In the Fall of 2016, Charlie launched Tech2025 to educate entrepreneurs and consumers on the next wave of disruptive, emerging technologies that are expected to drastically change our world in the next decade (AI, machine learning, driverless vehicles, IoT, blockchain, VR, etc.), through live-events and interactive workshops with industry experts. Served Fresh Media™ (a New York-based company that provides digital media strategy, product development, and branding across platforms including social media, mobile, and live-events) was a natural next step in her creative and media evolution. At Served Fresh Media, Charlie and her team provide digital strategy, senior management advisory, team building and training, strategic partnerships, and product development for startups and brands. Clients Served Fresh Media has worked with include IBM, New York Press Club, Digital Media Wire, Digital Flash, and It’s About Time, among others.

Mitu Khandaker is a game designer, scholar, and entrepreneur. She holds a PhD on the aesthetics of interactivity in video games, completed at the University of Portsmouth in 2015. Prior to that, she was a 2008 Kauffman Global Scholar and received a Masters in Computer Engineering from the University of Portsmouth. A rising star in the games industry, she won the Breakthrough Brit BAFTA in 2013 and the Creative English Trailblazer Award in 2014.

Danya Glabau, PhD, is an anthropologist, science and technology studies (STS) scholar, and feminist futurist. She the Co-Organizer of the NYC-based QX, a group exploring the intersections of technology, design, and queer life; Founder of Implosion Labs, an ethnography-driven speculative research group; a Core Faculty member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research; and Adjunct Instructor in the Technology, Culture, and Society department at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Her book-in-progress examines patient activism in the United States, while her consulting work focuses on researching, designing, and advocating for technology that will truly enrich the societies of the future.

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The Executive Director of the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems, John helps define guidelines for beneficial relationships between humans and their increasingly clever machine counterparts. His mission is to educate, train, and empower people involved with developing these future technologies in order to improve outcomes for all.

He has authored the books Hacking Happiness and Heartificial Intelligence in addition to contributing to The Guardian, Mashable, and Slate. He also spent a number of years a professional actor. Whether in discussing ethics, researching the connections between happiness and technology, or playing the guitar, John is “seeking Eudaimonia” and unafraid to experiment by finding joy in his own life.

Bella Wang is a war scholar turned data scientist, skilled in finding meaning in small, human-scale data sets. Her PhD research analyzed the strategy of interstate territorial disputes, using a variety of methods, including game theory, statistical analysis, and case studies, to explain political outcomes. A social scientist and data maven, she’s an all-around student of humanity, combining quantitative and qualitative data to tell stories about human behavior at all levels, from individual idiosyncrasies to the highest of high politics. She’s also pretty schooled on puzzles and games, which applies more than you’d think.

Pamela Pavliscak guides organizations toward emotionally intelligent futures as founder of Change Sciences. Part ethnography, part psychology, part data science, her approach translates future vision into tangible everyday possibilities.

She specializes in emotionally intelligent design and emotion-sensing artificial intelligence. Her research has been featured on CBC's Spark, Salon, and Quartz. Her book, Emotionally Intelligent Design, focuses on how to design a future that has as much EQ as it does IQ.

Pamela is a TEDx speaker and has spoken at SxSW , TNW, Web Summit, Google Creative Labs, among many others. She teaches at the Pratt Institute School of Information in NYC and has lectured at the Stanford d.School, ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination, University of Washington, and Parsons. She serves on an international committee to develop IEEE standard 7000 for ethically aligned AI.

Douglas Ng is a digital strategist, educator, and artist pushing the boundaries at the intersection of emerging technologies, new media, and design psychology to help organizations navigate the socioeconomic ramifications of disruptive innovation in the age of digital transformation.  He’s a strong advocate that technology shouldn’t be created just for the “cool” factor but to facilitate better human-to-human interactions.

Douglas is currently Adjunct Instructor of Digital Analytics at University of California, Irvine, Adjunct Lecturer of Computer Science at CUNY Lehman College, an inaugural Tech-in-Residence Corp Member with the NYC Mayor’s Tech Talent Pipeline, Director of Digital Strategy at NYU Stern School of Business, and founder of EmQuo-a startup that leverages artificial intelligence to teach emotional intelligence in the context of leadership training.

 Prior to his current roles, he was the Director of New Media at Columbia University and a Research Media Producer at Brown University.

Yoav Schlesinger is the Chief of Staff for the Tech and Society Solutions Lab at Omidyar Network, where he is focused on building long-term resiliency and maximizing the tech sector’s contributions to society.

Before joining Omidyar Network, he served as the founding executive director of The Kitchen, a groundbreaking religious community in San Francisco from which he also launched Hello Mazel, a first-of-its-kind quarterly subscription box of Jewish goods and guides.

Under his organizational leadership, The Kitchen became a nationally-recognized leader in millennial and Generation X engagement in Judaism and social justice.  Prior to that, Yoav was the executive director of Reboot, a national network of cultural creatives aimed at reinventing ritual and community. 

 Cennydd Bowles is a London-based designer and writer focusing on the ethics of future technologies. He has worked with companies including Twitter, Samsung, and the BBC, and is a sought-after speaker at technology and design events worldwide. His second book 'Future Ethics’ is out in September 2018.

Sherine is a design leader creating industry-changing products and experiences for Fortune 500 companies, agencies, startups, and foundations. T

Throughout her 20-year career, she has led global Experience Design teams within the physical and digital realms, transforming hardware, software, retail and connected environments for clients such as LG, Twitter, Verizon, and EA.

Her human-centric approach to design has garnered industry awards and attention from numerous organizations including AIGA, The FWA, FastCo and Awwwards.

David Ryan Polgar is a pioneering tech ethicist who paved the way for the hotly-debated issues around Facebook, privacy, ethical design, digital wellbeing, and what it means to be human in the digital age. David is a 3-time TEDx speaker and tech writer (IBM thinkLeaders, Quartz, Dell Perspectives) whose has been featured on CBS This Morning, Fast Company, USA Today, AP, LA Times, The Guardian, CNN.com, BBC.com, SiriusXM, AdWeek, New York Post, and countless other outlets. With a background as an attorney and college professor, he transitioned into an advocate for greater thoughtfulness regarding the creation and implementation of technology.

David is the founder of All Tech Is Human, an initiative to better align tech with the human interests of users and society, and is the co-host of Funny as Tech--a live show and podcast that tackles the thorniest issues in tech. David serves on the advisory boards, the non-profit #ICANHELP, and Hack Mental Health.He is currently developing a digital citizenship class for adults.

Rebecca Woodmass is a queer thinker, writer and polymath, and the focus of their research is the symbiosis of queer experience and thought and the technology of the future. They are a self-taught full-stack web developer and professional classical singer, and was Co-Director of Lesbians Who Tech Montreal for 2 years. They are passionate about inclusion in STEM and explaining complex technology to non-tech people.

John-David Brown is a Senior Product Manager at Merrill Corp and co-organizer of QX, an NYC-based group dedicated to exploring the intersections of queer identities, technology, and user design.

He’s actively involved with fundraising and programming at the LGBT Center and the Leslie-Lohman Museum — he also moonlights as a worldly socialite/photographer.

Dr. Karen Schrier, Associate Professor, is the founding director of the Games & Emerging Media program and Play Innovation Lab at Marist College. From 2018-2019, she is also serving as a Belfer Fellow for the ADL’s Center for Technology & Society, where she is researching the use and design of games for perspective-taking, compassion, and bias reduction.

She has written and edited over 40 publications on educational games, including the book series, Learning, Education & Games, published by ETC Press (Carnegie Mellon). Last year, with Matthew Farber, she co-authored the UNESCO MGIEP working paper, The Limits and Strengths of Using Digital Games as “Empathy Machines.” Her recent book, Knowledge Games: How Playing Games Can Help Solve Problems, Create Insight, and Make Change (Johns Hopkins University Press) focuses on citizen science and gaming and was reviewed in The New Scientist, Forbes and Times Higher Education.

Her forthcoming book for Oxford University Press will be on civics and ethics games. In addition, Dr. Schrier is a game designer and media practitioner and has created games, apps and websites at Scholastic, Nickelodeon, BrainPOP, and PBS/Channel 13.  

Solon Barocas is Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Science at Cornell University. His current research explores ethical and policy issues in artificial intelligence, particularly fairness in machine learning, methods for bringing accountability to automated decision-making, and the privacy implications of inference.

He is part of the leadership team for the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech and the Initiative on Artificial Intelligence, Policy, and Practice, which spans both Cornell and Cornell Tech.

In 2014, he co-founded Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Machine Learning (FAT/ML), an annual workshop that brings together an emerging community of researchers working on these issues. In 2018, he and a number of colleagues established the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT*), with the goal of reaching a broader audience across and outside computer science.

Solon was previously a Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research, where he worked with the Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics in AI group, as well as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. 

Solon currently serves on the New York City Automated Decision Systems Task Force.

Liz Schiller is a law librarian and passionate advocate for technology and information literacy. Liz is currently working as a Reference and Research Services Librarian at the University of Richmond School of Law, where she teaches Legal Research and Technology & the Practice of Law. Prior to her current position, Liz served in several roles at the Congressional Research Service.

Liz’s career involvement with social and political consequences of information systems substantially began during her first law school summer, when she conducted research for the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty, Inequality, & Public Policy. While Liz examined policy issues for a project aimed at including victims of domestic trafficking in the 2011 reauthorization of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, controversy over source information reliability complicated and threatened to stall the policy debate.

Dr. Goldkind is an associate professor at Fordham’s Graduate School of Social Service. She is also the editor of the Journal of Technology in Human Services. Dr. Goldkind’s current research has two strands: technology implementation in the human services and nonprofits and the social justice and ethics implications of data collection, use and dissemination in community based organizations.

Wherever possible she combines both ICT and social justice for a blend of tech enhanced civic engagement and improved organizational functioning. She holds an M.S.W. from SUNY Stony Brook with a concentration in planning, administration, and research and a PhD from the Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University. Dr. Goldkind is also a past visiting research fellow at the UN University on Computing in Society, Macau, SAR, China.

Andrew Gruen is a consultant, reporter, sociologist, and software executive. Currently an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, a visiting research fellow at the Shorenstein Center at Harvard Kennedy School and Principal of Working Paper, he works at the intersection of journalistic business models and new ways to inform the public.

Previously, Andrew served as Chief Communications Officer for Seven Bridges, a firm that develops tools to analyze genomic sequencing data at population scale. He led the company’s participation in the White House’s Cancer Moonshot program, with a particular focus on more creating more accurate, less invasive, genomics-based cancer diagnostics. As a Luce Scholar, Andrew worked in South Korea for the world’s largest citizen journalism organization, OhmyNews.

Andrew has also worked for and with research universities and media companies, including the Northwestern University Media Management Center, the University of Southern California Norman Lear Center, the BBC, Hearst Television, CNET, and The Texas Tribune.

Ariba is no stranger to working in diverse industries. After graduating with a degree in Biomechanical Engineering, publishing research in surgical interventions, abandoning medical school and leading operations of an industry-shifting startup, Ariba’s passion for social impact brought her to the Ad Council.

As the Director of Innovation for a 75-year-old brand, she is charged with exploring future-forward methods and platforms for the organization through technology partnerships, creative development, and internal education and rituals. Discovering her partial hearing loss at age eight after emigrating to the US, Ariba has developed a keen sense for attention and empathy that echoes throughout her work. With over 10 years of experience in user-focused product design and leading workshops for entrepreneurs in global cities, Ariba leverages her life experiences, startup mindset and scientific approach to create organizational change, empower an innovative culture and to design products.

Christina Crook is the award-winning author of The Joy of Missing Out: Finding Balance in a Wired World, which has made her la eading voice on human flourishing in the digital age.

Through her speaking and writing, she reveals how key shifts in our thinking can enable us to draw closer to one another, taking up the good burdens of local work and responsibilities. She writes about the value of focus, making space to create, and the meaning we find in more limited connections. She challenges the Western values of power, control, and success, revealing how wonder, trust, and discipline are central to the experience of being human and the keys to our joy.

Her commentary on technology and our daily lives has appeared across the world, including the New York Times, Psychology Today, Women's Health, Times of India, NPR, CBC Radio, AARP, CTV, Glamour Brasil, and more.

Crook has worked for some of Canada’s most recognized media organizations, including the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Rogers Digital Media. Her TEDx talk, “Letting Go of Technology: Pursuing a People-focused Future,” was presented as part of the 2013 Global TEDWomen conference.

Nell Watson is an engineer, educator, and tech philosopher who grew up in Northern Ireland.

Nell founded Poikos (now QuantaCorp). This original, patented technology enables fast and simple 3D body measurement from only two planes (front and side), using a simple cellphone camera, by applying sophisticated deep learning technologies.This service enables fast and accurate personalization services in telemedicine, mass customization, and retail.

Today, Nell educates others in how to implement such technologies, for example, by creating video coursebooks for O’Reilly. She is also Co-Founder of EthicsNet, a non-profit, building a movement of people who are committed to help machines understand humans better. This community acts as role models and guardians to raise kind AI, by providing virtual experiences, and collecting examples of pro-social practices.

Nell lectures globally on Machine Intelligence, AI philosophy, Human-Machine relations, and the Future of Human Society, serving on the Faculty of AI & Robotics at Singularity University.

Maureen (Mo) Johnson: Mo is an advocate for cooperative multigenerational communities, a passionate roadtripper, an exuberant mountain biker and an accidental interdisciplinarian. 

One day, she read a book on malaria and became fascinated by modern day culture and disease. This led her to work in infectious disease research where she credits her research mentor with cultivating her global perspective on ethics and social justice. With his encouragement, she moved from her public-health policy and community work in Texas to Lima, Peru, where she worked as in-field coordinator for a pilot research project that sought to understand neurological development of children living in extreme poverty.

A firm believer in work/life balance, that work led her to gracefully backpack and awkwardly surf for six months before moving to the Bay Area. While working as a nanny and exploring other gigs, she learned to code for social science research, made adventure art, and spent time biking while hanging out with radical feminists.

These adventures led her to Data for Democracy, where she acted as moderator for the responsible communications working group and is now the community manager for the Global Data Ethics Project.

Throughout his career, Giancarlo has studied the influence of technology on how people think, feel, and act. He's on a mission to help people thrive in the age of constant connectivity. Through his lectures and workshops, he helps people become aware of unconscious habits and discover how use technology in service of meaningful connection, growth, and creativity. Connect and get more information at www.purposeful.tech

Sonam Velani is an urban development, technology, and finance professional with 10 years of experience across the globe. Currently she is the Senior Advisor to New York City’s Deputy Mayor for Housing and Economic Development. Sonam develops strategic policies to increase affordable housing, build infrastructure, and promote economic development throughout NYC. Her signature projects include NYCx, a public-private partnership to create new smart-cities technologies and prototyping hubs in urban areas; the Sharing Cities Alliance, a coalition of 22 global cities that collaborate on data and policies to shape the sharing economy; Women Entrepreneurs NYC, providing 5,000+ women access to capital, courses, and mentorship to start and scale their businesses; 

She was born in Mumbai, India and moved to the U.S. as a young child. An undocumented immigrant for over two decades, Sonam has made it her mission to pay it forward. She founded MPower, a mentorship program for youth from immigrant communities, helping students navigate the college admissions process and increase enrollment in top-tier universities. She has received the President’s Volunteer Service Award and is a Coro Leadership New York Fellow. Sonam is active in her community and enjoys traveling on a shoestring (50+ countries), museum hopping, and biking in her free time.

Lisa Siewert is a creative researcher who facilitates technology design practices.  She is the founder of Open Idea Exchange, an Internet platform for the critique of technology practices and media art.  OIE supports technologists for their creative development; to gain insight into deeper fields of inquiry; to participate in and create better design.

Lisa received her BA in Philosophy from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, followed by graduate studies in philosophy, ethics and technology at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, and her MA in Critical Theory from the Pacific Northwest College of Art.   She is a research fellow at the Oregon Institute for Creative Research and has received grants from San Francisco Cultural Equity Fund, the California Children, Youth, and Families Fund, the San Francisco’s Redevelopment Agency, and the Rockefeller Foundation to support her public and creative projects.

Jumana Abu-Ghazaleh is the chief instigator of betwixt.us, a new tool that is transforming the way we work by humanizing team engagement in the digital age.

A strategist by trade, Jumana’s career has been fueled by her ability to see what others miss. She has been called “a CEO’s secret weapon” and, in the words of one CEO, “has an uncanny ability to stick her finger in the wound.” Jumana was the force behind some of the world’s most celebrated brands: turning Yahoo into a “Life Engine”, helping Hilton Hotels “take you places”, and first asking “What’s in your wallet?”, a question that continues to power Capital One a decade later. She also built the strategy for Ally Bank, one of the most successful bank launches in history, and during one of the worst economic recessions.

Jumana has been recognized as a Woman to Watch by the Forbes 40 over 40 List, elected to the Board for the Center of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Claremont McKenna College, and selected as the keynote speaker for the SHE Symposium for Accenture.

As a member of Global Kids' Digital Learning and Leadership Team, Marcus has worked on creating digital experiences, games, video recording and editing and finally block based and text based coding. With this work, Marcus has incorporated social justice education and culturally responsive methods in order to showcase the importance of, at least, understanding code and the potential it has in their lives. Marcus works to teach fellow educators how to bring this work into their classrooms through professional developments with Global Kids. Originally born and raised a tech and video game geek in Brooklyn NY, Marcus is passionate about having youth go from consumers to producers of technology in order to represent themselves in our growing technological world.