2024 Speakers
Diverse lineup of passionate innovators, young leaders, and industry icons
First Announced Speakers
Tilly Lockey
(UK), Event Host
Ambassador for Open Bionics and & Real-Life Heroine, Singer, Model
Sophie Hamilton (USA)
BD at Spotify, Exploring the Future of AI and Content, Guest Lecturer at Stanford University
Stephen Ibaraki
(USA)
Seasoned Tech & AI Veteran, Founder of UN AI For Good, 21x Microsoft Global Awards Winner, Futurist, Investor, Author
Samay Lakhani (USA)
Young AI and BCI researcher, University of Columbia, NYC
Linette Manuel (CZ)
Educator, CEO at Makeful, EdTech Entrepreneur
Jan Spratek
(CZ)
Space Enthusiast & Educator, Expert at Planetum, Mentor to NASA Competition Winner
More speakers coming soon…
Speakers’ Bios
Tilly Lockey (UK)
Tilly Lockey is a real-life heroine traveling the globe, spreading inspiration and positivity. She became an ambassador for Open Bionics in the UK for the state-of-the-art bionic HeroArms, which enable her to perform actions such as picking up small objects or playing video games.
Her arms are the first of their kind to be medically approved in Britain - fantastic news that could change the future of many fellow amputees.
Aged just 15 months, little Tilly was diagnosed with Meningococcal Septicemia Strain B, resulting in her arms and toes amputation. She was first fitted with bionic arms when she was eight years old. Nowadays, the 18-year-old Lockey sparkles at the thought of what the future will bring. She's worked as an actress, Sky TV Presenter, and social media influencer…this girl is the definition of unstoppable.
More at: www.instagram.com/tilly.lockey
Stephen Ibaraki (USA)
Stephen Ibaraki, Chairman and Founding Managing General Partner REDDS Capital, Founder and Chair Outreach ITU ACM XPRIZE AI for good Global Summit, Founding Chairman Technology Advisory Council FinTech Ideas Festival. Stephen Ibaraki's philanthropic focus is on donating time/resources for advancing research, innovation, start-ups, science, entrepreneurship, the UN Sustainable Development Goals and ITU World Summit on the Information Society Action Lines. With over 300 senior executive roles, global awards and recognitions, Stephen Ibaraki is a multiple award winning educator, researcher, speaker, writer, serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, investor, and executive board chairman since the 1970s’ and first working with technology since 1965.
More at: www.linkedin.com/in/sibaraki
Linette Manuel (CZ)
Linette's life purpose is to bridge the gap between technology and humanity. All her previous experiences, from working at big companies such as IBM to working in innovative startups and co-founding successful EduTech startups such as CODE Rebels, reflect it. She is on a mission to reshape the STEAM education and make it inclusive for all. As a Founder of Makeful, winner of Dean’s Prize of Czech Technical University and creator of sound generative haptic suit, Linette believes that innovation and technology is the way to push us closer to prosperous future for all.
More at: www.linkedin.com/in/linettemanuel/
Samay Lakhani (USA)
Samay’s journey into the realm of AI began during the pandemic, which piqued his interest, and he subsequently secured an internship with a Silicon Valley-based AI development agency during the 10th grade. Since then, designed and taught his own summer course to teach teenagers AI, which he’s been running for 3+ years. He’s worked and gained experience at various companies, including building projects for unicorns such as Revel Mopeds, but his real passion is creating groundbreaking AI models on the R&D side, including state-of-the-art computer vision models for detecting distracted driving and contributing to open-source AI research like LAION.AI. His research has been published and he’s won numerous competitions, including competing at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair. Samay is now researching brain computer interfaces to control modular robots as a student at Columbia University.
More at: www.linkedin.com/in/samay-lakhani
Sophie Hamilton (USA)
Sophie leads Spotify's partnership with Google, which accounts for over 300+ million monthly active users on Android and spans over eight cross-functional business organizations. She is responsible for Spotify's AI initiatives and explores how AI should support content creation and creators.
At Stanford, Sophie is authoring a body of research with Dr. Jennifer Aaker and Stanford Graduate School of Business, centered on architecting AI for better sustainability outcomes within ourselves, teams and planet. She lectures on this topic in corporate and educational settings.
Jan Spratek (CZ)
Jan is a huge space enthusiast and inspirator. He's the former program director at the Mobile Planetarium and space educator at the European Space Agency (ESA) Education office for the Czech Republic. He led the launch of the world's only satellite managed by a planetarium, the Planetum-1. Jan is also an ESA Champion Award laureate and Czech Space Team member.
In 2024, he successfully mentored a team of Czech students, LASAR, who won 2 awards in NASA's Conrad Challenge global competition in Houston, USA.