Dr. Michio Kaku

World-Renowned Futurist & Theoretical Physicist

Anna Deavere Smith

Award-Winning Actress, Playwright & Social Commentator

Clay Shirky

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

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Primetime TV & Podcast Host, Keynote Speaker, Best-Selling Author and Global Business Celebrity

David Kirkpatrick

Best-Selling Author of The Facebook Effect, Technology & Internet Expert

Jeff Jarvis

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

George Soros

Chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC, Founder of Open Society Foundations & Philanthropist

Joe Sabia

Digital Artist, Celebrity Interviewer, TED Speaker & Franz Liszt Society Member

Dennis Crowley

Co-founder & Executive Chairman of Foursquare; Technology Innovator

Tim Armstrong

Former CEO of AOL; Founder & CEO of the dtx company

James Watson

Molecular Biologist, Geneticist & Zoologist

Geoff Ramsey

eMarketer Chief Content Officer & Co-Founder; Digital Marketing and Strategy Expert

Laura Snyder

Professor; Science Historian; Philosopher; Author of "The Philosophical Breakfast Club"

Joel E. Cohen

Mathematical Biologist, Rockefeller University

Freeman Dyson

With Freeman Dyson's astonishing forecasts for the future, it's hard to tell where science ends and science fiction begins.

Jeffrey Wright

Actor & Entrepreneur

Vijay Kumar

Roboticist and Professor of Engineering & Applied Sciences at UPenn

Adam Penenberg

Journalism Professor at NYU & Editor of PandoDaily

Mary Ellen Weber

Former NASA Astronaut & Legislative Affairs Liaison at NASA; Founder of Stellar Strategies

John McWhorter

Political Commentator, Linguist & Professor at Columbia University

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