Mr. Ryan Janzen
CTO and Co-Founder, TransPod Inc., Canada
Featured on the Discovery Channel, Wired magazine, and Through the Wormhole, Mr. Janzen's innovations have been featured in 110+ international lectures, media interviews, and scientific publications. He is co-founder and CTO of TransPod, designing a next generation of ultra-high-speed aerospace vehicles, to move passengers and cargo between cities at over 1000 km/h. Janzen is the chief architect of the multi-billion-dollar future system: propulsion, aerodynamics, and transportation infrastructure. Mr. Janzen's innovations have led to entirely new fields of research, in physics, transportation, and cybernetics. He has directed teams of 400+ people in realizing his multidisciplinary innovations, including in Silicon Valley, Paris, and 23 other cities. He has established research programs in 9 countries, with universities, government agencies, and private enterprises. Mr. Janzen holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and received a Canada-wide 2018 Innovation of the Year Award.