Pascal Bornet is an award-winning expert, author, and keynote speaker on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Automation, and Agentic AI, with over two million social media followers. Regularly ranked as one of the top 10 global AI and Automation experts, he developed his expertise through 20+ years at McKinsey and EY, implementing AI initiatives for hundreds of organizations worldwide. Bornet advocates for making our world more human with AI.
A guide/guidebook has always been a useful thing to have throughout all of history. In the USA for some there became a niche that needed to be served helping citizens getting from Point A to Point B and back again safely. Civically and Culturally speaking a man called Victor Hugo Green introduced a guidebook for Negro travellers to use, for their safety first, and their comfort second.
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NECESSITY?
African American travelers faced discrimination, such as white-owned businesses refusing to serve them or repair their vehicles, being refused accommodation or food by white-owned hotels, and threats of physical violence and forcible expulsion from whites-only "sundown towns". Green founded and published the Green Book to avoid such problems, compiling resources "to give the Negro traveler information that will keep him from running into difficulties, embarrassments and to make his trip more enjoyable". Candacy Taylor, the maker of a 2019 documentary film about the book offered this summary: "Everyone I was interviewing talked about the community that the Green Book created: a kind of parallel universe that was created by the book and this kind of secret road map that the Green Book outlined".
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Hamilton Mann is a tech executive, a best-selling author, a sought-after speaker, a senior lecturer at INSEAD and HEC Paris, a Doctoral Researcher in AI at Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées - Institut Polytechnique de Paris, a Senior Fellow at the Retech Center of the Ecole des Ponts Business School, and a Mentor at the MIT Priscilla King Gray (PKG) Center.
He was named a Top 10 Thought Leader in Technology by Technology Magazine (2024), inducted into the Thinkers50 Radar as one of the 30 most prominent rising business thinkers globally (2024), distinguished as an Honorary Fellow of Leaders Excellence, Harvard Square (2025), awarded the title of World Eminent Man in Digital and AI for Good by the Who Is Who International Academy & Awards (2025), and featured in the Rotman Management Thought Leader section (2025).
Mann’s acclaimed book 'Artificial Integrity: The Paths to Leading AI Toward a Human-Centered Future' (Wiley, 2024) was selected as one of the must-read books of 2024 and among the Top 10 essential read on AI for 2025 by the Next Big Idea Club, and was named one of the Top 10 New Management Books of 2025 by Thinkers50.
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John is the founder and CEO or Latimer.AI, an Artificial Intelligence company built to be the premier Large Language Model focused on accurate historical information and bias-free interaction for Black and Brown audiences and anyone who values precision in their data.He recently served as a partner at the Family Office, TRS Capital and at Movita Organics, an organic supplement company led by filmmaker and social activist, Tonya Lewis Lee. John sits on the Board of Directors of Outward Bound USA. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration from SUNY and a B.A. in Computer Science from Columbia University.
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Lewis Howard Latimer developed improvements to the telephone, invented a method to manufacture carbon filament to make lightbulbs mass-producible, and developed an early version of the air conditioner – among other inventions.