Speakers

Chris Anderson is a Senior Advisor to Renaissance Philanthropy in the area of AI for Science. His long career spans three eras: first science, starting with doing computational physics at Los Alamos National Laboratory and then editorial roles at the journals Nature and Science. Second media, as a technology and business writer and editor at The Economist in London, Hong Kong and New York, and then the Editor in Chief of Wired magazine from 2001 to 2012, where he wrote the New York Times bestselling books "The Long Tail" and "Free". Finally, technology entrepreneurship with a focus on AI and Robotics, starting with co-founding 3D Robotics, which rose to being the largest drone maker in the US, then CTO of Kittyhawk, the Larry Page-funded eVTOL aerospace pioneer, and more recently leading AI and Advanced Manufacturing research and investments.

He's been named to the "Time 100," the newsmagazine's list of the 100 most influential men and women in the world, started the Linux Foundation's Dronecode open source software project, and created open source communities that now power many of the drones used in Ukraine.

He splits his time between Silicon Valley and London and for fun helps lead an autonomous car racing community that brings advanced AI to toy-sized cars.