Mark Pesce (Aus / US)

Mark Pesce co-invented the technology for 3D on the Web - laying the foundations for the metaverse - has written ten books, including "Getting Started with ChatGPT and AI Chatbots", was for seven years a judge on the ABC's hit series The New Inventors, founded postgraduate programs at the University of Southern California and the Australian Film Television and Radio School, holds an honorary appointment at Sydney University, is a multiple-award-winning columnist for The Register, writes features for COSMOS Magazine, and is professional futurist and public speaker. Pesce hosts the award-winning 'The Next Billion Seconds' podcast, and recently released the highly-praised, award-nominated series “A Brief History of the Metaverse”.

Pesce taught with Terence McKenna at Esalen, with Sasha and Ann Shulgin at Mindstates, and more than four decades has been educating and illuminating audiences around the world with his unique mix of the practical, the philosophical and the cosmic. Pesce's next book, "And Now For Something Completely Human" offers a vision of the future in a completely human framework - less robots and AI, more caring and sharing.