Based in San Francisco, Roger Spitz is President of Techistential (Global Foresight Strategy) and Chairman of the Disruptive Futures Institute. Roger has two decades of leading investment banking and venture capital (VC) businesses, advising CEOs, founders, boards, and shareholders, evaluating their competitiveness, strategic investments, and disruptions ahead. He sits on a number of Advisory Boards of companies, Climate Councils, VC funds & academic institutions worldwide. He is the Foresight & Sustainability advisory partner of Vektor Partners (Palo Alto, London, Berlin), a VC firm investing in next-generation sustainable transport, as well as a member of the Advisory Council and an LP investor in Berkeley SkyDeck fund. The funds he advises support green innovative deep tech in Silicon Valley, Israel, UK, and Europe. As former Global Head of Technology M&A with BNP Paribas, Roger advised on over 50 transactions with deal value of $25bn. He launched the bank's US Mergers & Acquisitions practice in San Francisco and spearheaded its European Technology investment banking franchises in London and Paris. Roger is lead author of the four-volume Collection "The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption". Following his paper in the Journal of Futures Studies, he co-authored "An Existential Framework for the Future of Decision-Making". Advisor, speaker and author on Artificial Intelligence, Roger has invested in a number of AI startups. He is an inaugural member of Cervest's Climate Intelligence Council, a member of IEEE, ofAssociation for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in Palo Alto, and Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence & Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) in UK. He has lived in 10 different cities across three continents.