Yann LeCun is Director of Facebook AI Research and Silver Professor at NYU, affiliated with the Courant Institute and the Center for Data Science. He received a PhD in Computer Science from Université P&M Curie (Paris). After a postdoc at the University of Toronto, he joined AT&T Bell Labs, and became head of Image Processing Research at AT&T Labs in 1996. He joined NYU in 2003 and Facebook in 2013. His current interests include AI, machine learning, computer vision, mobile robotics, and computational neuroscience. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Yann was a speaker at the 2018 Abu Dhabi Ideas Weekend, where he delivered a talk with Lily Peng on the power and limits of AI in the future.

Lily Peng is a trained physician who has been repurposed as a product manager at Google Health, where she focuses on applying deep learning and other Google technologies and expertise to medical imaging. Prior to joining Google, she was a product manager at Doximity, the "LinkedIn" for physicians, and a co-founder of Nano Precision Medical, a start-up developing small, implantable drug delivery devices. Lily completed her M.D. and Ph.D. in Bioengineering at the University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley, and received her B.Sc. with honors and distinction in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. Dr. Peng was a speaker at the 2018 Abu Dhabi Ideas Weekend, where she delivered a talk on machine learning and artificial intelligence for detecting cancer.