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

David Eagleman
Neuroscientist, Author, Entrepreneur, Stanford University

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

Rosanna Durruthy
Vice President, Belonging, Learning and Employee Experience

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

Lauren Nunes
Former Chief People Officer, Twitch / Amazon

Q Hamirani
CPO, Future of Work Investor, HighLevel

Nichol Bradford
Founder, EIR, Human+Tech Week, Niremia Collective, SHRM

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

Elaine Barsoom
Venture Partner, Silicon Foundry

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

Zach Teiger
Stanford MBA; Curator, Future of Healthspan Summit, Human+Tech Week

Erick Brimen
CEO, Prospera

DeCarlos Love
CEO and Founder, Thrive AI Health

Ramez Naam
Founder & Managing Partner, Planetary VC
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Kristina Francis
CEO and Chief Possibilities Officer, Kin & Commons Strategy Group

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

Leo Grady
Founder and CEO, Jona Inc

Susan Armiger
President & CEO, Catalight

Antonio Forenza
Founder and CEO, AWEAR

Elizabeth Haas
NYU Research and Consulting Partnership Lead, US Conference of Mayors

Stephanie Tilenius
CEO and Founder, Peak Health

Elsa Jungman
Founder & CEO, HelloBiome

Tina Saw
Founder and CEO, Oral Genome

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

Tom Patterson
Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy, BetterUp

Dean Carter
CEO, Instill

Mikele Epperly
Global Integrated Program Leader, Roche / Genentech

Aaron Kemmer
CEO and Co-founder, Magic

Jonathan Cropper
Co-Founder, Lewis Latimer Fellowship Program

Cara Brennan Allamano
Founder, People Tech Partners

Eduardo Mendoza
Policy Manager, California YIMBY

Jacob Taylor
Fellow, Center for Sustainable Development at Brookings

Jessica Swank
Senior Vice President and Chief People Officer, Box

Viraj Mehta
Founder, Galen AI

Michael Murphy
Founder and President, AMMA

Ashish Atreja
Co-Founder, GenServe.AI

Jonathan Krive
Director of Business Development, Holobiome

Bianca Gignac
CEO & Founder, Gigi Guides, Italian Fix, Travel Beautifully Media Inc.,

Riana Malia
CEO & Founder, Board-Certified Neurosomatic Practitioner and Identity Architect, Riana Malia

Jeff Merritt
Head of Urban Transformation; Member of Executive Committee, World Economic Forum

Stephanie Shorter
Director of Investor Relations, Human+Tech Week

Dylan Gambardella
CEO and Co-Founder, Different Health
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Ben Nelson
Founder and CEO, Minerva Project

Jane Gong
Director of Emerging Technologies, City and County of San Francisco

Carissa Begonia
Business Coach and LinkedIn Strategist, CONSCIOUSXCHANGE

Alan Dones
Managing Partner, Strategic Urban Development Alliance, LLC

Michael Susi
Director, Global Wellness, LinkedIn

AJ Thomas
Founder & General Partner at Good Trouble Ventures; CEO, The Troublemaker Lab

Michael Jabbour
Chief AI Officer, Microsoft

Zara Butte
Internal Medicine physician | Clinical advisor, Human Longevity, Inc.

Cyndee Blockinger Lake
CEO, GuideLabs

Seth Miller
Co-Founder, Fearless Ventures

David Luu
Founder, longevitydocs.™ | Board Director, Noom

Prishani Satyapal
Executive Director, ECHo

Tim Chang
Co-Founder at The Portal / Venture Partner at Mayfield Fund

Cardinal Peter Turkson
Chancellor, Pontifical Academy of Sciences and Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (Holy See)

Robert Gordon
Chief Executive Officer, Launching To The Stars

Laura Boykin Okalebo
Life Sciences & Research Computing Leader, Nebius

Mika Onishi
General Partner, PORTAL Venture Partners

Johnny C. Taylor Jr.
President and CEO, SHRM

Chetan Bagga
CEO, Archetype

Neta Tamir
Founder & CEO, MyceliumWise

Megan Henshall
Head of Partnership Strategy & Engagement, Workplace Experience, Google

Sheri Moise
Strategic Advisor & Business Astrologer, Sheri Moise Business Astrologer

Jewel Tolentino
Co-Owner, Essetino Media

Tamara Hamai
President, Hamai Consulting

Mickey McManus
Executive Coach and Senior Advisor, Boston Consulting Group

Amelia Misenheimer
Founder, Amelia Misenheimer Consulting

Lee Rainie
Director of the Imagining the Digital Future Center, Elon University
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Jenny Elwell-Gerken
Owner & CEO, Leadership & Business Coach, Unruly Leadership

Stephanie Veraghen
CEO, Fractional COO, Show Up Awesome, The COO Solution

Al Dea
Founder & Host, The Edge of Work

Massimiliano "Max" Moruzzi
CEO, Xaba (xaba.ai)

Sonaya Williams
Founder & Strategic Lead, Writer, Podcast, Speaker, The CEO Partner, Global Life Inc.

David Gow
CEO, The Center for Houston’s Future
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Shayna Rattler Davis
CEO & Founder, Executive Signals Group

Elliot Roth
Founder, Biopunk Community Lab

Carole Robin
Co-Founder, Leaders In Tech

Faith Morley
Sr. Manager, Coaching & Team Programs - Talent Development, LinkedIn

John Hagel III
Founder & President, Center For Growth, Beyond Our Edge LLC

Maeve Ferguson
CEO, Maeve Ferguson Coaching

Benjamin Julian
Head of Industrial Design, Nuro Robotics

Anjanette “AJ” Harper
Head Writing Coach, Heroic Public Speaking ·

Wei-Wu He, Ph.D.
Executive Chairman, Human Longevity Inc.

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

Nadya Direkova-Pell
AI Coaching Design & Curator AI Coaching, Human Tech Week

Dorothy Kilroy
Chief Commercial Officer, Oura

Craig Donato
"Board Member, Latitude AI;
Former CBO, Roblox"

Steve Carnevale
Founding Partner, Blue Ash Ventures

Silvija Martincevic
CEO, Deputy; Former CCO, Affirm

Adam Gazzaley
Founder & Executive Director of Neuroscape, UCSF

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

Richard Hua
Founder & CEO (Chief EQ Officer), EPIQ

Larry Green
Global Partnerships Lead, Health & Performance, Google

Jennifer Turner
Director of Organizational Strategy at Alphabet

Gianna Driver
Chief People Officer of One Workplace

Van Jones
CNN Host, Founder of DreamMachine.org and Founder of RAPPORT.co

Karla Ballard
Founder and CEO HUMN

Rudabeh Pakravan
Founding Principal, Sidell Pakravan Architects

Marquesa Finch
Founder, Pyrium

David Muhammad
Executive Director, National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform

Karina Alexanyan
Founding Executive Director, Positive Technology Institute

Manuela Travaglianti
Ethics Toolkit Lead, Stanford University's 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 SAPIEN.org | Host, Peak Human podcast

Olivia Svrchek
Chief Nursing Executive, Prenuvo

Hussain Ahamed
Strategic Advisor, Ultrahuman

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, Orbit Neuro

Jose Benitez Cong
VP Recruiting & AI, Airbnb

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

Kelly O'Brien
Executive Director of Brain Health, West Health

Kelley Steven Waiss
CEO, NovaWorks

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

Auret Esselen
Co-Founder & Creative Director | YouTube Optimization Strategist, Essetino Media

Bryan Power
Chief People Officer, Atomic Machines

Avinish Reddy
Founder & Ceo, Elevated Medical

Viraj Mehta
Founder, Galen AI (YC X25)

Cheryl Healy
Co-Director of Brain Health, McKinsey Health Institute

Michelle Vitus
Founder & CEO, Slate

Ben Davis
Founder and Chief Visionary Officer, Illuminate

Giuseppe Barbalinardo
VP of Data Science & AI, Tonal

Adrian Walker
CEO, Anori

Brooke Stafford-Brizard
Senior Vice President, Innovation and Impact, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

Nick Walton
CEO and Co-Founder, Latitude

Larry Brilliant
Founder and CEO, Evity Technologies | Co-Founder, Seva Foundation

Sean Moser
Executive Advisor, MOZE Group

Clarence Wooten
Founder & CEO, CoFounder.AI | Ex-Google [X] Exec & EIR | Author | Investor & Advisor

Cheryl Sew Hoy
Founder and CEO, TinyHealth

Jacqueline Shreibati
Director, Clinical (Consumer Health), Google

Athena Aktipis, PhD.
Director, Cooperative Futures Institute, Arizona State University

Tristan Harris
Co-Founder & President, The Center for Humane Technology

Paul Stein
Chairman and Co-founder, SKS Partners

Jason Ambrose
Studio Practice Leader, HKS Inc

Hadeel Al-Tashi
Head of SHRM Labs

Catherine Geanuracos
Advisor, Foundation for Public Code

Lisa Gluckstein
Government Affairs, Planning Department, City and County of San Francisco

Gordy Bal
Co-founder, Conscious Thought Revolution (CTR)

Steve Brown
Founder, CureWise.ai


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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)
