Dr. Michael Helander is President and CEO at OTI Lumionics, a Canadian company developing production-ready advanced materials for OLED Displays.  A part of his research is focused on discovering new materials using quantum-inspired methods as well as a combination of classical and quantum annealing devices. 

Anja Juhl Jensen is a Senior Managing Consultant at IBM and has extensive experience working with disruptive technologies that drive sustainability. Other areas of expertise include innovation, cognitive solutions, SAP software, compliance, and security. Currently, Ms. Jensen is involved in projects focused on gathering data and develop real-time sustainability reports as well as product modernization using artificial intelligence, image recognition, and machine learning.

This milestone is co-published by Søren Nielsen and Michael Rutzler. Dr. Søren Nielsen holds a M.D. in biochemistry from Aarhus University in Denmark. Dr. Nielsen has been working as a full professor at Aarhus University and Aalborg University. As one of the leading figures in Aquaporins’ research, he worked very closely with Peter Agre, a Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, for many years. He is also the CEO of Synact Pharma ApS and a shareholder of Apoglyx AB.

Huang Gong is Associate professor at the Key Laboratory of Geriatrics, Beijing Institute of Geriatrics, Beijing Hospital. She graduated from Peking Union Medical College and worked as a research scholar at Yale University, School of Medicine. Currently, she works as an Associate professor at the Key Laboratory of Geriatrics, Beijing Institute of Geriatrics, Beijing Hospital.

Lejjy Gafour came from a background that has focused on human-centered design, research, enterprise architecture, iterative product development, strategy, and more. He is the co-founder of Future Fields, a biotechnology company focused on enabling solutions for the cellular agriculture industry worldwide. He thinks that the future is not shaped by a single discipline or idea alone.