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Mei Lin Fung

Chair

Board Chair since 2020 – Present

Mei Lin is the current chair of People Centered Internet, where she is working on recruiting for the Global Help Desk (GHD) and the Echar Pa’lante initiative with Puerto Rico. She is also one of the co-founders of PCI (along with Vint Cerf), an organization created with the intention of ensuring that the internet is used as a positive force for good. In chairing PCI, Mei Lin is committed to establishing a “people centered” norm of technological development.

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Cyndi is the Chief of Staff at the Threatcasting Lab, Producer at Applied Futures Lab, Producing Director at the Weaponized Narrative Initiative, and a producer for the president’s office at Arizona State University. Through these roles, she engages with multiple audiences across numerous mediums to create narratives for tools, training, and applied outcomes. She received her BFA in Fine Arts from Kendall College of Art and Design and her MFA from Arizona State University. ​​
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Mei Lin’s Bio page

Honors

    • Hasso Plattner Institute Fellow 2022
    • Women of the Forum Award, Women’s Economic Forum 2020
    • Top 10 Finalist, GEAR Challenge – USA Office and Management & Budgets challenge for citizen engagement for better customer experience 2018
    • Shortlisted for Woman of the Year – Silicon Valley, Information Age, 2018
    • Phillip R Crosby Golden Medallion – American Society of Competitiveness 2007
    • Judge – Greater China CRM Awards 2003-2007

People must be at center of the Internet which is becoming “the infrastructure that underlies all infrastructures” Mei Lin Fung is Chair of the People Centered Internet building resilient communities with digital supply chains and finance, harnessing data so that all community members can thrive. She chairs the Technical Committee on Sustainability for the the IEEE Society for the Social Implications of Technology. She is on the advisory council of GovStack, a UN initiative to develop common digital building blocks for government services and was named a 2022 Hasso Plattner Institute Fellow. She worked at intel and Oracle. Mei Lin served as Co-Chair for the Expert Roundtable for Asia, Europe, Africa and the Middle-East for the 2023 UN Commission on the Status of Women report on Digital Innovation. She convenes the Digital Cooperation and Diplomacy network in monthly international meetings chaired by the Tech Envoy of Estonia. She is the lead author of policy briefs for the German and Japan G7 presidencies, Think7.org process, of which two of the 2022 policies have been selected for implementation by the German Government. The Puerto Rico Prosperity Initiative is the first sandbox for digital transformation underway in the US that engages with digital cross sector regulatory issues, in a participatory democracy approach.

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    • Digital Cooperation and Diplomacy
    • Middle East

Dr. Linton Wells II

Vice Chair

Board Member since 2019

Dr. Linton Wells II brings over 50 years of military, government, and academic experience focused on national security, technology, ethics, and global development to the PCI board. His contributions as a US Naval Officer and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, under two administrations, shaped current national security frameworks for driving public-private cooperation for disaster relief.

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Cyndi is the Chief of Staff at the Threatcasting Lab, Producer at Applied Futures Lab, Producing Director at the Weaponized Narrative Initiative, and a producer for the president’s office at Arizona State University. Through these roles, she engages with multiple audiences across numerous mediums to create narratives for tools, training, and applied outcomes. She received her BFA in Fine Arts from Kendall College of Art and Design and her MFA from Arizona State University. ​​
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Experience :

  • George Mason University
  • Principal Deputy Asst Secretary (Networks and Information Integration) for the Office of the Secretary of Defense

 

Lin’s expertise in resilience building has enabled him to lead PCI’s projects focused on building sustainable, digital ecosystems in Native American tribal communities and Puerto Rico. He’s excited to continue exploring how knowledge and technologies can be shared across sectors to build new solutions.

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Justin Bryant

Secretary

Board Member since 2020

Justin Bryant is a recent graduate of Stanford Law School and former Treasurer and Operations Lead of People Centered Internet, where he is working on the Edgemoor Institute and Business Operations projects. He focuses on the intersection of law, policy, and technology in a global context and was selected as a Salzburg-Cutler Fellow in International Law and Public Service for his research on digital rights and data protection in Africa.

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He has worked at Microsoft in Beijing and San Francisco on projects concerning government affairs and technology and civic innovation and ALT Advisory in Johannesburg to build Data Protection Africa, a digital platform created to make data protection laws across Africa accessible. He has also worked at a Vault 50 law firm, the World Economic Forum Center for the 4 th Industrial Revolution, and the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project.  Justin holds a B.A. in Public Policy from Duke University, an MSc in Global Affairs from Tsinghua University—where he was a Schwarzman Scholar, an LL.M in European and International Business Law from the University of Vienna, and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional- Europe (CIPP-E).
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He has worked at Microsoft in Beijing and San Francisco on projects concerning government affairs and technology and civic innovation and ALT Advisory in Johannesburg to build Data Protection Africa, a digital platform created to make data protection laws across Africa accessible. He has also worked at a Vault 50 law firm, the World Economic Forum Center for the 4 th Industrial Revolution, and the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. Justin holds a B.A. in Public Policy from Duke University, an MSc in Global Affairs from Tsinghua University—where he was a Schwarzman Scholar, an LL.M in European and International Business Law from the University of Vienna, and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional- Europe (CIPP-E).

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    • Digital Global Supply Chain
    • Africa

Tamara Singh

Treasurer

Board Member since 2021

Tamara considers global systems and the nudges that may help to render them more sustainable, drawing on her expertise in Financial Systems, Digital and Sustainability. She enjoys a portfolio career that allows her to devote her energy to her profession and her passions.

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Cyndi is the Chief of Staff at the Threatcasting Lab, Producer at Applied Futures Lab, Producing Director at the Weaponized Narrative Initiative, and a producer for the president’s office at Arizona State University. Through these roles, she engages with multiple audiences across numerous mediums to create narratives for tools, training, and applied outcomes. She received her BFA in Fine Arts from Kendall College of Art and Design and her MFA from Arizona State University. ​​
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Tamara’s Bio page

Tamara built her career across energy, financial services and fund management, governing trading floors in London, New York and Asia Pacific. Having earned her stripes at Centrica Plc, BP Oil International, Deutsche Bank and Macquarie Bank, she returned home to Singapore in 2012.

On home ground, Tamara served Westpac Banking Corporation and then her country. Whilst supporting GIC’s mandate for the nation, she contributed to digital transformation and sustainability initiatives, building relationships across the financial ecosystem worldwide. This ignited her to structure a portfolio career centred on enabling sustainable organisations to scale, while championing impactful change.

At present, Tamara works at all levels across industries to both better the finance ecosystem and to further enterprises through sustainable business practices. She holds Board positions with Conjunct Consulting, South East Asia’s first social change consultancy, and the People Centered Internet, a 501(c)3 non-profit organisation. She coaches leaders of organisations and advises start-ups navigating sustainability and scale.

She leverages her experience and degrees in Law and Applied Accounting to boost the organisations and causes she works with. Tamara attained her Executive Masters in Business Administration from INSEAD whilst heavily pregnant with her second child, which she confesses to being “efficient but not necessarily recommended”. She recharges through appreciating food and drink in excellent company, then exercising and dieting in solitude. She is devoted to her two young sons, who have stretched her out of her comfort zone and into efforts to master ball sports and patience.

 

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2021 Thought Leadership

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    • Digital Ecosystems
    • South and East
    • SE Asia

Jascha Stein

Chief Strategy Officer

Board Member since 2022

Jascha is co-founder and CEO of OmniBot, a global provider of voice and conversational AI platforms, headquartered in Germany.

Jascha Stein is a visionary leader and board member and Chief Strategy Officer at the People-Centered Internet, where he serves as the Project Lead for the “Puerto Rico Prosperity Initiative”.

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He has worked at Microsoft in Beijing and San Francisco on projects concerning government affairs and technology and civic innovation and ALT Advisory in Johannesburg to build Data Protection Africa, a digital platform created to make data protection laws across Africa accessible. He has also worked at a Vault 50 law firm, the World Economic Forum Center for the 4 th Industrial Revolution, and the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project.  Justin holds a B.A. in Public Policy from Duke University, an MSc in Global Affairs from Tsinghua University—where he was a Schwarzman Scholar, an LL.M in European and International Business Law from the University of Vienna, and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional- Europe (CIPP-E).
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Jascha’s bio page

Jascha Stein is a visionary leader and board member and Chief Strategy Officer at the People-Centered Internet, where he serves as the Project Lead for the “Puerto Rico Prosperity Initiative”. This initiative aims to harness digital technologies for the people of Puerto Rico to be prosperous and resilient. By bringing businesses, non-profits, and governmental agencies to innovate within an experimental sandbox he is forging new innovative paths currently blocked by regulations and laws from a pre-digital era. With more than 20 years of experience in digital and social impact projects, Jascha uniquely brings a people centered perspective developed over years of training and practice in psychology, to the application and impact of technology in environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG).

A successful execution-driven strategist, Jascha seamlessly blends human and artificial intelligence to drive results that deliver both business value and positive change. He is a commercially successful serial entrepreneur who is now focused on social and environmental impact, with extensive experience in public-private partnership projects.

 

Jascha is a member of the Forbes Technology Council and a Global Innovator for the World Economic Forum, where he is at the forefront of setting ethical and policy standards for AI to make it accessible and effective for all.

 

Recently, Jascha co-founded Particip.ai CCC – Crises Contact Centers – an AI-powered participation system that supports Ukranian refugees in Germany. The system alleviates the workload of contact centers and NGOs by structuring clear information for effective action. Particip.ai is based on the conversational AI technology of OmniBot, created by his co-founder and Chief Scientist, Jeff Adams, who previously led the team that built the Amazon Alexa voice and natural language processing platform in the US.

 

Jascha was personally invited by Klaus Schwab to the annual meeting in Davos when Chairman Schwab of the World Economic Forum (WEF) found out about his work in the WEF and global social impact. He is an Edison Alliance Executive at the WEF, committed to harnessing the power of technology for driving social and environmental impact.

 

At WEF and in all his work and especially relevant in his work for Puerto Rico, Jascha stands for Participation, powered by AI, enabling people to participate in shaping government policy, and assuring effective funding of civic, social and business innovation based on data and evidence.

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    • Digitization Strategy for People Centered Internet

Cyndi Coon

Board Member since 2020

Cyndi Coon is the CEO, and Founder of Laboratory5 Inc., where she builds frameworks and human ecosystems to provide decision-makers in government agencies, military, higher education, and nonprofits with scenarios they need to take action. She serves on the board of People Centered Internet, where she co-created the Global Help Desk (GHD) scaffolding with Todd Hoskins of Canopy Gap.

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Cyndi is the Chief of Staff at the Threatcasting Lab, Producer at Applied Futures Lab, Producing Director at the Weaponized Narrative Initiative, and a producer for the president’s office at Arizona State University. Through these roles, she engages with multiple audiences across numerous mediums to create narratives for tools, training, and applied outcomes. She received her BFA in Fine Arts from Kendall College of Art and Design and her MFA from Arizona State University. ​​
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Cyndi is the Chief of Staff at the Threatcasting Lab, Producer at Applied Futures Lab, Producing Director at the Weaponized Narrative Initiative, and a producer for the president’s office at Arizona State University. Through these roles, she engages with multiple audiences across numerous mediums to create narratives for tools, training, and applied outcomes. She received her BFA in Fine Arts from Kendall College of Art and Design and her MFA from Arizona State University. ​​

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    • i4j – Innovation for Jobs
    • Future
    • North America

Diego Molano-Vega

Board Member since 2021

Diego Molano-Vega is the former Minister of Information Technologies and Communications of Colombia. He stewarded Colombia’s national technology plan, which was highlighted at the World Economic Forum in Davos, and has aided governments in more than 15 countries in designing technology policies.

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He has worked at Microsoft in Beijing and San Francisco on projects concerning government affairs and technology and civic innovation and ALT Advisory in Johannesburg to build Data Protection Africa, a digital platform created to make data protection laws across Africa accessible. He has also worked at a Vault 50 law firm, the World Economic Forum Center for the 4 th Industrial Revolution, and the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project.  Justin holds a B.A. in Public Policy from Duke University, an MSc in Global Affairs from Tsinghua University—where he was a Schwarzman Scholar, an LL.M in European and International Business Law from the University of Vienna, and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional- Europe (CIPP-E).
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    • Banco Davivienda

With a commitment to leveraging technology to reduce poverty, Molano-Vega joined PCI to work on a project looking at how financial technology ecosystems can empower communities. He views PCI as a bridge between Silicon Valley and the developing world, and is excited to harness the innovation and creativity of the network to build new solutions.

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    • Cities
    • Latin America

    Benedikt Signer

    Board Member since 2022

    Benedikt’s work focuses on the intersection of climate, finance, and technology. He spent over a decade at the World Bank supporting countries in financial planning for climate risks. His focus was equally on supporting governments and building new programs.

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    He has worked at Microsoft in Beijing and San Francisco on projects concerning government affairs and technology and civic innovation and ALT Advisory in Johannesburg to build Data Protection Africa, a digital platform created to make data protection laws across Africa accessible. He has also worked at a Vault 50 law firm, the World Economic Forum Center for the 4 th Industrial Revolution, and the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project.  Justin holds a B.A. in Public Policy from Duke University, an MSc in Global Affairs from Tsinghua University—where he was a Schwarzman Scholar, an LL.M in European and International Business Law from the University of Vienna, and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional- Europe (CIPP-E).
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    Benedikt has also launched multiple new initiatives including the Global Risk Financing Facility, a $300 million fund to scale up financial preparedness to shocks through Work Bank projects, and a training program that has since scaled to reach over 18,000+ people in 65 countries. Benedikt has frequently supported global policy discussions, including multiple G7 and G20 Presidencies, APEC, and ASEAN+3 discussions. He is currently an advisor to the World Bank, Fellow at the UK Centre for Greening Finance and Investment at the University of Oxford, and a member of the global advisory board of PLACE. He has a Master’s degree in Global Politics from the London School of Economics.

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      • Theory of Change
      • Digital Finance
      • Europe

        Distinguished Advisors

        Diane Strahan

        Senior executive with 25+ years global leadership experience in privately held and publicly traded companies and nonprofits in the Internet, media, telecom and mobile sectors. Successfully led digital transformation initiatives for both disruptors and established market leaders. I bring a passion for turning visions into reality, inspiring operational excellence and strengthening stakeholder value.

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        He has worked at Microsoft in Beijing and San Francisco on projects concerning government affairs and technology and civic innovation and ALT Advisory in Johannesburg to build Data Protection Africa, a digital platform created to make data protection laws across Africa accessible. He has also worked at a Vault 50 law firm, the World Economic Forum Center for the 4 th Industrial Revolution, and the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project.  Justin holds a B.A. in Public Policy from Duke University, an MSc in Global Affairs from Tsinghua University—where he was a Schwarzman Scholar, an LL.M in European and International Business Law from the University of Vienna, and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional- Europe (CIPP-E).
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        With i4j he recently published “The People Centered Economy, the new ecosystem for work”. i4j’s aim is helping in building a society where the enormous advances in technology – AI in particular – are used to improve the working lives of people by deploying them where their talents and capacities are optimally utilized.

        Previously Guido was CEO of ANP, the largest independent BtB news and information supplier to all Dutch media and organisations in public and private sectors, ran two venture capital funds and was executive at BT in The Netherlands and Germany and director at social impact bank Triodos.

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          Mara Strandlund

          Mara Strandlund is a global expert on building teams that drive impact. Currently, she is serving as the Chief People Officer at Resilience, a company that is changing the way medicine is made. Inspired by PCI’s mission to help communities achieve their development goals, Mara joined the board in 2021.

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          He has worked at Microsoft in Beijing and San Francisco on projects concerning government affairs and technology and civic innovation and ALT Advisory in Johannesburg to build Data Protection Africa, a digital platform created to make data protection laws across Africa accessible. He has also worked at a Vault 50 law firm, the World Economic Forum Center for the 4 th Industrial Revolution, and the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project.  Justin holds a B.A. in Public Policy from Duke University, an MSc in Global Affairs from Tsinghua University—where he was a Schwarzman Scholar, an LL.M in European and International Business Law from the University of Vienna, and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional- Europe (CIPP-E).
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          Drawing upon deep experience in Human Resources, Mara is committed to building an ecosystem of people, from all sectors, committed to solving global challenges. In recognition that a “people-centered” internet cannot exist without people , Mara serves as the backbone for the PCI volunteer network. She devises strategies to find, engage, and connect volunteers from around the world.

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            • People
            • Rest of the World

          Executive Action Board

          Matthew Rantanen

          Director of Technology for the Southern California Tribal Chairmen’s Association (SCTCA)

          He assists tribes with technology development, ranging from broadband network design, radio station applications, tribal administration technologies, to technology policy development. Rantanen serves on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Native Nations Broadband Task Force for a second term, and is co-chair on the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) Technology and Telecommunications Subcommittee as well as the Technology Task Force at NCAI.

           

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          He has worked at Microsoft in Beijing and San Francisco on projects concerning government affairs and technology and civic innovation and ALT Advisory in Johannesburg to build Data Protection Africa, a digital platform created to make data protection laws across Africa accessible. He has also worked at a Vault 50 law firm, the World Economic Forum Center for the 4 th Industrial Revolution, and the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project.  Justin holds a B.A. in Public Policy from Duke University, an MSc in Global Affairs from Tsinghua University—where he was a Schwarzman Scholar, an LL.M in European and International Business Law from the University of Vienna, and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional- Europe (CIPP-E).
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          Rantanen is a Board member on Arizona State University’s, American Indian Policy Institute(AIPI), and sits on the Tribal Advisory Council(TAC) to the State of California for the Broadband Council and the Cal Office of Emergency Services.

          Matthew has been called a “Cyber-Warrior for Tribal Broadband.” He is an advocate for Net-Neutrality and Tribal Priority for Spectrum over Tribal Lands.

           

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                Senior Fellows

                Tiffany Brar

                Special educator, disability & gender activist, accessibility evangelist, motivational speaker. Kerala, India

                A born fighter, did not let her disability stand as a hindrance in her moving forward. She became blind due to the sheer negligence of a doctor, soon after birth. Though her parents tried to rectify her condition, it was to no avail and she strongly believes that it is for a purpose that she is visually challenged and her disability is a way to bring possibility for others like her.

                In March 2022 PCI was proud to hear the news that Tiffany received the highest woman’s award from the President of India ( link ).

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                He has worked at Microsoft in Beijing and San Francisco on projects concerning government affairs and technology and civic innovation and ALT Advisory in Johannesburg to build Data Protection Africa, a digital platform created to make data protection laws across Africa accessible. He has also worked at a Vault 50 law firm, the World Economic Forum Center for the 4 th Industrial Revolution, and the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project.  Justin holds a B.A. in Public Policy from Duke University, an MSc in Global Affairs from Tsinghua University—where he was a Schwarzman Scholar, an LL.M in European and International Business Law from the University of Vienna, and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional- Europe (CIPP-E).
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                Awards :

                  • In 2022 she was awarded the Nari Shakti Puraskar for empowering visually impaired rural women.
                  • In 2021, she received the Inspiring Woman Award from eiT NASSCOM.
                  • In 2020, she received The Holman Prize from the Lighthouse for the Blind, USA .
                  • In 2020, She received the Spirit Awards from World Pulse, USA .
                  • In 2019, she received The Spindle Award for Project Jyothirgamaya From Voice, Netherlands .
                  • In 2019, she received World of Difference International Award from The International Alliance for Women, Australia.
                  • In 2019, she received Iconic women for making the world a better place Award from Women Economic Forum .
                  • In 2019, she received the Award for Excellence in social service from the Kochouseph Chittilappilly Foundation, awarded by Kochouseph Chittilappilly .
                  • In 2019, she received the Wonder Woman Award for her Community service from Ladies Circle India.
                  • In 2019, she received the Neelam Khurshid Kanga Award from the National Association for the Blind, awarded by John Abraham .
                  • In 2018, she received the Hellen Keller award from the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP), awarded by Dr. Sathya Pal Singh, Honorable Minister of State for Human Resource Development.
                  • In 2018, she received karma Rathna Award for Outstanding social worker from Palm International.
                  • In 2018, she received the Real Hero Award by ZEE TV from Vivek Oberoi, Omung Kumar and Huma Qureshi .
                  • In 2018, she received the Vocational Excellence Award from Rotary International.
                  • In 2018, she received the Phoenix Award from Padma Shri Mammooty .
                  • In 2018, she received the Women of Vision Kerala vanitha Rathna Award.
                  • In 2018, she received the Make A Difference Award from Rotary International .
                  • In 2018, she received the Women of the Year Award from Job Day Foundation.
                  • In 2017, she received the National Award for being a ‘Best role model’ from the President of India
                  • In 2017, she received the Age of Unknown Award by TEDx vazthacaud.
                  • In 2017, she received the Sarojini Trilok Nath-National Best Role Model Award from National Association for the Blind.
                  • In 2017, she received the Bold and Beautiful Award from Doordarshan .
                  • In 2016, she received the Prestigious Saarthak Naari Women Achievers Award.
                  • In 2016, she received the For the Sake of Honour Award, Rotary International ‘s highest award.
                  • In 2015, she received the Women of the Year Award from Hope Trust.
                  • In 2012, she received the Kerala State Award for Social Worker.

                Experience :

                  • Founder: Jyothirgamaya Foundation Apr 2014 – Present
                  • Degree in English Literature from Kerala University
                  • Bachelor’s in Education in special education from Rama Krishna Mission Vivekananda University, Coimbatore
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                                  Todd Hoskins

                                  Organization Designer & Coach

                                  Canopy Gap

                                  Todd is both a practitioner and thought leader in the art and science of working together, with a focus on the dynamics of life that lead to coordinated movement in teams, and in ecosystems.

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                                  He has worked at Microsoft in Beijing and San Francisco on projects concerning government affairs and technology and civic innovation and ALT Advisory in Johannesburg to build Data Protection Africa, a digital platform created to make data protection laws across Africa accessible. He has also worked at a Vault 50 law firm, the World Economic Forum Center for the 4 th Industrial Revolution, and the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project.  Justin holds a B.A. in Public Policy from Duke University, an MSc in Global Affairs from Tsinghua University—where he was a Schwarzman Scholar, an LL.M in European and International Business Law from the University of Vienna, and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional- Europe (CIPP-E).
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                                  In 2009, Todd launched Canopy Gap, an organization design firm inspired by his passion for nature, cooperation, collaboration, and navigating complexity. With wisdom guide Marti Spiegelman, Todd co-hosts the podcast and leadership program Leading from Being.

                                  With graduate work in psychology, interest in network science and ecology, and training in awareness and somatic learning, Todd thrives when bridging disciplines and dimensions. Having worked in the corporate world, technology startups, and with a wide variety of entrepreneurs and nonprofits, he has helped launch 15 organizations and initiatives in the last twelve years, as well as worked with large organizations including Microsoft, Lenovo, Kaiser Permanente, NASA, Dell, and Northwestern University.

                                  He is accustomed to a diverse set of spaces – from boardrooms to laboratories to forests – and he revels living in an old farmhouse among the dunes of Southwest Michigan, enjoying tango dancing with his beloved partner Pia, and spending hours outdoors each day.

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                                  Guido van Nispen

                                  i4j Innovation for Jobs

                                  Publisher: People Centered Economy Book Series

                                  Guido is Publisher of Silicon Valley thinktank i4j (Innovation for Jobs) chaired by Vint Cerf. Furthermore he is, among other, on the supervisory boards of World Press Photo and Cinekid, Advisor to the Dutch Council for Culture chairing committees advising the Dutch government and advisor to scaleups.

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                                  He has worked at Microsoft in Beijing and San Francisco on projects concerning government affairs and technology and civic innovation and ALT Advisory in Johannesburg to build Data Protection Africa, a digital platform created to make data protection laws across Africa accessible. He has also worked at a Vault 50 law firm, the World Economic Forum Center for the 4 th Industrial Revolution, and the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project.  Justin holds a B.A. in Public Policy from Duke University, an MSc in Global Affairs from Tsinghua University—where he was a Schwarzman Scholar, an LL.M in European and International Business Law from the University of Vienna, and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional- Europe (CIPP-E).
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                                  With i4j he recently published “The People Centered Economy, the new ecosystem for work”. i4j’s aim is helping in building a society where the enormous advances in technology – AI in particular – are used to improve the working lives of people by deploying them where their talents and capacities are optimally utilized.

                                  Previously Guido was CEO of ANP, the largest independent BtB news and information supplier to all Dutch media and organisations in public and private sectors, ran two venture capital funds and was executive at BT in The Netherlands and Germany and director at social impact bank Triodos.

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                                  John Taschek

                                  Senior Vice President, Strategy

                                  Salesforce

                                  Made the seemingly quantum leap from evaluating technology at a publication (eWEEK) covering technology to evaluating technology for a public technology company evaluating publications.

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                                  He has worked at Microsoft in Beijing and San Francisco on projects concerning government affairs and technology and civic innovation and ALT Advisory in Johannesburg to build Data Protection Africa, a digital platform created to make data protection laws across Africa accessible. He has also worked at a Vault 50 law firm, the World Economic Forum Center for the 4 th Industrial Revolution, and the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project.  Justin holds a B.A. in Public Policy from Duke University, an MSc in Global Affairs from Tsinghua University—where he was a Schwarzman Scholar, an LL.M in European and International Business Law from the University of Vienna, and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional- Europe (CIPP-E).
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                                    • Salesfore.com
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                                    • Analysis
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                                  John Wharton

                                  Major General (US Army Ret.)

                                  Senior Advisor, Chertoff Group

                                  John has served the Nation for more than three decades retiring as a Major General in the United States Army. He has extensive experience in leadership, technology, innovation and logistics. He is currently a public and private sector advisor to numerous technology companies and organizations. His focus is on national security and technology acceleration in support of national priorities and homeland security.

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                                  He has worked at Microsoft in Beijing and San Francisco on projects concerning government affairs and technology and civic innovation and ALT Advisory in Johannesburg to build Data Protection Africa, a digital platform created to make data protection laws across Africa accessible. He has also worked at a Vault 50 law firm, the World Economic Forum Center for the 4 th Industrial Revolution, and the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project.  Justin holds a B.A. in Public Policy from Duke University, an MSc in Global Affairs from Tsinghua University—where he was a Schwarzman Scholar, an LL.M in European and International Business Law from the University of Vienna, and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional- Europe (CIPP-E).
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                                  • Commanding General of the United States Army Research, Development and Engineering Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland
                                  • Commanding General, U.S. Army Sustainment Command at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois
                                  • Chief of Staff at the U.S. Army Materiel Command in Huntsville, Alabama
                                  • Commanding General, AMC-Southwest Asia/U.S. Army Central G-4/Combined Forces Land Component Command C-4

                                  He is also a Partner, at One Defense, an organization originating out of the Office of the Secretary of the Department of Defense as a next generation national security enterprise to foster an expanded defense technology innovation community of practice that incorporates DOD stakeholders, traditional defense industry, the start-up and venture capital communities, and the academic research community.

                                  John has commanded units in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, Korea, and the Sinai. He has a degree from the United States Military Academy and a master’s degree in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College. He has also served as a Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS), National Defense University (NDU) in Washington, DC and Senior Advisor to the National Security Technology Acceleration Program (MD5) providing our Nation’s leaders with expertise regarding science and technology, innovation, and engineering affecting national security.

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