Speakers

Speakers (A-Z)

Olga Afanasjeva

COO, GoodAI / Czech Republic

Hirofumi Aihara

General Manager, Digital Transformation Division, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG) / Japan

Shun-ichi Amari

Professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo / Special advisor at RIKEN Brain Science Institute / Research Advisor at Araya, Inc. / Japan

Selmer Bringsjord

Director of the Rensselaer AI & Reasoning Lab, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute / USA

Stephen Cave

Executive Director, Leverhulme Centre for Future of Intelligence / UK

Alex J. Champandard

Co-founder, creative.ai / Austria

Phil Chen

Advisor, Horizons Ventures / Hong Kong

Luba Elliott

Creative AI Researcher, iambic.ai / UK

Arisa Ema

Assistant Professor in Science Interpreter Training Program, University of Tokyo / Japan

Oren Etzioni

Chief Executive Officer, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence / USA

Danit Gal

Yenching Scholar, Peking University
International Strategic Advisor to the iCenter, Tsinghua University / China

Ben Goertzel

Chief Scientist, Hanson Robotics / Hong Kong

Nicholas Guttenberg

Data Science Manager, Araya, Inc. / Japan

Hirotaka Hara

Corporate Executive Officer, Fujitsu Limited / Japan

Yuko Harayama

Executive Member, Council for Science, Technology and Innovation
Cabinet Office, Government of Japan / Japan

John C. Havens

Executive Director, IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems / USA

Yukiko Horikawa

Research Engineer, Network Robot Department (NR)
ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories / Japan

Marcus Hutter

Professor, Australian National University / Australia

Takashi Ikegami

Professor in the Department of General Systems Sciences, University of Tokyo / Japan

Hiroshi Ishiguro

Distinguished Professor at the Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University / Japan
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Photo credits: Osaka University]

Naoki Kamimaeda

Partner in charge of AI & Cyber Security, Global Brain Corporation / Japan

Ryota Kanai

Founder & CEO, Araya, Inc. / Japan

Jeffrey O. Kephart

Distinguished Research Scientist, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center / USA

Hiroaki Kitano

President and CEO, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. / Japan

Manish Kothari

Ph.D President, SRI Ventures / USA

Viktoriya Krakovna

Research Scientist, DeepMind / Co-founder, Future of Life Institute / UK

Yasuo Kuniyoshi

Director, Next Generation Artificial Intelligence Research Center of the University of Tokyo / Japan

Hod Lipson

Director of Creative Machines Lab, Columbia University / USA

Tak Lo

Managing Partner, Zeroth / Hong Kong

Masaaki Matsuhashi

Managing Executive Officer, Seven Lab, Seven Bank, Ltd. / Japan

Youichiro Miyake

Lead AI Researcher, Square Enix / Japan

Masaya Mori

Executive Officer in Rakuten group, the founder of Rakuten Institute of
Technology and Rakuten Life Tech Lab / Japan

George Musser

Contributing editor, Scientific American / USA

Hiroshi Nakagawa

Professor, Information Technology Center of the University of Tokyo / Group Leader, Artificial Intelligence in Society Research Group, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP) / Japan

Toyoaki Nishida

Professor, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University / Senior Member of THE CONFERENCE TOWARD AI NETWORK SOCIETY, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications / Japan

Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh

Executive Director, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) / UK

Takehiro Ohya

Professor of jurisprudence, Keio University Faculty of Law / Japan

Huw Price

Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge / Academic Director, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence / UK

Marek Rosa

CEO, CTO & Founder, GoodAI / Czech Republic

Francesca Rossi

Distinguished Research Scientist, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center / Professor of computer science, University of Padova / USA/Italy

Akira Sakakibara

CTO, Microsoft Japan / Japan

Kenneth O. Stanley

Associate Professor of Computer Science, the University of Central Florida / Senior Research Scientist, Uber AI Labs / USA

Jaan Tallinn

Founding engineer, Skype and Kazaa
Co-founder, Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and Future of Life Institute / Estonia

Denis Thérien

Vice-President Research and Partnerships, Element AI / Canada

Yoav Tzruya

Partner, JVP / Israel

Masao Yamanaka

Senior Researcher, Technical Research Division, Engineering Big Data Group, Toyota Info Technology Center Co.,Ltd. / Japan