Blockchain & Climate Institute

Applied Blockchain is a specialised development studio advising and delivering blockchain and privacy solutions tailored to a company's specific needs. Founded in London in 2015, the company has established itself as a trusted partner for global enterprises and innovative startups, delivering over 150 distributed solutions across multiple industries. With headquarters at Level39 in Canary Wharf and a growing development centre in Porto, Portugal, Applied Blockchain combines deep technical expertise with practical business understanding to help organisations leverage distributed ledger technology effectively. The company's founding team brings 20+ years of experience in enterprise IT architecture, big data, artificial intelligence, integration, and solution delivery. Applied Blockchain has worked with prestigious clients including Shell, KLM, Ledger, Chainlink, Vodafone, Toyota, Bank of America, and the United Nations, spanning industries such as energy, finance, aviation, healthcare, automotive, telecommunications, and supply chain management. The company has developed innovative intellectual property including Silent Data, a privacy-focused platform enabling collaboration without exposing sensitive data.

Offchain Labs builds scalable blockchain infrastructure for Ethereum. As the original developers of Arbitrum, the company has created the leading Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution that processes transactions off-chain while settling on Ethereum mainnet. Arbitrum One utilizes optimistic rollup technology to enable faster transactions, lower fees, and full compatibility with existing Ethereum smart contracts and tools. The company has expanded its product suite to include Arbitrum Nova for high-volume applications requiring ultra-low costs, Arbitrum Orbit for launching customizable chains, and Stylus which enables developers to write smart contracts in Rust, C++, and other popular languages. Offchain Labs also acquired Prysmatic Labs, developers of Prysm, the leading Ethereum consensus client. With $124 million in funding and a team distributed across 19+ countries, Offchain Labs continues to advance Ethereum's capabilities through cutting-edge research and development in scaling solutions, zero-knowledge proofs, and decentralized infrastructure.

We're a nonprofit organization dedicated to steering transformative technology toward benefiting life and away from extreme, large-scale risks. Our team of 20+ staff members operates across the US and Europe, bringing together expertise from machine learning, policy, medicine, and governance institutions. We focus on the technologies that could fundamentally reshape our future - primarily artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and nuclear weapons. Our work spans several key areas: policy development and advocacy to bridge the gap between technical experts and public institutions, grantmaking to support critical research, outreach and education to help people understand these challenges, and institution-building to improve how we govern powerful technologies. We've convened major conferences like the Puerto Rico AI Conference and Asilomar, launched influential initiatives like the Asilomar AI Principles, and produced viral films like 'Slaughterbots' to raise awareness about autonomous weapons. We believe that technology should serve humanity, not the other way around.

At SANS Institute, we believe that making the digital world safer starts with empowering practitioners who defend it every day. Founded in 1989 as a cooperative for information security thought leadership, we've grown into the world's largest and most trusted source for cybersecurity training, certifications, and research. Our community-driven approach means real practitioners - the ones on the front lines of cyber defense - create and deliver our courses. When you train with SANS, you learn from professionals who have faced the threats they're teaching about, bringing authentic battlefield experience to every classroom and online session. What sets our culture apart is an unwavering commitment to practical, applicable skills that can be used the moment students return to work. Our faculty members - all active cybersecurity practitioners - have collectively created over 150 open-source tools and authored 40+ books on information security. We offer 85+ courses with 1,700+ hands-on labs, ensuring every student builds muscle memory, not just theory. With core values of integrity, trust, honesty, and flexibility guiding everything we do, we've built an environment where authentic bonds form between instructors and students, creating a global network of cybersecurity professionals who learn from and support each other long after training ends.

Astera Institute is a private foundation with a $2.5 billion endowment on a mission to steer science and technology toward an abundant future. The institute operates through three core divisions: Neuro & AGI, focused on directed neuroscience and AI research to engineer safe and successful general intelligence systems; Radial, a life sciences research division that funds and runs high-impact fundamental scientific challenges; and Foundation, which provides centralized operational and financial support while leading residency programs and strategic investments. Unlike traditional non-profit research organizations, projects supported by Astera operate like high-velocity startups, allowing the organization to focus on ambitious goals, match structure to problem, and attract strong technical talent and leadership. Astera aims to rebuild the machinery of science for the AI era by supporting the creation of public goods to accelerate scientific and technological progress - including non-proprietary infrastructure, tools, datasets, playbooks, and standards. The institute leverages its substantial resources and risk tolerance to experiment with unexplored approaches, embracing scientific and technical risk to chase impact at scale.

Established in 2003 under Singapore's Ministry of Defence, the Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies (CSIT) was born from a critical realization: as the world underwent mainstream Internet adoption, national security would face unprecedented digital threats. CSIT emerged as Singapore's response - a technical agency dedicated to harnessing cutting-edge digital technologies to protect the nation's defence and public sectors. Today, CSIT stands at the frontlines of Singapore's digital defence, developing advanced cybersecurity and secure digital solutions that protect national security. The agency's technical expertise spans cybersecurity, data analytics, software engineering, and cloud infrastructure. CSIT analysts comb through data to discover potential threats, conduct deep technical investigations, develop new capabilities, and provide threat intelligence to support critical missions including cyber defence, counter-terrorism, and counter hostile information operations. As a member of the Defence Technology Community, CSIT embodies values of integrity, innovation, teamwork, agility, and continuous learning - constantly evolving to stay ahead of emerging threats in an ever-changing digital landscape.