Justin Lane

Dr. Justin E. Lane is the CEO and Co-Founder of CulturePulse AI, a US-Slovak AI company focused on the creation and analysis of social AI and digital twin technology. For 10 years, Dr. Lane has worked to create new AI systems to study and predict aspects of social cohesion ranging from hybrid threat and counterterrorism to policy risk analysis and crisis management. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford. Dr. Lane has held positions at universities in the US, UK, Czech Republic and Singapore and in addition to his role as CEO at CulturePulse is currently affiliated with the Slovak Academy of Science. He is the Scientific Director at the DEKK Institute and an Executive Board Member of the European Democracy Youth Network in Bratislava. His work has been featured in WIRED, BBC, The New York Times, Vice News, New Scientist, The Atlantic, and Joe Rogan Experience. He has also worked in business development and innovation consulting for start-up and investment firms in Central and Eastern Europe, helping them obtain over EUR80m in funding since 2020.

Dr. Lane has over 100 peer reviewed articles and conference presentations, and his book, Understanding Religion through Artificial

Intelligence: Bonding and Belief, was nominated for the 2023 ISSR Book Prize. To date, his work has received international acclaim and over

1,000 citations. Together, with his research partners he has raised approximately US$90m in R&D&I grant funding for key innovations and over US$20m in investment for private companies.