David Shrier is a Professor of Practice (AI and Innovation) with Imperial College Business School, co-director of the Trusted AI Alliance (a collective of more than 3,000 AI researchers across Imperial College London, MIT, University of Oxford, Harvard and University of Edinburgh focused on building a better world through responsible and trusthworthy AI), and a Visiting Scholar with MIT's School of Engineering. He previously held a dual appointment at MIT and University of Oxford where his initiatives directly drove over $1 billion of financial support for MIT, Harvard and Oxford. David also is active in the private sector having led more than $10 billion of corporate growth programs and an IPO on the NYSE, and having made three dozen angel investments through his venture studio Visionary Future. With MIT Press, David has co-edited Global Fintech, Trusted Data, Revised and Expanded Edition, and New Solutions for Cybersecurity. He has also written three monographs on technology and society, with his fourth, Basic AI: A Human Guide to Artificial Intelligence being published in 2024.

Alex “Sandy” Pentland directs the MIT-wide initiative MIT Connection Science. Called one of the “seven most powerful data scientists in the world” by Forbes, he has cofounded more than a dozen companies and is the author of Social Physics and coauthor of Building the New Economy (MIT Press).