Jacqueline Novogratz

Founder & CEO of Acumen Fund

Jason Silva

Emmy-nominated TV Personality; Futurist; Host of National Geographic Channel’s “Brain Games”

Jared Cohen

President, Jigsaw (previously Google Ideas) & Chief Advisor to Alphabet Executive Chairman (former Google CEO) Eric Schmidt

Baratunde Thurston

Futurist Comedian, Writer & Cultural Critic

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Parag Khanna

Managing Partner at FutureMap; Strategic Advisor to Governments & Global Companies; Bestselling Author; TED Speaker

Lisa Oz

Best-Selling Author, Producer, Host & Entrepreneur

Tory Burch

Designer & CEO of Tory Burch; Founder of The Tory Burch Foundation

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Gabrielle Bernstein

Founder of HerFuture.com & New-York Times Best-Selling Author

Clay Shirky

Expert on New Technology & Social Media, & How They Shape Culture; Professor & Distinguished Writer in Residence, NYU

Joseph Stiglitz

American Economist, Professor at Columbia University & Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 2001

Mike Walsh

CEO of Tomorrow, Futurist & Best-Selling Author of "The Algorithmic Leader"

Stephen A. Smith

Sports Journalist, Analyst & Talk Show Host Known for "First Take"

Gloria Steinem

Feminist Writer, Activist & Organizer; Co-Founder of New York Magazine & Ms. Magazine

Hoda Kotb

Award-Winning Broadcast Journalist, Television Personality, Author & Co-Anchor of NBC News' TODAY

Soledad O'Brien

Award Winning Journalist, Documentarian, News Anchor, Producer, Entrepreneur & Philanthropist

Chris Hughes

Senior Fellow, Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy; Co-founder of Facebook & Former Editor-in-Chief at The New Republic

Christy Turlington Burns

Model & Founder of Every Mother Counts; Anti-Smoking Activist

Ed Burns

Actor, Writer, Director, Producer; Author, “Independent Ed: Inside a Career of Big Dreams, Little Movies, and the Twelve Best Days of My Life”

Seth Godin

Business & Marketing Expert & New York Times Bestselling Author of "Purple Cow," "Linchpin," & "Tribes"

Buddy Valastro

Host of "The Cake Boss" & "The Next Great Baker"