Art of the Question

17:18 Ramon Sosa is a former professional boxer and boxing coach from Houston, Texas. Born in Puerto Rico in 1967, he turned pro at 17 before dedicating his life to training young fighters and running a nonprofit boxing gym. In 2007, he met a woman named Lulu at a Latin nightclub — and married her in 2009. Six years later, he discovered she had hired a hitman to kill him. What followed was one of...

Jeff Harry combines positive psychology and play to heal workplaces, help teams build psychological safety and assist individuals in addressing their biggest challenges by embracing a play-oriented approach to work. Jeff was selected by BambooHR & Engagedly as one of the Top 100 HR Influencers and has been featured in the NY Times, Mashable, HuffPost, WIRED, NPR, NatGeo, & Forbes. Jeff has...

Peter Atalla is a technology executive and risk researcher with over 27 years in the tech industry. His academic research, Conversations with Aliens, looks at the risks of AI companionship and romantic AI partnerships from a risk analysis framework. Expect to learn how Peter defines and studies AI partners, who is most vulnerable to these systems, how the risk equation applies to AI companionship,...

Dr. Timothy Fong is a Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA's Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, board-certified in addiction psychiatry. He is the co-director of the UCLA Gambling Studies Program and has spent 25 years studying gambling disorder and its impact on the brain. You can be stone cold sober, look perfectly fine, and still be in the grip of a serious addiction. That is what...

Celine van Golde is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Sydney, where she researches memory, eyewitness testimony, and wrongful convictions. She is also the founder of the Sydney Exoneration Project. Your memory isn't a recording but a reconstruction. Every time you recall something, your brain is quietly patching together what actually happened with what you expected, what y...

Phil McAuliffe is a former Australian diplomat and the founder of Humans:Connecting, a social enterprise dedicated to reducing loneliness and de-stigmatising it globally. After 23 years in the Australian Public Service, including diplomatic postings in Seoul, Tokyo, Ho Chi Minh City and Wellington, Phil realised mid-career that despite a prestigious job, a loving family, and a life full of travel...

Scott Santens has been writing and thinking about Universal Basic Income since 2013. He's one of the most prolific voices on the subject and runs a foundation dedicated to making UBI a reality. AI is disrupting the way we work faster than most of us expected. UBI is increasingly being named as one of the solutions, but most people still think of it as an all-or-nothing concept. Today we make it co...

Alex Ulbin is a content creator and brand strategist with over 100K followers on Instagram. He went from making Call of Duty montages at age 10 to building a viral travel and real estate brand in Bali, racking up tens of millions of views and turning free villa stays into a full-blown content business. He now helps six and seven-figure entrepreneurs grow their businesses with social media through...

Mel Sellick is an applied psychologist specializing in Human-AI interaction and founder of Future Human Lab. Her work spans media, tech, and social science — from NBC to PhD — and she has developed foundational frameworks on psychological readiness in AI-mediated environments, now shaping global standards at UNESCO and IEEE. What actually happens to us psychologically when we interact with AI syst...

Timotej Bonifer is a Slovenian-born English pronunciation coach and founder of Flip English. He has never lived in the UK, yet spent years fooling native British speakers into thinking he was one of them. Now he helps non-native speakers across the world sound more confident, credible, and compelling in English. Not by memorising grammar rules, but by rebuilding their entire relationship with thei...