
Meet the 2026 Architects
The Most Consequential Builders in Human+AI

David Eagleman
Neuroscientist, Author, Entrepreneur, Director of Center for Science and Law

Steven Kotler
New York Times-bestselling author, Award-winning journalist, Cofounder and Executive director of Flow Research Collective

Elissa Epel
Vice Chair, Department of Psychiatry, UCSF Director, Aging, Metabolism, and Emotion Center

Rosanna Durruthy
Vice President, Global Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging, LinkedIn

Daniel Kraft
Chair, NextMed Health
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Dr. Eric Solomon
Founder and CEO, The Human OS

Lauren Nunes
Chief People Officer, Twitch / Amazon

Q Hamirani
CPO, Future of Work Investor, HighLevel

Elaine Barsoom
Assoc. VP Innovation, UCSD

Michele Jawando
CEO, Omidyar Network | Co-chair, Humanity AI

David Ko
Strategic Advisor, Calm
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Joseph Spence
Chairman & CIO, NativelyAI

Paul Roben
Assoc. VP Innovation, UCSD

Barney Pell
Venture Partner, Radical Ventures

Marjorie Morrison
CEO & Founder, Psych Hub

Naoko Okumoto
Founder and Managing Partner, Niremia Collective

DeCarlos Love
CEO and Founder, Thrive Health

Hiroaki Kitano
Chief Technology Officer, Sony Group

Ramez Naam
Climate Tech Investor and Award-Winning Author
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Kristina Francis
CEO and Chief Possibility Offier, Kin & Commons Strategy Group

Peter Hirshberg
Co-founder and Executive Director, City Science Lab, SF

N.B. Patil
Co-Founder & CEO, Ozlo

Leo Grady
Founder and CEO, Jona Inc

Antonio Forenza, PhD
Founder and CEO, AWEAR

Elsa Jungman, Ph.D.
Founder & CEO, HelloBiome

Dr. Tina Saw
Founder and CEO, Oral Genome

Dr. Kenny Brown
Co-founder and CEO, Feno

Pelin Thorogood
Co-founder and Executive Chair, Radicle

Philip Strandwitz
CEO and Co-founder, Holobiome

Hamet Watt
Founder and CEO, Share Ventures

Dean Carter
CEO, Instill

Aaron Kemmer
CEO and Co-founder, Magic

Chethan Ramachandran
CEO and Co-founder, Skillprint

Davin Miyoshi
Co-founder, Skillprint

Alex Ruiz
CEO, ComplexChaos

Dimitris Fotis Sakellariou
CEO and Founder, Piramidal

Kris Pahuja
Co-founder, Piramidal

Viraj Mehta
Founder, Galen AI

Priyanka S
Founder, Galen AI

Karl Mehta
Founder & CEO, XSpan.ai

Wei Wu
Executive Chairman, Human Longevity

Saeju Jeong
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Noom

Dean Ornish
Founder & President, Preventive Medicine Research Institute
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Alison Ryu
General Partner, Able Partners

Nadya Direkova-Pell
Director of User Experience Panasonic Well

Dorothy Kilroy
Chief Commercial Officer, Oura

Craig Donato
Chief Business Officer, Roblox

Adam Gazzaley
Founder & Executive Director of Neuroscape, UCSF

Katherine Newman
Provost and EVP, Academic Affairs, University of California, UC System

Richard Hua
Chief EQ Officer, Amazon; CEO, Epiq

Larry Green
Dir, Health & Performance [Work/Health], Google

Jennifer Turner
Dir, Organizational Strategy, Alphabet/Google

Gianna Driver
Chief People Officer, OpenTable

Van Jones
Host at CNN;
President, Magic Labs Media

Karla Ballard
Founder and CEO HUMN

Marquesa Finch
Founder, Pyrium

David Muhammad
Executive Director, National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform

Chuck Baker
Assistant City Administrator, City of Oakland

Dr. Karina Alexanyan
Founding Executive Director, Positive Technology Institute

Manuela Travaglianti
Project Lead for the Ethics Toolkit at McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society

Aneil Mallavarapu
Managing Partner @ Humain Ventures, Lifespan Project

Linea Avey
GP @ Humain Ventures, Lifespan Project

Brian Sanders
Founder @ Sapiens, Lifespan Project

Olivia Svrchek
Chief Nursing Executive, Prenuvo

Hussain Ahamed
Strategic Advisor, Ultrahuman

Ivy Ross
Chief Design Officer, Google

David Rabin
Chief Medical Officer, Co-Inventor, & Co-Founder, Apollo Neuroscience

Brandon Sammut
Chief People & AI Transformation Officer, Zapier

Marcus Sawyerr
CEO, EQapp

Craig Forman
CEO, Culture C and Fellow, Harvard University

Jeff Jensen
Founding Engineer & CTO, Orbit

Jose Benitez Cong
VP Recruiting & AI, Airbnb

Ziad Sultan
Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO), Function Health

Danny Guillory
Chief People Officer, GameTime

Kelley Steven Waiss
CEO, NovaWorks

Julie Wenah
Fellow, Responsible Biometric Data & Privacy Lawyer, The OpEd Project


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Founder, Human+Tech
Week, Niremia Collective,
EIR SHRM
Gordy Bal
Author, Impact Investor &
Founder, CTR Capital
Barney Pell, PhD
AI Pioneer & Chief Strategist, Chief Scientist, Head of AI, Magic
Kristina Francis
CEO & Chief Possibility
Officer, Kin & Commons Strategy Group
Jen Kem
CEO, Master Brand Institute
and Founder, Thought Leadership Collective (TLC)
