Jeffrey Israel

Author & Jewish Studies Professor at Williams College

Calvin Trillin

Author, The New Yorker Staff Writer, Food Critic

Neil Giuliano

Gay Rights Activist & President and CEO of Greater Pheonix Leadership

Brian Hoffstein

Contributing Writer

Cody Adams

Managing Editor of The Floating University.

Virginia Postrel

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

Nelson George

Author / Filmmaker

Josh Lieb

Executive Producer, "The Daily Show"

David Hauslaib

Editor, Jossip

An Phung

Multimedia Journalist

Spencer Wells

Geneticist, Anthropologist, Author, CEO of Insitome

Ray Kurzweil

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

Julia Bolz

Women's Rights Activist

Jacques Pépin

Master French Chef; Food Columnist; Cookbook Author Educator

Sir Richard Branson

Businessman & Founder of Virgin Group

Marina Adshade

Author of "Dollars and Sex: How Economics Influences Sex and Love"

Jason Kottke

Designer of Silkscreen Typeface, Lifetime Achievement Award Blogger

Francis Tapon

Author, Harvard MBA, and World Traveler

Peter Thiel

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

Peter Thiel | Cambridge Union

Moby

Musician, DJ, Photographer

Sam Gosling

Psychologist of human perception, author and professor

Kurt Andersen

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

Peter Rojas

Co-founder of Gizmodo and of Engadget

Jonathan Safran Foer

Bestselling Author, Ethical Eating Advocate, Award-Winning Novelist

Nicholas Carr

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

Sharon Gannon

Co-Founder, Jivamukti Yoga

Adam Bly

Ex-VP of Data at Spotify; Founder of Seed; Founder of an AI startup, Stealth

Ira Byock

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Dr. Sarah Schlesinger

Associate Professor, The Rockefeller University

Richard Dowden

Director, Royal African Society