evoke^AG. 2024
Perth, Western Australia

One of the first GenAI experts, Nina analyses how this nascent field of artificial intelligence will change humanity.

Nina is the Founder of Tamang Ventures, an advisory firm focused on Generative AI, as well as the Creator of ‘The Era of Generative AI’ – a Substack project telling the story of GenAI through exclusive content and interviews.

Nina advises several AI and technology companies, including Truepic — the first to build media authentication technology, and Synthesia, the world’s first AI-to-video generation platform.

Before specialising inGenerative AI, Nina worked on geopolitical crises, including Brexit, the Russia-Ukraine war and state-sponsored disinformation. She has advised leaders including Joe Biden, the President of the United States and Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former Secretary General of NATO.

Robyn O’Brien is an entrepreneur and founder of several ventures, most recently Sirona Ventures, Women Transforming Food and Finance and rePlant Capital, financial organizations scaling climate solutions. Her next book, Seeding Innovation, the Path to Profit and Purpose in the 21st Century, is coming in April 2024.

Abi is a food systems entrepreneur, co-founding Papi’s Pickles in 2014, a food social enterprise providing fresh and tasty Tamil food made by women from these communities who relocated to the UK during the civil war in Sri Lanka, and ImpactVision in 2016, an imaging and machine learning technology startup tackling the $1 trillion food waste problem from a post-harvest standpoint. ImpactVision was acquired in February 2020 by Apeel Sciences, and until September 2023, Abi was a Project Lead at Google X’s Moonshot Factory working on synthetic biology for climate applications.

Dr Lewis Akenji is managing director of Hot or Cool Institute, a public-interest think tank that explores the intersection between society and sustainability. He is a member of The Club of Rome and Commissioner on the Transformational Economics Commission of Earth4All. His work takes a political economy lens to economic development and the environment, with implications on fair distribution of resources within ecological limits. He is lead author of “1.5-Degree Lifestyles: Towards a Fair Consumption Space for All”.