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Future is Human: Ideas That Inspire
Join TEDxMiami for The Future Is Human on May 14, 2026 where we celebrate humanity as we move forward with technology and connection.The Future Is Human
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Camille is Senior Director of Strategy and Impact at the Center for Humane Technology, where she works to ensure AI is guided by the public interest. Recognized as one of Business Insider's AI 100, she shapes national debates through litigation, legislative engagement, and public narrative strategies that translate complex technology issues into public action. With a background spanning public policy, industry, and academic research, she brings a cross-disciplinary lens to the most urgent technology questions of our time. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Bloomberg, NBC News, MIT, and more. She holds a master's from the London School of Economics, where she studied technology and development.

Dr. Elie Haddad is a triple board-certified physician in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, and Cardiac Electrophysiology. As a practicing cardiologist, he has spent decades studying the human body and the forces that shape health and disease. Beyond clinical medicine, he is the co-founder of the Homo plasticus movement, an initiative that uses art, science, and public education to raise awareness about the impact of micro and nanoplastics on human biology. Through his work, Dr. Elie seeks to bridge medicine, environmental health, and public awareness to inspire action for the future of human health.
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Marcus Fontoura is currently in his second tenure as Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, where he works as CTO for Azure Core. He is also the author of A Platform Mindset: My lessons from developer to CTO, published in 2025 by 8080 Books. Most recently, he was the CTO at Stone.co (2022 2025), where he led the engineering organization. Previously, in his first tenure as Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President at Microsoft (2013-2022), Marcus worked as the chief architect for Azure Compute and led the Azure efficiency team. Marcus also had posts at Google, Yahoo, and IBM Research. He was a post-doc toral researcher at Princeton University and has received his Ph.D. in Computer Science by the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil (PUC-Rio)

Ruthe Farmer is the Founder and CEO of Last Mile Education Fund, the only nationwide safety net addressing the graduation gap among aspiring STEM talent from low-income communities - the largest pool of untapped technical talent in the US. A serial social entrepreneur and former Obama White House advisor, Ruthe has spent her career expanding access to technology and innovation workforce pathways. She envisions a world where the tools and technology used by all, are created by all. She has launched and scaled multiple enduring national education initiatives, including tech and engineering programs and strategy for Girl Scouts of the USA, Aspirations in Computing, now a 35,000+ member community of young women in tech, and inspiring millions of Latinas to explore technology careers through the TECHNOLOchicas campaign with Televisa and Univision. A strategist who looks for high leverage opportunities within systems, her work led to bipartisan federal legislation that unlocked millions in Department of Defense funding to expand computing education at 3421 JROTC host schools, increasing access for 4 million US high school students each year. Ruthe’s work is deeply informed by her own experience growing up in poverty, moving dozens of times before age 18. That lived experience fuels her belief that talent is universal, but opportunity is not—and that small, strategic interventions at the right moment can change the trajectory of a life. Her latest venture, the Last Mile Education Fund, is building a new kind of safety net for determined students who are just one unexpected expense away from dropping out, but fully capable of transforming our economy if given the resources to thrive, rather than just survive.
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As Head of Go-to-Market at OpenAI, he led the teams responsible for sales, partnerships, and customer success, turning the company’s cutting-edge research into real-world business solutions, and growing revenue from millions to billions. Since then he has advised more than 500 of the Global 5000, taught at University of Virginia and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and published his first book, an international bestseller, The Next RenAIssance: AI and the Expansion of Human Potential. His mission is to ensure everyone can be an active participant in future that delivers more agency, dignity, and time.
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