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Admiral Mike Gilday is the son of a Navy Sailor. A surface warfare officer, he is anative of Lowell, Massachusetts and a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy.  He holds master’s degrees from the Harvard Kennedy School and the National War … Continued

Aliza KNOX was named the IT Woman of the Year (Asia) in 2020, in the top 100 Women in Tech 2021 (Singapore), the AWA Singapore International Business Woman of the Year in 2015, elected to Chief Executive Women (Australia) in … Continued

• Navy SEAL combat veteran
• Successful entrepreneur and expert in leadership and organizational management
• Undergraduate degrees in Finance & Economics, MBA, degrees in English & History from Oxford University
• TV personality
• Philanthropist

• Founder & President of Smadja & Smadja Strategic Advisory Inc. (2001 – present)
• Managing Director of the World Economic Forum (1995 – 2001)

• Founding partner of the Rhodium Group (RHG)
• Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University
• Former Senior Adviser for International Economic Policy at the White House National Economic Council and National Security Council

• Managing Director of Allison+Partners’ Global China Practice
• Specialist in complex communications challenges from foreign business in China
• Former President and Chief Executive Officer of Wolf Group Asia (WGA)

• Corporate Entrepreneur
• Futurist of Work
• Future Boards

• Founder and CEO of Climate Alpha Global
• Founder & Managing Partner of FutureMap
• The leading next-generation voice in geopolitics and global markets
• One of Esquire’s “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century”
• Senior Fellow, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore

• Global Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning Expert
• Author of Knightmare on Wall Street and The Speed Traders
• Business consultant for billion dollar equity and hedge funds
• Futurist and Cyber Security Keynote Speaker
• Extensive research on Deep Learning for his upcoming volume The AI Breakthrough, How Artificial Intelligence is Advancing Deep Learning and Revolutionizing Your World, to be released in 2018.

• Resident Scholar at the Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy
• An expert in international business issues, including competition and cooperation between state and non-state economic entities
• Managing Partner of ChinaLine, LLC