Masaaki Mochimaru studied Mechanical Engineering and Ergonomics at Keio University in Japan, where he received PhD in Engineering. In 1993, he joined AIST as a researcher. In 2001, he was assigned as the deputy director of Digital Human Laboratory of AIST. In 2010, he launched and directed Digital Human Research Center of AIST. After November 2018, he directs a new research center, Human Augmentation Research Center of AIST. His research interests are related to measurement and modeling of human functions and their applications. In recent years, his research interests are expanded to service engineering and servitization.

Claire Delaunay is vice president of engineering at NVIDIA, where she is responsible for the Isaac robotics initiative and leads a team to bring Isaac to market for roboticists and developers around the world. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Delaunay was the director of engineering at Uber, after it acquired Otto, the startup she co-founded. She was also the robotics program lead at Google and founded two companies, Botiful and Robotics Valley. Delaunay has 15 years of experience in robotics and autonomous vehicles leading teams ranging from startups and research labs to Fortune 500 companies. Delaunay holds a Master of Science in computer engineering from École Privée des Sciences Informatiques (EPSI).

Professor Simon Marvin, Director the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield. An internationally renowned urban scholar, his work develops innovative, interdisciplinary perspectives that examine the interrelations between technological change and urban life. His latest book with Andres Luque-Ayala is “Urban Operating Systems: Producing the Computational City” published by MIT press in December 2020. Drawing on fieldwork that stretches across eleven cities in American, European, and Asian contexts, Urban OS investigates how digital products, services, and ecosystems are reshaping the ways in which the city is imagined, known, and governed.

Kathy manages a global organization, which delivers comprehensive solutions for Smart Cities, Mobile Automation and Transportation. She leads a team that is developing increasingly sophisticated platforms for a variety of commercial and consumer market segments, including: Advanced Driver Assist Systems (ADAS) and Autonomous Driving (AD), Automated Mobile Robots (AMR), In Vehicle Infotainment (IVI), Fleets, Rail, Road, Marine, and Airports. Kathy is seen as an expert in the field, she was recognized by EETimes as part of its Women in Tech: 25 Profiles in Persistence in 2017, she was named one of the most powerful female engineers by Business Insider in 2018, and most recently was announced as a recipient of the Connected World 2020 Women of Technology and IOT.