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Adam Bry is the Co-founder and CEO of Skydio, a leading US drone manufacturer and world leader in autonomous flight technology. With a background in computer science and robotics from MIT and experience at Google's Project Wing, he is focused on building flying robots that serve as critical infrastructure for civilization. He also advises the FAA on regulatory frameworks for the future of aviation.

Adam Neumann is the co-founder and former CEO of WeWork, a global coworking space company. Following his departure from WeWork, he launched Flow, a real estate platform focused on residential properties, which has raised over $100 million at a $2.5 billion valuation, backed by a16z. Neumann is known for his entrepreneurial vision and focus on community and culture in real estate ventures.

Adarsh Hiremath is the Co-Founder and CTO of Mercor, an AI-powered recruitment startup that helps Silicon Valley's biggest AI labs train their models. He dropped out of Harvard University during his sophomore year after co-founding Mercor in his dorm room, convinced that labor aggregation was the greatest opportunity of the 21st century. Hiremath was awarded the prestigious Thiel Fellowship and is recognized as a leading figure in the future of work in an AI economy.

Aidan Gomez is a British-Canadian computer scientist and the Co-founder and CEO of Cohere, a leading AI platform focused on enterprise applications. He is a major figure in the field of artificial intelligence, particularly for his work on massive neural networks and natural language processing, and was one of the co-authors of the seminal "Attention is All You Need" paper. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Oxford.

Alejandro Matamala Ortiz is the Co-founder and Chief Design Officer (CDO) of Runway, a pioneering machine learning platform focused on generative AI for creative tools. Based in New York, he is a designer and programmer working at the intersection of design, technology, and creative intelligence. He frequently speaks at industry events about the transformative role of generative AI in media.

Alex Kendall is the Co-founder and CEO of Wayve, a company pioneering the development of next-generation autonomous vehicles using Embodied AI and end-to-end deep learning. A proud Kiwi, he co-founded Wayve in 2017 with a vision to replace traditional autonomous vehicle stacks with a data-driven solution. He is also a highly cited researcher in Deep Learning and Computer Vision, with over 50,000 citations for his academic work.

Alex Shevchenko is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Grammarly, an AI productivity platform that started as a digital writing assistant. He was also a Co-Founder of MyDropBox.com, which was acquired by Blackboard. His expertise lies in new product development, product strategy, and strategic marketing.

Alexandr Wang is a prominent figure in the artificial intelligence industry, best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Scale AI, a company specializing in data labeling and large language model evaluation. He became the world's youngest self-made billionaire in 2022. In June 2025, he transitioned to become the first-ever Chief AI Officer at Meta, leading the Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL).

Ali Ghodsi is the CEO and Co-founder of Databricks, a leading data and AI company that he has helped grow into a multi-billion dollar enterprise. He is a prominent voice in the AI industry, known for his controversial assertion that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) has already been achieved. Ghodsi is also an Adjunct Professor at UC Berkeley, bringing a strong academic background in computer science and distributed systems to his entrepreneurial endeavors.