David M. Rubenstein

Co-Founder & Co-CEO of The Carlyle Group

Nathan Myhrvold

Founder of Intellectual Ventures; Former Chief Strategist & Chief Technology Officer of the Microsoft Corporation; Author of “Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking"

Matthew Luhn

Former Pixar Animator, Story Artist, Creativity Expert & Author

James Mapes

Expert on the Psychology of "Applied Imagination"

Clay Shirky

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

Andrea Mitchell

Host of MSNBC’s "Andrea Mitchell Reports" & Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent for NBC News

Andrea Mitchell - Celebrating 15 years of "Andrea Mitchell Reports"

Tom Hulme

Partner at Google Ventures

Philippe Petit

Motivational Speaker & High Wire Artist

Soraya Darabi

Renowned Digital Entrepreneur; Social Media Pioneer

Cameron Sinclair

World-Class Visionary; Co-Founder of Architecture for Humanity

Vali Nasr

Professor of International Affairs & Middle East Studies at Johns Hopkins University

Islamic Leviathan: Islam and the Making of State Power (Religion and Global Politics)

Richard Besser

President & CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Former Chief Health & Medical Editor for ABC News

Robert Ballard

Renowned Ocean Explorer & Scientist