Kevin David Mitnick is an American computer security consultant, author, and hacker, best known for his high-profile 1995 arrest and five years later in prison for various computer and communications-related crimes.
The Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) conference series is a hacker convention sponsored by the security hacker magazine 2600: The Hacker Quarterly that is typically held at Hotel Pennsylvania, in Manhattan, New York City. Occurring biennially in the summer, there have been twelve conferences to date with the most recent occurring 20–23 July 2018. HOPE features talks, workshops, demonstrations, tours, and movie screenings.
TED Conferences LLC is a media organization that posts talks online for free distribution under the slogan "ideas worth spreading." TED was conceived by Richard Saul Wurman in February 1984 as a conference; it has been held annually since 1990. TED's early emphasis was on technology and design, consistent with its Silicon Valley origins. It has since broadened its perspective to include talks on many scientific, cultural, political, and academic topics. It is owned and curated by Chris Anderson, a British-American businessman, through the Sapling Foundation.
Richard Thieme, is a former priest who became a commentator on technology and culture, founding the consulting firm ThiemeWorks. He is a frequent keynote speaker at government agencies and technology conferences around the world, routinely drawing large audiences, and is described as an "institution" and "father figure" in the hacker convention circuit. He is the author of the syndicated column "Islands in the Clickstream", which was published in 60 countries and in 2004 was turned into a book of the same name. In 2010 he published a book of short stories, Mind Games, and in 2012 he contributed to the peer-reviewed academic work, UFOs and Government, a Historical Inquiry. He has written for multiple publications including Wired, Forbes, and Salon.com. Andrew Briney, editor-in-chief of Information Security magazine, describes Thieme as "a living symbol of the human dimension of technology".
Demis Hassabis is a British artificial intelligence researcher, neuroscientist, video game designer, entrepreneur, and world-class games player.
Sir David Lance Crouch was a British Conservative politician.
Dave Hazard is a British 7th Dan Karateka and instructor of Shotokan karate and was one of the few students present at the very beginning of British Karate. He is a former KUGB national champion and British team member. Like many of the early karateka he first trained in judo before starting karate in 1969 at the Blackfriers club in London, where he trained under Keinosuke Enoeda, Hirokazu Kanazawa, Kato and Takahashi.
The Kentish dialect is a dialect of English spoken in and around the county of Kent in southeast England. Kentish dialect combines many features of other speech patterns, particularly those of East Anglia, the Southern Counties and London.
KM Media Group aka KM Group, formally known as Kent Messenger Group, is a multimedia company in the county of Kent. Operating local newspapers, radio stations and websites throughout the county. Iliffe Media Ltd acquired KM Media Group in April 2017.
Jim Stolze is a tech-entrepreneur located at Amsterdam Science Park, mostly known for his work in the world wide TEDx Community and the European Startup scene.
Amir Taaki is a British-Iranian anarchist revolutionary, hacktivist, and programmer who is known for his leading role in the bitcoin project, and for pioneering many open source projects. Forbes listed Taaki in their top 30 entrepreneurs of 2014. Driven by the political philosophy of the Rojava revolution, Taaki traveled to Syria, served in the YPG military, and worked in Rojava's civil society on various economic projects for a year and a half.
Kevin Surace is an American technology innovator, speaker and entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Appvance, creator of an AI-based software QA platform. He was Inc. Magazine’s 2009 entrepreneur of the Year.
Mischa Dohler is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) and a Distinguished Member of Harvard Square Leaders Excellence. He is Professor in Wireless Communications at King's College London, where he directs the Centre for Telecommunications Research. He is driving cross-disciplinary research and innovation in technology, sciences and arts.
Shafi Ahmed is a surgeon, teacher, futurist, innovator and entrepreneur.
Maja Pantić is a Professor of Affective and Behavioural Computing at Imperial College, London and at the University of Twente and head of the Samsung AI lab in Cambridge, UK. She is an expert in machine understanding of human behaviour including vision-based detection and tracking of human behavioural cues like facial expressions and body gestures, and multimodal analysis of human behaviours like laughter, social signals and affective states.
Robert E. Joyce is an American cybersecurity official who served as special assistant to the President and Cybersecurity Coordinator on the U.S. National Security Council. He also began serving as White House Homeland Security Adviser to President Donald Trump on an acting basis after the resignation of Tom Bossert from April 10, 2018 to May 31, 2018. He completed his detail to the White House in May 2018 and returned to the National Security Agency. where he is now the Senior Advisor to the Director NSA for Cyber Security Strategy, Joyce previously performed as acting Deputy Homeland Security Advisor since October 13, 2017.
Carol E. Reiley is an entrepreneur, computer scientist, and roboticist. She is a pioneer in teleoperated and autonomous robot systems in applications such as surgery, space exploration, disaster rescue and self driving cars. She previously worked at Intuitive Surgical, Lockheed Martin, and General Electric. She co-founded, invested, and was President of Drive.ai raising over $77 million. She is the first female engineer on the cover of MAKE magazine and is recognized by Forbes, Inc, and Quartz as a top female entrepreneur. She is a published children's book author. She is currently CEO of a healthcare startup, a creative advisor of the San Francisco Symphony, and a brand ambassador for Guerlain Cosmetics.
Zainab Nagin Cox is a spacecraft operations engineer at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Asteroid 14061 was named after her in 2015. She has received the NASA Exceptional Service Medal.
Suzanne Lyn Sheehy is an Australian accelerator physicist and science communicator at the University of Oxford.
Carl Jack Miller is an author, speaker and researcher at Demos, a think tank based in London, where he co-founded the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media (CASM) in 2012. As of 2019 Miller is also a visiting scholar and research fellow at King’s College, London. His work has been published and featured in Wired, New Scientist, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, HuffPost, BBC News, Sky News, the Irish Examiner, The Economist, the Financial Times,The Guardian, and the New Statesman. He is the joint winner of the Transmission Prize 2019 with his fellow researcher Jamie Bartlett.
