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Contributors

World Economic Forum

| Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Sebastian Buckup Head, Network and Partnerships
Greta Keenan Strategic Impact and Communications Lead
Saemoon Yoon Lead, Innovator Communities

| Strategic Intelligence Platform

James Landale Head, Content and Partnerships
John Letzing Digital Editor
Stephan Mergenthaler Head
Minji Sung Specialist, Content and Partnerships

| Centre for Nature and Climate

Lauren Uppink Calderwood Head, Climate Strategy

Frontiers

Susan Debad Consultant
Frederick Fenter Chief Executive Editor
George Thomas Public Affairs Manager
Participating journals:
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
Frontiers in Batteries and Electrochemistry
Frontiers in Cell Signaling Frontiers in Chemical Biology
Frontiers in Computer Science Frontiers in Energy Efficiency
Frontiers in Fuels Frontiers in Lab on a Chip Technologies
Frontiers in Medical Technology Frontiers in Medical Engineering
Frontiers in Membrane Science and Technology
Frontiers in Microbiology
Frontiers in Plant Science Frontiers in Systems Biology
Frontiers in Virtual Reality

Production

Laurence Denmark Creative Director, Studio Miko
Sophie Ebbage Designer, Studio Miko
Martha Howlett Editor, Studio Miko
George Messer Designer, Studio Miko

Digital Production and Distribution

Sakshi Bhatnagar Digital Product Lead, World Economic Forum
Pooja Chhabria Digital Editor, World Economic Forum
Beatrice Di Caro, Social Media and Live Communications Lead, World Economic Forum
Kirsten Salyer, Head of Editorial Strategy and Thought Leadership, World Economic Forum

Acknowledgements

The Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution would like to thank the members of the steering group who adjudicated the top 10 technologies and authored the articles in the report. Additional thanks to the other contributing academics – many from Frontiers’ network of scientific editors – and business leaders, from the Forum’s Innovator Communities, for their impact assessment of the top 10 technologies via the “impact fingerprint” surveys.

Steering group

| Co-Chairs

Mariette DiChristina Dean and Professor of the Practice in Journalism, Boston University College of Communication
Bernard S. Meyerson Chief Innovation Officer Emeritus, IBM

| Members

Enass Abo-Hamed Chief Executive Officer, H2 GO Power
Jeff Carbeck Vice-President, Corporate Innovation, Eastman
Rona Chandrawati Associate Professor, University of New South Wales
Liming Chen Chair of Greater China, World Economic Forum
Joseph Costantine Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, American University of Beirut
P. Murali Doraiswamy Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine
Sarah E. Fawcett Senior Lecturer, University of Cape Town
Olga Fink Professor of Intelligent Maintenance and Operations Systems, EPFL
Javier García Martínez Professor of Chemistry and Director, Molecular Nanotechnology Lab, University of Alicante
Daniel E. Hurtado Associate Professor, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Wendy Ju Associate Professor, Cornell Tech
Jeremy Jurgens Managing Director, World Economic Forum
Corinna Lathan Co-Founder and former Chief Executive Officer, AnthroTronix
Lee Sang-Yup Senior Vice-President for Research, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Geoffrey Ling Professor of Neurology, Johns Hopkins Hospital
Andrew Maynard Professor of Advanced Technology Transitions, Arizona State University
Ruth Morgan Vice-Dean (Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship), Faculty of Engineering Sciences, University College London (UCL)
Elizabeth O’Day Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Olaris
Mine Orlu Professor of Pharmaceutics, UCL School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Life Sciences, UCL
Carlo Ratti Director, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Senseable City Lab
Barry Shoop Dean of Engineering, Albert Nerken School of Engineering, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Engineering
Landry Signe Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Wilfried Weber Scientific Director, Leibniz Institute for New Materials
Angela Ruohao Wu Associate Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Xu Xun Director, BGI Research

Academics

Mark Billinghurst Professor, University of South Australia
Cristina Botella Full Professor, Universitat Jaume
Yohann Boutté Research Director, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Kim Bullock Clinical Professor, Stanford
Mouloud Denai Senior Lecturer, University of Hertfordshire
Anirban Dutta Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering, University of Lincoln
Issam El Naqa Chair and Senior Member, Moffitt Cancer Center
Sanket Goel Professor, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
Chenghong Gu Reader, University of Bath
Thomas Hartung Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Paul Hyman Professor of Biology, Ashland University
Xiuliang Jin Professor, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Kumaran Kannaiyan Associate Professor, Guangdong Technion Israel Institute of Technology
Farah Kidwai-Khan Senior Data Scientist, Yale
George Kouvas Chief Technology Officer, Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering
Oliver Kröcher Head of the Bioenergy and Catalysis Laboratory, Paul Scherrer Institut
Eungje Lee Staff Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
Yongliang Qiao Research Fellow, The University of Adelaide
Deborah Richards Professor, Macquarie University
Stefano Rinaldi Associate Professor, Università degli Studi di Brescia
Dwayne Roach Assistant Professor, San Diego State University
Philippe Roux Professor, Université de Montréal
Yasir Saleem Lecturer in Computer Science, Aberystwyth University
Michael Short Professor, Teesside University
Lei Shu Professor, Nanjing Agricultural University
Mel Slater Distinguished Investigator, University of Barcelona
Lena Smirnova Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Daobilige Su Associate Professor, China Agricultural University
Vincent Quoc-Huy Trinh Clinical Assistant Professor, Université de Montréal
Julien Weissenberg Founder, Deep Tech Experts
Alicja Wegrzyn Professor, University of Gdansk
Yaolin Xu Researcher, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB)
Guo Zhao Associate Professor, Nanjing Agricultural University

Innovator Community members

Marissa Ruby Brock Senior Director, Policy and Government Affairs, Sourcemap
Jamie Burrows Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Vertical Future
Isaac Castro Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer, Emerge
Jim Flatt Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Brightseed Bio
Adam Hildreth Founder, Crisp
Igor Jablokov Chief Executive Officer, Pryon
Bu Gi Kim Chief Executive Officer, Standard Energy
Sky Kurtz Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Pure Harvest Smart Farms
Ben Lamm Chief Executive Officer, Colossal Biosciences
Kevin Lang Chief Executive Officer, Agerpoint
Maarten Michielssens Founder and Chief Executive Officer, EnergyVision
Tsuyoshi Stuart Oda Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Alesca Life Technologies
Joe Paluska Chief Marketing Officer, One Concern
Joris Poort Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Rescale
Felix Reinshagen Chief Executive Officer, NavVis
Umesh Sachdev Chief Executive Officer, Uniphore
Jimmy Samartzis Chief Executive Officer, LanzaJet
Ritwik Sinha Strategy Analyst, Our Next Energy (ONE)
Didier Toubia Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Aleph Farms
Raj Verma Chief Executive Officer, SingleStore
Ellie Wood Chief of Staff to the Chief Executive Officer, LanzaTech
Josef Zankowicz Vice-President Corporate Development, Canvass AI