Rebecca MacKinnon

Founding Director of Ranking Digital Rights

Paul Snelgrove

Paul Snelgrove led the group that pulled together the findings of the Census of Marine Life -- synthesizing 10 years and 540 expeditions into a book of wonders.

Alison Gopnik

Professor & World Leader in Children's Learning and Development

Josette Sheeran

President and CEO of the Asia Society; Former Vice Chairman of the World Economic Forum.

Yang Lan

Co-Founder & Chairperson of the Sun Media Group & Sun Culture Foundation; Called the 'Oprah of China'

Pamela Meyer

Founder & CEO of Calibrate; Author of "Liespotting;" TED Speaker

Julia Bacha

Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker, Creative Director at Just Vision

Bunker Roy

Founder of Barefoot College

Cynthia Kenyon

Molecular Biologist & Biogerontologist; Vice President of Aging Research at Calico

Karen Tse

Human Rights Defender & Social Entrepreneur; Founder of International Bridges of Justice

Marco Tempest

Cyber-Illusionist

Harald Haas

Communications Technology Innovator & Chair of Mobile Communications at the University of Edinburgh

Elizabeth Murchison

Elizabeth Murchison studies a mysterious (and contagious) cancer that threatens to wipe out Tasmanian devils.

Jae Rhim Lee

Artist and TED Fellow Jae Rhim Lee Re-Imagines the Relationships Between the Body and the World

Mikko Hypponen

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

If It's Smart, It's Vulnerable

Lucianne Walkowicz

Astronomer, Movement Artist & Educator

Amy Lockwood

Deputy Director of Stanford's Center for Innovation in Global Health

Danielle de Niese

Her voice described as a sweet gleaming soprano, Danielle de Niese breathes new life into opera, astonishing critics and making audiences sit up and listen.

Mike Biddle

Co-founder, MBA Polymers

Yasheng Huang

Yasheng Huang asks us to rethink our ideas about China and other large emerging economies.

Jeremy Gilley

Actor, Filmmaker & Founder of the Peace One Day Non-Profit

Justin Hall-Tipping

The Energy Evangelist, Justin Hall-Tipping works on nano-energy startups -- mastering the electron to create power.

Adam Ostrow

Chief Digital Officer, TEGNA

Monika Bulaj

Monika Bulaj’s stunning, painting-like photographs blur religious and cultural divisions, exploding stereotypes. She is a TED Fellow.

Neil MacGregor

The writer and presenter of the BBC Radio 4 series "A History of the World in 100 Objects" and the accompanying book.

Ben Goldacre

Physician; Best-Selling Academic & Science Writer

Allan Jones

As CEO of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, Allan Jones leads an ambitious project to build an open, online, interactive atlas of the human brain.

Charles Hazlewood

Award-winning conductor and musical revolutionary; Speaker, and Artistic Director of Paraorchestra

Geoffrey West

Theoretical Physicist, Distinguished Professor & Past President of Santa Fe Institute

Lee Cronin

With his research group, Lee Cronin is investigating the emergence of complex self-organising chemical systems -- call it inorganic biology.