Biography
Justin has helped more than 30 enterprise-scale companies unlock tens of millions in value through AI, innovation, and operational strategy. Along the way, he built three businesses (including one successful exit), co-patented several industrial machine learning applications, and led AI projects across sectors from energy to industrials.
Early in his career, he worked in Silicon Valley. First at a large network computing company, then at one of the earliest startups commercializing AI. Today, he is the founder of Humyn.ai, the bounty marketplace for AI projects, and The Longview Institute for AI Leadership. Justin also serves as Head of Research at the Australian Institute for Transformation & AI (AITAI).
Session
- AI FoundationsSpeaker
Debate 3 — Sovereign AI or Surrender? Should Europe Stop Outsourcing Its AI Future?
Wednesday 23 September, 12:00 – 12:55Auditorium StageEurope is building 13 AI Factories, funding Mistral and Aleph Alpha, demanding open weights, and writing the world's strictest AI law. Yet 90% of European AI compute still runs on AWS, Azure and GCP, and the foundation model leaderboards are American and Chinese. So is sovereign AI the project of the decade for European strategic autonomy — or an expensive industrial-policy fantasy that taxes EU founders without producing winners? One debater says Europe must stop renting its future. The other says we already lost — partner up and accept it.
With Damien Acheson, Jan Kavalírek, Pedro Romera, Siobhan Fairman