Olinga Taeed is Director of the Centre for Citizenship, Enterprise and Governance, the world’s leading not-for-profit think tank on the Movement of Value with over 220,000 members, and is Expert Advisor and Council Member of the Chinese Ministry of Commerce’s ‘Blockchain E-Commerce Committee’.

He was the world’s first blockchain professor at Birmingham City University, and is Chief Editor of Frontiers in Blockchains (Switzerland), a peer review academic journal with 400+ editors. He is Chair of Arbor Verification Tech (ESG – Ho Chi Minh), MiMeta.Life (Metaverse), Bureau of Media Data and Ideology (Media – New York), and AizaWorld (Gaming – Hanoi); most recently he was appointed Chair of AITEA (AI - Beijing) populated by staff from tech giants Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent.

He has spoken at The Vatican which attributed him with the “God Metric – the fastest adopted social impact metric in the world”, and is Advisor to Wildcat Petroleum Plc, a London Stock Market listed company.What will you learn:

• Expanding ESG Impact Investing Beyond Carbon Footprint
• The Role of AI in Identifying Impact Opportunities
• Quantifying the Impact of ESG Investing with A

Jim Rutt is a technologist, thinker, and host of The Jim Rutt Show podcast, where he explores deep ideas at the intersection of science, technology, and society. He is the Executive Producer of the film An Initiation to Game~B and a leading voice in the Game B movement—a vision for a post-Game A world that prioritizes sustainability, human flourishing, and collaborative evolution.

Jim is a co-founder and Past President of the MIT Free Speech Alliance, and the creator of the popular mobile strategy game Network Wars. He served as Chairman of the Santa Fe Institute and continues his affiliation as a Research Fellow, focusing on consciousness and evolutionary artificial intelligence. He also sits on the advisory boards of the Krasnow Institute and Virginia Tech’s Fralin Life Sciences Institute.

Professionally, Jim has held key leadership roles across the information technology landscape. He was CEO of Network Solutions, which managed the .com, .net, and .org domains before its acquisition by Verisign in 2000, and the first CTO of Thomson Reuters. He chaired Analog Design Automation until its acquisition by Synopsys in 2004 and has been deeply involved in multiple pioneering companies, including THE SOURCE, First Call, Wall Street on Demand, and MarketSwitch.

A lifelong innovator and systems thinker, Jim also co-founded the Staunton Makerspace and served as Executive Producer of the award-winning film Zombiewood. He holds a B.S. in Management from MIT and serves on the Visiting Committee for MIT’s Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences.

About Game B:

Game B is a conceptual framework for a new kind of civilization—one that moves beyond short-term gains, systemic exploitation, and hyper-individualism. It envisions a cooperative, adaptive, and regenerative future, where societal systems are built to support the thriving of the many—not just the elite few.

What Will You Learn?

• Rethink the Current System: Identify its flaws, blind spots, and unsustainability.

• Imagine a Thriving Future: Explore models designed for collective well-being and long-term resilience.

• Build Practical Strategies: Understand how to transition from "here" to "there"—and your role in that journey.

Michael Madden has over 30 years of experience in Financial Services. His success has been built on inventive business intelligence, the ability to engage with international partners, and most importantly, as a leader and consensus builder. Michael has significant knowledge of the payments industry, both cards and digital, the retail banking sector, and as a business leader and entrepreneur in emerging markets.Michael is the Managing Partner of Ronoc, an investment business he founded in 2008, which invests in financial services businesses with a focus on Central and Southeast Asia. He is the longest-serving board director of XacBank where his company Ronoc is a significant shareholder. In Myanmar, he is the founder and Chairman of OnGo, a market-leading digital payments business, that he launched in 2016.In 2003, Michael joined the Renaissance Capital Group as the founding CEO of Renaissance Credit. During his tenure, it grew to one of the largest consumer finance banks in Russia, he established a bank in Ukraine and a financial services joint venture with IKEA where he was the Chairman of IKANO Russia. At the time of his departure in 2007, the Renaissance Credit business was valued at $498 million. Before that time, beginning in 1989, Michael had a successful career with American Express, holding various positions in Ireland, then establishing the American Express Card business across Russia and the former Soviet Union, and finally in the UK as Vice President and Head of the European Dollar Card business and Head of the EMEA franchise business, with responsibility for seventeen markets.An active and engaged student of the world, Michael has a passion for sports, travel, and giving back to the community. He has visited over seventy countries, and his sense of adventure and curiosity has extended to include space, as a 2008 pioneer of the Virgin Galactic Future Astronaut program. He has also completed six marathons and multiple half marathons.What will you learn:-How do you launch a fintech company in a country that lacks everything?-How do you keep your staff safe during a coup?-What are the greatest challenges in frontier markets?