Parag Khanna

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

Van Jones

CEO of REFORM Alliance, CNN host, Emmy Award-winning Producer & NY Times Best-Selling Author

Jimmy Wales

Founder of Wikipedia & Wikitribune

John Legend

EGOT Winning Musician, Producer & Philantropist

Ray Kurzweil

Chairman of Kurzweil Technologies, Inventor & Futurist; Author of "How to Create a Mind"

Kurt Andersen

Host of "Studio 360 from PRI and WNYC" & Author

Peter Diamandis

Founder & Executive Chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation; Author; Named One of The World's 50 Greatest Leaders

Clay Shirky

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

Tiffany Shlain

Founder of The Webby Awards; Emmy-Nominated Filmmaker, Bestselling Author, Internet Pioneer & Futurist

Raj Patel

Award-Winning Writer, Food Politics Activist, Filmmaker & Academic

Anna Deavere Smith

Award-Winning Actress, Playwright & Social Commentator

Jeremy Rifkin

Leading Global Technologist, Futurist, Authority on World Economic & Environmental Trends

Amy Goodman

Host & Executive Producer, Democracy Now!

Majora Carter

Real Estate Developer, Peabody Award-Winning Broadcaster & Urban Revitalization Strategy Consultant

Joseph Stiglitz

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

Daymond John

"Shark Tank" Investor; Founder & CEO of FUBU; Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship

Nelson George

Author / Filmmaker

Neil Giuliano

Gay Rights Activist & President and CEO of Greater Pheonix Leadership

Baratunde Thurston

Futurist Comedian, Writer & Cultural Critic

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Alexandra Cousteau

Environmental Activist, Storyteller & Ocean Advocate

Professor Richard Dawkins

Evolutionary Biologist & Best-Selling Author

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Robert Ballard

Renowned Ocean Explorer & Scientist

Jacques Pépin

Master French Chef; Food Columnist; Cookbook Author Educator

Robert Bryce

Energy Expert, Veteran Journalist & Acclaimed Author

Jeff Jarvis

Leader in the Development of Online News & Blogging; Director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at CUNY

Virginia Postrel

Author & Columnist; Writes on The Intersection of Commerce & Culture

Patrick Byrne

Founder & CEO, Overstock.com

John Zogby

Trendspotter & Leading Pollster

Steve Wozniak

Co-Founder of Apple Computer, Inc.

Russell Simmons

Entrepreneur & Philanthropist