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Gregg Schoenberg
Gregg synthesizes insights across finance, politics, and technology to guide transformational challenges. As embedded advisor to a global macro hedge fund and former fintech entrepreneur, he bridges traditional finance with emerging technology.
His investment banking and Capitol Hill experience enables him to decode how policy, politics, and business intersect—helping executives understand how to think about challenges in continuous disruption.
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Robert Suarez
Robert combines biomimicry science with design innovation to address pressing challenges through waste-to-value models. His Science Fiction Design Intelligence workshops help Fortune 500 companies, NASA, and the UN envision future scenarios and retroact to actionable steps.
He translates nature's 3.8 billion years of R&D into human-centered solutions proving purpose and profit combine for impact.
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Kate Lydon
Kate Lydon works at the intersection of design, strategy, and systems change. She guided Nextdoor through strategic transformation, building the design organization that became foundation for their successful IPO.
At IDEO, she pioneered citizen-centered digital services and co-created scalable education models. Her work translates systemic opportunities into practical, scalable solutions.
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Burton Rast
Burton Rast is passionate about solving unmet human needs with emerging technologies. As Design Partner at Strange Ventures, he collaborates with early-stage creative AI startups as ideas progress from strange to transformative. His journey from "starving artist punk kid" to design leader drives his commitment to mentoring the next generation. At Google, he led design systems across flagship products while fostering collaborative, design-driven culture through company-wide teaching.
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Tara Tan
Tara Tan writes first checks to AI inventors before breakthroughs become obvious to markets. Her network spans MIT labs to garage inventors building tomorrow's technological foundation.
Rather than predicting winners, she maintains direct relationships with people creating the future, translating this advantage into practical enterprise value through AI readiness programs and labs-as-a-service models.
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