Julio Bolzani, USA

PROFILE SUMMARY

Julio Bolzani is the Head of Autonomous Systems at Embraer. He is in charge of the company strategy for autonomy, building synergies and developing business opportunities across all Embraer Business Units and Affiliated companies. Julio was part of the Embraer Advanced Design Team for Phenom 100/300, Lineage 1000, Legacy 450/500, KC-390 and E-Jets E2 programs. He later acted as On-site Product Development Manager working in collaboration with suppliers to bring the new E-Jets E2 FBW up to certification and, more recently, was in charge of Autonomous Systems at EmbraerX, the disruptive innovation arm of Embraer, working from the EmbraerX outpost in Silicon Valley. Julio is an Electrical Engineering graduate of Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) and holds a Master of Engineering degree in the field of Data Fusion and Filtering from the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA).
juliocbcf@yahoo.com.br

Claire Nelson, USA

PROFILE SUMMARY

Dr. Claire Nelson is Chief Ideation Leader of The Futures Forum – a non profit research and education practice committed to bringing the power of strategic foresight and sustainability engineering and diverse thought leadership to organizations and communities interested in managing change and effect powerful transformations. A gifted storyteller and social entrepreneur, Dr, Claire seamlessly blends her right and left brain skills to creating engaging scenarios that engage both hearts and minds and lay the blueprint and scaffolding for engineering the change you want. A sought after keynote speaker, Dr. Claire is a member of Association of Professional Futurists, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers and serves as Editor at Large for Human Futures Magazine of the World Futures Studies Federation.
nelson.claire@gmail.com

Clayton Dean, USA

PROFILE SUMMARY

Clayton Dean is a life long entrepreneur with 6 successful startups under his belt. He is an avid systems-thinking data scientist who specializes in bridging the gap between ‘thinking’ and ‘knowing’. He holds Masters in Computer Science and separately in Business Administration allowing him to work equally effectively at big-picture strategic thinking but also with the myriad of detailed, highly engineered, steps that underpin any success. Mr. Dean recently collaborated on a location-based app, StormPins which received funding by Graham Venture Partners and has just sold his company, Piper Consulting.
claytron9@hotmail.com

Dale Deacon, South Africa

PROFILE SUMMARY

Dale P. Deacon is a strategic technologist and founder of the Epic Research & Development Lab in Johannesburg, South Africa. Through his R&D efforts, he has contributed towards the planning, development and maintenance of digital intellectual property for a client-base spanning five continents. To date, these partners range from financial institutions (Standard Bank, Hollard Insurance, Cinnober Financial Technologies (Acquired by NASDAQ in 2019)), South African universities (Wits University, University of Johannesburg, & University of Stellenbosch), NGOs (Goethe Institut, GIZ, British Council), SOEs (Gauteng City-Region Observatory, Transnet), as well as telecoms and media organizations (Internet Solutions, Multichoice (Naspers), T-Systems, Seacom, La Liga). In the past, he has founded the WeAreVR.Africa eXtended Reality (VR & AR) community, co-curated the University of Johannesburg’s ‘VR for Business’ programme, been an Asilomar signatory on AI guidelines and ethics, published articles on ITC and the future of work, campaigned for a free and open internet with the Electronic Freedom Frontier, and lectured publicly at local universities.
d@teamepic.org

Hannu Lehtinen, Finland

PROFILE SUMMARY

I have participated, defined and mastered development projects on automation, programming, control theory, robots, autonomous vehicles and related mathematics from 1983 to 2010 – at VTT from 1983 to today – except 1985-87 at ASEA Robotics in Sweden . In addition, I trained VTT researchers to establish EU projects including concept selling to consortium partners in public and private sectors. I have been patent and market analyst for technical innovations and market possibilities at VTT since 2010. Keen on disruptions evolving. In addition to analysis what will happen, challenge myself on instruction sets on what we should do.
Hannu.Lehtinen@vtt.fi