well as key vertical trade publications such as CIO, Pharmaceutical Executive, and The Economist. Mr. Matusky is the author of three business-related books, including “Blueprint for Franchising a Business,” published by John Wiley & Sons. He is a regular speaker at The Wharton School of Business, Drexel University, and other forums. His media panel series, Meet the Media Movers and Shakers, has included reporters, editors, and producers from The Wall Street Journal, Businessweek, CNN, CNBC, and countless other media points.

Mr. Matusky has handled a range of crisis management projects, starting with his experience in the energy business and including recent accounting issues at publicly traded companies. He has served as the on-ground media spokesperson for a range of clients, including serving as the worldwide spokesperson during the acquisition of the Philadelphia Eagles Football team. Mr. Matusky has written on a range of issues including insurance, real estate, technology, logistics, corporate finance, economic development, and more. An economic development piece, “The New Philadelphia Story,” which Mr. Matusky penned, appeared as a 12-page insert in Forbes magazine. In August, 2003, Inc. magazine profiled Mr. Matusky in a five-page feature article about his company and management style. Mr. Matusky has worked with an extensive stable of CEOs, providing media training and preparing them for national appearances on FOX TV, CNBC, NBC Nightly News, CNN, CNNfn, ABC TV, and CBS TV.

Mr. Matusky is a 1983 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania where he was a three varsity letter winner in track and field. His hobbies include fly fishing Penn’s Creek, the legendary Pennsylvania trout stream. He and his wife Judy live with their three children in Ardmore, Pa.

Kelly Kirsch

Directeur ESG Europe, ESG.AI

Kelly is a passionate ESG and Sustainability expert with 15+ years of experience in international business and banking throughout France, Europe and the US. His expertise on EU's Green deal, sustainability frameworks, ESG data management, international finance and other European regulations has brought him to work with Crédit Agricole and Pomellato (Kering filial). He has been a visiting lecturer at Harvard, the Programme Excellence Propulsion (ESCP & La Sorbonne), and ESSCA as well as speaking at various international sustainability & AI conferences on ESG related topics (Baltics, France). Additionally, he has worked in financial services at HSBC, JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America in their wealth management practices. His recognitions include : top banker recognitions at HSBC & JPM, and an Excellence Propulsion distinction from ESCP & the Programme Excellence Propulsion.

Daniel Robbins

Author, Founder, IBH Media

Daniel Robbins is a serial entrepreneur, media producer, and the host of Founder’s Story, a top-ranked business podcast and digital TV series spotlighting influential founders and leaders. He is the founder of IBH Media, where he secured major media placements for over 800 executives and brands worldwide. Robbins has interviewed cultural and business icons including Gary V, Tom Bilyeu, Ryan Serhant, and Codie Sanchez, focusing on growth, leadership, and resilience. An international best selling co-author of Unlimited Possibilities.

Nicholas Miller

Founder & CEO, ESG.AI

Nicholas Miller is an innovative career entrepreneur and has founded several technology companies in the software, wireless, and Internet sectors. His wide-ranging experience as a high technology executive includes over 30 years of direct P&L responsibility, along with extensive experience in technology start-ups, sales, marketing, licensing, software and hardware engineering, product development, and new product launches. Nicholas has served on the Boards of numerous public and privately traded companies in the US and Canada, as well as several non-profit Boards including Oceanwise.

Yuval Dvir

Founder & CEO, SandboxHQ

Yuval Dvir is a technology leader and strategist at SandboxAQ, focused on bringing cutting-edge science into real-world operations. Previously, during a distinguished 12-year career at Google, he was instrumental in scaling the ecosystems for Gemini and Workspace. His track record includes leading digital and cultural transformations at Microsoft and Skype. Yuval holds an academic background from the Technion, INSEAD, and King’s College London; his expertise in Applied Neuroscience allows him to bridge the gap between complex technical systems and the human behaviors that drive them.

Emily Capodilupo

Sr. Vice President of Research, Algorithms & Data, Whoop

Emily (Breslow) Capodilupo is an award-winning data and research leader with more than a decade of experience driving impact in fast-paced startup environments. She began her career as a sleep scientist, motivated by a deep interest in human physiology and a belief that data could unlock answers to some of the most complex challenges in health and performance.

Her path into data science emerged from a pivotal realization: the hardest problems often require large-scale data and interdisciplinary approaches to achieve meaningful breakthroughs. That insight led her to bridge scientific research with advanced analytics, transforming biological curiosity into scalable, data-driven systems.

Today, Emily operates at the intersection of human-centered science and applied data intelligence. Her work focuses on translating complex datasets into actionable insight, enabling organizations to make smarter decisions while designing systems that better reflect how humans actually function. In the AGENTIC era—where autonomous systems increasingly interact with human behavior—her perspective brings essential balance between technical capability and human understanding.

Mark Minevich

UN Advisor, Investor, Author, United Nations, AI Council

Mark Minevich is a global strategist, technology executive, UN advisor, author, columnist, private investor, and venture capitalist. He is Founding Partner and Chairman of Going Global Ventures (GGV), a New York-based investment and strategic advisory firm advising governments, enterprises, and brands across the US, EU, Gulf Countries, South America, and Japan. He was recently appointed Strategic Partner at Mayfield Venture Capital, a leading Silicon Valley VC. Mark serves on the Board of Directors of the International Data Center Authority in Washington, DC, Co-Chairs AI150 under Constellation Research, and sits on Franklin Templeton AI’s corporate advisory board. He is a Senior Fellow with both the Council on Competitiveness and the Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils. He advises Hitachi Japan, Hitachi Vantara, Aramco, and the Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA). Mark holds board and advisory roles in DevRev (US), NukkAI (Chair, France), 1FS Wealth (UK), Corent Technology (US), and Quant.AI (US). He was a board advisor and investor in Infosec Global (Switzerland/Canada), acquired by Keyfactor in May 2025, and an early advisor to DarwinAI, acquired by Apple in 2023. He previously served as strategic advisor to BCG and BCGX, Chief Digital Officer at AMELIA, Vice Chair and CTO at the Comrade Group, and held senior roles at IBM. He was a member of the executive committee at WorkingNation, shaping the future of work. Mark has been a World Economic Forum member since 2020 and served on the G20/B20 digitalization task force. As a UNDESA advisor, he advances digital governance. He co-founded the AI for the Planet Alliance with UNDP, UNESCO, and BCG, and chairs the executive committee of the AI for Good Foundation. As a Forbes contributor since 2020, Mark has published 120+ articles on AI and sustainability. His latest book, Our Planet Powered by AI (Wiley), explores AI’s global impact. Previous bestsellers include Six Billion Minds and The CTO Handbook. His work appears in Forbes, TechCrunch, MarketWatch, Fast Company, VentureBeat, WEF, and is cited by Newsweek, CNBC, BBC, and others. He has received the Albert Einstein Award for Outstanding Achievement, the Outstanding Artificial Intelligence Expert Award of Distinction, and has been named among the Top 50 AI Influencers and Top 100 Power List.