Health Care & Medicine

Authority on longevity and healthy aging helping organizations prepare for the future of healthcare, workforce health, and longer lives; President and CEO of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging; elected member of the National Academy of Medicine; leading voice on the healthspan versus lifespan framework and the science of ketones, biomarkers, and precision longevity.

Olympic Champion Skier and Coaching, Sport and Science Entrepreneur Who Helps Individuals, Especially Women, Connect Elite Performance Principles With Innovation and Scalable Impact; CEO and Co-Founder, revvel; Co-Founder, B2ten; Canadian Sports Hall of Fame Member; Governor General’s Meritorious Service Cross Honoree; Stanford Graduate School of Business Leadership Award Recipient; 2026 Team Canada Chef de Mission

Authority on Human Behavior at Work Shaping Leadership, Culture and Well-Being Through Emotional Agility | Psychologist, Harvard Medical School | Creator of Emotional Agility | #1 WSJ Bestselling Author | Thinkers50 Honoree | TED speaker (12M+ views)

Pioneering AI Scientist and Inventor of Emotion and Human Perception AI; Visionary Entrepreneur, Investor and Authority on Developing an AI Mindset for Competitive Advantage; Expert on Designing and Implementing Ethical Business Strategies; Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Blue Tulip Ventures; Executive Fellow, Harvard Business School; Bestselling Author, “Girl Decoded” (2020)

Acclaimed Author, Journalist, Emcee, and Leading Thinker on the Future Who Helps Leaders Focus on Strategic Wins and Plan for Long-Run Success Amid Uncertainty and Rapid Change in Technology and Geopolitics; Former Columnist of the Future, The Washington Post; Senior Lecturer, MIT Program on Science, Technology, and Society; Former Senior Advisor for Climate Change Innovation, The White House; Author, “The Optimist’s Telescope”

Award-Winning Organizational Learning Expert Who Helps Teams and Companies Innovate, Integrate and Perform Better With a Focus on Team Climates and Psychological Safety at Work; Professor of Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; 2023 Thinkers50 Radar List

Aerospace Pioneer and Multidisciplinary Authority on the Requirements of Human Performance On and Beyond Earth; Former NASA Deputy Administrator and Director, MIT Media Lab; Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics, MIT; Co-Chair, WEF Global Future Council on Space Technologies

New York Times Bestselling Author and Leading Authority on Stress, Well-Being and Optimal Aging; Corporate Advisor Who Teaches Leaders How to Apply Research-Backed Science to Scalable Interventions that Bolster Organizational Resilience; Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Vice Chair for Adult Psychology, University of California, San Francisco; Director, Aging, Metabolism and Emotions Center; Author, New York Times Bestseller “The Telomere Effect” (2017) and “The Stress Prescription” (2022)

Award-Winning Neuroscientist Who Provides Leaders with Research-backed Mechanisms for Creating Cooperative Teams; Social Psychologist Whose Help Organizations Cultivate Courage, Encourage Fearless Innovation and Practice Psychological Safety; Director, Georgetown University’s Laboratory on Social and Affective Neuroscience; Award-Winning Author, “The Fear Factor”

Pioneering Health Care Reform Expert Helping Organizations Transform the Patient Experience and Focus on Measuring Outcomes; Champion of Value-Based Health Care Delivery; Former Technology CEO; Presidentially-Appointed Chair of Commission on Systemic Interoperability; Co-Founder, Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology; Associate Professor & Managing Director, Value Institute for Health and Care, University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School and McCombs School of Business; Co-Creator of Experience Group Research Methodology

Health Care Transformation Visionary and Pioneer in Value-Based Care Delivery; Inaugural Recipient, ICHOM Michael E. Porter Lectureship (2024); Professor, Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin; Harvard Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness; Former Executive Director, Value Institute for Health and Care

Visionary Futurist and Venture Capitalist Funding Dynamic Breakthrough Technologies in Computing, Energy, Life Sciences and Health Care; Leading Expert on New Technology, Innovation and the Future of Work; Renowned Journalist, Speaker and Moderator; Partner, DCVC; Chairman of the Board of Directors, Strateos

Pioneering Social Scientist and Social Worker Whose Frameworks for Designing Ethical AI Ensure Well-Being for Diverse Communities and Organizational Cultures; Widely Cited Authority at the Intersection of Healthy Social Media Ecosystems, Empathy, Race and Society; Named a 2022 Top 50 in Digital Health, Equity Advocate; 31st Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor and Waldo E. Johnson Jr. Professor of Communication, University of Pennsylvania; Founding Director, SAFELab; Chief Strategy Officer, Penn School of Social Policy & Practice; Author of the Forthcoming Book, “Facing Gakirah: Life and Death on the Digital Street”

New York Times Bestselling Author and Pioneering Authority on Brain Health, Women’s Brains, and Brain Nutrition; Director, Women’s Brain Initiative at Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC); Associate Director, WCMC/New York-Presbyterian Hospital Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic; Author, “The Menopause Brain” (2024)

World-Renowned Economist and Financial Scholar Whose Evidence-Based Frameworks Offer Audiences a Deeper Understanding of Market Psychology and Modern Investment Strategies; Groundbreaking Researcher Developing AI Tools to Extend Human Ability in Financial Advising, Quantitative Trading, and Predicting Clinical Trial Outcomes; MIT Sloan School of Management Professor, Director of the MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, Principal Investigator at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; Serial Entrepreneur and Co-Founder of the AlphaSimplex Group, QLS Advisors, Quantile Health, Uncommon Cures, and the Award-Winning BridgeBio Pharma; Author, “Adaptive Markets”; Co-Author, “In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio”; TIME’s 100 Most Influential People

Leading Authority on Extended Intelligence, Closely Coupling Human Cognition and Artificial Intelligence; Pioneering Inventor, Innovator and Entrepreneur; CEO and Co-Founder, AlterEgo; 2019 TED Fellow; 2019 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize Winner

Pioneering Authority on AI Strategies that Drive Competitive Advantage; Esteemed Consultant and Advisor Who Helps Organizations Implement and Augment New and Existing Technology Systems; Author of 23 Books at the Intersection of Company Culture and IT; Co-Founder, International Institute for Analytics; Professor, Babson College; Visiting Professor, Oxford Saïd Business School; Fellow, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy; Author, “Competing on Analytics,” “Working With AI” (2022) and “All-In On AI” (2023)

Transdisciplinary Scholar Exploring the Impact of Imagination on Health and Constructing a More Inclusive Future; Associate Professor of Social Work, Chief Broadening Participation Officer, and Director of Knowledge Transfer at the Learning the Earth with AI and Physics (LEAP) NSF Science and Technology Center, Columbia University; Special Advisor to the Dean, Columbia University School of Social Work; Author of the Forthcoming Book, “Untethered”

Leading Expert on Disruptive Innovation in Business, Health Care, Education, and Economic Development; President and CEO, Clayton Christensen Institute

Pioneering Bioscientist and Innovator; Expert on Leading Teams Where Few Rules or Precedents Exist; Neuroengineer Focused on Mapping the Brain to Cure Mental Illness and Neurological Disorders; Professor, MIT McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Co-Director, K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics; Co-Founder, Cognito Therapeutics

Changemaker and Trailblazer in Genuine Leadership, Medicine, and Public Health; Retired Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy; Former Chief Health Officer, Viking Cruises; Senior Fellow, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory; Founder, Military Health Corps Female Physicians Leadership Course; Former CEO and Director, Defense Health Agency; Former Director, Washington State Covid-19 Health System Response Team

Health Care Futurist, Telehealth Pioneer and Primary Care Physician at the Forefront of Automating and Virtualizing Care; Leading Authority on Designing and Executing Innovative Tech-Based Care Redesign; Founder and CEO, KeyCare; Editor-in-Chief, Telehealth and Medicine Today

Human Robot Interaction Pioneer and Leading Expert on the Future of Work and Skill Development Involving Intelligent Machines; Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2021; Technology Management Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara; Digital Fellow, Stanford University Digital Economy Lab and MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy; Author, “The Skill Code”

Pioneering Robotics Researcher Focused on Deconstructing Algorithms to Make Robot Processes Clear Through Explainable AI; Expert on Developing Socially and Physically Assistive Machines That Improve Lives; Foremost Expert on Human-Centered Robotics and Human-Robot Collaboration; Director, Human and Robot Partners (HARP) Lab and Associate Professor, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University