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James Hendler is the Director of the Future of Computing Institute; Tetherless World Professor of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences; and Director of the RPI-IBM Artificial Intelligence Research Collaboration. 

Hendler is a data scientist with specific interests in open government and scientific data, data science for healthcare, AI and machine learning, semantic data integration, and the use of data in government. One of the originators of the Semantic Web, he has authored over 450 books, technical papers, and articles in the areas of Open Data, the Semantic Web, artificial intelligence, and data policy and governance. He is also the former Chief Scientist of the Information Systems Office at the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and was awarded a US Air Force Exceptional Civilian Service Medal in 2002. He is the first computer scientist ever to have served on the Board of Reviewing editors for Science. In 2010, Hendler was selected as an 鈥淚nternet Web Expert鈥� by the US government and helped in the development and launch of the US data.gov open data website. In 2013, he was appointed as the Open Data Advisor to New York State and in 2015 appointed a member of the US Homeland Security Science and Technology Advisory Committee. In 2016, became a member of the National Academies Board on Research Data and Information, in 2017 a member of the Director鈥檚 Advisory Committee of the National Security Directorate of PNNL, and in 2021 became chair of the ACM鈥檚 global Technology Policy Council. Hendler is a Fellow of the US National Academy of Public Administration, the AAAI, AAAS, ACM, BCS and IEEE.

Greg Autry is an expert in entrepreneurship, macroeconomics and space policy.

His research focuses on governmental roles in the emergence of new industries especially within the global commercial space industry.

Professor Autry teaches space leadership, policy and business in the Thunderbird School of Global Management. 

He has been a notable advocate for space exploration and development, serving as Chair of the Safety Working Group in the FAA Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC), and as vice president of the National Space Society and the Beyond Earth Institute. 

Andrew Maynard is a leading expert in the socially responsible development of emerging and converging technologies.

For over twenty years he has worked closely with experts and thought leaders from around the world on the challenges and opportunities presented by technologies ranging from nanotechnology and synthetic biology to geoengineering and artificial intelligence.

Maynard is a former physicist, a professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society. He directs of the ASU Risk Innovation Lab, and chairs the ASU Master of Science and Technology Policy program.

He writes the blog 2020 Science, and produces the YouTube channel Risk Bites. He is widely published in the academic literature, including in leading journals such as Nature, and is internationally recognized for his work on the risks and benefits of nanotechnology.

Doug Guthrie is an expert in international business and trade, technology and society, entrepreneurship and technology transfer, and organizational development. 

Guthrie uses his past experience in his teaching at ASU since he was a senior director at Apple in Shanghai, China, where he led Apple University efforts on leadership and organizational development in China. 

Guthrie is a professor and the director of China Initiatives at the Thunderbird School of Global Management. 

He has spent his career researching, writing, teaching and advising companies about organizational development and the Chinese economic reforms.