Wisdom & AI 2026 Speakers

CO-FOUNDER AND FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF CENTER FOR HUMANE TECHNOLOGY

Session Topic - Building Better AI Products: Principles for Tech Builders and Investors

Randima is a Co-Founder and former Executive Director of Center for Humane Technology (CHT), which has helped shape global understanding of extractive technology and humane alternatives. CHT's work was central to The Social Dilemma, an Emmy-winning documentary seen by over 100 million people in 190 countries. He is also a subject in the new documentary The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist.

AUTHOR AND POET

Session Topic - Lessons from Two Months in Silence with No Access to Tech or AI

Diego Perez is an immigrant from Ecuador, and a poet, meditator, and NYT # 1 bestselling author known for sharing concise reflections on healing, self-awareness, and emotional growth.

CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER, ŌURA

Session Topic - AI from the Inside Out: Wearables, AI and Health

Holly Shelton is the Chief Product Officer at ŌURA. Holly is responsible for the strategy and product management of ŌURA’s mobile apps, B2B solutions, and hardware products. Prior to ŌURA, Holly was the global product lead for MacBook Pro at Apple where she led all aspects of product and product marketing from concept to end of life.

CREATOR, CATGPT

Session Topic - Why AI Needs Creators

Catherine is a prominent 20-something AI educator, content creator, and entrepreneur who creatively educates the younger generation on the benefits and challenges of AI.

HEAD OF COMMUNITY AND CULTURE, OPENAI

Session Topic - AI and Young People Today: Challenges and Opportunities (Panel)

Bailey runs the Community & Culture team at OpenAI. Before OpenAI, she published a book called Get Together with Stripe Press, founded People & Company, which was acquired by Substack, and was one of the first 10 employees at Instagram.

FOUNDER, OPPENHEIMER PROJECT AND OPPENHEIMER ENERGY VENTURES

Session Topic - Lessons From the Nuclear Age for the AI Age

Charles, the grandson of the renowned physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, is the founder of Oppenheimer Project and Oppenheimer Energy Ventures — entities dedicated to tackling existential risks, with a primary focus on fission technology and its importance in the dual threats of nuclear proliferation and climate change.

FOUNDER, SERVICE SPACE

Session Topic - Envisioning a Compassionate AI

Nipun is the founder of Service Space, an incubator of projects that works at the intersection of volunteerism, technology, and gift-economy.

MINDFULNESS TEACHER AND AUTHOR

Session Topic - Grounding in Genuine Intelligence in an Age of Artificial Intelligence

Rhonda V. Magee, M.A., J.D., is a storyteller, spiritual guide, and Professor of Law, Emerita at the University of San Francisco School of Law, where she founded the Center for Contemplative Law and Ethics. Through mindfulness teaching, community building, and music-based practices, she explores the healing powers of soulful mindfulness. She is the author of the award-winning The Inner Work of Racial Justice (Penguin RandomHouse TarcherPerigee, 2019) and the forthcoming We Are the Mountain (TarcherPerigee, 2027).

VP/FELLOW, CTO OF TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY, GOOGLE

Session Topic - Rethinking Intelligence: The Role of Humans in Age of AI

Blaise Agüera y Arcas is a VP and Fellow at Google, where he is the CTO of Technology & Society and founder of Paradigms of Intelligence (Pi). Pi is an organization working on fundamental research in AI and related fields, especially the foundations of neural computing, active inference, sociality, evolution, and Artificial Life.

TECHNOLOGIST AND SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR

Session Topic - The AI Society is Coming: Are We Ready?

Hans Peter is a fusion of visionary technology entrepreneur, executive, and creative spirit who currently spends his time as a public speaker, advisor, writer and photographer. From 2016-2023 he was a VP at Google X where he started and led Everyday Robots, a pioneering AI-meets-robotics moonshot making helper robots for everyday work environments.

FOUNDER AND CEO, TECHEQUITY

Session Topic - Community Well-Being in the Age of AI (Panel)

Catherine Bracy is a civic technologist and community organizer whose work focuses on the intersection of technology and political and economic inequality. She is the Founder and CEO of TechEquity. She was previously Code for America’s Senior Director of Partnerships and Ecosystem where she grew Code for America’s Brigade program into a network of over 50,000 civic tech volunteers in 80+ cities across the US.

CHIEF TECHNOLOGY COMMUNITY OFFICER, KAPOR CENTER

Session Topic - Community Well-Being in the Age of AI (Panel)

Lili Gangas is the Chief Technology Community Officer at the Kapor Center, an operating foundation at the intersection of technology and racial justice, providing research and thought leadership, operating programs, supporting strategic partnerships and investments to increase diversity across the tech ecosystem–from K-12 education through entrepreneurship and venture capital. She co-leads the Kapor Center’s Equitable Tech Policy Initiative with a focus on inclusive technology policy.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, WORKING PARTNERSHIPS USA

Session Topic - Community Well-Being in the Age of AI (Panel)

Maria Noel brings over a decade of organizing experience to the movement for a just economy in which all working people have what they need to thrive. As Executive Director of Working Partnerships USA, she oversees multiple campaigns and initiatives aimed at advocating for people-centered policy, and building coalitions and community power to win groundbreaking change for working families in Silicon Valley.

PRINCIPAL, PROGRAMS AND POLICY, OMIDYAR NETWORK

Session Topic - Community Well-Being in the Age of AI (Panel)

Anmol Chaddha serves as a principal at Omidyar Network. In this role, he leads work on economic inequality with a particular focus on jobs and workers, especially as it relates to ongoing technological change. Previously, he managed the California Future of Work Commission created by Governor Gavin Newsom to develop a broad agenda to promote economic equity in the state.

MULTIPLE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING CO-AUTHOR OF THE BOOK OF JOY AND THE BOOK OF HOPE, AND CEO OF IDEA ARCHITECTS BOOK & MEDIA AGENCY

Doug Abrams is the multiple New York Times bestselling co-author of The Book of Joy and The Book of Hope, as well as the CEO and Founder of Idea Architects Book & Media Agency. He is a former editor at the University of California Press and HarperCollins, where he spent a decade trying to balance truth (with a small “t”) and Relevance (with a big “R”). He comes from a publishing family and learned about ideas, books, and culture around the dinner table. He has had the privilege of working on books for Nobel Peace Laureates Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, and Jody Williams. He has written books with Desmond Tutu for over a decade and most recently is the co-author of The Book of Joy with Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama. His books have been credited with convincing then-President Bill Clinton to stop genocide and for launching the modern anti-slavery movement.

CO-FOUNDING GENERAL PARTNER, WISDOM VENTURES

Cecily Mak is a mother, attorney, advocate, and founder devoted to helping people live dimmer-free—with clarity, courage, and the freedom to change without stigma or shame. As co-founding General Partner of Wisdom Ventures, she backs companies at the intersection of technology and human flourishing. Her book, UNDIMMED: The Eight Awarenesses for Freedom from Unwanted Habits (Flatiron Books, January 2026), offers a practical alternative to traditional recovery frameworks, helping people shift unwanted habits—from alcohol and overworking to perfectionism and digital distraction.

CO-HOST, WISDOM 2.0 AND WISDOM & AI

Michelle Gale is a retreat leader and integration specialist with Tandava Retreats, supporting people in integrating non-ordinary states of consciousness into grounded, embodied living. Her work weaves somatic, relational, and depth-oriented practices, shaped by decades of inner inquiry and over 20 years in the technology world.

FOUNDER, WISDOM 2.0 AND WISDOM & AI

Session Topic - Wisdom & AI: Why This Topic Matters? & Where Do We Go From Here?

Soren is the founder + host of Wisdom 2.0 and Wisdom & AI, the premier conferences exploring living with greater mindfulness, wisdom, and compassion in the modern AI age.