Philippe Van Nedervelde is an activist techno-visionary leveraging NBIC convergence technologies to realize individually as well as socially empowering futuristic visions as daily life realities.

He is among the earliest developers of online 3D virtual worlds, and he is a leading social and business matrix-entrepreneur.

Philippe is a 5-fold multi-lingual international spokesperson for leading futurist organizations including Lifeboat Foundation and the Foresight Nanotech Institute (Executive Director for Europe since 1997). He is also active in Singularity Institute For Artificial Intelligence (SIAI Counsel Member); World Technology Network (Materials Board Jury Member); Center for Responsible Nanotechnology (Global Task Force Member), and the Peer To Peer (P2P) Foundation (Sousveillance & Security Expert).

He is also the inventor of Total Situational Awareness "C-Thru" VR-based technologies/solutions for safety & security monitoring.