
After hundreds of rejections, the Contrario CEO stopped trying to automate recruiters and started doing their work. The lesson became a company: let software carry the paperwork, and leave judgment to people.

A fourth-generation trades story took a detour through Allianz, Google X and Cambridge. At Mercura, Lukas Bock is bringing that education home - one unruly bill of quantities at a time.

After two decades moving between code, finance, logistics and company building, the Shift Health founder is betting that useful AI will be judged by what it remembers, how it reasons and where humans remain in control.
Dan Thomson is the founder and CEO of Sensay, an AI platform that builds digital replicas - interactive clones trained on a person's voice, knowledge, and personality. A philosophy graduate turned restaurateur turned Web3 marketer, he started Sensay in 2023 after a head injury wiped out his memory and dementia took hold of people he loved. His pitch is blunt: capture what a human knows before it is gone, and let that knowledge keep working - for families, for companies, and for anyone who wants a version of themselves that never logs off.