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NOVEMBER 6TH 2025

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Hosting industry leaders to inspire thinking about the future of innovation.

Ryan Fiorentino, Head of Advanced Strategy at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is a creative director and artist who designs futuristic space missions. He develops and leads projects so far ahead that the technology to make them possible doesn't officially exist yet.

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RYAN FIORENTINO

Futuristic Aerospace Innovation

Prem Akkaraju is the CEO of Stability AI, the company best known for its generative AI model, Stable Diffusion. With a background as the former CEO of the Academy Award-winning visual effects company Wētā FX, his career sits at the intersection of film, technology, and AI.

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PREM AKKARAJU

Generative AI Technologies

Rob Feinstein is a founder and career coach at Career Storyline, an expert in online recruiting and the author of Launched. He leverages his experience as a former VP at Monster.com to help job-seekers craft powerful career narratives that open doors.

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ROB FEINSTEIN

Career Management

Thom Mayne is a Pritzker Prize-winning American architect and the co-founder of the avant-garde firm, Morphosis Architects. His work is known for its bold, unconventional forms that challenge traditional design and reflect a focus on the unique culture of Southern California.

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THOM MAYNE

Modern Architecture

Michelle Geller, M.D., is the Head of Global Patient Safety at Amgen, where she oversees the safety operations for therapeutic drugs. She has expertise in pharmacovigilance and drug development, ensuring the highest standards of safety for new and existing medicines.

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MICHELLE GELLER

Clincial Medicine

Julian Bleecker is a researcher, designer, and entrepreneur, best known as the founder of Near Future Laboratory. He is a leading voice in design fiction, a unique approach that uses prototypes and fictional artifacts from the future to help people imagine what's to come.

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JULIAN BLEEKER

Design Fiction

Ian Cinnamon is the CEO and co-founder of Apex, a company that is building the future of space infrastructure. He is a serial entrepreneur who works at the forefront of the commercial space revolution, developing satellite buses to meet the needs of a rapidly expanding industry.

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IAN CINNAMON

Modern Aerospace Technology

Jason Moore is a distinguished artificial intelligence scientist and the chair of the Department of Computational Biomedicine at Cedars-Sinai. He focuses on applying AI and machine learning to analyze biomedical data, with the goal of improving the prediction and treatment of diseases.

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JASON MOORE

Computational Biomedicine

Dr. Noah Goldstein is the Construction Sustainability Lead for Data Centers at Google. His work centers on minimizing the environmental footprint of Google's massive infrastructure by integrating low-carbon and circular solutions into the design and construction of its data centers.

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NOAH GOLDSTEIN

Sustainable Technology

Developed for everyone.

THE TEAM:

LUKE RASCOFF • AIDAN ELSON • JULIA THOMAS • SOPHIE RO • NELSON LABOMBARD • WILL ROSEN • SHAURYA NADKARNI • HANNAH YANG •  LAUREN KVAMME • TEDDY CHANG • SARINA HAYOUN

SPECIAL THANKS TO:

ROB LEVIN • KWAISI FRANCE

POWERED BY HW VENTURE • NEXTGEN FUTURISM CONFERENCE

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