John Elkann is Chief Executive Officer of Exor N.V., Chairman of Ferrari N.V., and Chairman of Stellantis N.V. Born in New York in 1976, Mr. Elkann earned a scientific baccalauréat from Lycée Victor Duruy in Paris and an engineering degree from Politecnico di Torino. He began his career in 2001 at General Electric on the Corporate Audit Staff, working across Asia, Europe, and North America. In 2003, he joined Fiat Group and contributed to its transformation into Fiat Chrysler, a global automotive leader. In 2021, FCA’s merger with PSA created Stellantis, one of the world’s largest car manufacturers. As Ferrari's Chair since 2018, he has been bolstering the company's leadership in innovation, luxury and sport competitions while preserving its iconic legacy. In 2009, Mr. Elkann established Exor, one of Europe’s largest diversified investment companies. He also founded Lingotto, a long-term investment management company, in 2023 and chairs Vento, a platform committed to identifying and supporting the next generation of Italian entrepreneurs globally and the organiser of Italian Tech Week. Mr. Elkann is a board member of Meta and a trustee of MoMA. He chairs the Agnelli Foundation, a philanthropic organisation focused on education and is also a member of the J.P. Morgan International Council and the Allianz International Advisory Board.

Dario Amodei is the CEO and Co-Founder of Anthropic, an AI lab whose research and products put safety at the frontier. As a public benefit corporation, Anthropic is dedicated to ensuring the world safely makes the transition through transformative AI. Dario is known for his work on AI safety and is the co-inventor of the reinforcement learning from human feedback technique, a method for training AI systems to align with human values and preferences. This method has been used to create reliable and controllable AI models, including those developed by Anthropic. Additionally, his foundational research on scaling laws revolutionized the AI industry by providing a framework for understanding and predicting the capabilities of advanced AI systems. Prior to co-founding Anthropic, Dario served as the Vice President of Research at OpenAI, where he led the development of large language models such as GPT-2 and GPT-3. Before OpenAI, Dario was a Senior Research Scientist at Google Brain. Dario holds a Ph.D. in biophysics and computational neuroscience from Princeton University, where he was a Hertz Fellow. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Stanford University School of Medicine, focusing on applying machine learning to biomedical data.

Zanny Minton Beddoes is the Editor-in-Chief of The Economist. She is a renowned global economics expert, sought-after for her authoritative perspectives on the world economy. She previously worked at the IMF, and as an adviser to the Minister of Finance in Poland.

Anas Biad is a Partner at Sequoia. He focuses on the growth-stage (Series B+) across the U.S. and Europe and works with companies including Serval, Profound, Nominal, Avelios, Harvey, Pennylane, and Trade Republic. He joined Sequoia in 2021 from Silver Lake, where he was involved in several of the firm’s late-stage software investments. Prior to that, he was at Bain, advising on due diligence for tech companies in Asia and Europe. Anas grew up in Morocco and holds an MSc in Mathematics from École Polytechnique in France.

Dr. Zhaopeng Chen is the Founder and CEO of Agile Robots. Under his leadership, Agile Robots has experienced rapid global growth by combining artificial intelligence and robotics to advance Physical AI for smart manufacturing. Headquartered in Munich, Agile Robots employs more than 3,000 people from 60 countries and has installed over 20,000 robotic solutions worldwide. Chen studied engineering in China and earned his PhD at the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

Dorothy Chou leads the Public Engagement Lab at Google DeepMind, where she helps shape how society envisions and prepares for AI-enabled futures. A long-time advocate for transparency and equity in tech, she created the first industry-standard Transparency Report at Google and has held senior roles at Uber, Dropbox, and Google, including work on criminal justice reform and self-driving policy. Outside of DeepMind, Dorothy is pursuing a Master’s in Practical Ethics at Oxford and is an active angel investor and Venture Partner at Ada Ventures, backing historically excluded founders across Europe and the US. She serves on the development board of the Young Vic theatre, co-founded the nonprofit Superbloom, and holds a B.S. in International Politics from Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service.

Eléonore Crespo is the co-CEO and co-founder of Pigment, an AI-powered business planning and performance management platform. Trusted by global companies including Coca-Cola, Anthropic, Unilever, and ServiceNow, Pigment empowers organizations to make better, faster decisions in an ever-evolving landscape. Prior to Pigment, Eléonore was an investor at Index Ventures, and a financial analyst at Google.

Antonio Filosa is Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Stellantis. He is also responsible for North America & American Brands. He has led Stellantis in both North and South America as well as in Global Quality and has served as CEO of the Jeep® brand. Filosa has extensive experience in purchasing and manufacturing operations, as well as overall business management and strategy. He joined the Fiat Group in 1999 where he assumed roles of increasing responsibility, including plant manager of the Betim facility (Brazil) and Head of Purchasing for the Latin America region. Filosa also served as the Head of Argentina as well as the Head of Alfa Romeo and Maserati brands for the Latin America region, positions he held from 2016 and 2018, respectively. He served as COO for FCA’s Latin America region and was a member of the FCA Group Executive Council from March 2018. Filosa holds a master’s degree in engineering from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and an executive MBA from Fundação Dom Cabral (Brazil).

Born in London, he moved to California in 1992 to join Apple. As Chief Design Officer, he was responsible for the design of hardware, user interface, packaging and major architectural projects. Steve Jobs described Jony as his spiritual partner saying, “The difference that Jony has made not only at Apple but in the world is huge.” Their unique partnership defined a profound and enduring cultural legacy. Jony led the design of iconic and category-defining products including the iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. He holds more than 14,300 design and utility patents, uniquely spanning both hardware and software. He was awarded the Royal Society of Arts Benjamin Franklin Medal in 2004, and was described as “one of the most influential individuals in modern technology” when presented with the Professor Stephen Hawking Fellowship in 2019. Jony holds honorary doctorates from distinguished universities including Cambridge, Oxford and the Royal College of Art, where he currently serves as Chancellor. He was knighted at Buckingham Palace in 2012. In 2019 he founded the creative collective LoveFrom with his friend and fellow designer Marc Newson. In 2024 he co-founded io, an engineering and product development company committed to creating AI-enabled products, in close collaboration with both LoveFrom and OpenAI. Jony lives and works with his family in San Francisco.