Josué Guébo
Figure contemporaine de la poésie africaine, il est également nouvelliste, dramaturge, essayiste et auteur de livres de jeunesse. Sixième président de l’Association des écrivains de Côte d’Ivoire1 (AECI), il est récipiendaire du Grand prix Bernard Dadié, du Prix Tchicaya U Tam’si pour la poésie africaine et du Prix Jeanne de Cavally pour la Littérature enfantine.
Josué Guébo est initiateur et président de la Société ivoirienne de transhumanisme (Sivot)
Laurent Alexandre
Entrepreneur, chroniqueur, et essayiste. Urologue de formation, il est président de DNA Vision (séquençage ADN) et auteur d’ouvrages comme La mort de la mort (2011), La Guerre des intelligences (2017) ou ChatGPT va nous rendre immortels (2024).
Jean-Michel Besnier
Professeur émérite de philosophie à l’université Paris-Sorbonne, ses recherches actuelles concernent principalement l’impact philosophique et éthique des sciences et des techniques sur les représentations et les imaginaires individuels et collectifs.
Il est notamment l’auteur de Demain les posthumains : le futur a-t-il encore besoin de nous ?, Paris , 2009 ; et de L’Homme simplifié : le syndrome de la touche étoile, Paris, Fayard, 2012.
Armand Ngaketcha Njafang
Chercheur et entrepreneur camerounais dont le parcours témoigne d’un engagement profond dans les domaines de la bioéthique, de l’entrepreneuriat et des relations Québec-Afrique.
Titulaire d’un doctorat de l’Université libre de Bruxelles, il a mené des recherches sur les enjeux éthiques liés aux avancées technologiques, notamment le transhumanisme. Son ouvrage « Nature Humaine et Thérapies régénératrices. Essai de bioéthique progressiste » publié en 2015 reflète son intérêt pour ces questions.
Natasha Vita-More
is Ex. Dir. of Humanity+, Co-Founder of Women in Longevity Leadership, and Founder, Senior Faculty of the Center for Transhumanist Studies. She is known for co-founding the transhumanist movement, innovating the future body prototype with AI and nanorobotics, and achieving a scientific discovery in the persistence of long-term memory in biostasis. She is the co-editor and author of The Transhumanist Reader (2013) and Transhumanism: What is It? (2018). Natasha is featured in The New York Times, Vogue, Wired, and Newsweek magazines.
Marc Roux
Président de l’Association Française Transhumaniste – Technoprog et chercheur affilié à l’Institut for Ethics and Emergent Technologies (IEET). Il a co-organisé cinq fois TransVision, le congrès international transhumaniste. Il est fréquemment consulté pour des études universitaires, par des groupes financiers ou des entreprises, ainsi que par des partis politiques et les médias. Avec Didier Coeurnelle, il est l’auteur du livre TECHNOPROG, le transhumanisme au service du progrès social (FYP 2016), et avec le Pr. Ébénezer Njoh Mouellé de Quelle réception du transhumanisme en Afrique ?, (L’Harmattan 2023).
Ben Goertzel
Founder and CEO of SingularityNET. He is a leading developer of the OpenCog framework for artificial general intelligence. Computer scientist, artificial intelligence researcher, and businessman. He helped popularize the term artificial general intelligence.
Ben is currently Chair of the Board of Directors at Humanity+
Chogwu Abdul
Ojochogwu Abdul (Chogwu Abdul) is an Afropolitan scholar, futurist, ideapreneur and community organizer working on the nexus of humanity, technology, human enhancement, African development, civilizations, and the Great Story. Chogwu is the Founder and current Chair of Transhumanists Africa.
Didier Coeurnelle
Juriste, co-président de HEALES (Haelthy Life Extension Society) et vice-président de l’Association Française Transhumaniste – Technoprog. Il a écrit Et si on arrêtait de vieillir ! (2013) et, avec Marc Roux, TECHNOPROG, le transhumanisme au service du progrès social (2016).
Kouadio Victorien EKPO
Philosophe-bioéthicien, Enseignant-chercheur, Maître de Conférences au Département de philosophie à l’Université Alassane Ouattara, Côte d’Ivoire. Il est chercheur à la Chaire Unesco de Bioéthique et auteur de plusieurs publications scientifiques dans le champ de l’éthique en générale et particulièrement dans le domaine des technosciences biomédicales. Ses recherches récentes portent sur le trans-posthumanisme.
Carl Youngblood
President and co-founder of the Mormon Transhumanist Association. He regularly engages in thoughtwork surrounding future technological advances, and recently published an essay on artificial intelligence for Wayfare Magazine. Carl has made a career in software engineering. He co-founded Blockscale, a blockchain startup that was acquired by Coinbase, and currently works as co-founder of Verasys, a startup that uses AI to rank the efficacy of health interventions. Carl received a BA in Portuguese from Brigham Young University and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Washington.
Lincoln Cannon
Writes and presents about technological evolution and postsecular religion. He esteems religion as a powerful social technology that, like all technology, presents both risks and opportunities. And he envisions the ethical use of technology empowering humanity to attain unprecedented magnitudes of intelligence, vitality, and compassion. He is a co-founder of the Mormon Transhumanist Association and the Christian Transhumanist Association. He also formulated the New God Argument, a logical argument for faith in God that is popular among religious Transhumanists. Lincoln is founder and CEO of Thrivous, the human enhancement company. He received an MBA from the Marriott School of Business and a bachelors degree in philosophy from Brigham Young University.
Marcus Flinders
Is a visionary leader, attorney, and entrepreneur with nearly three decades of experience advancing innovation at the intersection of technology, law, and human potential. As an attorney, Marcus advises major clients on digital currency, decentralized finance, tax strategy, corporate governance, and complex regulatory landscapes — blending legal mastery with a forward-thinking understanding of how emerging technologies are reshaping value, trust, and social systems. Marcus serves as Chief Legal Officer of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, helping shape the legal and ethical framework of a movement dedicated to using science and technology to amplify human compassion, intelligence, and vitality. He is also the President and CEO of ADU America, where he leads teams in reimagining how architecture, construction, and technology converge to create living environments designed for the needs of a rapidly evolving, future-ready world.
Screven Usi
Currently serves as the Africa Regional President of the Mormon Transhumanist Association. He’s an accomplished writer and a regular contributor to the Liahona Magazine. His diverse professional background includes crafting compelling narratives as a content strategist for Scroll Agency, a leading whitelabel marketing agency in Utah. He’s also played a significant role in fostering vibrant creative writing communities in Kenya, notably as an event organizer for Shut Up & Write Nairobi. He holds an advanced diploma in French and is currently pursuing a Bachelor’s of Applied Business at BYU-Idaho. When he’s not musing on how science, technology, and religion can help humanity flourish beyond traditional biological and intellectual limits, he can be found behind the cover of a good book.