Joseph LeDoux

NYU Neuroscience Professor

Ray Kurzweil

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

Dr. Michio Kaku

World-Renowned Futurist & Theoretical Physicist; Author of "The God Equation"

Michael Gazzaniga

President of the Cognitive Neuroscientist Institute & Author of "Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience"

Paul Rieckhoff

Founder and Executive Director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA); Author, "Chasing Ghosts: Failures and Facades in Iraq"

Nicholas Carr

Writer on the Intersection of Technology, Economics & Culture; Author "The Shallows" & "The Glass Cage"

Daniel Altman

Global Economist, Strategy Expert, Sports Analytics Pioneer

Peter Thiel

Former CEO & Co-founder of PayPal; Entrepreneur and Venture Capitalist

Peter Thiel | Cambridge Union

Nicholas Christakis

Sol Goldman Family Professor of Social & Natural Science; Director of the Human Nature Lab; Co-Director of the Yale Institute for Network Science

Andrew Cohen

Healthcare Consultant, Partner at Cognizant, Blockchain Expert

Dean Kamen

Healthcare Technologist; Founder of FIRST for Science & Technology Education Advocacy; President of DEKA Research and Development for Medical Inventions

Kadam Morten

Buddhist Teacher

Marvin Zuckerman

Professor Emeritus, University of Delaware

Stuart Firestein

Scientist; Advocate for the Public Understanding of Science

Seth Berkley

Global Health Expert and Epidemiologist; Senior Advisor to Brown University Pandemic Center

Walter Isaacson

Professor of History at Tulane University, Former CEO of the Aspen Institute & Editor of Time Magazine

Calvin Trillin

Author, The New Yorker Staff Writer, Food Critic

Virginia Postrel

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

Aubrey de Grey

Biomedical Gerontologist, Chief Science Officer at SENS, Longevity Researcher

Sir Richard Branson

Businessman & Founder of Virgin Group

Toby Cosgrove

Executive Advisor & Former CEO & President at Cleveland Clinic

Barry Bloom

Professor of Public Health, Harvard University

Neil Giuliano

Gay Rights Activist & President and CEO of Greater Pheonix Leadership

David Hauslaib

Editor, Jossip

Richard Dowden

Director, Royal African Society

Sandra Aamodt

Neuroscientist

Dr. Eric Kandel

Nobel Prize-winning Neuroscientist and Co-director of the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University

Jacob Appel

Bioethicist and Writer

Glenn Roberts

Wheat and Rice Farmer; Owner of Anson Mills

Cody Adams

Managing Editor of The Floating University.