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Gary Agnew
CEO & Co-Founder
Ideon Technologies

Andres Blanco
CEO 
Xcalibur Smart Mapping

Ramón Barúa Costa
CEO & Director
Aclara Resources

Tony Carroll
Nonresidential Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Advisory Board, Mining Indaba

George Gilchrist
Vice President of Geoscience
KoBold Metals

Jacob Helberg
Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
U.S. Department of State

Josh Goldman
Co-Founder & President
KoBold Metals

Kurt House
Co-Founder & CEO
KoBold Metals

Young Kim
United States Representative

Mykel Kochenderfer

Mykel Kochenderfer
Professor & Director
Stanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory (SISL)

Sam Lee 
President & CEO
Northisle Copper and Gold

Ted Lieu
United States Representative

Arun Majumdar
Dean, Doerr School of Sustainability
Stanford University 

John Mern
Co-Founder and CEO
Terra AI

Chief James Nelson
Chief councillor
Quatsino Nation

Flavia Tata Nardini
CEO & Co-Founder
Fleet Space Technologies

Gerrit Oliver
Chief Scientific Officer
Fleet Space Technologies

Robert Quartermain
Co-Chairman, Director, President & CEO
Dakota Gold

Doug Schouten
CTO & Co-Founder  
Ideon Technologies

David Strang
 Executive Chairman
Ero Copper

Jef Caers
Director, Mineral-X
Professor, Stanford University 

David Zhen Yin
Program Director, Mineral-X
Stanford University

Sofia Mantilla Salas

Sofia Mantilla Salas
Earth and Planetary Sciences PhD Student
Stanford University