Joon Yun
The Future of Counterculture
President, Palo Alto Investors
Joon Yun is President of Palo Alto Investors, LLC, a hedge fund founded in 1989 with $2 billion in assets. He is also a physician and a writer.
President, Palo Alto Investors
Joon Yun is President of Palo Alto Investors, LLC, a hedge fund founded in 1989 with $2 billion in assets. He is also a physician and a writer.
Founder & CEO, Koniku Inc.
Osh. has over 15+ years of experience in neuroelectronic interfacing in Industry and Academia. As a strategic projects lead at a robotics startup in Switzerland he implemented learning algorithms for pick-and-place robots which worked alongside humans in a factory setting. They achieved success in developing robots that learn object categorization autonomously.
He also led a cross disciplinary industry team to develop an in vitro reflex arc for modeling implantable neural chips. These chips interfaced with the peripheral nervous system (PNS). As a visiting scholar and during his PhD studies at the Imperial College in London, he built and customized 2 photon microscopes for studying synaptic transmission in the mouse visual cortex and Alzheimer’s disease models.
Author
Justine Musk has been a student of story since before she wrote her first novel at age 14. She is the author of the dark fantasy thrillers BLOODANGEL, LORD OF BONES, and UNINVITED, published by imprints at Penguin and Simon + Schuster. When a tragic event disrupted her own life story, writing became a way of reframing, of asking increasingly personal questions about the broken stories that rule the culture and the people who rise up to challenge them. Her nonfiction has appeared in Marie Claire, Slate, Mashable and others, and she is a 3x TEDx speaker on the shadow side of creativity. In 2015, her Quora answer to the question “How can I be as great as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk or Sir Richard Branson?” went viral. Find her at her blog www.justinemusk.com or Twitter @justinemusk.
Associate Founder, Singularity University
Reese Jones is a biophysicist and associate founder of Singularity University. A veteran of Silicon Valley, he has helped launch multiple companies, innovations, and patents. He likes building infrastructure companies for emerging technologies in health, biology, mobile, and internet.
Editor in chief and co-developer of The Knife Media
Jens Erik Gould is editor-in-chief and co-developer of The Knife Media, a digital publication that presents news without spin and rates media outlets for their level of objectivity and bias. Gould oversees The Knife’s team of 20 writers and analysts and daily coverage of U.S. and world news.
Previously, Gould covered Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela as a regular contributor to The New York Times and National Public Radio. Subsequently, he was a correspondent for Bloomberg News in Mexico City, covering the country’s economy, politics and drug violence. He then covered California as a regular contributor for TIME Magazine and time.com. He is also creator, producer and host of Bravery Tapes, has earned a Fulbright scholarship and two Pulitzer Center grants.
CEO and co-developer of The Knife Media
Rosa Laura Junco is CEO of The Knife Media, a digital platform that offers news without spin and rates media outlets for their level of objectivity and bias. She oversees all divisions of the company, including editorial, technology and marketing.
Before co-developing The Knife, Junco served on the executive board and community editorial boards of Grupo Reforma, the largest print media company in Latin America. Born and raised in Monterrey, Mexico, Rosa Laura Junco witnessed Reforma’s newspapers become a key player in the fight for freedom of speech, democratic elections, and access to public information in her country. In the process, she developed a keen sense of the power media has to craft the community it serves, and the responsibility this entails.
Associate Professor and Chair of MFA IxD Program at College for Creative Studies
Entrepreneur, Interaction Designer, Educator. Chair of MFA Interaction Design at College for Creative Studies, Detroit. He has founded software startups (General Cybernetics, Idealab’s Snap.com), future-casted (Nokia, Samsung, Intellectual Ventures), designed innovation processes (DuPont, Ogilvy), and lectured worldwide on cybernetics, design, and conversation.
U.S. Memory Champion
Chester’s presentations are a wonderfully unique blend of interactivity, entertainment, inspiration, and education. He delights audiences while helping them to develop real world skills that they can apply to achieve more success in their career and personal life. His presentations are “unforgettable” experiences that everyone will always “remember” and talk about for years to come.
Engineering Lead, NASA Aimes Research Center
CEO & Co-Founder, WaveAI Inc., Computer Engineering Professor, Santa Clara University