Dr. Ronjon Nag is a renowned inventor, entrepreneur, and educator, with over 40 years of experience in developing AI technologies for smartphones, neural networks, and biotechnology. He is the Founder and President of R42 Group, a family office and venture group that invests primarily in AI, biotechnology, and science, and supports pre-seed stage companies in their growth journey.He is also an Adjunct Professor in Genetics in the Stanford School of Medicine and a Visiting Fellow at the Stanford Center for Language and Information (CSLI), where he teaches popular courses on AI, Genes, Ethics, Longevity Science, and Venture Capital. He is a Fellow and Trustee of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and a Lifetime Member of the ACM. He has won multiple prestigious awards, including the IET Mountbatten Medal, the $1m Verizon Powerful Answers Award, the COGX AI Lifetime Achievement Award, the MIT Great Dome Award and is the 2024 Silicon Valley Engineering Council Hall of Fame Inductee. He is a founder, advisor, board member, and part owner of some 100 AI and Biotech start-ups, and has sold his companies to Apple, BlackBerry, and Motorola. He is passionate about inventing, informing, and investing in the future of humanity. He has a BSc (Birmingham), an MS (MIT), and a PhD (Cambridge).He has accomplished many firsts:• First laptop with speech recognition built-in (UK: Apricot Computers, 1984)• First selling cursive handwriting recognition system (with Lexicus, 1992)• First Chinese speech recognition dictation system (Lexicus/Motorola, 1996)• First speech recognition phones (Lexicus/Motorola, 1995)• First Chinese predictive text system on a phone (Lexicus/Motorola, 1997)• First predictive text systems in large volume (40 languages) on phones(Lexicus/Motorola, 1997)• First touch screen phone with apps, HTML browser, speech & handwritingrecognition(Lexicus/Motorola, 1999)• First combined mobile app store and search engine (with Cellmania,2000-2010)• First operator billable BlackBerry App Store (2011)• First Neural Network Artificial Intelligence System in the Cloud (Ersatz Labs,2014)• First Wireless Throwable Camera (Bounce Imaging, 2015)• First Android powered smarthome lightswitch (Brightswitch, 2017)• First continuous blood pressure wearable (GT Cardio 2019)• First holographic phone call (R42 – Vivid-Q 2021)• First AutoML AI platform for biologists requiring no code (Superbio.ai 2021)• Proposed the first vaccine for aging developed using AI (Agemica.ai 2023)