Palmer Luckey is an American entrepreneur born on September 19, 1992, in Long Beach, California. He is primarily self-taught and did not complete a traditional college degree, dropping out from the Journalism program at California State University. He gained prominence as the founder of Oculus VR, a company specializing in virtual reality hardware and software products. Oculus is best known for developing the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality headset that gained significant attention and investment. Facebook acquired Oculus VR in 2014 for approximately $2 billion, catapulting Luckey into the spotlight as a significant player in the tech industry. Aside from his work in virtual reality, Luckey also founded Anduril Industries, a tech company focused on developing advanced defense technology. He has a passion for tinkering with electronics from a young age and using the money he earned from repairing iPhones to fund the initial development of the Oculus Rift. His work has made a considerable impact on both the virtual reality and defense sectors.

Peter H. Diamandis is an American entrepreneur, engineer, and author, born on May 20, 1961, in The Bronx, New York. He holds degrees in Molecular Genetics and Aerospace Engineering from MIT, as well as an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. Diamandis is perhaps best known for founding the X Prize Foundation in 1994. The Ansari X Prize for suborbital space travel was one of the foundation's most publicized competitions, ultimately won by SpaceShipOne in 2004. Diamandis is also the co-founder of several other organizations and companies, including Singularity University, Human Longevity Inc., and Planetary Resources, among others. His work primarily focuses on the utilization of exponential technologies and crowd-sourced innovation to address humanity's grand challenges. He has received numerous awards and recognitions for his work, including the Heinlein Prize for Advances in Space Commercialization. Diamandis is also a prolific author and speaker, advocating for a future shaped by innovation and bold thinking.

Mira Murati (born 1988) is an Albanian mechanical engineer, researcher and business executive. She is currently the chief technology officer of OpenAI, the artificial intelligence research company that develops ChatGPT. At the age of 16, she left Albania to attend and graduate from Pearson College UWC. Later, she graduated from Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College in 2012 with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in mechanical engineering. Murati started her career as an intern at Goldman Sachs in 2011, and worked at Zodiac Aerospace from 2012 to 2013. She spent three years at Tesla as a senior product manager of Model X before joining Leap Motion. She then joined OpenAI in 2018, later becoming its chief technology officer, where she leads the company's work on ChatGPT, Dall-E, and Codex. Her responsibilities include oversight of the company's research, product and safety teams. She is an advocate for the regulation of AI.

Andrej Karpathy, former head of Tesla's Autopilot AI, has made notable contributions to deep learning and computer vision at OpenAI, Google, and Stanford, and maintains a significant influence in the AI community through his academic teaching, blogging, and curation of the Arxiv machine learning repository. He joined OpenAI in 2023 again and left in 2024. He currently works on educational projects.

Pieter Abbeel is an influential figure in the field of machine learning, robotics, and AI. Pieter Abbeel received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and has been affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley. He is a co-founder of Gradescope and Covariant.ai.He worked as a research scientist at OpenAI and is an investment partner at AIX Ventures.

Ruslan Salakhutdinov, a Carnegie Mellon professor and former Director of AI Research at Apple, is known for advancing statistical machine learning, deep learning, and large-scale optimization, earning numerous accolades for his work.

Alex Smola, Director of Machine Learning at Amazon Web Services, focuses on deep learning, algorithm scalability, and statistical modelling with over 200 authored papers. With a history of working with tech giants like Google and Yahoo, he helps build AI and Machine Learning tools for Amazon and seeks new talent in the field.

Kai-Fu Lee is a Taiwanese businessman, computer scientist, investor, and writer. He is currently based in Beijing, China. did his Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University and has been part of Google, Apple and Microsoft. He is the author of several books including "AI Superpowers" and "AI 2041".