Jimmy Wales

Founder of Wikipedia & Wikitribune

Kurt Andersen

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

Sir Richard Branson

Businessman & Founder of Virgin Group

Dan Ariely

Behavioral Economist; Professor at Duke University; Author; Founding Member of The Center for Advanced Hindsight

Jared Cohen

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

Marco Tempest

Cyber-Illusionist

John Legend

EGOT Winning Musician, Producer & Philantropist

Ray Kurzweil

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

Parag Khanna

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

Esther Dyson

Executive Founder of Way to Wellville

Pedro Ramírez

Journalist, Founder and Director of El Mundo; World Leader in New Media

Tom Freston

Principal, Firefly3; Former CEO, Viacom Inc.

Jeffrey Archer

Former UK Member of Parliament; Author

Brian Hoffstein

Contributing Writer

Cody Adams

Managing Editor of The Floating University.

Mikko Hypponen

Computer Security Expert; Chief Research Officer at WithSecure & Principal Research Advisor at F-Secure

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Adam Ostrow

Chief Digital Officer, TEGNA

Peter Thiel

Former CEO and Co-founder of PayPal; Technology Entrepreneur, Investor and Philanthropist

Gerry Adams

President, Sinn Fein

John Zogby

Trendspotter & Leading Pollster

Nicholas Burns

Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy & International Politics, Harvard Kennedy School

Michael Wesch

Cultural Anthropologist, University Distinguished Scholar, Kansas State University

Reid Hoffman

Co-Founder & Former Executive Chairman of LinkedIn; Partner at Greylock

Clay Shirky

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

Moby

Musician, DJ, Photographer

Ted Turner

Media Mogul & Philanthropist

Calvin Trillin

Author, Columnist, Humorist & Political Satirist

Peter Diamandis

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

Majora Carter

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

Ian Bremmer

President of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media; Political Scientist, Author, Entrepreneur & Lecturer

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