October 16-18 #CreatingFuture Open Innovations Forum 2017

Marvin Liao

Partner
500 Startups

Marvin Liao is a Partner in 500 Startups — one of the most famous startup accelerators in the world. Thanks to Marvin a lot of new companies have become key players of the world market.

Teemu Arina

Technology Visionary, Author, Biohacker

Teemu Arina is one of the forefront thinkers. He has authored the best-selling Biohacker’s Handbook – a knowledge book for optimizing health and wellbeing with technological and biological tools. Mr. Arina is the founder and curator of the Biohacker Summit, leading international conference for better living through science, technology and nature that attracts 1000+ attendees annually.

Danny Perekalsky

CEO
Ozon.ru

Dave Waiser

Founder
Gett

Gavin Hayman

Executive Director
Open Contracting Partnership

Gavin is the Executive Director of the Open Contracting Partnership, a silo-busting collaboration between governments, businesses, civil society and technologists, working to transform the world’s $9.5 trillion per year public procurement market through open data and smarter engagement. Spun out of the World Bank at the start of 2015, OCP across sectors and along the whole process of government contracting in over 25 countries to support reforms to save governments money and time, deliver better goods and services to citizens, prevent corruption, and create a better business environment for all.

Hiroshi Ishiguro

Professor, Director
Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories

His research interests include distributed sensor systems, interactive robotics, and android science. He has published more than 300 papers in major journals and conferences, such as Robotics Research and IEEE PAMI. On the other hand, he has developed many humanoids and androids, called Robovie, Repliee, Geminoid, Telenoid, and Elfoid. These robots have been reported many times by major media, such as Discovery channel, NHK, and BBC. sHe has also received the best humanoid award four times in RoboCup.

Moshe Vardi

Professor
Rice University

Moshe Y. Vardi is the George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering and Director of the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology at Rice University. He is the author and co-author of over 500 papers, as well as two books. He is the recipient of several scientific awards, is a fellow of several societies and a member of several honorary academies, and he holds multiple honorary doctorates. He is a Senior Editor of Communications of the ACM, the premier publication in computing.

Vern Brownell

President and Chief Executive Officer
D-Wave Systems Inc.

Vern Brownell is President and CEO of D-Wave Systems Inc. Based in Burnaby, British Columbia, D-Wave is the leader in the development and delivery of quantum computing systems and software, and the world’s only commercial supplier of quantum computers.

Shinta Witoyo Dhanuwardoyo

Founder, CEO
bubu.com

Shinta is a tech industry veteran and trailblazer. Since the inception of her first company Bubu.com in 1996, the award-winning entrepreneur has impacted Indonesia’s digital landscape in countless ways. She has been recognized by Globe Asia as one of the «99 Most Powerful Women,» and she was named to the «Inspiring Women Honor Roll» by Forbes Indonesia Magazine. Shinta has worked tirelessly to advance technology in the region since founding Bubu. com and serving as the company’s CEO, a position she still holds.

Kirill Tatarinov

Former CEO
Citrix

Kirill Tatarinov was most recently the President and Chief Executive Officer for Citrix Systems, Inc. — a US based technology company. He was also a member of the Board of Directors from January 2016 through July 2017. Under Tatarinov’s leadership, Citrix introduced new vision & strategy and dramatically advanced corporate culture focusing on innovation and transformation to the Cloud. During his tenure, the company achieved six quarters of continued operational improvement, generated shareholder returns exceeding fifty percent, revived core product growth and nurtured new Cloud initiatives and acquisitions.

Luciano Kay

Researcher
The Institute for Social, Behavioral and Economic Research, University of California

Luciano Kay is researcher with The Institute for Social, Behavioral and Economic Research, University of California Santa Barbara, USA, and technology entrepreneur. His research projects investigate the potential of incentive prizes and grand challenges to induce innovation and the impact of emerging technologies such as nanotechnology and synthetic biology on industry and the economy. Luciano is also founder of InnovationPulse, a startup company that will revolutionize the emerging technologies research space with a new way of producing and sharing innovation analytics.