Meet the jury

Pim de Witte is the co-founder and CEO of General Intuition, an frontier AI research lab focused on spatial-temporal reasoning. He is also the co-founder and former CEO of Medal, the world's largest platform for capturing and sharing gaming moments, and Highlight, an AI assistant that captures insights for users across every app. Pim's love of video games and his expertise in reverse engineering both started early and have shaped his trajectory. At 14 years old, he started and ran the largest private server on Runescape. This initial success allowed him to support humanitarian aid work with Médecins Sans Frontières, including the co-creation of a crowdsourced mapping tool, MapSwipe, at the height of the Ebola crisis.

Søren Hauberg is a machine learning professor at the Technical University of Denmark. He received his PhD in computer science from the University of Copenhagen in 2011. Prior to pursuing a PhD he worked as a "digital lumberjack" in the startup Dralle A/S. He is a dual ERC grantee, and further serves as Denmark's first Ambassador for the ERC. In 2018, he joined the Young Scientists community under the World Economic Forum, and was in the process named one of "10 of the most exciting young scientists working in the world today." In 2025, he was the leading initiator of the EurIPS conference and has since served in the ELLIS Events Area to develop European AI conferences.

Neil Lawrence is the inaugural DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Cambridge where he is also the academic lead of ai@cam, the University’s flagship mission on AI. He is visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield and author of the book The Atomic Human and co-founder and Chief Scientist at Trent.AI.

Allison Duettmann is President & CEO of Foresight Institute, the San Francisco non-profit founded in 1986 to advance frontier technology for the flourishing of life. She runs Foresight's programs across AI, longevity biotech, molecular nanotechnology, neurotech, and space, including its grants, fellowships, and prizes. She co-initiated The AI Grants Program, the Norm Hardy Prize for Computer Security and The Longevity Prize. She founded ExistentialHope.com, advises the Filecoin Foundation, Lionheart Ventures, Neuromatch and serves on the Biomarkers of Aging Consortium Steering Committee. She holds an M.S. in Philosophy & Public Policy (AI Safety) from the London School of Economics and a B.A. in PPE from the University of York.

Johannes is Investment Advisor AI & Quantum at the German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation (SPRIND). Previously, he held various positions as CTO and co-founder of nyonic and the VP of Machine Learning Research at Merantix in Berlin as well as technical roles at OpenAI, Palantir, Rigetti Computing and more. He holds a PhD in Quantum Physics from the RPTU Kaiserslautern and received a postdoctoral scholarship from Harvard University.

Philipp Herzig is Chief Technology Officer of SAP SE. In this role, Herzig leads SAP’s technology strategy, research, innovation, corporate development, technology ecosystem, startup engagement, and incubation including Business AI and Sustainability. In addition to AI and sustainability as major incubation topics, the Chief Technology Office also focuses on topics such as quantum computing.

Daniel studied pure mathematics, machine learning, and business. He raised $100M in his twenties and created companies worth hundreds of millions. He invested in 50 companies as an angel investor (7 unicorns) and is an LP in multiple funds. He trained the Jiangsu Olympic Math team, wrote a book on the scientific principles of productivity, endorsed by the BBC, and gave his first TED Talk at age 20. Today, Daniel runs EWOR, a radically selective Fellowship for founders with the potential to create $10B+ organisations. EWOR counts 40,000 yearly applications, employs a full-time team of which 40% have built $100M-$10B companies, and whose companies are collectively worth over $5B, only 2.5 years after the Fellowship's inception.

Markus Wulfmeier is the Chief Scientist of Nomagic and a leading researcher in robotics, reinforcement learning, and physical AI. Previously a Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, he worked on helping bridge advances in machine learning with real-world deployment. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford, where he later conducted postdoctoral research, and has held visiting roles at UC Berkeley, MIT, and ETH Zurich. Dr. Wulfmeier has authored more than 50 publications, holds patents in machine learning and robotics, and his award-winning research has been featured in Wired, BBC, and 60 Minutes.

Yu-Ting Kuo is an Honorary Fellow of Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, and a faculty member at MIT Sloan School of Management and the Department of Computer Science at National Tsing Hua University. He works across academia and industry, with a longstanding focus on artificial intelligence, innovation, and the responsible development of technology. His current interests span the ethics, governance, and societal impact of AI, including on cognitive sovereignty and climate change, alongside innovation management.

Kuo spent 27 years at Microsoft, where he was a Corporate Vice President. During that time, he helped build and scale the company's enterprise cloud AI services and consumer AI applications, and most recently led Microsoft's agentic AI development efforts. He founded Microsoft's AI R&D centres in Belgrade, Cambridge (UK), Taipei, and Zürich.