Evan Henshaw-Plath is a technologist who explores the intersection of product, engineering, and the political systems in which they exist. His passion is in the space of new emerging start-ups and making the world a better place through civic technology projects. Evan has led product and engineering teams on companies ranging from his own self funded start-ups through every stage of venture capital and at large fortune 500 companies. From 2004-06 he was the first employee, lead developer and architect in building Odeo’s Ruby on Rails web application platform, a breakthrough in lowering the barriers of entry to programming. Odeo is best known as the company which created Twitter.

Dr. Ping Chen is an Associate Professor of Computer Engineering and the Director of Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, and Computational Semantics. Dr. Chen has received ten federal grants and published over 80 papers in major Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence, and Computational Linguisitcs conferences and journals.

Wei Ding, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Computer Science in the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her research interests include data mining, machine learning, artificial intelligence, computational semantics, and with applications to health sciences, astronomy, geosciences, and environmental sciences. She is an Associate Editor of the ACM Transaction on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS) and an editorial board member of the Journal of Information System Education (JISE), the Journal of Big Data, and the Social Network Analysis and Mining Journal. Her research projects are sponsored by NSF, NIH, NASA, and DOE. She is an IEEE senior member and an ACM senior member.

Steven Chen, Ph.D. in Philosophy, Master of Management, Chairman of Envoy Consulting Group. Committed to business model, strategic planning, organizational control, corporate culture and management innovation research, consulting and practice.

Jimmy Zhu, Professor Zhu is an expert in AI and Blockchain technologies. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Queensland. He is the PC member of over 20 top conferences and invited reviewer for the most prestigious journals. Also, he has more than ten years industry experiences in Fintech field.

Richard Mendonca, Founder & Director of Livfavours Media & Entertainment Pvt. Ltd., India. Mr. Richard has been instrumental in providing creative & marketing solutions to clients, for the past 26 years, offering them clutter-breaking integrated marketing services.

Ajay Thakur, Dual Masters in Journalism (IIMC, New Delhi) & Broadcast Journalism (University of Sheffield), Ajay is currently Sr. Group Editor, Herald Publications (Goa, India), Executive Director, Genie Global Ltd (Hong Kong) and Director, LivFlavours Media & Entertainment (Mumbai, India). He is a veteran investigative multimedia journalist across Asia and Europe and an Expert on Video (Television & Films) and Print Content in South East Asia..