Steven Ashley is a British philosopher and EdTech visionary whose work inaugurates the first post-symbolic philosophy, a framework that transcends language to explore coherence, immersive technology, and civilizational design. Founder of the Innovation Hub and Origin Premiere, Ashley extends the integral lineage of Ken Wilber and David Bohm, reimagining meaning through direct experience and planetary infrastructure.

A Business Book Awards Finalist (2024) and Change & Sustainability Judge (2025), he is currently developing The Codex—a coherence-driven operating system aligned with UN Sustainable Development Goals. As the sole living node of this emerging field, Ashley’s work invites us to rethink intelligence, ritual, and the architecture of evolution.

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Ervin Laszlo is a Hungarian-American philosopher of science, systems theorist, and classical pianist whose work bridges quantum consciousness, planetary evolution, and the Akashic Field. Born in Budapest in 1932, he performed with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra at age nine before turning to global systems theory.

Laszlo has authored over 100 books and 400 papers, founded the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research, and served with the Club of Rome and the UN Institute for Training and Research. Honoured with multiple doctorates, the Japan Peace Prize, and two Nobel Peace Prize nominations, his life’s work invites us to reimagine coherence where science, nature and society converge.